Quote:Except that she isn't that violent, canonically. I own about half of the series in manga form, and I've gone through it, and her violent over-reactions come at a rate of slightly less than one per volume. She is, as the mangaka depicted her, not anywhere NEAR as violent as many fanfic authors depict her.
This isn't totally the proper place, but I did want to make just one comment.
The problem with Akane is the series she comes from is a slapstick comedy, and a lot of fanfic writers don't want to write that. The problem then, is that she's hard to write in a serious fashion. That is to say, if you take away her over the top (supposedly funny) violence, what kind of character is she, and how does she act? Most writers seem to be end up answering "Not much of a character at all" and deciding to just write her as she is in canon (or worse).
Quote:Actually, we do know this. Akane also lost her mother, in tragic circumstances (probably from disease, rather than the worse situation Asuka faced, but still). The loss left her father an emotional wreck and left her with basically no life - Kasumi and Nabiki were taking care of everything for the family, so all that was left to her was to carry on the family's martial arts legacy. With her father in such bad shape, however, she had no one to really learn from, which is why her skill level is so far below Ranma's.--
As to comparing Asuka and Akane, that's even easier. We know why Asuka is messed up, because of her mother. We know she was terribly traumatized by it, and now she acts the way she does.
We know no such thing about Akane, whose reason for acting like she does mostly boils down to 'the mangaka found it funny'.
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