Anime Lovers

The Ranma 1/2 remake anime has revealed its second main trailer ahead of the October 5 premiere date. The new trailer also features the recently announced additional voice cast, and you can watch it below.

Studio MAPPA is animating, and the anime also confirmed a weekly release schedule on Netflix starting from October 5. The anime remake is coming over 30 years after the original adaptation ended. They revealed the first visual, trailer and cast in July.

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. It ran for a total of 407 chapters, which were compiled into 38 volumes. VIZ Media licensed the manga 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 follows the titular martial artist Ranma Saotome and his father Genma. As they’re training, they both fall into different parts of a cursed spring and get uniquely cursed: Ranma now becomes a girl whenever he’s splashed with cold water, while his father turns into a panda. Plenty of martial arts follows in the comedy series, with Akane, Ranma’s previously-arranged fiancée, also not exactly a fan of the whole situation.

Source: MAPPA on YouTube
©Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan/Ranma1/2 Project