In article <0c1qe0561t23it64rvedpg84l3bfe7ko0k@4ax.com>, RHUDSON765@snet.net says...
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>On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:10:47 +0100, "Richard Qunt"
><r.c.qunt@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> IOW, she's the mental equivalent of a blow-up doll-- all the guilt,
>>> none of the messy dealing-with-other-people.
>>
>>That's a generalization. There probably are Rei fans who think of her like
>>that, but we're not all the same.
>>
>>I like Rei for her calm, gentle, demure nature. She's smart, she's
>>thoughtful, she's not a ball-breaking bitch. She's everything that Asuka
>>isn't.
>>
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>So is Ami from Sailor Moon.

Yes, I would agree that Ami is everything Asuka is not.

>But Ami-chan is'nt a willing slave/puppet/sex toy to one of the
>greepiest characters in the history of anime.

Ami knows Happousai?  ^_^

>Ani-chan is also a really warm caring person while Rei strikes me as
>cold and quite possibly mentally ill.

Keep in mind that Rei is the soul of an ancient, non-human creature
- the mother of all mankind - in a teenage clone body.  That is an
incredible mismatch, made all the worse because she doesn't know 
it.  Judging Rei by normal human standards doesn't quite work...

FW