r/ranma

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It's kind of telling how my favorite stories in this series involve Akane giving Ryoga attention just to make Ranma jealous.

Ranma actually doing some self reflection for once.

From "Akane goes to the hospital".

Wrong answers only

It's unironically his love language

Ever since i was younger i have always loved Ryoga theres no other anime character like him at all really

I came up with this question because of another post here on Reddit. My reasoning is that Ranma has "theoretically" been training since he was 2 years old, so for 14 years. Ryoga, on the other hand, never trained in martial arts and never had a master. He might not even know the basics as such?

Also the main point of this message is that ryouga is near equel ranmas level. Also when ranma trains since 14 years and ryouga technicly never trains. Only this 1 week in breaking point. Also to compain "ranma trains the wrong thing in breaking point" didnt count because the other 14 years of training didnt vanish because of that.

Yet, Ryoga fights on par with Ranma during their first encounter at Furinkan High when they meet again.

Ranma and Ryoga met for the first time at, let's say, age 15? (We don't know when ranmas birthday is, so I assume it must be earlier in the year since we never saw his birthday in the manga, meaning it has to happen in the timeframe we didn't see, around march to June/July).

Ranma was much stronger than Ryoga back in school, to the point where Ryoga couldn't even touch him. Then the Jusenkyo journey began, which lasted say 2 ½ to 3 months. Give it another 2 weeks after Ranma starts living with the Tendos, and Ryoga shows up. Ryoga was equal to Ranma.

Which brings me to my point: Ryoga, who never trained in martial arts, reaches the same level as someone who trained for 14 years, simply by wandering through China and Japan for 3 months? Without any training or a master.
Plus we know, the most strengh in ranma 1/2 comes from fighting. Also fighting is mostly the main "training" in ranma 1/2.

The second point is the Breaking Point (Bakusai Tenketsu) arc. Ranma trained and fought a lot with Cologne because of the Cat's Tongue, which made Ranma significantly stronger, even Akane mentioned it. Ranma easily outmatched Ryoga. In the Breaking Point arc, Ryoga only needs 3 days (or was it a week?) to become a genuine threat to Ranma again. So just 1 week with a master like Cologne is enough to make Ryoga that much stronger.

Doesn't this imply, conversely, that Ryoga's potential as a fighter is much greater than Ranma's, given that Ryoga basically needs only a fraction of the time and real training compared to Ranma? I mean, don't forget: Ryoga mostly just "wanders around." That is his "training," and yet he catches up with a lifelong martial artist like Ranma.

And i say/ask that as fan from ranma not ryouga XD (ryouga is ok ^^)

They have always been selfish, maybe not everyone likes mousse, but I remember when Shampoo took from him tickets to participate in a race where the winner goes to any fountain he wants and decided to participate with Ranma, and nabiki, no need to explain

Cover by AmberBee Original post link: https://youtu.be/oOtomK-YGR0

Does anyone know any listings somewhere for this cushion from the SEGA kuji line? There was one on Mercari but it's gone now so i suppose someone already purchased this, and that was the last one.

This is an idea I've had for a while: what if Ryoga were to be distantly related to the Musk Dynasty? Or more generally, what if he isn't entirely human?

*Hear me out* :

Ryoga's got freakish stamina and strength, might even surpass Ranma when it comes to raw, brute strength; he's not like most of the cast, and while rereading Herb's arc, I couldn't help but notice a striking resemblance between him and Herb's boys, Lime in particular; even in the colored illustration his color schemes are almost identical, the lime eyes (pun intended) look the same too.

Now, unlike Mint, Lime and Herb, his ears and nose are 100% human, but there's a trait in particular that caught my attention: his fangs.

Ryoga's fangs are something I always found curious because unlike the bright colored hair, which are there as a mere stylization choice and never acknowledged, his fangs *are* acknowledged and even used by Ranma as a way to prove a blood relation between them in his ruse (slide 3). But have you ever thought of how or why a supposedly 100% human characters has them? Numerous characters in Takahashi's works have fangs, but all of them are either demons (Inuyasha) or aliens (Urusei Yatsura), none of them is human.

A fun fact: "fang" is literally in Ryoga's name as well. The name Ryōga (良牙) is an union between the kanjis 良 and 牙(fang/tusk). In fact, if anyone's familiar with Inuyasha, the character Kōga(鋼牙)'s name sounds nearly the same as Ryōga(良牙) because they share the last kanji 牙 (fang), but Koga is a wolf Yokai, it makes sense for him to have them. Ryōga, not so much.

The fact the we never see either of his parents due to the gag of the Hibiki's family being eternally lost doesn't help this curiousity of mine :')

Obviously, this is an elaborated theory/speculation of mine, I am not saying all this to claim "yo this is canon"; it's not, but I find it to be an interesting possibility.

Here's a couple years old piece I made, sorry, I'm terrible with backgrounds... of the classic and newest Anime, which character design does everyone favor? Classic (Atsuko Nakajima), or Remake (Hiromi Tanaguchi)?

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/bagelthebear.bsky.social/post/3mt6es7kbmc2k