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Ranma ½ #30
Ranma 1/2, Vol. 30
When the monk-in-residence of a faraway temple is only too eager to "give" Ranma, Genma, and Soun a legendary martial arts outfit said to endow its wearer with ultimate power, you'd think they would know something was up. But then again, the monk throws in such other lovely gifts...Back at the Tendo Dojo, the true nature of the outfit is revealed: the dôgi chooses its own wearer! The outfit picks Akane - much to Ranma's chagrin - and what once was a minor annoyance turns into an issue of pride when Ranma is unable to defeat Akane in battle. Will he have to confess his true feelings to get through to her...?
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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Rumiko Takahashi
1,594 books2,173 followersRumiko Takahashi (高橋留美子) was born in Niigata, Japan. She is not only one of the richest women in Japan but also one of the top paid manga artists. She is also the most successful female comic artist in history. She has been writing manga non-stop for 31 years.
Rumiko Takahashi is one of the wealthiest women in Japan. The manga she creates (and its anime adaptations) are very popular in the United States and Europe where they have been released as both manga and anime in English translation. Her works are relatively famous worldwide, and many of her series were some of the forerunners of early English language manga to be released in the nineties. Takahashi is also the best selling female comics artist in history; well over 100 million copies of her various works have been sold.
Though she was said to occasionally doodle in the margins of her papers while attending Niigata Chūō High School, Takahashi's interest in manga did not come until later. During her college years, she enrolled in Gekiga Sonjuku, a manga school founded by Kazuo Koike, mangaka of Crying Freeman and Lone Wolf and Cub. Under his guidance Rumiko Takahashi began to publish her first doujinshi creations in 1975, such as Bye-Bye Road and Star of Futile Dust. Kozue Koike often urged his students to create well-thought out, interesting characters, and this influence would greatly impact Rumiko Takahashi's works throughout her career.
Career and major works:
Takahashi's professional career began in 1978. Her first published story was Those Selfish Aliens, a comedic science fiction story. During the same year, she published Time Warp Trouble, Shake Your Buddha, and the Golden Gods of Poverty in Shōnen Sunday, which would remain the home to most of her major works for the next twenty years. Later that year, Rumiko attempted her first full-length series, Urusei Yatsura. Though it had a rocky start due to publishing difficulties, Urusei Yatsura would become one of the most beloved anime and manga comedies in Japan.
In 1980, Rumiko Takahashi found her niche and began to publish with regularity. At this time she started her second major series, Maison Ikkoku, in Big Comic Spirits. Written for an older audience, Maison Ikkoku is often considered to be one of the all-time best romance manga. Takahashi managed to work on Maison Ikkoku on and off simultaneously with Urusei Yatsura. She concluded both series in 1987, with Urusei Yatsura ending at 34 volumes, and Maison Ikkoku being 15.
During the 1980s, Takahashi became a prolific writer of short story manga, which is surprising considering the massive lengths of most of her works. Her stories The Laughing Target, Maris the Chojo, and Fire Tripper all were adapted into original video animations (OVAs). In 1984, after the end of Urusei Yatsura and Maison Ikkoku, Takahashi took a different approach to storytelling and began the dark, macabre Mermaid Saga. This series of short segments was published sporadically until 1994, with the final story being Mermaid's Mask. Many fans contend that this work remains unfinished by Takahashi, since the final story does not end on a conclusive note.
Another short work left untouched is One-Pound Gospel, which, like Mermaid Saga, was published erratically. The last story to be drawn was published in 2001, however just recently she wrote one final chapter concluding the series
Later in 1987, Takahashi began her third major series, Ranma ½. Following the late 80s and early 90s trend of shōnen martial arts manga, Ranma ½ features a gender-bending twist. The series continued for nearly a decade until 1996, when it ended at 38 volumes. Ranma ½ is one of Rumiko Takahashi's most popular series with the Western world.
During the later half of the 1990s, Rumiko Takahashi continued with short stories and her installments of Mermaid Saga and One-Pound Gospel until beginning her fourth major work, InuYasha. While Ran
Rumiko Takahashi is one of the wealthiest women in Japan. The manga she creates (and its anime adaptations) are very popular in the United States and Europe where they have been released as both manga and anime in English translation. Her works are relatively famous worldwide, and many of her series were some of the forerunners of early English language manga to be released in the nineties. Takahashi is also the best selling female comics artist in history; well over 100 million copies of her various works have been sold.
Though she was said to occasionally doodle in the margins of her papers while attending Niigata Chūō High School, Takahashi's interest in manga did not come until later. During her college years, she enrolled in Gekiga Sonjuku, a manga school founded by Kazuo Koike, mangaka of Crying Freeman and Lone Wolf and Cub. Under his guidance Rumiko Takahashi began to publish her first doujinshi creations in 1975, such as Bye-Bye Road and Star of Futile Dust. Kozue Koike often urged his students to create well-thought out, interesting characters, and this influence would greatly impact Rumiko Takahashi's works throughout her career.
Career and major works:
Takahashi's professional career began in 1978. Her first published story was Those Selfish Aliens, a comedic science fiction story. During the same year, she published Time Warp Trouble, Shake Your Buddha, and the Golden Gods of Poverty in Shōnen Sunday, which would remain the home to most of her major works for the next twenty years. Later that year, Rumiko attempted her first full-length series, Urusei Yatsura. Though it had a rocky start due to publishing difficulties, Urusei Yatsura would become one of the most beloved anime and manga comedies in Japan.
In 1980, Rumiko Takahashi found her niche and began to publish with regularity. At this time she started her second major series, Maison Ikkoku, in Big Comic Spirits. Written for an older audience, Maison Ikkoku is often considered to be one of the all-time best romance manga. Takahashi managed to work on Maison Ikkoku on and off simultaneously with Urusei Yatsura. She concluded both series in 1987, with Urusei Yatsura ending at 34 volumes, and Maison Ikkoku being 15.
During the 1980s, Takahashi became a prolific writer of short story manga, which is surprising considering the massive lengths of most of her works. Her stories The Laughing Target, Maris the Chojo, and Fire Tripper all were adapted into original video animations (OVAs). In 1984, after the end of Urusei Yatsura and Maison Ikkoku, Takahashi took a different approach to storytelling and began the dark, macabre Mermaid Saga. This series of short segments was published sporadically until 1994, with the final story being Mermaid's Mask. Many fans contend that this work remains unfinished by Takahashi, since the final story does not end on a conclusive note.
Another short work left untouched is One-Pound Gospel, which, like Mermaid Saga, was published erratically. The last story to be drawn was published in 2001, however just recently she wrote one final chapter concluding the series
Later in 1987, Takahashi began her third major series, Ranma ½. Following the late 80s and early 90s trend of shōnen martial arts manga, Ranma ½ features a gender-bending twist. The series continued for nearly a decade until 1996, when it ended at 38 volumes. Ranma ½ is one of Rumiko Takahashi's most popular series with the Western world.
During the later half of the 1990s, Rumiko Takahashi continued with short stories and her installments of Mermaid Saga and One-Pound Gospel until beginning her fourth major work, InuYasha. While Ran
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February 9, 2018
La primera parte es una pelea entre Rouge, una chica muy misteriosa y el ya conocido Taro cuya transformación es un monstruo realmente terrible. Las demás historias fueron mis favoritas:
"Asuka del Lirio Blanco": cuando Kodachi se encuentra a su antigua enemiga de colegio Asuka, recordará la promesa de ambas, de llevar 10 años después un duelo para ver quién consiguió al novio más guapo. Obviamente Akane y Ranma se verán implicados, fue una historia graciosísima.
"El luchador elegido": trata de un poderoso traje que elije a Akane como depositaria de su gran poder, pero así mismo este traje es celoso y tiene vida propia. Ranma tratará de hacer todo lo posible para derrotarlo. Es uno de los capítulos donde ya se puede ver la evolución de la relación de ambos.
"Asuka del Lirio Blanco": cuando Kodachi se encuentra a su antigua enemiga de colegio Asuka, recordará la promesa de ambas, de llevar 10 años después un duelo para ver quién consiguió al novio más guapo. Obviamente Akane y Ranma se verán implicados, fue una historia graciosísima.
"El luchador elegido": trata de un poderoso traje que elije a Akane como depositaria de su gran poder, pero así mismo este traje es celoso y tiene vida propia. Ranma tratará de hacer todo lo posible para derrotarlo. Es uno de los capítulos donde ya se puede ver la evolución de la relación de ambos.
September 14, 2024
Esperamos siempre estos fragmentititos de la relación de este par ✨️
January 8, 2024
It's kind of fitting that a girl obsessed with pigs ends up obsessed with Ryoga... even if the way to it is bizarre. Then there's the sharing of a virus which is both weird and just extremely disgusting. Just weirdos coughing and sneezing on each other (no comment on that one thing Happosai did except it's fucking gross). Then the last chapter of the volume is another fever dream chapter.
February 2, 2013
Honestly, the only reason I'm giving this volume a 4 star rating is because of the legendary armor storyline! There was something so hilarious about a suit of armor beating the crap out of Ranma XD The first storyline with Pantyhose Taro was alright but the boyfriend storyline with the White Lily was blah.
I have 6 volumes left of this series!! It's taken me months to read this series and I'm honestly happy it's almost all over, despite how much I love the characters of this series. The books are just starting to drag on and on and I'd really love to see how the series ends. Thankfully there is an end in sight now.
This part was the best:
I have 6 volumes left of this series!! It's taken me months to read this series and I'm honestly happy it's almost all over, despite how much I love the characters of this series. The books are just starting to drag on and on and I'd really love to see how the series ends. Thankfully there is an end in sight now.
This part was the best:
February 4, 2021
Volume 30 was a good one, with only three stories within. I also feel like the romance is kicked into a higher gear than the first 20-something volumes, and that Ranma and Akane are seeing themselves more as an item since Ryugenzawa. Of course, plenty of stuff will challenge that, because it's Ranma....
The first story is about a fight between Pantyhose Taro and a woman named Rouge. She's upset because he stole something from her - her power - and she wants it back. She at first seems like an innocent girl, though Taro insists that he's the victim in all this. It turns out that she's cursed from the spring of drowned Asura (as in, Hindu demons) and she is pretty powerful. There's a LOT of fighting in this one, and Ranma and Pantyhose Taro have a great moment where Ranma *finally* convinces Taro that he's helping him after he saves him from Rouge. Taro calls him a swell guy, and Ranma rejoices that he's finally caught on. "Thank you, cross-dresser guy!" "No problem, Pantyhose Taro" and they punch each other yelling "Don't call me that!"l. Truce over. However, Rouge is so powerful that they do manage to team up against her - only they dislike each other so much that they're entire uncoordinated and don't trust one another. After a ton of collateral damage to the Tendo's estate, Rouge loses her power completely in a blast, so Ranma takes her to a drug store. Turns out her power is pain relief; having three heads and six arms wears a girl out.
The next story is about Kodachi. She is confronted by someone known as The White Lily, and tells Ranma that she needs him for a date. She tells Ranma and Akane about the girl she fought with in grade school, ten years prior; they fought over who was paired with the most attractive boy, and agreed to meet up in ten years to see who had the more attractive date. Ranma is appalled that she wants him to dress differently to prove it. The girl, Asuka, reveals herself to be in the room, takes a look at Ranma, and comments that it'll be easy to defeat such trash. Akane takes offense at this, and offers Ranma one day to date Kodachi and win the contest. The day of the date arrives, and Kodachi shows up in a black wedding dress (and has Ranma in a tuxedo) and she lures him to karaoke and paralysis powder so she can have her way with him - but Akane kicks them both to the venue. There, they confront The White Lily and her date, who is gorgeous. Akane and Kodachi both concede - but then it's revealed that he's not really her date - she knocked him out and dragged him away from his real girlfriend. So Kodachi and Asuka call it a draw and agree to a rematch in five years.
The last arc is one I really, really love... Ranma, Soun & Genma are visiting a temple to see magical armor/dougi. The monk tells them that they should buy it - in fact, he's so eager to sell it that he throws in his own spinny-chair. The dougi is said to be wearable only by the most worth of martial artists, so the Anything Goes clan, of course, buys it. In the dojo, they're each trying to put it on, but it fights them. Akane asks what all the noise in, and the dougi jumps on to her, complete with naked magical-girl transformation. Ranma is stunned that the only martial artist who's worthy enough to wear it is Akane, and he challenges her to a fight. She destroys him. The dougi, Ranma soon learns, has a mind of its own. It likes to cuddle with Akane, watch cute girls on tv, and even steals photos from Happosai's lecherous collection. It's a pervert. He even finds it spying on Akane in the bath. So Ranma tries to put it on while in female form - but it doesn't fit; it's too tight in the bust and too loose in the waist. He shouts that you clearly have to be thick-waisted to wear it, which Akane overhears and is furious about.
Ranma can't let it go. He challenges Akane and loses. He challenges the dougi itself and loses. Soun and Genma reached out to the monk again, and they tell Ranma that there are two ways to make the dougi stop. One is to convince the wearer that she's in love with someone else - the dougi will slink away. The other is to punch the yin/yang emblem on the belt (assuming he can get close enough). Ranma says he isn't enough of a sleeze to try seducing Akane. But after losing to the dougi again, he gets desperate. He asks Akane for some privacy, and makes sure the dougi is distracted elsewhere.
He pulls her into a closet and confesses to her that there's a girl he's thinking about, and she's obsessed with getting stronger. Akane is annoyed that he's talking to her about girl problems, and he admits that he's talking about her. He asks her to choose between him and the dougi (which annoys her), but points out that he can't get close to her when she's wearing it, and that he feels lonely. She looks up at him with her giant eyes and he thinks about how cute she is. (I live for these "ba-bmp" heartbeats.) Akane says that if it means that much to him, she'll seal away the dougi, saying that she know it bothers him that she's stronger than him, and it's not like she got there via hard work. This actually makes Ranma feel like a jerk who doesn't deserve to lay a hand on her. He's about to confess when Soun drops a bunch of snakes into the cupboard they're hiding in, and Akane flings herself into Ranma's arms. They're*about* to kiss (complete with whispering each other's names) when the dougi opens the cupboard and reveals the whole family listening in. Soun tells Nabiki what was going on, and Akane is crushed and furious, and tells Ranma she never wants to see his face again.
She runs away to a park, and the dougi comes with her and comforts her - and also alerts her when Ranma comes close. Ranma apologizes, and eventually manages to tell her that while at first he was trying to get the dougi, in the middle he started noticing that she really was cute. This has the opposite effect, and infuriates Akane. Ranma's inter-monologue is also angry: "And to think I stood here... and for the first time ever, said what I really felt! Then you're not cute!" He yells at her that he could get the dougi if he really tried, so she does her magical girl transformation again and they fight. She annihilates him and tells him she'll never see him again, and he tells her she can't leave like that - she needs to take off the dougi and talk to him. He attempts to hit the yin/yang emblem, but she grabs his hand and asks "you weren't trying to hit me, were you?" She tells him she hates him, and starts fighting again. Ranma manages to pin her to a tree, so she breaks the tree in half to hit him.
Finally he decides he can slip his hand between the emblem and her stomach, but has trouble wedging in there (because of her thick waist) - but he manages it and she knocks him on the head for saying that, so they fall toward a statue and the emblem is smashed against it. The dougi begins to disintegrate and Ranma catches Akane, landing on a bench with wet paint with Akane across his lap. Akane is touched that he saved her ("now do you believe me?") and asks if they can sit there together for a while, and he says it doesn't matter to him (while his inner monologue mentions how gross the paint feels). The story arc ends with Kasumi saying she stitched up the dougi because she felt sorry for it, and Soun is on the phone requesting a refund.
So, yeah... this story is ludicrous, but oh my god, is it good to see Ranma acknowledging how he feels. And while he's arrogant and stupid at times, he still has such a good moral compass when it comes to girls - between thinking it's sleezy to make Akane love him to get the dougi, or thinking that he doesn't deserve to touch her once he realizes that it's what he wants... it's just great. I'm obviously a huge Akane fan, but this reread is reminding me how much I love Ranma, too.
The first story is about a fight between Pantyhose Taro and a woman named Rouge. She's upset because he stole something from her - her power - and she wants it back. She at first seems like an innocent girl, though Taro insists that he's the victim in all this. It turns out that she's cursed from the spring of drowned Asura (as in, Hindu demons) and she is pretty powerful. There's a LOT of fighting in this one, and Ranma and Pantyhose Taro have a great moment where Ranma *finally* convinces Taro that he's helping him after he saves him from Rouge. Taro calls him a swell guy, and Ranma rejoices that he's finally caught on. "Thank you, cross-dresser guy!" "No problem, Pantyhose Taro" and they punch each other yelling "Don't call me that!"l. Truce over. However, Rouge is so powerful that they do manage to team up against her - only they dislike each other so much that they're entire uncoordinated and don't trust one another. After a ton of collateral damage to the Tendo's estate, Rouge loses her power completely in a blast, so Ranma takes her to a drug store. Turns out her power is pain relief; having three heads and six arms wears a girl out.
The next story is about Kodachi. She is confronted by someone known as The White Lily, and tells Ranma that she needs him for a date. She tells Ranma and Akane about the girl she fought with in grade school, ten years prior; they fought over who was paired with the most attractive boy, and agreed to meet up in ten years to see who had the more attractive date. Ranma is appalled that she wants him to dress differently to prove it. The girl, Asuka, reveals herself to be in the room, takes a look at Ranma, and comments that it'll be easy to defeat such trash. Akane takes offense at this, and offers Ranma one day to date Kodachi and win the contest. The day of the date arrives, and Kodachi shows up in a black wedding dress (and has Ranma in a tuxedo) and she lures him to karaoke and paralysis powder so she can have her way with him - but Akane kicks them both to the venue. There, they confront The White Lily and her date, who is gorgeous. Akane and Kodachi both concede - but then it's revealed that he's not really her date - she knocked him out and dragged him away from his real girlfriend. So Kodachi and Asuka call it a draw and agree to a rematch in five years.
The last arc is one I really, really love... Ranma, Soun & Genma are visiting a temple to see magical armor/dougi. The monk tells them that they should buy it - in fact, he's so eager to sell it that he throws in his own spinny-chair. The dougi is said to be wearable only by the most worth of martial artists, so the Anything Goes clan, of course, buys it. In the dojo, they're each trying to put it on, but it fights them. Akane asks what all the noise in, and the dougi jumps on to her, complete with naked magical-girl transformation. Ranma is stunned that the only martial artist who's worthy enough to wear it is Akane, and he challenges her to a fight. She destroys him. The dougi, Ranma soon learns, has a mind of its own. It likes to cuddle with Akane, watch cute girls on tv, and even steals photos from Happosai's lecherous collection. It's a pervert. He even finds it spying on Akane in the bath. So Ranma tries to put it on while in female form - but it doesn't fit; it's too tight in the bust and too loose in the waist. He shouts that you clearly have to be thick-waisted to wear it, which Akane overhears and is furious about.
Ranma can't let it go. He challenges Akane and loses. He challenges the dougi itself and loses. Soun and Genma reached out to the monk again, and they tell Ranma that there are two ways to make the dougi stop. One is to convince the wearer that she's in love with someone else - the dougi will slink away. The other is to punch the yin/yang emblem on the belt (assuming he can get close enough). Ranma says he isn't enough of a sleeze to try seducing Akane. But after losing to the dougi again, he gets desperate. He asks Akane for some privacy, and makes sure the dougi is distracted elsewhere.
He pulls her into a closet and confesses to her that there's a girl he's thinking about, and she's obsessed with getting stronger. Akane is annoyed that he's talking to her about girl problems, and he admits that he's talking about her. He asks her to choose between him and the dougi (which annoys her), but points out that he can't get close to her when she's wearing it, and that he feels lonely. She looks up at him with her giant eyes and he thinks about how cute she is. (I live for these "ba-bmp" heartbeats.) Akane says that if it means that much to him, she'll seal away the dougi, saying that she know it bothers him that she's stronger than him, and it's not like she got there via hard work. This actually makes Ranma feel like a jerk who doesn't deserve to lay a hand on her. He's about to confess when Soun drops a bunch of snakes into the cupboard they're hiding in, and Akane flings herself into Ranma's arms. They're*about* to kiss (complete with whispering each other's names) when the dougi opens the cupboard and reveals the whole family listening in. Soun tells Nabiki what was going on, and Akane is crushed and furious, and tells Ranma she never wants to see his face again.
She runs away to a park, and the dougi comes with her and comforts her - and also alerts her when Ranma comes close. Ranma apologizes, and eventually manages to tell her that while at first he was trying to get the dougi, in the middle he started noticing that she really was cute. This has the opposite effect, and infuriates Akane. Ranma's inter-monologue is also angry: "And to think I stood here... and for the first time ever, said what I really felt! Then you're not cute!" He yells at her that he could get the dougi if he really tried, so she does her magical girl transformation again and they fight. She annihilates him and tells him she'll never see him again, and he tells her she can't leave like that - she needs to take off the dougi and talk to him. He attempts to hit the yin/yang emblem, but she grabs his hand and asks "you weren't trying to hit me, were you?" She tells him she hates him, and starts fighting again. Ranma manages to pin her to a tree, so she breaks the tree in half to hit him.
Finally he decides he can slip his hand between the emblem and her stomach, but has trouble wedging in there (because of her thick waist) - but he manages it and she knocks him on the head for saying that, so they fall toward a statue and the emblem is smashed against it. The dougi begins to disintegrate and Ranma catches Akane, landing on a bench with wet paint with Akane across his lap. Akane is touched that he saved her ("now do you believe me?") and asks if they can sit there together for a while, and he says it doesn't matter to him (while his inner monologue mentions how gross the paint feels). The story arc ends with Kasumi saying she stitched up the dougi because she felt sorry for it, and Soun is on the phone requesting a refund.
So, yeah... this story is ludicrous, but oh my god, is it good to see Ranma acknowledging how he feels. And while he's arrogant and stupid at times, he still has such a good moral compass when it comes to girls - between thinking it's sleezy to make Akane love him to get the dougi, or thinking that he doesn't deserve to touch her once he realizes that it's what he wants... it's just great. I'm obviously a huge Akane fan, but this reread is reminding me how much I love Ranma, too.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 27, 2023
This comic book doesn't have any reason to go this hard.
We begin with the return of, my personal favorite antagonist, Pantyhose Taro as he's been beaten up by a really powerful foe. Whom also comes from the dreaded Jyusenkyo, because of course it has to do with Jyusenkyo.
A minor, and quite forgetful, story with Kodachi getting Ranma into some sort of old feud she had.
And a very cool story where Akane gets hold of a powerful suit that makes her almost invincible. The interesting thing here is seeing Ranma truly letting his feelings for Akane show.
Of course, the shenannagans with the suit are a result of Genma's and Soun's meddling where they have no issue meddling in.
We begin with the return of, my personal favorite antagonist, Pantyhose Taro as he's been beaten up by a really powerful foe. Whom also comes from the dreaded Jyusenkyo, because of course it has to do with Jyusenkyo.
A minor, and quite forgetful, story with Kodachi getting Ranma into some sort of old feud she had.
And a very cool story where Akane gets hold of a powerful suit that makes her almost invincible. The interesting thing here is seeing Ranma truly letting his feelings for Akane show.
Of course, the shenannagans with the suit are a result of Genma's and Soun's meddling where they have no issue meddling in.
July 13, 2022
The first story is a 5 chapter arc about the return of Pantyhose Taro who is being chased by a strange woman with crazy powers. The second story is a two chapter arc about Kodachi the Black Rose and her rival The White Lily. The final story is a four chapter arc about a magical suit of armour which causes Ranma to examine and express his true feelings for Akane, at least a little.
February 12, 2024
It was okay.
Interesting a girl likes Ryoga who likes him for who he is even as a cute P-chan. Ranma made an accident! It was so close!
It is also sweet for Ranma to take care of his mother for a while as a man.
Interesting a girl likes Ryoga who likes him for who he is even as a cute P-chan. Ranma made an accident! It was so close!
It is also sweet for Ranma to take care of his mother for a while as a man.
December 7, 2019
4,5 stars
June 3, 2024
FINALLY!!! SOMETHING AT LEAST, AND HE DID!!
January 20, 2016
Part 1: The Glowing Girl: Pantyhose Taro shows up and some has beaten him. Meanwhile Akane finds some strange girl that had fallen into a fountain. Her name is Rouge. Happosai spills water on her and she turns into some kind of monster and beats up Happosai.
Part 2: The Other Rouge!!: This other Rouge has six arms and three heads. Rouge had fallen into Jusenkyo spring of a particular demon and now has that curse. The demon form is after Taro for something he took from her.
Part 3: Source of Power-Owner's Manual: Pantyhose Taro and Asura, the girl, battle in the air, and she gets ready to use her full power.
Part 4: A Beautiful Friendship: The battle continues with Asura getting the upper hand.
Part 5: Beware! The Blows of Strength: Pantyhose Taro gets knocked out. The source of Asura's power is found and she's able to get it back.
Part 6: The White Lily: Akane is at a fairgrounds and Kodachi is causing trouble. Kodachi encounters a women on a horse. She runs away from the woman. Ten years ago they met and made an agreement to meet ten years hence with their boyfriends.
Part 7: Battle of the Boyfriends!: Ranma gets called trash and Akane goes along with the one-time date thing with Kodachi, but nothing is settled and there will be a rematch in five years.
Part 8: The Chosen One: Genma and Soun get a special armor that is looking for its proper owner. The armor choses Akane and she fights and defeats Ranma. It rejects Ranma-chan.
Part 9: Ranma's Plot: Ranma loses to Akane again. The armor, by the way, is mobile on its own. Ranma finds a way to neutralize armor, but he has to hit it in one particular spot first.
Part 10: The First Time I Said What I Felt: The trick Ranma wants to use goes wrong. Ranma tells Akane he thinks she's cute but she won't believe him and gets ready to fight him.
Part 11: The Great Divide: Ranma fights Akane and finds a way to get the armor off of her.
Part 2: The Other Rouge!!: This other Rouge has six arms and three heads. Rouge had fallen into Jusenkyo spring of a particular demon and now has that curse. The demon form is after Taro for something he took from her.
Part 3: Source of Power-Owner's Manual: Pantyhose Taro and Asura, the girl, battle in the air, and she gets ready to use her full power.
Part 4: A Beautiful Friendship: The battle continues with Asura getting the upper hand.
Part 5: Beware! The Blows of Strength: Pantyhose Taro gets knocked out. The source of Asura's power is found and she's able to get it back.
Part 6: The White Lily: Akane is at a fairgrounds and Kodachi is causing trouble. Kodachi encounters a women on a horse. She runs away from the woman. Ten years ago they met and made an agreement to meet ten years hence with their boyfriends.
Part 7: Battle of the Boyfriends!: Ranma gets called trash and Akane goes along with the one-time date thing with Kodachi, but nothing is settled and there will be a rematch in five years.
Part 8: The Chosen One: Genma and Soun get a special armor that is looking for its proper owner. The armor choses Akane and she fights and defeats Ranma. It rejects Ranma-chan.
Part 9: Ranma's Plot: Ranma loses to Akane again. The armor, by the way, is mobile on its own. Ranma finds a way to neutralize armor, but he has to hit it in one particular spot first.
Part 10: The First Time I Said What I Felt: The trick Ranma wants to use goes wrong. Ranma tells Akane he thinks she's cute but she won't believe him and gets ready to fight him.
Part 11: The Great Divide: Ranma fights Akane and finds a way to get the armor off of her.
April 22, 2011
They say you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. But I did - And I was right ;) This series is amazing! You get genderbender, fantasy, action, romance and slapstick-humor along with intense serious moments, what more can you want?
February 20, 2012
An angry asura, Kodachi's agreement, and Ranma and Akane get cozy. Sort of.
April 26, 2014
Awww they are so cute! :)
December 19, 2015
Every now and again I've got to re-read Ranma 1/2. Rumiko Takahashi is a great story teller. This is one of the funniest manga I have ever read.
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