Philip Hacker wrote:

I am thinking of writing a fusion between Ranma 1/2 and Urusei Yatsura.
Ranma will have to beat Shampoo, the Oni-Amazon princess, in a tag race
in order to save the world. Of course, his victory also means his
marriage to her. However, there are two parts where I am stuck:

I'll be blunt and say that this strikes me as a rather lame idea.
 

1. How will Ranma catch Shampoo in the tag race? Ranma would not do what
Ataru did, namely pull off her top to distract her, so what would he do?

Run after her and catch her, probably.  Ranma's twice the athlete
Shampoo is and about 5,000 times the athlete Ataru is.  Even if you gave
Shampoo all of Lum's powers, he could still probably beat her.
 

2. What would motovate Ranma to agree to allow Shampoo to move in with
him? In UY it was Ataru's multibillion yen cab ride (see episode 1 or
chapter 3 of the first volume of the manga) that did it, but what would
work with Ranma?

Well, she could always give Genma an okonomiyaki stand. . . .
 

Ranma, from what I have seen, was intentionally made by Takahashi to be
nearly the exact opposite of Ataru. Note that Ataru is sneaky, devious,
without shame, and an unpopular, skirt-chasing lecher, while Ranma is
honorable, good-hearted, and has all of the girls chasing *him*, despite
the fact that he doesn't want them. This is why I need some help with
these two parts. Any ideas?

I really don't see any point in combining them.  The characters are too
different and the concepts are too similar.  Wackiness, to misquote
Spike the Vampire, would not ensue.  

-- David