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Currently my brain is completely fried, both because I am ill-- not covid, nasty cold-- and because, as I found out via [personal profile] skygiants' review, somebody wrote a middle-grade geopolitical fantasy series about martial arts ice skating, which, the thing is, you have to understand, it was obvious to me instantaneously from the review: it is Ranma 1/2 fanfiction.

It is Ranma 1/2 fanfiction and the serial numbers have not been filed so much as dusted over lightly.

I cannot even tell you how brain-breaking I find this. Ranma is a late eighties ecchi comedy manga and anime which LITERALLY INVENTED THE ANIME HAREM GENRE I have academic citations for that. I used to own an ornamental card I got at a con which was a photo of the shape made by accurately diagramming the love infinihedron that is Ranma; it was a photo because the shape cannot be created without the use of three dimensions. Ranma themself, who is physically male or female depending on what temperature of water they have most lately been doused with, is the cause of so much trans and sexuality confusion and wank in anime fandom I can't even begin to tell you. I think Ranma was the first girl I ever saw naked in an anime. I used to own a compilation vid of egregiously sexist camera angles of her tits set to Limp Bizkit's 'Nookie' as a shorthand for explaining the male gaze in cinema. (Maybe the upcoming anime remake will show male Ranma naked, because I always felt cheated in that direction; neither or both, please.)

MIDDLE. GRADE. NOVELS.

About which the author apparently sings on Youtube with Idina Menzel.

I'd say I have to go lie down, except this happened while I was already gone and lying down.

He put GEOPOLITICS in RANMA, the series which at one point had MARTIAL ARTS TEA CEREMONY. The series in which one of the principal antagonists had the ability to turn into the mystical form of a drowned yeti riding an ox carrying a snake and a crane. The series in which my favorite character's name is Shampoo-- not the Japanese translation of the word shampoo, I mean her name is the actual word Shampoo and her best frenemy's name is Mousse. (Well, when my favorite character isn't Ukyou, the martial arts okonomiyaki-making master.) Shampoo is an Amazon, as in literally, as in the tribe. From China. Because that's where Amazons come from. GEOPOLITICS. MIDDLE. GRADE. I--

My head hurts.

Date: 2024-09-23 01:36 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sixbeforelunch
I found that review delightful and finding this out has made it even that much better. Thank you for sharing the ... joy? Confusion? Incredulity?

Regardless, I am happier for knowing this.

Date: 2024-09-23 03:03 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thistleingrey
A few friends had me watch Ranma 1/2 (and Kimagure Orange Road, about which I remember approximately nothing) about 30 years ago. Zero direct contact with it since, but I did wonder, reading skygiants' review, whether there were a link. So, uh, ?good to know. It is pretty darned memorable, and influential.

Date: 2024-09-23 03:19 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] starlady
Ohhhhhhh yeah, you're totally right. Wow that makes the whole thing even more...something.

I hope the remake is good.

This post is perfect

Date: 2024-09-23 03:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] radiantfracture
When I read the review, I absolutely thought of Ranma 1/2. WILD that it actually is that. Thank you for your wisdom.

Date: 2024-09-23 08:14 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] rachelmanija
LOLOL this is amazing.

Date: 2024-09-23 08:43 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] landingtree
I was already wtf about this and now I am more so

Date: 2024-09-23 11:23 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mrissa
My college advice was: learn from me, do not be the only sober person in the room watching Ranma.

Date: 2024-09-23 11:45 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] troisoiseaux
Incredible????????

Date: 2024-09-23 02:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sartorias
Wow!!!

Date: 2024-09-23 08:26 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] oracne
ROFLMAO!

Date: 2024-09-24 04:49 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] genarti
EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT THIS I FIND MYSELF REELING AND SPUTTERING ALL OVER AGAIN, AND I NEVER EVEN WATCHED THE SHOW

Sincere thanks for your insight and adding this layer to the wtf!

Date: 2024-09-24 05:39 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] edenfalling
I. What. That. Um.

We sure do live in a timeline!

Date: 2024-09-24 08:04 pm (UTC)
skygiants: Nice from Baccano! in post-explosion ecstasy (maybe too excited . . .?)
From: [personal profile] skygiants
thank you truly and sincerely for your insight, which is the funniest thing that has happened to me all week

(& I hope the nasty cold passes quickly!)

Date: 2024-09-24 09:06 pm (UTC)
melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
From: [personal profile] melannen
Thank you for making me aware of this, my inner child is now very happy (honestly somebody NEEDED to further explore geopolitics via Ranma 1/2.)

Date: 2024-09-27 11:52 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lokifan
INCREDIBLE, oh my god.

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