#girl type ranma

[nannichuan]

The temptation to start this caption with "hey" was unbelievably strong. Anyway.

This is a redraw of a fiance smooch from 2015! This is one of my favorite little drawings I've done, but I wanted to see how much I've improved. In defense of myself, back in 2015 it was a popular move to make your backgrounds transparent

[gillotto]

❤️ 💦 🖤

[unstorm4455]

A redraw of one of the shots of the first opening of Ranma 1/2 !!!!!

[midnightechoes]

Daily Doodle 1 - Ranma Saotome

Ranma was such a huge part of my childhood. Like I think many trans people of a certain age, the original Ranma 1/2 was one of the first times I was presented with this idea of people being able to change genders. I dreamed of visiting Jusenkyo. Needless to say I'm loving MAPPA's remake so far.

Starting a new Daily Doodle streak. Forth attempt of the year. The previous streak went 62 days, let's see if I can top that

[skonksrus]

Oh boyy not me in the ranma hell hole

[imitor]

with reference to my last rb, i'm adding ranma to my muse list :p i totally forgot netflix were doing the third remake and i watched it today and just uggghhhh fell in love with ranma all over again.

tldr: ranma is a boy who, when splashed with cold water turns into a girl, and can only be turned back via a splash of hot water (namely from a pot akane and her sisters keep dousing him with) - his father took him to a chinese martial arts training ground and they both came away with these uncanny powers. ranma with the one referenced just there and his father turns into a panda....... ranma is an exceptionally skilled martial artist and the sole heir to the saotome branch of the anything goes martial arts. at sixteen it is decided he will marry one of the tendo sisters to connect the two branches and thus, chaos ensues....

the distinctions between ranma's behaviours between being a boy and a girl are so interesting to me and something i'm looking forward to exploring :p visages below for you :)

if you can't guess, pink - haired ranma is his girl form

[icancdramahanfu]

Ready for some anything goes martial arts cosplay? Yeah, I'm gonna do a Ranma 1/2 project.

Not getting too nostalgic but it is time to do a cosplay from the first manga I ever bought with my money. That's right, I randomly picked up a copy of Ranma 1/2 at the bookstore, paying that $15.95 (corrected for inflation, $28.97) for the original first edition left-to-right formatted copies. A whole new generation of anime fans are being introduced to the Rumiko Takahashi manga now with the remake by Studio Mappa. Just like another 90s cosplay I did in 2023 I too can have some fun with this one as well. I could be very basic and go for the classic Ranma outfit. The red top with black pants and call it a day. But why would I make my life easy? This is a cosplay project it has to have to be a challenge to sew! The manga has such a diverse amount of outfits that are featured in it as well! I'm currently between two different outfits from the manga:

Color artwork from the third edition cover with Ranma in yellow with a red floral pattern. OR

The Cat Cafe outfit he wore when he was working as a waitress.

Which is so stinking cute with the light yellow apron and the ruffle headband! Interestingly, there is anime artwork with this with a different pattern here:

A quick breakdown for both of these outfits.

1.) Top - yellow short sleeve, red three-quarter length sleeve but same bias binding.

2.) Pants - length is the same, just past the knee. 3.) Apron - very much typical maid style with ruffles and fitted around the waist and chest with an A-line flare out 4.) Headband with ruffle Fabric - Since the outfits have drawn in details, there is no way I'm going to find a fabric that will match these, let alone be a close dupe. I am leaning towards drawing out the pattern and then printing it via Spoonflower so I can get my preferred fabric and match the pattern exactly.

Thankfully both sets of clothing have the black bias tape binding. Pattern -

This time, instead of drafting the pattern myself, I think I will try an established pattern for the top and the pants are gonna be very simple with a tie waist. I will go ahead and modify one of these two patterns to make the top so it falls around my hips.

A Shampoo inspired pattern from Cut/Sew

Or this one from Porcupine Patterns

I can already tell that the Cut/Sew pattern has some modifications/shortcuts with a zipper on the back instead of on the side seam under the armpit. It additionally puts the darts in for the bust horizontally while the Porcupine Patterns has vertical darts. However, I have worked with a Cut/Sew pattern previously and they give a very liberal range of sizes and maybe I don't always feel like tweaking it the way the other one will require. I can already see myself smooshing the patterns together since I'd prefer to use the vertical darts to make the shape. This will definitely require a mock up to make sure I get the fit of the top correct before dropping serious cash on the Spoonflower fabric. I'm leaning towards the Organic Cotton or Organic Cotton Sateen since it will have a slight sheen. I do want it to be breathable and not a sweaty mess. Even though they have a Satin, it is poly so that is a hard no.

I think the first step will be getting a pattern or two and moving onto that mock up stage!

[petz5]

draw akane beefy pls and thanks she deserves it

[jolikmc-thoughts]

Ranma Saotome: Hey, you! Yeah, you! The idiot with the stupid hat! Leave that girl alone! [Ranma walks over] Ranma: Listen, buddy. I used to be like you… always treating girls like crap… But, ya know… Over the years, I've learned that girls deserve respect like everyone else. Some girls are pretty strong, too. I know a more than a few who'd kick your teeth in if they heard half the trash coming outta your mouth. [Ranma grabs some guy's iced tea and throws it in his own face, poofing into his female form. Ranma then flashes a wicked grin, the iced tea dripping down her face only adding to her unhinged look] Ranma (girl-type): And I'm one of 'em!!

[midwestscreamo]

I love that we’re shown Akane’s male-type through Dr. Tofu.

Dr. Tofu is sweet, soft spoken (except when he’s tweaking from Kasumi exposure), gentle, and knows a lot about martial arts. He even has longer hair tied back in a ponytail.

I think this is really important because when Ranma isn’t performing toxic masculinity and he’s allowed to be soft, you can see some of the things they have in common.

[eebeesee]

She's so frickin cute

[gillotto]

A redraw of some official art of Ranma in a very cute outfit I just had to recreate 💖

[dzhukhe]

Ranma ½ headcanons, in light of the upcoming new anime:

the thing about Ranma 1/2 as a manga is that each character mistakenly believes they are the protagonist of a different genre than the one they are in.

most of us recognize that Kunō believes he is the romantic protagonist of a jidaigeki or some other samurai drama, where those who oppose him are comic villains and he cuts a dashing figure, his morality defined by being the handsome samurai. In a cowboy movie, his character would have a white hat and teeth to match.

Kodachi, in turn, believes she is the heroine of a shojo manga, and will force this view on the world if she has to scatter the flowers herself.

those who have read far enough in the manga may recognize that Konatsu views herself (arguably justifiably) as the star of a Cinderella story.

perhaps less apparent is Ryōga's perspective on his life as a romantic tragedy. This is a young man who speaks of his own "heart of glass", whose fantasies are full of flowers and wide sparkling eyes. Estrogen would not fix him, but it couldn't hurt.

Mousse and Shampoo live as though they are the stars of more traditional romantic comedies; their uses of martial arts, poisons, magic, and other forms of violence are justified in the view of each one by their perspective that they are the Good Option.

I would argue that Shampoo even seems to see herself as her personal cultural equivalent to the "All-American Girl Next Door" character type; she works for a living but has conventionally beautiful features. If you were to compare them to Archie comics characters, Shampoo sees herself as the Betty; the only opponent she really seems to spend much time worrying about in the manga is Akane, who from Shampoo's perspective perhaps seems like a pampered daughter of wealth (look at the size of the Tendō property) who lacks traditionally feminine skills like cooking and murder.

Genma and Sōun are convinced they're in stories about filial piety, where they will be rewarded by their children being skillful, loyal, successful, and fitting ideals of masculinity and femininity while caring for them in their old age.

we don't see as much of Ukyō's perspective, but it's evident that she sees Ranma as a side character, the man she's going to marry in order to mind the home while she focuses on building her career as a cook.

Akane in the manga is maybe the most grounded in the reality of her world: she recognizes the martial arts anarchy around her, she calls out other characters on their delusions, and her big flaws in her self-image are less about genre and more of a conviction that she should be able to succeed at something just by trying really hard. If she's stuck in an idea, it's the notion that her life is an inspirational story of what you can achieve with raw effort alone...never mind things like following recipes or actually practicing sewing or swimming, Akane's ready to skip to the end of the training montage!

and Ranma?

what is Ranma's delusion about the nature of the story?

it's simple.

Ranma is convinced she's the male lead.

[sailorblossoms-rankane]

towards later volumes the manga gets much more obvious with stuff it's been doing all along... Ranma comes to associate the girls' attention with winning (insecurity, self-worth etc) but he does this abstractly. He's never actually enjoyed the reality of their attention

One might say "he hates it because they're being violent" but that's part of the point. Akane's specific violence has never really been a repellant for Ranma – sometimes he even seeks it with his teasing. He has never fucked with the other girls' type of violence. Says a lot

(something to be said about loving the other person not just at their best, but also at their very worst...) (but let's not get too sappy now)

[0tacat]

Girl-type Ranma | Done for Art Collab Friends

[olderthannetfic]

Opinion on the comments in some of the the @ao3topshipsbracket polls: a wildly popular ship is not the same as one that had an actual impact on fandom history. Most popular ships have little to no impact outside their own fandom. Which isn’t to say that ships can’t have impact on their own fandom history, just that they don’t have much impact on general fandom history as a whole.

I understand that the polls aren’t actually measuring fandom history but this got me thinking about what has actually and I think these are the ones:

Spirk - origin of slash fandom shipping and laid the groundwork for fandom/shipping in general

MSR - responsible for the term ‘shipping’ and was the driving force behind the beginning of fandom/shipping on the internet and the creation of fanfiction.net

BTVS - (unfortunately) gave rise to the idea of being ‘anti’ something and ship wars

Harry Potter - most affected fandom on livejournal by the censorship which led to the creation of ao3

Thoughts? I couldn’t think of another fandom/ship that has huge impacts outside of their own fandom.

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Strikethrough made people more eager for AO3, but the original inspiration was a for-profit fic archive made by venture capitalists.

The X-Files' big archive was Gossamer. Was MSR really influential in the creation of FFN? I don't remember that.

What ships have a big impact really depends on era and how you're looking at things. K/S and MSR are the obvious ones from long after the fact, yes.

Starsky/Hutch was what really split Media Fandom from literary SF fandom. Star Trek started the split, but it was people getting into a buddy cop show that made it clear that fanfic zine types weren't just about science fiction anymore, not even "mass media" SF in place of book SF.

Bodie/Doyle was the moment people stopped being media fans and started being Slash Fandom specifically. The US fandom had barely even seen the show: they were there for the slash zines.

Jim/Blair fandom gave us sentinel/guide AUs. The Sentinel as a canon sure as fuck didn't.

Ranma fandom set the pattern for every dumb "which girl will he end up with?" fight in anime fandom forever after.

IDK if we can blame 1x2 as opposed to Gundam Wing fandom for inspiring people to many other incomprehensible math equation ships in every anime fandom with dumb number names.

Popslash popped a bunch of prudes' RPF cherries, then LOTRiPS did, then J2 did, then hockey did, then BTS did.

Free! and then Yuri on Ice started the long slide from anime fandoms mostly refusing to leave FFN to newer anime fandoms being on AO3. YOI also lured a lot of people into anime for the first time.

Wangxian got a bunch of "Ewww, no anime ever! Western fandoms 5eva!" people into Asian fandoms at long last. (Whether this was a good thing is a matter of opinion. Hahaha.)

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I really think it depends on frame of reference.