Ranma ½ Is it any good
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So I left a review on the chapter, and got a pretty long response from him about it.
Relevant things: He says he never said anywhere this will be a harem, instead he implies that the named girls will be going after him, not him collecting them. Doesn't actually say that though.
Ranma is apparently staying human the entire time.
Rias will be interacting mostly on her own with him, Ranma won't be playing around with her peerage, which I guess cuts out a lot of the dxd plot. He's going to ignore the fact that Rias is basically all about her peerage, and instead just focus on her not interacting with them to interact with Ranma.
He put Saeko in just to have another 'strong' human, because he likes her, and becuase hes going to put the hsotd zombie shit as a subplot later. How that can actually be a subplot I have no idea, because its hard to make a global zombie apocalypse as anything less then 'the most important thing going on right now'.
He plans on Gabriel falling, which kind of fucks the Angels over pretty hard.
He agreed that his 'i dont use weapons' stuff is dumb, but hes using it for later plot reasons somehow. Also he defends his use of the retarded nerima wrecking crew/chaos magnet comments because he wants other people to know about the Nerima martial artists, and feels that using those are the best way. And that the ideas themselves aren't rather dumb and annoying (and pretty far from how the public acts to the ranma characters when they are seen doing shit), but are enjoyable and good ideas.
He isn't sure what he's doing with Issei, either he's going to die to Raynare, he's going to join Ranma's new human faction, or he's going to be a buttmonkey for a bit then redeemed out of shittitude.
Lastly, the story will supposedly focus more on Ranma/Asia/Saeko/Rias as the driving forces of the early-mid of the story, with only token appearences by Ranma characters, with Sona and the two kuoh peerages being involved but not as importantly.
Basically, his plot seems pretty fucking weird to me (Random HSOTD thrown in, Gabriel the second strongest Angel falling, ignoring the existance of the hero faction/magicians and having Ranma form his own little group as the strong humans, etc). The comments he made about fanon are the most annoying part- I fucking hate the name Nerima Wrecking Crew, and its one of the bigger red flags I have for stories I'm gonna need to close out of.
Relevant things: He says he never said anywhere this will be a harem, instead he implies that the named girls will be going after him, not him collecting them. Doesn't actually say that though.
Ranma is apparently staying human the entire time.
Rias will be interacting mostly on her own with him, Ranma won't be playing around with her peerage, which I guess cuts out a lot of the dxd plot. He's going to ignore the fact that Rias is basically all about her peerage, and instead just focus on her not interacting with them to interact with Ranma.
He put Saeko in just to have another 'strong' human, because he likes her, and becuase hes going to put the hsotd zombie shit as a subplot later. How that can actually be a subplot I have no idea, because its hard to make a global zombie apocalypse as anything less then 'the most important thing going on right now'.
He plans on Gabriel falling, which kind of fucks the Angels over pretty hard.
He agreed that his 'i dont use weapons' stuff is dumb, but hes using it for later plot reasons somehow. Also he defends his use of the retarded nerima wrecking crew/chaos magnet comments because he wants other people to know about the Nerima martial artists, and feels that using those are the best way. And that the ideas themselves aren't rather dumb and annoying (and pretty far from how the public acts to the ranma characters when they are seen doing shit), but are enjoyable and good ideas.
He isn't sure what he's doing with Issei, either he's going to die to Raynare, he's going to join Ranma's new human faction, or he's going to be a buttmonkey for a bit then redeemed out of shittitude.
Lastly, the story will supposedly focus more on Ranma/Asia/Saeko/Rias as the driving forces of the early-mid of the story, with only token appearences by Ranma characters, with Sona and the two kuoh peerages being involved but not as importantly.
Basically, his plot seems pretty fucking weird to me (Random HSOTD thrown in, Gabriel the second strongest Angel falling, ignoring the existance of the hero faction/magicians and having Ranma form his own little group as the strong humans, etc). The comments he made about fanon are the most annoying part- I fucking hate the name Nerima Wrecking Crew, and its one of the bigger red flags I have for stories I'm gonna need to close out of.
I'm considering giving a try to Wild Wolf AsoIaF version by VimesEnthusiast, mainly because of the prodigious length for its three chapters and for the crossover I like. However, the harem elements declared in the synopsis make me wary.
Is it any good?
Is it any good?
Yeah, Ranma's a proper Gary Stu in Wild Wolf.
There's a lot of content in those chapters that covers a lot of the ASoIaF world, but Ranma being in the middle of almost everything and being able to fix many of the issues that are in later books before Ned even goes off to Kings Landing gives Ranma too much kudos in that story.
But then again, what do I know about anything?
There's a lot of content in those chapters that covers a lot of the ASoIaF world, but Ranma being in the middle of almost everything and being able to fix many of the issues that are in later books before Ned even goes off to Kings Landing gives Ranma too much kudos in that story.
But then again, what do I know about anything?
most of vimes stuff is over the top bad. Some settings it works in, most it doesn't.
The problem is that he picks a bunch of female characters he likes, and forces them into a harem with MainCharacter despite the fact it usually makes zero sense. His DxD crossover, for instance, not only pulls in a pointless crossover character (saeko from highschool of the dead) just because he likes her tits, but he's also throwing Gabriel into the harem, too.
Third Path to the Future and Horse of the Dead are decent reads. If you weren't a huge fan of macross/robotech then that crossover story will work for you (because a lot of the old Ranma crossover stories did a similar pairing anyway, minus the Kasumi part). But his other stuff gets ruined because he loves harems and feels that throwing boobs at Ranma is more important then the story.
The problem is that he picks a bunch of female characters he likes, and forces them into a harem with MainCharacter despite the fact it usually makes zero sense. His DxD crossover, for instance, not only pulls in a pointless crossover character (saeko from highschool of the dead) just because he likes her tits, but he's also throwing Gabriel into the harem, too.
Third Path to the Future and Horse of the Dead are decent reads. If you weren't a huge fan of macross/robotech then that crossover story will work for you (because a lot of the old Ranma crossover stories did a similar pairing anyway, minus the Kasumi part). But his other stuff gets ruined because he loves harems and feels that throwing boobs at Ranma is more important then the story.
Meh... I have a more mixed opinion of this author than the hate he seems to get from some here.
To be honest, I quite liked 'Chaotic Space' (the Robotech cross), 'Destiny Vs Chaos' (the Ikkitousen cross), 'Horse of the Dead' (the HSOTD cross), and 'The Effect of a Horse and a Dragon' (the Mass Effect cross). Those four I found quite enjoyable reads.
Having said that, I stopped reading 'Lion of Light' (the gold digger cross), and actually dropped and deleted my copy of 'Gods and Devils and Wild Horses, Oh My' (the HSDXD cross), the latter was surprising as it had Seiko in it from HSOTD whom I quite liked paired with Ranma in the HSOTD cross, but he still managed to not keep my interest in that one as I just could not accept that situation as making any sense or being remotely plausible.
I've not read his Harry Potter cross, so cannot comment on it.
I was looking forward to him finishing the HSOTD cross (only 1 or so chapters left per him), continuing the Mass Effect cross, and starting the promised 2nd arc of the Ikkitousen cross, but he changed directions and came out with these other stories instead.
Now... How bad or good he is depends entirely upon what you like to read in a story and how you like your characters portraid.
From a technical standpoint, while I generally feel he could use more editing or prereaders before releasing stuff, it is in general fairly well written from a grammar and spelling standpoint. biggest mistakes seem to be occasional wrong word or wrong name. The chapters do tend to get edited when that is pointed out to him in reviews though. Which is a notch in his favor as many authors do not do that.
But there are a lot of generalities in his stories that will turn a number of people away.
If you do not like crossovers or multiple pairings, this author is not for you, as it is that way, or headed that way, in every one I've seen. If you do not like a powerful Ranma that is borderline Gary Stu (whether he is or not varies slightly story to story and opinion), also makes this author not for you. If you like canon, I guarantee you will not like these stories, as it can be pretty much tossed out the door by end of chapter 1.
To be honest, I quite liked 'Chaotic Space' (the Robotech cross), 'Destiny Vs Chaos' (the Ikkitousen cross), 'Horse of the Dead' (the HSOTD cross), and 'The Effect of a Horse and a Dragon' (the Mass Effect cross). Those four I found quite enjoyable reads.
Having said that, I stopped reading 'Lion of Light' (the gold digger cross), and actually dropped and deleted my copy of 'Gods and Devils and Wild Horses, Oh My' (the HSDXD cross), the latter was surprising as it had Seiko in it from HSOTD whom I quite liked paired with Ranma in the HSOTD cross, but he still managed to not keep my interest in that one as I just could not accept that situation as making any sense or being remotely plausible.
I've not read his Harry Potter cross, so cannot comment on it.
I was looking forward to him finishing the HSOTD cross (only 1 or so chapters left per him), continuing the Mass Effect cross, and starting the promised 2nd arc of the Ikkitousen cross, but he changed directions and came out with these other stories instead.
Now... How bad or good he is depends entirely upon what you like to read in a story and how you like your characters portraid.
From a technical standpoint, while I generally feel he could use more editing or prereaders before releasing stuff, it is in general fairly well written from a grammar and spelling standpoint. biggest mistakes seem to be occasional wrong word or wrong name. The chapters do tend to get edited when that is pointed out to him in reviews though. Which is a notch in his favor as many authors do not do that.
But there are a lot of generalities in his stories that will turn a number of people away.
If you do not like crossovers or multiple pairings, this author is not for you, as it is that way, or headed that way, in every one I've seen. If you do not like a powerful Ranma that is borderline Gary Stu (whether he is or not varies slightly story to story and opinion), also makes this author not for you. If you like canon, I guarantee you will not like these stories, as it can be pretty much tossed out the door by end of chapter 1.
I've read it for the first time yesterday and I'm not really sure what ti think of it. It's entertaining and here are some good ideas, but also some ... not so good. In one story arc he introduces a vampire from Hellsing as a comic relief, and I don't really see the point since the character doesn't add anything to the story and isn't seen again after the arc.
Some of the ideas are forced like the author is desperately trying to add some elements from Ranma 1/2 that the story could do without, like the aging mushrooms which have affected Balalaika, Eda, Yolanda, and Benny who are now all around 17-12 years old. Probably done to pair up Rock with Balalaika.
Some of the ideas are forced like the author is desperately trying to add some elements from Ranma 1/2 that the story could do without, like the aging mushrooms which have affected Balalaika, Eda, Yolanda, and Benny who are now all around 17-12 years old. Probably done to pair up Rock with Balalaika.
I also only watch subs normally, but I do catch an episode or two of a dub sometimes because of other people who don't like reading what they watch, so I've actually seen a little of that dub.
It wasn't the best Dub, but not the worst I've ever seen. Cromartie is the sort of goofy comedy where a not great dub might work in it's favor depending on who is watching. The acting isn't supposed to be good and the humor relies on it sometimes.