Natsuru of the anime series "Kampfer" would be a far better spouse than Ranma. Ranma is highly dysfunctional and violent, but that's a consequence of being created by Rumiko Takahashi who for a long time was into depicting all males as dysfunctional crude assholes. One could still make an argument that she is still that way despite Inuyasha's departure from that theme since so much of it was created by staff and not her.
>>72401217This post only touched on it. Rumiko Takahashi is one of the richest people in Japan. So, whoever said that merchandising is NOT the tail that wags the dog is wrong. She made the great majority of her wealth from clever and unlimited merchandising of her intellectual properties. She was the top earner even in the years that Miyazaki released each movie, beating Totoro on merchandising! So, if you thought Totoro was a winner on merchandising, Takahashi still beat Totoro every time.
And a LOT of the money was due to Takahashi marketing the dual-sexual (
>>72401217 's use of bi-sexual is the wrong word) nature of Ranma and creating years of Ranma filler-episodes as long as the marketing returned huge profits (similar to One Piece).