Quote:Well, I got back into mecha from superheroes because of Chris Meadows, who wrote "Team M.E.C.H.A." on the Superguy group. Then, I poked around to see what else he'd written, and found Undocumented Features, and thoguht, "Hey, this fanfiction stuff is pretty cool!" Then, I read Twisted Path and thought, "Hey, this Ranma stuff sounds pretty cool! Too bad there's so many bad fics about it too.... I get the anime!" And I got the OVA box set. I it was like the bads fanfic, where Akane is this abusive ogre and any humor is completely lost in the andless cycle of stupidity and Ranma-pounding.
I feel they based their interpretation of her solely from the anime, and took the series far too seriously. It's more or less the anime equivalent of the Three Stooges, after all...
It's a good thing I got BGC about the same time, or I'd probably have dismissed anime as only worth letting other people endure so some of them could write good fanfiction... Reading how different people said manga Akane was from anime Akane, I downloaded it (not wasting money on THAT series again) and found that while less extreme, she was still the least sympathetic "continually rescued girlfriend" character I'd ever heard of, and the rampant stupidity was still thicker than ... well, normally I'd say "Ryoga's skull" but that's kind of the point.
So... I hate to tell you, but apparently a significant minority of us actually see characterising Akane as an abusive, violent ogre as accurate - though it is possible she loves Ranma in her own twisted little way, like Kodachi. Does this justify writing a fic with the the express intention of bashing her? No. But neither does it justify those of you with a more sympatheic view getting all confronational about it, and the "Which Fiancee?" Ranma fan flame wars are legendary (and I'm not going to even get into that argument if it starts.)
In short, the ORIGINAL Ranma - anime and manga both - is like the fanfics that were the original topic of this thread (except that I have issues with the technical competence of it at times as well) and about as funny as Mommy Dearest. Evangelion is another - but I've gone into enough screaming fits about Eva for everyone here to know what I think of that. The one that really suprised me was Cowboy Bebop - it had everything I should like, was well written and animated, and I still can't explain why it irritated me so much. Fanfiction... I don't usually keep reading if a fic bugs me. There's so much out there that there's really no point.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
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