Chris "HomerNet" McFarland wrote:

So, we must wait and see.  And Ranma is a uniquely qualified story to 
wait and see with.  The basic story is so huge that even with five 
seasons the animated show only covered the first half of the manga.  
Then, of course, there's the open ended nature of the "ending."  The 
Ranmaverse lends itself to a nearly limitless variety of possible 
pick-ups to the final chapter that it spawned one of the largest 
fan-fiction communities EVER.  Need proof?  Go to The Penultimate Ranma 
Fanfic Index.  At 3,220 entries, the Index has the single largest title 
specific collection of links and archived fiction on the Internet. 
(FanFiction.net is multi-title, so it doesn't count.)  The Ranma section 
of FanFiction.net has 6,090 entries, being beaten only by a small 
handful of Anime catagories, one of which is another Takahashi work. 
(Inu-yasha)

 

Glad you make that distinction. Ranma doesn't come close at fanfiction.net
if you count DBZ, Digimon/Pokemon, or Sailor Moon. :)

Needless to say, I never bother to check any of those sections. I have a
straight link to the Ranma fics.

So Takahashi has a new Popular Work, just as Gene Roddenberry has 
posthumously produced a new Popular Work. Andromeda, for those of you 
who've had your head in the sand.  (No, it's not "Just like Star 
Trek.")  Andromeda will always live in the shadow of it's older cousin, 
and will always be measured by it.  It will probably never be as 
popular, never have a fanbase of 'Rommies' or 'Rommers' to nitpick over 
what the fanbase is called, and it will probably never have a major 
motion picture series that has The Odd Number Curse and "Andromeda:  
There Is No Andromeda V," and you will never see it parodied on SNL or 
MST3K.  That's because there's already a show /there./  In /that/ spot, 
right where I'm pointing, between "The Simpsons" and "Dragnet."

 

I find it hilarious that Roddenberry has created far more series now that
he is dead than he ever did while alive.  ;-)  :-D



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