Quick easy fix for you... http://www.onemanga.com/ which has fan translations of loads of series.... like Naruto, Berserk, Air Gear, and Bleach. Its a
non download sight and you click through it on the picture and can navigate from menus by chapter and page. Personally, my policy and my brother's is that
we support the series that are worth buying. With Ranma, I never bought the Manga do to not seeing it on sale for cheep enough, read through the second half
in fan translations. I did however, buy the first 3 seasons for full early tape prices (and DVDs of most of the movies and the OVA)... my brother downloaded
the later series and referred to it this way 'The first three seasons are gold... the rest of them though....'. Anytime you see 'edited'
versions avoid then and look for the uncut. Escaflowne... just Escaflone, is why. Poor Dance of the Curse.
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Now that the discussion has made a circle lets go into the reasons for people writing fanfiction in the first place. After all if people didn't write
fanfiction we couldn't have fanfiction fanon, let alone bad fanfiction fanon, outside of message boards, on a large scale anyway. The internet is the
MAJOR cause of fanfictio, at least the stuff anyone ever sees. Because random people, in random places that would be unlikely ever meet otherwise, can
communicate with each other nearly instintaniously. Lots of groups of scattered people with the same intrest are able to find each other.
For instance, after Gundam Wing was shown in English, it was beseiged by Yaoi Fangirl's fanfics... apparently because Relena Peacecraft was just so
annoying that they all swore off women altogether. So annoying that she had this effect on people that had never seen or heard of her. According to the Yaoi
Fangirls. Granted they also thing all hot guys should be in love with only each other (and sometimes the Fangirls themselves)... that doing such a thing would
remove virtually all hot guys from the gene pool, is beyond them. Perhaps the most self defeating group out there.
People tend to write fanfiction for series they think need improvement, so any series that there is nothing else to say after reading/writing it will have a
huge drop in the expected volume of fanfiction. The series that there is huge volumes of fanfiction for are the ones that have the most people that like the
series, but think that features can be improved upon. This may mean anything after a certain episode is edited from existance, a character croaks or survives.
Lets go with some points that come to mind from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy Summers is dug up before they go and resurrect her... therefore the series
loses large volumes of angst. Willow doesn't decide that she suddenly likes girls now. Dawn didn't exist. The series ended with Buffy dieing after
jumping off the tower. Xander stakes Angulus the first time he manifests. Xander wore a more better costume. Or say... the major ascended into a giant Goomba
and Andrew kills it by jumping off the roof of the school onto his head, so they have all that C4 around to greet Glory with.
Now there are several bits of fanon that come from secondary sources that are actually fourth or ninth steps removed. For instance the bad fanon 'Ranma
doesn't fight girls.... ever. He'll die first. Now he may not like to fight girls (given the way his life gets more complicated each time...), but he
fights Shampoo on the log, Kodachi in the ring and several other girls throughout the series. That this fanon makes Shampoo/Kodachi impossible as chariacters
is ignored.
Just for the sake of discusion, any willing to state other series with bad fanon bits from fanfiction? What those bits are?
non download sight and you click through it on the picture and can navigate from menus by chapter and page. Personally, my policy and my brother's is that
we support the series that are worth buying. With Ranma, I never bought the Manga do to not seeing it on sale for cheep enough, read through the second half
in fan translations. I did however, buy the first 3 seasons for full early tape prices (and DVDs of most of the movies and the OVA)... my brother downloaded
the later series and referred to it this way 'The first three seasons are gold... the rest of them though....'. Anytime you see 'edited'
versions avoid then and look for the uncut. Escaflowne... just Escaflone, is why. Poor Dance of the Curse.
---
Now that the discussion has made a circle lets go into the reasons for people writing fanfiction in the first place. After all if people didn't write
fanfiction we couldn't have fanfiction fanon, let alone bad fanfiction fanon, outside of message boards, on a large scale anyway. The internet is the
MAJOR cause of fanfictio, at least the stuff anyone ever sees. Because random people, in random places that would be unlikely ever meet otherwise, can
communicate with each other nearly instintaniously. Lots of groups of scattered people with the same intrest are able to find each other.
For instance, after Gundam Wing was shown in English, it was beseiged by Yaoi Fangirl's fanfics... apparently because Relena Peacecraft was just so
annoying that they all swore off women altogether. So annoying that she had this effect on people that had never seen or heard of her. According to the Yaoi
Fangirls. Granted they also thing all hot guys should be in love with only each other (and sometimes the Fangirls themselves)... that doing such a thing would
remove virtually all hot guys from the gene pool, is beyond them. Perhaps the most self defeating group out there.
People tend to write fanfiction for series they think need improvement, so any series that there is nothing else to say after reading/writing it will have a
huge drop in the expected volume of fanfiction. The series that there is huge volumes of fanfiction for are the ones that have the most people that like the
series, but think that features can be improved upon. This may mean anything after a certain episode is edited from existance, a character croaks or survives.
Lets go with some points that come to mind from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy Summers is dug up before they go and resurrect her... therefore the series
loses large volumes of angst. Willow doesn't decide that she suddenly likes girls now. Dawn didn't exist. The series ended with Buffy dieing after
jumping off the tower. Xander stakes Angulus the first time he manifests. Xander wore a more better costume. Or say... the major ascended into a giant Goomba
and Andrew kills it by jumping off the roof of the school onto his head, so they have all that C4 around to greet Glory with.
Now there are several bits of fanon that come from secondary sources that are actually fourth or ninth steps removed. For instance the bad fanon 'Ranma
doesn't fight girls.... ever. He'll die first. Now he may not like to fight girls (given the way his life gets more complicated each time...), but he
fights Shampoo on the log, Kodachi in the ring and several other girls throughout the series. That this fanon makes Shampoo/Kodachi impossible as chariacters
is ignored.
Just for the sake of discusion, any willing to state other series with bad fanon bits from fanfiction? What those bits are?