Alternative Titles:
- らんま1/2
Year Anime Premiered: 1989
Animation Studio: Studio Deen
Number of Seasons: 1 + 13 OVAs + 2 Movies
Source Material Country of Origin: Japan
Source Material Available: Manga
Entry Last Updated: May 13th, 2024
Ranma ½ was likely a first taste of gender-benders for a lot of people, and I’m sure more than a few people found that they didn’t dislike it. While the gender-bending did lead to a lot of fun shenanigans for comedy, to the credit of the series, it often had some interesting stories outside of the jokes.
Where To Start The Ranma ½ Manga After The Anime?
To give an official answer, if you want to pick up the Ranma ½ manga after the anime, you can do so at Chapter 229 if you only watched the core anime. If you also watched all the OVAs, the last event those cover leaves you at Chapter 365 as a starting point.
What to Expect From The Ranma ½ Manga?
To be perfectly honest, Ranma ½ is one of the worst Rumiko Takahashi anime adaptations. Not as a story, but as an anime adaptation of the story.
I highly recommend just reading the Ranma ½ manga from the beginning. It commits all the anime adaptation sins – Replacing manga characters with anime-only characters, leaving out characters and thus events out completely, changing events, skipping events. This series is long-known to have “anime fans” and to have “manga fans,” very rare are there fans that really love both versions.
Is The Ranma ½ Manga Over?
The Ranma ½ manga is completed. It ended in 1996 with Chapter 407.
Will Ranma ½ Be Rebooted?
The fact that Urusei Yatsura, another older Rumiko Takahashi series, got rebooted is a strong sign that there could be a future for Ranma ½ in the modern anime age. However, at this point, there has been no announcement of a Ranma ½ reboot.
