#source: ranma 1/2

[inukag]

@inuvember day 19: inuyasha & kagome ღ

[the-black-bulls]

Damnatio: I will ruin your happiness, no matter the cost!

Nero: My happiness?

Nero, to Asta: I’m happy?

[sigmaufo]

Shinichi, shrunk: That's Ran's voice! I can't let her see me!

Agasa: Don't worry. I'll tell her a story so she won't suspect anything.

Shinichi: I've always thought of you as a middle-aged weirdo, but you're actually a nice guy!

(scene change)

Ran: He's Shinichi's son?

Agasa: I'm as surprised as you!

Ran: He looks just like him, too!

Shinichi: It's a lie! It's a lie! It's a lie! It's a lie! (Punches Agasa's head) I'm Shinichi's younger cousin.

Ran: Ohhh, that makes more sense.

[incorrect-danmachi-quotes]

Valletta: I will ruin your happiness, no matter the cost! Finn: My happiness? Finn, to Riveria: I’m happy?

[princesscolumbia]

https://www.furinkan.com/features/articles/pregnant.html

About a week-ish ago, the above link was posted to the r/Ranma subreddit. I took a look at the article and the tl;dr seems to be as follows:

Once upon a time there was a person who put forth the question to Rumiko Takahashi on whether Ranma's transformation from boy-to-girl was complete enough that Ranma could experience all the consequences of such a transformation, the logical conclusion being, "Can Ranma get pregnant?" The rather infamous 'quote' of "I don't think about that, and neither should you," is purported to come from this question, which told the audience one thing: Don't fucking ask about Ranma's sex life or by Kami-sama, Takahashi-sensei will gut you! This stood as an uncontested truth until the pandemic when someone decided to try and track down the exact source of the quote, at which point they realized this was NOT said at a convention (as had initially been circulated via rumor at the time), but in an editorial that stood in lieu of a an interview that took place over a sit-down dinner between Takahashi and an editor who would wind up garnering a reputation for ginning up drama for its own sake. It's likely a heavily 'interpreted' quote that probably didn't have the intent to come across as cutting or biting and likely had a LOT of questions left on the table that could have been asked as a follow-up. So now that we've answered the question of whether Takahashi-san was actually a rude bitch or not (likely not), if you want to know whether Ranma can get pregnant you are a smelly sex pervert who most likely has cooties and should just drop dead and save us all the trouble of shunning you.

Am I taking liberty with my summary? FU~HUH~HUH~UCK YES! If you want to see what they actually say, follow the link and read. It's not tremendously long and, save for the author's unconscious purity cult bias, is a pretty solid piece of reportage into the infamous "quote," even if the question isn't actually answered. What follows is what I posted to Reddit in the comments section for that link:

I take issue with the foundational premise that the question of whether or not Ranma could get pregnant is inherently puerile or vulgar, which is not only the foundation of the original misquote but also the basis of the article's author's premise. Guess what, people f*ck, including at least two people you (yes, YOU) know. This should not be controversial. Now, I'll grant that, maybe...maybe in the 1990s when the question came up it might have been one of those giggle-behind-a-hand-in-shock kind of things, but we're entering a phase in world culture where uterus transplants for transwomen are being put through clinical trials to allow them to get pregnant. The rights of trans and gender-non-conforming folk are being trampled on the world over. Some transmen are choosing to become pregnant and have children. The hypocrisy of "cis het people get to talk about pregnancy without everyone assuming the question is about f*cking, but you'd better not talk about someone who's even a little bit trans or you're clearly doing it to be filthy, nasty perverts" is being exposed for the comp-het that it is. Asking "does this character who, canonically, transitions back and forth between one biological set of sex organs and secondary sex characteristics multiple times per day have to deal with all the concerns, consequences, and benefits of both forms?" is no longer the automatic, "You can't say that on TV!" that is used to be (and, honestly, never should have been). Soun, canonically, has f*cked. Nodoka, canonically, has f*cked. Genma, canonically (goddess help us all), has fucked. The operational premise of the primary conflict of the series is whether or not Ranma and Akane are going to, eventually, f*ck. The question of "What happens if Ranma gets pregnant?" should only ever be problematic if Takahashi at some point declares that Ranma is an ace transwoman and never wants to birth children, at which point it would be a thing that shouldn't be considered for hard/soft canon purposes because it would violate Ranma's choices in the matter. IMHO, in the reboot I think an episode where Ranma has to deal with attending both the boy's and the girl's sex ed classes would be tremendously funny. It would also have the knock-on effect getting people to think about things like "consent" and "consequences," something our current culture rather lacks.

This was auto-banned on Reddit because, apparently, saying the word "fuck," even with the self-censoring and used in the appropriate context, is a bridge too far for a subreddit attended by people old enough to know what sex is.

This isn't the first time I've encountered problematic behavior on the r/Ranma subreddit. When I pointed out that Ranma's basically saying that s/he just plain forgot about their gender and they only wanted the cure for Akane's sake, this is basically Ranma declaring that they don't care about their 'curse' and is genderfluid/NB, just lacking in the language that we have for those gender presentations (or non-presentation, as the case may be) that we have today, I got the clapback of, "NUH-UH! You're wrong! Ranma's a cis guy!".

(Yes, a cis guy. A cis guy who has 'his' own bras and likely has to carry around period products "just in case" and grows at least a cup-size canonically over the course of the show's run as commented on by Nabiki...and don't tell me Nabiki's not at least bi!)

This was on a conversation about whether Ranma was trans, which is a challenging question given the best word at the time for what Ranma is was 'newhalf,' a term that has come to be associated with sex workers and holds the same cultural niche as "sh*male" in American culture; it's a bit derogatory and is considered to be a slur that is used specifically in a sexual connotation. Couple this with the anime and manga being, at best, parallel continuities (there's SO many places where the two are different timelines I could probably do an entire series of posts just breaking down the differences) AND the fans stitching the two together to create fused variant timelines for their derivative works means that we just don't, at this point, have a solid answer.

Thanks to THAT episode of the anime:

Am I... Pretty? Ranma's Declaration of Womanhood (Peacock link)

...pretty much no transwoman on the planet is going to question that anime Ranma is a transgirl. The parallels to our own experiences that (femme)Ranma talks about during her dissociative state hit entirely too close to home and if a member of the writing team for that episode wasn't part of the queer community I will eat my bra with spaghetti sauce.

It's important to note, as well, that because of the anime, Takahashi is NO LONGER THE FINAL AUTHORITY ON ALL THINGS RANMA. If 'death of the author' is a thing, Takahashi committed honorable sepuku and gave creative control over to a writing and directorial team that is not her.

For the original manga, because Takahashi was unwilling to tackle those questions that give Purity Cultists hives (though why she'd shy away from the pregnancy angle when she was perfectly happy showing Ranma and her mirror clone working as prostitutes is a question I will probably never get answered), it's "open to interpretation" as to Ranma's Genderfluid/NB status, though IMHO the text is as clear as you can get it for the language of the time.

(In retrospect, it's obvious; she should be in the club)

In the anime, though, Shampoo and Ukyo are bi (and fuckin'), Ranma is a transwoman, and Akane is either lesbian or bi and strangled by comp-het to an obvious degree. Ryoga may well be trans as well, though his pig-related curse makes the matter questionable given his lamentations could be either about not having a girl body like Ranma does OR having a pig body, which would suck and result in severe dysmorphia either way.

This is because the anime team chose to tackle those questions, at least tangentially. Rumiko Takahashi, for all she is to be thanked for giving the world Ranma 1/2 (...and a few other things), handed off the baton to other creators. If we want the answers to the questions like, "Can Ranma get pregnant?", Takahashi is NOT the source for that.

That said, if she and I had the chance to sit down over a meal in San Diego during a convention, I'd apologize on behalf of the community for the monstrous tool who misquoted her and ask the questions like another content creator, not some asshat who just wants to stir up trouble for decades to come.

[character-tarot]

The Wheel of Fortune represents changing fate, luck, destiny, karma, random chance, and cycles. Reversed, it indicates poor luck, lack of control, unwelcome change, disorder, and chaos.

[canadiancryptid]

I'm getting into the Ranma 1/2 anime now. Gonna be slow working through it, because there are a LOT of episodes and it doesn't quite hit the same vibes as the manga did for me, but I find some of the changes are really facinating.

This clip is from the first episode so far that doesn't have a manga counterpart. I cannot get over how quickly Ranma goes along with this stupid idea. He only really objects to Ryoga jokingly calling him cute and having stuff thrown at him. Nothing else about that stupid plan. He doesn't even need any extra encouragement, he just goes with it immediately.

This feels SO early in the story for Ranma to not have much of an objection to something like this. The source I'm using to watch these has the episodes in the original airing order, which places this before even the Martial Arts Figure Skating arc. I think later airings put this right after it, but still...

I think part of why this feels so wierd to me is because of how often the thought of being some guy's wife seems to scare him. He has nightmares about ending up as a stay-at-home mom, but here he is, going along with this plan while Tofu's mother talks about the importance of wide, childbearing hips in a future wife.

Its a facinating inclusion, to say the least.

[call-me-insane-but-wth]

I've hated the original ranma 1/2 animated adaptation for so long and so much. As someone who read the manga first and then saw snippets here and there of the adaptation, I couldn't understand why the fandom was that way.

Sexist and misogynistic and flanderizing Akane AND Ranma.

It came to a point where I started to wonder if there was a whole different ranma 1/2 I wasn't aware of. The fandom was so bad that I started writing ranma 1/2 spitefics of my own until I realized the futility. Because I knew that *I* wasn't wrong. It was the fandom!

Particularly the WESTERN fandom!

It sent me into a tizzy because weren't we the land of the free, home of the brave? Full of ideals that we always fall short of, but constantly struggle towards anyways?? Why are we, the western fandom so antiquated, sexist, and hateful when the source material is so optimistic and progressive!?

That's why, when I see content of people bemoaning the 'changes' of the ranma1/2 2024 reboot, I can't help but sneer and scoff. Wah, wah, the hair is supposed to be red, not pink. Wah, wah, the art style isn't as good. Why are Ranma's girl-body nipples being censored. Wah, wah, why is Ranma being singled out by the new fans as the problematic factor when Akane, our favorite punching bag, is right there.

It's especially the latter* that I identify all the complaints to be stemming from. Because this reboot is actually manga canon accurate, and setting aside the superficial details, all their gripes are camouflage for their true willfull ignorance and biases.

The point of the narrative was to show the idiosyncratic behaviors of two growing and learning teenagers. They're both going to be unlikeable at certain stages. But no matter what, as readers and watchers, the original intent of the narrative is to show that despite their martial arts prowess and superhuman abilities, they're just two kids trying to do the right thing even when the world is confusing and chaotic.

In our current social climate, thankfully, the demographic has become more aware of toxic gender roles, sexism, and exploitation. Some criticism is being leveled at Ranma because the writing (of this reboot) is no longer incomprehensibly biased against the female lead, Akane.

Sorry, not sorry that your antiquated sexist tropes are being lambasted by the canon narrative.

[freezing-kaiju]

IT'S TIME FOR THE NEW 12 EPISODE POLL!!!!! WE BEGIN, WE ENTER, WE LOOK ALIVE! E LOOK TO THE PAST! You voted for familiar creators and friend recs i the past, and the friend recs tend towards longer shows so those'll be for when Dirty Pair's done, but for now, let's go with Familiar Creators!!!! SO!!!

NINE! CHOICES!

Canaan, a TYPE-MOON and Kinoko Nasu story as well as a returnee to the poll. A yuri story involving a Middle Eastern mercenary’s quest for revenge and simultaneous effort to protect her beloved friend, a photographer investigating various things in Shanghai.

Akudama Drive, by Too Kyo Games and Kazutaka Kodaka, of Danganronpa fame. A fake crime-doer and a bunch of very real crimers do One Last Big Heist in the cyberpunk future while being hunted down by the government. Previous poll near-winner, I’ve heard it’s fun, tragic, and possibly even based. Comes most highly recommended of these shows.

Chaos Dragon: Sekiryuu Seneki, by Urobuchi, Nasu, the Durarara guy, one of Kamen Rider Blade’s two writers Shou Aikawa, and two of their friends. It’s a TTRPG adventure! where they each play only one character! God, I NEED to see a show where Gen Urobuchi writes ONLY ONE character! Ultimately it’s a story about a small kingdom’s king trying to stop two larger countries from destroying his smaller one, which feels interesting bc it’s rare to get any TTRPG campaign where there is A Protagonist...

Girls’ Last Tour, source material by the shimeji simulation author, Tsukumizu. Cozy adventures through an apocalyptic dying world. I don’t do well with apocalyptic settings, but I love Shimeji Simulation a lot and I’ve heard so many good things about this one that I wanna give it a shot.

Mermaid Forest, by Rumiko Takahashi, of Ranma 1/2 and Urusei Yatsura. Two immortals who ate mermaids travel to find another mermaid in the hopes they can make them mortal once more. One of those classic kinda tales, and I really wanna see a rumic story that’s.....not 150 eps long...

Magical☆Shopping Arcade Abenobashi BY Hideaki Anno, of Shin Kamen Rider, Shin Godzilla, and Shin Ultraman. What if you were isekaied but it was just into a mall. A wacky hyperdimensional mall. The tone seems extremely lolrandomxd, and it’s one of Anno’s few 12 ep works.

RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time, character designs by Yoshitoshi ABe of serial experiments lain and Haibane Renmei fame. Guy who made robots gets frozen and wakes up to a robot war, oh fuck. Oh fuck, he’s supposed to protect his best friend’s daughter! AAAAAAAA! Disaster!!! I’m not sure whether he leaps through time any more than once. though.

Katanagatari, by NISIOISIN, creator of Bakemonogatari and Medaka Box. What if a swordless swordsman teamed up with an ambitious shogunate villainess to fulfill her scheme of stealing 12 legendary swords. One of them quality straights kinda shows NisioisiN loves making, seems to have a fun power system that I wanna experience. One of the ones I’ve seen around on tumblr that made me wanna get into liveblogging.

Kino’s Journey, scripted by Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 and Perfect Blue writer Murai Sadayuki, a writer I really think deserves more credit. Does crazy good work in adaptations. Nonbinary adventurer and talking bike go through different parables, functioning as observers of different forms of society and different ways of life.

[uyallstars]

Tumblr indexes the first 30 tags in the general tumblr search and the first 20 tags in the in-blog search. Remember to add your edit tag in the first 20 tags or they wont show up in your blog.

For anime I’d add the -graphics suffix (opgraphics for One Piece) and consider the acronym instead of the full name (dbedit for Dragon Ball), the manga/japanese name (ensedit for En'en no shōbōtai for Fire Force) or the colloquial name before -edit (kodochaedit for Kodomo no omocha).

Because this is the far west you will have a combination of all or some of the above because you don’t know which tags people may actually check out. If they do at all.

You can always search for more than one tag.

so i've noticed a trend recently with maybe new gifmakers or tumblr users where they only tag gifsets with the name of the media and not [media]edit and i just want to remind everyone that the [media]edit tag system emerged because it is impossible to properly filter tumblr searches and having an unfiltered mess of text posts, gifsets, fanfic, spam etc all in the general media tags makes it REALLY hard to find gifsets to reblog which is WHY the [media]edit tagging system was implemented in the first place, like that was a grassroots tumblr creator movement and it was the best thing we ever did as a collective and we need to keep doing it please i am begging y'all i cannot go back to scouring the general tags for gifsets like it's 2011 please please please keep using [media]edit for your gifsets

[psicheanima]

have u ever consumed ranma 1/2?

I am obligated to denounce such accusations. I do not partake in human consumption, for both fictional and nonfictional entities do not hold any taste that may interest me. My sophisticated palate might be the source of my abstainment— for my father was, in fact, a chef.

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Ranma 1/2

Sample Size: 1,133 stories

Source: AO3

[sohmanyfruitsbasketmemes]

I can’t believe Ranma 1/2 got the Brotherhood treatment in the year of our Lord 2024. The source material is literally almost 40 years old.

Not gonna lie, I was nervous about it. But after watching the first 3 episodes yesterday, I have a really good feeling about it.

As someone who had read the original manga and watched the OG anime multiple times, I feel like it does a better job in a few of areas.

The animation pacing is actually a lot better as far as setting the tone of the plot. The original anime sort of falls flat in making it feel like a ROMANTIC comedy. Really subtle things didn’t translate from the manga. A pause, a character focusing on something, camera angles — these are all things that make Ranma feel like a clueless love interest. Without them, the original anime made Ranma feel like a flippant asshole most of the time.

I was very worried about the comedy aspect. The original is genuinely funny. So far, it seems to hit all of the marks in that way.

I still worry about how some of the storyline will be received. There are a lot of themes around gender and sexuality that aged really poorly. Hoping the audience is able to take it with a grain of salt by remembering that this story was written in 1980s Japan.

Overall, it totally blew me out of the water so far! The way I’m not going to shut up about this for a VERY long time.

[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

[ukyou-kuonji]

Okay, it's been several months and it's finally time for me to post my thoughts on the Ranma 1/2 anime remake. I didn't say anything on this earlier because I was in some stressful real life situations and getting online and seeing everything made online not as much of an escape for a bit, but it's been a while, I've processed stuff, and I'm ready to do this.

Previously, when the first of the Takahashi remakes came out (Yashahime in 2020), I speculated that of all Takahashi series, Ranma 1/2 is both the one I love most and the one I least wanted to see a remake of. For the most part, I stand by this opinion.

I love the series deeply, it's meant so much to me and so many others. It expressed complicated feelings many of us felt with humor and heart. However, I worry for it's ability to translate to the 20s well. Most concerning is the blatant racism which is inextricable from the way many Chinese characters are presented. The constant sexual assault jokes are another issue. Jokes of these two types were never funny to begin with, and permeate the series. I am not going to defend either of these elements.

As everyone knows, there are also homophobic and more often transphobic jokes are interwoven with the core of the series and are the source of much of the humor, and I do think these jokes stem from a more complicated intention and portrayal. When I (and presumably others) found this series as a kid, it resonated with me for the way it depicted a whole host of characters struggling with fitting into heteronormative society, such as Ranma, Akane, Ukyo, and even Ryoga at times. It portrayed their struggles with genuine empathy. There are many characters in the series who are straight up sexist/homophobic/transphobic. However, there are an equal number of struggling queer characters, as stated above. These individuals are both queer AND sexist/homophobic/transphobic, most of them are deeply closeted or in denial, and none of them have a vocabulary to describe their feelings on matters of gender/sexuality. It is exactly this aspect which allowed the series to resonated with viewers in the 80s/90s.

I do think Ranma 1/2 made some interesting statements about internalized hatred/phobias, overcoming them, and acceptance, but now, in a time where many people at least have access to a vocabulary, I doubt the ability of the heart of the series to resonate with modern viewers. Not that these problems have gone away, but the cultural language we use to understand them have changed a lot, and the way we approach deviance from the norm (heck, what we consider the norm) has changed incredibly from the 80s.

The slapstick form of the series works alongside the characterization. for every moment it asks the viewer to empathize, the series holds the possibility of a gag over the viewers head. This self-denying form alongside self denying characters work to give the viewers and characters plausible deniability, all while exploring new definitions of gender and self in society. This is what allowed the series to even air in an era where the mere mention of lesbians meant it's competitor (Sailor Moon) had to be retooled for American audiences. The complicated and hypocritical characters and set ups are what made the series so important for me and many others when it first aired. Everyone is part of this system, and can conform in some ways and can't hide how they are unable to in others. That is why I love this series. This is also what makes this series bad "representation" in 2024. It's goal never was representation, and in a world with such a different relationship to queerness, and public queerness, the themes may not resonate with younger viewers.

Of course, there's also the additional problem with the longer the manga ran, the more it leant into genuine sexism/homophobia/transphobia, which of course complicates everything I've said above.

TLDR: I love this series, but I don't think that a 2024 version will be good, necessary, nor wanted. Ranma 1/2 is a product of it's time, and I love it, but keep me out of the discourse.

[petz5]

I try not to lift much of the story directly from the source material for my dog au bc if i just wanted "ranma 1/2 but animals" i've done that more than once already......... but i DID have to toss in the ryugenzawa arc. how could i not. u can have a small preview from the second page