#Konatsu

[jinxekkotimebomb]

Ranma and Konatsu have trans girl solidarity.

[beedok]

Rumiko Takahashi accidentally(?) celebrating the concept of trans butches by putting Konatsu in a Takarazuka outfit.

[misquoted-ranma]

[nannichuan]

Sorry it's blurry please click for a better view! I hope the digital drawing on the kimono looks alright, I'm pretty happy with it.

[invisiblemelonmoose]

Day 4 - Favorite underappreciated/minor characters

My fave babies whom I hope to see in a few season in the new anime.

Glad they're checking the tag a month after otherwise I'll never finish. @____@

[askranma12]

How long has Ranma had such pretty hair?

[thekingofwinterblog]

So just a bit of Rumiko's originally planned color scheme i have never seen anyone comment on.

Ryoga's entire assemble was originally supposed to be very glaring pink, whoch has several meaning in Japanese, as it's speciffically a very masculine color... But with a twist.

In Japanese, Pink is the color of Sakura, and in terms of masculinity, is used to symbolize Samurai who died before their time, in the prime of their lives.

Which you could easily connect to Ryoga's feelings that his life effectively came to a premature end at Jusenkyo.

Meanwhile, Shampoo's most notable different feature is that she was originally meant to have scarlet hair.

Now this is of course a reference to the fact that Shampoo, more than any of the other of Ranma's love interests represents war, fighting, ruthlessnes and martial arts.

In the context of Japan, it also is the color of authority, happiness and strength.

It is also meant to be a clear cut contrast to Lum, the Heroine of Rumiko's first hit series, from whom Rumiko took a lot of inspiration, but ultimately made her a mirror of, as defined by Shampoo's red, to Lum's generally green.

As for Ranma's design, while there is of course the more notable fact that Manga ranma always had black hair regardless of form, there is also the original color of Ranma's famous amrtial arts uniform, which rather than the familiar red and black/blue se all know and love, was instead a very distinct orangish yellow.

Rather than any symbolism, thia is instead a reference to one of Ranma's contemporaries/predessecors, Dragon ball, as Manga Goku's Kame Gi as shown on the cover above, is almost the exact same shade, much brighter than it's animated counterpart.

Overall, Rumiko just loved this color scheme in general, as a lot of art has ranma in orange duds.

Its even the main color on the final volumes of the series.

Similar to Shampoo, Ukyo also has an element of red that was dropped in the anime, in the form of her ribbon, the trim of her short, but also her lipstick and Eyeliner.

It also symbolizes strength, power and war... But in a much more subdued manner, as while Ukyo is just as monstrously strong as Shampoo(With word of god estimating her raw, brute strength on the level of Ryoga, though lacking his monstrous durability), she lacks Shampoo's comfortable with violence, nudity and such, with her loss against Ranma in large part due to feelings of personal emberassment at her own nudity that Shampoo has never shown.

She also in general just lacls Shampoo's comfortable with true, murderous violence as the go to answer to her problems.

Hence while it was meant to be a defining color on Shampoo, on Ukyo it was meant to be a very small yet noticable aspect of her coloring.

It is also the color of sacrifice, and more than anyone of Ranma's finacee's, Ukyo is willing to change herself if it means winning Ranma's heart.

Later down the line, this red color would also link her to her introduced at the last minute love interest Konatsu, who wore red in general.

Also, speaking of character who never got the animated treatment in the original series, Ryo Kumon stands out as not only was he given a color scheme by Rumiko, but his color scheme was speciffically influenced by the Animated color scheme of Nodoka as having purple hair, in order to contrast him with Ranma as looking far more similar to Nodoka than her flesh and blood son.

Its an interesting choice as manga Nodoka had black hair, which meant Rumiko specifficaly chose this color design to make the similarity between him and Nodoka much more obvious for when the arc was adapted for the screen(Which didn't end up happening in the first anime).

[ylvasart]

Always curious how Akari & Konatsu would look like in Kagome's and Sango's outfits, and vice versa.

Bonus with the tweet who inspired me in the first place:

@beedok ❤️

[sofubis]

Negora Aquamarine (konatsuya)

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Why did no one tell me this sweet, perfect angel was hiding out towards the tail end of the Ranma 1/2 manga? I've only watched the anime that late...

Trans enough for me kunoichi with a Cinderella plotline? That ends up as Ukyo's bestest buddy and totally doesn't have a forbidden girl crush on our dear okonomiyaki vendor? I still love Space Girl, and Sango, and precious Kyoko, and Shampoo...but Konatsu. This is why you should actually finish series Rhea.

[jinxekkotimebomb]

I love the way Ranma grows attached to Konatsu pretty quick and has a desire to help her from her family situation.

[tiashe]

Brand new 07-Ghost POP UP merch alert!!

I believe this is the fourth set of new 07-Ghost merch we've had in the past 3 years? These will go on sale on November 28, the day the first chapter of Amemiya and Ichihara's new series Danna-sama wa Shuumatsu Heiki / My Husband is a Doomsday Device comes out!

[youjide444]

こなつ

[jaredr-k]

Don't mess with Mama

[askranma12]

Who was it in the crew who first proposed polyamory, anyway?

(Grongagidapa'mo was my attempt to translated Village of Women Champions to Tibetan. Probably the wrong dialect for Qinghai.)