Reviews for The Four Truths
Anban chapter 17 . 8/24/2021
I don't think I can enjoy this fic any more after this chapter... They simply undo Happosai's moxibution, despite all that entails..

Aside from being a serial molester/assaulter, he's guilty of and capable of many other horrible things, such as his use of moxibution on Ranma. Furthermore- here he was planning to literally rape Ranma. Returning his power to him is infinitely more harmful and dishonorable than rebuking his school/mastery (why need it for that matter? Not like Ranma doesn't have his own masteries).
Ariadne Venegas chapter 21 . 8/24/2020
Buu that wassad poor Xian pu! Also poor Akane good thing she got she was a pervert(her words not mine) and did the deed several times without protection until get the results! She was too you g to be mother, but maybe she wouldn’t have survived without the boys.

As she is young I hope she remarries someday she is too young to be alone forever!
My grandmother was young but 45 is different than 16. My grandmother was alone for 40 years, too much time. She can’t be alone for 70.
Lukkai chapter 22 . 3/21/2020
I realise this is an old fic, but I just recently stumbled upon it, so there. Finished it today and I have to say I'm somewhat torn about it.

On one hand I really liked the premise and the story telling generally was very good. Although I have to say that from a purely technical standpoint, the text has been adequate but surely not superb. There's simply way too many mistakes in spelling, grammar and phrasing (You often have sentences starting with "character does x" then adding a second, different verb right afterwards for the same action. Apparently having planned to rewrite the sentence with one of them, but forgetting to edit the first choice out. Just to name a quite common example.). It's still quite easy to read. You should try and make scene changes more obvious, however. Those were often just split as a new paragraph with the same distance to the prior scene as the paragraphs in that scene. Making them impossible to spot until you had read a ways into the new scene, which is rather jarring.
The problem I really do have with the story is, that on occasion you go completely over the top with something in a way that breaks suspension of disbelief even in a Ranma story. These scenes always break the immersion and take some fun out of the reading experience. Worst of all, those exaggerations usually do not serve any purpose for the story at all and could have just as well been left out completely. One of those scenes is Ranma's hangtime in the end, which even by his standards is ridiculous. And that is a huge problem because it is completely ruining his death scene. Instead of a moment which has a huge impact on the reader and sets a milestone of the story, the whole thing becomes... well rather dumb really. And since this is one of the big final scenes, it ruins the last chapter to quite some degree and leaves me sitting there rather unsatisfied and with a bad taste in my mouth. Which in turn cloudes the impression of the story as a whole. I'm not necessarily adverse to Ranma dying, but it was executed rather poorly here. And again, the huge amount of hangtime in the scene was completely unnecessary. He could have perfectly well had his vision lying on the ruined mountain too. It actually would have made the impact of his enlightenment on the reader even stronger.

A small thing I have to mention as someone who's worked with rifles and crossbows both. A modern rifle round fired more or less straight down from the height those phoenix have taken to from the description would definitely have more penetrating power than a crossbow bolt, at least for a crossbow that could be fired while flying. They could have gone for the heavier flechettes as were used by air forces in the First World War and simply drop those from higher up. Which would make more sense anyway, since firing a crossbow in that position is very tricky and reloading it inflight practically impossible (to reload a crossbow usable as an actual weapon of war, you'll need both hands and one foot). But even then, they would not really surpass the penetration power of an AK47, at the cost of a much reduced accuracy.
fellow chapter 21 . 11/22/2014
Very spiritual.
Guest chapter 5 . 7/13/2014
Girls who have not hit puberty are normally bigger than boys of the same age. Just blindly repeating canon doesn't makes sense when you go from 16 year old Ranma to 10 year old. Turning into a girl at that age would have likely made him taller and larger.
Ikurus chapter 22 . 3/28/2014
I prefer happy endings. That's what I come to stories for - something other than unfortunate endings with loss.

This story however is simply good enough that it pulls it all off, and the ending fits with how the story began and developed. The ending as presented is also not a tragedy, even with the loss, which is a credit to your writing because I think most people would have written it into with too much angst .
Love the story. Thank you for writing and sharing this.
A W chapter 2 . 10/12/2013
Yay! He killed Genma.
shugokage chapter 22 . 9/25/2013
Absolutely incredible story great job!
Guest chapter 22 . 5/13/2013
The ending sucked
Guest chapter 19 . 5/12/2013
Before Ranma leaves for the Amazon village he becomes she but then after talking to the elders she goes to Cologne's house where Akane beats on him

How?...Ranma didn't switch back before Akane attacked.
Seitora chapter 13 . 4/7/2013
In Chapter 11, you have this

"Dinner at the temple was quite an enjoyable affair. The monk was quite pleasant to dine with. He was a vast storehouse of information, and had traveled widely before settling in Tokyo. He regaled the trio with tales of his youthful transgressions, much to the delight of all involved. For their part, the Chinese guests told stories of home, and demonstrated the curses they had acquired. The monk made some cracks about how much fun the marriage between Konatsu and Herb must be, and excused himself to go to bed."

So Shinran would already know about the Jusenkyo curse.

Happosai I assume will learn about the deception the China 3 have given him, but I think that's being a bit deceitful. Surely he would notice the similarities between the style of the three boys he's fighting during the day and the three people he's fighting at night by now?
Seitora chapter 12 . 4/7/2013
I appreciate the fight scenes, short but to the point.

Soun seems to be plotting a bit, but at least you aren't doing basically any character bashing, so his reaction to Genma's death and Ranma's circumstances of growing up and self-training are more reasonable to read through than a typical flanderised Soun.
Seitora chapter 11 . 4/7/2013
"The issue of who 'gets' ranma is settled. And no, it isn't going to turn out like anyone hopes."\

So no Ukyo? :(

That aside, I like the interactions with both Happosai, who seems to at least delight in having somebody who is pretty good and slowly scales up towards his own power, and the monk.

Akane's character development looks to take off, albeit probably slowly, Just wishing for Ukyo reappearance still even though my hopes are likely to be unrequited :(
Seitora chapter 10 . 4/7/2013
Hah, I like the ending. The evolution of the Fellowship of the Bros into Brotrolls.

(I'm terrible at coming up with names)
Seitora chapter 9 . 4/7/2013
Heh, so coincidence pushes the story along at the end with Happosai making his appearance.
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