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Ranma ½ #27
Ranma 1/2, Vol. 27
The Egg of the Phoenix - legendary treasure and pounding headache for Ranma. Unless Ranma can force-feed the bird into maturity (and thus free himself from its attacks), he'll be on the bottom of the pecking order for the next 100 years. Will the bird ahve teh final word? Elsewhere, a pair of poisonous twins are making life difficult for Shampoo. Can Ranma rescue her? Then, a body-jumping demon causes chaos, while a penny-pinching Nabiki takes on her greatest challenge yet. Will she reign supreme as the Queen of Schemes?...
200 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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Rumiko Takahashi
1,582 books2,142 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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January 20, 2016
Part 1: The Terror of the Phoenix Sword!: Kuno buys a phoenix egg which will supposedly give him a special sword ability. Ranma puts the egg on Kuno's egg and it hatches. The bird hates Ranma at first sight. Kuno tries to take the bird off his head but it won't come off.
Part 2: The Immortal Phoenix Sword: Ranma feeds the bird to get it to grow quickly so it will fly off of Kuno's neck and it finally does.
Part 3: The Seeds of Tragedy: A backstory of something that happened to Shampoo and a new adversary that uses mandrake roots. Actually, there are two adversaries saying they have come to kill Shampoo and her husband.
Part 4: Motherhood Flower, Please: The two attack Ranma at the dojo and capture Shampoo.
Part 5: Shampoo-Captive!: The two fight Ranma and Shampoo and temporarily defeat them.
Part 6: The Forest of Poisonous Plants: Ranma and Shampoo get caught in the forest of poisonous plants. Akane comes to rescue them.
Part 7: The Ultimate Medicine: Ranma has to battle the plants, take an antidote to the poison, have lips that look incredibly stupid, and destroy the poison plant forest.
Part 8: Evil and the Bean: An evil demon that takes over the bodies of people escapes. It inhabits Genma first and then Kuno. After him it enters Ryoga and then enters Kasumi. The demon is finally captured, but escapes again.
Part 9: The King of Poverty's Challenge: Nabiki finds out she's being followed. He dates Nabiki but takes financial advantage of her.
Part 10: The King of Debt vs. The Queen of Debt: Nabiki and the guy make a bet about who will be the first to spend 10 yen.
Part 11: For The Love of Ten Yen: Nabiki ends up winning the bet.
Part 2: The Immortal Phoenix Sword: Ranma feeds the bird to get it to grow quickly so it will fly off of Kuno's neck and it finally does.
Part 3: The Seeds of Tragedy: A backstory of something that happened to Shampoo and a new adversary that uses mandrake roots. Actually, there are two adversaries saying they have come to kill Shampoo and her husband.
Part 4: Motherhood Flower, Please: The two attack Ranma at the dojo and capture Shampoo.
Part 5: Shampoo-Captive!: The two fight Ranma and Shampoo and temporarily defeat them.
Part 6: The Forest of Poisonous Plants: Ranma and Shampoo get caught in the forest of poisonous plants. Akane comes to rescue them.
Part 7: The Ultimate Medicine: Ranma has to battle the plants, take an antidote to the poison, have lips that look incredibly stupid, and destroy the poison plant forest.
Part 8: Evil and the Bean: An evil demon that takes over the bodies of people escapes. It inhabits Genma first and then Kuno. After him it enters Ryoga and then enters Kasumi. The demon is finally captured, but escapes again.
Part 9: The King of Poverty's Challenge: Nabiki finds out she's being followed. He dates Nabiki but takes financial advantage of her.
Part 10: The King of Debt vs. The Queen of Debt: Nabiki and the guy make a bet about who will be the first to spend 10 yen.
Part 11: For The Love of Ten Yen: Nabiki ends up winning the bet.
February 11, 2018
Éste es uno de mis volúmenes favoritos. Sobre todo por la aparición de dos enemigas de Shampoo llamadas Pink y Link quienes molestas por las humillaciones que Shampoo las hizo pasar en China vendrán a vengarse de ella en la persona de su novio Ramma.
Como siempre que está Shampoo Akane es la que paga las consecuencias y aunque de muy mala gana ayudará en esta terrible disputa.
Como siempre que está Shampoo Akane es la que paga las consecuencias y aunque de muy mala gana ayudará en esta terrible disputa.
February 3, 2021
There are three stories in this volume, and - to be honest -I disliked one, tolerated another, liked one, and really enjoyed the last.
The first is the tale of the legendary phoenix sword. Kuno finds a merchant who has an extraordinarily dangerous sword, and he says he won't sell it for a wad of money. Kuno slaps him with bills and the man sells. But he tellsKuno that no matter what he does, DO NOT put the next and phoenix egg that come with it on his head. Kuno fight with Ranma the next day, diligently holding the next in his offhand, but when Ranma defeats him he placed the nest on Kuno's head. The egg cracks and a phoenix is born, and the phoenix imprints angrily on Ranma, pecking at him nonstop. And I mean NON-STOP. Kuno ends up staying the night because the bird won't stop pecking at Ranma. (The bird is even angrier at female Ranma.) So Ranma learns that it'll stop when the phoenix grows and flies away from its next, in about a hundred years. He tries to feed it pellets of food that'll make it grow quickly, but Kuno blocks the pellets with his sword. So then Ranma turns female and Kuno let her does whatever she wants - so Ranma has to dodge the phoenix's wrath while feeding it pellets. Eventually it grows to adulthood and flies off, leaving another nest and egg in its wake. The merchant takes it, and says it's too dangerous to sell, and the final panel is Kuno slapping him with a wad of money.
It's fine, it's cute, whatever. I'm just really tired of Tatewaki Kuno and him suddenly given power and instead he's just super stupid. But that's the way this game is played.
The next story has Shampoo a little worried, because her Amazon village newspaper ran and article about her following Ranma to Tokyo and marrying him. She likes the marriage part, but she's worried because the article mentioned where she lives, and she has a nemesis or two interested in tracking her down. Enter Pink and Link, two Chinese herbalist martial artist twins. Pink poisoned Shampoo as a girl, and Link gave her the antidote. But Shampoo thought it was the same person, so she beat up Link, and now they want revenge and the best way to torture Shampoo is to harm her husband.
They go after Ranma and make his life hellish; they kidnap Shampoo and have Ranma fight his way to her (using a sword and shield that are effective at identifying and cutting through poison, given to him by Cologne). Shampoo isn't really in peril, but she makes Pink and Link act like she is so she can have the joy of growing closer to Ranma through peril. Unfortunately, it doesn't really work, and Pink and Link create a completely jungle out of the Furinkan High school grounds and trap Shampoo and Ranma among the poisonous plants - including some paralysis poison.
Akane equips herself with a magical fan, a flame-breathing staff, and a paper doll that will serve as a proxy if she's in danger - and she goes to rescue Ranma (and Shampoo). Can I just say this is the second time Akane has rescued Ranma, and I'll never get tired of it? Anyway, it works pretty well, though by the time she gets to Ranma he's completely paralyzed and under Shampoo (her doing, of course), which makes Akane a little angry. One of the twins pats them on the back, telling them not to fight; they kick them into the sky, but as they're leaving, they realize that it was trick - Pink put tendrils of a poisonous plant that creep up and prick them. Akane has the sense to smack the paper doll onto Ranma, so it gets poisoned in his stead.
Shampoo and Akane are both asleep, although Shampoo is sleep-fighting the twins. Ranma finds his way back to them to force Link to create and antidote before he, Akane or Shampoo die from the poisonous pollen all around them. They make it, but it's really, really spicy and no one can eat it. So Ranma feeds it to the flame-breathing staff to blast them all out of the plants.
The next story is a one-shot in which the Anything Goes martial artists are asked to assist in the re-packaging of a demon. He's been sealed away for a thousand years, but when the seal is broken Happosai jumps through and screws everything up. This demon is a wacky looking creature who possesses people (giving them the cutest little demon horns). He goes into Genma first,who doodles on Soun in a fit of evil, and the monk tells Ranma that the demon can be punched out. So he hits him, and then it goes into Kuno (who acts pretty much the same, challenging Ranma with slightly more intensity). Ranma kicks him into low earth orbit and realizes his mistake - now he's lost track of the demon. Turns out it goes into Ryoga (who looks SUPER CUTE with the combination of fangs and horns), who's visiting the Tendo residence. Kasumi tells him that Ranma is out and Akane is in the bath, and Ryoga decides that spying on Akane in the bath is the exact evil thing he wants to do. Ranma chases him down, tackling him in the bathroom, and a towel-clad Akane kicks them both into the sky.
The night the monk comes to dinner, and Ranma confesses that the demon is out and missing. They all eat and discover the food has paralysis powder in it. Kasumi says "Oh, I'm so sorry. Intense feelings of evil suddenly shot through me." And she has adorable horns. She goes on to sew "freak" on the back of Ranma's shirt, iron Genma, and massage Soun with giant claws. Ranma realizes he needs to punch her, but he can't hit Kasumi! The monk puts a seal on her forehead that knocks the demon out, and packages it up again. But the next day as they're walking to school, Ranma and Akane see him running down the street, because the box was old and the bottom fell out, so the demon is loose.
The last story feels very different from others; this one is about Nabiki Tendo. It begins with her on a date with a fellow who pays for everything, and at the end of the evening she tells him that she's not going out with him again. The next day, she's challenged by a fellow, and as a daughter of the Tendo Dojo, she cannot ignore the challenge. Turns out it's an expensive date, and the fellow, Kinnosuke, is attractive and suave (barring the ventriloquist butler he carries around). They have an amazing date in which neither of them pay a cent. But at the end of the night, Nabiki comes home to the Tendo estate and it's barren of everything - even the tatami mats have been repossessed, because all of the bills were sent to her.
He invites her on another date (because he feels like he lost, since Nabiki didn't pay anything on their date, either), picking her up via helicopter, and she accepts. She issues a challenge - that whoever spends ten yen first will have to pay for everything, including the previous date. He accepts, and it's revealed that he's the heir to the kasha-o school, which focuses on never spending money. It turns out that his tux and helicopter are both rented. Ranma and Akane come along on the date to try to keep Nabiki in check.
The date is crazy, going to Hong Kong for ramen, karaoke in a giant stadium, going to a casino, hanging out on a yacht, killing time in a luxury suite in a hotel smashing things - the bill is over a billion yen by the end of the night. They're in the helicopter when Kinnosuke jumps out, and tells them to look in the cockpit - there's a 10-yen slot to override the controls. Nabiki has anticipated this, though, and switched his parachute out. She jumps out of the plane after him, and offers him the real parachute for 10 yen. ("What a terrifying man... wouldn't spend ten yen to save his life" Akane says after he crashes into the ground. Ranma replied with "I'm more terrified of your sister, who wouldn't give him the parachute for free.") Clearly Kinnosuke and Nabiki are evenly matched, and she confesses her love for him. He asks her to call his family physician and gives her ten yen to make the call. But she's used to being thrifty, and accidentally calls 911, which gives her the coin back. She tells him she has no right to be in a relationship with him, but that she'll keep the coin as a memento of their love.
Later it shows that he escaped the hospital without paying his bill, and Ranma and Akane see Nabiki at her desk, studying the coin with tears in her eyes. They think that she must've really loved him after all, but she's really lamenting that she hadn't made it a 10,000 yen bet.
Damn, I love Nabiki. 'Nuff said.
The first is the tale of the legendary phoenix sword. Kuno finds a merchant who has an extraordinarily dangerous sword, and he says he won't sell it for a wad of money. Kuno slaps him with bills and the man sells. But he tellsKuno that no matter what he does, DO NOT put the next and phoenix egg that come with it on his head. Kuno fight with Ranma the next day, diligently holding the next in his offhand, but when Ranma defeats him he placed the nest on Kuno's head. The egg cracks and a phoenix is born, and the phoenix imprints angrily on Ranma, pecking at him nonstop. And I mean NON-STOP. Kuno ends up staying the night because the bird won't stop pecking at Ranma. (The bird is even angrier at female Ranma.) So Ranma learns that it'll stop when the phoenix grows and flies away from its next, in about a hundred years. He tries to feed it pellets of food that'll make it grow quickly, but Kuno blocks the pellets with his sword. So then Ranma turns female and Kuno let her does whatever she wants - so Ranma has to dodge the phoenix's wrath while feeding it pellets. Eventually it grows to adulthood and flies off, leaving another nest and egg in its wake. The merchant takes it, and says it's too dangerous to sell, and the final panel is Kuno slapping him with a wad of money.
It's fine, it's cute, whatever. I'm just really tired of Tatewaki Kuno and him suddenly given power and instead he's just super stupid. But that's the way this game is played.
The next story has Shampoo a little worried, because her Amazon village newspaper ran and article about her following Ranma to Tokyo and marrying him. She likes the marriage part, but she's worried because the article mentioned where she lives, and she has a nemesis or two interested in tracking her down. Enter Pink and Link, two Chinese herbalist martial artist twins. Pink poisoned Shampoo as a girl, and Link gave her the antidote. But Shampoo thought it was the same person, so she beat up Link, and now they want revenge and the best way to torture Shampoo is to harm her husband.
They go after Ranma and make his life hellish; they kidnap Shampoo and have Ranma fight his way to her (using a sword and shield that are effective at identifying and cutting through poison, given to him by Cologne). Shampoo isn't really in peril, but she makes Pink and Link act like she is so she can have the joy of growing closer to Ranma through peril. Unfortunately, it doesn't really work, and Pink and Link create a completely jungle out of the Furinkan High school grounds and trap Shampoo and Ranma among the poisonous plants - including some paralysis poison.
Akane equips herself with a magical fan, a flame-breathing staff, and a paper doll that will serve as a proxy if she's in danger - and she goes to rescue Ranma (and Shampoo). Can I just say this is the second time Akane has rescued Ranma, and I'll never get tired of it? Anyway, it works pretty well, though by the time she gets to Ranma he's completely paralyzed and under Shampoo (her doing, of course), which makes Akane a little angry. One of the twins pats them on the back, telling them not to fight; they kick them into the sky, but as they're leaving, they realize that it was trick - Pink put tendrils of a poisonous plant that creep up and prick them. Akane has the sense to smack the paper doll onto Ranma, so it gets poisoned in his stead.
Shampoo and Akane are both asleep, although Shampoo is sleep-fighting the twins. Ranma finds his way back to them to force Link to create and antidote before he, Akane or Shampoo die from the poisonous pollen all around them. They make it, but it's really, really spicy and no one can eat it. So Ranma feeds it to the flame-breathing staff to blast them all out of the plants.
The next story is a one-shot in which the Anything Goes martial artists are asked to assist in the re-packaging of a demon. He's been sealed away for a thousand years, but when the seal is broken Happosai jumps through and screws everything up. This demon is a wacky looking creature who possesses people (giving them the cutest little demon horns). He goes into Genma first,who doodles on Soun in a fit of evil, and the monk tells Ranma that the demon can be punched out. So he hits him, and then it goes into Kuno (who acts pretty much the same, challenging Ranma with slightly more intensity). Ranma kicks him into low earth orbit and realizes his mistake - now he's lost track of the demon. Turns out it goes into Ryoga (who looks SUPER CUTE with the combination of fangs and horns), who's visiting the Tendo residence. Kasumi tells him that Ranma is out and Akane is in the bath, and Ryoga decides that spying on Akane in the bath is the exact evil thing he wants to do. Ranma chases him down, tackling him in the bathroom, and a towel-clad Akane kicks them both into the sky.
The night the monk comes to dinner, and Ranma confesses that the demon is out and missing. They all eat and discover the food has paralysis powder in it. Kasumi says "Oh, I'm so sorry. Intense feelings of evil suddenly shot through me." And she has adorable horns. She goes on to sew "freak" on the back of Ranma's shirt, iron Genma, and massage Soun with giant claws. Ranma realizes he needs to punch her, but he can't hit Kasumi! The monk puts a seal on her forehead that knocks the demon out, and packages it up again. But the next day as they're walking to school, Ranma and Akane see him running down the street, because the box was old and the bottom fell out, so the demon is loose.
The last story feels very different from others; this one is about Nabiki Tendo. It begins with her on a date with a fellow who pays for everything, and at the end of the evening she tells him that she's not going out with him again. The next day, she's challenged by a fellow, and as a daughter of the Tendo Dojo, she cannot ignore the challenge. Turns out it's an expensive date, and the fellow, Kinnosuke, is attractive and suave (barring the ventriloquist butler he carries around). They have an amazing date in which neither of them pay a cent. But at the end of the night, Nabiki comes home to the Tendo estate and it's barren of everything - even the tatami mats have been repossessed, because all of the bills were sent to her.
He invites her on another date (because he feels like he lost, since Nabiki didn't pay anything on their date, either), picking her up via helicopter, and she accepts. She issues a challenge - that whoever spends ten yen first will have to pay for everything, including the previous date. He accepts, and it's revealed that he's the heir to the kasha-o school, which focuses on never spending money. It turns out that his tux and helicopter are both rented. Ranma and Akane come along on the date to try to keep Nabiki in check.
The date is crazy, going to Hong Kong for ramen, karaoke in a giant stadium, going to a casino, hanging out on a yacht, killing time in a luxury suite in a hotel smashing things - the bill is over a billion yen by the end of the night. They're in the helicopter when Kinnosuke jumps out, and tells them to look in the cockpit - there's a 10-yen slot to override the controls. Nabiki has anticipated this, though, and switched his parachute out. She jumps out of the plane after him, and offers him the real parachute for 10 yen. ("What a terrifying man... wouldn't spend ten yen to save his life" Akane says after he crashes into the ground. Ranma replied with "I'm more terrified of your sister, who wouldn't give him the parachute for free.") Clearly Kinnosuke and Nabiki are evenly matched, and she confesses her love for him. He asks her to call his family physician and gives her ten yen to make the call. But she's used to being thrifty, and accidentally calls 911, which gives her the coin back. She tells him she has no right to be in a relationship with him, but that she'll keep the coin as a memento of their love.
Later it shows that he escaped the hospital without paying his bill, and Ranma and Akane see Nabiki at her desk, studying the coin with tears in her eyes. They think that she must've really loved him after all, but she's really lamenting that she hadn't made it a 10,000 yen bet.
Damn, I love Nabiki. 'Nuff said.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 17, 2023
I really don't know how to feel about this one.
The only story I sort of enjoyed was the first one with Kuno getting hold of that Phoenix, it was dumb and quite funny.
Next we have one with Shampoo, I like the character but I still don't understand other's fascination with her, and two girls that want revenge on her.
And the srangest one being a story centered on Nabiki of all people. Here we see that after Ice Skating, Gymnastics, and even Shogi martial arts, there's a Money spending martial art. Weird indeed, but not as interesting as other things the series has shown before.
The only story I sort of enjoyed was the first one with Kuno getting hold of that Phoenix, it was dumb and quite funny.
Next we have one with Shampoo, I like the character but I still don't understand other's fascination with her, and two girls that want revenge on her.
And the srangest one being a story centered on Nabiki of all people. Here we see that after Ice Skating, Gymnastics, and even Shogi martial arts, there's a Money spending martial art. Weird indeed, but not as interesting as other things the series has shown before.
December 31, 2023
So from a semi-serious storyline with Shinnosuke and the spring of life to whatever this volume was. Mousse and the glasses that makes your "opponent" cry and beg for forgiveness, and Ranma choosing to deal with it by stooping down to that level. Then there's the living bathingsuit drowning people because one guy didn't compliment it. Everything to do with that new teacher is a category all on its own.
December 7, 2019
4,5 stars
December 30, 2023
So glad Nabiki got her own little vignette! The rest of them were okay, with my second favorite being the one with the poison sisters.
February 10, 2024
Least favorite!
I giggled when female Ranma asks Kuno to compliment her swimsuit. And the time Akane and Ranma thought Ukyo and Ryoga like each other.
I giggled when female Ranma asks Kuno to compliment her swimsuit. And the time Akane and Ranma thought Ukyo and Ryoga like each other.
January 17, 2025
Pretty good volume
January 15, 2013
Really, the only reason this volume is getting 4 stars is because of the end storyline with Nabiki! God, I love her!
The rest of the volume was okay. Another volume composed of a few short random storylines. I was happy to see another storyline involving Shampoo, of course, but the other storylines weren't anything special. Without the awesome storyline with Nabiki at the end, this volume would have been another "meh" volume.
There were, however, some chapter cover arts I really loved!
Ranma looks so cute in this picture!!
Love this one of Nabiki!
The rest of the volume was okay. Another volume composed of a few short random storylines. I was happy to see another storyline involving Shampoo, of course, but the other storylines weren't anything special. Without the awesome storyline with Nabiki at the end, this volume would have been another "meh" volume.
There were, however, some chapter cover arts I really loved!
Ranma looks so cute in this picture!!
Love this one of Nabiki!
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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?
January 13, 2012
Phoenixes, poisonous plants, ten yen coins, oh my!
Finally, we have a story with Nabiki as the main character!
Also, the Flame-Throwing staff Cologne gives Akane reminds me of Jaken's Staff of Two Heads from InuYasha
Finally, we have a story with Nabiki as the main character!
Also, the Flame-Throwing staff Cologne gives Akane reminds me of Jaken's Staff of Two Heads from InuYasha
November 20, 2012
A great set of Ranma stories, including one for Nabiki that is extremely funny. The art in this manga is classic and proves why Ranma is clearly slapstick comedy at its best.
November 22, 2013
Even if you were to slap my face with a wad of bills, I couldn't sell it to you.
SLAPP
SOLD!
SLAPP
SOLD!
April 25, 2014
Everyone should read these :)
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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