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Reviews for: Ranma: The Madness of Ryoga
James Birdsong
2009-03-06 . chapter 5
Good five chapters as far as that goes.
Scourgeofthegalaxy
2009-03-06 . chapter 5
Really nice story. I enjoyed reading it.
studdevil
2006-08-15 . chapter 4
Holy Crap! Keep going!! I need to know what happens!!
katan321
2006-06-03 . chapter 4
whew. Creepily powerful...
Sweatshirt Ichiro
2006-03-02 . chapter 1
It's nice to see some one writing about the lesser characters
Ranchee
2006-01-27 . chapter 3
What can i say but way cool keep up the good work. You have an excellent plot goin with this stpry love the idea of Ryoga losin it it just seems so right. Allnost any one can crack given the right kimd of pressure and such. But how does Ryoga do all the things that Ranma can?
Gaming Ikari
2006-01-25 . chapter 2
Hi, I'd just like to make a observations and drop some C&C on you.

I like the idea of Ranma and Ryouga switching bodies. It's always a fun concept to play with. Even the method isn't all that terrible; I've seen worse in some fanfics. Happosai makes a good foil for the characters to rely on for knowledge (he is, afterall, almost as knowledgable as Cologne herself) and the idea of Ryouga taking advantage of his new body with the Nanban mirror is a stroke of genius.

That said, I hope you won't be offended by some constructive criticism:

-You need to work on your spelling. I've noticed that you've dropped letters here and there, but this one is the main thing that caught my eye:

"Akane looked at him with distain stare."

Did you mean to say "disdain", or "distant"? If you meant to say "disdain", it should be "Akane looked at him with a disdainful stare." If you meant to say "distant", you just have to add an "a" in front of it.

To be honest it only really bothered me because it was so disjointed, being capable of falling either way and having two entirely seperate meanings.

-There are a few points when you switch between past and present tense. It's usually easiest on the reader to read things in the past tense (ie "He was walking" instead of "He is walking").

-This is just a matter of taste, but some more filler prose with the dialogue would help make this fic a lot more reader-friendly. There are some stretches where the only non-dialogue is specifying who said the most recent line.

Maybe you'd like to fill it out a bit more by adding in some reactions? We know Ryouga doesn't want Ranma spilling the beans on his P-Chan curse... maybe he throws his arms out or begins to sweat nervously at the thought?

Anyways, great story. I'll be keeping my eye on it.
The Empty Set
2006-01-22 . chapter 2
“That’s what this is, it’s called a Switcharoo. It’s been happening for thousands of years. It can’t be explained, as I said it’s a freak of nature. And no one has been able to reverse the process. I’m afraid you two are stuck in each other’s bodies.”

Ah-the blatent plot device. I like that... when you can't thing of a GOOD reason... just use something blatently un-plausable.

Good stuff, this is the closest to canon I've read in a LONG time. (Well maybe that's my fault for reading a lot of AU 'fics) Caveats aside, it's still good, I like the dialogue, and the characterizations of Ranma, Ryoga, and Akane feel a lot like Takahashi so far.

The names might get confusing, you might want to adopt a convention of calling Ranma/Ryoga either based off of only personality or only body becuase writing "Ranma in Ryoga's body" over and over agian, and thinking up new ways of saying this will probably get annoying.

Keep up the good work.
Ryo
2006-01-21 . chapter 1
I assume this is based off the anime, right? This doesn't match up with the manga.

1: Soun is fully aware of Ryoga's curse, probably everyone but Akane in fact.

2: There is no nanban mirror in the manga.

3: Ranma never promised not to tell about Ryoga's curse.

4: Ryoga never met Mao mo lin in the manga.

I am a little curious how Ryoga in Ranma's body is going to manage to kill Ranma in his own body. Ranma is a lot weaker than Ryoga physically. Ryoga is used to straight forward attacks to deal maximum damage. I doubt he'll be very successful with Ranma's reduced strength.
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