Old School for Younger Readers!

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That infamous one where Akane kills Ranma due to rage disorder, except that it's horrible and should not be recommended to anybody. It pretty much does define the genre of "Ranma turned grimdark by treating it realistically instead of as a slapstick comedy," though.

It's actually hard to remember anything really old enough to qualify besides the big multicrossovers, if only because they have the mass of material to remain as a coherent block in the sea of various stuff I read 20+ years ago... Katchan's Saiyajin: A Dragonball Withdrawal Whim maybe, but I can't find a live link for it anymore. Twoflower's Slayers trilogy? Ranma And Akane: A Love Story? Childhood of a Modern Dynasty? Hearts of Ice? Besides those I don't even remember the titles of much else besides Oh My Brother and Keichi's Magic Trick, though there really should be a R/SM fukufic in there as well. Oh, I know! A Boy in the Hand was fun, though I'm not certain all the Ranma/Hotaru bits I'm thinking of were part of it.

edit: links
HoI: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/264446/
CMD: https://web.archive.org/web/201011190952...rame.shtml
RAAALS (bootleg?): https://m.fanfiction.net/s/179718/
KMT: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/3189273/
ABITH: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/3530833/

edit 2: everything on this page, except The Bitter End as previously noted
http://www.oocities.org/brian_kun/recommended.htm