Query about the manga - missing scene in my copy?

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Query about the manga - missing scene in my copy?

Postby SpaceKnight of Chaos » Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:40 am

I just got my hands on volume 5 (Viz Media translation/compilation) of the Ranma 1/2 manga from a very reliable bookstore. However, there's something that seems rather amiss... on page 68, we have Cologne and Ryoga talking about how Ryoga is only thinking about beating Ranma (which Cologne proves is a lie by tapping on the boulder, in which the kanji for "Akane" have been hole-punched). But the next page, 69, depicts "the day of the fight". Isn't there supposed to be a scene in the day where Akane stumbles out and almost sees Ryoga having holepunched her name yet again, only for Ryoga to finally achieve enlightenment through terror and blow it up with the Bakusai Tenketsu before she can see the evidence.

So, have I got some kind of defective copy? Or am I just confusing the reality of the manga storyline with perhaps the anime version of the storyline, and/or a fanfic take on that storyline?
Water, water, everywhere, and all was cursed and black!
Drowned ones cast bad spell and out come pig, girl, duck, panda!
Swirl, swirl, slithery pond, and join with magic spring!
Swirl, swirl, dirty pond, and rid the cursed sting!
Here my prayer, I beg you please!
Now turn these curses BACK!

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Re: Query about the manga - missing scene in my copy?

Postby Crescent Pulsar R » Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:42 am

I don't recall what happened in the anime, but that's how it is in my copy and I've had it for twelve years. The manga doesn't actually show Ryoga mastering the technique; we just see him using it for the first time soon after the fight starts.
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Re: Query about the manga - missing scene in my copy?

Postby SpaceKnight of Chaos » Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:59 pm

Okay, thank you for that... yeah, in fact, now that I think about it, I'm sure that I was actually attributing a scene from a fanfic I read to the manga, due to the fact that the anime 'expands' the "Ryoga holepunches the kanji for Akane's name" by having it happen during the day and Ryoga nervously leap in front of the boulder to hide it from Akane.

Man, that's a relief. You really took a weight off my mind, thank you.
Water, water, everywhere, and all was cursed and black!
Drowned ones cast bad spell and out come pig, girl, duck, panda!
Swirl, swirl, slithery pond, and join with magic spring!
Swirl, swirl, dirty pond, and rid the cursed sting!
Here my prayer, I beg you please!
Now turn these curses BACK!

http://www.issendai.com/rpgs/japanese-boys-names.shtml
http://www.issendai.com/rpgs/japanese-girls-names.shtml
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