Fedranime reviews
Ranma ½
I would like to start off this review by apologizing for not
posting anything last Thursday. I’m still in high school so last week gave me a
really big workload. But I’m here now so lets start this review off with a
classic, Ranma 1/2.
Ranma ½ half is an anime made by kitty films and is based on
a manga by the Queen of mangakka herself, Rumiku Takahashi! The story follows
Ranma Saotome, who is engaged to his fiancé Akane Tendo. This might seem
normal, but Ranma and his father are cursed. Every time Ranma is splashed with
cold water he becomes a girl, but if he is splashed with hot water he changes
back. Also Akane doesn’t really like him, due to how she first met his…er.. met
his guy form. Then more suitors show up who fall in love with one of the two,
some f them are cursed, then there’s a 500+ perverted master who... yeah its
one of THOSE kind of anime. Ranma ½ is easily one of my favorite manga and is
actually the thing that actually got me into anime in the first place. I mean I
still watched things like Yu Yu Hakusho on toonami but it was cancelled long
before I found this and all I remembered was that one screaming orange haired
guy. Still this is an amazing and well known anime so lets see what it’s got.
One of the best things Ranma ½ is all of the characters.
This is one of the few shounen anime where a lot of the time is used for
character development instead of “Lets have Kamina say something stupid again”
Though this is probably because it’s part romance anime. A lot of the
characters are really relatable to and you really feel for their struggles.
This is most evident with Ryoga and Moose. Ryoga has no sense of direction, has
a cursed form where his only attack strategy is “Run the crap away and find
Akane”, and his love interest barely acknowledges his existence. Moose on the
other hand can’t see 2 feet in front of him, his curse is stupid, and his love
interest acknowledges his existence by keeping him in his cursed duck form
chained to a chair, denies him food for days, and then holds the food just out
of his reach. That’s what you get for falling in love with an amazon man,
sorry. Takahashi also makes sure to do something that no other harem mangakka
would ever think of. Actually develop the main characters relationships and
give most of the other suitors perfect matches! OH. MY. GOD. This is the
craziest thing I have heard of! I really need to wrap up this part so I’m just
going to say this. The fighting is also good. Granted this is shounen, but it’s
not like that. A lot of the martial arts are incredibly creative and are the
definition of the trope, mundane made awesome. They range from things like
Martial arts figure skating, which granted does sound legit since if you do a
jump kick you can decapitate someone, to martial arts Chinese take out
delivery. Even the non hammy martial arts are awesome, particularly Ranma’s
finishing move the Hiryu Shouten Ha, essentially where if you have someone
chase you around in a spiral, turn around, put on a cold look and throw a screw
punch you can create your own tornado.
If you have not had a heart attack right now from the sheer awesomeness
then you can no longer consider yourself a part of the human race!
I hate to say this but unfortunately, this could use a few changes. My main problem is with the anime. About 2/3
through the series the anime got padded severely and there were entire seasons
made of nothing but filler. This wasn’t that big of a problem, since it did
give us Kogane Musashi, but it also meant that Mint and Saffron never got
screen time. Also quick word of warning. Course the filler did mean a few
alternate character interpretations. While in the anime Ranma was made out to
be an cocky unbeatable he-man, in the manga Ranma did get defeated occasionally
and that only made him realize his flaws and seek to try and defeat whoever
beat him, making him more human. As one would expect from a series about a guy
who becomes a girl with water, there will be some nudity. Best hide it before
your parents find it and then go over it in sharpie, and DEFINATLEY do
something for volume 6 when Happosai appears!
So is Ranma ½ good? Yes. This is an amazing anime and if you
ask anyone about it chances are they will have nothing but compliments for
this. All of the characters are amazing and even though I slightly prefer the
manga the anime is till amazing. I think that my favorite episode of all time
for this would probably be episode 45. Though non-canon, this was awesome
because due to Akane accidentally hitting Ranma on the head with a frying pan
(don’t ask that’s basically how they greet each other) Ranma forgets he’s a guy
and spends most of the episode as an overly femine girl or even an effeminate
guy. There’s also word of the series getting rebooted after a survey went
around so everyone needs to check it out. That’s it for this edition of
Fedranime reviews. Catch you later.
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