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"If you only read `n` fanfics this year, read these."

(Well, they're my favorites, anyway...)

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Notes (Read these!):

Check back here often; I keep a close eye out for new or updated episodes for the fics I have archived here. (Unfortunately, I have fallen a bit behind, as I now have a job.)

All the fics here are pkzipped to save space. If you got this far and still don't have an unzip program, PKWARE has versions for DOS, Windows and OS/2; Also, you can get Winzip (which is what I use) or NetZIP (which integrates itself into your browser). I've been told that Mac users can use Stuffit Expander, which can be found at www.shareware.com. If you have some other system, please give me a link to an unzipper program so I can put it here.

They are roughly grouped by the anime they're based on, but otherwise are in no particular order.

If you can write a better description for one of these than I did, send it to me and I may put it up.

Things I don't have are listed in italics (although I think Lynx shows them underlined, or maybe blue, depending on your system).

The first size listed is for the zip files, the second is how much space the file(s) take(s) up unzipped.

I have the fanfics numbered for a reason; read them in order or risk confusion! (Of course, AOL's browser, even 3.0, doesn't number them all correctly. Run one of the browsers listed at the bottom of this page instead.)

Read the Read Me files!

Get Reflow 5 so these will look nice in any word processor.

If you have any parts of the stories here that I don't, ask me if I need them before sending them to me, so I don't end up with 30 copies of them in my mailbox.

If you see a fic based on a series you haven't seen, or if you want to get something else to read, you can probably order it from , as they seem to have everything I could think of looking for, and at prettu good prices.

Fanfics I've archived here
- Just a Dream? by Lew Burden (lburden@pressenter.com)
  Takes place in an alternate Urusei Yatsura universe. This is a truly excellent fic; it's better than many books I've read. I highly recommend reading this. Here is an excellent description of the premise, taken from the beginning of Book 1:
  For over two hundred episodes, six movies, and many OVA's we watched the adventures of the Earth boy Ataru Moroboshi and the alien girl Lum who moved in with him. Their adventures together broke the rules of reality with a vengeance, and forced the viewer to accept the outlandish as commonplace. What if . . . What if all that was just a series of dreams shared by these two people of very different worlds?
  1. Just a Dream? (241k/660k)
    Because of this dream world that Ataru seems to return to whenever he sleeps, and the Oni who inhabits it, he is becoming isolated from his friends, much to his dismay. Meanwhile, on an invasion fleet approaching Earth, the dreams of princess Redet Lum are causing some concern among the families. (Description under construction.)
  2. Still Dreaming
    To describe this part would give away too much of the previous story, and, if you've read it, I won't need to talk you into reading this one anyway. If you want to download all the chapters so far in one go, you can get them at Sakurambo's Urusei Yatsura Fanfiction site.
Fanfics archived Elsewhere
- Stories by John Biles (ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu or bailesu@komodo.hacks.arizona.edu)
  John Biles has written a lot of great stuff, including "Putting Your heart in the Right Place"/"Furinkan Summer", "Sailor Moon: Symphony of the Planets", "Sailor Moon Z", "Dance of Shiva", and too much other stuff to list here. Almost all of it is really good, too.
- Sailor Moon Expanded (including "Dark Kingdom Renegades") by Andy Combs (android@texas.net), Mark Latus (Mark.Latus@MSVU.Ca), Frank Barr (fdb@jhk.com) and several others.
  I originally got hooked on this with Mark Latus' "Dark Kingdom Renegades" stories. He and Andy Combs, who wrote "Rabbit Test", decided to mesh their stories, and the result is quite impressve, not only because it's a good story but because it still manages to mesh almost perfectly with the "real" Sailor Moon universe. Since then, a number of other authors have jumped in, expanding the story further.
  Anyway, "DKR" follows a small group of "good" Youma who managed to escape the Dark Kingdom just before its destruction.
- Urusei Yatsura - The Senior Year (Previously known as Classic Urusei Yatsura) and sequels, by Mike Smith and Fred Herriot (gorgo@kwangju.net)
  To quote the readme:
  UY-TSY is a series which begins a month after the end of the "classic" series normally seen as the fifth movie, "The Final Chapter." Lasting over a year-and-a-half in character time, UY-TSY is our rendition of what might have happened to Lum, Ataru and their friends and companions in the wake of the Second Tag Race.
  I maintained a page on this for a while, and the only reason I don't anymore is lack of free time; it's still a great story (IMO, some others disagree; this is one of those fics people either think is awesome or trash).
- Sailor Moon V - The Dark Adventures by Troy A. Stanton (SailorMoonV@hotmail.com)
  Yes, the "V" stands for "Vampire". Another story where not all the residents of the Negaverse are evil. Plot quality goes down a bit after the first story, but picks up again by the end of part 3, and continues to improve from there; the last scene in episode 4 is particularly good. All parts take place in the Sailor Moon universe (big suprise there). Warning: From part 2 ("By The New Moon's Light") on, this series contains some scenes that some readers may find offensive (i.e. it has sex in it). Part 3 in particular pushed the limits of what I tolerate in what I read, but after that it focuses on the plot again and gets much better. Anyway, you have been warned!
- Stories by Chris Davies (cdavies@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca)
  This guy writes good stuff, even if it does tend to be rather dark. The story that convinced me to put a link to his page here was "Together Again", but you'll need to read at least some of his other stories to get some idea what's going on.
  TA2937 was the best story I've read in a while, even if the format is unusual (not just script format, but movie script format; it works well, though), and manages to cross over almost as many series as Undocumented Features.
- The Bet by Gregg Sharp (metroanime@mindspring.com) and others
  I missed the beginning of this, but as near as I can tell, it went something like this: "I'll write the first bits of about a zillion alternate universe stories, then take votes on which should be continued". My vote: Almost all of them!
- Nabiki - New Horizons by G.L. Sandborn aka Uncle Fester (sandborn@microlink.net)
  Rather well written, and focuses on Nabiki. I like it. Of course, with Nabiki being my favorite character in all of anime, I'm biased. This page also features "Son of Japanese Ranma TV From Hell" and "More Son of Japanese Ranma TV From Hell".
- Hearts of Ice by Krista Perry (KPerry@aros.net)
  This is a great story. Shampoo casts a spell using dragon's blood to get rid of Akane, but things don't quite go as planned. Somebody, please write a better description of this for me. This story really deserves one.
- Ranma 1/2: The Altered Destinies by Wade Tritschler (tritscwa@mala.bc.ca) and others
  Several alternate universe stories, including "Most Unlikey of Friends", where Akane and Shampoo are best friends, "A Scary Thought", which has Genma taking Kasumi on the training trip instead of Ranma, "A Very Scary Thought", which has Genma taking Nabiki on the training trip instead, "A Little Motherly Love", where Genma died and Nodoka trained Ranma, "Switching Heirs", in which Happosai named Ukyou his heir and she was the one taken on the training trip, and "Odd Outcome", which matches up Akane and Shampoo and focuses on how they and the rest of the cast deal with it.
- Onna: Red Side vs. Yellow Side by The Eternal Lost Lurker (EternalLostLurker@worldnet.att.net)
  Anyone remember the Ranma fanfic "Her" from a while back? This is (sort of) a rewrite of it. Actually, it's a pair of rewrites, as "Red Side" and "Yellow Side" have absolutely nothing to do with each other, save the basic premise (I could be wrong for "Yellow Side", as what I read hasn't got that far, but it holds for "Her" and "Red Side"): The soul of the girl who drowned in the nannichuan was not passed on; she's stuck in Ranma's head. Fairly well done, and "Red Side" is a crossover.
- Careful Destinty by Shadow Stalker (sysop@newberry.edu), based on Be Careful What You Wish For (9k/24k, GZipped) by Richard Beaubien (beaubienrd@mala.bc.ca)
  Ranma gets a magic item that grants two wishes, and he uses one to wish he'd never been cursed. He wakes up to find himself living not with the Tendos but with his parents and his younger sister, Ranko. Akane (who doesn't know him) is engaged to Kuno, and Ranma quickly (and painfully) discovers that in this universe, though he isn't cursed, he's also never trained in martial arts.
- The (sur)Real World by Rod M. (rpm39788@bayou.uh.edu)
  Take seven "ordinary" people (Ranma Saotome, Ataru Moroboshi, Kyosuke Kasuga, Mamoru Chiba, Atsuko "Nuku-Nuku" Natsume, Washu and Urd), put them in an apartment complex together, and make it a TV show. Very, very funny.
- Ranma 2096 by Christopher Willmore (4cw6@qlink.queensu.ca) and others
  Following Ranma's murder in 1996, he is ressurected 100 years later and bonded to the American Kim Thompson by a modified Jusenkyo curse. Funny in some parts, dark in others (mostly dark, when you factor in all the side stories), overall a very good read. Right now there are more side stories than main stories; my favorite is "Echoes" by Rui Madeira (rmadeira@interlog.com)
- "Thy Inward Love" and other stories by Richard Lawson (sterman@uswest.net)
  Richard Lawson writes really good stuff. Most are set in the Ranma 1/2 universe (or a variant), including his wonderful story, "Thy Inward Love" (after you've read it, you also may want to check out Sebastian Weinberg's MST3K-style C&C of it), but he's also written some set to Nuku Nuku. All are excellent and worth reading.
- Twisted Path by Twister (Darren Steffler) (twister@escape.ca) (Note new page and email)
  Happosai tries to summon a demon to annoy Ranma, but Ranma interrupts the spell, and it goes wild across the multiverse. One part finds an arch demon, the other, simply searching for something somehow linked to the Ranma universe, finds a college student who happens to be reading the manga at the that particular moment. Both wind up being summoned.
  So what if the author writes himself in as a super-powerful charachter? It's still a good read (It gets much better after part 1). Also note that despite the lack of link, TP4 is available on the RAAC archive here.
- Undocumented Features and related stories by Megazone (megazone@megazone.org), Gryphon (gryphon@world.std.com), ReRob (remande@world.std.com) and many others.
  A true classic. You need to read this. Starts out with Ben stubmling across an HoloDECstation 31000 and accidentally creating Kei and Yuri (AKA the Dirty Pair). Things proceed from there and manage to bring in elements of, in no particular order, BGC, Robotech, Star Trek, Predator, Star Wars, Megazone 23, Buckaroo Banzai, Sandman, Tron, Iczer-1, Wing Commander, Ninja High School, and probably a godzillion other things I don't remember off the top of my head, and that's not including the side stories! Note: part one has a significantly higher sillyness factor than the rest of the series. Be sure to check out Eyrie's other stuff, too; most of it is very good.
Other Fanfic Archives, in No Particular Order
- ftp.cs.ubc.ca (Archive of rec.arts.anime.creative)
- A Sailor Moon Romance Lots of Sailor Moon fanfics here; alternate backup site for new stories here.
- Sak's UY Fanfic Archive
- FFML Fun Critiques MST3K-style critiques of various fanfics. A must-see.
- Fan Fiction Links at The Anime Web Turnpike
- Rui's Anime Fan Fiction Link List From Hell
- List of sites in the Anime Fan Fiction Ring See below for next/previous/etc ring links
- List of sites in the Unofficial FFML Ring See below for next/previous/etc ring links
- Anime and Manga Fanfiction on the Net has a very extensive listing of sites that carry fanfiction of all kinds.
- Tell me about another fanfic archive (BTW, I've made this section for general archives, not dedicated to a particular fanfic series or author; if I want one of those, I'll add it in the "archived by the author" section above.)

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Yeah, the "normal" next buton had onna-Ranma with red hair, but I liked it better black, so I pasted in the modified version I did for the Careful Destiny page.