R. D. Beaubien wrote:

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Stephen Tsai wrote:
Right now the only series that could probably have it's own fanfic
voting
beyond Ranma 1/2 would be SM, and then you run into problems of
whether
or not to seperate the SM USA fics from Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
fics.

I'd say no.  Name changes and cultural omissions aside,they're
substantially the same characters and same
plots.

As for other series, well they just don't seem to have the volume
these
day's to warrent a yearly best of fanfic poll. But then again who
say's it
should be yearly. Perhaps we should have a best fanfic *NON-RANMA*
fanfic
of all time poll to recgonize the best fanfics of other anime series.

I disagree.  You could easily do a yearly *Non-Ranma* fanfic
poll.Granted, most of the "other" would be Sailor Moon and perhaps
Dragonball (which seems to be on a recent surge), but in general,
there are plenty of titles put out in a year's time to vote yearly.

The problem I see is that the readership is so fractionalized.
For example, I have no interest in Dragonball Z.  Therefore,
no matter how well written and brilliant a DBZ fanfic is
I'll never see it and hence cannot vote for one.  On the
flip side, if a large number of fans out there don't care
for Orange Road, my own fiction KOC would not
receive votes from them.  Even for anime I do like
(like Sailor Moon), there are simply too many fictions
out there to read all of them and to be blunt a lot of them
don't capture my interest even when I do read them.

*Sigh* It's  a shame I just discovered KOR right now when my time is
really shrinking in the fanfic department. I really don't have the
time to
go read a few of the longer series and most of the KOR fics out there
right now are long one's....

Read KOC! :-)

But seriously though...There are a few one-shots, but KOR is mostly
dominatedby people (like me) who are trying to recapture
the TV series' or manga's tone and style.  Character-driven
storylines like KOR tend to encourage longer series because
it takes time to develop the characters in question.

Stephen Tsai
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