[KOR/Ranma] "Orange Half"
By Henry J. Cobb
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Genma Saotome is training his son Kyosuke at a remote shrine in China.

Genma manifests his spirit form, a panda and then Kyosuke manifests his
spirit form for the first time and it's Ranko.

Genma is very disappointed.  He didn't train his son to be a girl.

Next they climb up a hundred steps and arrive at the apartment building.

Inside are Grandpa Saotome, his son in law Takashi Kasuga and his three
daughters, Akane, Manami and Kurumi.

It's revealed that Kyosuke is to be engaged to Akane despite her being his
cousin (Akane's mother was Genma's sister.  She married a mundane
(Takashi).)

Genma and grandpa believe that there is a coming crisis that will
require all the power that the psychics can apply and so it is absolutely
necessary for Kyosuke and Akane to have lots of kids, despite their close
relation.  (And Akane's lesbianism.  Akane is really affected when Kyosuke
shows his spirit form.)

Kyosuke has about twice as much raw power as any other known psychic and
Akane has an unusual talent.

When they go to school, they run into Tatewaki Kuno, who hits on Akane and
later they meet Modoka Ayukawa and Hikaru Hiyama ("Darling!") who know
Kyosuke from Junior High.

Ryouga and Shampoo are other psychics with the obvious spirit forms.

Kyosuke will have to protect the other girls from Shamp. (Especially
Hikaru!)

It will turn out that Kyosuke's mother died in childbirth and Kyosuke's
twin sister was lost at the same time.

Akane will play the "boyfriend" tactic on Michi and Chie and later explain
that if they accept that Akane has a boyfriend then she obviously isn't a
lesbian and so it's OK to sleep with her.

Hmm... Would Zen like it, if in the midst of all this mess, Kyosuke winds
up with Modoka, or will he not see the parallel?

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb
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