Teen Titans Tokyo is a Fusion Fic between Ranma ½ and Teen Titans (2003) written by Rewind Gone Nuts.
Three months ago, the Teen Titans exposed the corrupt Commander Euhara Daizo and put an end to his rule over Tokyo's underworld. However, the Titans had to return home and, with Daizo imprisoned and Brushogun dead, a power vacuum was left that nascent supervillains would be eager to exploit...
In the present day, a teenage boy named Ranma Saotome is dragged into the Tendo Dojo by his father Genma, who insists that it is time for him to wed the daughter of Soun Tendo. From that will spring an unlikely chain of events that will lead to the founding of a new team of teenage superheroes to champion Tokyo against the threat of supervillainy...
The story can be read on SpaceBattles.com here
. It can also be found on FanFiction.Net and Archive of Our Own, where it is being broken into several distinct stories:
This fic includes examples of:
- Adaptational Badass:
- Nabiki Tendo in Ranma ½ canon was a Non-Action Guy who relied on trickery, running away and exploiting Ranma's refusal to not hurt girls to get away with her mischief. Here, she's an Unskilled, but Strong Cute Monster Girl thanks to being Cursed with Awesome.
- Kasumi Tendo in canon was a dedicated homemaker without a single bit of combat skill or mean bone in her body. The fic transforms her into an aspiring supervillain using summoned minions to terrorize Tokyo while at home she subtly messes with her sisters for amusement.
- Adaptational Heroism:
- Downplayed, but Nabiki Tendo in canon was a scheming, manipulative, trouble-making coward with no concern for anybody but herself. Here, she genuinely does care for Ranma, to the point she twice battles to protect him, despite having no formal martial arts training.
- Rose Wilson appears in the second microsode as a much more competent replacement for Sasuke, playing along with Tatewaki and Kodachi's personality quirks. In the comic books, she is a Broken Bird assassin who barely trusts anyone.
- Adaptational Intelligence: In canon, Tatewaki Kuno is an arrogant blowhard whose primary trait is his obsessive crush on Akane Tendo and Ranma's female form, which he never figures out is really the same person as Ranma. In T3: Pilot, He's implied to be Obfuscating Stupidity, with a rapport going on between him and Rose.
- Adaptational Name Change: Played with. Doctor K refers to the Project Sentai team as Sentai Operatives instead of Ranger Operatives, since she's using the Japanese terminology.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- Due to changes at the Tendo household and Ranma arriving in his male form, Nabiki becomes his fiance rather than Akane. This results in a notably friendlier relationship between the two.
- Tatewaki Kuno's obsession with Akane was real at one point, but he has since become focused on the far more receptive Rose. He now views the entire Tendo family with disdain and only continues his daily spars with Akane to maintain his public persona.
- Adaptational Sexuality: In canon, the only thing one can say about Kasumi Tendo's sexuality is that she professes a hope for an older fiancé and disapproval of being engaged to a younger man, but otherwise appears to be Oblivious to Love. In T3: Pilot, she mentions having a girlfriend, who she uses the nickname of "Rae-Rae" for.
- Adaptation Species Change: Several characters are changed to have yokai heritage, with Mrs. Tendo implied to be a kitsune, with Kasumi inheriting a mask from her along with having earned two tails, Nabiki being cursed to slowly turn into a dragon and one of Shampoo's ancestors being a gozu.
- Adaptational Villainy: Kasumi Tendo is revealed to be the first supervillain of the series by the end of T3: Pilot, as an Asian Fox Spirit who is working for a mysterious dark sorceress who has dark plans for Nerima...
- Atrocious Alias:
- Doctor K is continuing this trend from Power Rangers RPM, by using the alias 'Kei Hakase', which also reads as "K-hakase", or "Professor K".
- Ranma uses "Ran" as his superhero name, partially due to the fact that Nabiki stopped him from blurting out his real name.
- Nabiki thinks her improvised superhero name of "Ryumimi" is lame, as it's just a portmanteau of the two Japanese words describing her cursed form.
- Badass Adorable: Shampoo is a cute, bubbly Anime Chinese Girl... and also a practitioner of Supernatural Martial Arts who is capable of smacking around grown men as if they were toys. In her debut microsode in T3: Pilot, the big, burly captain of the Chinese trawler that Shampoo sailed to Japan on speaks to her with terror-induced respect, and it's mentioned she fractured every single bone in a man's hand for being "impolite" to her.
- Beat Still, My Heart: When Ranma and Nabiki are attacked by a gloomwraith during their first engagement meeting, Nabiki ends up tearing out its heart with her bare hand before dramatically crushing it.
- Big Eater: Blackfire devours a ten-liter drum of rocky road ice cream and then washes it down with a two-liter bottle of Coca-Cola upon first arriving in Furinkan.
- Bloodier and Gorier: The fic is more overtly violent than either of its source materials. The first "microsode" of T3: Pilot has Nabiki tear out a gloomwraith's heart, whilst the last features her ripping off one's head.
- In the second chapter, Pino is introduced looking at the owner of the store she originally worked at, having slumped against the wall with it being obvious he's dead even before she covers him with a sheet.
- Boldly Coming: Invoked. Upon sizing up Ranma, Blackfire notes an interest in seeing if he lives up to the reputation humans have amongst aliens in what is a pretty blatant innuendo.
- Breath Weapon: Nabiki's dragon form comes with a multi-use breath attack, having used both fire to destroy a single enemy and ice to freeze a large number of them.
- Brick Joke: Doctor K claims that the equipment isn't ready to take them to Akihabara. She clearly uses the fact the Teen Titans Tokyo are busy to go shopping in the undamaged shops, even lamenting that she couldn't pick up any model kits.
- Call-Back: Doctor K still has the same Berserk Button over calling the ranger suits spandex as in Power Rangers RPM.
- Choke Holds: How Ranma defeats Shampoo while she is still raging after her transformation. He gets onto her back and applies a chokehold while she trashes about, managing to hit him with a reverse headbutt that destroys his helmet but doesn't knock him off.
- Cursed with Awesome: Nabiki Tendo received a curse from an enchanted coin she took as payment from one of her "customers" that causes her to turn into a Cute Monster Girl Draconic Humanoid. She considers it a curse on par with Ranma's disdain for his Gender Bender curse, despite getting superpowers out of it. It doesn't help that she can only resume her original human form for relatively short periods before suffering agonizing backaches that force her to change into the monster form.
- Cute Monster Girl:
- Nabiki's Draconic Humanoid form looks like herself with minor draconic physical features — cute little wings, a tail, claws, and paw-like feet are specifically cited in T3: Pilot.
- When in her supervillain persona, Kasumi sports two fox tails that, combined with her o-inari mask, make her look like an Asian Fox Spirit.
- Blackfire herself counts, being a Green-Skinned Space Babe.
- Dramatic Irony: Right from the start, Kasumi's duplicity, as well as her identity as The Mastermind, is revealed to the audience, while in-universe, she uses a mask and turns into an Asian Fox Spirit as a very effective disguise.
- In the second chapter, when the girl who later is renamed Pino appears, she alludes to her workplace being one with realistic robot girl figurines as its stock, with a battery meter in one corner of her vision revealing she was a greeter robot animated by the same effect as took over all the store's stock.
- Draconic Humanoid: Nabiki's curse-induced alter-ego is a Little Bit Beastly version, being a human with visible draconic traits. She even dubs herself "Ryumimi" for her improvised superhero name, lampshading its lameness as a portmanteau of the Japanese word for "dragon" with "kemonomimi", a form of Moe Anthropomorphism which she visually falls under.
- Drives Like Crazy: Doctor K in the GO-ONGER.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Shampoo first appears in T3: Pilot, with a microsode showing her imminent arrival in Japan. In the manga, she didn't show up until the 31st chapter (which became the 18th episode of the Animated Adaptation).
- Eloquent in My Native Tongue: When speaking in Chinese, as in her Day in the Limelight microsode in T3: Pilot, Shampoo is shown to speak in a very formal, almost archaic manner of speech, in contrast to the Hulk Speak used to signal when she is talking in Japanese.
- Evil Is Petty: Not only is Kasumi an aspiring supervillain, but it's shown in T3: Pilot that she enjoys messing with her sisters just for giggles, as when she manipulates Akane into a fight with Ranma, or grumbles about not being able to delete Nabiki's saved games behind her back.
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Fandom Nod: Several references are made in passing to common fandom tropes within Ranma ½, Teen Titans (2003) and Power Rangers, like Akane's hair-trigger temper, Raven using gothic attire and several of the Power Rangers RPM fandom nods given new context. - Flying Firepower: As in Teen Titans (2003) canon, Blackfire is a Flying Brick who has the power to hurl energy bolts from her hands and eyes.
- Freaky Is Cool: Nabiki is deeply ashamed of her curse and assumes that nobody would ever want a relationship with her after seeing it. The fact that Ranma finds her dragon form cute and awesome, rather than freakish, goes a long way in making her warm up to him.
- Hat Damage: Kei gives Ranma a helmet rated to resist a 50-caliber sniper round, only for Shampoo to shatter it with a reverse headbutt.
- How Do I Shot Web?: Nabiki initially has no idea how to even use her Breath Weapon, knowing it has Elemental Powers, but not how to pick which or do it consistently.
- Insistent Terminology: The town that the Tendos live in is referred to as "Furinkan" rather than "Nerima". This is because, despite the
Common Knowledge of Ranma ½ being set in Nerima, that's actually an over-simplification — the series is set in the fictitious town of Furinkan, which itself lies within the "special ward"note " of Nerima. - In Spite of a Nail: Due to both Ranma's terrible luck and Kasumi's manipulations, several things still happen.
- Ranma still ends up revealing his curse to the Tendo sisters.
- Ranma still ends up sparring with Akane on his first day in Nerima.
- Akane is still fighting the Hentai Horde every morning.
- Shampoo still arrives and attempts to stake her unquestioned claim to Ranma.
- Magic Antidote: Ranma thinks that someone cast this on him when he finds his curse has been cured. What he doesn't know is that Kasumi has used a spell to make his curse into a Literal Split Personality.
- Mars Needs Women: Alien girl and would-be conqueror Blackfire is doubly pleased to recruit Ranma because not only does he look like a strong minion, but he's also very attractive.
- Mooks: Gloomwraiths, ninja-like creatures with taloned fingers, are employed as disposable minions by Kasumi. She describes them as "simple shadow-spawn simulacra", implying they're the magical equivalent to Mecha-Mooks — which makes the willingness of Ranma and Nabiki to kill them seem far less monstrous.
- Mythology Gag:
- Upon arriving at the Tendo Dojo, Genma mentally expresses his relief that he got Ranma here in his male form, as the curse being exposed first would doubtlessly have complicated matters, and Nabiki almost immediately jumps on the engagement. Not only does this homage to the actual canon, where showing up as a girl led to Ranma and Akane getting off to a seriously bad start, but it's also a poke at the author, who has stated the opinion that if Ranma had arrived in his male form, then based on how she acted in the first chapter or its Animated Adaptation, Nabiki would have been the one to get engaged to Ranma.
- The first, third, and fifth chapters of T3: Pilot are reworked versions of the first two volumes of the manga, with Ranma arriving in the first, the third having Akane spar with him off-camera, and the fifth being Ranma's first day at school.
- Kasumi's games console is a Gamestation, referencing the fictional console from Teen Titans.
- In the final "microsode" of T3: Pilot, Ranma, Nabiki, and Blackfire are confronted by a reporter for Fuji News Network; this is the news branch of the broadcasting station Fuji Television, which is where the Animated Adaptation of Ranma ½ aired.
- Doctor K sees the world as if she were in a sentai series, seeing people as potential recruits and making numerous references to Sentai tropes.
- She replaces the music on the hidden elevator to the base with unnamed Sentai music after Principal Kuno used his usual Hawaiian music.
- When she first hears about Ranma, she wonders if he'll make a good Red Ranger, while saying that Kuno would be a terrible one. Ranma though ends up being a Green Ranger.
- At the end of T3: Pilot, she references how they need a juice bar, directly referencing the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers era Angel Grove Juice Bar.
- Ziggy's morpher and the GO-ONGER make appearances in the second chapter.
- Nabiki's transformation into a dragon echoes an abandoned concept in Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse where Nabiki would have eaten the Wyrm-Wyrm Fruit, Model Type: Fafnir, a Mythic Zoan type Devil Fruit that would have made her a Were Dragon with human, dragon and hybrid forms.
- Noodle Incident:
- What brought Rose Wilson to be indebted to the Kuno family?
- How the hell did Doctor K end up going into hiding underneath Furinkan High School?
- Off with His Head!: Nabiki pulls a gloomwraith's head clean off with her bare hands in the finale of T3: Pilot.
- Portmanteau: What the Gamestation's name becomes, being a fusion of the Gamecube and Playstation 2.
- Self-Damaging Attack Backfire: Technotaku's Omega-16 mecha has a compound eye consisting of multiple laser-focusing lenses. Ranma breaks one lens as it's preparing to fire and the discharge shatters the entire eye.
- Series Fic: In homage to the cartoon, the series is intended to be broken into distinct publications, which come sequentially after each other. It starts with "T3: Pilot", a series of eight "mini-episode" chapters that establish the foundations of Ranma, Shampoo, and Blackfire's arrival in this distinctly altered Furinkan. Then the story begins properly in "T3: Season One".
- Shout-Out:
- The gloomwraiths are described as resembling a Razor Shadowkhan from Jackie Chan Adventures. Nabiki also indirectly compares them to Brushogun's ink-spawned minions from Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo.
- Project Sentai, its name itself referencing Super Sentai, the secret superhero base being constructed under Furinkan High, is home to a "Doctor Kei Hakase", who is clearly meant to be Doctor K from Power Rangers RPM.
- When Shampoo's demonic heritage is awakened, Kasumi's girlfriend declares "Yes, you can feel the warp overtaking you! It is a good pain!"
- When Doctor K is discussing how she designed a ranger suit for a Draconic Humanoid Cute Monster Girl, she mentions having learned some skills off an Edna Mode.
- The battle in the second episode takes place in the middle of the shops of Electric Town Akihabara, with the "troops" of their opponent being mecha from various franchises, with several being named, with the blanket term Gunpla used for all of them.note
- Pino's athletic skill and Fish out of Water attitude strongly resemble Sora Harewataru, while Ranko spends her first full day of freedom emulating Komugi Inukai, the leaders of the most recent, at the time the story was written, Pretty Cure seasons.
- Shown Their Work: Kasumi's Gamestation is implied to be a What If super-console merging the Nintendo GameCube and Sony PlayStation 2, with her playing Starfox Adventures. This references Sony's original pitch for the PlayStation as an upgrade for the Super Nintendo.
- Skewed Priorities: When Nabiki hears a paranatural threat is headed right for her home, she worries about "My stuff! My sister!"
- Something Only They Would Say: In T3: Pilot, Kasumi's girlfriend is only referred to as "Rae-Rae". However, that this stands for Rachel 'Raven' Roth is effectively revealed by Kasumi declaring "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" into a mirror, directly referencing Raven's iconic invocation.
- Stealth Mentor: Tatewaki is trying to be this for Akane, using the daily "hentai horde" attack as a form of combat training. Unfortunately, she's not showing any improvement.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Nabiki has no martial arts training, as she herself lampshades, but her Draconic Humanoid form possesses Super-Strength, Wolverine Claws, and a Breath Weapon.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Blackfire arrives on Earth looking for minions she can use to challenge the Teen Titans and take revenge on her sister, Starfire. When she rescues Ranma and Nabiki as they battle against Kasumi's gloomwraith minions, she gets interviewed by a reporter and exploits her relationship to Starfire and Japan's ignorance of her supervillain status to gain the perfect cover for her plan. She claims she was actually sent by the Teen Titans to found an offshoot to protect Tokyo.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Nabiki and Ranma haven't been engaged for 24 hours by the end of T3: Pilot, and yet she's willing to rip out hearts and tear off heads to protect him.
- Willfully Weak: Tatewaki is deliberately holding back during his fights with Akane, something Ranma immediately notices. Tatewaki later notes that he doesn't even work up a sweat during the spars.
