There's a lot of Ranma fanfic because it has a huge, generally likable cast (certain poisonous character-hatred movements nonwithstanding) and is
open-ended with no dramatic finale to make it difficult to write fanfiction in the original continuity. Plus, Ranma fanfic was so huge that it took on a life
of its own, with people who didn't particularly like Ranma - and people who hadn't even SEEN Ranma - writing for it because that way their fics would
get read.
I suppose it's cool to say these days that Ranma is half-assed, but when this all got started it was because Ranma was legitimately very popular in the
anime fan community.
Naruto gets a lot of fanfiction because it is incredibly popular and, from what I understand, also had several gaps in continuity to fit stuff. Also, it is
currently "open-ended" due to being unfinished. In reference to the original post, I'm not really a fan of Naruto because I find it disgustingly
sexist which turns me off to the point that I can't really appreciate what's good about it; I also felt it ran out of imagination and became a boring
tournament and super-move fest by the third storyarc, never a good sign for a shounen fighting series. That being said, its soap opera-esque drama,
crowd-pleasing characters and big flashy super moves are obviously appealing to a lot of people, so that's cool - it's a consistant winning formula in
series from Inuyasha to Yuu Yuu Hakusho to Bleach and so on and so forth.
open-ended with no dramatic finale to make it difficult to write fanfiction in the original continuity. Plus, Ranma fanfic was so huge that it took on a life
of its own, with people who didn't particularly like Ranma - and people who hadn't even SEEN Ranma - writing for it because that way their fics would
get read.
I suppose it's cool to say these days that Ranma is half-assed, but when this all got started it was because Ranma was legitimately very popular in the
anime fan community.
Naruto gets a lot of fanfiction because it is incredibly popular and, from what I understand, also had several gaps in continuity to fit stuff. Also, it is
currently "open-ended" due to being unfinished. In reference to the original post, I'm not really a fan of Naruto because I find it disgustingly
sexist which turns me off to the point that I can't really appreciate what's good about it; I also felt it ran out of imagination and became a boring
tournament and super-move fest by the third storyarc, never a good sign for a shounen fighting series. That being said, its soap opera-esque drama,
crowd-pleasing characters and big flashy super moves are obviously appealing to a lot of people, so that's cool - it's a consistant winning formula in
series from Inuyasha to Yuu Yuu Hakusho to Bleach and so on and so forth.