#ranma nibun no ichi

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Lost, lost...lost forever

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"A-Akane..?"

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Ranma ½ be like

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Ranma ½

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Ranma ½ (1989) らんま 1/2

Director: Tsutomu Shibayama / Chimitsu Mochizuki / Kizhiro Furuhashi / Shigeho Yamauchi / Takeshi Mori Editors: Rumiko Takahashi / Hiroshi / Toshiki Inoue / Hiroyuki Kawasaki / Koya Matsui Yoshiyuki / Suga / Kusumoto Katsuyuki Sumisa / Hideo Takayashiki Starring : Kappei Yamaguchi / Emi Hayashihara / Noriko Hidaka Genre: Comedy / Romance / Animation / Fantasy Production Country/Region: Japan Language: Japanese / English Date: 1989-04-15 (Japan) Number of seasons: 7 Number of episodes: 161 Single episode length: 24 minutes Also name: Ranma / Ranma Nibun NO Ichi / 乱马½ IMDb: tt0096686 Type: Appripoation

Summary:

Ranma ½ (Japanese: らんま⁠1/2⁠, Hepburn: Ranma Nibun-no-Ichi, pronounced Ranma One-Half in English) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from August 1987 to March 1996, with the chapters collected in 38 tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan. The story revolves around a teenager named Ranma Saotome who has trained in martial arts since early childhood. As a result of an accident during a training journey, he is cursed to become a girl when exposed to cold water, while hot water changes him back into a boy. Throughout the series Ranma seeks out a way to rid himself of his curse, while his friends, enemies, and many fiancées constantly hinder and interfere.

Ranma ½ has a comedic formula and a sex-changing main character who often willfully transforms into a girl to advance his goals. The series also contains many other characters, whose intricate relationships with each other, unusual characteristics, and eccentric personalities drive most of the stories. Although the characters and their relationships are complicated, they rarely change once they are firmly introduced and settled into the series.

The manga has been adapted into two anime series produced by Studio Deen: Ranma ½ and Ranma ½ Nettōhen (らんま⁠1/2⁠熱闘編), which together were broadcast on Fuji TV from 1989 to 1992. In addition, they released 12 OVAs and three films. In 2011, a live-action television special was produced and aired on Nippon Television. Another anime adaptation produced by MAPPA premiered on October 6, 2024, broadcasting on Nippon Television and streaming on Netflix. The manga and anime series were licensed by Viz Media for English-language releases in North America. Madman Entertainment released the manga, part of the anime series, and the first two films in Australasia, while MVM Films released the first two films in the United Kingdom.

The Ranma ½ manga has over 55 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Both the manga and anime are cited as among the first in their respective media to have become popular in the United States. Plot See also: List of Ranma ½ characters

On a training journey in the Bayankala Mountain Range in the Qinghai Province of China, Ranma Saotome and his father Genma fell into the cursed springs at Jusenkyo (呪泉郷). The cursed spring causes any afflicted to assume the physical form of whatever drowned there hundreds or thousands of years ago whenever they come into contact with cold water, which reverts on contact with hot water but resumes with exposure to cold water. Genma fell into the spring of a drowned panda while Ranma fell into the spring of a drowned girl.

Soun Tendo is a fellow practitioner of Musabetsu Kakutō Ryū (無差別格闘流) or "Anything-Goes School" of martial arts and owner of a dojo. Genma and Soun agreed years ago that their children would marry and carry on the Tendo Dojo. Soun has three teenage daughters: the polite and easygoing Kasumi, the greedy and indifferent Nabiki and the short-tempered, martial arts practicing Akane. Akane, who is Ranma's age, is appointed for bridal duty by her sisters with the reasoning that they are the older sisters and can dump the duty on her, and that they all dislike the arranged engagement and think Akane's dislike of men is the right way to express it to the fathers. At the appointed time, the Saotomes arrive in their new forms given by the cursed springs, confusing the Tendos, and ultimately leading to Akane seeing Ranma changing from girl form to boy form in the tub, much to her horror. It takes several more pages for the situation to be explained to Soun Tendo and his daughters. Both Ranma and Akane refuse the engagement initially, having not been consulted on the decision, but the fathers are insistent and they are generally treated as betrothed and end up helping or saving each other on some occasions. They are frequently found in each other's company and are constantly arguing in their trademark awkward love-hate manner that is a franchise focus.

Ranma goes to school with Akane at Furinkan High School (風林館高校, Fūrinkan Kōkō), where he meets his recurring opponent Tatewaki Kuno, the conceited kendo team captain who aggressively pursues Akane, but also falls in love with Ranma's female form without ever discovering his curse (despite most other characters eventually knowing it). Nerima serves as a backdrop for more martial arts mayhem with the introduction of Ranma's regular rivals, such as the eternally lost Ryoga Hibiki who traveled halfway across Japan getting from the front of his house to the back, where Ranma spent three days waiting for him. Ryoga, seeking revenge on Ranma, followed him to Jusenkyo where he ultimately fell into the Spring of the Drowned Piglet. Now when splashed with cold water he takes the form of a little black pig. Not knowing this, Akane takes the piglet as a pet and

names it P-chan, but Ranma knows and hates him for keeping this secret and taking advantage of the situation. Another rival is the nearsighted Mousse, who also fell into a cursed spring and becomes a duck when he gets wet, and finally, there is Genma and Soun's impish grand master, Happosai, who spends his time stealing the underwear of schoolgirls.

Ranma's prospective paramours include the martial arts rhythmic gymnastics champion (and Tatewaki's sister) Kodachi Kuno, and his second fiancée and childhood friend Ukyo Kuonji the okonomiyaki vendor, along with the Chinese Amazon Shampoo, supported by her great-grandmother Cologne. As the series progresses, the school becomes more eccentric with the return of the demented, Hawaii-obsessed Principal Kuno and the placement of the power-leeching alternating child/adult Hinako Ninomiya as Ranma's English teacher. Ranma's indecision to choose his true love causes chaos in his romantic and school life.

Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096686/?ref_=tt_mv_close

Link: https://kissanime.com.ru/Anime/Ranma-1-2-Dub.23399/

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Oh, it happening.

TV アニメ「らんま 1/2」第 1 弾 PV ／ "Ranma1/2" Trailer 1

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Ranma 1/2 (2024) Ep3 - Because There's Someone He Likes - Akane and Ranma

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Ranma identifies as a problem, and the pronouns are screw/you.

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the shoes

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Ranma ½ 

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Sorry if I ask too many question at once, but what do you think about Otomen, Ranma 1/2 and Kamisama no ekohiiki?

hey! sorry for the wait, i was very busy yesterday. unfortunately i haven't read otomen yet though i've been meaning to do that basically since the mid to late 2010s 💀 i think i even started at one point, but i don't remember anything about it and if i had to guess why i stopped it might be because it's like almost 20 volumes and i didn't want to commit Hsbssbbsbshsb rest assured, i will get to it some time this year. right now i have a couple of things i need to do and a few other manga that i gotta finish before starting this one. but hopefully by february i'll have more time in my days.

about ranma 1/2, i only watched the 2024 anime, which i really enjoyed! it's very rare that i feel the pull to watch an anime (or any series for that matter) while it's still being released (and i thank the tumblr gifmakers for getting it on my radar in the first place! i don't follow a lot of the anime side of the culture) and even rarer that i decide to stick to it week after week instead of waiting for it all to be out so i can binge it. it was so entertaining and i had a good feeling about it because of the author (duh lmao) and the time period it was published in. i think it has a superb premise that is mostly used for comedic beats. not gonna lie, i cant help but want waaay more scenes of ranma and akane getting close and personal while he is girl-ranma, but i was also happy that we got any at all lol i think it's also interesting how ranma is this really boyish kid and sometimes girl-ranma is also relaxed and boyish but sometimes he really embodies the cute girl spirit. a cute girl who really likes the size of her boobs as well jxbsjsbshsb and to be completely honest, i do like boy ranma, but i think i like girl ranma more hahahhaa there is such a charm to this bratty tomboyish but feminine at the same time squeaky-voiced girl. i love how she's a bit shorter than akane and the implication that she's more feminine than her hshahahhag.

and speaking of, the relationship between ranma and akane is the highlight of the series. they are such a cute pair of stubborn kids and rip to the more recent and way less subtle iterations of the tsundere archetypes, these two are great tsunderes and them butting heads while thinking the other is actually pretty cool is so engaging :DDD it has that charm of such a thing being really just one aspect of the characters instead of the lazier writing of nowadays. i think both characters are extremely loveable as they are. and to point out one thing that put me off the series, it was a little disappointing how akane is introduced as this really strong disciplined girl and yet she is still weaker than every other important character in the series and pretty much never gets a chance to save the day. it's always ranma. i really loved akane as a character. the haircut arc was the most impactful of the series and it's a shame the plot doesn't let her get the spotlight some more.

i had never heard of kamisama no ekohiiki before. admittedly it's my own fault because i always filter yaoi out when i'm searching for manga, but i spy with my little eye that it's by komura ayumi 🐐 and so i WILL be reading this one for sure! usually, it feels a bit weird reading something to root for a couple where one of them had to turn into the opposite sex just so it can be straight and they can appeal the straight person, but i came to trust this author and i'm willing to just roll with it.

and don't worry, ask as many questions as you want :) hopefully i will be able to actually answer them instead of so many "i haven't read that yet" lol

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First Impression: Ranma 1/2

It’s “somewhere in Tokyo in the 80s” and sisters Kasumi, Nabiki, and Akane hear some shocking news. Their father, the head of the family dojo, will marry one of them to his old friend Genma’s son, Ranma. The problem is that he’s never even seen Ranma and the girls are hesitant to take a proposal, especially the youngest, Akane, who cares only for training and despises boys. But this complicated situation is about to get more complex when a panda and a young woman arrive in the dojo, with the latter proving to be even Akane’s better at kung-fu. So wait, Ranma is a girl? Not so fast, as Akane is about to find out when she comes face-to-face (and naked body to naked body) with Ranma, who’s taken a dip in the bath, and hears the story of how father and son become panda and daughter.

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