Subject: [FFML] [C&C] Review May 19
From: David Johnston
Date: 5/20/1999, 12:51 AM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

Standard disclaimer:  Omission implies nothing concerning my opinion of
a fic.  Also I would like everyone to congratulate me.  My Inbox is now
below 2300 messages.


Subject: 
        [FFML] [Anime Death Tournament] Round 2 (it was either now or in 
two weeks) 
  Date: 
        Tue, 18 May 1999 17:16:12 PDT 
  From: 
        "A-kun McCrillis" <akun15@HOTMAIL.COM>

Description:  A lot of fights between anime characters and Self Inserts.

Comments:  The self-inserts are doing depressingly well.  However, this
round was redeemed by that great interview with Hello Kitty.

Subject: 
        [FFML] [El Hazard][fic][short] Too Much and Never Enough 
  Date: 
        Tue, 18 May 1999 20:00:54 -0400 
  From: 
        Matthew Lewis <maybeso@ican.net>

Description:  Ifurita considers the implications of mortality

Comments:  Nice introspect, but I think the author shouldn't give
up on putting it into something longer.  And the name of that story
was "Time, Considered As A Helix Of Semi-Precious Stones."

Subject: 
            [ffml][ff][TM] The People's Prince part 4a draft 
       Date: 
            Tue, 18 May 1999 19:52:16 -0400 
       From: 
            "Damien" <damien_searight@email.msn.com>

Description:  Tenchi meets a normal Earth girl and falls for her.
Meanwhile something or other is going on Jurai.

Comments:  Why is Ryoko simultaneously on Earth and Jurai?  So Aeka
and Ryoko are S.O.L. with Tenchi, eh?  Pity.  But if he gives up space
in favour of Earth, I'm not sure what significance the action on Jurai
has.
Subject: 
        [FFML] [BGC][FANFIC] Good Morning, Megatokyo! 
  Date: 
        Tue, 18 May 1999 15:59:28 EDT 
  From: 
        FFOrion@aol.com

Description:  Somebody dies.  Then a bomb explodes.

Comments:  Didn't understand it at all.  

Subject: 
        [ffml][r1/2][draft] Magic Soul 
  Date: 
        Tue, 18 May 1999 11:29:07 -0800 (AKDT) 
  From: 
        myrriden <sm39316@chs.mat-su.k12.ak.us>

Description:  Ranma finds a gizmo that cures the curse for everyone
else.  It does something else for him.

Comments:  I didn't see a Chapter 1 in the title, but it's obviously
unfinished.  Ranma is pretty unrecognisable apart from his curse.
Very pompous actually.  

Subject: 
         [BotP] FFIC: Legacy3 - Ordinary Life Part 8 
    Date: 
         Tue, 18 May 1999 15:33:05 EDT 
    From: 
         HQuinn823@aol.com

Description:  Doctor Rafael has rebuilt Joe the Condor into a cyborg,
in order to send him on a suicide mission again the alien behind 
Galactor.  However, the romance between Joe and his grand-daughter
presents a problem.

Comments:  Fills in a gap in the Gatchaman series nicely.  

Subject: 
        [FFML][fic][R1/2] Duck! 
  Date: 
        Tue, 18 May 1999 12:15:27 -0700 
  From: 
        Kevin McHorney <stormwalker628@usa.net>

Description:  Comedy of misinterpretation, but it isn't just Ranma
being misinterpreted.

Comments:  Cute twilight zone-ish twist at the end.  

Subject: 
         [BotP] Multiverse: Chapter Three; Part Four 
    Date: 
         Mon, 17 May 1999 12:52:13 PDT 
    From: 
         "Princess The Swan" <g3_princess@hotmail.com>

Description:  Doctor Nambu and his counterparts from Battle of the 
Planets, G-Force and Eagle Riders have all been switched and must deal 
with the differences between the original Japanese series, and the 
various dubs.

Comments:  This is a fascinating look at the contrasts between the 
different versions.  

Subject: 
        [FFML][Ranma][Nabiki fic] Retrospection 
  Date: 
        Sun, 16 May 1999 10:02:46 -0700 (PDT) 
  From: 
        Anna Lvovsky <ana_chan_@yahoo.com>

Description:  Nabiki feels lonely.

Comments:  The author does a good job of selling the Kuno-Nabiki 
romance, while point out the reasons for the lack of same.

 No, the vioce protested.  Could you truthfully say that anybody,
aside from those obligated, acutally loves you?

"voice", "actually"

Subject: 
            [FFML][R1/2,UY,etc xover] Seven Samurai of Anime Story I: 
The Silent
            Invaders 
       Date: 
            Sun, 16 May 1999 21:57:37 +0500 
       From: 
            Steven Cornett <cornetts@gemair.com>

Description:  Disembodied aliens are looking to conquer Earth.  The only 
thing that can save us are those people so bizarre that the aliens can't
cope.  People like Ataru and Kodachi.  

Comments:  This looks very promising indeed.  Ataru's ability to drive 
the aliens out of any woman is a great idea.