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[Annethy]

has anyone found a decent crossover? every one that i have come across is waaaaaaaaaay OOC. . with lotsa OC. then again mebe i'm just looking in the wrong places.

[Arashi Kazama]

i fined inuyasha and naruto cross plus full metal and naruto thats about it really

[puckreathof]

What? How about the Legend of Uzumaki Naruto? World of Warcraft? It is technically a crossover, and I love the portrayals of the old Warcraft greats like Thrall and Illidan, so yeah, it should qualify. Wonderful wonderful tale. There's one crack-fic where Duo of Gundam Wing is in Naruto's body, and Naruto is in Duo's body. Things go NUTZ near the end of that one, but I don't remember what it was called.

[Lid]

I have yet to find a decent crossover. Most I come across are poorly written, or don't make any sense what so ever. One that was okay was a crossover with Zelda and Warcraft, they fit together pretty well. But I think that stories that cross Neon Genesis Evangelion with Star Wars are a bit out there.

[Sir Whirly]

What? How about the Legend of Uzumaki Naruto? World of Warcraft? It is technically a crossover, and I love the portrayals of the old Warcraft greats like Thrall and Illidan, so yeah, it should qualify. Wonderful wonderful tale. There's one crack-fic where Duo of Gundam Wing is in Naruto's body, and Naruto is in Duo's body. Things go NUTZ near the end of that one, but I don't remember what it was called.

Yea I am with ya on this. You should definatly read this one. Look down further on the coffee shop, you'll see a thread for it.

[PeacefulPhoenix]

: grins like the Cheshire Cat :

Legend of Uzumaki Naruto, the best crossover fic EVER!

[Demonic_Wonder]

NarutoXNothing.........I can't find anything that doesn't look suspisoius

[Shouri no Hana]

I haven't really looked, but I like to read the odd AU crossed with the Real World, but there aren't alot...Hikari Enzan was one I read years ago...I think I'll go reread it if I can find it.

[demonfox04]

I concur with Legend of Uzumaki Naruto. It is brilliant. I have never played WoW, yet I feel like I know the characters so well.

[Sir Whirly]

I think this here, is something that will make you laugh and it is a crossover of sorts.

http://indiemadnesse...tract/se003.txt

[TikiTDO]

Look around in the Ranma section, there's one or two decent ones there. Naruto isn't a series that lends itself readily to crossovers though. Ranma and InuYasha being the only two I could imagine fitting into the ninja world. The setting is too restrictive, and characters have too much of a purpose.

If you look at heavy crossover series such as Ranma, Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo you find that most of those are far more open-ended, and less plot focused. While certainly other series can work as crossovers, the above qualities is what really forces authors to consider the genre.

[Godai52]

Look around in the Ranma section, there's one or two decent ones there. Naruto isn't a series that lends itself readily to crossovers though. Ranma and InuYasha being the only two I could imagine fitting into the ninja world. The setting is too restrictive, and characters have too much of a purpose.

If you look at heavy crossover series such as Ranma, Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo you find that most of those are far more open-ended, and less plot focused. While certainly other series can work as crossovers, the above qualities is what really forces authors to consider the genre.

I agree, most x-overs of Naruto are with Harry Potter. Not that I don't like that serie but it cannot fit! Games are usually easy to cross over, as long as you choose the right one. Devil May Cry could be a good choice for example, some Final Fantasy as well.

There was a thread about x-over ideas in the old version of the forum where we had a lot of different plausible series to cross with Naruto. I wrote two chapters for one of those ideas. I don't remember who had it but we had developped a nice plot for Naruto Tactics.

Saotome Naruto
Naruto Tactics

My personnal crossovers, it's a shameless plug but it doesn't matter. as a sidenote, I'm still writting, I just ahad a major setback


Edit:

Also, about OCCness an OCness, as the stories are crossovers, most of the time they are also AU, which means the caracters are supposed to meet new people and to change a little or a lot depending upon what happened to them. As long as Naruto will not be finished, the OCCness of x-overs is most likely to stay.

[causeiambetta]

i've thought up of several cross over ideas, but found people to resist them. there have been so many poor fics, the Warcraft Naruto crossover is also the gold standard now, everything is judged against it.

in the back burner i have a Matrix x Naruto crossover (Naruto TenTen) and in the faaar in the backburner a Fast & Furius x Naruto crossover

got so many projects in the back i need to sit down for a few hours and just produce

[Nothing-Nin]

Well heres a bleach crossover that i kinda like After Death

its alright but the characters like in bleach tend to get strong at a very fast pace.

[desaix]

I've never seen a good Naruto crossover... it doesn't lend itself to 'true' crossover status very well.
That said, there have been decent crossovers of other series. There are different Basic types of crossovers (with unnamed varients of each, but which usually find themselves catagorized in one or the other), some of which lend themselves to other series better than other types:
(Pure) Crossovers: The two universes share the same world (or are treated as if they have been brought across into the other world and at least one set of characters are aware they've left their own).
(Pure) Fusions: The characters of one world take the place of characters of another world. Many characters are dropped in favor of their 'parallel' characters from another universe, and in fact often none of the characters from one universe exist in the other.
Crossfusions: This one is very hard to explain, but I'll try. The characters of one world are in another one and run a parallel adventure to the canon events of the new universe. They are unaware they are not in their 'normal' world. Usually, the characters of each universe don't meet except 'in the bar when the adventure is done\paused.' This can only be accomplished properly when the two universes are otherwise incompatible, i.e. (as in the example I list below) Ranma and Star Wars.

Now for a listing of some GOOD crossover examples. This is by no means comprehensive, and it may be a while before I have time to look up the proper links to each story. (I know that many of the examples I list could be found in old Usenet archives of Rec.Arts.Anime.Creative, but not all)

Pure Crossover:
Paragon, by Kenko (aka Robert B. Haynie) -- A heavy comedy Ranma\Sailor Moon crossover. One of the VERY few SM crossovers I've ever read and enjoyed. SM is heavily overused for crossovers, btw.
The Accidental Goddess, by DF Roeder -- Ranma\AMG crossover. Again, heavy on the comedy, but a little more serious.
Ranma's Apartment, by C. Jones -- Another Ranma\AMG crossover. The AMG parts are very light until Chapter 3.
Song of the Pheonix saga, by Jorge Pratt (sometimes known as Zephyr) -- a Ranma\FF\Chrono Trigger crossover. Massive fic which is unfinished. The author got 90% through the story, then decided to start over from the beginning. He has tried restarting it a dozen times over the past ten years, but hasn't gotten beyond the first few chapters on the restart.

Crossfusion:
The first example I ever saw of this genre was pretty good (A Faint Hope, by Lara Bartram and Mike Loader. I gotta say, Darth Tofu was one of the most hilarious villains I've ever encountered). As mentioned above, it's Ranma\Star Wars. This was an alternate take on a multi-author project which was going to attempt the same thing -- the multi-author project never got off the ground, this one at least got the Ranma characters through the events of the original Star Wars movie.

Pure Fusion:
Ranma\Battletech fusion for 'The Saotome Gambit' by J. Austin Wilde. Er, epic is the word for it. Longer than Training for the Job has become, if that helps you realize the size of this thing, but... well, it's damned good. The author has also done a few other Ranma crossovers that are pretty good (including a oneshot that fuses Ranma with 2001: A Space Oddesey), in addition to some of the better pure Ranma fanfiction out there, but I don't have a complete title list for him. I don't think anything of his ever hit ff.net, so again you'll almost have to check the RAAC archives for it.

[MonkeysTotallyRock]

me and the whole fusions,crossovers, and what not don't go very well. i figure just legt it be. narutoverse in narutoverse... i just don't like them.

[Vespar]

The Idiots Guide to Nindo by James Ray Edwards
[AU]The Idiot's Guide to Nindo: Guaranteed to turn any No Talent, Number One Unpredictable Ninja, Loser into a Genius of all affairs, or your money back guaranteed! It's so easy, even a Naruto can do it! ...What the HECK is this?
Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 26 - Words: 106631 - Reviews: 228 - Updated: 2-2-07 - Published: 9-20-06

Sometimes smoothly and enrichingly written and sometimes jarringly difficult to decypher, The Idiot's Guide to Nindo is a good, if oddly paced, read.
It quite possibly contains all of desaix's definitions of being a crossover, a fusion and a crossfusion with the series's it introduces and so far, it contains liberal use of; xxxHolic, Mahou Sensei Negima and (eventually) The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi characters to name the main ones.
However, it should be noted that the series focuses entirely on Naruto himself as well as the cross-over characters, so it might disappoint people who are looking to also read about other characters within the Naruto universe.

To say the least, it's interesting and, in my honest opinion, one of the better cross-over type of fics out there, but it's definitely not for everyone.

[Coupe]

I rember reading a Final Fantasy and Naruto crossover once. It was well written and believable in a sense. The way the authour mergerd the magic of Final Fantasy and the Jutsus of Naruto made an enjoyable fic. I cant remember what it was called though.

[josh32]

this is my favorite crossover to date:

Till Eternity's End

it's a Naruto and Final Fantasy VII crossover

[ciardha]

I agree that crossovers just don't work that well with Naruto. Naruto's world is a self-contained fantasy world that has no relation to our world, that doesn't really lend itself to crossing over. Possibly I could see other manga with a central ninja focus working, especially ones set in historical Japan. But it would still be a lot of work. You really need to have similar worlds for crossovers to work.

Now there is a way to crossover Naruto with something, by "breaking the fourth wall" having them speaking to the audience directly and knowing and commenting on themselves and others as characters in a story. That's done for comedic effect and can be fun.