Using 2006 forum traces, a 2009 Tieba community anchor, a 2017 cross-platform index, and tags still active in 2026, this guide develops a three-clock evidence method for reconstructing the platform migrations, taxonomies, and community memory of Chinese transformation fiction.

A practical comparison of transformation-fiction mechanisms through five fields: bodily carrier, acting viewpoint, memory and skills, social identity, and reversibility/control, grounded in current Chinese and Japanese platform usage and representative works.

A case study of Ranma ½ that models transformation through three interacting layers: bodily state, character continuity, and the social memory carried across each switch.