Atlan wrote:And she never hit him hard enough to do anything- never a broken bone, or even a noseblead
I simply have to put up the list again.
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Akane: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Key:
G (good): positive or well-intended actions/behaviour.
B (bad) negative or angry actions/behaviour.
U (ugly) completely inexcusable or vile actions/behaviour.
E (excusable) an instance of righteous anger (i.e. when Akane reacts angrily but for an excusable/acceptable reason) or an action/comment that while generally inappropriate, is acceptable within the context of the situation.
Vol. 1
G: Tries to befriend an obviously uncomfortable Ranma.
B: Insults Ranma because of his gender and curse, sabotaging the friendship she herself initiated not an hour before. Hypocritically sets what will be her double-standard for the series; that Ranma seeing her unclothed makes him a pervert, but she cannot be pulled for walking in on and staring at a nude Ranma, and is in fact by virtue of being a girl, completely above any criticism in this matter. Reacts to a taunt (which was instigated by her insults) by attacking Ranma from behind, knocking her unconscious.
B: Slaps an genuinely contrite Ranma because of an unfortunate coincidence in the furo.
G: Helpfully brings Ranma to Dr. Tofu’s to get hot water.
G or B: Warns Ranma that getting involved with Kuno could be dangerous/insults Ranma’s skill (forgetting/disregarding his display in the dojo the night before) by implying he’s incapable of fighting on her level.
G: Checks up on Ranma after Genma breaks up the fight in the schoolyard.
G: Brings Ranma hot water after he falls into the pool and tries to stall Kuno.
B: After Nabiki says that the curse is neither especially significant or Ranma’s fault, Akane reasserts her assessment that Ranma is a pervert because of the curse, insults him some more and tells her sister that she’s humiliated at the idea of being associated with such a person.
E: Kicks Ranma back into the fight with Kuno after he insults her underwear.
B: Dislocates various parts of Ranma’s anatomy when he claims that his female side is more attractive than she is. Follows up by knocking him from his bed in the clinic when Ranma attempts to tell Tofu who was responsible for his current state.
G: Doesn’t react to Ranma’s baiting or misogyny on the way back from the clinic. Carries Ranma home when his legs give out.
E: Gets angry with Ranma when she walks around topless.
G: Helps keep Ranma’s curse a secret.
G: Apologises to Ranma for the baseball/face interaction.
Vol. 2
B: Smacks Ranma again when he spies on her smiling at her reflection. On one hand he was out of line, on the other, her reaction was a tad extreme.
G: Agrees, albeit reluctantly, to lend Ranma a set of clothes.
B: Attacks Ranma with a kendo stick because her girl form is better proportioned than her. (No insults, here, just Ranma noting that the clothes don’t fit well.)
G: Shows genuine concern for Ranma after she hefts Ryoga’s umbrella. Also, puts herself in harm’s way for his sake when she tries to fetch hot water amidst the fracas.
B: Slaps her fiancé when Ranma claims ‘she’s not holding Akane because she wants to’. Tells Ranma she’s a stranger to her now.
E: Smacks Ranma and Ryoga when they offer themselves up after her hair is sliced.
E: Has a good-natured joke at Ranma’s expense. Ranma gets dipped, but nothing bad comes of it.
G: Adopts a stray piglet. Defends it when she sees Ranma ‘bullying’ it.
E: Slaps Ranma when she wakes up in the middle of the night and finds him in a very compromising position above her.
B: Overdoes things by repeatedly pummelling him with a kendo stick afterwards.
G: Agrees to avenge her classmates in the Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics match…
B: …Despite having no skill or experience in the sport, or the means to learn it before the match. (Ryoga’s knowledge of it is a happy if unexplained coincidence).
Vol. 3
B: Leaves an obviously paralysed Ranma to freeze on the dojo roof for the night.
B: Adjudges Ranma to be ‘pathetic’ when he tries to use his engagement to Akane as a way to escape from the Black Rose’s affections without hurting Kodachi’s feelings.
G: Was going to mirror Ranma and Ryoga’s sacrifice by staying up the night before the match with Kodachi until they both insisted it was fine for her to get some sleep.
G: Prevents a sleep-walking Ranma from being poisoned by Kodachi.
G: Aids Ranma several times during the match, crucially in one instance.
E: Loses her top with Azusa (repeatedly).
B: Naïvely accepts an ice skating challenge against a world class skater, and hot-headedly declines an opportunity to back out upon hearing this.
G: Brings Ranma home from the rink after his fight with Mikado, and has the decency not to reveal that Ranma was kissed by a guy.
G: Tries to console Ranma when it becomes apparent that that was indeed his first kiss at the rink…
B: …But can’t help but deride his skills in the process.
Vol. 4
G: Demands Ranma release her when they’re caught in the ‘Goodbye Whirl’…
B: …Although that ultimately would have hurt him as much if not more than holding on did, she wasn’t to know this, not having researched her opponents’ apparently quite famous moves before the match.
G: Acknowledges and is genuinely moved by Ranma’s sacrifice, and insists he not continue the match in his injured condition.
G: Covers for Ranma when Shampoo first attacks…
B: …But lashes out at him during his explanation.
B: Attacks Ranma when Shampoo kisses him. After witnessing this first hand, she claims Ranma kissed Shampoo rather than vice-versa, and then breaks off the engagement.
B: Continues to get angry with Ranma when Shampoo displays affection toward him.
B: Slaps Ranma when she overhears Ranma (accurately) suggest to Ryoga that she is jealous.
B: Gets angry with Soun when he tells her to be honest with herself.
E: Isn’t best pleased to find Ranma and Shampoo asleep together…
B: …Despite having broken off the engagement…
U: …And decides to put Ranma is mortal peril because she’s angry with him, by dousing him with cold water while in Shampoo’s embrace. Not only displays no remorse for this action, but maintains it was just.
B: Refuses to hear out Ranma when he attempts to explain, calling him a pervert once more.
E: Accepts Shampoo’s challenge in anger over the Amazon nearly cooking P-Chan.
B: Smacks Ranma with a window when he accurately judges her too slow to beat Shampoo.
I’m ignoring any behaviour while under the influence of the Xi Fang Gao Shiatsu Technique as she, quite literally, is not in her right mind.
Vol. 5
B: Feels insulted when Ranma won’t reveal his greatest (and secret) fear to her. [Look forward to Volume 8, and you’ll see he had good reason.]
G: Tries to play down Ranma’s weak spot after its been revealed to the Tendos.
E: Is appropriately angry at Gosunkugi’s unintentionally insulting ‘disguise’.
B: Attacks a terrified Ranma when he confuses Gosunkugi and her.
G: Concerned, pursues Ranma when he’s in the full throes of the Nekoken, and helps get him down from a tree.
B: Pummels Ranma when he - still obviously out of sorts - ‘sort of’ kisses her. Blames Ranma for the subsequent embarrassment she feels at this. When he admits that he doesn’t ever recall what he does under the influence of the Nekoken, Akane tells Ranma she hates him, which incites him to tell her he doesn’t find her cute. Akane calls him a coward and insults his manhood before dousing him with water, indicating Ranma should be a woman for the rest of her life and find a man to marry. Finally, she attacks the now female Saotome.
G: Discovers Shampoo in the furo, hugging Ranma. Apparently, she initially keeps her cool.
B: Akane falsely claims she’s not interested in Ranma’s affairs, while dousing him with water and attacking her.
E: Reacts angrily when a complete stranger (Mousse) hugs her, and she finds herself the ‘prize’ in a duel.
G: Praises Ranma’s ingenuity in the fight with Mousse, and aids Ranma by informing Tofu of the Cat’s Tongue and later by getting hot water to Ranma.
G: Tries to help the locked Ranma enjoy herself at the fair.
G: Saves Ranma from hot water by dousing her with a cold water from a tank…
B: …containing piranhas.
Vol. 6
E: Claims she doesn’t care about Ranma…
B: …while trying to win the Melon Splitting Race that Ranma needs to win to get the Phoenix Pill.
B: Screams at Ranma, calling her an idiot, when believing that Ranma in girl-form was going to kiss her. When it becomes clear she had no intention of kissing Akane, she attacks Ranma, telling her to “Die!”
E: Repeatedly calls Ranma an idiot when she falls for Cologne’s ploy.
G: Tries to help Ranma in the subsequent fight…
B: …by leaping into the water.
B: Screams at Ranma for enlisting Shampoo’s aid, and hits Ranma when she agrees that Akane would get in the way in the water.
G: Forces Neko-Shampoo farther into Ranma’s face to speed up the Nekoken.
G: Calms Ranma when she’s still in the Nekoken.
G: Defends Ryoga and informs him of Ranma’s improved skill.
G: Makes dinner for a training Ranma and Genma.
B: Threatens Ranma with a butcher knife when she construes something he says as possibly deriding her cooking abilities.
G: Tastes her own cooking, and admits to herself that its terrible…
B: …yet remains angry with Ranma for not eating it.
B: Cooks more food, again without tasting it, and in the full knowledge of how poor her earlier effort tasted, is outraged that Ranma says its also quite bad.
B: Abandons the honest person she came with to the forest to help, in favour of someone who’ll appease her with lies.
B: Becomes angry with Ranma when he insults her cooking…
E: …but he does unnecessarily goad her…
B: …which is no excuse to attack him.
G: She becomes very concerned for Ranma at the thought of Ryoga learning the Bakusei Tenketsu and using it against/on him.
G: Remains rather level-headed at finding herself the ‘prize’ in another martial artists’ duel.
B: Kicks Ranma away from her when he tries to prevent her from falling to the ground…
U: …right into an ostensibly deadly Ryoga.
G: Is really concerned when Ranma goes careening off the cliff.
G: Tries to help Ranma when it appears that she’s been abducted (by Sentaro Daimonji), and tracks them down.
E: Whacks Sentaro when he takes it upon himself to hug her.
G: Offers to aid him…
B: …but isn’t especially graceful. She hits Ranma when he calls her a klutz (despite calling herself that during Volume 2).
G: Remains beside Ranma throughout the whole Martial Art Tea Ceremony affair.
G: Saves a drugged Ranma from Sentaro.
Vol. 7
G: Dryly shrugs off Kuno’s attentions.
G: Remains calm with Soun when she discovers he’s bargained her off into the Martial Arts takeout race for eel teriyaki…
B: …but grows angry with Ranma for the same reason.
G: Confidently declares she’s going to win the Takeout Race, and performs quite well.
B: But gets angry when Ranma makes a bet with Shampoo.
G: Manages to separate Neko-Shampoo from Ranma…
B: …disdainfully tossing the disadvantaged Shampoo away.
E: Is within her rights to fend off Kuno’s advances.
B: Is successfully eliminated from the race by Shampoo, and blames Ranma. Proceeds to attempt to punish both by activating Shampoo’s curse. She angrily claims that Ranma has betrayed her by protecting Shampoo and helping her avoid being transformed.
B: Coldly provides Kuno with a replacement bokken when male Ranma successfully blocks an attack, breaking his previous weapon.
G: Tries not to hurt Happosai’s feelings when she still thinks he’s just a normal old man.
G: Shows concern when Ranma is beaten by Happi, and again the next day.
B: Hits Ranma when she overhears him say he wouldn’t be interested in peeking on her in the public baths [One wonders how he could have escaped without being clobbered, for either indecision or an actual desire to peek on her would have resulted in the same violent reaction from Akane].
G: Justly whacks Happi for blatantly inappropriate behaviour.
B: Gaily leaves Ranma to the wolves, ignoring that he was put in his compromised position by helping Akane and the others, and trying to prevent Happosai from peeking on the bathing women.
G: Assists Ranma by luring Happi out of hiding.
B: Attacks Ranma with a vacuum cleaner when he tries to protect her from Happosai. After proclaiming she needs no protection. Happi promptly proves her wrong, but she doesn’t apologise to Ranma.
G: Verbally communicates her disgust with her father’s cowardice in the face of the Master.
G: Brings Ranma tea and pork buns when the rest of the Tendos selfishly exile him from the house for their own benefit. Aids him in his scheme to defeat Happosai.
B: Threatens to withdraw her help when Ranma insults her (very poor) stitching. Assumes a risqué photograph Ranma presents to her was taken by Ranma when Happosai is present.
Vol. 8
B: Tells Ranma his help isn’t wanted or needed, when they’re informed that the dojo sign has been taken. He says he’ll defend it himself. She proceeds to challenge and insult Ranma’s courage, taunting him by taking advantage of his fear of cats (if you recall, the very same one she was insulted he refused to reveal to her in Volume 5?).
E: Behaves coldly toward Shampoo, then becomes angry with her when she blackmails Ranma into agreeing to a date in exchange for a cure to his curse.
B: Becomes angry that Ranma will no longer be there to help defend the dojo (but for what can only be described as a good excuse), apparently forgetting her earlier insistence that he wouldn’t be necessary. After attacking Ranma, who attempts to clumsily placate her, she vows to refuse his help under any circumstances.
B: Angry that Ranma is pursuing what he believes is a cure to a life-altering curse, rather than defending a dojo whose Master lost its sign, and whose heir made it plain that she didn’t need or want his assistance, Akane…
E: …In a display of bravado, hurts her good, right hand, only hours before the Dojo Destroyer must be met.
B: In a display of idiocy, she again hurts her good right hand, almost immediately after Tofu has treated it, having informed her that she must not hit anything with it for at least an hour. She blames Ranma, and attacks him when he passes by.
G: Akane tries her best against the more powerful Dojo Destroyer, and performs admirably…
B: …Until her self-inflicted injury causes the match to go against her. Ranma, who admits she couldn’t concentrate on getting a cure for the curse while Akane’s well being was weighing on her mind, saves her from the finishing blow (by taking it herself). Akane responds by believing Shampoo’s claims that Ranma kissed her over Ranma’s vehement denials.
G: Ranma tricks everyone into believing that he’s destroyed the cure, and guilt trip’s Akane, who becomes enormously despondent and remorseful.
E: When his deception is revealed, Akane is still grateful for his help, but hits Ranma in retribution for his lie.
B: Unsuccessfully attacks Ranma when she implies Akane’s a tomboy.
B: Knocks Ranma from the Tendo balcony when he spies on her rehearsing.
B: Tearfully accuses Ranma of ruining her dream of playing Juliet after he agrees to battle it out for the role of Romeo.
B: Sends Ranma flying when it becomes apparent that he hasn’t researched the play.
E: Swipes at Ranma/Romeo when he, seemingly validating her earlier fears, insists that he won’t kiss Akane/Juliet.
B: Hits Kuno and Happosai. While both could be labelled as jerks, they were lashed out at by Akane for attempting to continue the play.
E: Prevents Kuno from taking advantage of a drunk onna-Ranma, but it appears her actions are more out of anger at Kuno than concern for Ranma.
B: Furiously accuses Ranma of hating her after Ranma seemed to kiss Kuno (in order to obtain a trip to China to hopefully rid himself of the curse, which her fiancé had already discussed with her that day). She slaps Ranma before he can explain that it wasn’t a real kiss.
B: Refuses to believe the kiss wasn’t real and accuses Ranma of having greatly enjoyed it.
G: Defends herself against a chloroform-brandishing Gosunkugi.
G: Prompts Ranma to kiss her so that he can ‘see China’.
B: Tapes his mouth shut, mirroring the actions for which she became angry with Ranma earlier (not the faux-kiss with Kuno, rather Ranma’s earlier insistence that he wouldn’t kiss her, putting their chances of the winning the trip to China in jeopardy.)
E: Jokes with Ranma that she’d have liked to have kissed without the tape.
E: Asks for praise for the role she played in helping win the competition.
E: Accidentally stands on Ryoga, while on chasing a gleeful, thieving Happosai…
B: …and isn’t especially apologetic…
G: …but is polite with Ryoga and appreciative of his gift.
G: Rallies her female schoolmates to defend their locker room from theft.
B: After a random schoolgirl falls for one of the traps meant for Happosai, Akane scolds and insults her for not following their rules in dealing with the thieving old man.
E: After recognising the girl as Ranma, Akane locks her in restrictive hold.
E: Threatens to blow Ranma’s cover, but gets rid of her before she can…
B …by hitting Ranma.
E: Reacts to Ranma’s taunts by activating her curse.
E: Leads a cadre of girls in punishing Ranma for entering their locker room and attacking P-Chan…
B: …by beating him.
B: Searches out Ranma with a view to administering further punishment, while mentally admonishing him for being a coward.
B: Tells Ryoga that Ranma has been peeping on the girls, even when evident that Ranma had an ulterior motive for entering their locker room.
E: Catches Ranma who unfortunately seems in cahoots with Happosai…
B: …and leads the girls in again beating the unresisting target.
B: Takes the violence level up a notch by having the girls ready their martial arts weapons/equipping them with weaponry, and apparently denounces Ranma as a pervert.
B: Unsuccessfully attacks Ranma who is throwing around rubber snakes and spiders and whatnot.
G: Defends herself from Happosai by attacking, which was her only option at the time.
E: Furiously throws hot water on Ranma who’s tricking Ryoga.
U: Arbitrarily decides that Ranma is a sick fetishist thief - while verbally noting as an aside that because of his curse (which he has no say in) his body has always been ‘sick and twisted’ - and suggests he seek psychological assistance.
B: Offers a pile of her classmates’ underwear to someone she has just declared to be ‘sick and twisted’.
B: Upon hearing Ranma’s hasty explanation, pretends to believe him and hits him while prone to her attack.
B: Only begins to believe that there may be truth to Ranma’s explanation when Ryoga mentions it, taking the word of someone who’s been accomplice to almost kidnapping her [See Volume 6], and who has shown a willingness to kill, over Ranma, who even if her assumptions were true, is at worst a peeping tom.
U: Upon discovering Ranma was being truthful, Akane makes no effort to apologise, or indeed make any acknowledgement that she should do so, and shows no remorse for her words and actions.
Vol. 9
B: Hits Ranma with a fire extinguisher when he warns Kuno off her cookies.
B: Insists Ranma try her cooking, and unsuccessfully attacks him when he doesn’t do so quick enough for her liking.
B: Blames Ranma when Kodachi steals her cookies. Insists he get them back from the Black Rose…
B: …and doesn’t thank him when he does. Demands Ranma eat some. Grows angry when Happosai cries in pain after doing so, but at Happosai.
G: Asks for Kasumi’s help in baking, acknowledging that her earlier cookies weren’t good…
B: …but not that Ranma was right not to eat them.
B: Vociferously commands Ranma eat her latest batch of cookies, and follows, badgering and pestering him to do so when he leaves the dojo on his own business.
G: Correctly surmises that Kodachi is blackmailing Ranma in some manner.
B: Takes advantage of Kuno’s hospitality because she’s suspicious of Ranma, stalking around his home when left unattended.
B: When confronted by Kodachi, she demands answers from her as opposed to explaining her own actions.
B: Attacks Ranma from behind when presented with a photograph showing Ranma uncomfortably close to Kodachi, and attacks several times when he attempts to explain, refusing to believe him.
B: Puts Ranma in danger in from Kodachi by activating his curse.
B: Unrepentantly vandalises the Kuno home in her anger.
B: Pursues Ranma intent on attacking him further.
B: Insults Ranma while he’s trying to free her from the giant vice.
E: Is angry when she sees Ranma eating, rather than helping her escape.
B: Is enraged at Ranma eating someone else’s food and not her own, quickly pummelling him.
E: Becomes agitated when Ranma calls her on her jealousy…
B: …but can’t resist attacking him once more before she leaves.
B: Cries to herself about the injustice of Ranma not trying out the cookies of which she is so proud, despite there being no indication that she’s tried them either.
B: Realises that the photo was doctored and deceives herself claiming she knew all along. She never apologises to Ranma.
B: Is finally satiated (but not anywhere to the degree indicative of her apparent desperation that Ranma eat them earlier) when Ranma eats her cookies. Does not thank him.
B: Is in no way remorseful or repentant when her cookies cause Ranma horrible stomach cramps. Does not apologise or acknowledge that Ranma’s cautiousness was justified. Learns nothing from the incident.
G: Shows thoughtfulness when she agonises over whether or not she should, and then decisiveness, when she does, reveal to Ranma what she overheard before Ukyo attacked Genma.
G: Is shocked at the revelation of the theft of Ukyo’s yatai.
G: Rightfully suspects that Genma is withholding the full story and prompts him to spill.
G: Shows concern when Ranma is engulfed by one of Ukyo’s attacks.
G: Is unhappy with Genma when Ukyo’s status as fiancée is revealed…
B: … but then hits him with a bench.
B: Accepts Genma foisting off the responsibility to a six-year old, and condones a beating she believes Ranma is taking.
B: Is upset with Ranma for complimenting Ukyo, his fiancée (not long after she heard Ukyo’s tale of woe). Unsuccessfully attacks Ranma when he calls her a tomboy.
B: Attacks Ranma, again unsuccessfully, for another ‘uncute’ comment.
B: Condones Ryoga’s unannounced attack on Ranma.
G: Informs Ryoga that Ukyo’s a girl during their fight.
G: Waits by Ryoga in the nurse’s office and is remorseful that he was hurt for her sake.
E: Kicks Ranma out when he plays a trick on Ryoga.
B: Becomes indigent when Ukyo, with whom she shares a fiancé, asks her for an honest appraisal of her feelings.
B: Hits Ranma when he calls her ‘macho’.
B: Is quite angry with Ukyo’s misinterpreted challenge. (Accepting challenges is facet of her school.)
B: Assumes the worst of Ukyo, whose crime is being her rival for Ranma, and the best of Ryoga, once accomplice to her own kidnapping, and who she’s witnessed to be potentially murderous. [Volume 6]
G: Demands an explanation for Ranma’ posing as Ryoga’s fiancée.
G: Shows concern when she finds the unconscious Ryoga…
B: …before hitting Ranma…
B: …and placing her fiancé in a humiliating situation by dousing him with hot water…
B: …before hitting Ranma.
B: Toys with Ryoga’s feelings to spite Ranma.
B: While dating another man, Akane attacks Ranma for dating Ukyo, his fiancée.
G: Is worried about Ryoga when he leaves, even chasing him to see if he’s okay.