Fanfiction – “Second Chances”

Title: Second Chances
URL: @ Lord Archives Homepage
Author: Lord Archive
Source: Ranma 1/2, Oh My Goddess
Rating: 6/6
Type: Combined Continuation and Alternate Universe, Crossover
Length: 22 Chapters in 3 Volumes, Incomplete.

How about a story where Ranma dies and Akane gets sent back to the start of the series? (de-aged, of course)

This is definitely an interesting case because, as far as I can see, Ranma and Akane are perfectly in character and yet, this could be mistaken for hard-core out-of-character fanfiction. The important thing to remember is *why* Akane and Ranma acted the way they did in Canon. I don’t really think that the story’s version of Nabiki is possible, but I don’t mind it too much.

I’d give it a 2 out of 3 on the originality scale and a 6/6 on the main scale, partly because I re-read it several times but mostly because it would be a 5/6 or 5.5/6 otherwise. There are a few cases of mixing tenses and other grammatical errors, but not enough to really be much of a problem. Considering that the writing is better than the grammatical errors would normally suggest, I’d assume that one of the two cases apply:
* Lord Archive forgot to proofread or didn’t proofread thoroughly enough
* English is not Lord Archive’s native language (but there has been lots of practise)

I like how it manages to keep so many of the old plot points without feeling stale. That’s quite an achievement when you consider how many fanfics I’ve read.

As with “Rejected”, there are some really good lessons for anime/manga/fanfiction fans to be found in the author’s notes.

Fanfiction – “Second Chances” by Stephan Sokolow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.