Does Joyce turn into a boy when she gets splashed with water?
Eldritch Gentleman
Just don’t ask what would have happened if she was pregnant and did that. Rumiko doesn’t think about it and neither should you.
NickG
Fairly certain Akane couldn’t get Ranma pregnant , not without yet another cursed spring accident.
Lokitsu
Oh, but in the slash fics…
Zee
What about ranmas male suitors? I mean to be fair, from what I remember a good chunk of them could be pretty rapey
…okay that was dark
Hielario
I read once that the author herself said that Ranma’s sterile in female form.
Galdan
Actually, there was a clan, the Musk Dinasty, who turned all their children into males using the cursed springs, and once they were old enough they turned wild animals into girls to marry and have children…
So yes, cursed gender-swapped people can reproduce in the Ranmaverse, but it may be that only people permanently changed using the Pail of Preservation are able to do so…
BadRoad
No, but she does travel back in time six hundred years when she falls into a well.
Speaking as a guy we can be exceedingly dense in almost ANY situation.
Clif
Truth. :-/
adjudicus
Yep
Screwball
I think I can vouch for this too. I’ve learned of 2 times Daniel The Human hasn’t found out about a girl having a crush on him until it’s over, too late to catch that flight, not a chance now…
…And I don’t think he’s too happy with me saying that. I better go now…
Needfuldoer
Yuuuup. I’m also a little oblivious about such things. The disappointment after you finally put 2 and 2 together is palpable…
Deanatay
Well, men ARE genetically inclined to be larger and stronger, so it would make sense for us to be denser…
…!
What? Why is everyone mad at me?
SomeGuy411
Amen. My buddies used to make a game out of seeing how many times I would miss someone flirting with me. The score was literally every time.
ditrysia
When my boyfriend first asked me out it went like this
Him: I’d ask you out but you’d say no
Me: I won’t say no…
Him: *continues to text about whatever else we were talking about, never actually asks*
I had to actually go back and say “dude I just said yes I’ll go out with you back there”, and 3 yrs later he still swears he wasn’t messing with me, that he really didn’t get it.
ego
this kind of behavior is conflict-avoidant posing a WHOLE LOT more often than genuine cluelessness, IME.
in my youth I was conflict-avoidant to the point of total paralysis, but without having made any significant improvements in myself i am practically Genghis Khan compared to the social media generation(s)
Buggman
As a general rule of thumb, guys are better at figuring out things, and girls are better at figuring out people. Not always, of course, but it’s why we guys have a reputation for being denser than neutronium.
Cassidy
I have learned that the singularity at the center of a black hole is less dense than myself by about 5 orders of magnitude. I’m so oblivious to people liking me, that I actually just found out I pissed of this girl I like because in the 4 years we’ve known eachother, I’ve never realized she’s flirting with me.
Girls can be too. Usually I can pick up on something but I mentioned before how my current boyfriend’s advances went over my head, including when he straight up told me he liked me
Apparently I had a friend who was really interested in me but I had no idea until I graduated – a year after she graduated herself.
I’m glad I never noticed, because I was too much of an imbecillic, immature little shit with tons of issues of his own to be with someone else at the time.
Not really, I think.
Both is possible I suppose.
But the key here isn’t that he’s not thinking about sex, it’s that completely oblivious to the tension and thus almost certainly to Joyce’s interest in him.
Well, when I ran It’s Walky as a Mutants and Masterminds game years ago, the woman playing Joyce decided that she was bisexual and polyamorous post-mindwipe (and made it seem entirely in-character and keeping with her established personality), so I could see Joyce dating both Raidah and Jacob… and yeah, that mental image is pretty hot.
Discussion (305) - “Wrong”
Ana Chronistic
jacob&pizza OTP
butts
maybe i should make my next avatar that hot, hot slice of pizza
Felix
Yes.
Tim
Maybe David will oblige you by putting two pieces of pepperoni or sausage too close together so they are overlapping and thus look like a butt?
Gigafreak
One True Pizza
Yet_One_More_Idiot
One True Pepperoni
Aeron
Next Slipshine confirmed.
ValdVin
Find someone who looks at you the way Jacob thinks of pizza.
Has he ever looked at Raidah that way?
L33tmaster
I second this!!!!!
Doctor_Who
Fixed it.
King Daniel
Are you saying Jacob wants to eat Dina?
butts
man, who doesn’t
Clif
Who want’s Jacob to.
Third base.
Shiro
No Jake that’s cannibalism
Also her girlfriend is like RIGHT THERE
Ana Chronistic
man, if they got together and harnessed the power?
DINA-RAIDAH
adjudicus
Aaaand proof that Jacob’s oblivious
Doctor_Who
Or he just has his priorities straight.
You go to Galasso’s for pizza (and subs), not adolescent love triangles.
Save that shit for Pop Tate’s.
Ana Chronistic
not a Rumiko Takahashi-esque Love Centahedron?
Emily
Does Joyce turn into a boy when she gets splashed with water?
Eldritch Gentleman
Just don’t ask what would have happened if she was pregnant and did that. Rumiko doesn’t think about it and neither should you.
NickG
Fairly certain Akane couldn’t get Ranma pregnant , not without yet another cursed spring accident.
Lokitsu
Oh, but in the slash fics…
Zee
What about ranmas male suitors? I mean to be fair, from what I remember a good chunk of them could be pretty rapey
…okay that was dark
Hielario
I read once that the author herself said that Ranma’s sterile in female form.
Galdan
Actually, there was a clan, the Musk Dinasty, who turned all their children into males using the cursed springs, and once they were old enough they turned wild animals into girls to marry and have children…
So yes, cursed gender-swapped people can reproduce in the Ranmaverse, but it may be that only people permanently changed using the Pail of Preservation are able to do so…
BadRoad
No, but she does travel back in time six hundred years when she falls into a well.
Kaunisenkeli
That will take 10000 chapters to finally finish?
Stu
I’m with the Nostalgia Critic on this one – guys can be exceedingly dense when it comes to women being interested in them, and I’m speaking as a guy.
All-Purpose Guru
Speaking as a guy we can be exceedingly dense in almost ANY situation.
Clif
Truth. :-/
adjudicus
Yep
Screwball
I think I can vouch for this too. I’ve learned of 2 times Daniel The Human hasn’t found out about a girl having a crush on him until it’s over, too late to catch that flight, not a chance now…
…And I don’t think he’s too happy with me saying that. I better go now…
Needfuldoer
Yuuuup. I’m also a little oblivious about such things. The disappointment after you finally put 2 and 2 together is palpable…
Deanatay
Well, men ARE genetically inclined to be larger and stronger, so it would make sense for us to be denser…
…!
What? Why is everyone mad at me?
SomeGuy411
Amen. My buddies used to make a game out of seeing how many times I would miss someone flirting with me. The score was literally every time.
ditrysia
When my boyfriend first asked me out it went like this
Him: I’d ask you out but you’d say no
Me: I won’t say no…
Him: *continues to text about whatever else we were talking about, never actually asks*
I had to actually go back and say “dude I just said yes I’ll go out with you back there”, and 3 yrs later he still swears he wasn’t messing with me, that he really didn’t get it.
ego
this kind of behavior is conflict-avoidant posing a WHOLE LOT more often than genuine cluelessness, IME.
in my youth I was conflict-avoidant to the point of total paralysis, but without having made any significant improvements in myself i am practically Genghis Khan compared to the social media generation(s)
Buggman
As a general rule of thumb, guys are better at figuring out things, and girls are better at figuring out people. Not always, of course, but it’s why we guys have a reputation for being denser than neutronium.
Cassidy
I have learned that the singularity at the center of a black hole is less dense than myself by about 5 orders of magnitude. I’m so oblivious to people liking me, that I actually just found out I pissed of this girl I like because in the 4 years we’ve known eachother, I’ve never realized she’s flirting with me.
Zee
Girls can be too. Usually I can pick up on something but I mentioned before how my current boyfriend’s advances went over my head, including when he straight up told me he liked me
Foxhack
No kidding.
Apparently I had a friend who was really interested in me but I had no idea until I graduated – a year after she graduated herself.
I’m glad I never noticed, because I was too much of an imbecillic, immature little shit with tons of issues of his own to be with someone else at the time.
Pablo360
Men are bred for density so that they can be used in high-strength alloys.
ObiKemnebi
Or low-key ace… Or both. Both is good.
*insert Road to El Dorado meme here*
King Daniel
Would that make him…obliviace?
Lilyliv
Okay, so I’m platonically super-duper in love with you for making that pun. It was too great. ^_^
thejeff
Not really, I think.
Both is possible I suppose.
But the key here isn’t that he’s not thinking about sex, it’s that completely oblivious to the tension and thus almost certainly to Joyce’s interest in him.
Cheesy1
“. . . MORTAL KOMBAT!!!”
Tacos
ROUND 1. FIGHT!!!
Aeron
Raidah… Joyce… Dorothy… SAUSAGE PIZZAAA!!!
shadowcell
ALL HANDS, SHIP IS CHANGING COURSE, REPEAT, SHIP IS CHANGING COURSE
Mr. Mendo
Ironically, this might be the most normal Joyce has ever acted…
King Daniel
And this is when Joyce and Raidah fell for each other
PLOT TWIST
Too Old To Be Cool
“WARNING – THIS IS A PLOT COMPLICATION! WARNING – THIS IS A PLOT COMPLICATION!”
/obscure?
Wizard
“It would appear that Mr. Snott is about to eat a sub without mustard.”
Abel Undercity
“Logical as always, Mr. Schlock.”
Jamie
I’m okay with this.
LeslieBean4Shizzle
Well, when I ran It’s Walky as a Mutants and Masterminds game years ago, the woman playing Joyce decided that she was bisexual and polyamorous post-mindwipe (and made it seem entirely in-character and keeping with her established personality), so I could see Joyce dating both Raidah and Jacob… and yeah, that mental image is pretty hot.
BagFaceMan
That would absolutely break Becky tho. And by extension, Dina.
BagFaceMan
Oops, that was meant to be in reply to King Daniel.
K^2
But it works for either, so we’ll let it slide.
Zee
And sarah
Plasma Mongoose
I would also break Dotty’s mind.
Liliet
I want this
Vi
HONESTLY I WISH.
Freemage
THe more I look at panels 4 and 5, the more I think Raidah and Joyce are, ah, eyebanging one another across the table.
BBCC
Well then.
Popcorn/snacks of your choice, anyone?
Pablo360
Now imagine this strip without Jacob’s thought bubble in the last panel.
Eyebrow
Much better!
Guest42
Without the thought bubble I’d assume he was working on a threesome.
And he’s not Joe.
Clif
And the fascinating thing is, to the people actually there the thought bubble is invisible.
Catullus
It’s the Battle of the Collarbones!
Gabe