So there's apparently a new Ranma 1/2 anime in the works

skykiii said:
Also everyone's body language. That's one thing I also noticed is there's this feeling of "overselling" everything.

But weirdly its also paradoxically lazy in a few ways. Its hard to explain but I just noticed it when I compared this episode to the original anime. One example that stands out is Genma, after he knocks Ranma out, notices all the people standing around and gossiping about it, then he growls to scare them away. It somehow looks more high-effort in the original anime whereas here it looks lazy.
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I love the OG anime to the point where I got the CD in the car to listen to and I'm happy that the remake exists but its just ok to me. I think I might be more on board once it gets to the stuff the anime kinda did out of order and the stuff it never had time to adapt. But I don't think they are going to improve the ending because the ending ending is fine but the Phonex Tribe was a little too much for the manga (so was the Musk Dynasty).

UY had a much better ending then Ranma ever did. Ranma had higher highs then Lum did but when Lum got constantly good it stayed good.
 
Clyde Cash's Left Teste said:
UY had a much better ending then Ranma ever did. Ranma had higher highs then Lum did but when Lum got constantly good it stayed good.
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To be honest, my experience with Lum is limited mostly to the movie Beautiful Dreamer. I think I tried to watch the anime once but I kinda lost interest.

Happens to me with a lot of mangaka honestly... there will be one work of theirs I really like, but then I can't get into anything else they do unless its very different, otherwise it can feel like just "oh its that other story, just some of the parts have been moved around."
 
skykiii said:
To be honest, my experience with Lum is limited mostly to the movie Beautiful Dreamer. I think I tried to watch the anime once but I kinda lost interest.

Happens to me with a lot of mangaka honestly... there will be one work of theirs I really like, but then I can't get into anything else they do unless its very different, otherwise it can feel like just "oh its that other story, just some of the parts have been moved around."
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I can't speak for the anime, but Maison Ikkoku and Urusei Yatsura are definitely vibe checks. They're gag manga that play heavily into the interactions between over-the-top characters. And, for the most part, they're the same character archetypes that you see in all of Takahashi's manga.

Personally, I enjoyed UY. If I read it one chapter a week in Weekly Shonen Sunday, I think I would enjoy it quite a bit. I read one volume every other month, and I thought it worked quite well. But I can't imagine binging it without going cross-eyed. There's just too much sameness in the stories that it'd become tedious after awhile (just like with any gag manga).
 
skykiii said:
I have not watched the remake yet, tho I did find someone on Nyaa who is apparently doing "cleaned up subtitles" for this version (he specifically mentioned making them more accurate).
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Can you give the name of this subtitler for future reference?
 
Okay. I'm breaking two rules here:

I have a rule that I never give the *Rant network attention. They are evil progressive fuckstains.

I also have a rule against admitting how much of a weeb I used to be... and still am, on rare moments.

So buckle up.

The article that set me off is here. (Link goes to an archive... do not give *Rant the traffic!). TL;DR, it's some progweeb whining about how the bestest episode of Ranma, "Am I pretty...?" is probably not going to make it to the new anime series.

Fucking good. The episode was a disaster. It's not based on the manga... It was at the point in the anime where they were really going off track from the manga and inventing their own plotlines. Most of them were awful. But let's set manga purity aside for a minute. Even if you want a "Ranma is totes trans!" affirmation episode, this episode was not it. It was a joke episode. Ranma was suffering brain damage and had a completely different personality. His trauma persona was a cowardly girl who didn't like martial arts and loved shopping and frilly dresses... because that's what Ranma's stereotypical view of women was. That's how he was raised by Genma. It wasn't some secret "egg" personality showing Ranma is really an uwu princess or some shit. His brain was probably being crushed by swelling from a concussion and he was delusional. As soon as it gets sorted out (in typical anime slapstick logic, by another concussion), that personality is completely gone, and never returns in any episode.

I've grown to hate this episode over the years. On it's own, it's "fine". It's kind of dumb, but it has a couple of vaguely amusing moments. It's biggest offense on it's own is it's just... not very good. It's boring.

But it's become one of the rallying points of the Ranma as a Trans Cultural Touchstone bullshit.

And that whole thing is so fucking stupid, because even if you wanted that to be true, which it isn't because that was never the point of the curse... it was just mean to be funny, you goddamned autistic faggots... at best Ranma is... a part-time trans man. A man trapped in a woman's body. At no point in the entire run of the manga or anime, save for that one, singular, throwaway episode halfway through the anime, do we ever get the slightest suggestion that Ranma wants to be a woman, or hates being a guy. No. On the few occasions he's stuck in his female form, he's miserable. Depressed. Angry. And doing everything he can to get his male body back.

Arrrrrrrg.
 
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I get the feeling nowadays you could not do any sort of gender-bend storyline or anything without the woketards rallying around it.

Like, Dimitri in SVC Chaos has a move that temporarily turns guys into girls. Is he a woke icon now?
 
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I just hope they never do the Competitive Eating arc. Don't know if it was filler or not, but that probably creates some vile fetishes.
 
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I just hope they never do the Competitive Eating arc. Don't know if it was filler or not, but that probably creates some vile fetishes.
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I honestly thought that arc was hilarious with how much of an utter mutant Picolet Chardin was, and how the solution turned out to be deceptively simple.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I wonder if this chick has ever read Ranma pregnancy fics back in the day.
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"Back in the day", they're still being published with depressing regularity.

Yes, I sometimes, stupidly, still delve into the world of fanfiction.

In the last ~3-5 years, Ranma fanfics are, like, half about Ranma actually being trans, though. Siiiiigh.
 
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"Back in the day", they're still being published with depressing regularity.

Yes, I sometimes, stupidly, still delve into the world of fanfiction.

In the last ~3-5 years, Ranma fanfics are, like, half about Ranma actually being trans, though. Siiiiigh.
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Can't they do fanfics after an idea that's actually interesting for Ranma to face like what if his mom was pregenut when Genma took Ranma to become a 'man among men'. So Ranma has a long lost little sister who he doesn't meet till his mom comes back.
 
Clyde Cash's Left Teste said:
Can't they do fanfics after an idea that's actually interesting for Ranma to face like what if his mom was pregenut when Genma took Ranma to become a 'man among men'. So Ranma has a long lost little sister who he doesn't meet till his mom comes back.
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The little sister is always better at martial arts than he is.

Actually I can think if one "Ranma has a little sister" fic that wasn't terrible, but it involved a magic wish.

Most of the time "X character has an older/younger sibling" fanfics for any fandom are just a thinly veiled self-insert OC.
 
skykiii said:
The sad thing is that if a writer actually did come up with an interesting story, nobody would want to read it because nine times out of ten all fanfic readers care about is "does this support my ship?"
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But the series at its core is about Ranma and Akane's relationship.

The shipping around the series doesn't really make all that much sense when you really look at the characters.

Like I got bored a couple weeks ago and started brainstorming who would get bit by a Spider and get Spider-Man like powers and settled on Nabiki. Which would then make Kasumi the Uncle Ben figure who dies because of Nabiki's inaction. Which would alter the dynamics in the series a lot. That to me is a whole lot more interesting to write about then some shipping thing.
 
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It’s not glorifying trannyism, you stupid fucking…….
Hey is this the CBR writer
 
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