You brought up a very good point about the Amazons. And you have to remember that some of the techniques we have been shown from them are just modern day techniques that are also about showmanship they the original lethal versions. The Breaking Point must have had a more dangerous origin and other techniques using them as a basis. A good story and change for Ranma being sent to the past like he did while showing the dangers of time travel.

I love you. Really, I do. Your Nabiki is on the way to learning true cunning, and being sufficiently humble to be able to possibly return to the present. You've also neatly nipped any possibility of get-rich-quick schemes that Ranma or Ukyo might have tried. Well, those would probably work, simply because Ranma's dad was there and Ukyo had the Kuonji accounts, and her clan obviously survived.

It wouldn't make sense for Ranma to forget his arts even if he learnd another form, that's just not him, but I can see problems for him yeah. As to how he kept on saying that his girl side and guy side were different, I hope you change that soon, considering he should remember the rights women have in this day and age soon

Good story hope you keep it going, however i think you should balance out the amazons with a bit about the Musk and Phoenix seeing as they also live near the valley and would have benn affected as well on less they to have an edge that the modern army doesnt besides the obvius demigod and animal traits.

Ah, it's been too long since I've read your works. I still remember going through the archives of Mirrors Multiplied in High School, very good stuff as always.

Reading through the reviews, I see a lot of words thrown around over this latest chapter, over what the Amazons should actually be capable of, or how they dislike the long monologue, or whatnot. I'm actually seeing little in the form of review aside from unexplained opinions.

From a storyline standpoint, the monologue, while having little to do with the story, did serve to introduce the younger Cologne to the as-of-recent-chapters pivotal characters, i.e. the Sailors. It also provided a breath of fresh air, at least to me, from the constant action scenes of the last few chapters.

Admittedly, I have difficulty stomaching some of the things I hear, mostly of the fantastic variety. But then I remember; this is RANMA 1/2. We have eight-headed serpents, curses which change mass and body structure, and homemaker-possessing oni spirits! If we accept these as canon fact, I fail to see what is so unbelievable about Cologne's story of their battle with the Reds.

On another note, I see people discussing canon and what they think should be and not be. Okay, great, your opinion is your own, and all that. But this is fanfiction. Not canon. And on top of that, time travel is involved. TIME TRAVEL. I'm sorry, but no one can expect anything to be canon when that convoluted stuff is involved.

Now, I do think the chapter ended on a less than satisfactory note. Not so much as quality, but it seemed to me like a somewhat poor closing in that the picture just fades out as Cologne finishes a sentence. Not so much bad storytelling, it just felt too abrupt to me.

As for Nabiki in the Meiji, well, frankly this is probably the most likely scenario. Let's face it, Nabiki grew up in a time where one was protected by the law insofar as retribution, making it quite easy to milk the system and make an ** of oneself, for lack of better description. Back in the feudal days, however, if you showed someone up even legitimately, they could have you killed and you'd likely be blames for letting them do so. In that way, Nabiki is actually showing her intelligence by laying low as best she can, though still failing because she is Nabiki and therefore can't resist certain tendencies so well yet.

I will not comment on Akane, as I would be quite biased and frankly dislike her character archetype anyway.

Overall, I've found the story to be quite entertaining, just like every work I've found by this author. I think that, as a fan, it is my responsibility to remember that the author is entitled to write however he sees fit. As he has said in many of his notes, he does this for fun and his own amusement, and does not necessarily have to share it with us. Therefore, it should not be considered our place to criticize his work over what we like and dislike about particular characters and viewpoints.

I have said my piece, and am quite happy with the story so far. There are some nitpicky points, but I will wait until the story has reached its end, as they may be explained or resolved by then.

To the author, I say this: Thank you. Your works provided a warm, happy memory filled with laughter to one of my darkest periods, and helped me become a better person through it all. Here's hoping you will experience some of that good fortune.

Awesome story . I really like the fact that someone else is also of the opinion that Nabiki is a narrow minded fool who completely misses the big picture and is relly nothing bigger than a termite in the grand scheme of things .

Terrific story so far, a complete joy to read!

Good story! I agree with all the lenthy reviews however, and do belive that you have lots of side stroies and little rants, with Akane bashing too much, too cruely, I applaud you on your general realism though! its 4 and ive been up for a while so I cant really tell if your story is funny or not.
From what you've said I hole heartedly agree that the Amazons would be albe to deal with a modern chinese army for the time period that Ranma .5 and BSM was made.
However. its still entirley capable that the amazons could fail! An aggressive scorched earth policy could wipe em out. Circle the area they are in. Cut down the trees while tightening the circle. Shoot only at aggresice targets. At night set everything in front of you on fire using what you cut down keep the fire going. To clear the tunnels simply use more fire, to eat up all the 02. Blame it all on a massive forest fire, that ate up all the 02 causing the tribe their to suffocate

Great to see this story still active. I really like the history aspect, as I love history.

I am not a fan of too much dark stuff happening, like the current situation with Akane if it goes too far, though she does deserve a lot of punishment.

Anyways, great work on the story.

Repeating this here in case you only got the review on your other fic.

ZOMG. Totally my mistake. It's been so many years that I got you mixed up with Bert Van Vliet - the guy who wrote the Sky KNIGHT SI fanfics. Okay, my apologies - I was totally comparing you with someone else, not comparing your newer stuff with your older stuff.

You can basically change my reviews from saying that you've declined to a comparison with someone similar that has better plot execution and a direction you could consider moving towards.

Again, sorry.

Ah, that's right, you also did Wizard of Gotham and, of course, the BGC fic with the SkySaber character.

Yeah, I really liked those stories and how refined your writing proceeded to get.

So I'm even *more* disappointed with this story, and that it's so much more recent and ongoing. Stylistically, you've proceeded further, but you've had a big regression in terms of your skills with plot.

Writing skills encompass more skills than just writing, and your skill with pacing, developing a plot and generating drama from events has declined in this fic.

It stands out even more because in chapter 6, Nabiki ends up being so much more interesting than Ranma&harem because *she* at least has to face serious challenges she isn't prepared for.

You could have executed almost the same story with the main plot points unchanged, but in a way that was much more of an exciting read. The part with Ranma being back in Kenshin's time could have been longer so that we can see Ranma's steady growth and having to deal with the greater violence and harshness of the era. The part where he returned... he should actually have been even clumsier and less suited to the modern age than before. He should have had a very difficult time readjusting and dealing with conflicting desires - after getting back to the modern age, he may very well have realized that he was actually better suited to the time he had been banished to.

Instead, Ranma's hard time back in the age of blood and violence is compressed to such a short segment that we already know he dealt with it fine and he's much more super than ever. When he returns to the modern age, he has zero problems readjusting and somehow, despite how he is even less prepared for normal life than before, easily handles being back. Not only does he have nothing to fear in terms of fights, he now has a super-mentor surpassing any feats of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings who can cut straight through any complex problem with brute force and bring about desired results despite the lack of any subtle tools.

I mean, it's not terrible, dude. It's still better than a lot of stories on this site. But it's actually quite a bit worse than some of your much *OLDER* stories, and that's sad.

The story concept has great potential, and like most of your fics, the stylistic execution is pretty good (could use more description of backgrounds/environments/interactions with the environment, but only by a bit).

There is a problem though in terms of the plot. It's been a long time since I've read your other fics, so I can't remember if you do this often with your stories.

You've made your main hero just too powerful. Okay, okay, Ranma went through hardships and training, etc. etc. in a crueler time than he faces back home in the modern world. The thing is, you have not been giving him scaled up challenges to go with the power boost.

You've essentially eliminated any excitement and drama from your story. Every martial obstacle is trivial. Personality conflicts are resolved by martial means or through the growth forced by the time travel element. It's kind of like the major flaw of David Edding's fantasy books - there is just no chance that the main characters can lose, and the author is satisfied with portraying them as such, so the readers *know* there is no challenge. There's also not much of a comedic element since you've taken the effect of the time travel arc to make things super-serious.

What is left is a series of events where the characters you like are presented with circumstances that do not require any further growth or change, while the characters you don't like get their comeuppance. It's indulgent and from what I remember of your other stories, something of a decline in writer's skills.

Akane's placement seems quite satisfactory. I'm all for people learning from their mistakes, but she always refused to even see that she made mistakes in the first place! I like to think of what she's soon to be experiencing as more of an OTJ training outplacement program. I'm positive she'll gain some marketable skills other than beating men senseless... actually I could see her being chosen for that role too. There are men who look for that sort of thing and it'd be something she has a knack for.

Nabiki is still pretty evil, which certainly fits her character. I don't buy her as a christian or taking any comfort in the bible or prayers taught to her by her mother, since she is hell bound if she believes in them. I see her as more likely Shinto or possibly Buddhist. At any rate I wouldn't be surprised to find out she never found her way back and ending up with the last name of Hino. Rei's father reminds me of her and Rei reminds me a bit of a cross between the three daughters Tendo.

Shouldn't something be going on with Kasumi? If her two sisters are permanently gone she may have to start looking for a husband or just put out some feelers and wait for the princes and demi-gods to quit fighting over her and pick one, maybe two.

Loved the scene with Cologne. I can see her people being that powerful, if you allow for a longer natural lifespan including a lengthened youth so that Shampoo is actually considered still a child until somewhere in her 40's. The tournament that Ranma interrupted and Shampoo winning it despite not showing that much skill makes more sense that way.

This story is okay. I feel you got a little long winded with your explenation of how the amazons could stand up to the chinese army, actully i think some of what you said is utter bull. Spell that can take down satilites, calling storms to take down planes, hiding from all forms of detection I mean come on! I could understand protecting them from certain threats but this is WAY overkill.

Next is the size of Ranma's Harem, It has grown ridiculously out of proportion. While I don't realy care if the hero ends up with multiple women, hell most of my favorites do, there is a limit before it gets out of hand. Personzly my limit is three, though with certain exeptions like "Chunin Exam Day", because otherwise the guy would be unable to spend anytime with them individually. That and most with Super-Harems lack any thing realy mentaly stimulating and are only read finish the story or because you're realy bored.

It's far more likely that the amazons have a form of MAD, as they can easily kill the leadership of any nation they choose to, but a prolonged war against a major Nation would cripple or destory them, as they cannot replace losses without several generations worth of time.
Given a corrupt dictatorship like China, threats towards the leadership are far more effective than destorying armies, roads and factories as a punative measure.