A Tale of Two Wallets/Trivia

*Shown Their Work: While his knowledge of Japanese history and culture is generalized at best, Jim did extensive research in Japanese, Chinese and Greek history in order to make Ranma sound historically literate enough to compete with Nabiki in that department.
*What Could Have Been: Jim was at one point planning on writing a variation on “Tale of Two Wallets” that involved a future-time “Kids” stories that doesn’t cross over with other worlds (ala the “Realities” series), just to explore what the children might be like when Shanma and her siblings are old enough to be attending high school. Those who recall the versions that he used in “Realities Cubed” know that Shanma is the top dog (or Catgirl) of her age with her younger siblings, Kachima, Kokaku and Mace, featuring prominently as the heirs to the various disciplines of the “Anything Goes” school. There were changes that would be necessitated if went ahead with such a project, not least being the other kids that he had (metaphorically) conceived in the final chapter of ATOTW, such as Ganymede, Kinko, Ryonako Naru, Ataro, Veil, Tenko, Lamyra and others, which makes for the possibility of lots of rivalries and personality clashes, the stuff that martial-arts fanfiction is all about (ala Keniichi, the Ultimate Disciple).
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