Brief Description:  A new fiancee shows up, and Ranma is finally 
pushed beyond his endurance.  He resolves to fix the engagement problem 
once and for all.  Unfortunately, Akane has also been pushed beyond her 
endurance, and Ranma ends up making a decision not usually seen in 
fanfics... 
	Overall Assessment:  A good story, despite one big problem I have 
right at the beginning.  If you are not married to the idea that "the way 
Takahashi-sensei intended it to be is the only acceptable one", 
Recommended. 

	SPOILERS from this point on!  Do not read further if you want 
events in the story to be a surprise.


	Still with me?  Okay, I have a small confession to make.  I 
*dared* Zen to write this story.  Well, not exactly *this* story, but 
something very similar.  True, he was already writing the story, but I 
didn't know that at the time. 
	I talked at the time about "plausibility."  For the most part, 
this story manages that, except right at the beginning.  Having B-ko as 
the new fiancee just blew my suspension of disbelief.  Maison Ikkoku and 
Urusei Yatsura cameos I can swallow, and Sailor Moon isn't *too* 
implausible given the Ranma world, but Project A-ko?  On the other hand, 
I understand many of the reasons Zen chose this character.  (She had to 
be so awful Ranma wouldn't even consider her for a moment and actually be 
inspired to bail, it's a good joke, and B-ko is fairly well-known to the 
readers, so Zen doesn't have to waste too much time describing her.) 
	The characterization is mostly on, though for story purposes 
Akane is mostly at her worst (really more early anime than the late manga 
era this story is set in) and Ukyou is on her best behavior, rather than 
the Marry Me or Else mode she sometimes got into. 
	And yes, this is a Ranma who dearly loves Akane.  So much that he 
will leave her if he thinks she really wants him to, no matter how much 
it hurts him.  Sure he's telling Ukyou he made the right decision, he may 
even believe it, but Akane will be in his dreams for a long time. 
	The circumstances are contrived to fit the needs of the outcome, 
but no worse than many actual Ranma 1/2 manga plots. 
	This is, I'm told, a continuing series, so it remains to be seen 
if Zen can keep the Ranma/Ukyou relationship plausible or if it will turn 
into sentimental goo.

SKJAM!