Ranma 1/2 is coming back baby

[El Cokehead del Knife Fight]

New series in the works, hopefully they don't use Happosai so much for filler.

This is just a rumour but SugoiLITE has a good hit rate and Urusei Yatsura is wrapping up soon.


edit: no longer a rumor

[Lizuka #BLM]

Figured it'd happen after the success of Urusei Yatsura.

[H-Virus]

I sure hope they finish it this time, and DON’T SKIP OVER THE GODDAMN MUSK ARC AGAIN!!

[Ash Kingston]

Oh, that's cool. Happy to hear it, I love that series.

...

About ****ing time.

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

huh. hell yeah!

[Mozenrath]

Oh, people are beyond ready for that.

Like, if there was a time for an anime with gender f***ery, it's here and now.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

I'm a major manga purist, so I am fully behind the possibility of a more faithful adaptation. Especially some of the story arcs that I felt were butchered by the original anime, in addition to the late manga stuff that never got animated (Ryu Kumon when??).

[chrom]

So how many times an episode will Ranma and Akane bicker and argue with each other?

[thechase]

You had me worried this was gonna be a licenced version of Ranma's Declaration of Motherhood.

[hassanchop]

I'm torn. I'm not sure if they can do it justice today, for me this show was like lightning in a bottle, hard to duplicate with whatever new animation or soundtrack they add to this. I mean few of the songs in the original had cover versions a decade after the original show was finished.

[Banjo Is Broken]

Why not a full Ranma?

[jjohns828]

Ranma was one of the first manga I got into when I started watching anime when I heard some great arcs weren’t animated. I ended up agreeing so I would be super excited if this ended up being true and I finally got to see some of my favorite stories from the series in anime form.

[hassanchop]

So it is the end of Urusei Yatsura.

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Not bad, but the original was funnier and zanier even if it didn't cover everything from the manga. Even this version missed a few side stories. This is my primary worry about a Ranma remake, if it could be animated and done right by today's anime production. I'm not sure if they can recapture it, or if it might end up getting bland or animated poorly or end up like that new Berserk anime.


By the way, anyone remember that SNES game Street Combat? That was a reskin and repainted version of the first Ranma SNES game due to localization license issues:


Maybe they should adapt this too into a series? Maybe Takahashi-sensei could make a manga of it.

[wildojinx]

So when are we getting a Maison Ikkoku revival?

[hassanchop]

So there will be something, but the video says more details will be revealed on July 17.

[hassanchop]

Today's the day

[Ash Kingston]

Oh hey, that looks pretty damn good. And they've apparently got the original VAs for Ranma and Akane from the first anime back for this.

If you hear a loud, high-pitched squeal of delight coming from Canada, that's me. Sorry.

[hassanchop]

From what I gather, unlike "Urusei Yatsura", most of the original voice actors from the 1980s anime were retained:

Kappei Yamaguchi as Ranma Saotome (masculine) – Return
Megumi Hayashibara as Ranma Saotome (feminine) – Return
Noriko Hidaka as Akane Tendo – Return
Minami Takayama as Nabiki Tendo – Return
Kikuko Inoue as Kasumi Tendo – Return
Akio Otsuka as Soun Tendo – Replacement of Ryusuke Obayashi
Cho as Genma Saotome – Replacement of Kenichi Ogata
Koichi Yamadera as Ryoga Hibiki – Return
Rei Sakuma as Shampoo – Return
Kenichi Ogata as Narrator – Replacement of Tadashi Nakamura (deceased in 2019),

[Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite]

Jun 18, 2024 15:01:19 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Figured it'd happen after the success of Urusei Yatsura.

Urusei Yatsura is back?!

[chrom]

He's being paired with Shampoo, aka The Best Girl