Previously on Bridal Training!
I think it might be a good idea to have another "training session" with Nodoka. Probably still too soon to involve "Ranko" in the training as well. Another cooking lesson perhaps? Or maybe something else? Perhaps Akane asks for advice in how to make Ranma stop belittling her physical attractiveness? Which would lead into Ranma trying to insult her figure and it just rolls off her back.
Unless someone has another idea?
hmmm rolls of her back, what does that mean?
ReplyDeleteLike water off a ducks back - basically means she suddenly takes in stride comments that would previously have caused her to go balistic.
ReplyDeleteOk. before I ask for anything, what are we not limited to?
DeleteI think you mean "What ARE we limited to?" or "What can't we suggest?"
DeleteI am perfectly open to suggestions. If you have an idea, let's hear it.
ReplyDeleteOk, very interesting that Nodoka had to hypnotise Akane, since that makes it better for us! I propose that the next chapter features another lesson from Nodoka, which also has the benefit of giving Akane a very MILFish body! she doesn't have to have the body immediately, this should be a gradual process, like one month perhaps, the seeds should be set in stone for the MILF-formation process. The perfect wife should have the perfect body, kinda like the Stepford Wives in a way.
DeleteThat…doesn’t make any sense. Why would hypnotizing her make her a middle-aged woman?
DeleteIts the Ranmaverse. if it exists, it can happen.
DeleteThat’s a fair point, I suppose, but making Akane older would sort of go against what Nodoka’s trying to do here. Although it is actually a kind of intriguing image. But perhaps it would be better suited to another BEA thread.
Deleteis their a way she can still get the body to die for? like a "body rearrangement/Deep breathing" practice? like when she's in the role of the "housewife" she hides her muscles and physique of a martial artist. what's on the outside is an hourglass figure. and when she's about to battle she takes a deep breath and that hourglass gives away to her "battle mode" I.e. her usual physique, I'm willing to bet that Nodoka used to be flat when she was Akane's age. perhaps she uses a breathing technique to hide her martial arts identity or something.
DeleteHmm. Now that’s an interesting idea. Haven’t thought of anything like that.
DeleteOk, looking over the previous episodes here's the curent status quo with a few thoughts:
ReplyDeleteFirst of all it's set before Nodoka learned about Ranma's curse.
That would mean that she probably hasn't met any of Ranma's other fiancee's, and of course she lives in the Saotome house since it hasn't been destroyed by said fiancee's.
Hmm, thinking back to the destruction of the Saotome House, one wonders if in this thread there might be some relation between the hypnosis and the pills Nodoka was trying to give Akane a box for.
Beyond that, thinking of Nodoka in general, there's the question of where she learned these hypnosis techniques. They could have been passed down from mother to daughter, or be something she learned during the training trip. What's more, considering just how out there she can get at times in the manga, it could make a ton of sense for her to be experiencing some hypnotic influence as well. Possibly from years back when she got married, possibly thanks to whoever taught her the techniques, or possibly via her trying to use the techniques on herself for various reasons.
But getting back to Akane, the best seeming approaches at the moment would involve either having Akane visit Nodoka again to flesh out Nodoka's plans more, or to have the next day at school feature a home ecc class where Ukyo has the chance to see Akane suddenly being better at cooking and really wanting to know why.
Or both of those scenes, for that matter. There’s no reason that a scene at school would have to be very long at all. But yes, I agree that those are the logical direction in which to go. I also agree with the suggestions of how Nodoka came to learn these techniques and what influences they may have had on her.
DeleteI agree it's probably time for another training session. If Akane asks Nodoka for advice in how to get Ranma to stop making fun of her physical appearance, what if Nodoka's response is to point out that her strenuous martial arts training is partly to blame for her non-ladylike figure? A proper wife would be too busy caring for her household's needs to practice such things anyways. We then have an ethical dilemma for Ranma: Akane with super-cooking skills is an obvious improvement, but is an Akane that abandons what she loves to become more feminine really what he wants?
ReplyDeleteAlso, given how easily Akane curb-stomped Kodachi in the previous episode, I would like to see some conflict development with the fiancees as well. Anonymous's suggestion with Ukyo would work. Another idea might be Cologne realizing what game Nodoka is playing with Akane and hypnotizing Shampoo herself to counter.
Yes, any of that could definitely work. I suppose I had imagined the issue of Akane’s martial arts coming up later, but one ought not hope for slow progressions when it takes eight months for a thread to get to the top of the heap again.
Delete(Not that martial arts are viewed as *wholly* unfeminine in Japan.)
I’m not saying her martial arts *must* be addressed now nor that it *must* be addressed in the fashion mentioned. But it *could* work. (Though so could lots of things.)
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