I've never watched the Ranma anime- and from what I've heard I'm glad I haven't. I have read the manga though, and it's pretty clear there that Akane's the best of a bad lot. If you're interested in what a Ranma/Kodachi marriage would really be like, then I can recommend Love-Honor-and-Murder by Lichan44, where Genma is bribed to ensure Kodachi gets Ranma as a husband, over Ranma's stenuous (and understandable!) objections. Several years later, Ranma's life is a living hell, until Akane becomes his student, and takes him to her house after he gets badly beat up by Kodachi. (Yes they DO end up becoming lovers, as this is a Ranma/Akane fic). All Ranma/Kodachi fans should read this, as it drives a kukri knife though the idea that Ranma & Kodachi could ever be happy together.
And here is another Ranma/Akane fic, the Batman/Ranma crossoverShadows-Over-Nerima, where Bruce Wayne adopted Ranma several years ago, and Ranma is Nightwing. Akane is still being pestered by Kuno & the hentai horde, at the secret bequest of Talia Al'Ghul, who apparently wants to recruit Akane for the League of Assassins. (And she wants to kill Ranma too, as not only as he interfering in her dumb plan, but she considers him an unworthy heir to Batman. Considering what an arrogant prick Damien Wayne turned out to be (remember Damien Wayne was the second Robin to be killed off) I say her judgement sucks."There's only one kind of monster that uses bullets"-Colonel VanHeusen , from "It! The Terror From Beyond Space"
And here is another Ranma/Akane fic, the Batman/Ranma crossoverShadows-Over-Nerima, where Bruce Wayne adopted Ranma several years ago, and Ranma is Nightwing. Akane is still being pestered by Kuno & the hentai horde, at the secret bequest of Talia Al'Ghul, who apparently wants to recruit Akane for the League of Assassins. (And she wants to kill Ranma too, as not only as he interfering in her dumb plan, but she considers him an unworthy heir to Batman. Considering what an arrogant prick Damien Wayne turned out to be (remember Damien Wayne was the second Robin to be killed off) I say her judgement sucks."There's only one kind of monster that uses bullets"-Colonel VanHeusen , from "It! The Terror From Beyond Space"