Dark storms, heady with the oppressive weight of another reality,
rolled across Nerima as Ranma suited up into his Veritech and Arch
Overlord Kasumi summoned her dark legions of Ryo-oh-kis to stand with the
Lodoss rebels against the evil, world-warping Dark Schnidely and the
Written-In Otaku Corps, backed by a chittering, gibbering legion of Sasami
shoggoths, but none of that really matters because our story starts in
Juuban on a bright summer's day where Tsukino Serena was cheerfully
strangling little birdies on her way to school.

                       - from _Slightly Less Mighty Than the Sword but
                          Bigger than a Breadbasket,_ by Th3 K-RAD 0taku