Ranma ½/Fanfic Recs: Difference between revisions

* ''Synopsis'': Ranma decides to cross one last barrier he'd set in his mind, and when almost everybody else was out of the house, transforms to his female form and tries on women's underwear. However, the "almost" happens to be Kasumi, and she, after getting him to [[Please Put Some Clothes On]], has a long discussion with Ranma about self-identification. The next morning, when Ranma is thrown into the koi pond, he doesn't come up and complain; instead, Akane has to rescue him. No, her. Ranma attends school as a girl, and thus begins Ranma's exploration of gender identity and self-identity. Some take it well, some take it poorly, and only Kasumi knows the truth: that is it Ranma's deliberate choice to do this. And Ranma isn't the only one to explore her self-image: other people in the household end up learning things about themselves as well.

* ''Comments'': For a story written in the 1990s, its attitude toward sexual identity is remarkably similar to that held by many in the 2010s and 2020s.

 

== Crossover Fics ==

* ''Tags:'' Fem!Ranma, OOC!Ataru

* ''Comments:'' A huge but [[Dead Fic|incomplete]] work that ties two of [[Rumiko Takahashi]]'s most famous works together with an unexpected romantic plot whose roots stretch back to well before the beginning of either series. Despite the apparent unlikelihood of the central pairing, the development of the relationship is careful and slow, and presence of the girls from ''[[Sister Princess]]'' both help and reinforce the plot, which grows increasingly epic in scale as the action moves from two Tokyo neighborhoods out into the galaxy at large in discrete but inexorable steps. May not be to everyone's tastes, and the abrupt ending in the middle of some high-tension adventure is particularly frustrating, but it really is worth giving it a try.

 

== Ranma/Akane ==