On that vein...
Sugar! Spice! And everything nice! These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girls. But Professor Tendo accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction... Water from the Spring of Drowned Superheroine!
Thus the Bakapuff Girls were born! Using their ultra-superpowers, Nabiki, Kasumi, and Akane have dedicated their lives to fighting insane martial artists and the FORCES! OF! EVIL!
edited 20th Oct '13 8:36:31 AM by NapoleonDeCheese
New chapter of ''Wait, Did That Happen Before?" Something seems off about it, but I can't figure out what, so I'm going to go ahead and post it.
“Pathetic my fist!” shouted Naruto as he burst forth from his henge as a kunai to deliver an uppercut toward Ryouga's face. Simultaneously, three crackling projectiles burst forth from Negi's staff as the boy suddenly sat up. Ryouga casually sidestepped Naruto's uppercut, hip-checked him into the lightning jutsu Negi had launched at him, then punted the stunned genin into still sitting red-head. Catching the shuriken Sakura had thrown at him, Ryouga crushed it into a ball, then pegged her in the forehead protector with enough force to knock her off her feet.
Not giving Negi and Naruto time to untangle themselves, he hopped over to them and delivered a pair of swift chops to the back of their necks. He then tossed the two of them onto Sakura, who had been in the process of climbing to her feet, driving her back to the ground.
“So, ready to give up?” the jounin asked.
After gathering up the equipment of his unconscious genin, Ryouga and Sakura set out, Negi and Naruto strapped to Ryouga's pack via the remains of the tent. Note to self, thought Ryouga. In future ventures, avoid knocking out genin students shortly before it's time to leave the area.
“So,” said Sakura, “What exactly was the point of that?”
“What was the point of what?” asked Ryouga, looking confused.
“You know. Having the three of us attack you like that,” Sakura explained. “You knew we couldn't hit you unless you let us. And you didn't.” Sakura gave her sensei an accusing look.
“I did know you couldn't hit me,” Ryouga admitted. “But you didn't.”
“So this was some sort of dominance thing, to show you're the jounin and we're the genin?” Sakura snorted. “And I did know I couldn't hit you, by the way.”
Ryouga sighed. “No. This was to show you the difference between a jounin and a genin.”
“That's what I just said!”
“No, that's not-” started Ryouga, only to interrupt himself. “You said it was a dominance thing!” Ryouga pointed an accusatory finger at his conscious student. “This is a survival thing!”
Sakura stared back with an unimpressed look. “I'm pretty sure I already knew taking on a jounin was suicide, sensei.”
“If it was just you, yes! But it wasn't! It was all three of you!” Ryouga paused for a second to regain his composure. “If it was just you against a jounin, you knew you would lose. So did Negi. And so did Naruto.” Ryouga paused, then amended, “Probably. But it-”
A series of beeps interrupted Ryouga's speech. Before he could say anything else, Sakura had her watch up by her ear. The watch began emitting a series of noises that sounded suspiciously like words, and the girl paled. Pressing a button on the device, Sakura opened her mouth as if to speak, only to abruptly cut off. Suddenly, she seemed to remember Ryouga had been talking to her. Slowly, she lowered her arm. “Er, sorry sensei. I'll... turn it off.”
Ryouga nodded and resumed his lecture. “As I was saying, it wasn't just you against me. It was you, Negi, and Naruto against me.”
“So none of us could beat you,” said Sakura dismissively.
“Exactly,” replied Ryouga. “All three of you, working together, couldn't lay a hand on me. Even when you caught me by surprise, you weren't able to touch me. And I wasn't using ninjutsu, genjutsu, or my right arm.” Ryouga paused to let that sink in before continuing. “You can expect that to be the case with any jounin you meet. Jounin are ranked as such because they've earned their rank. Even the weakest jounin on their worst day will completely outclass the strongest of genin, and are experienced enough to see through the cleverest deceptions. If you ever find yourself facing a jounin, your best bet is to run. Otherwise you will die. And if the jounin wants you dead enough, you'll probably die even if you run.”
An awkward silence filled the area as Ryouga waited for a response. And waited.
“Sakura?” asked Ryouga, looking around. His genin student was nowhere to be found. He looked around frantically. Aw crap! I got lost! Ryouga began running through the seals for the Hiraishin.
In a flash of red light, Sakura arrived back at Konoha, already morphed into the Red Ranger. What she found was alarming, to say the least.
The entire battleground was heavily damaged. Entire trees had been uprooted. The ground was filled with craters. Large boulders had been smashed to rubble. And the fight was still going.
The Blue Ranger was buried into the ground up to his waist. Head first. In solid rock. Sakura hoped Yahiko wasn't dead.
The Yellow Ranger was raining plasma at the enemy, but failing to land any hits, even as the opponent was engaged in close combat. Tenten was missing every shot.
The Pink Ranger was no longer bothering to hide his signature ninjutsu, the Tsuuga, which would give him away as an Inuzuka in an instant. Considering how Kiba felt about keeping his status as the Pink Ranger secret, that was saying something. Not that it seemed to be helping.
The Black Ranger was conspicuously absent. Hopefully that just meant Ino hadn't arrived yet.
Sakura was having issues determining what their opponent was. It was green, and it seemed humanoid, but between fighting Kiba and dodging Tenten's barrage of plasma, it was little more than a blur.
“Sa- Red Ranger!” yelled Tenten. “HELP!”
For just a moment, Kiba stopped attacking and Tenten stopped shooting as attention was drawn to the Red Ranger. And then, for just an instant, the green thing came to a stop, and resolved itself into a solid image. It was another Power Ranger. A Green Ranger.
And then the Green Ranger sweep kicked the Pink Ranger, spun around, and launched him toward Sakura with another kick before he even had time to land.
What If Ryouga Had Fallen Into the Spring of Drowned Cat?
He lifted his fists, although he was already dreading the outcome. Damn this special techniue of Ryouga! He still couldn't find a way around it, no matter how much he tried. "Damn it, Ryouga! This, this is playing dirty, and you know it! Taking advantage of—"
"Don't be such a hypocrite! You use your cursed form to take advantage of MY weaknesses too!" he roared, pouring that damned bucket of water on himself.
A moment later, after hearing the familiar screams of panic and feline yowls in the backyard, Akane lifted her head from her books and looked out the window. "Oh, for the love of—" She quickly stormed out, running for the hysterical boy running in circles with a black kitten attached to his head with his sharp claws. "Nya-chan, Ranma, stop fighting already! Honestly, why does it always have to be like this?-!"
Unfortunately for Ryouga, he never could find it in himself to stop himself in time, and every single damn time, he ended up triggering the Neko-ken...
Somehow, I can only think this will significantly retard character development of both parties.
Also, so much for the Shishi Hokodan.
Would this lead to Ranma calling Ryouga a pussy? I can almost see it.
"Fight like a man, you pussy!"
"I'll show you who's a pussy!"
*SPLASH*
edited 25th Oct '13 11:03:55 PM by Hyp3rB14d3
Pardon my jumping into an extremely long and established thread out of the blue, but I thought I might solicit opinions about my work. So, anyone interested in an Elsewhere Fic populated mainly by Self Inserted Author Avatars?
I do hope that last sentence didn't scare too many people off. Let me back up a bit and explain the basic premise.
Once upon a time, in the far distant past, I was reading the Ranma ½ manga while on a Boy Scout camping trip. I got to chatting about it with some of the kids in my troop, and the discussion at one point turned to the inevitable, "If this happened to us, what curses would we end up with?"
Next thing you know, mainly to satisfy personal curiosity, I decided to try writing the damn thing. At one point, I thought it was starting to focus too much on my own character with the characters based on my friends being relegated to the background, so some of them were invited into the writing as well. I tried to make it somewhat a rule (although it occasionally gets bent) that the stories were to avoid being too in-jokey and should be as much as possible written with a wide audience in mind, including people who didn't know us personally.
And so we are left with a Ranma ½ fic set in Western Mass rather then Japan, and which almost never features characters from the original work. (Although there is a running gag concerning Ryoga.)
I'll admit the first few stories may not be the best, so if anyone is willing to check it out, I'd ask you at least get through part 5 before offering opinions. And if you should see anything trope-worthy, by all means also check out my work page. At this point, it is mostly (but not only) by me, so I certainly wouldn't object to some wiki-love from others.
Anyway, rather then fill this thread with story excerpts, I'll just post a link to the website for these stories, The Boy Scouts ½ Universe
. I do hope you might enjoy it, and look forward to any comments.
edited 26th Oct '13 7:17:32 AM by Yotsuyasan
Boy Scouts ½: the most gratuitous self insert fic, ever! Read, if you dare!Part of the reason for the Akane hate was the flanderization in anime. Although actually, even in the anime Akane is still pretty nice compared to the other characters.
A big part though was a rather influential early fanfic called The Bitter End
.
Consider the reviews of it here at TV Tropes:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/reviews.php?target_group=FanficRecs&target_title=The%20Bitter%20End
Akane is a great, nice girl as long as Ranma isn't involved. Not saying all of it is his fault, but he truly brings the worst out of her, even when not wanting to. (To a lesser degree, the same can be said, at times, of Akane's own influence on Ranma, although she's still just as likely as to inspire him to help her in his own way).
And since Ranma is the core of almost everything in the series, well...
edited 12th Nov '13 6:52:01 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
Thanks! Hope you find some enjoyment! And go easy on the earlier stories... Man, those were written a long time ago...
Just to give you an indication, it started as a contemporary work, written in 1997... It's quite the period piece today, having only gotten as far as '98! I'm working on a story now which is something of an origin piece with back story for a newly introduced character, and having to go back even further! Man, it was interesting trying to wrap my head around vague memories of what fandom was like circa 1995...
Boy Scouts ½: the most gratuitous self insert fic, ever! Read, if you dare!Ah, The Bitter End. I read that thanks to this site before I even had read any of the source material. It is without a doubt a tragedy, a piece without hope. I could draw comparisons of Akane's character there to the downward spiral of Neon Genesis Evangelion in its later episodes—both are somewhat forced to ensure maximum misery.
Author of The Second Coming (NGE) and The Coin (Haruhi).I'll get back to you on The Bitter End if I ever get around to reading it fully; the first scene in the fic depicts what seems to be a psychologically broken Akane who is suffering from near-total amnesia and is pretty much permanently stuck on Vapidly Nice Girl mode... and it's made pretty clear in the immediately following, comparatively short scene that this was caused by some serious psychological trauma, before moving on to the story proper (which I suppose is going to explain how and why Akane became... that).
edited 13th Nov '13 10:13:56 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.The Bitter End is actually rather well written. I'd even recommend it, although I completely disagree with the character interpretation.
I find Akane Tendo to be an interesting and complex character. Her mixed feelings for Ranma are actually quite easy to understood once you think about it from her viewpoint.
Akane is from a family of three daughters. Each daughter had developed a specific role in the family. Kasumi was the dutiful daughter, mother figure, and the inheritor of all the feminine virtues. Nabiki became the cynical money grubber. Akane failed at the traditional feminine path, however, she was a dutiful daughter who had a position of respect and honor in the family as the supposed heir to the family school of martial arts.
Akane always supposed that one day she would take over the dojo for her father. She trained hard and became the most powerful martial artist her age in the area. Even possibly surpassing her father. Imagine how it would feel to one day suddenly discover that your father had never intended for you to inherit, but instead planned to give the family dojo to the son of a friend who you have never met. Oh, and you're expected to marry him.
Plus he is so far above you in martial skill that you can't even hit him and he just plays with you during sparring. And he has a dozen or so additional fiances, girlfriends (self-proclaimed), and rivals who all show up soon after, quickly demoting you to the lower end of the power scale. Lets be fair. That would suck. Hardcore.
Ranma basically came in, and without even wanting to, stole Akane's entire identity and life role. To make it worse, when Akane attempts to dutifully fulfill (poorly since she's not good at it) this new unwanted role as wife and homemaker, Ranma mocks her and rejects her.
Understand, I get where Ranma is coming from too, but truthfully you can't blame Akane for harboring some resentment towards Ranma for the mess he's made of her plans for life.
On the other hand, Ranma is also basically Akane's dream guy. A powerful martial artist who protects her, but doesn't treat her as a prize to be won, and doesn't try to force himself on her. He's also a badly abused boy who's been deprived of his mother, and has little or no friends (the few friends he does have are trying to kill him, marry him, or otherwise control him). This combination of The Woobie and The Hero is almost always a big attraction to women.
In fact the usual response to such a lead male is for the lead female to make all sorts of excuses for the jerkass behavior by the lead, while she tries to heal his broken heart. I found Akane's tsundere routine to be much more interesting.
Fanfics that make Akane the hero?
Hearts Of Ice
is the obvious choice. A Dead Fic that actually came back to life and was completed. Pretty good.
Also, Ill Met By Starlight
which re-imagines the story but with a slight twist that makes Ranma a villain. Akane is probably the closest thing to the Hero in that story. Very well written, perhaps the best Ranma fanfiction around.
Also, you might be interested in Definition of a Tomboy
which is essentially a response to The Bitter End, pointing out how overblown it is.
Yeah, Definition of a Tomboy is quite funny and heartwarming at the same time, though the last bit only becomes apparent near the end.
There's also Rules of the Games
, which takes an interesting alternate take on Akane's behavior.
BTW, anyone else read Meeting Later
and Wounded
? note
edited 15th Nov '13 7:32:37 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.With a yelp, Kiba crashed into the Red Ranger, and despite Sakura's attempt to catch him, they both crashed into the ground. Before either had time to get up, a white-gloved fist slammed into the Red Ranger's helmet, knocking her back to the ground. With a snarl, Kiba launched himself into the air, attempting to catch his attacker with a spinning kick, but the Green Ranger merely leaned out of the way and swatted him back to the ground with a spinning backhand.
Landing to the side of the Red Ranger, Kiba spotted Tenten lining up another shot with her Blade Blaster. If I can stop his movements for just a moment, she can get him from a distance!
Sakura must have been having similar thoughts, because she suddenly launched herself at the enemy ranger's legs. Unfortunately, the Green Ranger must have heard her coming, since despite looking at Kiba, he jumped over her.
NOW'S MY CHANCE! With him off the ground, he can't maneuver well! Kiba launched himself at the Green Ranger in a full body tackle, only to suddenly find himself redirected downward via an aerial throw. Slamming into Sakura for the second time in half as many minutes, the Pink Ranger let out a grunt of frustration and definitely not pain. Well, not just pain, anyway.
The sound of Tenten's blade blaster firing drew a grin to his face, but the sound it made when it hit confused him. It didn't sound like it had hit something solid. It almost sounded like when the plasma beams hit water. Rolling off his teammate, Kiba looked up just in time to see the evil Power Ranger launch a crackling green ball of... something at Tenten, who frantically dove out of the way, only to be caught in the explosion as it detonated against the ground behind her.
“Te- Yellow Ranger!” yelled Kiba, only to be slammed to the ground yet again as the Green Ranger landed on his chest feet first. Before he had time to recover, the enemy ranger rattled his skull with a palm strike to his helmet, then suddenly shifted to the side as a beam of plasma pierced through the air his chest had been at a moment ago.
The Red Ranger tried to line up another shot, only to be pegged in the stomach by a returning plasma beam from a Blade Blaster the Green Ranger had somehow obtained. Kiba went for his own blade blaster only to find the holster empty. Understanding hit him like a sack of potatoes. Dammit! That's mine! Finding his hands empty of firearms, Kiba did the next best thing: he grabbed the Green Ranger's left leg. “Quick, shoot him while I've got him pinned!”
Obediently, the Red Ranger fired again, but the Green Ranger dropped to his knees and placed his stolen Blade Blaster against Kiba's helmet. Sakura's beam passed harmlessly overhead.
“One down,” the evil Power Ranger said in a heavily distorted voice, only to suddenly cry out in pain as a second beam crashed into his gloved hand, sending Kiba's Blade Blaster flying. A barrage of beams quickly followed, as Tenten regained her momentum. In a blur of motion, Kiba lost his grip, and the Green Ranger was free to move again, evading the beams.
Sitting up, Kiba drew his Power Bow and began firing a barrage of his own, only to nearly hit the Red Ranger as one of his arrows went wide.
Sakura turned to look at him. “Watch where you're aiming, Pinky!” yelled the Red Ranger, already joining the firing with her own Blade Blaster.
“If you think you can do better, you take this thing!” shouted Kiba, continuing to launch arrows that the Green Ranger didn't need to try particularly hard to avoid.
“I'll stick with my Blade Blaster, thanks!” retorted Sakura. “Here!” She kicked Kiba's blade blaster back over to him, and with great relief he switched back to firing the blaster.
Between the three of them, they seemed to have the Green Ranger pinned. None of them were landing any hits, but he wasn't able to go anywhere either. And then a large blast of plasma nailed the Green Ranger from almost directly behind, knocking him to his knees.
As Ryouga completed the final handseal for the Hiraishin, he felt out for the corresponding marks for it. Two of them were directly behind him: the kunai he'd given to Negi and Naruto. A handful of them that were clustered relatively close together indicated Konoha, and a few isolated ones indicated various towns he'd been to that he'd felt the need to give himself quick access to while he was actually still present. Ryouga frowned. None of them were nearby. Which meant that neither was Sakura.
Wait a second. Quickly, Ryouga recounted the cluster of marks that indicated Konoha. And came up with one extra mark. She must have left the kunai I gave her back at Konoha. Ryouga paused to consider this. “Oh crap! I lost one of my genin in the woods!”
And then the jutsu activated, launching Ryouga, Naruto, and Negi to one of Ryouga's Hiraishin points. Unfortunately, Ryouga had not actually picked which one he was going to yet.
Switching her Power Axe back from blaster mode, Ino leapt toward the downed enemy ranger, axe raised above her head. “HYA!”
“Black Ranger, wait!” yelled Sakura, but it was too late. In a blur of motion, the Green Ranger grabbed Ino in a choke hold from behind, then charged Tenten, using the Black Ranger as a shield.
The Yellow Ranger immediately stopped firing, as did Kiba and Sakura. Which was the Green Ranger's cue to draw the Black Ranger's Power Blaster and start firing. Ignoring Ino's attempts to elbow him in the solar plexus, which was protected by his chest plate, the Green Ranger fired wildly, attempting to trap the Yellow Ranger between blasts. And then Ino attempted to deliver a Power Axe to his face.
Releasing the Black Ranger, the Green Ranger kicked her away. Hitting the ground in a roll, Ino was back on her feet in an instant, facing the Green Ranger with her Power Axe back in Blaster mode. “Everyone! The Power Blaster!” Not waiting for a response, Ino threw her axe into the air. “Power Axe!”
Immediately, Kiba joined in, throwing his bow at the axe, which combined with it in mid-air. “Power Bow!”
“Power Daggers!” cried Tenten, and her daggers joined the configuration.
Sakura shot the distracted Green Ranger in the back with her Blade Blaster, and Tenten promptly joined in. Sakura sighed in relief. “And here I just thought you'd all just forgotten Blue Ranger is-”
“POWER LANCE!” yelled a very angry Yahiko, hurling his weapon into the blaster.
“Oh,” said Sakura. “Well then. Power Sword!” Leaping over the Green Ranger while the other Rangers kept him pinned down with Blade Blaster fire, Sakura tossed her sword onto the Power Blaster, completing the weapon.
“POWER BLASTER! FIRE!”
Five beams of plasma lanced out toward where the Green Ranger had just been, punching a large hole in the landscape and utterly failing to actually hit the now absent Green Ranger.
“What?! Where'd he g-AUGH!” yelped Ino as a plasma beam slammed into her back. As she crashed to the ground, the other Power Rangers spun around.
“Heh.” Chucking the Black Ranger's Blade Blaster to the ground, the Green Ranger looked at the Power Rangers. “We will meet again.” And then, in a burst of green and yellow flames, he vanished.
“...Why did that guy just leave?” asked Sakura.
Actually had a Ranma crossover idea a bit earlier. A martial artist appears at the Tendo Dojo, seeking a duel in order to regain his family's honor, said family having been, by way of an extremely complicated and not-entirely-relevant series of bad investments and other troubles, driven into complete and total financial ruin BY THE HAND OF NABIKIIIIIIIIIII!!!!
If anyone needs to ask, yes, his hand glows with an awesome power, and its burning grip tells him to defeat Nabiki (or whomever fights on her behalf).
That said, I have literally nothing else save the premise. Not a proper direction to go with it (plot? whuzzat?), no resolution, not even a properly planned fight scene. Except to maybe have Rain and Allenby show up because blatant Author Appeal.
Gundammit, Unit-kun! You're infecting me! I know "this hand that glows with awesome power" is full of cheese...
But Gundam Rose looks stylish, and George has "Bless" (target ally receives 2x money for the next battle), and they can do a combo with Maxter... A cheesy combo, but a strong one. Plus support bonuses...
Having said that, would that be a Ranma vs Domon fight, or Ranma vs Domon's Gundam? I'm fully convinced that Ranma (or Ryoga, or at least both of them) can take on a Gundam and win. A Gundam, and Domon actually has Plot Armor, so...
How about a Rain or Allenby vs Nabiki (Yen Gundam!) or Akane?
Rather than smart, I'd prefer to be wise. It would let me be silly more often.That would be Ranma vs Domon himself. I currently am still deliberating on whether to include the Mobile Fighters, or to just take the characters and 'meld' them into the Ranma One Half setting. Probably leaning more toward the latter, though Yen Gundam is just awesome enough that I can't firmly decide.
It might be a good idea if I finish reading the last six volumes of the R1/2 manga before proceeding, though...
While Rose Gundam is indeed cool, I tend not to get as much awesomeness out of it as I'd like to. IIRC, George lacks the Hit And Away skill, and I usually give that module to either Tekkaman Blade or Kira Yamato.... Out of the non-Domon-and-Rain units from G Gundam, I usually tend to get more mileage out of Dragon Gundam than the others. That I adore Sai Saichi's Super Mode Finishing Move totally has nothing to do with it. ..... say, what are your favorite non-G Gundam units, if you have any?
edited 21st Nov '13 10:04:54 PM by EvaUnit01

... Oh. So, is it told from Ranma's side, or Kuno's?
Rather than smart, I'd prefer to be wise. It would let me be silly more often.