Best Ranma 1/2 fanfics?
ashez2ashes
It was what the best (and a large portion of) authors seemed to
write... I maintain a fanfic rec blog and I thought it'd be fun to
find some of these "lost gems" and rec them... However for the life of
me the only one I can remember that was very popular was Heart of
Ice. I know there are some fellow "old timers" (I guess mid twenties
is ancient for anime fans now) on this list so I was hoping someone
out here could help me out. If you remember any of these late great
Ranma 1/2 fics, even if you just remember a title or an author
(although a link would be great) I'd really apprettiate it. By "old"
I mean a story started pre 2002, probably in the 90s sometime.
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ashez
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about ranma 1/2?
Sea Wasp
Rob Kelk
wrote:
>hi... as of this time can you still find any information or write ups
>about ranma 1/2?
There's a very-short writeup in the Anime Primer, with a link to a list
of longer writeups:
http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/primer/primer-r.html#ranma
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Rob Kelk
Off the top of my head:
"Genma's Daughter" and its sequels, by Deborah Goldsmith
http://homepage.mac.com/dgoldsmith/writing.html
"Ranma and Akane: A Love Story", by Eric Hallstrom
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/179718/1/
"Girl Days", by Kenko
http://www.knology.net/~kenjiko2/Textfile.html
"Ran Wars", by Blade and Epsilon
http://www.bladeandepsilon.com/ranwars.htm
"The Replacement Ranmas", by Angus MacSpon
http://shell.ihug.co.nz/~macspon/fanfic/
the majority of June "KaraOhki" Geraci's short-shorts
http://www.anifics.com/hosted/karaohki/library.html
That's just off the top of my head, mind you. I'm sure I've missed more
good Ranma 1/2 stories than I've listed...
ashez2ashes
Some of the titles even look familiar.
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ashez
Blade
best-written finished Ranma 1/2 fanfic, provided you don't mind it being
very dark. I would largely agree with that assessment.
It can be found here: http://www.thekeep.org/~harnums/fanfic/
Also, no matter what Rob says, please for the love of god do not read "Ran
Wars". ;p
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Blade
(Notice how I classily didn't plug Hybrid Theory- whoops.)
Rob Kelk
wrote:
>Alan Harnum's "Waters Under Earth" is frequently regarded as the
>best-written finished Ranma 1/2 fanfic, provided you don't mind it being
>very dark. I would largely agree with that assessment.
>
>It can be found here: http://www.thekeep.org/~harnums/fanfic/
>
>Also, no matter what Rob says, please for the love of god do not read "Ran
>Wars". ;p
I liked it...
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>Blade
>(Notice how I classily didn't plug Hybrid Theory- whoops.)
Of course not - it's too new.
http://www.bladeandepsilon.com/hybridtheory.htm
The Wanderer
> Alan Harnum's "Waters Under Earth" is frequently regarded as the
> best-written finished Ranma 1/2 fanfic, provided you don't mind it
> being very dark. I would largely agree with that assessment.
So would I.
I have Issues with darkfic - Mark MacKinnon's "On A Clear Day You Can
See Forever" once drove me into a fit of indescribable misery, which
remains the single worst experience of my life - but I read Waters Under
Earth in its entirety, and although I would almost certainly not want to
reread it, I can say without hesitation that it is an excellent fic.
I don't have much to add to the suggestions so far, and most of what I
might be able to suggest either are crossovers of one sort or another
(e.g. Destiny's Child, which might not be old enough - I can't find a
date for it anymore - but if not is probably borderline) or fall in one
of several related categories which I enjoy but which are widely decried
for one reason or another (reasons which I usually objectively have to
agree with).
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The Wanderer
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JMiller
"ashez2ashes" <ashez...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Way too many to list, but two that might be old enough
"Destiny's Child" by Fire
His site seems to have died a couple years ago, but this story is reposted
on the below site:
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/5920/destinyschild.html
"Crippled: Body and Souls" which is a continuation of another work
ashez2ashes
> I don't have much to add to the suggestions so far, and most of what I
> might be able to suggest either are crossovers of one sort or another
> (e.g. Destiny's Child, which might not be old enough - I can't find a
> date for it anymore - but if not is probably borderline) or fall in one
> of several related categories which I enjoy but which are widely decried
> for one reason or another (reasons which I usually objectively have to
> agree with).
>
> --
> The Wanderer
I don't mind crossovers... quite like them in fact. I like Ryoga
centric fics as well. And crossover Ryouga centric fics = infinite
love. A few years ago I had a nice collection of links to those, then
my comp at that time conked out on me and I never went and found them
again. If its a really really awesome fic and newer than I originally
asked go ahead and recommend it anyways, I dont' mind.
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ashez
Rob Kelk
I asked about this over on a webboard I read, and got a few more
suggestions for you...
"The Long And Winding Road", by Zen
ftp://ftp.gweep.ca/pub/anime/anime-fan-works/Ranma/ranma.long-and-winding-road.1.gz
ftp://ftp.gweep.ca/pub/anime/anime-fan-works/Ranma/ranma.long-and-winding-road.2.gz
"Ill Met By Starlight", by Susan Doenime and Mike L.
http://www.thekeep.org/~mike/imbs.html
"Shampoo 1/2", by D.B. Sommer
http://florestica.com/dbsommer/shampoo/index.html
"Relentless", by Grayson Towler
http://talesfromthevault.com/relentless/
"White Rose", by Aondehafka
http://florestica.com/aondehafka/wr/index.htm
elsie
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:02:50 -0700 (PDT), ashez2ashes
> <ashez...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Thanks everyone who has posted so far. These should get me started.
>>Some of the titles even look familiar.
>
>
>
> I asked about this over on a webboard I read, and got a few more
> suggestions for you...
>
> "The Long And Winding Road", by Zen
> ftp://ftp.gweep.ca/pub/anime/anime-fan-works/Ranma/ranma.long-and-winding-road.1.gz
> ftp://ftp.gweep.ca/pub/anime/anime-fan-works/Ranma/ranma.long-and-winding-road.2.gz
>
> "Ill Met By Starlight", by Susan Doenime and Mike L.
> http://www.thekeep.org/~mike/imbs.html
>
> "Shampoo 1/2", by D.B. Sommer
> http://florestica.com/dbsommer/shampoo/index.html
>
> "Relentless", by Grayson Towler
> http://talesfromthevault.com/relentless/
>
> "White Rose", by Aondehafka
> http://florestica.com/aondehafka/wr/index.htm
>
>
There was one very dark fic that involved a police detective
investigating the Ranma crew over a series of murders or rapes. Does
anybody remember what the title was? I know I read it based on a
recommendation here.
laurie
Jorge A Pratt
"elsie" <lcub...@earthlink.net> escribió en el mensaje de noticias
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> There was one very dark fic that involved a police detective investigating
> the Ranma crew over a series of murders or rapes. Does anybody remember
> what the title was? I know I read it based on a recommendation here.
That'd be Jamie Wilde's "Stigma." AFAIK, his and Bridget's website has gone
to the great big core dump in the sky, but the Fanfic.net Archive (not to be
confused with Fanfiction.net) has a copy:
http://archives.eyrie.org/anime/Ranma/
Search for "ranma.stigma.gz" If you go into the folder, then click on the
file, Firefox should be able to open it natively. Internet Explorer asks you
to save the file, but any file-compression app will open it. Otherwise,
maybe the Wayback Machine can help:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040907074611/http://www.gci-net.com/users/w/wildeman/
(Any later than that, and the whole thing is replaced with the web host's
placeholder.)
Just like Wilde's, Chris Jones' webpage (http://www.furinkan.net) has
vanished, replaced by a domain name squatter. Gah. Still, the WM has
archives up to 2006, and many of his Ranma fics are still there:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060507192948/www.furinkan.net/display.php?command=category&id=15
The "Pink Lemonade" stories are hilarious (warning: lemon,) "The Virus" is
an interesting experiment... but isn't on the Web Archive. That's too bad,
because although the "The Virus" story itself is easily found elsewhere, the
well-written offshoots penned by other authors are now extremely difficult
to track down.
In general, Mike Loader, Susan Doenime, Alan Harnum, and Lara Bartram's fics
(Transpacific Fanfiction -- http://www.thekeep.org/~mike/transp.html) are
very much worth anyone's time. "Pastpresent" is amazing, and "Ukyou Can
Cook"... well, it's unique, I'll give you that. :D
Kenko's "Girl Days" and "Paragon" are good for a quick laugh, though they're
both incomplete.
Nick Leifker's (http://www.thekeep.org/~nightelf/fanfic/), and Richard
Lawson's fics (http://www.sterman.org/) are excellent for their
psychological approach to the characters, although their usual premise
(Ranma stuck as a girl,) is not everyone's cup of tea. Similarly, DF
Ro^H^H^H, that is "Sinom Bre," has some excellent girl-Ranma-oriented
fiction, but they tend to be well-balanced in that regard and very, very
funny.
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Jorge A. Pratt