FanficRecs LooneyToons' review
Seconded. This is a personal favorite. Part of its appeal for me is the implied cyclic nature of things — Genma and Soun have exactly the same kind of wacky life and times as Ranma and Akane will have twenty years or so later, just twisted in its own weird way — but with all manner of echoes of the future. One fun running gag is that we see many, many candidates for Takahashi's anonymous late Mrs. Tendo, and it's impossible to figure out which one — if it's only one — will be the lucky girl.
FanficRecs Sacket's review
Amazingly well written, it actually makes you like Genma, and hints at what went wrong in his life. Hints also as to why the Kunos are so loopy and where is their mother? Darker And Edgier, and correctly set in Post-war Japan (well, a Scavenger World version at least). It makes me weep, but it is now a Dead Fic.
FanficRecs Sadly, never finished — but still worth reading
I adored this story. Admittedly, I do have a bias as it was one of the very first fanfics I ever saw posted to the FFML.
More than that, it's also one of the earlier fics to genuinely try to give Genma a fair shake. Tragically, for various reasons, the author never finished it, leaving this abandoned....
But the technical aspects of the writing — and storytelling in general — really life this story out from the crowd of abandoned fics. The stylism alone would be worth reading, but when you add it to masterful storytelling, complex, amazingly hilarious relationships between the cast....
Absolutely a treat.