I have watched the anime, and let me tell you, I think it honestly gives Akane more respect as a martial artist then the manga does. The dojo destroyer, for example, is played as far more competent and wicked; the fact Akane managed to hold out on her own, despite having one hand injured to the point of being useless, was no casual thing, and in the end Ranma needed her help to take him down, rather than casually knocking him out with one backhand. The anime also gives Akane a pair of opponents she fights and wins all on her own - Tamari Kaminarimon has Akane lose, look back on her mistakes, realise what the key is to beating her, then come back and score a victory: just like Ranma, while in the second Ling-Ling & Lung-Lung episode, Akane takes the two girls on two-to-one and still manages to win without any interference from Ranma, despite their dirty trick of taking to the sky and dropping bombs on her.
Also, off topic, are you still interested in that project we were working on, Wyrd?