The Mystery Cartoon Character Game, ongoing-ier.

Amusing reference to Monty Python's "I'm A Lumberjack And I'm Okay." And one lumberjack that entered American folklore is Paul Bunyan, a mighty giant of a fellow said to fell trees with one swing of his huge axe. Further, the great Rocky Mountains were formed while he and his companion, a giant blue ox, were having some roughhouse fun. I think it was Disney that adapted his tall tales into animation.

That's right OUB, it's Paul Bunyan. And yes, it was Disney that made it into animation.

Nifty. I'll be back with a Mystery Character right after dinner; watch this space about 19:00 EST. *

Ahh, dat wuz good. *hiccup / burp* Now for the hard part.

1) This character is one of the principal characters in a regularly televised animated series that's no longer in production. The complete series has been released to video media, however.

2) Like most young women, this character has dreams of marrying a doctor. She has her eye on one in particular.

3) Probably more than a few girls have wanted to slug a goofy, embarrassing or difficult boyfriend. This character has landed a good few blows on her fiancée, though the fellow has also dodged quite a few shots as well. Pat Benatar was right: love is a battlefield.

Can't put my finger on it. So sorry.

Speaking of fingers ...

4) This character launches some mean jabs at the title character. None of them connect, fortunately. Being polite, the title character simply lands a one-finger tap on this character's head, as a "gotcha" indicator.

5) No brothers, but this character has two sisters, both older. None of these sisters seem in a hurry to be married, though their father has a vested interest in acquiring a son-in-law.

6) This character follows normal walkways going to and coming from school. Her fiancée tends to travel along fencetops. Both need to beware of washtubs, as in their world, these are the equivalent of anvils.

I'll really have to look this one up.

I'm comin' up with nothing. Still looking though.

No no, no more nothin's. Let's chew on some nice meaty clues.

7) Kitty Films produced this animated series in 1989.

8) This character is combative because she's an instructor at a dojo, which functions a lot like the French Sorbonne.

9) In case you haven't already deduced this, this character is female. She stays female, too. Her fiancée, however, tends to be gender-fluid.

Well, I'm not totally familiar with Kitty Films, but I did take a good look to find the answer. If I'm right, it's Akane, from Ranma 1/2.

The Mystery Character is Tendo Akane from Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma ½, therefore you are right. Akane has eyes for the handsome and established Doctor Tofu, a chiropractor / geriatrician, but he has eyes for Akane's older sister, Kasumi. Ranma can be difficult at times, so Akane has had to "thump" him on occasion. The finger tap occurs in the first episode, while Akane and girl-Ranma are sparring in the dojo proper. Since Ranma has an aversion to hitting a girl, the finger tap serves in lieu of an actual thump. Akane takes it well. Akane's two older sisters are Kasumi and Nabiki; they "volunteer" their junior sibling to marry the newcomer, Saotome Ranma. Their father, Tendo Soun, has an interest in marrying a daughter to a martial artist; otherwise, the dojo he founded would go derelict or be converted. And an anime convention is dropping a washtub on a character as a form of great humiliation, roughly equivalent to having an anvil dropped here in the States.

I'll append your newest +1, EI, while you find worthy Mystery Character.

Thanks, OUB. Now for one that's really gone untapped:

1. Along with my buddy, I was created 40 years ago, concurrently with a similar show on a rival network.

2. Despite my small size, I'm called a hunter.

3. Unlike most others of my species, I can travel out of the water.

Looks like I got myself a stumper. Ok, last three clues:

4. My full name may make you think of a late baseball player not previously mentioned in this game.

5. I'm the type who can be prepared fried, blackened, or if you're down south, Cajun style. Not that I myself have ever been eaten by humans.

6. My species is mentioned in a classic Doobie Brothers song about the Mississippi.

Figured out which series this was, but needed to figure out exactly which character it was in particular--it's Catfish from Misterjaw.

Glowworm, you're right again. It certainly is Catfish. So you go again. Good job.

Thanks.
1. After getting thrown out of my home by my wife, I turn to thoughts of suicide.
2. How will I end it all? I'm going to get eaten.
3. However, It will take an awful lot of convincing.

I seem to know this, but I can't place it right now. Someone else may get it.

It's the lovebird, from Life with Feathers. Thinking that he's poison, Sylvester refuses to eat the bird.

Yes this is the suicidal love bird from "Life With Feathers."

Thanks... But I wont be able to post a character until tonight.

OK, I got something.

I'm known for a name, but that is not my real name.
I can see shape changing “parasites” that no one else can see.
I travel from town to town, helping people with these parasites.