Quote:Well, like someone once said, comedy is terrible things happening to other people.
In short, the ORIGINAL Ranma - anime and manga both - is like the fanfics that were the original topic of this thread ... and about as funny as Mommy Dearest.
After all, if a Three Stooges short happened in the real world, there'd be ambulances and police cars showing up maybe three minutes in...
Part of the root of Ranma's comedy is you get to watch all these profoundly stupid people -- and yes, they are all stupid, even Kasumi, who is no Zen master much as I love the idea -- and you can sit back and legitimately say, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" at them. But yes, looked at without the filter of comedy, Ranma is a tragedy of spectacular and even Shakespearean proportions just waiting to happen. All it would take would be the right trigger, and Nerima would be awash in blood.
Somehow, that seems to make the comedy all that more piquant...
-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...