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ShineX
2009-10-15 . chapter 3
I've never seen Ranma's situation put like this. Abusive home, and Shampoo and Ukyo being the only ones keeping him sane. It's kind of interesting, and the only flaw I see in this is the fact that Happi came way after Cologne so their arragement doesn't make much sense.
ShineX
2009-10-15 . chapter 2
That was very nice, has a lot of potential
Anime Princess
2009-10-01 . chapter 6
LOVE how Shampoo and Ukyo are working together and are starting to even LIKE one another! Hope you post more ASAP!!
Loatroll
2009-09-09 . chapter 6
Interesting story! Looking forward to more.
Tri-Emperor of The Twilight
2009-09-02 . chapter 6
Great story. It's Ranma/Ukyo/Shampoo correct?
Mackon
2009-08-27 . chapter 6
Hehe the girls sure are getting themselves mixed up, can not wait to see how this turns out.

Thanks for sharing.
Toutsei
2009-08-01 . chapter 6
This has been a very cool story so far!
Ganheim
2009-07-27 . chapter 6
Good evening, Great
[Is this spoken aloud, thought, or something else? There’s neither punctuation nor formatting to isolate it from standard narrative]

She acknowledges your presence now at least."
[I’m a little confused by the interaction and characterization with Shampoo not so much as acknowledging her father. Yes, he does show up in the manga, but his appearance was so spartan (I only recal him in one chapter) that my guess was Takahashi decided to cut his role and removed him as much as she could without being able to go back. Anyway, I’m still trying to figure out how what seems to be a pretty socially starved Shampoo would totally close herself off from somebody – particularly a non-threatening and potentially helpful figure as her father – when she tolerates somebody who interferes as much as Mousse. In canon she was by no means friendly to the Fiancee Brigade, but I feel that there’s something askew. It will probably be clarified/smoothed as the story progresses, and I’m sorry I can’t provide anything more specific, and maybe there’s more to that interaction, but it’s a nagging feeling]

"So, what is it?" the night shift controller asked. "It's the size of a small biplane
[ It’s Snoopy]

There was a giant flying bull descending upon Nerima.
[Funny how I didn’t expect Taro to make a show here. There goes another of my suppositions]

Don't' just
[Extra apostrophe after ‘don’t’]

"Shampoo specialty is fighting in air.
[I remember her pulling some vicious weapon moves, and she’s pretty adaptable, but if her fighting style was based in the air I’d think she’d take to the air a lot more often. At least, based on canon. Still, this is no great stretch of suspense of disbelief and it works fairly well]

Only shooting one or two snide comments in as many hours? That was not Shampoo.
[Then again, relations between the Fiancee Brigade were always tenuous at best, things always got worse when Ranma was involved, and Shampoo never seemed to be involved unless Ranma was involved. Ukyo and Akane got along because they were together in things that didn’t involve Ranma (and therefore didn’t spawn the vicious competitiveness). My perspective, anyway]

They had went two days without trying to kill each other and the thought of going back to "normal" made Ukyo feel uncomfortable, despite telling herself otherwise.
[Funny how outside adversity can screw up rivalries and antagonism like that, huh?]

If she wouldn't kill a threat like that the raven-haired teen doubted Shampoo would go after her first.
[I believe ‘raven-haired’ refers to Ukyo, but I’m pretty sure that she’s got brown hair. It may have been blue once in a Japanese poster, but then again girl-Ranma’s hair has been every color from blue to pink in the manga. Shampoo also usually has black hair in the manga, if I remember correctly, though she’s had various shades of blue in a few covers and merchandise posters vary even more]

caught the bonbari
[‘bonbori’, although since that can reference a Japanese paper lantern I prefer the proper term ‘chúi’ or just ‘mace’]

was familiar as was
[I think the pacing needs a comma after ‘familiar’]

felt the bit dislocate
[the _hit_?]

not even feeling her foot being caught at the last moment before she went over the edge...
[Despite the last-minute save, she’s still probably pretty messed up]

Chapter 6
but Taro ducked out of the way and retaliated with punch that was much faster than Shampoo expected for such a bulky appendage.
[Taro is deceptively fast in his cursed form isn’t he? I’ll have to keep that in mind when he shows in The Best Laid Plans]

brought her bonbari
[‘bonbori’, though as that references a paper lantern I prefer ‘mace’ or its proper name ‘chúi’]

impacted her she had
[_where_ she]

hadn't went over,
[hadn’t _gone_ over seems to flow slightly better to me, though both do work I suppose]

Peace was peace, but when it came to getting this close to Ranma then all bets were off.
[Sounds true to the characters]

Shampoo broke a rib and a finger.
[Given the blows that went back and forth, I’m surprised she didn’t break a lot of ribs and phalangeal/metacarpal bones]

when he got all sweaty while exorcising!"
[Unless Ranma’s been doing secret training against demons, I think you mean ‘exercising’]

at her fiancée'
[Extraneous apostrophe]

Ukyo couldn't help but return it. In a way, Ukyo knew she was playing with fire; getting too close to Shampoo was a problem that would certainly come back to bite her in the ass down the road. Only one person could win, after all, and anything other than rivalry or hate would get in the way of that.
[Sounds quite like the barriers they put up between each other in canon]

made the two partner's
[partners’]

"Hello, Auntie Nodoka."
[I called that!]

Although I knew that twist at the end was coming, it still had that sudden comic tinge characterizing the Ranmaverse. The fight against Pantyhose Taro was also sell done (trying to drag it out could've really ruined things, but as is felt right), and it will be interesting to see how things develop as they are forced to spend more time around each other without fighting, as well as Ranma’s increasing role (or potentially). Nodoka’s looming presence is also something I’ll look forward to seeing everybody scramble trying to figure out how to deal with.
Hat O' Doom
2009-07-24 . chapter 6
Exellent chapter! The intereactions between the two are written very well. Becoming friends though somewhat reluctantly...screw it. All your writing is good! I find no faults with it.

So Nodoka has arrived. Hopefully Ranma will appreciate what they did after the initial firestorm dies down.
Mizuno Tenshi2
2009-07-23 . chapter 6
Cool chapter, things are building up nicely. This will be so awesome if it works well and goes towards the threesome it suggests. Keep up the great writing!
kzinti7
2009-07-18 . chapter 6
i love "what if" stories. when they are well wrighten and so dude ths is great' PLEASE complete this story
For Spite
2009-07-18 . chapter 6
This remains enjoyable as the alterations to canon spread. Whether this is a friendship fic or a romance you do a good job showing the characters bonding and their own uneasiness over how close they are getting, interspersed with humor (which is highly appropriate given the source material).
One mild problem, Pantyhose Tarou's pantyhose is not actually visible when he's in monster form (he's got the magically appearing and disappearing clothes Genma does, maybe from practicing with the curse from birth) and Ukyo didn't mention it, so "pantyhose wearing freak" is not an insult Ranma would know to use.
loaned
2009-07-17 . chapter 6
Cool, keep up the good work.
R.T.Stephens
2009-07-16 . chapter 6
At the end of this chapter, I'm sure Ukyo and Shampoo would rather go ten more rounds with Taro than deal with the latest problem.

Nice resolution to the last chapter and building into the next. There's a real flow here and keeps me waiting for the next installment.

Saw a few spelling and grammatical errors sprinkled throughout so might want to do a quick read-through to fix those up. My only other nitpick is that Taro's cursed form seemed underpowered. I'm basing my knowledge off of the manga and haven't seen the anime where he appeared (yeah, I know, this makes me a heretic) but I remember him being RIDICULOUSLY strong. Possibly even stronger than Lime from the Musk. His hands were shown to be able to completely hold a person in his grip and four people at a time could be on his back while he flew. Only Happosai and Cologne were able to go toe-to-toe with him. He's also a pretty darn good martial artist while human. It's not a story breaker but the perfectionist (read: fanboy) in me noticed that. However, it was awesome how Shampoo was able to fight him so I'll give props for that.

Looking forward to the resolution to the semi-unexpected guest that everyone will have to deal with.
Eromancer
2009-07-16 . chapter 6
To quote Kasumi, "Oh my"
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