Online Discourse will be an argument for Self Labotomy. With how good the UY remake was, There is hopefulness, at least.

@@Xylospring Yeah, I mean, what the Japanese studio does is different to the online discourse here in the West. It's two different things. The remake could be good but I know some people could be soured by weirdos who try to make it all about trans rights and other 2024 talking points.

Audiences can interpret art however they want. If someone relates to a manga about overt gender swapping to trans people then that’s great for them. People are allowed to feel how they want when it comes to art.

@@AlecArtComics Anyone can feel however they want, but only the creator can dictate what it is.

There's also a concern potentially of "localizers" rewriting the script or the dialogue to make it fit better with "modern audiences."

Same here!!

Not even the OVAs and the movies were able to give Ranma 1/2 a proper end.

Yup! To many people over project and misinterpret that part of Ranma's character.

He could have waited in Jyusenkyo to cure the curse of the girl. Like he was there, yeah it was flooded but he still could have waited. Honestly there was no reason to ever go back to Japan to begin with, so part of him must like it. Honestly I see him as a cisgender boy-girl, like you could liken the whole experience to being intersex where your puberty is unlike what anyone expected. That's the cool thing about art, it's the mirror we see ourselves in.

As far as I remember, he doesn't change back--like his wedding to Akane, it's only implied that someday he'll change back.

@@MWhaleK If people project onto something, that doesn't change the authorial meaning, that just means that they find something to connect to, and as such, it shouldn't matter to anyone else. Sound of Music, much like most Broadway shows, has a strong trans following, to the point that the trans character from Tokyo Godfathers sings a song from it. It's not hard to see how a boy who transitions into a girl and back could become an icon for gender fluidity or the overall LGBTQ+ audience, regardless of the author's intent or whether the work, taken as a whole, is--by ignorance or intent--largely mocking of LGBTQ issues (Akane is mocked by her sisters for being perceived as a lesbian for her anti-boy stance, Ukyo Kuonji starts off as a hetero transvestite because she was "jilted" by Ranma but regains her femininity after Ranma calls her cute, Tsubasa Kurenei runs the gamut from jilted girl crushing hard on Ukyo (who was pretending to be a boy at the time) to potential lesbian lover of Ukyo to hetero transvestite crushing hard on Ukyo's butch persona in quite possibly the least funny story in the entire series--even when I read it in the 1990s, I thought it was dull). There are plenty of articles by trans writers that point out how Ranma 1/2 doesn't work well as an allegory for LGBTQ+ issues for a variety of reasons, and yet the character is still seen as an icon, especially for genderfluidity rather than transsexualism. As a cismale, I see him as an icon for positive masculinity, for the most part--he learns empathy, as a victim himself of the kinds of sexual harassment teen girls experience (groping, up-skirting, peeping toms/photography while changing without permission), and as such, he is often shown fighting off unwanted advances towards himself, Akane, and their classmates, as well as fighting known pervert Happosai to prevent his attacks on the various girls within the series. He is never shown purposefully sexually harassing any of the other characters, something that can't be said for Ryoga, who turns into a pig and sleeps in Akane's bed. He's also shown to be a victim of his own mother's expectations of traditional manhood, as he fears being forced to commit seppuku if his mother finds out about his girl side, which ironically forces him to embrace his feminine side, adopting the Ranko Tendo persona just so he can spend time with her. Yes, his treatment of Akane, especially in the manga, borders on toxic masculinity, but there needs to be some room to grow/grow up, and he does (if aggravatingly slowly).

japan isn't going to screw this up, that's like asking for your career to end to screw up something from rumiko takahashi. zoomer localization on the other hand...

Honestly, red hair Ranma works better.

Give us red hair or give us death.

It better be red hair Ranma

Red is better. It's easier to distinguish from the male version of Ranma.

The red hair is iconic

Yep, it's mostly the English-speaking audiences who are weird about this.

Ranma can beat Yujiro Ranma doesn't gain much attention in power scalers

Yona of the Dawn is another great one I forgot.

The ladies of CLAMP too.

It’s because the manga industry actually has a HUGE sector dedicated to content written by women for a female demographic. There *are* female shonen mangaka but they’re definitely a minority.

​@@sssspider and even then, the ones who made it in shonen, even if they are a minority, have accomplished far more than any female comic book creator in the United States.

​@@cecillbill good call. And their work model is also very unique in the medium.

No, It is not in the mind, it is a physical transformation that happens by curse magic, not just him thinking he is a female and enjoying it. He hates being a female since he is 100% normal straight in his mind.

No it is not one bit part of transgenderism, it is a unwanted physical transformation, transgenderism is they feel like they are burn in the wrong body and want to become the opposite gender. Ranma was 100% the opposite of that. He did not ever embrace being a female and thought that he was a girl mentally.

“The most frightening phrase in media today.” You people really just love to exaggerate every issue..

Meh, not really. If it’s good it’s good. Don’t care if it’s altered from the source material as long as it’s good.

It could also just mean that they will cut the underage nudity and tone down Happosai a bit…

​​@@annaavertho4944 they'll cut 😂 nowadays snowflakes old eras are more resilient

​@@davidarvingumazon5024 No they're not. They are just as sensitive tbh. So, you really don't know what you're talking about.

While Ranma ½ and its sequel series had a lot of great filler, it was more expanded universe than fluff, I'd just rather have something like the comics animated. Like no red hair, no Sasuke, no snow spirit or whatever else was added to the cartoon. Like I just wanna get to the parts we missed like the Pail of Preservation arc and the Faker Ranma arc and all the other badass stuff that never got animated.

The problem isn't going to be the Japanese anime. If there is a problem, it will come if the new anime gets localized.

@@drewtheunspoken3988 Watch the Japanese version, then.

@@kevintanza6968 That's not possible for the average person unless you can read or speak Japanese.

No they're not however much of the discourse tends to center around Japanese politics.

Yeah I'm not worried about that, my enemy has always been the localizers

Agreed, to many people seem to think of Ranma as being trans (which he kind of is, but only in his cursed form) and miss the fact that the series isn't mean to be taken that seriously as well as missing WHY a Japanese boy living in 80's Japan would think turning into a girl would be a curse.

She is a good writer, but I feel like it is a lot the same thing.

@@MWhaleK Being "trans" is a very specific idea where a person believes they were born the wrong gender and is actually "a girl trapped in a man's body" and vice versa. Ranma never thinks of himself as a girl, hates his curse, and is constantly trying to find ways to cure it.

@@MWhaleK actually he is not in the spectrum at all he is a 100% normal straight teenager that is cursed to physically change into a female, it is not a mental thing. He still thinks as a guy.

My parents talked about how they were debating to get food for the week or get a Ranma 1/2 tape from the library. Sometimes it was anime over food. They were newly weds. I'm thankful to have parents like them because I grew up with anime and Ranma 1/2 was my first anime.

The first or second ep has female Ranma undressing to get into the bath and later shows Akane walking in on male Ranma just getting out of the bath. Also Ranma is a very macho guy who turns into a girl and has absolutely no sense of feminine modesty.

They can fix it by making the series after he comes of age that way there is no panseys complaining about drawn characters being topless in a series that is not made by real actresses.

Akira Toriyama out ranks Takahashi by a little bit in terms of greatness.

@@MWhaleK Not for me.

her manga and anime got me into the genre in the first place. she's an absolute legend in my eyes.

I don't want this at all. I want it to get the brotherhood treatment. Black hair girl-type Ranma.

@@TheTCThat’d be adorable, I love the manga covers, but I’m still married to the red hair. I can’t let it go. Anime red hair Ranma is my girl type Ranma.

Yeah I mean the character constantly feels uncomfortable with men hitting on him when he's a girl.

I would think the curse would purge any female aspects as soon as he changes back or he is not female fertile just because he is magically changed to female.

I'm always hunting for the Inuyasha Anime. I have about all the Discs. Just missing a few things in between, as well as the Move 3: Swords of an Hounourable Ruler.

@@Xylospring I can only get season 1 of the anime here in Europe, can’t get any other season.

It's not popular enough. They take the popular stuff and then add their own weird head canons.

LGBTQ representation is very common in manga and even in mainstream titles. Major Kusanagi is bisexual in the GiTS maga and even Rally Vincent in Gunsmith Cats is a lesbian and list goes.

​@gloriathomas3245 they ruin everything

Well the liberal west. and Yes Ranma was not part of the spectrum he was cursed not choosing to think he was the opposite sex. He transformed only physically not mentally.

Viz has allowed the printing to lapse in recent years, but started 2024 with a reissue of the first 2-in-1 volume at the new price point. It is very likely, everything will be brought back into print, so I would advise against paying high secondary market rates that some volumes currently have

@@stevenregina6429 Yea the site that I buy my manga from has 11 of the 19 2-in-1’s available.

You can find scan translation of all Takahashi's works online, it used to be all but impossible to find all of Urusei Yatsura in English. It's a very fun and funny series. But be warned that one of the major characters, Happosai the Grandmaster of Ranma's Martial arts style, is a panty thief and massive perv that gropes woman. The actions are somewhat played for laughs but Happosai is also presented as irremediably vile/evil character in the series.

It’s great! It made me laugh out loud so many times.

(for context, I didn’t watch either Urusei Yatsura, only the manga)

"Forced pandaization" should make clear what's going on here.

@@adamfrey4920😉

Headcanons and fanfics are different. I am talking about the canon.

Ranma hates his female form. He never embraces it. He uses it as a tool to get what he wants from boys. At the end, Ranma found the cure.. but Happosai drank it

Wdym taking forever for Sailor Moon? We have Crystal. That’s the remake. Even if it could’ve been better. That’s our current version until Crystal needs another remake in 20-30 yrs. Or do you mean there’s going to be more Eternals SM or other movies in the franchise that have yet to release?

Agreed, it was never about anything in the spectrum it was just a comedy of a curse that was physical only for all who were cursed. Ranma never was a trans he was physically and mentally a male straight teen who fell into a cursed pond of drown cute girl which only transforms his physical body but never his mind. He hated being a female. Which makes him the opposite of trans, he still stays as a normal straight teenager male mentality.

I frankly think it would be best if it were not localized, but that probably won't happen.

I hope they don't change the series to be woke. We just need it in classic Ranma scripting like before just new antics.

Or just never pander to the mass minority.

🤦‍♀️ and you don't understand that Ranma isn't about trans or sending a queer message

They were idolizing Ranma the wrong way then. He was not gay or trans he was cursed. No relation at all.

South Park is safe edgy. Ramna 1/2 is just a comedy.

There is no trans in the series. And why is it a racial stereo type if a asian makes it and they have asian characters. That is normal. Only racist if you feel uncomfortagble about a asian character.