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hikaru393
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:02 pm
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how did ranma 1/2 end
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Dranxis
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:07 pm
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I never saw it myself, but supposedly Kitty Animation went out of business, so Ranma 1/2 ended on a random run-of-the-mill episode. You'd have to read the manga to find out the "real" ending.
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v1cious
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:01 am
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Starwind Amada wrote: | Watch it and see. This thread is useless. |
yeah that makes perfect sense. now it's off to go watch all 300 episodes.
if you were gonna post, you could have at least answered his question.
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DKL
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:06 am
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Dranxis wrote: | I never saw it myself, but supposedly Kitty Animation went out of business, so Ranma 1/2 ended on a random run-of-the-mill episode. You'd have to read the manga to find out the "real" ending. |
Actually, it picked a nice episode to end at.
I was pretty satisfied with it since it was kinda bittersweet.
Anyway, from what I recall:
They ended with Ranma's mother showing up, but then since he didn't grow up to be a "real man" like his dad promised her, they'd have to commit suicide.
I think the emphasis was that Akane didn't have a mom, and Ranma couldn't be with his mom...
or something like that...
I'm a bit iffy, but I think that was where it was at... it's been a long time
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Tony K.
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:52 am
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Yes, Ranma's mother shows up. And as DKL said, there was a promise from Genma that he would raise Ranma to be a "great man" and if he didn't, both Genma and Ranma would have to commit seppuku. Add the fact that Ranma would change into a girl with cold water and you get a precarious situation for the Saotome family.
It's been a while since I saw it, but I think Ranma got around the obstacle of having his secret exposed. His mother sort of already accepted him as being a good man, but the funny thing is his mother was in danger and he ended up saving her at the last second, only to get doused with cold water in the process.
His mother then saw girl-Ranma, but didn't know it was him. She said that girl was "nice" and that she hoped the girl would become as strong and brave as her son someday.
After that, boy-Ranma and his mother talk for a bit and she ends up leaving at the end of the episode with Ranma giving a monologue about how he's going to become a greater man and prove to himself that he's worthy of the praise she had undeservedly given him.
And no, Ranma never gets married. The end.
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~Aly~
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:44 pm
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Tony K. wrote: |
Yes, Ranma's mother shows up. And as DKL said, there was a promise from Genma that he would raise Ranma to be a "great man" and if he didn't, both Genma and Ranma would have to commit seppuku. Add the fact that Ranma would change into a girl with cold water and you get a precarious situation for the Saotome family.
It's been a while since I saw it, but I think Ranma got around the obstacle of having his secret exposed. His mother sort of already accepted him as being a good man, but the funny thing is his mother was in danger and he ended up saving her at the last second, only to get doused with cold water in the process.
His mother then saw girl-Ranma, but didn't know it was him. She said that girl was "nice" and that she hoped the girl would become as strong and brave as her son someday.
After that, boy-Ranma and his mother talk for a bit and she ends up leaving at the end of the episode with Ranma giving a monologue about how he's going to become a greater man and prove to himself that he's worthy of the praise she had undeservedly given him.
And no, Ranma never gets married. The end. |
Well, it makes sense, but then again it kinda doesnt. I'll go ahead and read the manga for the "real" ending...I've gotta say, that ending really does say "I more or less just wanted to kick the series in the arse and just end it point-blank." It's a shame~ but ah, well.
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Tony K.
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:23 pm
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~Aly~ wrote: | Well, it makes sense, but then again it kinda doesnt. I'll go ahead and read the manga for the "real" ending...I've gotta say, that ending really does say "I more or less just wanted to kick the series in the arse and just end it point-blank." It's a shame~ but ah, well. |
The manga's ending is just as open-ended and inconclusive.
From what I remember seeing, Ranma was dressed up for his wedding with Akane, but every single character that had a thing for either of those two came busting in and ruined it all.
I think Ranma and Akane made an agreement to try and settle those issues and hold the wedding off until all the loose ends were tied.
I hope endings like this and in Inu Yasha (the anime series) aren't the only thing Takahashi-sensei can write. I'm starting to collect Maison Ikkoku on DVD. And from all the good things I hear, I hope it's a solid story from beginning to end instead of here and there, through the middle, then totally absent thereafter..
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Dranxis
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:50 pm
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I've heard that Maison Ikkoku had a very conclusive and satisfying ending that wraps up things nicely. But yes, her endings seem to be either brilliant or completely uninspired. I thought some of her short stories had excellent endings and twists at the end, but it seems like her longer ones aren't very good... I really hope she comes up with a good one for the Inu-Yasha manga, since it seems like it'll end in the next year or so. But to be honest, I myself wouldn't know how to resolve all those story threads. I mean, how is one supposed to resolve something as impossible as the Kikyo x Kagome x Inu-Yasha love triangle?
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shirokiryuu
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:37 am
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Dranxis wrote: | I've heard that Maison Ikkoku had a very conclusive and satisfying ending that wraps up things nicely. But yes, her endings seem to be either brilliant or completely uninspired. I thought some of her short stories had excellent endings and twists at the end, but it seems like her longer ones aren't very good... I really hope she comes up with a good one for the Inu-Yasha manga, since it seems like it'll end in the next year or so. But to be honest, I myself wouldn't know how to resolve all those story threads. I mean, how is one supposed to resolve something as impossible as the Kikyo x Kagome x Inu-Yasha love triangle? |
I think at the end of the manga rumiko takahashi comments that she ended ranma 1/2 purposely to let fans imagine what happens to the characters after the story ends... i hope that's not an excuse....
i dislike that she drags out stories/reuses them a lot... but i can't help but anticipate the ending of inu-yasha even if i've stopped reading it. I don't think that love-triangle is that impossible... inuyasha does have lingering feelings for kikyo, but kikyo's still dead and can't really have a future with inuyasha for that reason
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Jadress
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:54 am
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I agree, I've always thought Takahashi has great short stories, and boy is she good at making fun characters, but damn hell, when it comes to her big series, someone needs to stop her, because she milks that crap more than.. um.. a really huge cow? "Oh look, Ranma and Akane still aren't together after 200 episodes.. LET'S ADD MORE CHARACTERS!" I enjoyed the Inuyasha manga when it first came out. I bought about 13 volumes, and then realized that the story would NEVER progress, and I would end up spending a small college tuition before the manga ended, so I'm done with Inuyasha.
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Dranxis
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:05 pm
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I actually tend to like endings that are more open than ones that overly-resolve themselves, and don't give the reader/viewer any reason to think about what happened after the ending. That why I actually came away from the Mermaid Saga manga pretty satisfied. *spoiler-tagging just in case*
Even though the ending is so open, most fans consider it unfinished, something about that last panel with Yuta and Mana walking away from that boy gave me this feeling that for centuries to come, they'd would still be out there, journeying endlessly with eachother. A very conclusive ending would have probably been depressing and tragic, and predictably would have involved the death of both characters somehow. So honestly, in this case I much prefer the open approach.
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