Ranma ½/Ho Yay: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Ranma One Half½]]'', just consider how much time Soun and Genma spend together and just how much crap Soun puts up with from Genma. Of course it's all so their children can get married and carry on the tradition, sure it is.

** Only compounded by the fact of just [[Hot Mom|who Genma's married to]]. [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|HE ran out on HER!?]]

** There's a reason that the stinger for the Scrubs-themed episode of ''[[Ranma ½: The Abridged Chronicles]]'' had the two of them use the lines "Dude, we're a little married."

** In [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=d_OfHvjMhnU episode 92 of the anime]{{broken link}} it practically becomes canon.

** There is also the fact that Ranma's default "trick Ryouga" scenario is to dress up as a girl (well, [[Gender Bender|more of a girl]]) and hit on him mercilessly.

*** So, Ranma is a [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]] and since he can't contain his emotions, and substitutes violence, Ryouga is a bit of male [[Tsundere]]. [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|There's a trope for that.]]

*** In episode 87 when Ryoga falls on top of Ranma in the path of an oncoming train Ranma tries to get Ryoga off of him and all the movement [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|makes it look like they're having sex]]. He also worries about Ryoga when he gets injured and carries him.

** On the [[Les Yay]] side of things, particularly in the early years of the fandom, many people tend to read a lot into [[Chinese Girl]] [[Hot Amazon|Shampoo's]] willingness to [[Glomp]] her [[Gender Bender]] [[Accidental Marriage|reuctant husband]] when he is in female form, even if one (or both) of them are stark naked at the time. She's also perfectly willing to talk about kissing him, or even try to do it, when he's in female form. However, that canonically seems to be more [[Single -Target Sexuality]]; she makes it quite clear that she prefers Ranma's male form, among other things being quick to change Ranma back into male form before trying anything romantic on him. She's also insinuated that Akane Tendo is a lesbian and, in the same sentence, called her a pervert, and in one anime episode (the climax of the expanded [[Filler|Japanese Nanniichuan arc]]), outright tells Akane she wants to get Ranma cured because she wants a "real man" on her honeymoon.

** Akane Tendo isn't exempt either, in the eyes of [[Fanon]]. Mainly due to how she is relieved when it appears Ranma is actually a girl... though that ''might'' have been because she considered an [[Arranged Marriage]] to be old-fashioned and a denial of her freedom, currently had a [[Precocious Crush]] on the local physician, and was constantly being attacked by [[Casanova Wannabe|the perverted jocks]] at school, who believed that she would go on a date with whoever beat her. This last fact even gave her a short-lived [[Catch Phrase]] of "I hate boys!", perhaps a [[Shout -Out]] to her fellow [[Rumiko Takahashi]] [[Tsundere]] Shinobu of [[Urusei Yatsura]], though the [[Catch Phrase]] disappeared well before Kodachi Kuno was introduced. Kasumi also tried to placate Akane to the idea of being engaged to Ranma by pointing out that Ranma was "half girl", while Nabiki once told Akane that she thought it was cool Ranma was a [[Gender Bender]] and, in the anime at least, mentioned that it would make their honeymoon "much more interesting".