@@respox2191I think in the original Anime the Golden Pair arc got pushed back because there was a high profile kidnapping in Japan and the title of the episode was something like P-chan is kidnapped
@@nickdurant3758there were quite a few changes between the manga and anime for multiple reasons. I personally don’t mind them sticking to the manga a bit more cause the filler ruined the later seasons
It's finally here! I watched Ranma around ten years ago, whatever episodes were available on RUclips. This was the arc that I remember the most vividly, so I was looking forward to seeing it in the remake, and it didn't disappoint. Poor Ranma, I felt so bad for him. The following scene made me so smile so much that my cheeks hurt. Watching that scene now that I'm older, I can see it a new light. Ranma explicitly asking for Akane's consent. Because he's aware of how traumatic it is to be kissed without consent and by someone he doesn't even like, and he doesn't want Akane to experience that trauma either. Which is really sweet, but he's so awkward about it that he struggles to get his point across. On a funnier note, how is Ryoga alive? Because in his human form, surely that collar would be cutting off his oxygen. Since there is a pretty big difference in the size of a piglets neck in comparison to a human's. Then again, I should just take a page out of everyone else's book and suspend common sense. As for Azusa, she just likes to name anything she finds "cute" with French names like Charlotte, François etc. Anyways, great reaction, and I'm glad you're enjoying this series. I hope you have a nice day or night whenever you read this ^o^
Ranma is very much the awkward, blushy-crushy type, who’ll happily bicker with Akane all day long but get all flustered at the idea of maybe… holding hands??? with her??? Very much unlike Ataru Moroboshi, who would hit on anything in a skirt, save the one very possessive girl who was actually after him. (Of course, circumstances occasionally conspire to make Ranma _look_ like a creeper… and in fanfic, Akane tends to get stereotyped as never getting over her bad first impression of him in her bath.) And the funny thing is, Ryoga is pretty much the same despite the whole “sleeping in her bed and being snuggled into her chest without her knowing it’s him” bit. Both boys, of course, would deeply resent the notion that they’re at all alike. Or friends. Of course, the other thing is, Ranma has experience with Mikado’s type - he met one on his first day at Furinkan. Mikado and Kuno are cut from the same cloth as Shutaro Mendo, convinced they’re God’s gifts to women. And Ranma’s prideful, but not vain in the same way, and he doesn’t want to “score with chicks” the way Mikado so clearly does. He’s _always_ been conscious of Akane’s emotions, even when he doesn’t know how to interpret or react to them, unlike the blockheads who basically ignore them - because honestly, I think what he’s really wanted from day 1 is just… for Akane to smile at him the way she did when they first met and she introduced herself. The way she smiled later on, after he said her new haircut looked nice. Kuno is convinced Akane adores him, despite all evidence - Ranma _wants_ Akane to love him, even though he can’t admit it to himself. Which I guess comes back to what you were saying - not only is he himself uncomfortable with kissing (a late bloomer, as Kasumi said), he doesn’t want to kiss her unless he’s sure she wants it. He may not know everything about how to treat a girl, but he’s at least been able to learn from a bad example.
@@IZEASGT You are right about everything here. But Mikado also had to 'win' a girl daily to reassert his masculinity to compensate for all the abuse he gets from his unlovable partner, Azusa. She HAS to be paying him to skate with her. It is PAIRS skating
"It's always something Martial Arts" Oh boy... wait until you see 5 Yen Martial Arts or other shennanigans :D Ranma is an hilarious crazy show Cant wait for our favorite amazon, wo da airen !
The second half of the episode had me wheezing!!!!! From the kiss to the jumping in the public bath to the stuff between Akane and Ranma in the dojo! It was their 100 man combo
in the old anime episode, Ranma is in the bathroom in the skate ring, changing into girl and he also throws water on Ryoga, that's why he transforms into P-chan again. Some boys witness that and think the water in the bath is magic and they get wet, hoping to transform, too :D So funny. Also, the animation in the old anime ep, especially this one, is top notch. This is definitely one of the funniest parts in this anime ever :D
It becomes an established part of Ranma ½ that the Schools of Anything-Goes are expected to accept ANY challenge (and the wager that goes with them). And Genma has had ten years to train the attitude into Ranma. This allows them to keep their battle skills sharp as well as giving them the chance to learn new techniques In the first (1989) anime version, filler detail established the blatant klepto preferred to rename (now) 'her' things with French names. Charlotte is more French than Wilbur. Azusa is a totally rich and spoiled 'princess' brat who is used to getting whatever she wants. And because of that, she has no impulse control! It's never established, but to me the only reason Mikado would put up with her abuse is because her very rich family pays him to be his partner The handsome Mikado was used to being attractive to girls. Abused by Azusa, he needed to 'win' a girl everyday to reassert his masculinity. This didn't make him popular with, say, those in the hockey gear and with marking pens. In the 1989 version, he even counted the number of girls he took a kiss from. The pigtailed girl was his 999th Aha! I finally figured it out! (Maybe) The reason Akane doesn't put two-and-two together about Ryoga and P-chan is the magic of the Jusenkyo Curse. It also explains why her family doesn't tell her That identity magic also explains people's lack of reaction to the pandda
Azusa has a compulsion to take anything her eyes set upon on and names it affectionately, from the smallest fishcake up to a street lamp post.... 😂, if Mappa follows the manga right, be ready for her next "victim"...
Side note, I think this is the first time we’ve seen Ranma’s red shirt since Ryoga tore it - you think he got a new one, or mended the original? (Well, probably Kasumi mended it.)
5:41 “Kono pair, *chou-koukou-kyuu* no-” Wait hold the damn phone. Did that girl just call them Super High-School Level Pair Skaters like they’re friggin’ Danganronpa characters? …They’re crazy enough for it, I’ll grant that.
A few fun facts: - In the old anime only, maleRanma is shown having trouble skating, so he leaves the skating rink. Ryoga immediatly understands his plan to change into a girl and yells at him something like "You coward, stay here and take your share of humiliation like me!" - In the manga and in the old anime, when Mikado is puzzled about femRanma crying, Akane thinks "You would be crying too, if a boy kissed you!". It looks like the new anime is altering a few lines to avoid risks of sounding homophobic, like they removed a remark by Nabiki about the kiss "not counting" because they were both boys. It looks like the English dub (and the subs based on it) bring this a little too far at times, even altering Ranma's personality a bit. - In the old anime only, when femRanma returns maleRama, a man in the bath asks "Is this a candid camera show? Where's the camera?" PS: I find funny how we are the same people following various Ranma reactors, we are posting more or less the same comments on different channels... 🙂
Hurrah! Let's hear it for how the original anime version could make things clearer with its filler details. And more entertaining, as well I'm glad I'm not the only one posting on different channels - after getting a fresh take from the channel's reactor, of course!
i hope the people who do the subtitle translations for Netflix get paid enough & are not overworked for time crunches, because Ranma calling Akane a “Plain Jane” is kindaaaaa weird 😂 idk Japanese so what he says exactly i have no clue of, but if I remember the viz manga translations, it was around the lines of “uncute, unsexy, tomboy”
Ranma says 「色気のない女」("iroke no nai onna", lit. "woman with no sex appeal"). This Netflix localization has its issues, but I think "Plain Jane" is fine here.
well, I hope they don't get paid too much because they are doing a lousy job. for some weird reason, official subbers have this tendency of making up their own dialog half the time thinking they can do better than the original writers or something. I think being a bit loose and changing "unsexy woman" to plain jane is okay, but there are plenty of times where they just completely mistranslate stuff where even I as someone who only knows a few dozen japanese words and phrases can tell it's wrong.
@@respox2191 i appreciate this, thank you! idk why but “Plain Jane” just sounds so weird to me, maybe because I don’t hear it being used enough around me 😅
@@respox2191 Whatever happened to studios having in-house translators to try and ensure their product gets the best possible reception in the foreign language - esp. English? And they've had decades to agree to Ranma ½ translations!
Ranma may have toxic masculinity behavior (all thanks to his even more toxic father), but good thing he does not forget the importance of consent. I guess that is natural considering the incident which happened without his consent and the humiliation as part of the consequence. Good job this time, Ranma. You will get your chance soon enough (maybe).
It's part of my head canon that Mikado was trying to complete "the Spell of One Thousand Kisses" so that he could use its magic for revenge against Azusa. I'm afraid we won't hear who he was targeting to be his 1000th
Kuno is strong. He is heir to a fortune and a lineage. If he kissed a girl, he would open himself up for all sorts of legal and cultural action (including possibly deadly feuds). And he has to make sure the girl is strong because of Kodachi. Don't think his sister would welcome a rival inheritance-claimant into the clan
The first character I ever hate in this series Mikado.He's a real freak and psycho.....He's literally have his own partnerand fan girls...just kiss them already...why would he try to steal someone totally stranger kiss.? His partner are worst but himself are much more than herself.
Depending on what you consider a first kiss SPOILER ALERT: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If you watched the original series and/or read the manga, soon after Ranma and his dad got their curses, in China, he beat Shampoo in a tournament and she gave him a kiss on the cheek in his girl form. It was a "kiss of death" to signify she would hunt him down and try to kill him, but still a kiss, but on the cheek. Whether that's a first kiss or not is up to you.
Kissing was unusual in Japanese culture of Ranma's childhood. But I still cannot see some grandmotherly type kissing the abused boy in order to help comfort him Anyway, a true kiss has some loving, romantic or sexual undertone
I'm actually still floored that that ACTUALLY happened lol
I still have to get used to this speed of romantic progress in Ranma
@@nickdurant3758 It really is a rapid pace. In the original anime it took 19 episodes for the Golden Pair to show up.
@@respox2191I think in the original Anime the Golden Pair arc got pushed back because there was a high profile kidnapping in Japan and the title of the episode was something like P-chan is kidnapped
@@nickdurant3758there were quite a few changes between the manga and anime for multiple reasons. I personally don’t mind them sticking to the manga a bit more cause the filler ruined the later seasons
"It's always something Martial Arts" Oh, you have no idea. 🤣
Audience: Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics? That’s CRAZY!
Freestyle Skating Martial Arts: Hold my beer.
Nabiki said what we were all thinking at the end lol
Ranma and Akane were so adorable.
These two really have tension and chemistry between them.
It's finally here! I watched Ranma around ten years ago, whatever episodes were available on RUclips. This was the arc that I remember the most vividly, so I was looking forward to seeing it in the remake, and it didn't disappoint.
Poor Ranma, I felt so bad for him. The following scene made me so smile so much that my cheeks hurt. Watching that scene now that I'm older, I can see it a new light. Ranma explicitly asking for Akane's consent. Because he's aware of how traumatic it is to be kissed without consent and by someone he doesn't even like, and he doesn't want Akane to experience that trauma either. Which is really sweet, but he's so awkward about it that he struggles to get his point across.
On a funnier note, how is Ryoga alive? Because in his human form, surely that collar would be cutting off his oxygen. Since there is a pretty big difference in the size of a piglets neck in comparison to a human's. Then again, I should just take a page out of everyone else's book and suspend common sense.
As for Azusa, she just likes to name anything she finds "cute" with French names like Charlotte, François etc.
Anyways, great reaction, and I'm glad you're enjoying this series. I hope you have a nice day or night whenever you read this ^o^
Ranma is very much the awkward, blushy-crushy type, who’ll happily bicker with Akane all day long but get all flustered at the idea of maybe… holding hands??? with her??? Very much unlike Ataru Moroboshi, who would hit on anything in a skirt, save the one very possessive girl who was actually after him. (Of course, circumstances occasionally conspire to make Ranma _look_ like a creeper… and in fanfic, Akane tends to get stereotyped as never getting over her bad first impression of him in her bath.)
And the funny thing is, Ryoga is pretty much the same despite the whole “sleeping in her bed and being snuggled into her chest without her knowing it’s him” bit. Both boys, of course, would deeply resent the notion that they’re at all alike. Or friends.
Of course, the other thing is, Ranma has experience with Mikado’s type - he met one on his first day at Furinkan. Mikado and Kuno are cut from the same cloth as Shutaro Mendo, convinced they’re God’s gifts to women. And Ranma’s prideful, but not vain in the same way, and he doesn’t want to “score with chicks” the way Mikado so clearly does. He’s _always_ been conscious of Akane’s emotions, even when he doesn’t know how to interpret or react to them, unlike the blockheads who basically ignore them - because honestly, I think what he’s really wanted from day 1 is just… for Akane to smile at him the way she did when they first met and she introduced herself. The way she smiled later on, after he said her new haircut looked nice. Kuno is convinced Akane adores him, despite all evidence - Ranma _wants_ Akane to love him, even though he can’t admit it to himself.
Which I guess comes back to what you were saying - not only is he himself uncomfortable with kissing (a late bloomer, as Kasumi said), he doesn’t want to kiss her unless he’s sure she wants it. He may not know everything about how to treat a girl, but he’s at least been able to learn from a bad example.
When we have to suspend common sense, all we have to do is to tell ourselves, "It's because of magic". Magic doesn't have to follow common sense
@@IZEASGT You are right about everything here. But Mikado also had to 'win' a girl daily to reassert his masculinity to compensate for all the abuse he gets from his unlovable partner, Azusa. She HAS to be paying him to skate with her. It is PAIRS skating
"It's always something Martial Arts"
Oh boy... wait until you see 5 Yen Martial Arts or other shennanigans :D
Ranma is an hilarious crazy show
Cant wait for our favorite amazon, wo da airen !
The second half of the episode had me wheezing!!!!! From the kiss to the jumping in the public bath to the stuff between Akane and Ranma in the dojo! It was their 100 man combo
Akane and Ranma were more than willing to kiss each other
in the old anime episode, Ranma is in the bathroom in the skate ring, changing into girl and he also throws water on Ryoga, that's why he transforms into P-chan again. Some boys witness that and think the water in the bath is magic and they get wet, hoping to transform, too :D So funny. Also, the animation in the old anime ep, especially this one, is top notch. This is definitely one of the funniest parts in this anime ever :D
Hurrah! Another one who sees how the original could make things clearer with filler detail. The part you mention was very entertaining, indeed
It becomes an established part of Ranma ½ that the Schools of Anything-Goes are expected to accept ANY challenge (and the wager that goes with them). And Genma has had ten years to train the attitude into Ranma. This allows them to keep their battle skills sharp as well as giving them the chance to learn new techniques
In the first (1989) anime version, filler detail established the blatant klepto preferred to rename (now) 'her' things with French names. Charlotte is more French than Wilbur. Azusa is a totally rich and spoiled 'princess' brat who is used to getting whatever she wants. And because of that, she has no impulse control!
It's never established, but to me the only reason Mikado would put up with her abuse is because her very rich family pays him to be his partner
The handsome Mikado was used to being attractive to girls. Abused by Azusa, he needed to 'win' a girl everyday to reassert his masculinity. This didn't make him popular with, say, those in the hockey gear and with marking pens. In the 1989 version, he even counted the number of girls he took a kiss from. The pigtailed girl was his 999th
Aha! I finally figured it out! (Maybe) The reason Akane doesn't put two-and-two together about Ryoga and P-chan is the magic of the Jusenkyo Curse. It also explains why her family doesn't tell her
That identity magic also explains people's lack of reaction to the pandda
they also cut out a very funny scene where Ranma and Ryoga are talking about their nicknames on the ice before they both fall on their faces.
Azusa has a compulsion to take anything her eyes set upon on and names it affectionately, from the smallest fishcake up to a street lamp post.... 😂, if Mappa follows the manga right, be ready for her next "victim"...
Wish that Ranma and Akane kissed tho 😂❤
Side note, I think this is the first time we’ve seen Ranma’s red shirt since Ryoga tore it - you think he got a new one, or mended the original? (Well, probably Kasumi mended it.)
If it wasn't a comedy, I guess using ice skates like they do would be a blood bath fitting gorey horror movies.
5:41 “Kono pair, *chou-koukou-kyuu* no-”
Wait hold the damn phone. Did that girl just call them Super High-School Level Pair Skaters like they’re friggin’ Danganronpa characters?
…They’re crazy enough for it, I’ll grant that.
THEY WERE SO CLOSE TO KISSING!
A few fun facts:
- In the old anime only, maleRanma is shown having trouble skating, so he leaves the skating rink. Ryoga immediatly understands his plan to change into a girl and yells at him something like "You coward, stay here and take your share of humiliation like me!"
- In the manga and in the old anime, when Mikado is puzzled about femRanma crying, Akane thinks "You would be crying too, if a boy kissed you!". It looks like the new anime is altering a few lines to avoid risks of sounding homophobic, like they removed a remark by Nabiki about the kiss "not counting" because they were both boys. It looks like the English dub (and the subs based on it) bring this a little too far at times, even altering Ranma's personality a bit.
- In the old anime only, when femRanma returns maleRama, a man in the bath asks "Is this a candid camera show? Where's the camera?"
PS: I find funny how we are the same people following various Ranma reactors, we are posting more or less the same comments on different channels... 🙂
Hurrah! Let's hear it for how the original anime version could make things clearer with its filler details. And more entertaining, as well
I'm glad I'm not the only one posting on different channels - after getting a fresh take from the channel's reactor, of course!
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I don't think any character in this show is as insane as Asuza, and that says a lot given how little sanity there is in Ranma 1/2.
Azusa was a rich, spoiled 'princess' brat used to getting whatever she wanted. Thus she never developed any impulse control.
i hope the people who do the subtitle translations for Netflix get paid enough & are not overworked for time crunches, because Ranma calling Akane a “Plain Jane” is kindaaaaa weird 😂 idk Japanese so what he says exactly i have no clue of, but if I remember the viz manga translations, it was around the lines of “uncute, unsexy, tomboy”
Ranma says 「色気のない女」("iroke no nai onna", lit. "woman with no sex appeal"). This Netflix localization has its issues, but I think "Plain Jane" is fine here.
well, I hope they don't get paid too much because they are doing a lousy job. for some weird reason, official subbers have this tendency of making up their own dialog half the time thinking they can do better than the original writers or something. I think being a bit loose and changing "unsexy woman" to plain jane is okay, but there are plenty of times where they just completely mistranslate stuff where even I as someone who only knows a few dozen japanese words and phrases can tell it's wrong.
@@respox2191 i appreciate this, thank you! idk why but “Plain Jane” just sounds so weird to me, maybe because I don’t hear it being used enough around me 😅
@@claireofhellI think it sounds off because it's such a culture specific phrase, and not a more generalized term.
@@respox2191 Whatever happened to studios having in-house translators to try and ensure their product gets the best possible reception in the foreign language - esp. English? And they've had decades to agree to Ranma ½ translations!
Love this ep, it's off the rails wacky fun show and for a split second i though ranma might turn during the kiss.
I see they cut the part when the handsome man says hes aiming for the world records of kissed lips
I read in other comments that in the old anime the pigtail girl was his 999th girl kissed.
Ranma may have toxic masculinity behavior (all thanks to his even more toxic father), but good thing he does not forget the importance of consent. I guess that is natural considering the incident which happened without his consent and the humiliation as part of the consequence.
Good job this time, Ranma. You will get your chance soon enough (maybe).
There's a whole part of Mikado missing from the remake, he's kissed 998 girls before Ranma, his goal is 1000...
It's part of my head canon that Mikado was trying to complete "the Spell of One Thousand Kisses" so that he could use its magic for revenge against Azusa. I'm afraid we won't hear who he was targeting to be his 1000th
@@tomdouge6618 Heh, if it was Kodachi his spell would be compromised by the Kuno lunacy...
Kuno is weak. He didn't even secured Female Ranma's first kiss and that skate dude steal it easily 😂
Kuno is strong. He is heir to a fortune and a lineage. If he kissed a girl, he would open himself up for all sorts of legal and cultural action (including possibly deadly feuds). And he has to make sure the girl is strong because of Kodachi. Don't think his sister would welcome a rival inheritance-claimant into the clan
This helps ease the pain of y'all's loss to Auburn.
@@flpndrox shhhhh XD
The first character I ever hate in this series Mikado.He's a real freak and psycho.....He's literally have his own partnerand fan girls...just kiss them already...why would he try to steal someone totally stranger kiss.? His partner are worst but himself are much more than herself.
Depending on what you consider a first kiss
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If you watched the original series and/or read the manga, soon after Ranma and his dad got their curses, in China, he beat Shampoo in a tournament and she gave him a kiss on the cheek in his girl form. It was a "kiss of death" to signify she would hunt him down and try to kill him, but still a kiss, but on the cheek. Whether that's a first kiss or not is up to you.
Kissing was unusual in Japanese culture of Ranma's childhood. But I still cannot see some grandmotherly type kissing the abused boy in order to help comfort him
Anyway, a true kiss has some loving, romantic or sexual undertone