A bleeding over?

[Crescent Pulsar]

Every once in a while, when Ranma becomes scared/surprised, he's shown to adopt a rather girlish stance. You know, by tucking his fists beneath his chin, and looking cute.

So, I was wondering... I can't recall other male characters doing it (except for Happosai; though I think he does it for a different affectation), so is there some bleeding over from how Ranma behaves as a girl?

[mondu_the_fat]

Every once in a while, when Ranma becomes scared/surprised, he's shown to adopt a rather girlish stance. You know, by tucking his fists beneath his chin, and looking cute.

So, I was wondering... I can't recall other male characters doing it (except for Happosai; though I think he does it for a different affectation), so is there some bleeding over from how Ranma behaves as a girl?

While it is indeed bleeding over, the cause is nearly exactly why Happosai does it.

Happosai does it in order to look "cute" and try to get his way. Ranma also does it (and a host of other "girly" mannerisms) in his female form, since he knows he _does_ look cute. Its a habit that just happens to cross over to his male form.

[Dumbledork]

Ryoga acted rather girly each time he fell in love with Ranma or another girl or when he was sure to be rid of Ranma or cured.

[SpaceKnight of Chaos]

Ryoga acted rather girly each time he fell in love with Ranma or another girl or when he was sure to be rid of Ranma or cured.

That's true. If anything, Ryoga could be even more girly than Ranma at some points in the anime. Look at his behavior in the love-predicting sakura-mochi story- there's one scene where he's actually wiggling with delight as he muses aloud on what petnames he and Akane might/will start calling each other.

[Crescent Pulsar]

Accursed anime! ;p

He doesn't look so girly in the manga. He's a pretty shy guy, overall (and emotional), but that in itself isn't really girly. He does skip for joy, though, for instance (while trying to hide his blushing cheeks); which I wouldn't think of as typically attributed to guys.

But he's just a goofball, anyway. ;p He's not really trying to act like a girl. And now that I remember them, Konatsu and Tsubasa are good examples of boys acting like girls. Especially Tsubasa. It's just funny when Ranma does something that he'd do as a girl when he's not a girl, or in drag.

But, damn it all to Hell if I can remember a single, exact instance when he did it. And I just read through the manga all over again recently. -_-

[Necavit]

One of the reasons I couldnt stand the anime.

As for examples. He seems to do it often right before Ryoga is gonna globber em. Usually when he has pretended to be a girl and the secret is found out.

Im pretty sure he did it in the sister arc, he might have done when Ryoga found out Ranma made him P-chan. Your right there are a lot of examples its just hard to remember exact ones.

Mabye he does it in hope that Ryoga will have trouble hitting a girl.

[Dumbledork]

Mabye he does it in hope that Ryoga will have trouble hitting a girl

I'm pretty sure that IS the reason.


And I've seen Gosunkugi and Sasuke act girly too everytime something nice happened to them.

[Spokavriel]

You know being bashful and humble are not purely Feminine traits. Not even in Animation.