Anime Lovers

The Ranma 1/2 remake anime has revealed the opening video, featuring the opening theme song by ano. Studio MAPPA is animating the new adaptation for the franchise, which will begin on October 5 and stream weekly on Netflix worldwide. The opening theme song by ano is titled “iinazukkyun,” and you can hear it in the opening video below.

The main staff for the Ranma 1/2 remake anime consists of Konosuke Uda as the director, Kimiko Ueno on the series composition, Hiromi Tanigushi as the character designer, and Kaoru Wada on the music. Most of the original voice cast from the original is returning, with new additions including Akio Otsuka as Soun Tendo (eplacing Ryusuke Obayashi, Cho as Genma Saotome (replacing Kenichi Ogata) and Kenichi Ogata as Narrator (replacing Tadashi Nakamura, who passed away in 2019).

The anime recently revealed the second main trailer, which you can watch below.

Rumiko Takahashi began the Ranma 1/2 manga as her third major series (following URUSEI YATSURA and Maison Ikkoku) in August 1987. The manga was serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine until March 1996. VIZ Media licensed it in English.

The manga was previously adapted into two anime series by Studio Deen: Ranma 1/2 and Ranma 1/2 Nettohen. The two anime together ran for a total of 161 episodes from 1989 to 1992. In addition, the series also got 12 OVAs and three films. A live-action TV special was released in 2011.

The story Ranma and Genma Saotome, a father-son duo who end up falling in a cursed lake and getting cursed. Ranma’s curse has him turning into a girl every time he is splashed with cold water (and reverting when splashed with warm water), while his father turns into a panda under the same conditions. The fact that Ranma is set to marry Akane complicates this further, as she is does not end up liking her fiance at their first meeting.

Source: MAPPA on YouTube
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