#Tendou Akane

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Ranma ½ (2024) Episode 05 - Ranma & Akane

[ydotome]

You look cute when you smile. Did he mean it? Why are you grinning at yourself? That's creepy. - Ranma ½ (2024) - Episode 3

[iamtheonethinginlifeicancontrol]

One of the things that I'm finding very refreshing about the remake is how Akane's daily fights are being portrayed. Spoilers under the cut.

As Akane and Ranma run toward the school and he needles her about saying that she hates boys, she affirms this by grimly saying, "��うよ。あたし... 男なんて...

[insert cut to a horde of boys in sports uniforms laughing threateningly, as one of them says, "天道あかねが来たぞ!"(more to be said further down); cut back to Akane and Ranma running toward Fūrinkan's gates]

... 大嫌い!"

(This can't be directly translated to English in the way that it's spoken, as Japanese places subjects before verbs, whereas English does the opposite. A direct translation would be, "Right. I... men-like[persons]... hate!" Which doesn't exactly flow, so the functional translation is "I... hate... men!")

When the scene cuts to the horde lying in wait for Akane, this is what we see:

And what we hear is: a sound effect for emphasis like an impact on metal, overlaid by multiple male voices chuckling threateningly as one voice says, "Tendou Akane has arrived!"(The "ぞ" at the end of that sentence is peculiar to male-coded language, and literally adds force to the sentence itself).

This encounter and the coming fight is being shown to be a legitimate threat, and legitimises Akane's fear as realistic and valid.

The implicit threat with all of these male athletes (who are all shown to be bigger than Akane) is both that she could be defeated by the melee nature of the fight, but also that someone who could overpower her would potentially have no qualms in doing the same thing on a hypothetical enforced date.

There is a very real and present threat of SA waiting for Akane every morning. The portrayal of the athletic horde is explicitly threatening: look at the expressions on these boys' faces. This is all about violence and domination; Akane has been fending this off daily solely due to skill (and a healthy dose of well-placed fear, which shows as anger).

Akane has been failed by every relevant adult in her life, as shown in the manga. The teachers at the school cannot be ignorant of this occurring every morning; her father has clearly done nothing to address the situation. No principal has stepped in; no-one has protested that a single girl is being forced to fight off dozens of boys attacking her in front of the school every day before classes, because another male upperclassman arbitrarily declared that no-one could date her unless he first bested her in combat.

It surprised me to see the remake portraying this explicitly as a valid threat to Akane's well-being (in any number of ways), but as I said, I found it very refreshing. It's not glossed over or minimized; it's an important insight into Akane's attitude toward males (and, by extent, Ranma and Tōfū-sensei, respectively) and into her daily experiences.

Akane's anger is appropriate: this is something horrifying to have to face daily. Even so, she still maintains an honourable code throughout; before engaging in the fight, she warns Ranma off to prevent him from being hurt, and tells the gathering to move aside as she's running late (therefore giving them an out, which of course no-one takes). She even gives Kunō a polite greeting when he shows up once the horde is sprawled unconscious around her.

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Best character with a color name

Round 3 Poll 10

Momo means "peach", which is a synonym for pink in Japanese

Akane is Japanese for madder, with "aka" being Japanese for red

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Me with he/him

in my bio

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Ranma ½

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Post-Jusendo Arc | Ranma x Akane | One-shot

Pardon me for my English mistakes, it’s not my native language (and it’s also the first time I decided to translate a fanfic of mine).

AO3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60548797

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A minute passed in silence, or maybe a year, staring at one another with her still on top of him. So close. If he leaned up, if she leaned down even a little bit they’d be close enough to

Suddenly there was a scream from inside the house and the moment broke. “Kasumi!” they both said in unison: Akane hastily stood up and offered Ranma a hand. This time he took it and they both hurried back into the house.

[urotaramannekusu]

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I wrote this little Ranma/Akane shortfic from Ranma's POV years ago back in the Livejournal era. But I never wound up reposting it to AO3. Maybe it felt too short, I dunno! With my Ranma 1/2 fannish energy rekindled by the ongoing new anime, I decided to repost the ficlet now. Feedback much appreciated!

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Ranma ½ (2024) Episode 06 - Ranma & Akane

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Ranma 1/2 Thoughts - Remake? Edition

So there's a rumor flying in the R.5 community that the anime is getting a remake. Which, you know, if it's true could be good or bad and we won't know for sure until we actually observe the thing and collapse the waveform.

If they do remake the series, I hope they keep the problematic bits, because even with those problematic bits there's a message so powerful that blows right past them to reach new audiences all the time! Back around 2010 I was convinced that R.5 had lost it's place in the cultural lexicon due to the march of history. Not that it would ever be considered a mistake or an outlier artifact, but that it was a product of its time and the world had moved on.

It's quite clear that we, as a culture, haven't moved on, though. There's still abusive fathers, there's still mothers who communicate their desires for their children for absolute shit, there's still compulsory heteronormativity, there's still toxic masculinity, there's still people who will exploit others, there's still the kind of men that require the #MeToo movement, there's still horrible men in positions of power who can grant you your dreams or kill them if you don't submit to their sexual abuses, and there's still a need to point out that sex is not gender.

What I would like to see are consequences to all this. I want to see Genma being pursued by the Japanese equivalent to CPS and being appropriately shunned by the community. I want to see Soun's life being negatively impacted because he's letting a known abuser live with him. I want to see Nodoka's fears and anxieties over worrying she's too late to be a part of her child's life. I want to see a literally genderfluid and/or transgirl Ranma struggle in a non-comedic way over whether or not they're "manly" enough. I want to see Akane coming to terms with the fact that she is bisexual/lesbian and she's internalized comp-het and been taking it out on everyone else around her. I want to see Ukyo struggling with CPTSD over being kicked out of her home at a super young age and have to become a business owner and be a gender she wasn't born with and how that affects her life going forward. I want the reason for the Kuno sibling's rift to be over Tatewaki's stubborn refusal to stop violating girls. I want to see Happosai's mere existence as the chilling effect that it is and the reason only the teen girls and young adults are trying to stop him is because the older generations of women have had the fight (literally in some cases) beaten out of them.

Keep the difficult stuff, keep the problematic stuff, but show the reasons why it's difficult and problematic.

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Controversial (?) Ranma 1/2 opinion below the cut. This particular one isn't very Ryouga-positive; brief discussion of SA

This has been brewing for two weeks for me now. I was hoping that the 2024 anime would deviate from the manga plotline concerning P-chan somewhat, and... it didn't.

There are some issues in the Ranma 1/2 canon that really bother me, and one of the biggest is the matter of Ryouga-as-P-chan. I understand that having P-chan around as Akane's pet and sleeping with her in her bed adds dramatic and comedic tension to Ranma 1/2's story-telling & character dynamics. I understand that, to a degree, it's also functional. But that doesn't mean that I like or agree with it.

I feel like this is a problem that gets skated over a lot in fandom or discussions of canon, and it really, really bothers me. The bare-bones issue is this: Ryouga acting as Akane's pet pig with Ranma being in on the secret and Akane never knowing her pet's identity is both a betrayal of her trust from both of them, and a violation of her autonomy, privacy, etc.

The whole P-chan... debacle is kept very superficially innocent—no doubt from necessity—but it by nature cannot be fully innocent. A teenage boy is using his canonically-fully-aware cursed form to sleep in the bed of a teenage girl upon whom he becomes romantically fixated (as we see as the series continues). Canonically, Ryouga doesn't have the mind of an animal when he transforms, and reacts like a hormonal teenage boy. Even if nothing ~sexual in nature~ actually occurs, this is tantamount to sexual assault.

This isn't consensual; canon also makes this clear. There are loads of instances where Ranma hints at Ryouga being P-chan to Akane—or just calls him "P-chan", threatens to expose Ryouga and/or averts exposure of the P-chan secret when Akane is watching/nearby. Ryouga goes to great lengths to conceal his identity as P-chan from Akane, sometimes aided by Ranma, so it's clear that both boys know on some level that what Ryouga is doing—and Ranma is passively enabling—is wrong. (It's not just the lying that's wrong, obviously; they're both aware on—I'd argue different—levels that Ryouga's actions are dishonourable at best, or at least that Akane would never be okay with it).

I'm not sure how much Ryouga knows about Akane's previous "boy troubles" courtesy of Kunō, but Ranma certainly knows how Akane has difficulty trusting boys because of her trauma. The violation of knowingly allowing Ryouga to sleep in Akane's bed is significant, and it's both a betrayal from Ranma regarding having Akane's best interests at heart, but also a failure to consider her honour as equal to his own*.

(Incidentally! Akane's father is in the same position! It was made explicit in the Kodachi intro ep that aired today; Ryouga came into the ofuro as P-chan and transformed in front of Sōun! With no reaction or ramifications! I was so disappointed that they kept this throwaway scene!!!)

And! we know from the manga canon that others know about Ryouga being P-chan, too! Once Shampoo and Cologne are introduced, they find out essentially the same way Genma did (which reminds me that Genma also knows about this and says/does nothing! I doubt he's so out of touch not to realise that he'd met Ryouga before in China), and presumably Mousse is told by the other Amazons, as he doesn't seem surprised when Ryouga transforms in the onsen race arc.

I understand Ryouga being Mr Lonely Hearts Club, given his abysmal sense of direction or lack thereof, but all the loneliness in the world doesn't make these choices okay or less harmful. Akane never learns this secret in canon, so I guess we'll see if the anime ever deviates, but... I'm so angry and disappointed that the recurring plot point of Ryouga-as-P-chan sleeping with Akane with some regularity when he's around hasn't been changed or addressed as being harmful and exploitative.

*This is made more explicit in the manga: Ranma silently makes a promise to Ryouga to protect the secret of his Jusenkyō curse according to what's translated as "warrior's code" in the official Viz translation (lit. 武士の情け/bushi no nasake, which roughly translates to "warrior's mercy/compassion"; the implication is that he's taking pity on a fellow warrior). What he says in the 2024 anime is simply that he'll "protect [Ryouga's] secret". It's an interesting change, to make the promise more vague and less binding wrt a link to Ranma's honour as a martial artist, but ok...

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Double Isekai by princesscolumbia 

Fandoms: Ranma 1/2  

Teen And Up Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

F/F

Work in Progress

18 Mar 2024

Summary

We all know the isekai, the most common being a person dies in our universe and awakens in another, often fantastical universe, very often in their favorite fiction media. To even have an isekai event, the multiverse must, by definition, exist. And in the multiverse, if something can be imagined, it exists somewhere in the multiverse. So what if one person who's an avid fan of Ranma 1/2 dies? What if they die in two separate timelines? And what if both deaths triggered an isekai? And what if both variants wound up isekai-ing to the same timeline of Ranma 1/2, but in different people? ...and what are the odds of that? i = infinity ^ 4 ^ infinity:1, repeated infinitely. Welcome to the Double Isekai.

you are personally and directly hit by a bus¹ and isekai-ed, via resurrection, into the body of the main character your most recent WIP

reblog and tell me: on a scale of 1–10, how screwed are you right now?

¹ this is, transparently, a plot device, so if you are about to tell me "joke's on you, I never leave my fifteenth floor apartment!" then you may rest assured it will have tremendous comedic value when the bus is launched into the sky and crashes through your apartment wall to flatten you anyway