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tintor2
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The review makes it sound the writer is stressed about something but the score is quite. I thought people would be angry by the gender themes with Ranma's gender being used to create several jokes just like what happened to Kuno. Takahashi said she only wrote the manga as a comedy when questioned about the possibility of Ranma becoming pregnant. It reminds of Kiruko from Heavenly Delusion who suffers an identity crisis over their gender as Ishiguro wanted to write a serious story about genderswap yet the character of Maru claims he loves Kiruko regardless of gender
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all-tsun-and-no-dere
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I wrote it on four hours of sleep, which may have been the cause of the strangeness in the tone.
Going to need to see a source on that Takahashi quote. |
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Shenl742
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To get it out of the way, I don't know what Takahashi herself said about whether or not Ranma could get pregnant...but she definitely addressed that it was possible in the series itself!
In the (manga-only) Musk Dynasty arc, the titular antagonists are descendants of people who would throw animals into the drowned girl spring, use a magical bucket to "lock" them into their cursed forms, and then mate with them so their children get superpowers. So yes, under certain conditions, it IS possible for Ranma to get pregnant! |
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Nigel Planter
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This site goes into detail on the pregnant quote: https://www.furinkan.com/features/articles/pregnant.html
tl;dr Trish Ledoux, the English translator of the Ranma 1/2 anime asked Takahashi about it at dinner once and she said the thing but it was an off-the-cuff question in private so the actual "canon" of it being true could be debated. ...I suppose it's too late and too futile to ask people not to be weird with this series? |
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all-tsun-and-no-dere
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I'll be honest, my first thought was, "Are we starting this already?" |
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Swissman
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I remember an interview with her in an early to mid 90s issue of Animerica where she said that you're not supposed to think too deply about Ranma getting pregrant, or something similar. Can't say which number of Animerica it was right now, though. |
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all-tsun-and-no-dere
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That was an off-the-cuff comment made jokingly to Trish Ledoux, a member of Viz's translation team. |
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jmckenna15
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From the review:
This could be the same problem that Urusei Yatsura had. Both works by the same mangaka, both were watershed anime for their time and gained legions of new fans for what was then some pretty new -- and at times revolutionary -- themes. But here we are 40 years later, with both stories inspiring dozens, if not hundreds, of other authors to do their own stories with that influence guiding them that the re-makes might not rise above being an appreciation for anime history or nostalgic oldheads seeing a beloved property from their youth getting a nice new coat of paint. Don't get me wrong, I liked Urusei Yatsura, and the cartoonishness that David Production did with it was pretty funny. But I couldn't shake the feeling that a lot of the jokes were repetitive or had been done better elsewhere. Revolutionary stuff can't really be repeated. Then it's not revolutionary, it's just the new normal. |
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jmckenna15
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Honestly my first thought was "it really took us 2 whole episodes before this came up?" |
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LinkTSwordmaster
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The initial episode felt perfect on every level, the second episode was fun, but I felt it didn't keep with the zippy pace of the first. Thinking back on my time with the manga, I'm not sure I had a ton of fun in general with the school characters, so it's probably more a personal taste thing.
Overall, it feels like it's a really great time to show off Ranma to friends in 2024 - both episodes so far exist in parity with what I'd seen in my head while I was reading it originally, and I'm definitely looking forward to them taking their time and giving what will hopefully be a full+accurate translation of all of Ranma's various volumes. |
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Swissman
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Quite possibly, I'm not debating that, but you asked for a quote, I responded. Coincidentally Nigel Planter's link was posted just one minute before my posting:
So I remembered it right, it originally appeared in Animerica. My memory didn't fail me this time, after 30 years. |
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Piglet the Grate
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Biggest change I noted was in a character design.
My $0.02 - Akane has gone from being somewhat odd looking and "uncute" in the original anime to being cute in the remake. |
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Varkias
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I somehow entirely missed this new character that narrates what's happening on screen in the second episode.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Tenchi
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I don't have the issue but I have a book from 1997, Anime Interviews: The First Five Years of Animerica Anime & Manga Monthly (1992-1997) edited by Trish Ledoux and published by Cadence Books, a division of Viz Communications, which has a 1993 interview with Rumiko Takahashi conducted by Seiji Horibuchi. Unless they edited it out of the book reprint of the Animerica interview, the Ranma pregnancy question doesn't come up and wouldn't really fit the friendly-but-professional tone of the interview. EDIT: Nevermind, I missed the sub-reply later on that said it was from an editorial, not the interview itself. |
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