Ranma ½ Rankofic vs Ranma-chan fic

[PCHeintz72]

Bahhh...

I've read fan fiction long enough it barely registers. I see the terms and just automatically make the association to know what is meant.

- Yoiko/Yoiko-chan
- Lanko/Ranko/Ranko-chan (almost no-one uses the first, which is how Nodoka pronouces it in anime)
- Ranma-chan/onna/sama
- Pig Tailed Girl
- Osage no Onna
- Tree Borne Kettle Girl (I notice this used least in fan fiction, despite fact he called her that first in anime and manga)
- couple other varients.

Heck, even the term fuku-fic, despite it being a generic term that *could* refer to among other things female Ranma in a skirt, I generally assume it *is* that until I read otherwise in the story.

So I've no preference or complaint on if an author uses any of them.

Hmmm... I should add this to the Ranma Fanfic Preferences thread, located on this forum, my first entry in that thread.

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Done. Added under COMMON ARGUEMENTS groups. Also cleaned it up the entry itself a bit while I was at it.

 

[nuclear death frog]

When I'm talking about the character I usually use the words "onna-Ranma" but when I'm talking about stories I generally call them "-chanfics". But it's not really a preference, since by far the most of the time I dislike that type of story no matter what it's called. It's more a habit.

 

[ToastedPine]

I was on the TFF irc channel, and I came across an interesting reaction to my fic, Draw the Curtain. The issue revolves around whether or not using the name Ranko and Rankofiction is proper. I always thought the answer was obvious, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Lawra suggested that it should be called Ranma-chan fiction because the manga doesn't originally call Ranma's female form by anything other than Ranma-chan save for those times when he has to hide from Nodoka. My goal for putting up this poll is to see which term people go by and for what reasons. I'll stick to whichever comes out the clear majority because all I want is for people to understand what I'm saying when I point out the genre of the story.

Note: I asked Lawra if I could quote her, but she said I should paraphrase instead. In no way am I attempting to skew what she said. I've paraphrased to the best of my abilities to show her intent.

 

[Chilord]

Generally, in my own mind it was Ranma-chan if it was Ranma in cursed form, and then Ranko for splitting off into a separate entity, or Ranma accepting being female full time.

That distinction has kinda stayed with me. Ranma-chan=Male Ranma in female body, Ranko=Female Ranma, either via splitting or accepting of femininity 100% of the time.

But, that's just how its qualified itself in my own mind.

 

[PCHeintz72]

Generally, in my own mind it was Ranma-chan if it was Ranma in cursed form, and then Ranko for splitting off into a separate entity, or Ranma accepting being female full time.

That distinction has kinda stayed with me. Ranma-chan=Male Ranma in female body, Ranko=Female Ranma, either via splitting or accepting of femininity 100% of the time.

But, that's just how its qualified itself in my own mind.

I can agree with that for my own viewpoint as well but only under the condition a story has both. So...

Only if a story has both characters present, I'd rather:

- the original canon or male cursed/locked persona be called Ranma or Ranma-chan.
- the separate or new female split/twin/sister persona be called Ranko or Ranko-chan.

 

[antimatterenergy]

I don't really like Ranko since Ranma has bad memories about it, i.e. hiding from his mom and really isn't likely to use it again. He does create new alias's several times such as Yoiko and Kew (with Shampoo as her twin Pid - combined is cupid).

I also am not that happy with Ranma-chan because even though the honorific chan is usually female that is not always true, it can be applied to boys (particularly young ones and close friends).

I prefer Ranma-onna since onna just means woman.

 

[Ordieth117]

My viewpoints about this are essentially equivalent, but with a minor possible distinction:

onna-Ranma (ranma-chan) - ranma in female form.

Ranko - Vulnerable, mentally off balance female ranma, perhaps forming a new identity.

 

[windstorm]

I've never really cared either way. It just depends to me how good the plot is and how well the story is written. If the person can actually manage to make some decent reason behind what happened and make that idea into part of an interesting plot I'll probably read it. I don't even mind some of the plot devices to skip the reason part so long as the story is interesting enough.

 

[Steel]

Err, besides BVS, what exactly is the irc chan?

 

[Dumbledork]

I don't care at all since it's pretty clear that what the author means.

 

[Vascudo]

...Why isn't there a "Neither" option? Although I'll chose the the lesser of the two evils, Ranma-chan fics.
Because although it's rare, there are Ranma-chan fics that I enjoy.
Rankofics make me want to start killing small animals, they make me RAGE...Unless it's RanmaxRanko, which still is kinda freaky. :snigger:

 

[Lord Raa]

Funnily enough, I would consider a Rankofic to be a story were Ranma is a natural girl and always will be.

Sort of Fem!Ranma, in the modern parlance, if you will.

As opposed to a Ranma-chan fic where the focus is on Ranma's curse, possibly locking it and him starting a new life.

 

[foesjoe]

Doesn't matter. Both boils down to the same thing and I read neither.

 

[Reader458]

Doesn't matter. Both boils down to the same thing and I read both.

 

[greenmean]

Does matter. Depends. I don't read both.

That distinction has kinda stayed with me. Ranma-chan=Male Ranma in female body, Ranko=Female Ranma, either via splitting or accepting of femininity 100% of the time.

Some stuff is simply disturbing.

 

[PCHeintz72]

Sort of Fem!Ranma, in the modern parlance, if you will.

I cannot tell you how much I hate when someone uses that way of denoting characterization.

I'll take nearly any other method of denoting it over that.

Where the heck did that moronic way come from anyway? I vagely recall somone stating it was from the Harry Potter Universe... Is that true?

I've seen it in NGE, Ranma, and especially Fate/stay night.

 

[cgobyd]

Err, besides BVS, what exactly is the irc chan?

There are two.

Locke's Channel - Direct link. I think. (mibbit)

And the original Gabby set up by Hawk. Direct link.

Different people go to one or the other for reasons of their own.

 

[Euphemism]

Sort of Fem!Ranma, in the modern parlance, if you will.

I cannot tell you how much I hate when someone uses that way of denoting characterization.

I'll take nearly any other method of denoting it over that.

Where the heck did that moronic way come from anyway? I vagely recall somone stating it was from the Harry Potter Universe... Is that true?

I've seen it in NGE, Ranma, and especially Fate/stay night.

Initially Fem! (short for Female!) was used to identify the gender of Blaise Zabini, who is mentioned in Book one, but isn't assigned a gender until a brief mention in Book 5 that most people overlooked, and finally settled in book 6.

This goes back to the time after Book 4, when lots of fanfiction was written, and there weren't any female Slytherins other than Pansy and Millicent. Thus, Blaise was sometimes used as a female character, despite the mostly male name.

 

[digitalzombie]

Does it really matter?

I don't care unless there's a difference such as:
1: Ranma-chan implies that Ranma is cursed lock
2: Ranko fic implies means Ranma lost his memories and thinks he's a girl.

 

[WarGiver]

It depends like some I don't really care, but... Traditionally for me a Ranko fic is either a story where Ranma has abandoned his male form/identity; and a Ranma-chan/onna-Ranma is a fic that deals with Ranma being female most of the time. To use examples:

Forever the Tomboy is a Ranko fic, because Ranma doesn't shift to male any more and IS someone else now (may change if the fic is ever continued but meh)

Ah!! my Ranma one half is a Ranma-chan fic because although Ranma is locked his identity is still roughly intact and hasn't changed.


The line I use is simple, if the character is mostly intact its a Ranma-chan fic, if ranma changed enough that it may as well not be Ranma anymore its Ranko.


But I will say this again, whichever it is would not really affect my reading of it. just be aware that Ranko fics tend to have negative conitations with some people more so then Ranma-chan.