#ranma 1/2 anime

[youuuimeanmee]

Ranma's POV (probably)

I like her already. She doesn't ask me stuff that makes me uncomfortable. We barely know each other, yet, she asked me out to be her friend. She trusts me. What a nice girl! And her smile is so cute, too!

Wow. She politely asked me to a friendly spar in a proper setting? And she'd hold back, too? This is a first. Usually people would just jumped at me with their full strength and hostility.

I really like her! The way she moves clearly shows her hard work, that she's been practicing everyday. Her attack is straightforward without any trick, I can read her moves like a book. I wonder if it's because she's never met stronger opponent that'd require her to expand her technique?

She's so honest and earnest. Looks like she honors martial arts too, just like me! When she's serious, her foot work is firm, and her punch is heavy!

So cute. But she needs to work on her defense. There's no way I can hit a girl, soo... there.

Yep, I really like her already! If it's with this girl, I'm okay to be her fiancé!

[notkowloon]

THEY LOOK SO CUTE

[misteria247]

Ranma whenever he gets doused in cold water: Being a girl is awful! I hate it! It's embarrassing!

Ranma as soon as he's in trouble:

[yonae]

[blossyossyossy]

MEGA BONK

[fuedalreesespieces]

ranma is 1/2 reboot confirmed. call me in ten business days when i can respond in comprehensible english!

[chibivesicle]

The Ranma 1/2 remake is giving me feelings

That's right. In this era of anime remakes, Ranma 1/2 is stepping up to the plate and will be animated by Studio Mappa! I do like me some works by Mappa. I just saw the new OP for it and so much of it refers directly back to the original OP, including keeping a few key animation sequences! I dunno - I don't want to be disappointed by it but at the same time I want to watch it.

Out of all of the remakes bouncing around this one pulls at me the most. Sure, I was all on board with Sailor Moon Crystal ten years ago but Ranma 1/2 was the first manga I ever bought! The nostalgia and continued love of the series is strong within me.

It is definitely hitting different seeing that this was my first manga series ever. I put a Shampoo sticker in my Ti-34 calculator which only recently went on the fritz at the ripe old age of twenty-eight and is still in my desk at work. I have a Ranma 1/2 poster still in my old closet at my parents' house (someday I should actually, you know, grab it), I bought fan art at Anime Expo in 2022 and even this summer I got a Ranma double sided charm from a local artist at an Asian food festival who also tables at local cons/art markets. I have to admit, I got all excited for the Trigun reboot and if you've been reading along you know I was incredibly disappointed. And you also have a rough estimate of my age based on when I watched it originally as a fan sub. Yet if there is any series that can be used to date me it is Ranma 1/2 since I bought all of my manga before university. I oddly kept telling myself I'd round out the collection when I got older and had more money to complete it. I never did and it has remained a mess of the original Viz editions. Behold! The first English edition of Ranma 1/2 in the left-to-right, hand lettered, and redrawn sound effects all in English.

Volume 1 cost $16.95 when I bought it which would have worked out to a whopping $33 adjusted for inflation, with a publication date of May 1993. Purchasing those early volumes from Viz was not for the faint of heart or those with shallow pockets. This is reminding me why I never back filled volumes 5-7 within my own collection, coming in at $15.95 each. I'm pretty sure that a few of them were likely Christmas presents as well . . .

These editions are what eventually came to match the size of the Viz Signature versions like Maison Ikkoku and Gokinjo Monogatari. These are hefty books and have held up pretty well over the years.

So I now find myself in the exact same position I was in before Trigun Stampede - do I reread the manga and finish it off since I likely only read the first third of it? And then do I take the time to review the new anime from Mappa?

Unlike Trigun which required me to start from scratch having only watched the anime, I've read up to volume 12 of the original manga and filled in the gaps by watching the original anime back in 2014/2015 to around where I'd read it - I think.

One of the issues is that I have the old format for it where there are no chapter numbers like it would have run in the weekly magazine to directly compare with. Viz did a really weird format since it started out as a comic with different arcs and parts and all mine have part 1-13/14 per volume. If I'm not mistaken, there were two subsequent editions of Ranma 1/2 in English; a right-to-left reprint of the original Japanese tankobon with the sequential chapter numbers from the magazine which then was later bundled into a 2 in 1 edition also in the right-to-left format.

Going by chapter names, I'm going to check out various volumes of the 2 in 1 edition from my local library and hope they line up to cover my gaps and then continue onward from chapter 142, The Mark of the Gods.

I also read the edition which really struggled to describe okonomiyaki to a non-Japanese reader. For several years, my young mind tried to square how they were like pizza when they were made on a griddle but had lots of toppings?!?!

I still don't know why the translators chose to localize it this way. They could have simply called it a savory pancake and it would have solved a lot of reader confusion.

It wasn't until university when I was hanging out with friends that I had the chance to make real okonomiyaki (a friend's roommate was Japanese) and the first thing I blurted out was something along the lines of "Like Ukyo from Ranma!" Granted, Ukyo was one of my fav characters at the time. Anyhoo, perhaps I'll do some meta posts as I read the manga and build up to watching the new anime. I don't think I'll have it in me to compare to the original anime since I read the manga long before watching the anime here in there for about fifteen years. I'm also curious to compare the later English editions with mine to see if there are some minor differences or not. I haven't seen the solid colored books like mine since I bought them in the first place.

[gifflower]

RANMA 1/2 (2024) and RANMA 1/2 (1989)

[animenostalgia]

Newtype Magazine, November 1991 vs November 2024 (Classic Newtype cover scanned by @oldtypenewtype!)

[apparently-artless]

Ranma ½ (2024) Episode 01

[aquanutart]

THEY'RE BACK!!!! my childhood manga!!!

[spacevixenmusic]

periodic reminder that anime dubs are good actually

[ethereal-fairies]

Ranma ½ (2024)

[misteria247]

What a beautiful sight to wake up to my boy Ryoga!!!!

[yonae]

[cartoons-90s-00s]