Quote:Personally, I find that attitude annoying I already covered made for the coupling commentary above so I'll refrain from futher comentary.
I tend to avoid Ranma/Akane pairings ... it's canon already.
Lets go with: Genma is not Ranma's REAL (genetic) father stories. Though I imagine that this happens in other series as well.
Why? The reason is that most of them end up with the plot point that most of Ranma's skills/power actually come genetically from his real father and that Genma's training was entirely useless.
Another one is the temporal loop catalyst divergeence point. These stories are where Ranma spends the first part whining about how everyday is the same, often to the second, with two or three differences (random idiot attacker of the day for instance). Ranma then tells one or two of the charicter (usually Kasumi, less often Akane), that he can't take it anymore and leaves for another series. The story itself can be good on the whole, but that part is endlessly repeated and for some reason they can't just write a paragraph or two explaining he bailed, because it was repetitive and he couldn't take it anymore.
Which leads me to: The main charicter is an experience point black hole stories. In these only the main charicter gets more powerful or the main character level several times faster than everyone else for the same effort.