 Ganheim 2009-07-27 . chapter 6Good evening, Great
[Is this spoken aloud, thought, or something else? There’s neither punctuation nor formatting to isolate it from standard narrative]
She acknowledges your presence now at least."
[I’m a little confused by the interaction and characterization with Shampoo not so much as acknowledging her father. Yes, he does show up in the manga, but his appearance was so spartan (I only recal him in one chapter) that my guess was Takahashi decided to cut his role and removed him as much as she could without being able to go back. Anyway, I’m still trying to figure out how what seems to be a pretty socially starved Shampoo would totally close herself off from somebody – particularly a non-threatening and potentially helpful figure as her father – when she tolerates somebody who interferes as much as Mousse. In canon she was by no means friendly to the Fiancee Brigade, but I feel that there’s something askew. It will probably be clarified/smoothed as the story progresses, and I’m sorry I can’t provide anything more specific, and maybe there’s more to that interaction, but it’s a nagging feeling]
"So, what is it?" the night shift controller asked. "It's the size of a small biplane
[ It’s Snoopy]
There was a giant flying bull descending upon Nerima.
[Funny how I didn’t expect Taro to make a show here. There goes another of my suppositions]
Don't' just
[Extra apostrophe after ‘don’t’]
"Shampoo specialty is fighting in air.
[I remember her pulling some vicious weapon moves, and she’s pretty adaptable, but if her fighting style was based in the air I’d think she’d take to the air a lot more often. At least, based on canon. Still, this is no great stretch of suspense of disbelief and it works fairly well]
Only shooting one or two snide comments in as many hours? That was not Shampoo.
[Then again, relations between the Fiancee Brigade were always tenuous at best, things always got worse when Ranma was involved, and Shampoo never seemed to be involved unless Ranma was involved. Ukyo and Akane got along because they were together in things that didn’t involve Ranma (and therefore didn’t spawn the vicious competitiveness). My perspective, anyway]
They had went two days without trying to kill each other and the thought of going back to "normal" made Ukyo feel uncomfortable, despite telling herself otherwise.
[Funny how outside adversity can screw up rivalries and antagonism like that, huh?]
If she wouldn't kill a threat like that the raven-haired teen doubted Shampoo would go after her first.
[I believe ‘raven-haired’ refers to Ukyo, but I’m pretty sure that she’s got brown hair. It may have been blue once in a Japanese poster, but then again girl-Ranma’s hair has been every color from blue to pink in the manga. Shampoo also usually has black hair in the manga, if I remember correctly, though she’s had various shades of blue in a few covers and merchandise posters vary even more]
caught the bonbari
[‘bonbori’, although since that can reference a Japanese paper lantern I prefer the proper term ‘chúi’ or just ‘mace’]
was familiar as was
[I think the pacing needs a comma after ‘familiar’]
felt the bit dislocate
[the _hit_?]
not even feeling her foot being caught at the last moment before she went over the edge...
[Despite the last-minute save, she’s still probably pretty messed up]
Chapter 6
but Taro ducked out of the way and retaliated with punch that was much faster than Shampoo expected for such a bulky appendage.
[Taro is deceptively fast in his cursed form isn’t he? I’ll have to keep that in mind when he shows in The Best Laid Plans]
brought her bonbari
[‘bonbori’, though as that references a paper lantern I prefer ‘mace’ or its proper name ‘chúi’]
impacted her she had
[_where_ she]
hadn't went over,
[hadn’t _gone_ over seems to flow slightly better to me, though both do work I suppose]
Peace was peace, but when it came to getting this close to Ranma then all bets were off.
[Sounds true to the characters]
Shampoo broke a rib and a finger.
[Given the blows that went back and forth, I’m surprised she didn’t break a lot of ribs and phalangeal/metacarpal bones]
when he got all sweaty while exorcising!"
[Unless Ranma’s been doing secret training against demons, I think you mean ‘exercising’]
at her fiancée'
[Extraneous apostrophe]
Ukyo couldn't help but return it. In a way, Ukyo knew she was playing with fire; getting too close to Shampoo was a problem that would certainly come back to bite her in the ass down the road. Only one person could win, after all, and anything other than rivalry or hate would get in the way of that.
[Sounds quite like the barriers they put up between each other in canon]
made the two partner's
[partners’]
"Hello, Auntie Nodoka."
[I called that!]
Although I knew that twist at the end was coming, it still had that sudden comic tinge characterizing the Ranmaverse. The fight against Pantyhose Taro was also sell done (trying to drag it out could've really ruined things, but as is felt right), and it will be interesting to see how things develop as they are forced to spend more time around each other without fighting, as well as Ranma’s increasing role (or potentially). Nodoka’s looming presence is also something I’ll look forward to seeing everybody scramble trying to figure out how to deal with. |