Ranma ½ (2024) Episode 1 Discussion

Well they lied too us, wasn't suppose to be like this. It's woke as fuck. Looks worse than the original and on top of that, it's censored. Sadly, I'm still going to watch it.

@0451

I agree, without UY there would be no Ranma, but not for the reason you think of: the author is the same, UY was an earlier work of her, if it didn't pan out she would have probably chosen another career.

As for the references, I guess I wasn't clear enough in explaining that I used only outside references because the japanese references to Ranma are literally too many to mention, like Mimi and Nene in Slayers ( https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ranma/images/8/83/Mimi_and_Nene.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20110817192939 ) or these plushies in Kyoukai no Rinne ( https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ranma/images/c/cd/Ranma_Plushes_in_Rinne.png/revision/latest?cb=20200307102423 ), or even, if you wanna keep talking about UY, Ranma and Shampoo in the OVA 4 of UY ( https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ranma/images/5/53/Ranma_Cameo_OVA4.png/revision/latest?cb=20200818010405 ).

As for other artists citing it as inspiration:

Hiroshi Aro https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/house-of-1000-manga/2010-10-21
Bryan Lee O'Malley https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2017/12/2/tokyo-comicon-2017-bryan-lee-omalley-scott-pilgrim-talks-about-the-influence-from-ranma-12
Colleen Coover https://comicsalliance.com/colleen-coover-small-favors-interview/
Matt Bozon https://web.archive.org/web/20130917093704/http://www.girlgamer.com/zine/article/2985/
Even Makoto Shinkai said it took inspiration from Ranma 1/2 for the making of Your Name (Kadokawa Shoten, August 27, 2016, page 48)


So, what was your point again?

Is Idaten team behind this adaptation?

Other than being leaked beforehand, it's now ACTUALLY here. And I mean, for what reason, I'm still not sure. It's censored already, and other than that banger of an OP, not really sure what purpose for this to exist. UY was one thing because it was an actual classic, this though? I doubt many out of Japan have even heard of this Rumiko work before.... Should've just made a InYusha remake, but whatever.

Though, we're stuck with this, and there' nothing we can do about it, so mean as well take what we can get. Episode just sets the basic premise of that Mr. Panda and Ranma went to China of all places and when going into some special water transformed to something else. The sansei or whatever, turning into Mr. Panda, and Ranma, a girl. And now, when dosed with HOT water, NOT boiling water xD, transform back to their normal form, or something with cold water and Ranma transforming back idk.

So yeah, it's a unique premise for sure, but for if this can last as long as FOUR HUNDERED CHAPTERS, who knows. Yeah, he's gonna grow to love her fiancé in the end, same as UY, but IDK if you can really repeat that for as long as UY did. It was getting a bit repetitive near the end. This'll just suffer from the same problem UY has, with since it's episodic, everything just goes back to normal by the end, not really leaving much room for development.

For a first episode, it was fun, I guess. MAPPA animating this doesn't really change much, I'd say it's no different from david and UY. At least we know the production is healthy, considering it's all tweleve episodes got leaked.

Just would hope it wouldn't have been censored, but whatever.

@IzanaSolos Are you joking? You doubt Ranma 1/2 is known outside of Japan? It was her first work to take off in the U.S. It was everywhere when I was growing up. It's the first manga I ever read, back when they were still manually re-arranging the panels to make them left-right readable for Americans (which was stupid, and they thankfully stopped).