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What A Cartoon! - Ranma 1/2 "School is a Battlefield! Ranma vs. Ryoga" With Mike Toole (Patreon)

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2020-08-03 04:00:00
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2023-01

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We wanted to go back to the primal days of US anime VHSes, and with the help of anime expert Mike Toole, we go back to the landmark series Ranma 1/2! How was the series created by Rumiko Takahashi and what was its bumpy arrival on Japanese TV before its surprise popularity in North America? Plus, we discuss the first season's eighth episode, all in one anything-goes martial arts podcast!

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Anonymous

I was introduced to Rumiko Takahashi's work through Inuyasha in the early 2000's on Adult Swim. However, when I moved to Japan in 2004 and lived on a US Military base where the video choices I had at the BX were very limited and I found my first random season 7 DVD of Ranma and I fell in love with it. I spent a lot of years after that trying to find the anime to watch. I even managed to do a book report on the first volume of the manga in my freshman year of high school without my teacher knowing. I've collected all of the anime thanks to the re-release over the last few years but I never collected all of the manga unfortunately. Ranma is very much a product of its time, however all of the characters are extremely colorful and fun (despite being all horrible people). It's still something I love to revisit over and over. It's funny because, even though Inuyasha is much closer to my heart than Ranma, I went through collecting all of Ranma instead. Maybe someday we'll get a Ranma: Final Act.

Anonymous

Along with Slayers, I credit Ranma 1/2 as being the anime that got me into old school anime. As a "core millennial", I had mostly gotten my anime in the 90s and 2000s through TV. By 2009, when I was starting to invest more into buying DVD boxsets, I decided to go on a huge old school anime kick and buy all the classic anime I could find. Unfortunately, because this was during the time of the great licensing crash of the late 00s, a lot of classic titles were out of print. Ranma 1/2 was one of the few titles I was able to snag with one of the last prints of the Season 1 and 2 thin-packs. Luckily, nowadays, we have Mike Toole and the folks at Discotek keeping classic anime titles alive and accessible.

littleterr0r

Also, shout out to Urb magazine. Almost forgot about that one.

Anonymous

I just want to say I appreciate Henry occasionally falling under Mike's influence and calling it "ah-nee-may"

Diamond Feit

Amazed to hear how many people found Ranma 1/2 through Hard Battle on SNES! I found it in a bargain bin in summer of 1994, really enjoyed the characters, to which my friends informed me “yeah it’s based on a cartoon show” which I had no idea existed. I watched it immediately thanks to those same friends and, well, now I live in Japan.

Shaxbert

I lived in a dirty North Carolina backwater in the early ‘90s with no easy access to video stores where I could drop $30 on a two-episode VHS of dubbed anime. What we DID have, though, was a comics shop that somehow carried sporadic issues of Viz’s localization of the Ranma 1/2 manga, so that’s how I got exposed! As such, I spent entirely too long pronouncing the characters’ names all weird: Ranma (rhymes with grandma), A-Kane (that thing grandma uses to help her walk), Ryooga (which sounds like the a-woo-ga sound the horn on grandma’s Model T makes), etc. Mike’s always an amazing guest- love hearing his appearances on the Anime World Order podcast, loved hearing him in this episode!

Kiefer Fulsom

Anyone else having flashbacks to the Ranma 1/2 movie trailer at the end of endless Pokemon VHS's? Lol

Anonymous

Man this episode really put me back in the 90s. Project A-ko was the first anime I watched, but Ranma was the one that dominated my earliest Weeb phase. And the same with my friends. We used to joke about you could tell who we really were by which Tendo sister you had as a waifu (Like Bob and all cool people, Nabiki is 100% hands down best one, but a friend of mine still has his Kasumi torch). I think the first Ranma I saw was the first movie? That has a huge number of characters you have no idea who the hell they are. But damn, Hard Battle, I had that and played it like mad, and it was a big hit at any gathering we had, lan parties and other hangouts. I'm glad they mentioned that game. Shampoo was just cheap as hell.

Alistair Shand

Viz is a very different magazine in the U.K. - check it out !

Anonymous

I never heard of this show or manga growing up, and I'm absolutely astonished that anything could have been so explicitly gender fluid in the 80s and 90s: even the most LGBTQ shows of today are heavily coded and subtle by comparison. If I had seen the show when I was a kid, I wonder if I could have recognized my own identity sooner. As a transwoman, my interest is certainly piqued, but even setting aside how much more conservative that era was, I'm curious as to how the show's central conceit of gender fluidity was able to successfully appeal to so many cisgendered people as a selling point.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

The name was familiar to me just through cultural osmosis, but I never knew what the premise of it was - and as soon as I did once the schedule for this month was out, I was simultaneously hyped for it and very nervous. It goes without saying but all older media can be uncomfortable in its dealings with social stuff like gender and race, so seeing that this show was ostensibly about a gender fluid kid, I was hoping it wouldn't come across as super transphobic and/or misogynistic. Obviously this single episode is a small smattering of the full anime BUT I was super happy to actually not cringe at all during this episode, really. I think the language/execution would be different today with society at large (and the LGBTQ+ community itself) having a better understanding of gender, but everything is done really well and straightforward here that it must have been a godsend to see for many a trans or gender queer kid who happened upon this show, and that makes me smile.

Kurono

Jebus, I was so sure you guys talked already about Ranma. I heard the episode and I guess I was wrong. Had to be a retronauts episode then.