#SORRY MOST OF THIS WAS DEFENDING AKANE I just think the fandom is rlly unfair to her

[petz5]

i remember the biggest arguments people had against akane was how she would ‘make ranma suffer with her hitting him all the time’ and how ‘ranma was mistreated by akane and he would hate that’, when in reality, ranma would never understand why akane would get mad at him when he teased her cause to him they were flirting lmaooo

akane: *furious and a little heartbroken*

ranma: akane not flirting back???? why?????

on a surface level i get the complaint but i also think ppl need to remember rumiko straight up said ranma 1/2 is slapstick and not take it so literally when akane kicks ranma 200 ft into the air 😭 their world is literally running on looney tunes logic

off the top of my head the only hits in the series (outside of martial arts) that I remember actually being meant to be seen as hits are when akane slapped ranma’s cheek to stop him from hurting shinnosuke (who was literally beginning to have a seizure and ranma hadn’t noticed- also she felt TERRIBLE about it and immediately apologized and told him he could hit her back), and in a flashback where genma kicked nodoka when he was taking ranma from her

IF THIS WAS MEANT TO BE SEEN AS REAL ITD BE TERRIBLE INSTEAD OF A FUNNY GAG BUT THATS VERY CLEARLY NOT THE INTENTIONAL READING. also if u do that u have to do it for every character, u can’t JUST single out akane’s actions bc u don’t like her and would have picked shampoo lmao (and shampoo is crazy even by the standards of the series)

(also this site has some rlly good charts lmao)

YES THO I HARD AGREE ranma’s idea of flirting is teasing akane and he does get surprised when he legitimately upsets her. The first example that comes to mind is in the ukyo’s secret sauce arc when he’s trying to figure out how to make ukyo not want him and she goes “just do what u do with me” and he’s very GENUINELY like “wait does that hurt ur feelings??? u know I don’t really mean that stuff right??” “well yeah, I know that, but ukyo won’t”

again w ukyo I think she wanted to break them up when she first met them bc she didn’t realize the ranma teasing akane and then akane bopping him on the head for it was just their dynamic and they’re actually best friends. idk if they still are but for a long time they were THE poster children on tvtropes for belligerent sexual tension