@Jack20509042 And also, can you stop bringing up other series? You're really good at changing the subject. I'm starting to genuinely worry about whether something's wrong with your brain.
@Jack20509042 The manga has even more unadapted scenes of Shampoo excluding and hurting other female characters. Want me to spell them out for you one by one?
@Jack20509042 Shampoo is a Chinese martial artist, yet she shows zero martial honor or righteousness. All she does is use underhanded schemes to hurt people — particularly women. I really don't get the appeal. Is it purely her looks and figure?
@Jack20509042 Shampoo? Her whole life is just Ranma, Ranma, Ranma. And fine, whatever — but she's constantly going after other female characters, always treating Akane like someone she has to get rid of, even though Akane never did a single thing to her.
@Jack20509042 From the very beginning, I said that Shampoo is a character with zero agency. Ryoga wants to fight Ranma to the death for his own pride — his rivalry over Akane is only a small part of it. Ukyo loves Ranma, but she would never give up her passion for okonomiyaki because of him.
@Jack20509042 Why doesn't Ukyo have to pull all that shady crap? Because she doesn't see other girls as rivals she has to eliminate at all costs — unlike Shampoo.
@Jack20509042 Shampoo's tactics — making Akane lose her memory, scheming to kill her, and so on — are way beyond what any normal person would do to a romantic rival. She harbors outright hatred toward any female character around Ranma who could pose a romantic threat to her.
@Jack20509042 Don't slap the "feminist" label on me. I criticize radical feminists all the time. I'm just speaking as a normal person expressing the genuine discomfort that Shampoo's character causes to any ordinary viewer.
@Jack20509042 "If you lose to a woman, kill her; if you lose to a man, marry him" — this is indeed a hard rule within her tribe. But Shampoo, as such a capable and powerful character, never once questions the rationality of this rule. That itself is the problem.
@Jack20509042 First of all, yes, Rumiko Takahashi is a female manga artist, but she built her early career targeting the male readership market. I think anyone with basic intelligence who has actually read her early works wouldn't deny that.
@Jack20509042 I question your memory and reading comprehension. Didn't I clearly say that Ukyo, as one of Ranma's love interests, is NOT misogynistic like Shampoo is? Which of my comments ever said that simply being in love with the male lead equals misogyny? You completely twisted my argument
@Jack20509042 I have no idea what simple remark of mine hit a nerve with you and made you snap at me like a rabid dog. What’s more, the logical flaws in your statements in that screenshot are so glaring I’m tempted to tell you to go back and redo elementary school.
@Jack20509042 @insanelyurusei Yes, all of Shampoo's storyline revolves around her falling in love with Ranma. That's an issue with the author, not the character, but it does tend to frustrate readers.
@Jack20509042 @insanelyurusei Ukyo loves Ranma just as much as Shampoo does, but Ukyo doesn't go all out to destroy Akane — that's the difference between being misogynistic and not being misogynistic.