For some reason, despite it having been, like, twelve effing years, I've been thinking lately about "The Fate of the Sacred Bead".
One of the details of that story which never got to show itself because the story died before it would have come up, was that there were two people in the past, reincarnated in the present, with the same or a very similar name. Ranma was the reincarnate of one of those people; a very minor character in Ikkitousen was the other, In the past, both were known as Lu Xun, or something like that, I think the spelling was. However, the story would have people being wrong in which one Ranma had been. I don't remember anymore what IH intended with it, but it was in the cards.
What I recently thought of, which may or may not have worked better, was for the confusion to come about because of Ranma's own name and how it's actually written.
There are at least a couple of kanji which can be pronounced "ran"; the one in Ranma's actual name has fanon about it meaning "wild" -- which, incidentally, it doesn't. It means "revolt, rebellion, war" or alternatively in Chinese, "disorderly, in confusion". And the kanji in his name which is pronounced "ma" just means "horse" or possibly "knight", meaning the horse piece in chess.
But there's another kanji, which can be read as "ran" or "arashi" which means "storm", it's the same kanji used in Naruto for Storm Release ninjutsu ,,, which is a combination of Water element and Lightning element, and it hit me ... what if that were the name Nodoka wanted to give to Ranma but Genma didn't want that and so there was a swap? And that's why people in "FotSB" are confused about who Ranma is -- because his name isn't written the way they expect. His bead/soul/destiny has the storm kanji but his name doesn't!
And it really hit me about why this is important, because in Ikkitousen, there are three ruling dragons who represent different elements. Hakufu's dragon is water, Ryuubi Gentoku's dragon is lightning, and Sousou Moutoku (the main villain)'s dragon is fire. Sousou is also stronger than Hakufu or Ryuubi alone. It's when they team up against him that they beat him in their fight at the end of the second anime series. If for the story Ranma is to be a bridge between Nanyo and Seito by going to Seito but having cousins at Nanyo, one of them who comes to lead the school, he should have gotten a name that better fits that destiny.
Well, hmm, will anyone care about this?
One of the details of that story which never got to show itself because the story died before it would have come up, was that there were two people in the past, reincarnated in the present, with the same or a very similar name. Ranma was the reincarnate of one of those people; a very minor character in Ikkitousen was the other, In the past, both were known as Lu Xun, or something like that, I think the spelling was. However, the story would have people being wrong in which one Ranma had been. I don't remember anymore what IH intended with it, but it was in the cards.
What I recently thought of, which may or may not have worked better, was for the confusion to come about because of Ranma's own name and how it's actually written.
There are at least a couple of kanji which can be pronounced "ran"; the one in Ranma's actual name has fanon about it meaning "wild" -- which, incidentally, it doesn't. It means "revolt, rebellion, war" or alternatively in Chinese, "disorderly, in confusion". And the kanji in his name which is pronounced "ma" just means "horse" or possibly "knight", meaning the horse piece in chess.
But there's another kanji, which can be read as "ran" or "arashi" which means "storm", it's the same kanji used in Naruto for Storm Release ninjutsu ,,, which is a combination of Water element and Lightning element, and it hit me ... what if that were the name Nodoka wanted to give to Ranma but Genma didn't want that and so there was a swap? And that's why people in "FotSB" are confused about who Ranma is -- because his name isn't written the way they expect. His bead/soul/destiny has the storm kanji but his name doesn't!
And it really hit me about why this is important, because in Ikkitousen, there are three ruling dragons who represent different elements. Hakufu's dragon is water, Ryuubi Gentoku's dragon is lightning, and Sousou Moutoku (the main villain)'s dragon is fire. Sousou is also stronger than Hakufu or Ryuubi alone. It's when they team up against him that they beat him in their fight at the end of the second anime series. If for the story Ranma is to be a bridge between Nanyo and Seito by going to Seito but having cousins at Nanyo, one of them who comes to lead the school, he should have gotten a name that better fits that destiny.
Well, hmm, will anyone care about this?
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