Ranma ½ Magical Girls Academy

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Dumbledork

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Somewhat inspired by Xylix’s fic ‘Haigeki’, The first paragraphs are the general idea before I introduce the Ranma ½ elements.


Japan is the land of magical girls. There are dozens of them running around and causing widespread chaos and destruction in their fights against evil forces with the rookies being the worst of them. While the Japanese Government is grateful for their help, the wages of the cleanup crews are getting astronomical.

The Government decides that enough is enough and that things can’t continue like that and creates the Magical Girls Academy. This special school for all kinds of magical girls not only helps them control their powers, but also teaches them about ethics and responsibility. Of course, they still have all of the usual school subjects.

The school is mandatory for every magical girl and failing to attend will have severe consequences, not only for the magical girls themselves but also for their families, like losing their jobs, social security, and other benefits. However, after informing the parents about the magical girl status of their daughters this isn’t much of an issue since the parents are not happy that the girls kept their secret identity from them.

The academy proves to be a huge success. First of all, all the girls are registered and they can help each other in their respective fights. They get training, which helps reduce the property damage, and maybe most importantly, they are among peers and can make friends who know about their secret identity.

How does Ranma fit into this concept? Unfortunately for him the curse makes him a magical girl and he’ll be forced to attend, much to his protest. However, after the Government threatens to take Genma to court for child abuse and Nodoka for child neglect Genma quickly agrees and sneds Ranma to the school.

The problem is that even if the curse is magical in nature Ranma doesn’t get any special powers from it as far as he knows, and scamming free food from the vendors can’t be really considered a magical power. Thus the problem of finding the right place for him.

Here’s a list of the main groups in the academy (some girls fit into more than one category):

1) The magical girl fighters : Sailor Moon, Wedding Peach, Pretty Cure, Madoka Magica, …
2) The witches : Magical Doremi, Sugar Sugar Rune, Rosario + Vampire (Yukari & Ruby), Negima, Lalabel, Kiki,…
3) The magical girl idols: Fancy Lala, Creamy Mami, Magical Emi,…

The first group is out, because even if Ranma is a great fighter he doesn’t use magic.
The second group is out two. They gave Ranma a magical wand but he couldn’t make it work at all.
Unfortunately that only leaves group three, and since Ranma’s female form has a great singing voice it’s decided that he is to become a magical girl singing idol. Ranma tries his hardest to get out of school, but with the amount of powerful enforcers that’s not an easy thing to do.

At first Ranma’s rivals laugh at his misfortune until they are informed that due to their curse they qualify as magical girl mascots and enrolled into the school too where they are taught how to be a mascot.

Later on I want Ranma to find a book in the library on song magic, where he learns how to use his incredible singing voice as a weapon. If he had to do the idol schtick he wants to get something out of it at least.
 
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Glimmervoid

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In two words: loved it. Brilliant idea.

A couple of points, though:

First, I think the magical girl fighters keeping Ranma out needs a better reason. 'Doesn't use magic to fight' seems a stretch. You listed Pretty Cure as members of this group and Cure Black and Cure White primarily use physical attacks too. Additionally, many of Ranma's attacks seem pretty damn magical too me and that's even without the likes of Moko Takabisha.

Maybe the leader of the fighter Clique was wronged by Ranma in the past and uses her influence to keep him from where he 'obliviously' should be?

Second, I really don't like the child abuse for Genma and child neglect for Nodoka threat. That kind of real world consequences should never be mentioned in a comic series like Ranma. It destroys the tone and stops readers from buying into future comic-martial arts high jinks. Every time Ranma or another character does anything illegal in the future, they'll look back at this point and see a plot hole.

My advice: go with one of the series themes: the Tendo Dojo. If Ranma doesn't attend, the government will sky rocket the Dojo's tax, meaning the Tendos will have to sell it. Faced with that, Genma and Soun practically push Ranma out the door.
 
Deathwings

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To be honest, I would be much more interested if Ranma were to end up a teacher at one such school. Your idea just about reek of the usual cliché and doesn't really sound that interesting.

Not to mention that the plot hook is completely stupid in insight : Ranma can pass off as a Magical Girl because he's that badass, but what if a completely normal guy with no training were to fall into Jusenkyo ? Would the government throw a complete civilian with no powers or skills whatsoever into the grinder just because ? And then there's the fact that forcing Ranma to attend when he doesn't want to nor actually need to, since he's literally spent his whole life training, is just asking for trouble.

In the end this just sound like one idea whose only purpose is to get a couple of cheap laugh over the course of 2 or 3 chapters max before the fic collapse upon itself from the utter lack of any actual plot. Pass.
 
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Ordo

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Deathwings said:
To be honest, I would be much more interested if Ranma were to end up a teacher at one such school. Your idea just about reek of the usual cliché and doesn't really sound that interesting.

Not to mention that the plot hook is completely stupid in insight : Ranma can pass off as a Magical Girl because he's that badass, but what if a completely normal guy with no training were to fall into Jusenkyo ? Would the government throw a complete civilian with no powers or skills whatsoever into the grinder just because ? And then there's the fact that forcing Ranma to attend when he doesn't want to nor actually need to, since he's literally spent his whole life training, is just asking for trouble.

In the end this just sound like one idea whose only purpose is to get a couple of cheap laugh over the course of 2 or 3 chapters max before the fic collapse upon itself from the utter lack of any actual plot. Pass.
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All right, so either an older Ranma (early to mid 20's) is an instructor at the school or he's tapped to do the Job while still16-17.

Either way I think a lighthearted story of Ranma maturing into his role as teacher could be interesting, as well as the effects this has on his associates back home.

Aside from his students I think it'd be interesting to see Ranma interacting a lot with the faculty.

Nanoha: School Principle/Counselor
Washu: School Doctor/Science Teacher
Negima: Magical Theory/English
Ranma: PT/Physical Combat skills
Yuki Okumura: Demonology/Potions
Ceras Victoria: Law/Police Procedure
Sagara Souske: Small Unit tactics/history and moral philosophy
Mrs. Mcgonagall: Assistant principle/Transformations
 
daniel_gudman

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Dumbledork said:
The school is mandatory for every magical girl and failing to attend will have severe consequences, not only for the magical girls themselves but also for their families, like losing their jobs, social security, and other benefits.
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First thing I noticed was how crazy unethical this particular gem is. Sure you could swing it, but the instant you did, I would expect "corrupt evil government" to be a thing in this story that has to be dealt with.

Actually, if you think about most Episode 1s of a magical girl anime, it starts with a normal girl getting recruited by some kinda Space Rodent to fight like The Bad Guys.

Maybe these girls chase after Magical Powers 100% no regret without looking back, but in the end, the source is that these girls are all getting recruited.

From another angle,
What benefit does forcing a kaleidoscope of magical powers to obey you and stickin' 'em in a box get you? If monsters or whatever are distributed all over the country, or even just all over Tokyo, then jamming them all in one campus which they have to respond from rather than letting them live all over the country is logistically bad.

No, more than that, what crime did these girls commit that allows the government the moral right to restrict their freedom? If it's just the "amassing magical power" thing then you're also going to have to have some kinda "Super Powered Martial Arts Program" or whatever.

Nah, my suggestion is, cast the government's eye on the most ethically suspicious participant in this whole equation: The Cute Mascot Characters. The government passes the "Magical Contractor Registration Act" that requires those Space Rats to fill out a form saying where they're from, what kinda powers they're handing out, what they're goal is, who they're opposing, whatever. Guys like the Moon Cats from Sailor Moon who are stopping Ancient and Terrible Evil from Swallowing the World would get some government endorsement, whereas something like Kyuubey would be shut down.

Promote a culture that Magical Girls should support and help each other, then it also becomes a forum to allow that kind of broader society to occur, rather than a school. And it turns all the Unregistered into the "Dark Magical Girl" motif that needs to be registered so she can have friends--but also so they can be sure the Mascot Character isn't Mephestopheles.

How does the Nerima Crew fit into this?

1) The Anything Goes style has a strange habit for a mostly-evil style; they'll teach kung-fu to anyone that asks.
2) Genma is a cute panda.

So there's like a magical girl that's feeling kinda down because she's falling behind her friends, and Genma is out toolin' around in curse form bored because Ranma's in school, and they run into each other, and he teaches her some kinda martial arts trick using a hazardous method.

It happens a second or third time (I'm imagining this is as a "well there was that other time..." flashback series when Ranma demands how the hell all these girls know panda!Genma), until Genma becomes a relatively well-known Mascot Animal... but he's still Unregistered.

Anyway a Magical Girl that already completed her story arc and has her Finisher Fanstastical Form or whatever, now that she doesn't have a story arc she works as an "Enforcer" that smacks down Unregistered Mascots.

She shows up and basically, arrests Genma. But he's a slippery eel and keeps escaping even when she uses Wide Sparkle Bombardment.

Anyway then Ranma shows up in like a cocktail dress in girl form, in the middle of a punching contest with Ryouga (who has like a rubber horse mask stuck on his head because IDK), and that quickly turns into a match with this Final Fantastical lady, who creams them all and drags Genma (and his apparent contractor) Ranma over to the Mascot Registration Office and forces Genma to fill one out. Naturally he fills it with stupid cliche lies (he's from the Panda Planet and he's here to entomb the Dark Master Happosai who cannot be killed, only sealed) but somehow that turns him into a common-as-muck Mascot that's accepted normally.

Meanwhile Ranma swears on a rematch. Final Fantastical Lady is cooly amused, which just ticks Ranma off even more, but on the inside this girl is actually kind of hopeful because the whole reason she's doing all this is because she's bored and directionless and that's interesting.

Ranma trains at being a Magical Girl, and loses his rematches by a smaller margin each time, even as he bombs around getting in other Magical Girl's hair infuriating them by casually insulting the very skills he's stealing from them. Also Genma keeps blowing smoke about Dark Master Happosai, without really considering that the Master is three times scarier to girls and Genma's haunted thousand-yard stare is way more convincing than his inarticulate stories.

Anyway once Ranma's got that figured out enough to turn it into his own thing he rips apart the transformation and rebuilds it as the Magical Personality, which provides negligible physical enhancement and no costume, but is always on and doesn't have anything to do with gender. Basically he turns himself into a sorcerer.

Anyway he finally defeats the Final Fantastical lady, but he doesn't act like it's the end of his Story, because to him martial arts isn't a goal, but a path to walk his whole life. I'm kinda thinking that's when this girl will forcibly promote herself to route heroine? She might slowly cross the line into full blood knight to the dismay of other magical girls while Ranma and Friends act like that's not even a thing.

Then the now-infamous Dark Master Happosai shows up, enrages a bunch of magical girls, reveals that Ranma is theoretically his apprentice instead of his nemesis, and now Ranma is fighting every single magical girl in Japan! He thinks that's awesome.

That's about how I would swing this.

Oh and Kyuubey gets addicted to Ryouga. Like, literally addicted, the Shishi Hokodon is like double cocaine for that species.
 
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GaelicDragon

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How about instead of one Magical Girl Academy....how about several. They operate as a second educational system. This includes magical girls, mascots, and those who are too much for the normal education system to handle. People like Kuno and Akane do qualify, and were being scouted for the local academy when Ranma had his first day. After a few months and a lot of debate, the government decides to bring most of the "Nerima Wrecking Crew" into the local academy in order to at least potentially contain or direct the damage.

It took a couple of months because of all of the "interesting" things that came to light. Things like Gos's 5 minute power armor that made him able to match Ranma for a short period is something the government would consider worth their while if they can use Ranm and co. as bait for strange and unusual things that are under their radar.
 
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shout27

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The teacher thing seems decent, especially if there are several campus's over japan connected by teleport gates. Ranma being forced to attend just sounds stupid unless the jap. gov. gives him a decent reason to attend, like the Emperor is willing to move him off of the Saotome clan registry and onto his own and deal with all the fiancee problems on his behalf or something. Thereafter, he doesn't need to marry Akane or anyone else he doesn't want to.
 
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nixofcyzerra

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daniel_gudman said:
Dumbledork said:
The school is mandatory for every magical girl and failing to attend will have severe consequences, not only for the magical girls themselves but also for their families, like losing their jobs, social security, and other benefits.
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Nah, my suggestion is, cast the government's eye on the most ethically suspicious participant in this whole equation: The Cute Mascot Characters. The government passes the "Magical Contractor Registration Act" that requires those Space Rats to fill out a form saying where they're from, what kinda powers they're handing out, what they're goal is, who they're opposing, whatever. Guys like the Moon Cats from Sailor Moon who are stopping Ancient and Terrible Evil from Swallowing the World would get some government endorsement, whereas something like Kyuubey would be shut down.

Promote a culture that Magical Girls should support and help each other, then it also becomes a forum to allow that kind of broader society to occur, rather than a school. And it turns all the Unregistered into the "Dark Magical Girl" motif that needs to be registered so she can have friends--but also so they can be sure the Mascot Character isn't Mephestopheles.

*snip*

Then the now-infamous Dark Master Happosai shows up, enrages a bunch of magical girls, reveals that Ranma is theoretically his apprentice instead of his nemesis, and now Ranma is fighting every single magical girl in Japan! He thinks that's awesome.

That's about how I would swing this.

Oh and Kyuubey gets addicted to Ryouga. Like, literally addicted, the Shishi Hokodon is like double cocaine for that species.
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...Fund this. Fund this so hard it could retire to the Bahamas.

Edit: Was just screwing around with the members list filters when I saw something ridiculous. d_g, how on earth have you referred 100 people?
 
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