Ranma ½ Ranma fic recs
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Top? That's quite a tall order, the fandom is both diverse and divided...
IMO, if there is one man deserving top spot, it's got to be Black Dragon - by virtue of having most yeas and least nays. He specializes in black humor / action, his Ranma is a badass, quite OoC, but the stories are so packed one tends to ignore it.
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/198979/
IMO, if there is one man deserving top spot, it's got to be Black Dragon - by virtue of having most yeas and least nays. He specializes in black humor / action, his Ranma is a badass, quite OoC, but the stories are so packed one tends to ignore it.
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/198979/
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/RanmaOneHalf
This has if not always the best at least a nice cross section of good fics.
Ranma sailormoon
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2609602/1/The-Best-of-Times
Ranma discovers why his life at the Tendo Dojo has been hell and engages in an epic pissing match with Pluto and the rest of the Senshi. A fukufic production, multipart. COMPLETE.
Ranma sailormoon
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3566724/7/The_Dark_Lords_of_Nerima
Ranma and Ryoga are mistaken for dark lords by the sailor scouts.
Ranma Palladium a d&d type game
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/710368/1/Journey
Ranma accidentally gets summoned to another dimension. His presence is quickly taken advantage of by certain entities. And there we have the beginning of a very long Journey. Arc 3, Chapter 12 and 13 up.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1325244/1/Nexus-II
Death and chaos have been sown throughout the Eastern world. Guess who's job it is to clean up?
Ranma Tenchi multicross
http://brandall.florestica.com/poe/index.htm Process-of-Elimination
Earth is endangered by a race of bioengineered monsters. All those who can, assemble to fight to the end ... but will it be enough?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/557291/1/Into-Every-Life-a-Little-Rain-Must-Fall
Even killing a god can't make Ranma's life any easier... all he got for his trouble was a new brand of nightmare, a dangerous new chi technique he can't control, and a swarm of angry fiancees. It seems no matter how low you sink it can always get worse.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1256822/1/A_Wasted_Wish
Ranma wishes to get to know his grandmother.
This has if not always the best at least a nice cross section of good fics.
Ranma sailormoon
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2609602/1/The-Best-of-Times
Ranma discovers why his life at the Tendo Dojo has been hell and engages in an epic pissing match with Pluto and the rest of the Senshi. A fukufic production, multipart. COMPLETE.
Ranma sailormoon
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3566724/7/The_Dark_Lords_of_Nerima
Ranma and Ryoga are mistaken for dark lords by the sailor scouts.
Ranma Palladium a d&d type game
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/710368/1/Journey
Ranma accidentally gets summoned to another dimension. His presence is quickly taken advantage of by certain entities. And there we have the beginning of a very long Journey. Arc 3, Chapter 12 and 13 up.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1325244/1/Nexus-II
Death and chaos have been sown throughout the Eastern world. Guess who's job it is to clean up?
Ranma Tenchi multicross
http://brandall.florestica.com/poe/index.htm Process-of-Elimination
Earth is endangered by a race of bioengineered monsters. All those who can, assemble to fight to the end ... but will it be enough?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/557291/1/Into-Every-Life-a-Little-Rain-Must-Fall
Even killing a god can't make Ranma's life any easier... all he got for his trouble was a new brand of nightmare, a dangerous new chi technique he can't control, and a swarm of angry fiancees. It seems no matter how low you sink it can always get worse.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1256822/1/A_Wasted_Wish
Ranma wishes to get to know his grandmother.
I linked whats pretty much the original ranma fanfiction archive from the mid 90s til ffnet became overwhelmingly popular a few posts above. A lot of the multichapter fics there are worth reading.
The fact you actually read the manga means that you'll probably get these stories a lot more then most of the newer ones, because as a series that has had fanfiction written for it for about 20 years, the fanon is rather strong in it. Most of the newer writers (and by newer, I mean like the last 5-10 years worth) haven't actually read the series, much less seen more then a season or two of the anime, so they learn their characterizations from fanon as well, distorting all sorts of characters into being things they simply arent.
Ranma just has too many fanfics written over too many years to say 'the best'. Especially when you realize that for a long time Ranma was EVERYONES favorite crossover character.
The fact you actually read the manga means that you'll probably get these stories a lot more then most of the newer ones, because as a series that has had fanfiction written for it for about 20 years, the fanon is rather strong in it. Most of the newer writers (and by newer, I mean like the last 5-10 years worth) haven't actually read the series, much less seen more then a season or two of the anime, so they learn their characterizations from fanon as well, distorting all sorts of characters into being things they simply arent.
Ranma just has too many fanfics written over too many years to say 'the best'. Especially when you realize that for a long time Ranma was EVERYONES favorite crossover character.
I'd warn you to be careful. There are a lot of disturbing and creepy fics out there. There are some writers that inflict horrid and disgusting humiliations on Ranma that I doubt they would have the guts to write a 'real' female character suffering trough. The amount of rape, mind break, mind control and torture fics out there is really kind of scary.
This is me.
This is me self-reccing
This is me fleeing before I see any comments on my work and actions.
This is me self-reccing
This is me fleeing before I see any comments on my work and actions.
Heh... you asked... you self recommend yourself for a specific story, I find no fault in that despite what you may think... but that would not be the story of yours I would have picked... it would have been your Ranma/Negima or the Ranma/Sailor Moon stories (I follow your Raised in Roanapour one as well, but that is not a Ranma story). Meh... no matter.
Well the Negima is dead in the water and likely to get shipped into my cemetary soon, and the Sailor Moon one... every time I want to continue it, I reread the last chapter to recall where I left off and keep getting bogged down by the various errors I see (real or imagined). But the one I recced I already have the next chapter in progress for.
Hmm. I suppose. Mostly it's just that I can see all the bad characterizations and cliches I hit with it after I had some time to separate myself from the writing of it. I'm not sure how much help a beta would be in this case, but I guess I could give it a try.
@PCHeintz: I might have a few snippets and scene bits lying around on my hard drive for the Negima story , and I'll probably through them together into something resembling a chapter at some point, so there's that.
@PCHeintz: I might have a few snippets and scene bits lying around on my hard drive for the Negima story , and I'll probably through them together into something resembling a chapter at some point, so there's that.
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Since you've read the source,
Here's some oldies but goodies.
Some are unfinished.
Since you've read the source,
Here's some oldies but goodies.
Some are unfinished.
- Another Approach
- By Jack Staik
- - http://archives.eyrie.org/anime/Ranma/The-Bet/ranma.the-bet.another-approach.gz
- - Hilarious approach to completely reversing several conventions about the Ranma 1/2 source material. (e.g. Ranma "lamenting" the fact that Akane is not a tomboy. Akane getting pissed off when she's called cute. Akane engineering situations where Ranma would appear as raging deviant pervert but ends up being lectured for inappropriate behavior. Kuno and the Hentai Horde have Ranma's blessing for Akane's Anything Goes Martial Arts training.) Familiarity with canon makes this story funny as hell. Shame it's unfinished.
- Education
- By Donny Cheng
- - http://members.shaw.ca/chengdo/Educate.txt
- - One of the older takes on Ranma being naive about his body and finally learning about Sex Ed. Hilarity ensues. A lot of Donny Cheng's stuff is pretty good. Though the crossover stories have not weathered the test of time since a lot of the concepts have been reused in many other derivative works. The pure Ranma stuff are still WAFFy and/or funny though.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/159351/1/Those-Who-Hunt-Ninjas
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/356764/1/TWHN-Omake
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/158392/1/Shampoo-12
All three are worth reading at least once, and shampoo 1/2 while long does keep you interested with some plot twists and slapstick that most don't come up with.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/356764/1/TWHN-Omake
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/158392/1/Shampoo-12
All three are worth reading at least once, and shampoo 1/2 while long does keep you interested with some plot twists and slapstick that most don't come up with.
This new story by Racke seems to have passed by unnoticed
A Child Genius
Ryoga's success with age-mushrooms kind of snowballs into a mess. Don't worry Negi, the school nurse is just a year-or-so older than you. Physically, anyway.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Humor - Ranma - Words: 14,770 - Reviews: 47 - Favs: 229 - Follows: 91 - Published: Aug 8 - Status: Complete - id: 11434313
It's a cross with Negima, also a oneshot. And while it says "nurse" Saotome-sensei is male.
A Child Genius
Ryoga's success with age-mushrooms kind of snowballs into a mess. Don't worry Negi, the school nurse is just a year-or-so older than you. Physically, anyway.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Humor - Ranma - Words: 14,770 - Reviews: 47 - Favs: 229 - Follows: 91 - Published: Aug 8 - Status: Complete - id: 11434313
It's a cross with Negima, also a oneshot. And while it says "nurse" Saotome-sensei is male.
I read this yesterday. I ... well, to be honest, I don't have any strong feelings about it at all. The writing is more than minimally decent; at times it's funny and snappy and never unreasonable. The base premise annoys me, but that's all it does, or did -- annoys. The feeling passed quickly and was not strong to begin with because it's been so long since I cared deeply about this fandom. I can't even really care about the crossover because the insertion is not mishandled in any way, really..
I don't know if I'd read it a second time, but it entertained me for the time it took to read.
I don't know if I'd read it a second time, but it entertained me for the time it took to read.
That's how I feel towards Racke's writing in general. At times I wish to strangle him for getting characters so wrong, yet usually there's some aspect that he just gets that fandom at large doesn't. In that fic it would be Ranma's relationship with Genma that's handled superbly.
He's like cheap Chinese version of Ozzallos, writing fics that would be lot more intriguing without their personal fetish shoved on your face 24/7.
He's like cheap Chinese version of Ozzallos, writing fics that would be lot more intriguing without their personal fetish shoved on your face 24/7.