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

[Stab You in the Back]

My reaction was more "I want to find who wrote that and beat them with a Clue Stick."

And now I wonder how I'm gonna read Urusei Yatsura if the only easily-available translation is gonna pull that kind of crap. I suppose I could just assume the original wording didn't include the "hetero-normative" part.

The new translation is sadly the only official english version of the manga. Viz's original run of UY ended before Ryunosuke was introduced.

I will say that the image posted is maybe one of three awkward things I noticed in the 17 volume run. The translation is not bad, but you can definitely tell the translator struggled with how they were going to approach Ryunosuke when she first appeared.

 

[skykiii]

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:

I've heard of Street Combat, but actually the Ranma game I remember is Hard Battle, which got an official US release with license intact.

One of the very first SNES games I bought, actually, and I still have the box and manual.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

I've heard of Street Combat, but actually the Ranma game I remember is Hard Battle, which got an official US release with license intact.

One of the very first SNES games I bought, actually, and I still have the box and manual.

You can't mention hard battle and not bring up the incredible US box art

 

[Boston Brand]

My knowledge of the show consists of my local comic book shop had VHS tapes going for $50 a pop well into the 2000s, and I had a buddy in the Marine Corp with a very well loved girl Ranma body pillow.

Even with that limited exposure, I can tell the worst kinds of localization is going to hit this like a truck.

 

[FatMebius]

If you got girl Ranma pregnant, she'd have to exclusively take cold showers, lest she accidentally give the baby a magic abortion.

 

[skykiii]

If you got girl Ranma pregnant, she'd have to exclusively take cold showers, lest she accidentally give the baby a magic abortion.

The question is how you would even manage that. Ranma thinks of himself as a man even in girl form (one reason "Tranny" interpretations fall flat--Ranma is well aware his female form is just a curse and not really him). I doubt Ranma would ever like anyone enough to want to have their babies without mind control being involved... and you could never force yourself on him because Ranma's one of the best martial artists ever.

And in the show, most people back off once they learn Ranma's true form is a man anyway.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

The question is how you would even manage that. Ranma thinks of himself as a man even in girl form (one reason "Tranny" interpretations fall flat--Ranma is well aware his female form is just a curse and not really him). I doubt Ranma would ever like anyone enough to want to have their babies without mind control being involved... and you could never force yourself on him because Ranma's one of the best martial artists ever.

And in the show, most people back off once they learn Ranma's true form is a man anyway.

Maybe some American exec gets a wind of the Ranma SNES repaint Street Combat and decide to adapt that and repaint that instead.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I'm going to laugh if it turns out the new Ranma anime is just a movie (or mini-series) à la InuYasha: Final Act covering the final chapters to give the anime "closure".

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Maybe some surviving Ocean Dub could reprise their roles for Ranma, especially the voice of the ghost cat, using the Double D voice

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1jlnuc

 

[Banana Hammock]

I don't really care about how badly they fuck up the dub, since only faggots watch dubs. My problem is that Ranma will go from somewhat niche to mainstream, and all of the trannies will latch onto it.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

I don't really care about how badly they fuck up the dub, since only faggots watch dubs. My problem is that Ranma will go from somewhat niche to mainstream, and all of the trannies will latch onto it.

They'd latch onto Tsubasa and complain about it later

 

[Banana Hammock]

They'd latch onto Tsubasa and complain about it later

Konatsu, and probably Ukyo, too.

 

[skykiii]

I'm going to laugh if it turns out the new Ranma anime is just a movie (or mini-series) à la InuYasha: Final Act covering the final chapters to give the anime "closure".

Honestly I'm hoping this is exactly what it is.

Literally Tranime

I don't really care about how badly they fuck up the dub, since only faggots watch dubs. My problem is that Ranma will go from somewhat niche to mainstream, and all of the trannies will latch onto it.

Yeah exactly. People who have never heard of Ranma will likely avoid it because they think its literally a trans advocacy show.... meanwhile people who know what Ranma is are terrified it will be seen as a trans advocacy show.

I actually knew a guy who refused to watch Ranma entirely because he got it mixed up with a different anime altogether. He was thinking of some recent anime (whose name I forget) where a guy's mad scientist sister turns him into a girl. That anime (whatever it was called) actually is a tranime. I pointed out to him that Ranma 1/2 never really goes beyond the level of, say, laughing at the absurdity of a man being caught in public wearing a dress.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

I get this fear that if new Ranma gets made, some "modern fan" asks a question to the mangaka, she gives an answer they don't like to hear, she did dismiss questions about Ranma and pregnancy, and they get social media and "game journalists" to turn her into the next JK Rowling if you know what I mean.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

I actually knew a guy who refused to watch Ranma entirely because he got it mixed up with a different anime altogether. He was thinking of some recent anime (whose name I forget) where a guy's mad scientist sister turns him into a girl. That anime (whatever it was called) actually is a tranime.

That anime isn't a tranime despite what the trannies think. Another older manga later anime Tenshi na Konamaiki or in English Cheeky Angel has a similar premise except the main character got turned into a girl after a genie reverse his wish to be a stronger man. And no one who remembers Cheeky Angel would call it a tranny anime. Plus Cheeky Angel's MC is also voice by Megumi Hayashibara who is the same VA for Ranma (female).

Correction for one of my earlier posts as I got the studios for Ranma 1/2, and
Urusei Yatsura mixed up. As it was Kitty Films who did part of Urusei Yatsura was the one to go out of business in 1996. Ranma 1/2 was done by Studio DEEN.

 

[skykiii]

Correction for one of my earlier posts as I got the studios for Ranma 1/2, and
Urusei Yatsura mixed up. As it was Kitty Films who did part of Urusei Yatsura was the one to go out of business in 1996. Ranma 1/2 was done by Studio DEEN.

Kitty Films logo is at the beginning of some Ranma episodes so maybe they had involvement early on.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Did any modern audiences ever see the live action Ranma movie from a decade earlier?

 

[TrinityReformed]

they get social media and "game journalists" to turn her into the next JK Rowling if you know what I mean.

So, Rumiko will make tons of dosh from a failed backlash?

Edit: Would be nice if a new 2D fighting game comes out of this.

 

[Premium Gonzo]

Did any modern audiences ever see the live action Ranma movie from a decade earlier?

I have not it looks hilariously bad.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

I have not it looks hilariously bad.

The villains of this movie might be a little problematic for today's "audience". On a related note, some clips of the Animax Asia dub