Fanon/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

* Which also brings up the idea that Cologne and Shampoo expect to take Ranma back to China once he weds Shampoo. Canonically, all they ever insist is that Ranma marry Shampoo (or, from their point of view, acknowledge that he is married to Shampoo); nothing about coming back to China is ever stated. Both the anime ([[Filler|"Here Comes Ranma's Mom!"]]) and the manga ([[Single-Minded Twins|Pink & Link saga]]) actually heavily imply Shampoo wouldn't think twice about staying in Japan permanently if she does manage to catch Ranma. In the anime version, thinking Ranma is moving in with his mother, she comes running up with all her worldly goods and begs him to take her with him, as Cologne has okayed it. In the manga, she's quite content with lying to her village newspaper that she and Ranma are already married, they've merely chosen to stay in Japan.

* Although it arguably originated as a joke in an early fic, by the late 1990's it became an automatic assumption that ''every'' Amazon has a name based on a toiletry item.

* Ranma's Jusenkyo Curse sometimes seems to incorporate a [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere|water-attracting clause]] more often than not, which typically is on some form of a timer and will cause a [[Contrived Coincidence]] to wet Ranma if he hasn't changed in too long. Often used as a [[Hand Wave]] [[Cerebus Retcon]] for the [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere|remarkably convenient buckets of water]] in more serious/[[Deconstruction|Deconstructive]] fics seeking to [[Doing In the Wizard|do in the]] [[Rule of Funny]]. Other times, it's used as a [[Justification]] or [[Hand Wave]] for why Ranma gaining [[Voluntary Shapeshifter|control over his curse]] doesn't automatically become a cure (since he'd never want to be a girl again); if the element of the curse forcing the transformation to occasionally occur isn't removed, the curse still has an impact, and Ranma has to accept being a girl sometimes, retaining that defining aspect of the character while removing much of the silliness associated with it and the [[Contrived Coincidence|convenient water]].