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If you want something good, stay as far away from this as you can. I started it simply because I love the sci-fi genre, but in spite of not being fantasy, this is as generically low-brow and low quality as isekai gets. The main protagonist is given from the start, and then gains every single tool needed to make every challenge that comes up a walk in the park. There's no difficulty to anything, and no point to anything that happens. No character has any real issues or problems to overcome that can't basically be brushed aside within a few sentences, and then there's nothing ... more. There's no character development right across the board.

It's also bloody terrible sci-fi. It's about as cheap and as lousy as sci-fi can get, because there's no effort whatsoever to craft a proper sci-fi universe. Every piece of tech there is given a name that's so generic, it just has to work. The author went about this as cheaply, with as little effort as is humanly possible, because any time any piece of exposition even comes close to an explanation, the generic protagonist just sites how he didn't know how some things worked in his own world, but he could still use them, so he wouldn't bother to try and understand now.

That goes for the writing in general, being as lousy and as slovenly as any writing could. Every relationship quote/unquote "progresses" faster than a boulder falling out of the sky. Not that anyone actually changes or has a semblance of development. Just like almost all isekai, this one goes out of it's way to glorify how the guy is a one-dimensional, transparent hound dog with all the depth of a puddle.

If you like sci-fi, or are just looking for a quality story, then avoid this like the plague.

This is an absolute abysmal joke of an adaptation of Ranma that you should avoid at all costs.

The pacing of this anime is so unbelievably heinous and detrimental to the quality of the story that it reduces it from something that would be merely alright for a remake, to downright dreadful. This remake has so far condensed almost half of the first season of the original, namely, the first eight episodes, into just four episodes. It isn't done evenly either, as no less than three episodes of content of the original are squeezed together to make just one of these.

The appalling amount of context cut ... out of the episodes in this remake hamper the story greatly. It's removed entire sections of insights into Akane's character, why she is the way she is, the earliest moments of her bonding with Ranma, and none of the moments they've deigned to leave alone make up for what isn't there. Not to mention, there is so much missing context and character insights, that when one certain major early event happens to Akane, it falls horribly flat, because this joke of adaptation has provided none of the significance as to what that means to her. It leaves the Ranma series thus far as nothing but an inferior shadow of what the story really is, and a dull one at that. This is without even going into the fact that about half the characters sound horribly miscast.

Do yourself a favor and watch the original, because this isn't Ranma.

This is a movie about a time traveling love story between two teenagers. Mitsuha is a girl with a dull life in the country side, and Taki is a boy with a fast paced life in Tokyo, and one day, they find themselves inexplicably switching bodies.

This movie does some things well, and a lot of things poorly. The plot itself is well paced and deftly crafted, if a little flighty at times, but the issues are with the characters themselves and what they do. Individual character development is pretty solid, but their interactions with each other at times are not. There's really not much of ... any preamble to the main pair possibly falling in love, so when it starts, it kind of comes out of nowhere, and you just have to go along with it. Also, some of their actions are a little unbelievable. Such as Taki never managing to learn the name of Mitsuha's town despite all the switches they go through.

This is a movie that's supposed to make you really care about the characters, but to me, it fell flat. Even within the confines of a movie, it didn't properly develop enough for me to care and root for Taki and Mitsuha to make it in the end. It would have been a better vibe for the story if they had left out the more explicit notes of love, and left that as an implied connection at the very end. It's not a bad movie, but there are definitely better love stories out there. You can watch it if you want, but you really won't be missing anything if you don't.