Quote:Deadpan29 wrote:The first two chapters are very good, but I couldn't help but feel the pacing was rather off in the new chapter. I found myself skimming through a large portion of the middle of the chapter, during the scene involving Akane. Also, the sudden decision to call Ranma Sailor Hestia doesn't really make sense, especially as it was explicitly called out that Hestia supposedly is associated with Jupiter, while Ranma's astrological mark is linked to Saturn. (Wikipedia informs me that one of Jupiter's moons was called Hestia for a relatively short time, which doesn't really help, but I suppose it gets around the issue of Hestia being a Greek goddess, while the other Senshi use the Roman names used for planets.)
After a fairly long time Strained Harmony by Sunshine Temple w/ assistance from Trimatter has updated. Ranma needs to go to ground for a while and ends up working as a maid/nanny to Hotaru of Sailor Moon.
It's been five years so I'm going to have to read the whole thing through again to refresh my memory, but I remember it as being very good. Also, there is a note on the author page saying that the chapter after this is already written and he's been backfilling this chapter all this time.
Also, apparently Ranma is useless in a fight, because he lacks any attack magic, and can only contribute with the healing magic until his attack magic shows up. He tried to kick a monster made of shadows, instead of even trying ki attacks for some reason.
Add that to the amount of time spent on how Ranma's body is becoming more curvy and softer, and describing his/her clothes, well, I hope that the next chapter, which was apparently written earlier, had more input from Trimatter. If the first two chapters are anything to judge by, he was able to balance out Sunshine Temple's tendency to warp Ranma, and cast his canon skills as irrelevant.
(Oh, and the setting has jumped forward in time apparently, as Nabiki now has a tablet computer.)
Sorry about the rant, it just seems as if this fic has started going off the rails, and it bugs me. I liked the first two chapters.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.