Ranma and The World God Only Knows

[Frog]

Been playing around with this idea for a while so I decided to throw it out there and test the waters, so to speak. I’ll probably never have the time to write this, but I thought the idea to good not to see the light of day.

At any rate, it centers on a crossover with “The World God Only Knows”. Have you heard of it? Here’s a brief explanation: In TWGOK, the protagonist is recruited by “New Hell” to capture escaped “Weiss”, runaway evil spirits from New Hell who hide on Earth and feed on a host until they can go on a rampage again. The protagonist, Keima Katsuragi, agrees and hijinks ensue. How does one get a Weiss out of its host, you might be wondering? Well, I’ll get to that in a bit.

Here’s the gist of it:

At some point during the Ranma continuity, probably after the failed wedding attempt, he’s walking along Nerima by himself when he’s suddenly approached by a girl calling out his name and asking for his help. This would be Elsee, who calls him “The God of Victory”, “The man who overcomes any challenge”, “Saotome-sama who does not lose!” and other such names while begging for his help. Having his ego stroked by a girl in clear distress Ranma readily agrees without knowing what he’s getting into.

Boom! Flash of light! Agreement! The contract is sealed! A contract collar (choker) appears around the necks of both Ranma and Elsee. Ranma, feeling bewildered, tries to take it off and Elsee, in tears, stops him saying that if he tries to take it off the collar will immediately decapitate the both of them. Ranma finally begins to realize that he might’ve gotten himself into more trouble and asks Elsee to explain further.

Weiss are hiding on Earth, inside the hearts of young girls! The only way to get them out is to fill the gaps in their heart! WITH LOVE! Surely, the God of Victory, the man who does not lose, and who, according to rumor, has more than several girls smitten with him, would be a man more than apt for the challenge? And if he isn’t, well, at least he won’t die alone, right? The contract collar will kill them both, so he won’t feel lonely!

“Oh god, you want me to actually chase girls?! Akane is going to kill me. I’m dead, dead, dead, so dead…”

Without much time for complains, Elsee’s skull headpiece detects a nearby Weiss and she drags a still catatonic Ranma to face off against the girl and whole string of new challenges…

Sadly, Ranma soon realizes that despite the fact that he has two fiancés, a would be Amazon wife, and a psycho gymnast after him, he has no idea of how to actually make a girl fall in love with him at all! It always just sort of happened, he tells Elsee who breaks downs into tears at the realization that her partner is useless and they’re both going to die.

However, Ranma’s well known for being pigheaded and never giving up, so he faces his new challenge and starts the Anything Goes Martial Arts Making Them Fall in Love with Me (Because I’d Rather Not Be Decapitated) challenge.

So, that’s the main part of the idea. I was thinking that it might be more fun to make this a multi-cross over, change the high school from Furinkan to another original one by some well used plot device, and just use cameos from other anime as capturing targets rather than stereotypes used in TWGOK.

The girls would, of course, still be subjected to the New Hell Mind-wipe and have no recollection of falling in love with Ranma, much to his relief once he gets the hang of his new “job”.

Points for thought:

+ Elsee using the same tactic to stay close to Ranma as she did in the original: She introduces herself to everyone as Genma’s illegitimate daughter.
+ Nodoka does not take kindly to this introduction.
+ Ranma using his female form in a desperate attempt to get close to his targets and trying to figure out how to make them fall in love with him.
+ Ranma reading shoujo manga trying to figure out how girls think.
+ Ranma failing miserably.
+ The merry gang stalking Ranma, finding out he’s actually chasing other girls! And what their reactions might be. I assume Nodoka would be ecstatic while everyone else would be less than pleased.
+ Would probably be funnier to drag that out though…
+ Hakua, Elsee’s friend, being partnered up with another of the Ranma cast. Probably Ukyo to make things funnier.
+ No Weiss in any of the fiancee brigade. Might be interesting in say, Nabiki or Kasumi.

Basically a vehicle for uncommon match-ups, divided into story arcs, I suppose. Might be very humorous and sweet if handled correctly, which is something I quite likely can’t do

[Shanami]

The only problem you might run into is how potentially complicated that would work as a crossover. The story itself sounds really funny, especially the outline you put at the bottom. I really like the Ranma reading shojo manga and failing at understanding women part. Even better would be him getting confronted about the manga collection that Nabiki just happens to find that he has. Nodoka could go off on a manliness rant, etc.

There's a lot of potential there, but it sounds like it would be rather difficult to do. You would have to pick the girls very carefully and hopefully minimize just how many other series you use at once though. Multi-crosses get messy. I like the idea of Ranma having to romance someone like Rogue or Minako as I just cannot see him relating to either of them.

[Muramasa]

Some brief changes to make things even more crazy.


- Keima and Elsee are still partners.

- Ranma-chan has a runaway spirit.

[Tornado Ninja Fan]

The problem I have with your setup is that Ranma knows how to date girls.

Remember when Shampoo showed him the instant spring packet and wanted a single date? He agreed and brought flowers, accompanied her to a nice place, had a picnic with her... It only fell apart because Akane was in that fight and when Shampoo demanded a kiss.
When he thought Tsubasa was a lesbian girl and tried to "correct" her, he dated him. Wrote a letter, put on nice clothes, brought flowers, was polite, etc.
Later, he dated Shampoo when she wore the amulet that made her act the opposite. He only stopped when he was supposed to tell her that he loves her.

Not to mention the various dates with boys as a girl.

He is able to act as if he likes someone, but he always stops when it comes to the "l-word" or when it begins to get physical. That's where you can get the jokes.

As an aside: This whole collar thing looks like a double suicide pact. Creepy.

[Zwzn]

Plot based stupidity should be avoided.

Someone just walking up to him, and trying to butter him up will set off warning lights in his head that this person wants something. Ranma would help just because they need help.

Secondly Ranma knows very well how to talk to girls and be romantic. He is reasonably good at talking to people. His problem is the other guy/girl doesn't want to talk.