MadelineLime

I'm not particularly a beer person (Framboise or a Strongbow instead, plz) but doesn't the head really depend on what kind of beer it is, and how it was poured? Personally, if I was planning to murder someone, I would have a solid alibi in place just in case. Pour the beer reallllllly high or something, cause a lot of foam? As a side, this is really cool. Same thing with the coffee, for me, make it REALLY hot so it might cool a bit but not enough? But maybe I'm thinking too much about how I would do it and looking in the wrong places. Also the cigarette. Isn't that why you really have to make sure a cigarette is out before you leave it? Or it will burn itself completely out and potentially light things on fire?

I just want to throw it out there that I never have any idea what to say to people. Ask Moustach about how horrible I am about commenting to art. :x Other people might also be that way?

Since this has come up a few times, I'm super curious as to how Ran is dressing slutty or provocative? Short skirts are still pretty in fashion for teenage girls. She rarely shows any cleavage. Satou shows as much leg as Ran does.

I cannot imagine what more could be told, so it probably is just a re-imagining of some of it, maybe?? Didn't it have a huge thing at the end with Yahiko being older and having Kenshin's sword? There's not really any more plot to be told... eta: Oh yeah, wasn't Misao and Aoshi married with kids or something? XD Pish, he should do something with Saito and the Shinsengumi leading into the beginning of Kenshin. That would be amazing!

Personalitywise, I like Yukiko a lot more, but I can't get over her leaving her 13 year old son alone. (Eri also left her child, but with the girl's father, so I find no problem with that, if someone wanted to argue about it)

I am planning on personally fixing the gap in TakagixSatou art. :3 And thanks everyone who has commented!! :D

With that little gem, I'm going to be PMing you about this instead of being an ass all over the boards.

You know, I'm trying not to be a huge bitch, but your entire post just screams "I'm right about everything and you're wrong because I say so, so here's a wall of text to railroad you." Actually, I can't really read what you wrote because of all the random capslock in there.. however since you didn't do that in the last paragraph, I can read that, so to that... Okay, I guess because you and a handful of your friends don't respond the way Ran does, (which BTW I did mention my friend does his job fine, but he has to go to lengths to deal with it), it means she's clearly OOC and horrible and just bad. Right? Your personal experience negates anyone else's, correct? That is what you're saying, right? I mean, Aoyama Gosho just created these characters for shits and giggles and didn't really think them through and doesn't keep them in character ever, nor are they based on the way real people in real parts of the world act, and clearly just has them do things that no normal people do for the hell of it, right? Not everyone is good at multitasking, and not everyone is going to get used to seeing death all the time. I mean Ran doesn't say that to Shinichi in the first case or anything. Oh wait, she does.

Since when is crying negative energy? It's not. Unless you plan to go into my DNA and physically change my body, you cannot correlate it with having no control over your emotions. It also doesn't make me feel better unless it's an actual sadness thing. As I mentioned already, I also tear up and cry over happy things. Please explain to me how that is negative. Ran is Japanese, they are not a culture that is known for their forthrightness on emotions. I don't see her begging him to stay as she's trying to be strong. It took this entire storyline for him to stop being a selfish jerk to her in this respect. Besides, how often has Ran broken something lately? Not much, if at all. It seems to be it was merely one of the many humor type of things they had in the beginning, like half the stuff with Kogoro. I said I have control over my emotions and still cry, I never said nor tried to imply this was Ran. I was merely countering all this ALL SHE DOES IS CRY blather that everyone keeps spouting. Seriously, how many times has she kicked some culprit, or done some other crazy stuff that is similar? So she has a range of emotions. Oh no, how dare she. Most people could not handle being around that much death. Are you seriously saying you would be okay with it? My friend that words in a morgue says he has to go to great lengths to be able to deal with it. It will get to you, and to think she should act perfectly calm in all that? She is the only normal one in the cast! (Okay, her and Division One seem pretty realistic) The only people I ever see saying "all she does is cry" seem to be the same people who don't like her. It just strikes me as very similar to the same sort of people who hate a character simply because she is female and start misusing the term and going off about how "she is a mary-sue." Or they're pissed she's in the way of their OTP.

Crying has zero to do with control over your emotions. I cry more than Ran, and believe me, I would LOVE for that to not happen. It's literally just a physical reaction to emotion or trauma. I am in control of my emotions, it's just my body decides the best way to deal with it is to make my eyes tear up. Something makes me super happy? Eyes tear up. Someone makes me angry? After I flip out about it, eyes tear up. Sadness? Eyes tear up. It's not as if someone says, oh shit I really want to cry right now. ETA: Actually, crying probably means you have MORE control over your emotions since you are willing to show them. Will we ever see Shinichi cry? Nope. Is he forward with his emotions? NOPE. ETA2: I also can't read the rest of this thread. The failure to grasp Ran as a character and her importance to the story and Shinichi is just baffling to me. ETA3: I should probably amend the entry to my post as pointing out I am in control of my emotions because I do not flip out about anything, in anger or otherwise, unless warranted and actually pretty severe. I don't throw things, I try and work out problems immediately and through intelligent discussion, and the like. I also want to ask every single person that has gone on and on and on about how terrible Ran is, if they would SERIOUSLY act any different at 17, after having your best friend and love of your life just up and disappear one day, constantly telling you to wait with nary an explanation. As a friend of hers, I would tell her to ditch the loser.

Eh, they're so boring I just started skipping them all.

What about the people who just read the manga, Sandwich? Ehhhhhhh? There's plenty of non plot cases in the manga, and they get animated.