The only thing I really can't stand about it is that there seems to be no end in sight; the Manga has been giong on for longer than Ranma 1/2, and just as it seems that there will be an ending for the series coming up, SOMETHING has to go wrong, and the characters get absolutley no where nearer to collecting all the shards or killing Naraku.
Let's look at the other major shows Rumiko Takahashi has done:
Lum* Urusei Yatsura - Sitcom; no real specific goal the characters are trying to reach, just that Lum likes Ataru, Ataru likes her but won't admit it, and the 500 other characters that get in the way of that ever happening
Maison Ikokku - Dramadey; YES, there's a minor goal - Godai and Kyoko admitting to one another that they love each other - but it's just enough that it's something to move the plot along, allowing it to be slightly long.
Ranma 1/2 - Uber-Sitcom; IS there a plot to Ranma? And does it really need one? The fact that Ranma is trying to find a cure for the curse is little more than a plot device, and, let's face it, Ranma would only ever admit that he loves Akane if he thought she were dead (*AHEMLASTCHAPTERAHEM*); that story could have gone one FOREVER and still probably would've been funny - it was the Japanese Simpsons
Inu-Yasha - Action/Fantasy; VERY specific goals that need to be met, and were established early on enough that the series, by all logic, SHOULD have been perhaps 150 TV episodes long; but NOOOOO, it had to take 167 episodes to tell only about 3/4 of the actual story, which hasn't ended yet, and we'll only see the ending of the show WHEN Rumiko Takahashi finishes it AND they release that ending as something like a 6-9 part OVA. WTF?
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