You did in fact mention the ages as Zeke being scaled back to 16 from his breif stint at 18... but the difference was that he graduated high school at 16 and bummed around for 2 two years to 18 then goes to Japan. That left him with a common mistake of the really smart... school isn't only (or largely after a while) about educating kids in subjects... Its about making kids interact with each other and learn what kind of people they are going to actually be dealing with in the outside world. This is from both the teachers and the students.
The plot line I've seen formulated up to this point (schoolastically) is that Zeke meets Rei and teachers her (through his interactions) that there are actually guys that are intrested her as a person and not just as sex object. Guys her age. So she desides to go to a mixed sex school rather than an all girls school. She ends up in a class with Kanami and Sosuke... that latter of which is just plain confusing. Meanwhile Zeke is chugging through the GenEd and intro courses in an Engineering school.
This means you can have Rei rant about the 'does not make sense' Sosuke and talk about other things that happen at the school... with you have Rei deal with either/and the Cardians and the Black Moon family. They talk about stuff and Sosuke keeps coming up as she is friends with Kanami and this 'Sosuke' is driving her crazy... I mean he keeps doing things that make threat her two or three mental box that are for putting men in (Sleezy men who sould be cull avoided and/or culled [dad], older ones I can actually deal with but are still a bit perverted, [Grandpa], the very small box of 'Actual people' men that Zeke created)... By threat I mean he takes those boxes treats them like a love letter. Which means he casually rigs them with small explosive charges and destroys them... the ranomdly hops between them and occasionally gets into other boxes a little... like he keeps dipping toes into the 'dangerous youma in disguise' box. He keeps failing the makes sense test... in other words Sosuke is maiming her world view, even more than the major blow that Zeke not being perverted scum did in the first place.
Sometime after the first few months, the Invader insident happens... which seems toned down. The Invaders not only gave the Earth a sporting chance... they weren't trying to drain everyones life force or make labor camps or anything really. Seemed like it was just one of those items on an agenda somewhere. The incident was something few actually knew about and would actually been a possitive experience if Lum hadn't desided to stick around and try to swipe Zeke.
Sometime after that Rei gets involved the end of the first season of FMP and that kidnapping the class thing... the Black Moon arc and the time travel mess happens and random people harem members and their social group pops into the picture. (You want Zeke involved in something have him fulfilling some GenEd requirement by correting English papers of something at the school). Though when the Lum stalker Rei shows up things should annoy/confuse Mars with the random things Lum is yelling at him.
Now Zeke is just some transfer student who happens to be involved in the mess... which actually makes him more SI like for no reason.
About the 'true love for real ' device screams 'Mindrape makes everything bette'r... ignoring that feature... a device that can force real love like that isn't going to care about their current sexuality... If there is one thing that I've learned about sexuality its that while you can add things to your sexuality, but it is bascially impossible to remove things from it, once they are part of it. This is why you can't 'cure' homosexuality, but they can become bi... also why pedophiles are incurable without a lobotomy. Also, Rei is debatable on this subject in the first place.
For the dodge the harem camp out... Why do I just see Ranma having some random evil female spirit there to have a casual date with Ranma and then go away happy? I mean its happened before. Hell, Ranma managed to actually convince a curse doll who stold women's body to off their male lovers/boyfriend/husband as its purpose to its existance to give up on that and allow them as a couple (taking the damage from them going off a cliff and all)... so I imagine Zeke's grandpa the shaman would probablely be weirded out if he finds some ancient evil spirit dragged Ranma off for a dinner and a movie date... kisses him at the end and then leaves/agrees to be resealed. Very, 'that has never happened before' moment for said shaman as Ranma explains this kind of thing is common for him.
The plot line I've seen formulated up to this point (schoolastically) is that Zeke meets Rei and teachers her (through his interactions) that there are actually guys that are intrested her as a person and not just as sex object. Guys her age. So she desides to go to a mixed sex school rather than an all girls school. She ends up in a class with Kanami and Sosuke... that latter of which is just plain confusing. Meanwhile Zeke is chugging through the GenEd and intro courses in an Engineering school.
This means you can have Rei rant about the 'does not make sense' Sosuke and talk about other things that happen at the school... with you have Rei deal with either/and the Cardians and the Black Moon family. They talk about stuff and Sosuke keeps coming up as she is friends with Kanami and this 'Sosuke' is driving her crazy... I mean he keeps doing things that make threat her two or three mental box that are for putting men in (Sleezy men who sould be cull avoided and/or culled [dad], older ones I can actually deal with but are still a bit perverted, [Grandpa], the very small box of 'Actual people' men that Zeke created)... By threat I mean he takes those boxes treats them like a love letter. Which means he casually rigs them with small explosive charges and destroys them... the ranomdly hops between them and occasionally gets into other boxes a little... like he keeps dipping toes into the 'dangerous youma in disguise' box. He keeps failing the makes sense test... in other words Sosuke is maiming her world view, even more than the major blow that Zeke not being perverted scum did in the first place.
Sometime after the first few months, the Invader insident happens... which seems toned down. The Invaders not only gave the Earth a sporting chance... they weren't trying to drain everyones life force or make labor camps or anything really. Seemed like it was just one of those items on an agenda somewhere. The incident was something few actually knew about and would actually been a possitive experience if Lum hadn't desided to stick around and try to swipe Zeke.
Sometime after that Rei gets involved the end of the first season of FMP and that kidnapping the class thing... the Black Moon arc and the time travel mess happens and random people harem members and their social group pops into the picture. (You want Zeke involved in something have him fulfilling some GenEd requirement by correting English papers of something at the school). Though when the Lum stalker Rei shows up things should annoy/confuse Mars with the random things Lum is yelling at him.
Now Zeke is just some transfer student who happens to be involved in the mess... which actually makes him more SI like for no reason.
About the 'true love for real ' device screams 'Mindrape makes everything bette'r... ignoring that feature... a device that can force real love like that isn't going to care about their current sexuality... If there is one thing that I've learned about sexuality its that while you can add things to your sexuality, but it is bascially impossible to remove things from it, once they are part of it. This is why you can't 'cure' homosexuality, but they can become bi... also why pedophiles are incurable without a lobotomy. Also, Rei is debatable on this subject in the first place.
For the dodge the harem camp out... Why do I just see Ranma having some random evil female spirit there to have a casual date with Ranma and then go away happy? I mean its happened before. Hell, Ranma managed to actually convince a curse doll who stold women's body to off their male lovers/boyfriend/husband as its purpose to its existance to give up on that and allow them as a couple (taking the damage from them going off a cliff and all)... so I imagine Zeke's grandpa the shaman would probablely be weirded out if he finds some ancient evil spirit dragged Ranma off for a dinner and a movie date... kisses him at the end and then leaves/agrees to be resealed. Very, 'that has never happened before' moment for said shaman as Ranma explains this kind of thing is common for him.