at best he seems to be the type who won't bother with college unless some force/convincing is done.
His parents are both likely to push him to do so, if his fiancee (any of them really) goes he would as well (it would look bad socially for him to not go if they do)
and the main reason I think he'd go: in Japan universities have Martial Arts degrees (even a few schools in the USA now offer degrees in martial arts). - Who doesn't see Ranma getting a PHD in martial arts if it is possible to do so? His ego would demand it of him.
He wasn't expecting to go to high school, thus why he questioned his father ("School?") when he brought it up, because no prior plans had been made. For all we know, his father only bothered with the idea so Ranma could spend more time around his fiancee (who was chosen before the subject came up). (Plus, Genma's answer to Ranma's question was that they were going to stay a while, which makes absolutely no sense since high school isn't mandatory.)
And this part assumes that he's going to teach martial arts to the public, rather than just pass it down to his children:
three headed dog wrote:We don't know that no prior plans were made. When you consider that Ryoga knew the name of the school Ranma was going to go to it implies that plans were made beforehand (that Ranma was going to go to school there but the the fiancee part was not told beforehand) but Ranma thought that plans were now changed. Ranma was probably assuming that they were going to leave to find a cure for the curse. The statement made by Genma does make sense if looked at that way. Ranma doesn't mind going to school and when staying in an area for awhile standard procedure was to go to school but was not expecting to stay long.
Not really. It has to do with Martial Arts which pretty much guarantees that Ranma would have interest in it.
And was he enthused about learning rhythmic gymnastics? What about tea ceremony?
Whenever we see Ranma learning something new, it's hardly ever (if ever) because he up and decided to because he had free time and didn't know the martial art or technique. It was (almost?) always due to circumstances, as a response, usually in the form of some kind of challenge (personal or otherwise) or because he needed to resolve a problem (usually his own).
Plus, it's not to learn martial arts, but to attain something that proves he's qualified to teach it to the public; they're two very different things.
three headed dog wrote:Rhythmic gymnastics not so much (having pretty much learned it by watching Akane practice) but he was pretty interested in tea ceremony when Sentaro's grandmother used a few moves on him.
If Ranma knew where to find martial arts techniques he would go pretty much instantly. This is shown pretty clearly. He tried to get Miss Hinako to teach him, he sat and watched Happosai make a potion to learn it, he let Happosai read the scroll for the firework technique so as to see it, he's gone through Happosai's things, etc. The thing is Ranma doesn't know of any place to go and find any new techniques. He is shown to train by himself fairly often (and gets upset when interrupted like when Nabiki did so when she switched to his fiancee, he's gotten mad at Genma for leaving when they were supposed to be training for example the story arc with the kid that pretended to be sick to stay in the house all the time, he's dragged Genma to train with him, etc.)
Not all the degrees in martial arts are teaching degree's you know. For example martial arts history or research since I know for a fact that a sports college (they got them in Japan) has a Department of Martial Arts that conducts research about ancient Japanese martial arts and traditional arts from both academic and practical aspects. There are also other non teaching degrees offered at the sports colleges such as Health Sciences or Sport science where scientific research about physical education and sports is conducted to create better players. I can easily see Ranma going to school at a sports college like: Nippon Sport Science University.
Which we see Ranma use... what, only one time because he needed to use it?) And why wouldn't Ranma want to learn Hinako's technique when it dropped Happosai in a single attack? Or why isn't there any evidence that Ranma learned the breaking point when he knows how to train in order to learn it? (Because being more resistant to attacks seems like too useful a thing to be ignored.) Whenever he trains, who's to say that it's for anything new, rather than for keeping in shape or improving a style or technique(s) he already knows?
No matter how you look at it, Ranma is the type who waits for these things to drop in his lap more often than not, either because he needs them at the time (for one reason or another) or they appear useful to him (usually due to the circumstances). He shows very little initiative in learning things for the sake of learning them, just because it has something to do with martial arts. And that makes enough sense to me because Ranma seems like a rather laid-back person when nothing's going on or no one's pressing his buttons.
I also disagree with you Ranma in my opinion would happily learn any thing about martial arts that he found out
As for pressure points/weak spots as stated in another thread Ranma used them more than once. There was the time with Miss Hinako, but also Kuno during the battle in which Ranma hit a whole bunch of them faster than Nabiki could see in a very early volume, on the Dojo Destroyer when Shampoo put the fake cures on them, the attempt to hit Ryoga's sleep spot in the girls locker room, etc.
The going through Happosai stuff was (going by memory here so not sure) during the Martial arts dining story arc or the one with Lucky (also can be seen in Happosai's room trying to learn something from Happosai at other points like during the time Happosai was making a rejuvenation potion).
Most of the people such as Cologne or Happosai that could theoretically teach Ranma either don't want to or would only do so with strings attached that Ranma would not want to pay the price for (such as marry Shampoo or let himself be fondled).
It also appears that Ranma does improve his techniques pretty much constantly since when do we ever see him use a technique in the same way multiple times? It is far more likely like with the Hiryu Shoten Ha or the moko takabishi (double version) that he'll use a new variant on further showings rather than use it in the same way and we do see him use techniques that he had not displayed before and the training for them was not shown at all on screen (like the time he cut a perfect hole in Ryoga's house we never saw him train to do that). The thing is most of his training is not shown so it is mostly conjecture (we see very little of his training usually only snippets sometimes only a single frame off a page before it gets to the story since the training is not important to the storyline). He could have trained in many techniques that simply weren't shown because they were of limited use, excessively dangerous (Ranma does not fight to injure his opponents), other techniques were simply more practical (for example Ranma has not been in a situation where the breaking point was useful to him the one time I recall where it might be useful Ranma decided to cut a perfect hole in the wall rather than use it), etc. Whenever he trains, who's to say that it's for anything new maybe true but other options are equally valid after all who's to sat that he isn't training to learn new things or that some of the training trips mentioned but barely shown weren't to find new things?
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