Quote: drogan niteflier wrote:
In what part of the series? Remember that he trains a LOT to get up to the 'being punched into the mountainside' level. He may have just gotten back
from a 10 year training trip at the time of the table-smash, but he gets exponentially better during the course of the series. And everyone starts off
'small'.
Ranma pretty much starts out excessively superhuman. He takes punches from Ryouga with no problem, and Ryouga can pulverize rock with his bare hands from
his first appearance. Akane can punch down a concrete wall... if she's willing to hit it with all her strength and break her hand in the process.
Ranma does not actually get "exponentially" better over the course of the series. This isn't Bleach. Ranma gets a total of one major power-up
over the course of the series, when he learns the Amaguriken. Otherwise he tends to grow slowly, but everyone else seems to grow at about the same level
(including Akane, compare her performance in the Ryugenzawa story with her performance in the first Kodachi story, for example).
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