Girl's School

Review

The only bad thing about the story is that it is not finished. It goes through four chapters but has potential to go through quite a few more.

The basic premise is that Ranma agrees to live with his mother and stay in his female form full time for at least five weeks, if not more, and attend an all-girl's school, until his mother is convinced that she has embraced her feminine side.

What the story has so far is well done and in some places extremely funny. I wish the author had written more because I think this had the potential to become one of the best Ranma-chan stories.

Synopsis

Chapter 1

The story opens with Nodoka finding out Ranma-chan is really her Ranma. She has also modified the seppeku pledge, happy as long as Ranma grows up into a decent person.

Nodoka is extremely disappointed in the fact that Genma has ignored Ranma's education, and that he just sleeps in school and gets very bad grades. Nodoka is an administrator at a private school.

Nodoka modifies the pledge again. If Ranma does not graduate from school with very good grades, then he and Genma will kill themselves as will she.

Chapter 2

Nodoka shows up again, and this time she has a school uniform for Ranma, but it's a girl's uniform.

Nodoka also happens to be at the same school Kodachi is enrolled at. She tells Ranma-chan that, since she is a girl half the time, she needs to learn how to act like a lady. She also says she does not expect Ranma to remain a girl forever; she still expects for him to marry Akane.

Nodoka also says there will be no marriage at all before they graduate from their respective high schools.

Nodoka adds that Ranma is to be a girl full time for five weeks, and after that when at school or in school activities, but otherwise Ranma can return to boy form.

She will have Ranma-chan live with her, and she tells Akane that she can live with her too.

(One problem here. If the idea is to get Ranma to do better by getting away from distractions, namely his fiancees, then why hasn't anyone pointed out that Kodachi goes to the school Nodoka is at? That would certainly count as a distraction.)

Chapter 3

Ranma thinks he can study for a test and do well on it, even though the test is at the end of the school day and he hasn't started studying yet. I love one description the author uses about Ranma's knowledge of school stuff: In fact, there was really no limit to the things he didn't know, which was pretty much the problem in a nutshell.

The descriptions of all that the things that Ranma has to go through in trying to study are really, really funny.

Chapter 4

Ranma did lousy on the test and decides to take his mother up on her offer and attend a girl's school. Akane will come with her.

Kasumi brings up the subject of Kodachi, and Ranma says that, as a girl, Kodachi won't be after her for anything but to fight and she can handle that.

Genma is still opposed to the plan and flees instead of face Nodoka.

It turns out the five weeks as a girl full time was a minimum agreement, not a set agreement, which upsets Ranma. Nodoka says Ranma will remain a girl until she is convinced that Ranma-chan until she has embraced her feminine side.

Nodoka has gotten a dress for Ranma-chan to change into.

Chapter 5

Nodoka explains to Akane that Ranma-chan needs to overcome the false ideas about women that Genma drilled into Ranma's mind. She says Ranma-chan also needs to be able to show her emotions, and that she fears anything even vaguely feminine.

She also chides Akane for continually calling Ranma a pervert.

Nabiki tricks Ranma-chan into accepting her mother's efforts as a formal challenge and she agrees. Nabiki knows this is the only way that Ranma-chan will really set her mind to doing what is necessary.

Ranma-chan signed a formal agreement with Nodoka to finish her high school years as a girl. Akane also signed an agreement to attend the same school and help Ranma-chan adapt to her female side. Akane will also temporarily become Nodoka's daughter.

Nabiki and Ranma-chan talk about their agreement. First, Ranma-chan has to get better grades than Nabiki. Ranma-chan is a junior and Nabiki a senior, so Nabiki will allow Ranma-chan's junior year or senior year grades to count.

Nabiki says that Ranma-chan will have to pass three tests that Nabiki will devise to prove Ranma-chan can act and react like a girl.

At Nodoka's house, Ranma-chan and Akane will have to share a room that's been divided into two sections by high bookcases.

Chapter 6

Ranma-chan helps Kasumi cook breakfast before she, Nabiki and her father return home. Nodoka and Kasumi will be the judges on the three challenges Nabiki is going to come up with.

Akane helps Ranma-chan to learn the difference between “girly” and “feminine.”

In many ways, though, Akane is not really helping Ranma-chan but is being critical of her. Nodoka points out to Akane that Ranma-chan needs to practice being a girl, even if it means looking at gothic-lolita and fashion magazines.

Akane is worrying about whether Ranma-chan might become more of a girl than her. Her thinking, at the moment, is really sort of against the idea of Ranma-chan succeeding, even if she doesn't realize that's how she's thinking.

Chapter 7

Ranma-chan is trying to make up new katas that emphasize feminine grace and Akane is skeptical. Ranma-chan also says she will spar with Akane, but Akane gets angry and attacks. Ranma-chan points out to Akane that Akane's anger lowers her fighting ability, basically.

She also hits Akane in the sparing for the first time and Akane gets upset, but Ranma-chan points out she's a girl now and can hit other girls. She plans to make Akane a better sparring partner.

Later Akane points out to Ranma-chan that their sparring session was the first time that Ranma-chan ever took Akane seriously as a sparring partner.

Ranma-chan has trouble figuring out how to put on makeup and what jewelry to wear. Later Ranma-chan and Akane go to a store that sells goth-loli fashion. Ranma-chan plans to buy something, using the logic that, since there is no way in the world she would actually buy or wear something like that, that she would hate doing it, it is probably something she really should do to work on her feminity. (It does make sense in a way, actually.)

Nodoka meets with Cologne. Cologne wants Nodoka to agree that Ranma-cahn not marry before she graduates from high school, and Nodoka agrees totally with her. Cologne also gives her some waterproof soap to help make sure Ranma-chan can use hot water and not change back into a boy.

Ranma-chan buys an outfit at the goth-loli shop and actually wears it. Some girls end up thinking Ranma-chan looks really cute dressed that way and they take some pictures of her. Then Ryoga shows up.

Chapter 8

Ryoga attacks, cutting Ranma-chan's new dress and her arm at the same time. Soon there's a major fight going. Akane yells at Ranma-chan to stop fighting and she finally does. She tells Ryoga she's not going to fight any more (at least that then). A girl named Miyuki watches Ranma-chan and has an immediate crush on her.

Ryoga plans to hit Ranma-chan anyhow, but the girls who were taking pictures of Ranma-chan make fun of Ryoga for wanting to hit a girl. Ryoga agrees not to fight him until Ranma-chan's contract with her mother is fulfilled. Ranma-chan kisses Ryoga on the cheek and he gets a nosebleed and runs away.

Miyuki sews up Ranma-chan's dress and gives Ranma-chan a new name; “Magical Warrior Princess Ranma.”

Ranma-chan goes to the library to get a bunch of books to help her develop a feminine kata of her own.

Nodoka tells Ukyo about not allowing Ranma-chan to get married until she graduates.

Two friends of Akane visit her, and Miyuki comes to visit Ranma-chan. All the girls pressure Ranma-chan to model her new clothes for them while Miyuki, who has a hobby of photography, takes photos. Miyuki also goes to the same school that Akane, Ranma-chan and Kodachi attend.

Chapter 9

Akane and Ranma-chan are going for their first day at St. Hebereke School. Miyuki gives Ranma-chan a bento lunch as a present. They see a girl who fights off a bunch of males, just like Akane had fought them off at Furinkan, but she uses a boken. (It turns out the girl is rich and hires the guys to attack her just so she can show off.)

Akane and Ranma-chan quickly find out that most of the other girls there are snobs, simply being into how rich they are and how important and rich their parents are.

Kuno finds out the two are going to St. Hebereke's and, even though it's an all-girls school, he apparently is trying to think of some way of following them there.

Genma sneaks back into the Tendo dojo and talks to P-chan about why he married Nodoka and that he has to find a way to subvert her plan for Ranma-chan.

A group of three outcast girls sit together at lunch. One of them is lesbian and only half-Japanese, making her doubly outcast. Meanwhile, Miyuki and her friends talk, Miyuki basically saying she plans to become confident and aid to Magical Girl Ranma-chan.

There is also a girl named Kohana who is a witch and knows Ranma-chan has some kind of a curse. Then suddenly Kodachi shows up.

Chapter 10

Kodachi doesn't believe Akane and Ranma-chan have been accepted at her school. Ranma-chan gets into a fight with Kodachi and pummels her pretty good.

All three end in in Nodoka's office (she's the Vice-Principal), and she gives all three a one-hour detention, but Kodachi implies she won't show up. Akane and Ranma-chan make a new friend, Kaida Genji, who comes from an incredibly rich family.

Kohana Honda invites them to her house after their detention which Kodachi managed to get out of.

Chapter 11

Miyuki goes to Furinkan to try to find out more about Ranma. Meanwhile Akane and Ranma-chan get to Honda's home which is an absolutely huge estate. It would dwarf Kuno's estate easily.

Cologne is going to close the Cat Cafe and open a new one nearer the school Ranma-chan is now attending.

Kohana Honda is able to greatly lessen Ranma's fear of cats, so much she that Ramna-chan is able to wear clothes with kittens drawn on them.

Miyuki and her friends end up at Ukyo's restaurant.

Chapter 12

Kohana starts analyzing Ranma-chan, telling her about the curse that she carries. Then it's Ranma-chan's turn, and she figures out Kohana's butler really is an ogre, and Kohana really is a witch.

Akane and Kohana talk. Akane finds out a girl named Kaida Genji is a lesbian. Kohana is the richest girl in in the school.

Miyuki has arranged for Ukyo to attend the same school Ranma-chan is, and she now knows Ranma-chan is really a boy.

Tomari, the girl that is helping the magical-girl-obsessed Miyuki, is Kohana's sister.

Kodachi attacks Ranma-chan in her own room at night. Nodoka gets her instead to issue a challenge to fight Ranma-chan during the day.

Chapter 13

There's a girl good at kendo at the school, named Shizuko Satori.

Miyuki gives Ranma-chan a lunch, still trying to get Ranma-chan to be her best friend. Shizuko challenges Ranma to a fight. Kuno shows up at the school dressed as a girl. Miyuki gets jumped by three girls from another school.

Chapter 14

Ranma-chan easily defeats the three girls and Miyuki gets even more enthusiastic about her. Miyuki says she and Tomori can help Ranma-chan with her studies. She also buys her a cell phone. Meanwhile Genma and Happosi are talking, Genma complaining about Nodoka's having Ranma-chan go to the girl's school. The fight Genma and Happosai causes results in one of the female ninjas thinking Genma was Ranma, so now she's after Ranma to fight him.

The girls that were attacking Miyuki and that Ranma-chan beat up have gotten a guy to help them, and a whole gang is going to come after Ranma-chan.

Chapter 15

Ranma becomes worried about maybe liking being a girl, and if he might want to stay that way. Ranma-chan then has a really strange, but interesting, dream.

Ranma-chan and Akane spar, and Ranma-chan actually gives Akane an evaluation of her fighting problems.

Ranma-chan gets attacked by the ninja girl and easily defeats her. Nabiki ends up becoming a student at the same school. Nabiki gets right off to a flying start by selling pictures of Ranma and Kuno to the girls in her class.

Ranma-chan might actually need glasses.

A group of male thugs grabs Miyuki and Ranma-chan, Akane and a girl named Akela go to save her.

Chapter 16

There are thirty six in the gang they are going to fight. Their defeat takes three minutes.

Suddenly a girl from the school named Yoriko shows up. It turns out she's from a yakuza family. None of the other kids want any thing to do with her.

Ukyo ends up with a new restaurant at a new location, and can also attend the same school as Ranma-chan.

Chapter 17

The ninja that was after Ranma no longer is; she understands it was Genma and Happosi and not Ranma that are responsible.

Ranma-chan and Akane end up running into Cologne, and she offers to let them both become full and official allies of their Amazon tribe. She will also teach them Chinese.

Ukyo finds a chef to help out very quickly.

And, as expected, it turns out Shampoo is also going to attend St. Hebereke's.

Ukyo apparently gets kidnapped.

Chapter 18

Ryoga, Akela, and various other girls set off to rescue Ukyo. They manage to pull it off. Meanwhile, Ranma-chan is now wearing glasses. Shampoo ends up joining Ranma-chan's homeroom. Ranma-chan gets a permanent and wins a who-has-the-best-hair contest with Nabiki.

Chapter 19

The major part of the chapter is the build-up to the fight between Ranma-chan and Kodachi, with various takes on who is in the crowd, who's selling food, and many of the regular characters appearing. The fight is incredibly funny and, in the end, Ranma-chan wins.