To the Reviewers all,

Thanks for all the time and effort you put into reviewing our works.  It
makes us all better writers.
Also, I received this at work last Friday and was unable to respond till
today, sorry for the lateness. 

My office has the latest and greatest MS Office products.  This means
that my email client opens into MS Word when I send mail.  The problems
this causes is that I have absolutely no idea what it will look like
when you get it.



		 [Ranma 1/2]

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		Title: Alternatives -- Chapter 9
		Series: Ranma 1/2
		Genre: Continuation
		Author: Mike Allen
		Email: allen <mailto:allenmk@gte.net> mk@gte.net or
m_k_allen@hotmail.com <mailto:m_k_allen@hotmail.com> 

		Homepage: home1.gte.net\allenmk

		Date Sent to FFML: 11/4/98
		Size: Approximately 28K

		Summary:

		The trip to Jusenkyo to create more Ranma's just got a
little more
		complicated.

		{Shunsuke}
		   Some interesting twists happen along the way, like
Ranko seizing 
		   the opportunity to explain away Ryouga being a pig
without Akane 
		   noticing; I suppose that will end up being key in the
next part.  
		   It was quite heart-breaking when it came to the part
about Genma's 
		   final betrayal and atrocity: this seems too far, even
for him,
		   though I'm not criticizing the author's idea by
saying that.  I 
		   just found it a horrifying thought that he would do
such a thing.  

Thanks for the compliments.  I thought that Genma's betrayal of Ranma
was pretty harsh as I wrote it.  However, I felt it was within his
character to do so.  In his thoughts, he did nothing wrong since he
didn't harm Ranma.  Ranko's feelings were a little bit different on the
subject.

		   There's a bit of a plot error here (there's been a
few small ones 
		   throughout the series): why suddenly at the end is
Ranma to be 
		   split again for Ukyou without any discussion, and
what now will 
		   become of Ranko?  (Not paired up with Ryouga, I hope.
^_^)  The 
		   story and series otherwise work and make sense,
there's just that 
		   once in a while....
   
Ranma was always going to be split into four males.  That was the plan
from the very beginning.  Ukyo thought she could save Ranma from the
pain of a split for her by splashing herself with water from the Spring
of Drowned Boy.  When push came to shove, she couldn't.  If she had been
able to, she would have stopped the last dunking.  This had been
discussed in chapter 8.  

Ryouga will definitely not become Ranko's beau.  I promise.  

Once again, thanks for the great review and I hope I cleared up your
concerns.

Mike Allen