Age of the Sky [Ranma 1/2]
- Thread starter Grounders10
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- The Old Dominion
I'd think if Inari was involved it was ether Crown of Neverwinter or Dreaming of Peaches while in this story if I'd think of any Shinto god would actual get involved in some compacity the first to come to mind would be Hachiman, given Hachiman is supposed to be the divine protector of Japan, the Japanese people and the Imperial house.
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I like this story, but there is just something just very subtly off(? odd?) about it. Trying to place it somewhere,
like it's sci-fi, fantasy, with a bit of spiritual? Its not something I've seen with Ranma for quite a while. Like why is the military giving priests mysticism serious consideration during an alien invasion, seems odd to me.
Ranma may get a blessing here? Inari, so maybe (hopefully) Kitsune!Ranma (lol). Probably not. Saw Ranma with a halo a few pages back, seems cool.
Not that any of this is bad, on the contrary, its good, but it's just wiggling something in my brain meats.
like it's sci-fi, fantasy, with a bit of spiritual? Its not something I've seen with Ranma for quite a while. Like why is the military giving priests mysticism serious consideration during an alien invasion, seems odd to me.
Ranma may get a blessing here? Inari, so maybe (hopefully) Kitsune!Ranma (lol). Probably not. Saw Ranma with a halo a few pages back, seems cool.
Not that any of this is bad, on the contrary, its good, but it's just wiggling something in my brain meats.
I figure it's more a question of having their suspension of disbelief shattered by said alien invasion and the fact that if any of the Nerima craziness was ever formally documented before the invasion there's probably standing orders to not completely disbelieve Ki-based bullshit. That and, lets be honest here, with an honest to gods alien invasion going on at some point the brass is going to be throwing everything at the wall and see if something sticks, before the porkers get pissed off enough to resort to mass grid square erasure.
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The Nerima Physics Club was in the process of formally documenting Ranma's ki abilities in the story's opening.
Dunno how far from them that got, since they were making their own custom sensors and such, but the precedent implies some of Ranma's more spectacular incidents are on-record and were investigated at the time.
Certainly the orcs? using ki-based technology has implications for what formal documentation of ki might accomplish.
serra2
Himouto! Sylvanas-chan
It seems mostly that the military is guarding an easy to defend strongpoint, and as long as the priests are not actively getting in the way, why not let them do their ritual?
Grounders10
Nine-Tailed Kitsune
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- British Columbia, Canada, Mars
The JGSDF do in fact have dossiers on the Neriman natives that are shared from about the rank of Major up, though anyone stationed at the primary Kanto base in Nerima would know about the Neriman group, and its the 1st Division HQ.
I want, almost more than anything, to see how this briefing goes. I simply can't imagine how it feels giving a presentation on "Domestic Threat Assessment: Those Fucking Nerima Kids," to people who need to be read in on the existence of supernatural martial arts and chinese mysticism. That's someone's job, and every quarter there's a new squad of officers or oblivious brass who think they're on a prank show or being hazed. Deliciously absurd and banal.
Depending on how you adjust the time of the setting, photographic evidence might be far more compelling than it would in the modern day, and a lot more dangerous to obtain. Is Nabiki a military contractor?
As for the story as a whole, I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing the Physics club make a reappearance. It's a good structure, anchoring the reader with something friendly and domestic and worth protecting before you inflict hordes of space pigs, but it feels like we're reaching the limit of how many loops of, "Phew, handled the space pigs; oh no! some new space pig problem!; gratuitous action scene about us cutting up space pigs!" the narrative can handle.
It seems to me, the way the story seems to be pointing at the moment, we might just get to see some of this.
I'm pretty sure we're going to see the space pig invasion resolved at least in the short term with civilization still intact, and everyone in desperate need of an X-COM equivalent. At which point Ranma, being around mostly because he's brought down the mothership or whatever, mentions that space pig tech seems to be using ki, and abruptly the Nerima HS Physics Club gets conscripted into high-stakes R&D.
Grounders10
Nine-Tailed Kitsune
- Location
- British Columbia, Canada, Mars
.... Well there's probably going to be more, but I am thinking about how to spice it up. (or spice it down as the case might be)
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that is a very good point