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OH MY GOD. There's a Ranma and Akane festival in Japan on October 11, 2009. I found the flyer at a shop in Shibuya (which I can't read because I left my sister at home who serves as my level 1 translator) anwyay... I'll post a picture when I get home to my scanner, but the website page is at:

http://ranafes.web.fc2.com/

Genre: Dark / time-travel (author classifies it as action/drama/dark)
FF.N: no known ff.n link
Status: Incomplete at 1 chapter. Author stopped posting after October 2000
Site: Site no longer existent : http://darkalpha.anifics.com/ ARCHIVE.ORG: Dreams Come As they May Site

*sigh* is there a use for recommending things that are DEAD anyway? Really... I don't know if it'll suddenly come alive with my prodding stick. But there it goes, it's pretty much dead. *sigh* I'm recommending it for completion. After all, I'm kind of resigned that a lot of the fics that we see right now will die sooner or later. (Fanfiction is not like selling yourself to paid books after all. Fanfic authors do not have an obligation to fans to finish), because it's for fun. I should recommend some other things.

Summary by Author:
A new visitor from not-so distant future has come to Nerima, looking for Ranma. As the result, there's TWO Akane Tendos traipsing around the city, with their eyes set on Ranma.

With her sanity already strained by two years of failure in her attempts to find her finace, Akane isn't going to let him slip through her fingers this time. Once she has claimed him, she will not let anyone take him away from her... not even her own younger self, no matter what the cost...
This series is on its own page.

Well the only reader of my fic recs requested them :p so here it is: 

Title: Fate of Love
Author: Jason Wong
Summary:  Just what makes the Ranma we know, well - Ranma? Is it the martial arts, the fiances, or maybe the challenges that make up the heir to the Mutsabeto Kakuto Ryu? But one day Ranma awakens with the feeling that there is something growing within - telling him what he should do, how he should act, how he should dress. Who he should love. The Anything Goes heir won't stand for it - he just wants to be left alone to be himself.  Trouble is - who is he?
Link: http://members.optushome.com.au/ranchan/fate/index.html

My absolute favorite Ranma x SM crossover. It doesn't matter if Ranma *might* end up with Rei. I think Jason Wong's writing is superb. This is the fic that led me to read all those Silver MIlennium fanfiction.  I sincerely wish that he starts writing again but *sigh* the last time I saw a *ping* from him was way back in 2002.

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Title: Lines of Destiny
Author: Louis-Philippe AKA Phoenix
Summary: Ranma and Akane have finally graduated from Furinkan and moved to the Juuban district to continue their life together. One would think that their marriage would mean a peaceful life from then on. Wrong.
Link: Phoenix' Den

One of the most well known Ranma x SM crossovers in the fanfiction industry. (Back when I was extremely active in reading fanfiction anyway... might not be the case now since there hasn't been any updates in quite a while) It's been said that this piece is the start of all the other "Ranma's curse as the senshi in the past life" and has been done well spiel. Too bad the last update was 2000

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Title: A Call to Action
Author: Mike Koos 
Link: Studio Mako Chan
Summary: It's easy to believe you've seen it all, more so to act as if you have. But Tendo Nabiki, who's hiding a few complex secrets of her own, comes closer to that claim than one might believe. 

A Nabiki as Senshi of the Earth twist. I always did like Nabiki

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Title: Different Colors
Author: Ellen Kuhfeld
Summary: Ranma and his Cat, Akane and her Mallet, come to terms with one another. Basically Ranma, with a dash of Tenchi and a dollop of Sailor Moon. Oh, and werebears. Werebears are very good teachers. Sleep in class at your own risk.
Link: Fanfiction.net :: Ellen Kuhfeld
A witty piece, still can't get over the fact that Ranma speaks english. Is on teh lines of Ranma gang meets Juuban crew.

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Title: All the Small Things
Author: Slacker
Summary: During the Silver Millenium, there were nine Senshi. In the present, there are nine Senshi. Yet, Sailor Moon was not present in the Silver Millenium. Who was the ninth Senshi? The Senshi can't remember, and Pluto won't tell. Yet the ninth is awakening, and will encounter the rest soon
Link: http://www.angelfire.com/anime/Slacker/small.html

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Title: All Relative
Author: John Martin Lotz
Summary:  Following the death instructions of Genma, a cursed Ranma heads for Juuban, and his cousin Haruka Ten'ou. (Dark/WAFF) Sailor Moon/ Ranma ½ crossover.
I'm unsure if I still like this. And I can't remember if Akane is anywhere in the past or the future, there's still too little to say what it's about.
Link: The Lost Library of Florestica :: John Lotz

 

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Title: Half Moon
Author: SKJam
Summary: What if Ranma were engaged to Sailor Moon?

Generally I stay away from these types of fics, because I'm a RanmaxAkane type of gal and  with fics like this, it's sort of like reading the manga, all over again, but there's this Usagi in the middle instead of Akane. AND since you're reading the manga, you actually know how it's going to end. But I really like SKJam's writing style. Hence the reason why this is here. 
Link: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/5990/

Genre: Fantasy/Adventure/Sci-fi Slightly alternate universe
FF.N: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/290352/ (Really difficult to find since Ten is attached to so many chapter names. *sigh* but worth the long look)
Status: Last Update was 06/24/04 at 21 chapters
Site: Ten: Perfection has a Price

One of my favorites. Really great author.

FF.N Summary:
Ranma Saotome is the sole living heir to the Saotome school of martial arts. Living the life of a nomad, she wanders from town to town; seeking answers to questions she does not know how to ask, wielding a power she cannot fully understand.

( Summary from the Author's site )

Map of Japan with Ranma daimyo influences [here]
Japanese Feudal Heirarchy [here]


Chapter 18 : February (Chapter 19 in FF.N because prologue counts as CHapter 1)

We attend a funeral.

Kuno admits something.

Ranma runs.

Akane learns how to fish.

The Tendo siblings fetch an unruly bodyguard.

Someone new steps in.

All in one chapter... 15,661

Another one of my favorite voice actors. Also because she appeared in Ranma 1/2 as my favorite character: Nabiki Tendo.

But here are some of her other roles which I've watched:


Yami no Matsuei - Minase Hijiri
Detective Conan - Edogawa Conan, Nakamori Aoko, Takayama Minami***
Kiki's Delivery Service - Kiki, Ursula
Magic Knight Rayearth - Ascot
Mermaid's Scar - Mana
Record of Lodoss War - Shiris
Shaman King - Hao
One Piece - Hamu
Vision of Escaflowne - Dilandau, Prince Ciedo
Yu Yu Hakusho - Mukuro

*** In one detective conan episode, Takayama Minami plays herself as a singer of Two Mix. One kid notices Conan and Minami have the same voice (well they're voiced by the same person) so there was a time when Takayama was going to be late for a concert and Conan tried to sing. Conan being Shinichi and can't sing a tune butchers it up. Haha.

Two Mix is actually a real group, whose vocalist is Takayama. They sing Just Communication and Rhythm Emotion for Gundam Wing.

Shinichi Kudo (played by Ranma's seiyu Yamaguchi) cannot sing in the correct tune (although he's definitely NOT tone deaf, he could decipher if a note being played is C D etc just not play/sing it). Incidentally, in Ranma 1/2 Ranma doesn't sing unless in girl form becuase Ranma has a 'bad singing voice'.

SINGING roles:
DoCO (Ranma songs)
Gundam Wing W
W Juliet

and a couple more.

An interesting factoid about her, is that she married Gosho Aoyama (the writer of Detective Conan) on May 5, 2005. :p Let's do that again 05/05/05 :)

Ranma's voice actor is Yamaguchi Kappei. Originally, I thought he didn't appear in too many TV series (Ranma, Inu Yasha and 12 Kingdoms as Enki) but apparently he appears in more than just that.

Here are some of the anime he appears in which I watched:
Yu yu Hakusho - Jin (ok I semi watchded this, not really watched)
B'T X - Kimiira
Detective Conan - Shinichi Kudo, Kaitou Kid/Kaitou Kurobara(name?)
Escaflowne - Shesta (I saw the credits here so I know)
CLAMP SChool detectives - Kentaro Higashikunimaru
Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne - Noin
12 Kingdoms - Rokuta (Kirin of En or more formally Enki)
Weiss Kreuz Gluhen - Sena
Tokyo Babylon - Subaru Sumeragi
RG Veda - Ryuu-Oh
Haruhiko Kasama - Please Save My Earth
Ruroni Kenshin (movie) - Yasuharu Musashino
One Piece - Usopp
Sailor Moon - Artemis
JAPANESE dub of Bugs Bunny
JAPANESE dub of Boy Meets World "Cory Matthews"

Video Games
Breath of Fire III - Adult Ryu

I didn't ehar this but notable:
Singing Roles
Fushigi Yugi - Chichiri
One Piece Usopp

THIS MEANS... wah I want to watch Detective Conan again. My sister told me that the voice actor was a woman, and then this comes to me as a surprise.

BY the way... I pity the american dubbing, JIMMY KUDO? Please. Rachel for Ran? What was Sonoko's character's name again?