Ranma Professional Thief

While Ranma does not care very much for material things he has stolen things from others a few times. Steals the dragon whisker soup from the guy who stole it, stole mushroom from Ryoga, stole food from hot spring island owner, etc., and he has made several attempts to steal things for various reasons during the manga for example the magic sword from Kuno, the instant boy water from Shampoo, magic soap from Ryoga, etc.

If Ranma decided to become a professional thief instead of an amateur occasional one what type do you think he would be most often? I realize he would most likely use all the types since he did use all the types in some form in the manga but which style do you think he would prefer if he became a pro thief or was challenged by one?

1. Showy like Lupin (Lupin 3rd) or Kaito kid (Kaito kid/Detective Conan). Ranma is very confident in his abilities and is not adverse to showing off. He could use techniques like the ones in his battle with Mousse in which he blew himself up, his body switching technique (switched with a bear at Miss Hinako's, a log in battle with Herb, a statue to get away from Ryoga, etc.), ventriloquism (one time he faked Akane's voice to mess with Ryoga and another time he faked Ryoga's voice to mess with Akane and Ryoga) and disguises (Ranma uses disguises several times).

2. Seductive like Fujiko - using tactics like dating/seducing/feminine charms to get stuff like how he pretended to be a Jr Highschool girl with a crush on Ryoga to see the Shishihadoken scroll or how he tried to be seductive to get the instant Jusenkyo water from Shampoo and drugging the person (paralysis powder on Shampoo, drugged Kuno's food).

3. Unseen Ninja Like - Using techniques from the umisenken, wall crawling, and other ninja techniques to steal without being seen.

4. Brute force - Straight out stealing the stuff using brute force techniques like the Yamasenken techniques, ki blasts, etc. Over powering or breaking anything in his way and out running any pursuit.

The poll had been up for more than a year now and here are the results:
-45 people voted (or at least 45 were recorded, the poll was not functioning correctly)
- 31% said showy
- 11% said seductive
- 42% said unseen
- 16% said brute force

If you want to, you can leave a comment with your choice, I will read them.

Did Ranma ½ change your life in anyway?

The poll had been up for over a year and the results are:
Yes 81%
No 4%
Insignificantly 13%
Never heard of Ranma ½, came to the site for another reason 2%
Total votes: 47

Even though the poll is no longer up, If you would like to you could still leave a comment on how Ranma ½ changed your life, or if it didn't, that it didn't.

I'd like to say that Ranma changed my life, it did, but the changes weren't really for the better, they also weren't for the worst. They were just changes neither really positive or negative.

I was using (and still do to some degree) books as a way of escaping from my life. While I was reading I'd get involved in the book and not have to think about life. I read (and still do) all types of books on all kinds of subjects Sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, historical, science, self help, religious texts, books on mathematics, comic books, etc. Reading was my drug of choice, which is much better for my body then real drugs would've been though I need glasses now to see stuff far away.

Finding Ranma was rather unremarkable, I had walked to the library (didn't have a car and it was winter so couldn't bike to it - plus I think that was around one of the times my bike was stolen which has happened to me several times) and found it on the shelf. I enjoyed it a great deal and read the other volumes the library had. Since I enjoyed it, I went looking for more which lead to me looking on the computer (again at the library didn't have a computer at the time) and finding fan fiction. I really enjoyed the Ranma fan fiction and read all that I could of it (which wasn't that much since I had to read it on the library's computer, though I did print out some for reading at home). Suffice it to say I eventually got a used computer and internet access (which at the time was free since several companies where giving it out I used altavista internet mostly at that time). I then spent far too much time reading fan fiction, even wrote some that I never published (I was and still am unhappy with basically everything I write including this, feel it is not written well). Ranma changed my life because it lead me to computers, the internet, anime, Japanese culture, and probably other things.

Ranma was my gateway to several things which is probably why I still enjoy it so much. Though unlike some people I also tend to, when I like something, continue liking it for years.

Which version of Ranma ½ is most familiar to you?

Recent poll asking which version of Ranma was most familiar to you.

Total votes after two weeks is 25.

Anime	7 (28%)
Manga -Viz translation	7 (28%)
Manga -other translation or original	11 (44%)
Fanfiction version	0 (0%)

I'm somewhat surprised with the results. I was expecting more anime votes and maybe one or two people having been more familiar with fanon version of Ranma. I'm more familiar with the manga fan translations and the original.

Even though the poll is gone feel free to add comments about which one is most familiar to you, since I'm interested in knowing what the people who read my posts base their views of Ranma on.

Who has the most Pulchritude?

I recently had a poll up on this site asking the question who has the most Pulchritude. The result after 2 weeks were:

Total 46 votes.
Ranma female form 20 (43%)
Shampoo 8 (17%)
Ukyo 1 (2%)
Akane 4 (8%)
Kodachi 0 (0%)
Nabiki 2 (4%)
Kasumi 0 (0%)
What the hell does pulchritude mean I'm to lazy to look it up just to answer a question 11 (23%)

I myself voted for Ranma-onna.

For those of you who didn't know or were just to lazy to look up pulchritude:

pulchritude \PUL-kruh-tood; -tyood\, noun:
That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness.

Pulchritude comes from Latin pulchritudo, from pulcher, "beautiful." The adjective form is pulchritudinous.
-source dictionary.com