Ranma ½

Summary

Ranma ½ (2024) is a new anime adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's manga, following the 1989 series. It features the return of several original Japanese voice actors and centers on Ranma Saotome, a martial artist who transforms into a girl when splashed with cold water, and his arranged marriage to Akane Tendo.

Synopsis

The 2024 anime series, "Ranma ½," is a new adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's popular manga, marking the second anime series based on the source material. Picking up where the previous anime left off, the story follows Ranma Saotome, a skilled martial artist with a unique curse: contact with cold water transforms him into a girl. This new series will explore Ranma's adventures, his arranged marriage to Akane Tendo, and his interactions with a colorful cast of characters, including his father, Genma, and rivals like Ryoga Hibiki. The series is produced by MAPPA and premiered on Nippon TV in October 2024, with several voice actors from the original 1989 anime reprising their roles in the Japanese dub. The series will be a faithful recreation of the manga's story arc, providing a fresh look at the classic tale with updated animation and production. The new series promises to revisit the beloved characters and storylines of Ranma ½, offering both nostalgic familiarity and exciting new interpretations for both longtime fans and new viewers.

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Ranma Saotome

Training with Genma at Jusenkyo in China, Ranma was thrown into a spring called Nyanniichuan. He emerged as a young girl, according with the spring's curse. When splashed with hot water, he changes back to a boy, but when splashed with cold to room temperature water, he turns into a girl again. As for our well-built 16-year-old hero/heroine, the martial arts is his life. He also possesses a rather large and easily wounded ego, believing his physical strength to be his only virtue. Whenever his pride is damaged, Ranma feels the need to rectify the situation, even when it's not necessarily in his best interest to do so. (Source: Wikipedia)

Akane Tendou

Height: 5'2" Hobbies: Martial arts (especially for anger-management), sports Akane is far from being delicate and her exuberant, life-loving demeanor is apparent in everything she does. Although she appears to be non-klutzy on the movement scale, she's a lead weight in the water. Her eyes are a dark blue (brown in the anime), almost black. She has an unextraordinary nose, and a cute smile. Akane's navy blue hair is cut short and sort of boyishly (initially the cutting of her hair was accidental, but she grew to love it after accepting her long hair did not reflect her as well as it did on her sister Kasumi). She doesn't like being called a "tomboy," "ugly," or "uncute." It is quite possibly the fastest way to get malleted by Akane. The second fastest way to get malleted by Akane is to grope her. She very much dislikes perverts, nor does she like being groped. However, the usual perverts of Nerima seem to slip by much easier than Ranma does who apparently is a subconscious pervert and is always getting malleted by Akane for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Akane is a fiery young beauty. She doesn't like to be dominated or told how she should act or be. Most importantly, she is herself. Despite what some people would tell, Akane is a very complex person. She had different attitudes towards different people—to most, she would be a sweet, good-natured person with just a hint of a quick temper. To Ranma, though, she comes off as a man-hating, violent tomboy. First impressions are a big deal with her. Akane has a problem with acting feminine. This is because she's had very few female role models in her life, besides Kasumi, whom for a great many years Akane modeled herself after. Almost anything that the Japanese attribute to females: tea ceremony, gymnastics, etc., Akane struggles with. Even society's rules on how a girl should act in a relationship, she defies. Akane has lived in the Tendou Dojo with her two sisters and father all of her life. Her mother died when she was young, and therefore for most her childhood Akane was raised by her eldest sister, Kasumi, and her father, Soun.

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