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[[File:girldays3.jpg|frame|Akane and Ranma.
A classic but [[Dead Fic|incomplete]] [[Original Flavor]] fanfic for ''[[Ranma ½]]'' by Rob "Kenko" Haynie.
Ranma's mother Nodoka has come to the conclusion that the only way for her son to remain sane ''and'' become the paragon of manly virtue
So starts the [[Title Drop|Girl Days]] training program. By maternal decree, Ranma must remain a girl for the next two months, and thereafter at least one day out of every four.
Although the central idea of the story is not one that ''Ranma ½''{{'}}s creator Rumiko Takahashi might ever have chosen to explore, Haynie takes it and runs with it directly into exactly the same kind of comedic and chaotic territory that typifies the best manga chapters.
Haynie wrote <s>eighteen</s> seventeen and a half chapters of ''[[Girl Days]]''
''Girl Days'' can be found [https://www.fanfiction.net/s/345691/1/Girl-Days here].
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* [[A-Cup Angst]]:
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]:
** In what is clearly a case of poetic justice, Mousse (who is canonically Shampoo's Abhorrent Admirer), has an Abhorrent Admirer of his own in Hilda the Chinese Viking.
* [[Action Dress Rip]]: Averted [[In-Universe]] by a Neriman dress shop which, knowing its potential clientèle, offers skirts with Velcro and snaps along the seams that allow them to pop open for fighting and then be closed right back up afterward.
* [[Action Girl]]:
* [[Applied Mathematics]]:
{{quote|In girlform, Ranma + Chinese Shirt - Chinese Pants {{=}} Cute Girl in sleeveless minidress.}}
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:
{{quote|Cologne, matriarch of the Amazons, War Leader of the Jokuzetsu, and generally an annoying old bat...}}
* [[Badass Longcoat]]:
* [[Baka]]:
* [[Battle Aura]]:
* [[Beach Episode]]: Chapter 6.
* [[Beard of Barbarism]]:
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]:
* [[Becoming the Costume]]: The unexpected effect of Fred Yerfburger's spell on everyone during the costume party arc.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]:
* [[Berserk Button]]:
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]:
* [[Bi the Way]]:
* [[Big Eater]]:
** A chapter later, Ranma absolutely ruins a restaurateur's day when she and Ryoga win an "all-you-can-eat, on-the-house" evening at a local dining establishment.
* [[Book Ends]]: Chapter 5, which starts and ends with dinner at Ucchan's for the Saotome and Tendo families.
{{quote|The circle closes. Not always on a significant thing, but it does close.}}
* [[Braids of Barbarism]]:
* [[Brick Joke]]:
** Chicago, Japan itself becomes a brick joke, when it's mentioned in Fred Yerfburger's guidebook to Japan as one of the nation's homes to shape-shifting martial artists of really ridiculous power.
** "Penguin-chan!"
** Turns out the Chinese Vikings have some kind of trade agreement with Kasarikustan.
* [[Brief Accent Imitation]]:
* [[Brutal Honesty]]:
{{quote|"... You think we should follow her to see if there's something wrong?"
"No, I think we should follow her because I want to get a closer look at how her tush moves under that chainmail. Rowr."}}
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Almost literally in the case of one particular ancestor, Itsuno Kuno, who wore a rabbit strapped to his head at the Battle of Sekigahara Plain, but the Kuno clan overall, according to the narrator, have historically been oddballs but capable in their chosen fields.
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]:
* [[The Cameo]]:
* [[Captain Color Beard]]:
* [[Chainmail Bikini]]:
* [[Chaste Hero]]:
* [[Cheongsam]]:
** In chapter 11, Ranma gives Akane a fighting outfit that uses a cheongsam-like tunic as its top section.
** At least one girl (outside the core cast) wears a cheongsam to Furinkan's first Casual Friday in chapter 15.
* [[Chest Insignia]]:
* [[The Windy City|Chicago]]:
* [[Chikan]]:
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]:
** And Hilda for Mousse.
* [[Cloudcuckooland]]:
* [[Collective Groan]]:
* [[Comedic Underwear Exposure]]:
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]:
* [[Cosmic Plaything]]:
* [[Conspicuous Trenchcoat]]:
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]:
** Later in the same chapter, the mere existence of a piglet-sized model of Ryoga's combat umbrella just when he needs one while in piglet form.
** Strikes with a vengeance when Ranma and Ryoga go on a date in chapter 8, starting with getting an evening on the house from their chosen restaurant by (coincidentally) being its ten thousandth patrons.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]:
{{quote|"You aren't going to sell any pictures of Ranma in that outfit," said Akane coldly.
Nabiki stared at the wreck of what had been a camera. "But... but... all that yen..."
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Nabiki began to regain control. "And what does that mean, little sister?"
"You have been lax in your training. You used to train with Daddy and me. I think your skills have slipped. I should find out how much."
Nabiki
* [[Cool Shades]]:
* [[Corpsing]]:
** At several points in the story, Cologne similarly has to keep herself from breaking out into guffaws, mainly to preserve her dignity and image as an unflappable elder.
* [[Create Your Own Villain|Create Your Own Hero]]:
* [[Cute Little Fangs]]:
* [[The Cutie]]:
** When Ryoga accidentally gets turned into a girl in chapter 17, it appears she cannot do anything without doing it cutely.
* [[Death Trap]]:
* [[Determinator]]:
* [[Dissimile]]/[[Metaphorgotten]]:
{{quote|Being Ranma, she was taking to [Amazon training] like a fish takes to tartar
* [[Distracted by My Own Sexy]]:
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: Ryoga, in chapter 2, when he tries to attack while Ranma and all three Tendo girls are sunbathing:
{{quote|Faced with four pretty girls (of which three were definitely scantily clad and one wasn't wearing that much, really) Ryoga Hibiki did the only thing he could possibly
Develop a major [[Nosebleed|nosebleed]] and pass out.}}
** Enforcing this trope on her opponents is much of the purpose of Ranma's [[Stripperiffic|"fighting]] [[Hell-Bent for Leather|leathers"]].
* [[The Ditz]]:
* [[Dramatic Thunder]]:
{{quote|But the one thing he was certain about is that this plan would hide him so perfectly from Hilda that she'd never find him. Never in a million years.
You could almost hear the panting of ominous thunder trying to catch up and wondering how in hell it had missed its cue.}}
* [[Either-Or Title]]:
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]:
* [[Engagement Challenge]]:
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]:
* [[Evil Overlord]]:
* [[Exact Eavesdropping]]:
* [[Exact Words]]:
* [[Face Fault]]:
** Happosai does one in chapter 15 when a demon he summoned insists on a good Reuben sandwich from a certain deli on the Ginza in exchange for committing some mayhem.
** In chapter 16, Nodoka does one when Ranma tells her what she misses most about being a guy.
* [[Faceless Goons]]:
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]:
** Kuno's attempts in chapter 15 to present a tribute to his loves.
* [[Famous, Famous, Fictional]]:
{{quote|"Just because you can't see the sheer magnificence of my path doesn't make it loony!" Kenchuro protested. "They laughed at Fernbeister, you know!"
"Who?"
"Emilio Fernbeister, the inventor of the solar powered flashlight!"
Akane paused. "Um... wouldn't a solar powered flashlight only work during the daytime?"
Kenchuro hesitated, and replied, "All right, bad example.
Ranma thought a moment. "Oh, yeah. Cologne was telling me about him. Worst alchemist in Chinese history. Tried to create an invincible army out of candied yams. Died when attacked by a horde of starving peasants in the Leung dynasty."
"[[w:Emperor Norton|Emperor Norton]]?"
"Who?"
Pause. "Never mind. But it's still not loony!"}}
** [[Reality Is Unrealistic|Amusingly, in the years since this was written, solar-powered flashlights have actually been manufactured and sold]].
* [[Fan Disservice]]:
* [[Fandom-Specific Plot]]:
{{quote|It's basically the often used 'Ranma has to be a girl for a while' plot... but, well, [[Well, This Is Not That Trope|not that after all.]] Because I'm a humorist, I do it without angst.}}
* [[Fanon]]:
** One ''rare'' example is Kasumi in chapter 2 wearing a modest one-piece swim suit to sunbathe in.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]:
* [[Fictional Document]]:
{{quote|"...I bought it off the Internet."
"Where do they sell something like THAT?!?"
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[[Collective Groan|Ranma, Akane, and even Kasumi groaned.]]}}
* [[Fiery Redhead]]:
* [[Filler]]:
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** And then there's an incredibly blatant example in chapter 11, which the [[Lemony Narrator]] [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] by explicitly saying, "This is called foreshadowing."
** In the later chapters there are what appears to be foreshadowing for material which was never written, such as Ranma idly musing about hitting Nabiki with Nannichuan water and turning the tables on her by taking beefcake photos.
* [[Freak-Out]]:
* [[Gag Boobs]]:
* [[Gag Echo]]:
** In chapter 13, "Mercury Ice Mallet?" gets the same treatment.
** And "I want to HURT him" from Nabiki once they've cornered Fred Yerfburger.
** Chapter 16:
* [[Gale Force Sound]]:
* [[Gender Bender]]: Ranma.
** {{spoiler|In the last few extant chapters, Ryoga, who washed with the waterproof soap and then got hit with instant Nannichuan.}}
* [[Gender Flip]]:
* [[Genre Savvy]]:
** And when the girls follow, find out why she ran, and vow not to fight and in fact make her weekend at the beach the most fun it can possibly be, Ranma has a severe feeling of dread.
* [[Get Out!]]:
* [[Gilligan Cut]]:
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** Ranma goes from refusing to dress as [[Bubblegum Crisis|Priss Asagiri]] for the costume party in chapter 11, much less ''sing'' "in character", to being on stage and belting out "Konya wa Hurricane" in one fast cut.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]:
* [[The Glomp]]:
* [[Go-Karting with Bowser]]:
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]:
* [[Guilty Pleasure]]:
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]:
{{quote|Leather it was.
Ranma was RADIATING "Bad Girl".}}
:For [[Bonus Points]], and to make for a dramatic reveal, she wears a [[Badass Longcoat|black leather trench coat]] over this.
* [[Hilarity Ensues]]:
* [[Honor Before Reason]]:
** Combined with [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken]] ''and'' yet another [[Contrived Coincidence]] is responsible for Ranma and Ryoga going on a date in chapter 7
** Averted when Genma
* [[Horny Vikings]]: ''Chinese'' Vikings, neighbors and sometime-rivals of the Chinese Amazons.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]:
* [[Hot Chick with a Sword|Hot MILF with a sword]]:
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: One manifestation of Fred Yerfburger's spell during the costume party is a good half-dozen or more mecha from as many sources.
* [[Hypocritical Heartwarming]]:
* [[I Do Not Own]]:
* [[I Gave My Word]]:
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]:
{{quote|"Horny slutty goofy fat mean geeky girl!"
"Who you call geeky?"}}
* [[Idiot Ball]]:
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]:
* [[Informed Judaism]]:
* [[Inherently Funny Words]]:
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]:
{{quote|Kuno Logic can be a beautiful thing to see. This time it was positively magnificent.
(When girls argue, Saotome gets beat up.
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** In chapter 11, Kuno comes to the conclusion that the reason Ranma and Akane reject his romantic advances is not because they don't like him, it's because he's been giving them the ''wrong kind of flowers.''
* [[Inside Shoes]]:
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Regardless of his protests to the contrary, Kenchuro Tojo is indeed a loony.
* [[Ironic Echo]]:
* [[Ironic Echo Cut]]:
{{quote|"Never mind. No one can actually get inside."
<nowiki>####</nowiki>
Inside, Kuno and Gosunkugi were making their way to the back doors of the mutated school.}}
* [[Irony]]:
{{quote|It was ironic, he thought. Try to take out a girl, and disaster happens. Take out a fake girl, and suddenly everything starts going well. He supposed that it was because for once there was no danger of romance rearing it's head.}}
** At the start of chapter 13, the Narrator insists that Irony is the most powerful of all the fundamental forces of the universe.
* [[Japanese School Club]]:
* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]:
* [[Joshikousei]]:
* [[Karma Houdini Warranty]]:
* [[Kawaiiko]]:
* [[Ki Attacks]]:
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
* [[Lemony Narrator]]:
* [[Lesbian Romance]]:
* [[Lethal Chef]]/[[Cordon Bleugh Chef]]:
* [[Lingerie Scene]]:
* [[Logic Bomb]]:
** Certain simple questions have this effect on Kuno.
* [[Lovely Angels]]: Yuka and Sayuri are dressed as
* [[Luke Nounverber]]:
* [[MacGuffin]]:
* [[Magic 8-Ball]]:
* [[Magic Pants]]:
** In chapter 10, Ranma wishes for a school uniform that would change when she does.
* [[Magical Land]]:
{{quote|In other words, No, it's NOT another failed cure for Ranma. It is, however, [[A Worldwide Punomenon|an excellent cure for fish.]]}}
* [[Mama Bear]]: Even though she ''knows'' Ranma is more than capable of handling herself ''and'' any unwanted attention, Nodoka gets... protective.
** And Ranma seems to enjoy sending guys her way to set her off.
* [[Martial Arts and Crafts]]:
* [[Medieval Stasis]]:
* [[Mind Screw]]:
** Ranma messes with Shampoo's head enough to make her run panicking back to Cologne twice in the story
** The general effect that Ranma's declaration that she is a [[Logic Bomb|"heterosexual lesbian"]] has on her friends
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]:
* [[Modesty Shorts]]: Ranma prescribes these for Akane at one point so as to allow her to train in walking on fences and [[Roof Hopping]] without offering boys [[Panty Shot]]s.
* [[Moe]]:
* [[Mundane Utility]]:
** Mousse uses the Hidden Weapons technique to store freshly-washed dishes, making it easier to put them away when
* [[No Export for You]]: Averted: a translation to Spanish was done by Guillermo Riquelme Valenzuela (authorized by Haynie himself), and it's currently available [http://ranma.hostalhost.com/fanfics/girldays/girldays.htm on Riquelme's Ranma ½ website]. It was only translated until episode 14, however.
▲* [[Mundane Utility]]: During the costume party arc, Wolverine!Kasumi uses her adamantium claws to slice food.
▲** Mousse uses the Hidden Weapons technique to store freshly-washed dishes, making it easier to put them away when he's done washing up.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]:
* [[No Periods, Period]]:
** And when you come right down to it, deliberately averted in-universe by Nodoka, who required the initial "two months" ''specifically'' to make sure Ranma goes through at least one period.
* [[Noodle Implements]]:
* [[Noodle Incident]]:
{{quote|[Shampoo] also was, at the moment (due to an unfortunate incident with a barber pole, a drunken sailor, a fire hydrant and a college fraternity prank), a cat.}}
* [[Nosebleed]]:
** He gets another one in human form (and passes out) in chapter 11, when he comes upon Ranma (in her battle leathers) and Akane (in her new fighting outfit) sparring together.
** He valiantly staves off several others during the course of the story.
* [[Not Himself]]:
* [[Oblivious to Love]]:
* [[Obsessed with Food|Obsessed with Herring]]:
* [[Oh Crap]]:
* [[One Steve Limit]]:
* [[Original Character]]/[[God Mode Sue]]:
* [[Original Flavour]]:
* [[Pain-Powered Leap]]:
* [[Panty Thief]]:
** Any chapter in which Happosai appears, per standard.
* [[Pardon My Klingon]]:
* [[Pity the Kidnapper]]:
{{quote|"Ranma take lessons from mercenary girl?" smiled Shampoo.
"Huh? What'cha mean?"
"Ranma get paid selling stick-boy. Then Ranma get paid again, take stick-boy back."}}
* [[Playboy Bunny]]: Nabiki's outfit for the costume party that starts in chapter 11.
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Throughout chapter 15, Ranma insists a fight is in the offing and prepares for it, even though everyone else tells her she's wrong.
* [[The Prophecy]]:
* [[Puff of Logic]]:
* [[Qurac]]:
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]:
* [[Reset Button]]:
* [[The Reveal]]:
* [[Right Behind Me]]:
{{quote|"This is becoming preposterous! Your mother is insane! Your mother is demented! Your mother is completely out of her mind!"
"My mother is standing behind you."
[[Oh Crap|"Awk."]]}}
* [[The Rival]]:
* [[Rummage Sale Reject]]:
* [[Running Gag]]:
* [[Serious Business]]:
* [[Severely Specialized Store]]:
* [[Schadenfreude]]:
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]:
{{quote|[S]he sped off like a very fast thing going, well, very very fast}}
** According to Mousse in chapter 17, interrupting a formal battle of insults between a Chinese Viking and a Chinese Amazon is itself an insult.
* [[Sharpshooter Fallacy]]:
{{quote|[Author's Note: The astute reader will notice that Ryoga Hibiki has what can best be described as a somewhat unusual logic system.
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Akane.
* [[Shopping Montage]]:
** Chapter 8 has the shopping-for-school sequence.
* [[Sobriquet]]:
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]:
** And then there's Cologne's very simple "Oh, shit" when she feels Fred Yerfburger cast his spell.
* [[Stalking Mission]]:
* [[Standing in the Hall]]:
* [[Statuesque Stunner]]:
* [[Status Quo Is God]]:
* [[Stealth Clothes]]:
* [[Stripperiffic]]:
** Influenced by Nodoka's decidedly odd concepts of what is feminine, Ranma's nightwear and bathing suits.
** Nabiki's bathing suit in chapter 6.
* [[Suppressed Mammaries]]:
* [[Sweat Drop]]:
* [[Take Over the World]]: The goal of rogue wizard Fred Yerfberger, even though [[Failure Is the Only Option|the universe won't let him]].
* [[Talkative Loon]]:
* [[Tempting Fate]]:
* [[Title Drop]]:
* [[Tomboy]]:
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]:
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]:
* [[Tsundere]]:
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]:
* [[Understatement]]:
* [[Unfazed Everyman]]:
* [[The Unpronounceable]]:
* [[Unreadable Disclaimer]]:
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]:
** During the costume party arc, Nabiki's absolutely ''enraged'' that she's been turned into a literal bunny girl.
* [[Vagueness Is Coming]]:
* [[Volleying Insults]]:
{{quote|Shampoo and Hilda were, well, not being particularly nice.
Not nice at all.
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"Horny slutty goofy fat mean geeky trampy girl!"}}
* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]:
* [[Voodoo Doll]]:
* [[Well, This Is Not That Trope]]:
{{quote|The walk back was uneventful.
No, sorry, that was a different walk back. THIS walk back was something other than uneventful.}}
* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]:
* [[What Is This X You Speak Of?]]:
* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|When All You Have Is Mallets]]:
* [[Who's on First?]]:
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]:
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]:
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]:
** In chapter 9, there's this line from Shampoo:
{{quote|"She say Shampoo have accent. Not understand, no use MSG at Nekohanten, but if Hibachan say so..."<ref>"Accent" is a brand of MSG marketed in the United States.</ref>}}
** [[Conan the Barbarian|Konatsu the Barbarian]].
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely|You Clean Up Pretty Decent]]:
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: {{spoiler|Ryoga's (temporary) female body has [http://jusenkyo.wikia.com/wiki/File:GirlDays2.jpg very light blue hair].}}
* [[Zany Scheme]]:
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