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Old 2008-04-07, 12:05   Link #22
changeup
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Originally Posted by Winchester View Post
Eheh. Family name Saotome, sensitive about gender issues... I smell huge crossover potential. Be afraid...

(and yes, I know they most likely use different kanji, but that never mattered to anyone who wanted to write fanfic anyway...)

SP
Actually the same kanji. It literally means rice-planting girls..

Weird as it is, it is a real Japanese family name.

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Both Alto and Ranma have the surname of 早乙女. In Alto's case, it doesn't take someone with gender issues to be annoyed when teased the way he was. From what we know of his character, he's both serious-minded and very goal oriented. Such people often don't take well to getting teased. As far as I can tell, the onnagata thing is just a nifty character hook that allows the audience to easily get into his character.
However, you can also take the overreaction by Alto in this issue as an indication for his internal desire for cross-dressing, as in the case of a certain character in an anime that ended Dec last year. For now, it is hard to say which interpretation is correct. We can wait and see. Human's mind is truly complicate.
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