r/RanmaAnime

My most favorite is Shampoo

My least favorites are Akane and Happosai.

I find all the others super fun though.

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.

For me, I am torn. On one hand I want more Shampoo and I think she deserves her own show because her design and charisma scream main character energy to me. But I admit I love how she's supporting yet she defeats the main characters in merch and popularity 🤣 I find it badass in a way.

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?

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 was drawn in the manga Aoi Honō from Kazuhiko Shimamoto.

She looks gorgeous 😭

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.

Female Ranma Saotome meeting Ami Mizuno from Sailor Moon and mistaking her for Akane Tendo. Made at MMD (MikuMikuDance).

Models and background:

Female Ranma Saotome by by Koikatsu Mod.

Ami Mizuno by Hutariwap.

School Hallway by TechArts3D and Maddoktor2.

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? 🤔

I love the retro animation! It's so beautiful and timeless.

Sé que lo que estoy pensando no tiene mucho sentido, pero ¿se han puesto a pensar en lo raro que son los estanques mágicos en Ranma ½? Para empezar, están demasiado juntos y se han ahogado demasiados seres vivos ahí, pero parece que no son muy hondos. Así que he pensado en que tal vez un grupo de personas ahogaron a personas y animales en una especie de ritual, o también puede ser que las personas se hayan ahogado a propósito en un suicidio colectivo. Al ser estanques mágicos, cabe la posibilidad de que sirvan como portales de otros lugares donde las personas y animales se ahogaron. Quizás los estanques tengan voluntad propia y ellos decidan quién se ahoga y quién no. Puede que haya estanques donde no se haya ahogado todavía nadie, y que la primera persona que caiga allí, el estanque la ahogue automáticamente Tal vez eso de que los animales y las personas se hayan ahogado sea solo una leyenda, y cualquier persona que caiga allí, el estanque solo guarde su imagen y posteriormente decida en quién te convertirás de entre todas las personas que han caído allí. Puede ser que los estanques, con el paso del tiempo, hayan perdido profundidad y que por eso ya no se ahogue nadie. Sé que no tiene mucho sentido y que la autora ya lo explico en el manga , pero es interesante darle vueltas a todo.

¿Ustedes que piensan?

P.d. Jusenkyo parece un escenario totalmente artificial, casi como un mapa de videojuego o un circuito de entrenamiento diseñado a propósito, más que un paisaje natural.