At 10:22 PM 9/9/98 PDT, Always Man wrote:

Chapter One:  Enter The Okonomiyaki Chef

You know, you're prose isn't all that bad. You're problem is that you 
persist with these dry and pointless ideas. This fic isn't about Ranma, 
it's only *within* Ranma--the Next Generation premise is not a valid 
genre of Ranma fanfiction. 

Not a valid genre?

Now where do you come up with that?

The only words I can find by Takahashi that are perhaps
applicable are from the Memorial book:

	"I wanted to make "Ranma" a funny, kind of happy
	comic that can cheer up the reader, therefore I
	was thinking it was a good idea . . ."
		Rumiko Takahashi

	Full Translation:
	<http://www.wot-club.org.uk/RanmaFAQ/rt_mbiv.html>

It seems to me if you write a fic to "cheer up the reader"
as Takahashi did, then it's in the spirit of Ranma 1/2, 
and therefore very 'valid', even if done as a next
generation story.


J.

 

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