#Ranma manga caps

[ranmacapss]

[Ranma ½] ✥ Chapter 11, Bread Feud

[mercyll]

[yonae]

Ranma 1/2 by Rumiko Takahashi

[strangemonochromes]

Ranma ½ // Rumiko Takahashi

[dead-editor]

Ranma 1/2, chapter 4

[riarnu]

i've got a single copy of the first volume of one of the earliest runs of peach girl from tokyopop and i cannot describe how much i covet the entire collection in the exact same state

[hastings727]

Dandadan and its Ability to go Outside the Standard Shonen Battle Manga Tropes:

I love Dandadan for many reasons: insanely good artwork, wild situations, beautifully choreographed fight scenes, its ability to drop my jaw in some way every chapter.

But something that set it apart from most shonen battle manga is how it adds characters to its roster, and how it develops relationships between its characters through the use of Harem tropes.

After Aira's initial introduction into the manga, we see the first use of "comical misunderstanding" or "unlucky timing", where Momo sees Okarun on top of Aira outside the school. In most harem settings, this would be used to set up a love triangle, and keep the main pairing away from actually developing romance. But Dandadan instead uses it as a springboard into another action filled arc: the Serpo Arc that happens in their school. More supernatural hijinks ensue, and so many wild and crazy "even in context this is insane" situations occur that wouldn't be outside of a wild Harem manga situation. But what makes Dandadans use of these tropes different is how it subverts them: By the conclusion of the arc, Momo asks for an explanation of the initial situation that kicked off the arc, and Okarun speaks honestly: He was trying to train to become stronger for her. And Aira herself, instead of sticking to her popular girl schtick of talking smack about Momo, admits to an entire group of classmates that *she* was the one who made up the lies about Momo. Dandadan subverts the harem tropes and uses it to develop their characters relationships.

At the end of the Serpo arc we meet Jiji, Momos childhood friend and "first love". The tone of everything in Jijis debut makes the audience assume that this will AGAIN be the introduction of a love triangle that stunts the growth of the main pairing. Except this time it will be Okarun and Jiji fighting over Momo. But the well already begins to be poisoned in the next chapter: Jiji is a huge goofball. Its not out of the well of possibility that a love triangle might happen, but it subverts tone and establishes Jijis personality. The next few chapters continually set up the potential triangle, and starts up the events of the Cursed House arc. We see Okarun clearly uncomfortable with Jiji and Momos relationship, and is rapidly falling for Momo. But during the bus ride to the Cursed house, we see Okarun and Jiji begin to become friends. And their interactions together when Momo leaves to relax at a hot spring deepen their friendship, and everything culminates upon the fight between Okarun and Jijis transformation: the Evil Eye. Okarun is not only enraged that Evil Eye for hurting Momo, but for taking Jiji away from them.

"give him back! Give me back my dear friend!"

And then Okarun proceeds to double-fisted uppercut the Evil Eye 20 times into submission, capping off one of the best fight scenes in manga. But all of that was just to subvert the love triangle, at least initially. After the arc, Jiji is a part of the group, and Aira comes back to help with dealing with ANOTHER harem trope: multiple personalities that trigger from hot/cold water, a classic trope started by Ranma 1/2. Specifically, the Evil Eye that is inside Jiji. This entire arc serves to deepen character relationships, and drive character development. But while it simmers the love triangle, its never diminished: Okarun still feels nervous that his friend will overtake him as Momos male love interest. But as always, it serves to deepen the relationship between Momo and Okarun instead of stunting it. It always struck me how relatable all of this was. Throughout all of these wild and crazy "it could only happen in a manga" situations, the solid foundation of character relationships always shines through as a driving factor to the manga. These teenagers actually act like teenagers, they interact as teenagers. And its the main reason I'm still so attached to these characters.

[nanaeranma]

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[notgreatwithwordss]

So excited that MAPPA is going to be animating Ranma 1/2. If the day comes where InuYasha is reanimated I’d love to see MAPPA behind it.

Here’s one of my favorite caps from Ranma 1/2’s early manga chapters

[ranmarumikotakahashi]

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[ranmacapss]

[Ranma ½] ✥ Chapter 11, Bread Feud

[mercyll]

[yonae]

Ranma 1/2 by Rumiko Takahashi

[strangemonochromes]

Ranma ½ // Rumiko Takahashi

[dead-editor]

Ranma 1/2, chapter 17

[xbuster]

Do you know where I can read the ranma manga online for free?

On MangaDex, you can read… some of it!

The first chapter is the original English release with flipped pages and then there’s a big gap until volume 17 where it’s translated by a fan group. Obviously, don’t read it like this. There are other worse sites you can probably find the original English release on with Google, but that’s less than ideal. Les reputable sites can have viruses and, as stated, the original English release has flipped pages. The typesetting is also bad.

Your best bet is to download this torrent of the new English manga release. This is what I use to make my manga caps.

To torrent, you’ll need a VPN and qbittorrent, so it does take a bit more effort to get it this way, but it’s worth it if you want to read Ranma in its best quality.