Mina-san, Ohayou!
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Hunter Kid wrote:
: <snip essay>
:
: Nice essay. :)
I agree.
: One what-if, unless it spawns a *lot* of changes, can be boring, though - a
: good example (no offense to the author) is the fanfic 'Ranko 1/2,' which is
: so similar to the original that it's almost plagarism. Because of this, I
: got annoyed and didn't read past the first book.
<sigh> I know that now. _Ranko 1/2_ was my second fic, and I had
*no idea* how often the first parts of the manga had already been
retold. I honestly believed it would be interesting to a reader
to see them presented in text format instead of graphics. God,
was I clueless! :)
It's a pity that I only started to venture away from the manga in
Volume 2, so that a lot of readers never make it to the more
original parts. I *am* thinking of giving volume 1 a total
rewrite, but that's pretty hard for me.
Sebastian