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The FFML Synopses List RETRO-REVIEW! (krakow)
====================== `^_^' /\/\/\/
For the week of October 27, 2000
Reviewer on Duty: Glazius (I'm "Musing") Falconar
Synopses Reviewed: 23
* * * * *
[Bubblegum Crisis]
keywords: Bubblegum, Crisis, Bubblegum Crash, BGC
- - - - -
Title: Bubblegum Crisis: Cry of the Phoenix
Episode: Chapter Four - Revelations
Author: Stormwalker (Douglas A. Reeves)
Email: stormwalker@airmail.net
Homepage: http://web2.airmail.net/a0011387/
Archived at http://web2.airmail.net/a0011387/fanfic/
Date Sent to FFML: October 22, 2000
Archive Number: 15341
Size: 57 KB
Title Summary:
It's 2037, two years after the death of Linna Yamazaki during a raid on
a GENOM research facility. Linna is lost, Priss has disappeared into a
hell of her own making, and without the Knight Sabers, the world is a
much darker place. Now, though, the embers of hope have been fanned by
the return of one long lost...
Episode Summary:
Mackie returns to Megatokyo in the wake of tragic events, looking to
pick up the pieces... but do the Knight Sabers trust him? And can he
trust them? Pieces of the puzzle fall into place, Leon puts two and two
together, and the Knight Sabers struggle to salvage their hopes.
- Jeebus, after all this time it's still not up on your site? Folks,
- when you _have_ an archive site, make sure you put the fics there.
- It only goes up to part three...
- Off to meridun...
- Ah, classic, classic, nice ending. But.
- How, exactly, does Case Succession work? If there's some transmitter
- Sylia jabs or something on the point of death, or an implant that
- -stops- functioning, I could see it, but what's to keep Mackie from
- invoking it whenever the hell he feels like?
- You could setup the mechanism when Mackie's outside the warehouse
- and move the setup that occurs _there_ to the plane. That'd work.
- I'd also like to see exactly how Leon tracked Priss down - perhaps
- it's just my Shadowrun experience, but unless you're saving it for a
- future ep, you should at least mention it. Priss was grungy,
- nondescript, and hiding in the middle of nowhere, or as close as
- you can get to it in MegaTokyo. You went to some length to establish
- this, then ignored it...
- - - - -
Title: Rain in the Shadows
Episodes: Parts 5 and 6
Genre: Action, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction
Author: Jerico Mele
Email: jmele@brandeis.edu
Date Sent to FFML: October 16 and 21, 2000 (in 2 posts)
Archive Numbers: 15198 and 15304
Total Size: 40 KB
Title Summary:
Before the Knight Sabers the Citizens of MegaTokyo had only one
protection from the rampaging boomers: the ADP. What happens when a
threat they've never imagined comes crawling out of the shadows?
Episode Summaries:
Part 5: Some theories are advanced by Wong and Leon.
Part 6: Leon, Wong and Mitchell face their most difficult fight.
Author's Note:
Previous parts available from author.
- Well, you've got guts and/or imagination to pull -this- cross
- off, let me tell you. Only this little break (chapter 5) seems to
- pull a few too many coincidences together at once - not that I
- mind, they need one, and there are far less plausible ways to go
- about it...
- Oh, and while it may be easy to type out a boomer serial number,
- actually -saying- it is something else entirely. Consider reworking
- the dialogue to mention it by association (the Arkham boomer) rather
- than by number.
- Hmm. Is the research boomer organic, partly? While a machine may
- certainly malfunction dangerously when it breaks down ("Oh, there
- you are, sir." ::KABOOM::) actual insanity of the sort described
- requires a willful misperception (or perhaps an accurate perception)
- of the world, one which requires a functioning, abstractive mind
- to work on. Without some meat for the agent to get a grip on...
- well, it's your call, ultimately.
- There has to be _some_ sort of influence beyond simply orders
- being given the boomer, or else why would the warding gesture
- have worked?
- Perhaps I'm thinking too much.
- Beyond that, it's pretty darn impressive, and you did a great
- job setting things up. But where do you go from here?
* * * * *
[Bubblegum Crisis / Oh My Goddess! / Ranma 1/2]
- - - - -
Title: Once and Future Goddess
Episode: Chapter 6: Battle Lines
Genre: Crossover, Action
Author: Nikholas "Radler" F. Toledo
Email: niftol@i-manila.com.ph, radler@tri-isys.com
Homepage: http://nikholas-f-toledo-zu.webjump.com/fanfics.html
Archived at http://nikholas-f-toledo-zu.webjump.com/ofg.html
Date Sent to FFML: October 28, 2000
Archive Number: 15445
Size: 98 KB
Title Summary:
Mackie Stingray makes a mistake... and MegaTokyo has to take the brunt
as (daresay I?) another earthbound goddess holds sway, not only on the
future, but as well as the present. How do these all fit into the
machinations of a time long past, and events just now erupting into
their full consequence...
Episode Summary:
Kurumi starts Nene on her training, while Skuld unleashes her latest
creation. Christmas day feels more like Halloween every year, with more
tricks than treats.
- Hmm. I'm surprised Skuld isn't using more exclamation points. It
- certainly reads like you're _going_ for the insane effect from
- 'Maskerade', but exclamations in narratives should be few and far
- between, not four in a two-sentence paragraph.
- Hmm. High-explosive armor-piercing. I wouldn't put it past them
- to have combined the two - but is it canon?
- Plasma rifle. Plasma's just superheated gas - you don't need fusion
- for it to work. A sufficient electrical draw would do the same, but
- either way you'd need a pretty good heatsink.
- And the thing about an H-bomb is you can't channel it, or stop it.
- Why do you think they call it a bomb?
- ...hmm. And exactly how's the suit going to _use_ the colliders,
- unless the arms are really long or the weapon barrels are really
- short?
- Then again, this is Skuld we're talking about here. Her penchant
- for features can be very near gnomish at times.
- You slip into a rather odd tone ("could have been seen"? Gleh.) for
- a very short while - it's notable mostly because the rest of the
- story is very well put together. And how long has December 25 been
- Christmas Eve?
- It's the little things that grate.
- Hell of a place to end things, too. At least it makes starting off
- the next chapter easy, though...
- So far? It's decent. We haven't seen much but fight scene this
- chapter, but it's a pretty good fight scene. I like the stuff that
- goes on outside the fight scene a little more, generally, but
- that's just me.
* * * * *
[Dirty Pair / Iria: Zeiram, the Animation]
- - - - -
Title: Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot chapter 4
Genre: crossover.
Author: D.B. Sommer
Email: sommer@3rdm.net
Date Sent to FFML: October 24, 2000
Archive Number: 15363
Size: 78 KB
Summary:
The hunters finally close in on their prey, only who's really the hunter
and who's really the prey. Also, Kei makes dinner.
- Okay, is _her_ sense of taste dead by now, or what?
- Don't answer that.
- Anyway, having recently gone through System Shock 2, I can
- appreciate the heavy ordnance and the monsters a little bit more.
- At least the drones in Shock have the decency to mutter to
- themselves from the right direction. Then again, you'd get your ass
- kicked if they didn't.
- The fight scenes, quite frankly, rule, the non-fight scenes have
- some nice buddy-film moments, and it's just a nice piece of work
- you have going here.
- But you _really_ need to work on the blurbs.
* * * * *
[Kimagure Orange Road / Ranma 1/2]
- - - - -
Title: Split Orange Intersection
Episode: Part 2b
Genre: Crossover
Author: David Gao
Email: davidgao@seas.upenn.edu
Date Sent to FFML: October 24, 2000
Archive Number: 15378
Size: 19 KB
Title Summary:
Girl. Blue-haired. Boy. Pigtailed. Summer. Noon. Staircase. Meet.
A hundred. Ninety-nine. A hundred. Ninety-nine. (refrain adlib)
Compromise? No ^^; Open. Mouth. Insert. Foot. SLAP. (Slap?
Deserved?) Yeah.
Episode Summary:
Continuing from chapter 2a... Ranma's plan of leading a normal life at
Kouryou High School was shot to hell by Ryoga's untimely appearance. To
complicate the matters even more, he managed to catch a certain
rebellious seventh-grader's interest. Can Saotome dig fast enough for
an excuse for everything? And why is Ayukawa's smile sending chills
down his spine? Read to find out :)
- Hmm. All good except the Ayukawa scene. Unless you're pitching
- the change, Ranma pulls off cheerful obliviousness almost
- disturbingly well in the manga, especially when it's circumstance,
- like it is here.
- But, just like the first Ayukawa scene, it feels like you're
- really reaching to set things up.
- Is there any reason you have to? Set them up, I mean. They certainly
- don't seem to add anything.
* * * * *
[Neon Genesis Evangelion]
keywords: Evangelion, Genesis, Neon, NGE, Eva
- - - - -
Title: The Fate of Hearts
Episode: Chapter 2: Parts III and IV
Genre: Elsetimes
Author: Joshua Trujillo
Email: gargoyle@glasscity.net
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/1509/foh.html
Date Sent to FFML: October 24, 2000
Archive Number: 15376
Size: 27 KB
Title Summary:
In another time, Shinji had another name... Caeles Soter...
Everyone else had other names too, but you'll have to read to find them
out. Evangelion, as told through the goggles of time. Evangelion set
in Ancient Rome.
Episode Summary:
Part 3, Caeles finally arrives at his new home... And what wonders await
him there... So much to behold...
- Urba Tertius. You dei now and in hel.
- A statue gilded in gold. As opposed to being gilded in silver?
- If he pilots the statue of Jupiter, you _really_ dei and in hel.
- I have my doubts about historical accuracy, but they only show up
- after I think too long.
Part 4, Caeles meets a few people who make up his home. Or rather, he
runs into them... Again, you'll see...
- Asuka the Barbarian. The mind attempts to boggle and fails miserably.
- If those scrolls have SDAT written on them (a la SPQR) you _really,
- really_ dei and in hel.
- So far, setup, scenes, context, but not much I can point to as
- evidence of where this thing could be going. Aside from the statue
- of Jupiter, which I really hope _won't_ be going. But it's a decent
- world, so far.
* * * * *
[Pok�mon]
keywords: Pokemon, Pocket Monsters
- - - - -
Title: Jellic's Hateful Quest
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Author: Nidoking
Email: Matthew.P.Katinas@Rose-Hulman.Edu
Homepage: www.rose-hulman.edu/~katinamp
Archived at www.rose-hulman.edu/~katinamp/Cover.html
Title Summary:
An epic fantasy hero (you know the type, defeat the Ultimate Evil, eat
breakfast, then defeat more Ultimate Evil) is thrust into the world of
Pokemon, where he can't fight his own battles any more. Instead, he has
to rely on the most hateful of weapons: creatures that many would
describe as "cute."
- - -
Episode: Chapter 22: An Old Friend Drops in Like Katana Bricks
Date Sent to FFML: October 23, 2000
Archive Number: 15352
Size: 22 KB
Episode Summary:
Jellic's first love appears in the Pokemon world and helps to capture a
vicious Moltres.
- Part of me wonders why an evil villain would toss the hero into
- a machine that would actually give him a combat advantage.
- Then I remember - he's an evil fantasy villain. His plans just
- have to look neat, not make sense.
- Psyducks are not completely brainless. The Orange Islands arc
- features one well-trained one about as buffed as you could expect a
- blobby platypus-like thing to be.
- Scythers _do_ evolve, into Scizors via trade-with-item in GS.
- Dangers about writing about a live series, as I've said.
- And isn't Polymorph Other about sixth-level in AD&D terms? Dunno
- what that'd reflect in your universe, but it is major transmutation
- mojo.
- Then again, I doubt you'll be rewriting this.
- - -
Episode: Chapter 23: Jellic vs. Elvor, Round One: Drago-night and
Day-nger
Date Sent to FFML: October 24, 2000
Archive Number: 15369
Size: 22 KB
Episode Summary:
Jellic's battle against Elvor is cut short as a more dangerous situation
emerges, forcing Jellic into an unlikely truce.
- Right. Dragon attacks are Super Effective against other dragons.
- Only I thought Dragon Rage did constant damage. Live and learn.
- I don't buy Mewtant. I barely buy MewThree. Then again, this _is_
- a bizarre and overpowered universe, so what the hey.
- But this story is good to read with brain turned off. It's decent
- hack-and-slash, and there's nothing _too_ painful. Just starting
- to think about it ruins a lot of stuff.
- - -
Episode: Chapter 24: A Breakup and a Breakdown in Obsidian City
Date Sent to FFML: October 25, 2000
Archive Number: 15392
Size: 24 KB
Episode Summary:
Jellic and crew, including a few returning friends, battle the escaped
Crusher in what remains of Obsidian City.
- Why do they always wait until the big climactic showdown for the
- love scene?
- ...and as big climactic showdowns go, this really wasn't much.
- Everything just moved entirely too fast.
- - -
Episode: Chapter 25: A Woman on Your Side is Worth Two in the Hand
Date Sent to FFML: October 26, 2000
Archive Number: 15413
Size: 24 KB
Episode Summary:
Katana reveals the horrible truth behind her misdeed toward Jellic,
leaving him a very difficult choice to make...
- So, they came from Final Fantasy Tactics?
- Just pray Professor Daravon never meets Big Earl...
- And who replaced Katana's brain with a hunk of raw cauliflower?
- And Elvor doesn't say they sound like pages from a self-help book?
- What kind of villain _is_ he?
- - -
Episode: Chapter 26: Jellic vs. Elvor, Round Two: No Victory Comes
Without a Sacrifice
Date Sent to FFML: October 27, 2000
Archive Number: 15425
Size: 34 KB
Episode Summary:
Jellic challenges Elvor to a final battle, which will not be won without
a huge sacrifice...
- Of course! It's obvious! It's the big thing nobody ever paid
- attention to because most of the references were on the cutting room
- floor, but it MEGA SAVED the day!
- No, I'm not bitter. Why do you ask?
- Whatever was supposed to create tension here didn't work too well.
- The events, particularly the psychological ones, lose a lot of oomph
- when they only last a minute, or less than that...
- - -
Episode: Epilogue: A Good Goodbye or a Sayonara with a Sigh?
Date Sent to FFML: October 28, 2000
Archive Number: 15464
Size: 18 KB
Episode Summary:
Now that the evil has been defeated, all that remains is to wish our
heroes a fond farewell...
- And this is the end of the movie that got shot before this one,
- tacked on after the money ran out.
- I'm sorry, but that's about the only explanation I can give.
- Even if the plot points here were clear in _your_ mind, they
- still seem like they came out of far left field to me.
* * * * *
[Ranma 1/2]
keywords: Ranma, 1/2
- - - - -
Title: The Cooking Lesson
Genre: Continuation
Author: Gary Kleppe
Email: kleppe@mediaone.net
Homepage: http://www.akane.org/gary/comics.html
Archived at http://www.akane.org/gary/fanfic/cooking.txt
Date Sent to FFML: October 22, 2000
Archive Number: 15336
Size: 5 KB
Summary:
Years after the manga, bad cooking is still a problem for Akane. But
not in the same way.
- An hour, huh? You may want to go back and tighten up the scenes
- with Sayuri and her brother - as it is, it feels like Akane's
- thoughts are more a sketch of what you want to happen in that
- scene than the scene itself.
- Still and all, it's an interesting idea - twisted without being
- exaggerated. What I'd expect from you.
- - - - -
Title: False Economy
Genre: Comedy/slightly WAFFy
Author: Sean Connor
Email: sec@konatsu.dhs.org
Homepage: http://konatsu.dhs.org
Date Sent to FFML: October 27, 2000
Archive Number: 15424
Size: 12 KB
Summary:
How compatible is Nodoka's frugality with her desire to see Ranma as a
'man among men', anyway?
- ...no. Just... no.
- Or at least cut it after Konatsu drags Ranma off to the Nekohanten.
- What follows doesn't really seem to make any sense. At least not
- to me.
- I just don't think you can _work_ semi-serious romantic thought
- into a funny story about underwear.
- And now Adrian Tymes will prove me wrong.
- - - - -
Title: Ranma: Xero
Episode: Part 8: Aftermath
Genre: Sci fi/Adventure, Original
Author: Carrot Glace
Email: Carrotglace@juno.com
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/misatira/
Date Sent to FFML: October 24, 2000
Archive Number: 15368
Size: 19 KB
Title Summary:
What if Ranma was a Giant Robot Show?
Episode Summary:
Everyone relaxes in the aftermath of the battle.
- Well. Hmm. I...
- Hmm.
- I really don't buy Soun and Genma as commanders of anything.
- That may just be me. And I keep holding this beside "The
- Saotome Gambit" and it... just doesn't compare. It seems
- like your characters are really about half canon and half
- original. Why not just go with all-original? There's nothing
- to gain from tying this to Ranma.
- - - - -
Title: Ryoga Quest
Genre: Comedy
Author: Nidoking
Email: Matthew.P.Katinas@Rose-Hulman.Edu
Homepage: www.rose-hulman.edu/~katinamp
Archived at www.rose-hulman.edu/~katinamp/RyogaQuest.html
Date Sent to FFML: October 29, 2000
Archive Number: 15475
Size: 38 KB
Summary:
A text-based adventure game (ZORK, anyone?) transcript starring our
favorite directionally-challenged half-porcine martial artist.
- Okay, this was funny. You're very good at all this light
- sketch-type stuff.
- ...not much more I can say. You've gotten the Infocom spirit
- down.
- - - - -
Title: Saotome's Choice
Genre: Drama, Serious
Author: JP Buckner
Email: ajaff@poky.srv.net
Homepage: http://onewest.net/~ajaff/manff.htm
Title Summary:
Saotome Ranma desires something.
- A pastrami on rye. With mustard.
- What?
To what lengths is Ranma willing to go
to get this? And how will it affect everyone around him?
- - -
Episode: Chapter One - A Fateful Decision (Revision)
Genre: Drama
Archived at http://onewest.net/~ajaff/sc1.txt
Date Sent to FFML: October 29, 2000
Archive Number: 15484
Size: 59 KB
Episode Summary:
Kasumi learns of a dilemma troubling Ranma. She tries to help, and she
hopes it will not end up badly. Then one day...
- Ranma Saotome. Instant Catharsis, just add water.
- I have to say, it worked better in Choices, when a meaningful
- series of events leading _up_ to such a revelation got detailed.
- And associating him with that song worked better when it was just a
- songfic, and thus not taking a 20-pound sledge to the fourth wall.
- The girl, my lord, on a 4-by-4 was Akari on Katsunishiki, the world's
- most natural 4-by-4. Don't ask me why I still remember.
- And how'd Ranma pick up English so well, anyhow?
- If there's a prologue, I can understand, but you plunge us into
- Deep Emotional Meaningful Stuff from word one. You use:
- Some Emotion.
- And Some Other Emotion.
- twice. TWICE. Which begs the question of how on earth you're going
- to emphasize things when we reach the climax.
- You know, that part of the story some ways along when the tension
- that's been building up all story comes to a head and Something
- Meaningful Happens.
- The main problem here is that Ranma is talking like a normal, sane,
- and rational person. Where you picked up that idea I'll never know.
- I'm sure you could probably find a few points where his life
- paralleled that of a normal, sane, and rational person if you
- looked hard enough, but he's crossed seas by swimming, trained in
- more martial arts styles than most people can even name, and can
- leap tall buildings in, if not a single bound, at least a measured
- series of bounds.
- He doesn't think about relationships the way a normal person
- would.
- He certainly doesn't, or at least hasn't that I've seen, ever
- stopped and asked himself why he feels the way he does. You stop
- to think in the midst of a battle and you get your ass kicked. He
- can't plan well. He just... acts.
- I wasn't aware you could haggle in larger retail stores in Japan.
- Or isn't that where they went shopping?
- And Nabiki handling the family finances is fanfic canon which I
- don't think there's any support for. Again, I might be wrong, but
- from what I've seen, Nabiki uses most of the money she makes for
- herself.
- Ranma throwing up is new, though. He's eaten a copious amount of
- distinctly _off_ noodles, and chugged about five gallons of
- okonomiyaki sauce whose aroma rendered lesser mortals unconscious,
- with effects no more deleterious than a little queasiness and/or
- hospitalization.
- But that, I imagine, was only in the name of wackiness.
- No matter what you think you've done in this first chapter, all
- you've managed to truly establish is that a normal person is
- better able to reason than a caricature of a single personality
- trait.
- Which is something I knew already.
- This doesn't work for me, because it involves entirely too many
- assumptions outside of what canon defines. Characters act too
- differently, and instead of sympathizing with them I wonder who
- slipped them the Spring of Drowned Intellectual. The change is
- too sudden, and we're given no idea of what actually spawned any
- of it.
- - -
Episode: Chapter Two - Ranko and Consequences
Genre: Serious
Archived at http://onewest.net/~ajaff/sc2.txt
Date Sent to FFML: October 29, 2000
Archive Number: 15485
Size: 62 KB
Episode Summary:
As Genma and the Tendo's deal with Ranma's decision, the cursed martial
artist begins to learn that had unexpected consequences.
- In re summary: Duh. Ranma buying a box of rice has unexpected
- consequences, more often than not. Unless you're talking about
- Genma. Or Ryoga. Or Shampoo. Or Mousse. Or Herb. Or Pantyhose.
- There are a lot of cursed martial artists in and around
- Nerima.
- Gee, who slipped Kasumi the angry eyes? And for all she knows
- about Ranma's plans, you'd think she'd at least try and do
- _something_ to keep them from having needed to be put into
- action in the first place.
- Such as the advice she gave last chapter, after Ranma had left,
- only doled out in careful increments in the two weeks prior? You can
- either have her be cheerfully oblivious or self-aware, not switch
- from one to the other.
- You seem to be drawing from the anime here - I don't know if
- there's anything like the koi rod story in there, but Akane's
- reaction to Ryoga in that... well, she catches Ryoga with a
- half-naked Ranma-chan several times. After finding out it's because
- of the koi rod, she writes Ryoga off as still a good friend,
- but just hopelessly confused when it comes to romance.
- Which he is, really.
- I don't know where you get the idea Genma and Soun don't stand up
- to Happosai. They've quite cheerfully tried to get rid of him when
- they had an advantageous position. Admittedly, it didn't happen
- often, but the Anything-Goes school seems to be about withdrawing
- until you know you can attack and win.
- Which is called "tactics" when practiced by thousands of men at
- one time, but apparently bears a different name when practiced on
- an individual level.
- Ahem. "Tendo Nabiki, age 17, has no maidenly feelings." Unless
- there's a Massive Translator Conspiracy, that's direct from
- Takahashi.
- The whole story feels like nothing so much as a bunch of cliches
- and already-used plot concepts mashed together and shoved down the
- track. What's new here? Really, what's new? What hasn't been done
- before, what themes are you going to explore - new themes or new
- ways to look at old ones, take your pick.
- Once you've answered that, structure your story around it. Or if
- what you want to explore is going to take a lot of shoving to fit
- into the Ranmaverse, maybe you should look somewhere else.
- - - - -
Title: The Truth Comes Out
Genre: Humour
Author: Ginrai
Email: ranmafics@hotmail.com
Date Sent to FFML: October 24, 2000
Archive Number: 15364
Size: 8 KB
Summary:
So what did Ranma _really_ say in Mount Phoenix?
- Eh. It really doesn't work for me. Which is about all the scale I
- can rate a humor piece on.
* * * * *
[Ranma 1/2 / Variable Geo]
- - - - -
Title: "Variable Half"
or: "I Can't Believe Our Fathers Did this to Us!" Chapter: 1
Genre: Crossover/Fusion
Author: Christopher J. Olsen
Email: gamers@prodigy.net
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Dojo/1449/fanfics/html
Date Sent to FFML: October 21, 2000
Archive Number: 15289
Size: 12 KB
Summary:
Ranma and company discover the sport of Combat Waitressing, but what is
the cost of participating?
Note:
Subject header of post reads: "[FFML] [Ranma/Variable Geo][Rough]Not
Titled".
- You know? Given Variable Geo and a sufficiently glossy (and
- glossing-over) brochure, I can safely say this comes close to what
- would really happen.
- But it's still teaserish, though the later parts live up to it.
* * * * *
[Ranma 1/2 / Battletech]
- - - - -
Title: Battletech: The Saotome Gambit Part Twenty-Three
Genre: Fusion
Author: J. Austin Wilde
Email: wildeman@gci-net.com
Homepage: http://www.gci-net.com/users/w/wildeman/
Archived at http://www.gci-net.com/users/w/wildeman/TSG-23.txt
Date Sent to FFML: October 22, 2000
Archive Number: 15351
Size: 115 KB
Title Summary:
A fusion of Ranma 1/2 and Battletech pitting the Tendo Family of the
Nerima Confederation against the dreaded Furinkan Combine and the the
League of Five Nails. The only chance the Tendos have lies in the hands
of two Dispossessed mechwarriors named Saotome.
Episode Summary:
Nabiki topples her father's rule as Grand Duke of the Confederation in a
coup de'tat, then sells out the Ryuugenzawa Expedition to Tatewaki Kuno
in exchange for favorable terms of surrender to the Furinkan Combine.
Elsewhere; Tarou and Kodachi forge an unholy alliance, and the crew of
the _Palomino_ receive a hostile welcome in orbit above the planet
Ryuugenzawa.
- Yes, Nabiki's a bastard. But she's a _live_ bastard, which is the
- important part.
- The scene with Happy, Akane, and Ranma in the gym made me laugh all
- over again.
- It's... gah, if I keep hitting high points, I may overflow Notepad.
- This is, as I've said, very close to what would happen if you put
- Ranma In Space.
- And Kodachi and Tarou are very close to perfect for each other.
- I'm surprised I haven't seen it before.
- And the ending fits the genre and is damn good, all at the same time.
- Just read it, folks. You'll be glad you did.
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[SailorMoon]
keywords: Sailor Moon
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Title: 3 o'Clock Youma
Genre: Comedy
Author: Auer House
Email: j.auer@latrobe.edu.au
Title Summary:
A look at what could happen if Usagi went into battle just a little bit
too tired. The consequences are a case of mistaken identity, with the
Negaverse making the mistake....
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Episode: Chapter 1
Date Sent to FFML: October 12, 2000
Archive Number: 15105
Size: 12 KB
Episode Summary:
This is how is all starts....
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Episode: Chapter 2
Date Sent to FFML: October 28, 2000
Archive Number: 15468
Size: 19 KB
Episode Summary:
Kunzite and Zoicyte drop in on Usagi for a chat.
- You know, people often wonder why the bad guys have to attack only
- when the heroes are capable of fighting back.
- I have a feeling we're about to find out why.
- Lightly humorous, and doesn't take itself too seriously.
- Read a bit. Enjoy.
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- Fin. Sorry about the odd format and lateness and what not, but this
- is being written largely from work. Finals were taxing.
- Again, if you like the synopsis, you read the story, you send letter
- to author saying what you liked and didn't like. This is just one
- bird's opinion.
- --G. Falconar