As a writer, sometimes I run across parts that I can't just figure out where to go with them so I toss in another character from somewhere else. How do you guys feel about crossovers such as Harry Potter with Naruto, Ranma, Sailor Moon, and other anime characters?

I'm fine with them myslef, as long as they don't become full major parts of the story (unless it's written really well) and are there for like backup or training or something among those lines.

 

Dont mind crossovers so long as they are REALLY good but very few are.... so i avoid them...


NOTE: I moved this to fanfic discussion ... perosnally felt it belonged there *shrugs*

 

I agree.

I like crossovers as long as they aren’t crossovers with Naruto or some other "lame" cartoon.

Some Starwars, Stargate, LOTR, Charmed crossovers are really good in my opinion so I all for those kind of fics.

 

They are ok as long as its well done course.. I have a few read hp/lotr, sw, btvs

 

I've never read a crossover. It's not that I have a personal grudge against them, It's just that they have never been able to garner my interest. And of course there's the fact that I have never seen or read any of the books or TV shows that most of these a crossed with.

So I guess I'm not really qualified to vote in this poll, though I should imagine a good writer can make things mould together with a bit of hard work.

 

I think i can get into them if there good but some are really...really...umm really bad and it gives othere's that do the same a bad name. Meh i think shezza has one of the best cross overs.

 

I don't really have a strong opinion on them either way. It's like asking 'do you like action fics?' As long as there is a reason for it, and it makes for an intriguing story, great. Sounds interesting. Most of the time though, your audience is going to be far smaller, as many HP fanfic readers may not watch the same anime's as you. And have no interest in a story with that anime. I think the movie crossovers like PotC and LOTR (yes i know those are books, but more people know the movies than have read the books) can appeal easier to a wider audience, but you're still pigeonholing the people who would take an interest in your story.

Naturally, I'd prefer a story with characters and themes I'm familiar with over one with a bunch of toons and backstory I know nothing about. But if you pick a toon I like, or otherwise, then that's aces.

Of course most of the crossovers with LOTR and PotC are just to add in more hawt sexy men to rub members with Harry, in which case... no thanks. I've never gotten into Stargate SG-1 so that made Shezza's fics less interesting than his fics that dealt only with the HP world, but were I a SG-1 fan, I'd probably feel differently.

 

Those specific ones, horrible. I'd never read 'em. I'm very pro crossovers that actually fit. Anything that occurs on Earth circa 1990's can potentially work. I think the biggest problem is ppl try to match up universes on different timelines or that have absolutely NOTHING in common, even thematically. I admit a small (huge) personal bias against anything animated, but thats me. I think Buffy, Blade, Charmed, X-Men (canonical comics only, not Ultimate, movies, toons), Stargate, and a number of others work well. I think LOTR, Star Wars and Star Trek are bad, because most writers don't give a believable transition between the two universes. I have a softspot for HP/Smallville, but only because of one fic and the idea, but I can't find an accurate timeline for Smallville.

 

It's generally pretty difficult to mend the bridge between x-overs, so the only ones that normally could make it are HP related magic/fantasy realms I think...like LoTR. Ugh, I realized it's probably better just to pull the ideas/characters and make them HP than bring in a whole universe.

 

I'll never read one. A story should stick within the world it was written or you loose the sense of immersion.

 

Yeah I did, I shoudl of said something like I avoid them at all costs instead. I only read the Hellraiser one after everyone praised it to high hell and back. I still didn't like it, it was well written, but it was overdone on violence and had a very OOC Harry. The inculsion of pretty much anything not Harry Potter, no matter who's written it thus far, always winds up turning Harry into just a similarly named OC, and ruins everything.

 

If I know the show/book/movies and if it is well done then yes crossovers are fine. Then again given the scarcity of good fics out there it might be too much to hope for.

 

I must be of a different mind then most people here on this subject. I personally prefer a crossover to a pure one series story, since most things feel bland and already seen otherwise.

That's not to say I'll read any old crossover, I still need it to make sense how they come together and not lose focus on the main character in in favor of the other series characters. There's two Hp/Naruto Xovers that I can stand, one was HP being Haku and the other was him being an elder fox demon.

Sometimes a Xover is a good way for Harry to say 'Screw you, you're on your own' to the Wizarding world, I like those.

 

Well, I was working on a Hellsing/HP cross over at the animeaddventure starts here.

It died out though, but if anyone here is willing to join on and help it continue I'd be very much in your debt.

Or should I just edit it to clean up the plotholes (all multi-author stories grow them) and continue it as a normal fic?

 

Somebody ever wrote a Hitman 47 crossover with HP?
Cause its sounds interesting.
This fic "Superior Hederetiry" can use Hitman to train Harry

 

I didn't even know Ruskbyte's story was a Hellraiser crossover. I just thought he had a very scary imagination. I can stand most crossovers, but only if they have a legitimate explanation of the joining of the universes.

 

Personally I don't mind cross-overs, and I view them the way I view slash...

As long as it (the cross-over or the slash) doesn't overshadow the elements of the story and its plot I have no issue with it.

With that said, I don't like reading Draco kissing harry anymore than I like reading Jedi! X-Man! Justice League! Star Trek! Star Gate! Harry