Okay, well maybe the fact that Genma and Soun were drunk wasn’t THAT out of place, by the banner reading: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AKANE was. For, if you haven’t guessed, it was Akane’s birthday, and on this most celebrated occasion in the Tendo household…
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDN’T GET ME ANYTHING?”
“WELL WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WHEN NOBODY TELLS ME?”
“I EXPECTED YOU TO LOOK AT THE CALANDER YOU IDOT!”
“UNCUTE TOMBOY!”
“GRRRR RANMA NO BAKA!”
… there came a boy with his hair tied back in a pigtail flying out the back door and into the koi pond, thus turning causing him to become a luscious young redheaded girl.
“AND DON’T COME BACK TILL YOU HAVE A PRESENT YOU JERK,” Akane shouted before she slammed the screen shut and turned her attention back to her party. She couldn’t believe that idiot. How in the world could he not of noticed that her birthday was coming up? She had marked the calander, mentioned what she wanted in numerous casual conversations, made sure Nabiki didn’t steal his money… she did everything but sit the moron down and outright tell him to go buy her something and he STILL didn’t get it. Some fiancée Akane thought to herself with a frown before looking over to Nabiki. “So what’d you get me?”
“Ummm, Akane, don’t you think you should go check on Ranma?” Kasumi suggested.
“Oh gimme a break,” Akane replied before grabbing the box Nabiki pointed to. “That jerk is just trying to get sympathy. HE CAN STAY THERE TILL HE DROWNS FOR ALL I CARE!” Knowing Ranma heard that, she turned her attentions back to the party and sent Kasumi off to go finish cooking the food for when all her friends showed up later.
And so Ranma’s unconscious form floated in the koi pond undisturbed as the noise and merriment continued inside until…
“Hey you. I haven’t got all day, come on and get up. I’m running late as it is.”
“Huh?” Ranma replied as he slowly picked himself up, still feeling a little groggy. For a moment he had thought Akane nailed him with her mallet again, but his head didn’t hurt, and so he wrote it off as just another reoccurrence of nightmare # 12 and slowly stood up to turn and see who was talking to him.
“Well come on let’s go,” the person in the robe said as Ranma tried to focus his vision. Wait, wasn’t he supposed to be a girl right now? Or was that just in the dream too?
“Go where?” Ranma asked, blinking to try and clear his head.
For a moment Ranma thought he saw the other person sigh, but hearing no noise, his brain just wrote the action off as a nod. “Okay, I’m running a little late so here’s the short version. You’re dead-”
“WHAT?” Ranma shouted as he jumped back away from the person in front of him… and didn’t come down from his position. Noticing the change in elevation, the martial artist nervously felt for the ground beneath him, and on encountering nothing, looked down… to see a familiar looking red-haired girl unconscious in the Tendo’s koi pond beneath him.
“and I’m here to being you to the afterlife,” the grim reaper finished after waiting for the soul to notice that was his… her… the body beneath Ranma was the one he/she had formerly inhabited.
“Wait a second! I ain’t dead, and I sure as heck ain’t going to no afterlife!” Ranma shouted to the grim reaper.
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