It seems like characters such as Shampoo, Ukyo, and even Ranma and Ryoga often wear the same outfits, or very similar variations of their default outfits. Does anyone else wish the characters would wear more casual outfits once in a while?
My s.h figuarts (old versions) figures and my laserdisc collection of maison ikkoku, it's a bit old due to time but the discs are still wrapped. ( my old laserdisc player reader broke and I got a new one very recently)recently.
Even thou I love Ranma a lot my favorite Rumiko Takahashi anime is actually Maison Ikkoku.
I enjoy laser discs a lot and I wanted to get more of my favorite anime in laser disc format.
Rumiko Takahashi was drawn in the manga Aoi Honō from Kazuhiko Shimamoto.
She looks gorgeous 😭
There seems to be a misunderstanding when it comes to Shampoo's reason for popularity. Some people desperately claim it comes from having only "male pervy fans who waifu her" and no female fans. However they are factually, wrong. Shampoo was proven to have a huge fanbase of women when it was shown what the demographic was of the majority of people who voted in the Rumiko's NHK poll. Not only that but, a huge amount of Shampoo's merchandise is marketed towards women, high heel shoes, conditioners and shampoos (Shampoo's shampoo yes), fashion outfits and pastel colors everywhere. Those things no matter how you look at it, are bought by girls. I am glad to be one of those girls 😺
Even in old merchandise, Shampoo was always prominent, this is not anything new.
She was even used on magazines as the poster girl. Anyone that claims, this is a new thing is wrong, she was always prominent. She wouldn't be featured on covers of Ranma videogames or cds if it wasn't so🤯
Rumiko Takahashi has openly expressed her support for ToloveRu (Harem manga with inspiration from Urusei Yatsura ) and surprisingly Prison School 😆 (not harem but.. very very weird manga). She was even featured on the last volume's obi of the manga.
https://furinkan.com/takahashi/takahashi59.html
What do you think about Rumiko's taste? Did some people expect her to be into other romcom or shoujo manga? 🤔
Megumi Hayashibara (Female Ranma voice actor) received a ton of hate mail (allegedly even razor blades in her post 😱) after her debut in the original Ranma anime. In one comment made on her blog she even says she was glad there was no internet at the time. 🥲
Personally I love her work and my favorite characters of her are Ranma, Jessie from Pokemon and Rei from Evangelion.
Do you have any favorite characters voiced by Megumi Hayashibara?
What do you think of Shampoo's early design with green hair and blue eyes?
Fun fact:
Shampoo's purple hair, just like Ranma's red hair, apparently wasn't Rumiko's original idea, they were both supposed to have dark hair, but the anime gave Ranma red hair, and Shampoo purple.
Do you prefer Kitsune or P-chan?
Weird title but apparently Pantyhose is the most handsome male character, I thought it would be Mikado. For Shampoo it's not surprising 😺 https://www.furinkan.com/takahashi/takahashi120.html
(Rumic World) from this interview.😃👏
Did you know Shampoo was a guest character initially ?just like lum
Thought it was cool to post it, those are magazines containing both chapters of Urusei Yatsura and Ranma.