History YMMV / TheKeyToASuccessfulInterview

** Ryoga managing to find happiness [[spoiler:with [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Osaka]].

** [[spoiler: Kasumi whupping Shampoo's ass in Chapter 16. This is even more awesome by the fact that in the previous chapter, Akane, Ryoga, Mousse, and Kuno teamed up had tried and ''failed'' to best Shampoo.]]

* VillainSue: Shampoo, but she gets better.

* JerkSue: The main problem with an othervise rather well-written romp. Many of the characters are played as unsympathetic ruthless, callous, crude, sadistic, bullying, and manipulative sociopathic overpowered JerkAss types, complete with {{butt monkey}}s, and are applauded for it.

* OnlySaneMan: ''Nabiki'' appears to be the only one left, now. She's the only one who actually breaks down and cries in the face of overwhelming stupidity and/or insanity, complete with a ThousandYardStare.

** Chapter 14 [[spoiler: TrainingMontage with Donny Osmond, complete with musical numbers, PLURAL. And one of them is the famous montage song from SouthPark!]]

** Akane gets one when she beats Kodachi... with a [[JoJosBizarreAdventure ZA WARUDO]] impression. OUCH.

** Chapter 14 [[spoiler: GonnaFlyNowMontage with Donny Osmond, complete with musical numbers, PLURAL. And one of them is the famous montage song from SouthPark!]]

* VillainSue: Shampoo, but she gets better and becomes a regular MarySue.

** [[spoiler: "I'm the [[AuthorAvatar Ero-Sennin]] and this is a Fuck You."]]

* VillainSue: Shampoo, [[HeelFaceTurn but she gets better.]]

* CanonDefilement: YourMileageMayVary, but some readers think that most of the characters were much kinder or had largely different personalities originally, to the point that several of them on-off read like similar callous voices that simply borrow the names. When [[TheMessiah Kas]][[FriendToAllLivingThings umi]] starts to seriously threaten to murder her father things have definitely gone far beyond "creative liberties". The overall thematics, interpretations, and power-scalings othervise also diverge wildly from canon, and the narrative has a far more sadistic amoral edge than the original work, with genuinely malevolent characters, such as Shampoo or Nabiki, presented as greatly favoured over ones that are ultimately simply crazy, damaged, and obnoxious, but comparatively harmless, such as principal Kuno.
* CentralTheme: The presented general running thread is: "{{JerkAss}}es and [[TheSociopath Sociopaths]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality versus]] {{CloudCuckooLander}}s and AcceptableHardLuckTargets". Major BaseBreaker whether the tendency goes well with the reader or not.

* JerkSue: Ranma and Akane are arguably much greater callous savage intolerant JerkAss types than in canon, and given highly preferential treatment because of these qualities. Nabiki is either this or a VillainSue.
* OnlySaneMan: BaseBreaker. The narrative apparently attempts to portray Ranma, Akane, and to an extent Nabiki and eventually Shampoo as this, but it depends on the reader whether it works or not. One part views it as ComedicSociopathy RuleOfFunny RuleOfCool CrossingTheLineTwice ShoutOut creative liberties, and working relative to the more irrational rest of the cast. Another gets a very strong impression that the manner the favoured characters think, talk, and behave recurrently extremely closely intersects with the typical pattern of real-world style in-control, ideologically sadistic, calculating, ruthless, completely compassion-deprived, callously condemning, textbook [[TheSociopath sociopaths]]; [[BlueAndOrangeMorality and with extremely contradictory, inconsistent, disproportionate, and othervise odd sense of scale between different transgressions and punishments]].

* VillainSue: Shampoo. She has a mindset on par with the worst BlackLagoon cast members. Although beyond the extreme power-up Shampoo's personality may be the most in-character in the entire story, simply cranked UpToEleven, and the reason she worked despite this in canon (while keeping the irreverent tone intact) is partially that she was there treated as severely outmatched by any male with the possible exception of Tatewaki, and as the least martially talented member of the cast, considering her lack of prowess despite being trained by Cologne (however, she was also the most devious and multi-talented).

* VillainSue: Shampoo. She has a mindset on par with the worst BlackLagoon cast members, and among other things [[MoralEventHorizon planned to brainwash Akane into forgetting her life and family, to then be sold into sex-slavery]]. Although beyond the extreme power-up Shampoo's personality may be the most in-character in the entire story, simply cranked UpToEleven, and the reason she worked despite this in canon (while keeping the irreverent tone intact) is partially that she was there treated as severely outmatched by any male with the possible exception of Tatewaki, and as the least martially talented member of the cast, considering her lack of prowess despite being trained by Cologne (however, she was also the most devious and multi-talented).

** [[spoiler: Kasumi whupping Shampoo's ass in Chapter 19. This is even more awesome by the fact that in the previous chapter, Akane, Ryoga, Mousse, and Kuno teamed up had tried and ''failed'' to best Shampoo.]]

** Chapter 17 [[spoiler: GonnaFlyNowMontage with Donny Osmond, complete with musical numbers, PLURAL. And one of them is the famous montage song from SouthPark!]]
** Chapter 24 is a crowning CHAPTER of funny!

* TearJerker: The results of [[WhamEpisode Chapter 15]] are literally this for Akane, bordering on DespairEventHorizon.

* CanonDefilement: YourMileageMayVary, but some readers think that most of the characters were much kinder or had largely different personalities originally, to the point that several of them read like PossessionSue spokespieces that simply borrow the names. When [[TheMessiah Kas]][[FriendToAllLivingThings umi]] starts to seriously threaten to murder her father things have definitely gone far beyond "creative liberties". The overall thematics, interpretations, and power-scalings othervise also diverge wildly from canon, and the narrative has a far more sadistic amoral edge than the original work, with genuinely malevolent characters, such as Shampoo or Nabiki, presented as greatly favoured over ones that are ultimately simply crazy, damaged, and obnoxious, but comparatively harmless, such as principal Kuno.

* CanonDefilement: YourMileageMayVary, but some readers think that most of the characters were much kinder or had largely different personalities originally, to the point that several of them read like PossessionSue spokespieces that simply borrow the names. When [[TheMessiah Kas]][[FriendToAllLivingThings umi]] starts to seriously threaten to murder her father things have definitely gone far beyond "creative liberties". The overall thematics, interpretations, and power-scalings othervise also diverge wildly from canon, and the narrative has a far more sadistic amoral edge than the original work, with genuinely malevolent characters (Shampoo among other things [[MoralEventHorizon planned to brainwash Akane into forgetting her life and family, to then be sold into sex-slavery]]) easily favoured over ones that are ultimately simply crazy, damaged, and obnoxious, but comparatively harmless, such as principal Kuno.

* VillainSue: Shampoo. She has a mindset on par with the worst BlackLagoon cast members. Although beyond the extreme power-up Shampoo's personality may be the most in-character in the entire story, simply cranked UpToEleven, and the reason she worked despite this in canon (while keeping the irreverent tone intact) is partially that she was there treated as severely outmatched by any male with the possible exception of Tatewaki, and as the least martially talented member of the cast, considering her lack of prowess despite being trained by Cologne (however, she was also the most devious and multi-talented).

* CanonDefilement: YourMileageMayVary, but some readers think that most of the characters were much kinder or had largely different personalities originally, to the point that several of them read like [[PossessionSue similar author spokespieces that simply borrow the names]]. When [[TheMessiah Kas]][[FriendToAllLivingThings umi]] starts to seriously threaten to murder her father things have definitely gone far beyond "creative liberties" and should simply switch to original characters instead.
* The overall thematics, interpretations, and power-scalings othervise also diverge wildly from canon, and the narrative has a far more sadistic malevolent edge than the original work, with genuinely evil characters (Shampoo is on par with the worst BlackLagoon cast members, and among other things [[MoralEventHorizon planned to brainwash Akane into forgetting her life and family, to then be sold into sex-slavery]]) by far favoured over ones that are ultimately simply crazy, damaged, and obnoxious, but comparatively harmless, such as principal Kuno. The Sailor Moon and Harry Potter stories from the same author are much easier to stomach in this regard, as the protagonists are presented as much less nasty, whereas the antagonists are monstrous enough to genuinely deserve their punishments.

* OnlySaneMan: In the context of the setting, Ranma and Akane are this. Shampoo and Kuno both show signs of approaching this territory. Nabiki tries but ocassionaly falls prey to the madness of the story.

* VillainSue: Shampoo. Although beyond the extreme power-up Shampoo's personality may be the most in-character in the entire story, simply cranked UpToEleven, and the reason she worked despite this in canon (while keeping the irreverent tone intact) is partially that she was there treated as severely outmatched by any male with the possible exception of Tatewaki, and as the least martially talented member of the cast, considering her lack of prowess despite being trained by Cologne (however, she was also the most devious and multi-talented).

* CanonDefilement: Most of the characters were much kinder or had largely different personalities originally, to the point that several of them read like [[PossessionSue similar author spokespieces that simply borrow the names]]. When [[TheMessiah Kas]][[FriendToAllLivingThings umi]] starts to seriously threaten to murder her father things have definitely gone far beyond "creative liberties" and should simply switch to original characters instead.
* The overall thematics, interpretations, and power-scalings othervise also diverge wildly from canon, and has a far more sadistic malevolent edge than the original work, with genuinely evil characters (Shampoo is on par with the worst BlackLagoon cast members, and among other things [[MoralEventHorizon planned to brainwash Akane into forgetting her life and family, to then be sold into sex-slavery]]) by far favoured over ones that are ultimately simply crazy, damaged, and obnoxious, but comparatively harmless, such as principal Kuno. The Sailor Moon and Harry Potter stories from the same author are much easier to stomach in this regard, as the protagonists are presented as much less nasty, whereas the antagonists are monstrous enough to genuinely deserve their punishments.
* CentralTheme: The presented general running thread is: "{{JerkAss}}es and [[TheSociopath Sociopaths]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality versus]] {{CloudCuckooLander}}s and AcceptableHardLuckTargets". Major BaseBreaker whether the tendency goes well with the reader or not.

* JerkSue: Ranma and Akane

* OnlySaneMan: BaseBreaker. The narrative apparently attempts to portray Ranma, Akane, and to an extent Nabiki and eventually Shampoo as this, but it depends on the reader whether it works or not. One part views it as ComedicSociopathy RuleOfFunny RuleOfCool CrossingTheLineTwice ShoutOut creative liberties, and working relative to the more irrational rest of the cast. Another gets a very strong impression that the manner the favoured characters think, talk, and behave recurrently extremely closely intersects with the typical pattern of real-world style in-control, ideologically sadistic, calculating, ruthless, completely compassion-deprived, callously condemning, textbook [[TheSociopath sociopaths]]; [[BlueAndOrangeMorality and with extremely contradictory, inconsistent, disproportionate, and othervise odd sense of scale between different transgressions and punishments]].

* VillainSue: Shampoo, and technically Nabiki. Although beyond the extreme power-up Shampoo's personality may be the most in-character in the entire story, simply cranked UpToEleven, and the reason she worked despite this in canon (while keeping the irreverent tone intact) is partially that she was there treated as severely outmatched by any male with the possible exception of Tatewaki, and as the least martially talented member of the cast, considering her lack of prowess despite being trained by Cologne (however, she was also the most devious and multi-talented).

* CanonDefilement: Most of the characters were much kinder or had largely different personalities originally, to the point that several of them read like [[PossessionSue similar author spokespieces that simply borrow the names]]. The overall thematics, interpretations, and power-scalings othervise diverge wildly from canon, and has a far more sadistic malevolent edge than the original work, with genuinely evil characters (Shampoo is on par with the worst BlackLagoon cast members, and among other things [[MoralEventHorizon planned to brainwash Akane into forgetting her life and family, to then be sold into sex-slavery]]) by far favoured over ones that are ultimately simply crazy, damaged, and obnoxious, but comparatively harmless, such as principal Kuno. The Sailor Moon and Harry Potter stories from the same author are much easier to stomach in this regard, as the protagonists are presented as much less nasty, whereas the antagonists are monstrous enough to genuinely deserve their punishments.

* JerkSue: Ranma, Akane

* CanonDefilement: Most of the characters were much kinder or had largely different personalities originally, to the point that several of them read like [[PossessionSue similar author spokespieces that simply borrow the names]]. The overall thematics, interpretations, and power-scalings othervise diverge wildly from canon, and has a far more sadistic malevolent edge than the original work, with genuinely evil characters (Shampoo is on par with the worst BlackLagoon cast members, and among other things [[MoralEventHorizon planned to brainwash Akane into forgetting her life and family, to then be sold into sex-slavery]]) by far favoured over ones that are ultimately simply crazy, damaged, and obnoxious, but comparatively very harmless, such as principal Kuno. The Sailor Moon and Harry Potter stories from the same author are much easier to stomach in this regard, as the protagonists are presented as much less nasty, whereas the antagonists are monstrous enough to genuinely deserve their punishments.

* CanonDefilement: Most of the characters were much kinder or had largely different personalities originally, to the point that several of them read like [[PossessionSue similar author spokespieces that simply borrow the names]]. The overall thematics, interpretations, and power-scalings othervise diverge wildly from canon, and has a far more sadistic malevolent edge than the original work, with genuinely evil characters (Shampoo is on par with the worst BlackLagoon cast members, and planned to brainwash Akane into forgetting her life and be sold into sex-slavery) by far favoured over ones that are ultimately simply crazy and obnoxious, but comparatively harmless, such as principal Kuno. The Sailor Moon and Harry Potter stories from the same author are much easier to stomach in this regard, as the protagonists are presented as much less nasty, whereas the antagonists are monstrous enough to genuinely deserve their punishments.

* CanonDefilement: Most of the characters were much kinder or had largely different personalities originally, to the point that several of them read like [[PossessionSue similar author spokespieces that simply borrow the names]]. The overall thematics, interpretations, and power-scalings othervise diverge wildly from canon, and has a far more sadistic malevolent edge than the original work, with genuinely evil characters (Shampoo is on par with the worst BlackLagoon cast members, and planned to brainwash Akane into forgetting her life and be sold into sex-slavery) by far favoured over ones that are ultimately simply crazy and obnoxious, but comparatively harmless, such as principal Kuno. The Sailor Moon and Harry Potter distortion stories are much easier to stomach in this regard, as the protagonists are presented as much less nasty, whereas the antagonists are monstrous enough to genuinely deserve their punishments.

* VillainSue: Shampoo. Although beyond the extreme power-up her personality may be the most in-character in the entire story, simply cranked UpToEleven, and the reason she worked despite this in canon (while keeping the irreverent tone intact) is partially that she was there treated as severely outmatched by any male with the possible exception of Tatewaki.
** And considering that most characters have taken a level in badass, this could be justified.