On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, kunzite wrote:

To the FFML.

	I recently passed a copy of Bitter End by Zen to a friend of mine. He
just couldn't stomach the ending and wanted to write an 'unoffocial'
continuation along the theme of 'it can't end this way'. He is wondering
if it is okay to do this or not. 

	I (obviously) cannot give permission, but I for one think the
overall story would be greatly cheapened by an improbable Happy Ending. 
While there _were_ a few points I personally would have dealt with
differently (i.e. Ukyo being the only rival to notice a problem), but 'tis
Zen's work and I wouldn't try to 'improve' it myself. 
	(In any case if 'Poo realized how bad things were getting Akane's
abuse of Ranma would have been stopped in a slightly inadvisable manner
and the story would be 1/3-1/2 as long tops) 

HTG