News bulletin:
While demolishing a building in which Rumiko Takahashi, author of Ranma ½, used to reside, construction workers came across a small iron safebox hidden in the walls. When opened, they found various unpublished transcripts of what appear to be unknown Ranma stories. Ms. Takahashi has been unavailable for comment, and her agent is remaining mum on the possibility of more Ranma for the adoring public.
After a long and perilous journey, I have managed to track down these missing stories, and make them available to you, the public, for your reading pleasure. Although I now am unable to travel to Japan for safety reasons – main one being I wouldn't be safe from the local authorities there, I am still more than happy to release these to the lucky people on Fanfiction.net as well as the Google group rec.arts.anime.creative.
I hope you all enjoy them as much as I did. And keep on the alert for any other lost masterpieces by Rumiko Takahashi – you never know where they might pop up!
*Although I am sure this is obvious, I feel I must make the following statement, so that I cover any legalese. The above news bulletin is fiction. Any "Missing Stories" are actually Ranma fanfiction created by myself, PepsiBeth. I do not own Ranma, nor do I profess to be Rumiko Takahashi. These are stories by a fan for the fans, with no profit. This is not a continuing series, but rather a series of individual shorts, taken from ideas that I thought would have made good episodes in the anime, or stories in the manga. Thank you.
