How about some excellent Ranma short stories about the loss of something vital?
First, Elegy to a Golden Youth by Reid Carson. As the author explains it,
I was re-reading Dunsany’s The King of Elfand’s Daughter one day, and was struck anew by the image of Lirazel walking toward the meeting with her son, bringing the boundaries of Elfland with her. It occurred to me that Ranma’s arrival in Nerima had a similar impact on the lives of the people there, carrying them into another world, and, even more, revealing that the world they had lived in was not the hum-drum place they had taken it for. What would happen
then, when Ranma left?
It’s amazing.
Second, let’s try a loss that is in some ways different, but in some ways the same. The Touch of Cold Water by Sebastian Weinberg is a story about a future Ranma who is reminiscing on something. I don’t want to give away anything else.
Ranma, chaos, and loss by Stephan Sokolow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Indeed, Elegy to a Golden Youth is quite fascinating. There is something elegant in how the story is told.