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The Bitter End (Fanfic)

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The Bitter End (Fanfic)	comment	Akane and Ranma finally get married. It should be the end of all the troubles, and indeed, after a little misunderstanding at the start, the honeymoon is wonderful. But after the return the fights resume, and although Ranma tries his best to avoid provoking Akane, the beatings get more and more serious.The Bitter End is a Ranma Â½ continuation and Horror story written by James A. Bateman (under the name "Zen"). That it offers a dark take on Ranma and Akane's relationship, focusing on increasing Akane's violent tendencies and delves into the psychological motivations behind her behavior. Generally considered the ultimate RanmaÂ½ Dark Fic, it ruthlessly and relentlessly extrapolates the causes and results of comic behavior to through a much more realistic world than the one represented in the anime.It is a monumental presence in Ranma fiction and has spawned several sequels and parodies. He is also solely responsible for the widespread awareness of "Rage Disorder" and the story's explanation for Akane's extreme tsundere behavior among anime fans.Upon its release, the story hit the Ranma fanfic community like a bomb, starting Flame Wars and prompting several explicit sequels by other authors as well as numerous other responses ranging from to parodies to Fix Fics attempting to soften the blow. The diagnosis for Rage Disorder behind the behavior of her Flanderized Akane became popular to the point of Fanon for several years.Decades later, it remains a powerful influence on the surviving Ranma fanfiction community.
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The Bitter End (Fanfic) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: After Ranma and Akane's wedding, Nodoka gives Akane the Saotome family sword as a wedding gift, which she uses to kill Ranma and Ukyo in an outburst of fury at the climax.
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The Bitter End (Fanfic) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Bitter End (Fanfic) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: The entire story gives a Cerebus Retcon to Akane's tsundere attitude as an undiagnosed and untreated explosive anger disorder, which only worsens after she marries Ranma. This makes her an abuser within a domestic abuse scenario that Ranma cannot deal with due to the double standard (he can join an anti-abuse support group, but first he has to prove his curse so they don't reject him, and that's as far as you can get "official" help) and the titular "bitter end" happens when Akane encounters Ranma with one of his floozies (Ukyo Kuonji talking to him as two old friends and that is all it was) with a katana within arm's reach.
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The Bitter End (Fanfic) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Bitter End (Fanfic) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: True to its title, this is how the story ends. Akane ends up murdering Ranma and Ukyo in a final outburst of fury with the Saotome family sword that Nodoka gave her as a wedding gift; the realization of what she has done completely pushes her over the edge. When the story ends, Akane is still committed to an asylum, leaving behind a group of saddened and fragmented survivors (both friends and family).
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The Bitter End (Fanfic) / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Bitter End (Fanfic) / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The story opens with Ryoga visiting an institutionalized Akane before the story flashes back to the events which led to her being there.
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The Bitter End (Fanfic) / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Much avoided. Desperate to find some way to help her friend and ex-fiancee, Ukyo finally convinces Ranma to go to a support group for victims of domestic abuse. Being the only man within a group that is composed of women, Ranma's time with them does not start out easy, but he is eventually accepted after Ukyo reveals Ranma's curse who in turn He teaches self-defense to group members and takes an active role in helping some of them escape abuse. However, this is played directly with Akane, who becomes enraged when she finds out that Ranma is attending a support group, and even more so when she is told that he has a mental illness and must see a psychiatrist, causing her to hospitalize Ranma for second time and when he wakes up he tells him not to attend the group again.
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The Bitter End (Fanfic) / int_a7559b25	type	Dark Fic
The Bitter End (Fanfic) / int_a7559b25	comment	Dark Fic: To say that this story is considered the ultimate RanmaÂ½ Dark Fic would be an exaggeration. It's entirely based on treating a series full of comic violence in the most realistic way possible until its dark, bloody and terrifying conclusion.
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The Bitter End (Fanfic) / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Bitter End (Fanfic) / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Akane's violent behavior. As the story progresses, it is revealed that he suffers from a very real psychological problem called "Rage Disorder".
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