On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 beaubienrd@mala.bc.ca wrote:

Warped, Twisted, Funny, Weird...Hey they all describe this fic which reveals 
a warped sense of humour not seeb in Biles since Lemonade, although this I'd 
have to argue is more warped. The idea is unexpected brilliance take some

I'd have to agree.

classic fairy tales (the non-Disney versions...) and mix them with an Anime 

This was inspired by reading "The Great Cat Massacre and other episodes 
in French Cultural History".  It has an EXCELLENT chapter on faerie tales 
and how different nations put different twists and flavors to the same 
tale.  

Also, I was depressed, and this let me vent my spleen :)

What makes these stories work too is the fact that they are based on warped
views of the Ranma universe. One can easily argue that Shampoo's version of 
events in Ranma 1/2 would match the one shown in the first tale by Shanpu,

Exactly!

although not to such an absurd extreme. And it's not that far fetched to call 
Ranma and Genma Ogres in the second tale, and for Nabiki to come of as clever. 
All taken from a a slightly (okay very) warped POV of the main character in 
the fairy tale. I don't know, maybe this is a way for John to force more
history lesson's on to us in the guise of a Fanfic, because after all history
is nothing more than one person's POV (thought not as warped as those shown 
in the first two tales offered..:). 

Heh :)

There is also the familiar Fairy tale conventions. The fact that the main 
character is made to be all knowing andessential an all round great person 
while everyone else is either not importantor just plain evil. Once again you 
can see that in this story as we get an entirly biased thrid person narritive,
 one that verges on being 1st person. Yes we know that Ukyou and Akane 

Yep!  

(Kodachi on the other hand fit's these sterotypes like a T..^_-) are nothing 
like how they are played in these tales, although they do act like that some 
of the time. But the fairy tale offers up awarped perspective. Who's to say 
that Cindrella's step sisters really weren'tall that bad, after all the story 
is from only one side (although I don't wantto get to deep on that idea...)
And the fairy tale does provide a great chance to see a truly warped take on 
the inner workings of the characters...

Wait for the Kodachi story :)

Not that the tales where perfect mind you. There are some slight problem in 
the second tale offered up by Biles, the Nabiki story. I thought the story 
was a bit longer then it needed to be. IMSO good short-length stories would 
better carry acrross this message than longer tales. The first one provided 
a sharp contunity of events with no plot devlopment, while the second one 
wanderd a bit from it's main path. The sub plot's involving Kasumi were really
not needed, and the point of bankruptcy if the Dojo kingdom should of happened 
a little bit sooner. 

Well, I wanted to give Clever Nabiki the chance to actually be clever :)
 

But all in all a great idea that provides a warpedm unique view on Anime. 
I can't wait to see the tales for Kuno or Kasumi(perhaps the most difficult,

I already have the title.  Kasumi can't lose :)

Thanks for the thorough review!

John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu      bailesu@komodo.hacks.arizona.edu  
http://www.hacks.arizona.edu/~bailesu/falcon.html 
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