Ranma ½

I had my doubts about this one because the other recent reboot of a Rumic series, Urusei Yatsura, doesn't cut it since the humor is just too dated. For those too young to remember, Rumiko Takahashi was arguably the first female manga superstar back in the 1980s. There were female mangaka but they had been limited to genres specifically aiming at young women, Rumic was the first to become a mainstream craze (CLAMP came later). She's probably most famous for Inuyasha because it ran forever, Ranma 1/2 was a very successful manga but the anime only ran for two seasons. The story has the light zany characteristics of her work, teenagers trapped in gender-bending complicated romance constellations, but it's the constant action which make the manga - and this series - such a delight. For us older ones, it's a reminder that times back then were a lot less complicated, for the younger ones, enjoy! There is nothing to get mad about in this one.

This reboot is awesome. Its the same story as before. A boy named Ranma Saotome who is a martal artist falls in to the cursed spring of the dead girl. When ever he is hit by cold water he becomes a girl. He mush be hit by warm water to become a boy again. He is forced into an arranged marrage with a girl named Akane Tendo. Akane and Ranma have a love hate relatanionship that is exasperated by the arranged marrage. Several other characters are in love with Ranma and Akane respectivly. There is a martal art for litteerally everything. In the original Japanese version the original actors returned. In the English version we got brand new voice actors. I am so used to the orignal dub actors and I like them the best but the new actors are great too.

Everything is more faithful to the manga since the facial expressions, the fighting scenes are great, they did put an effort on it , there are a lot NOT real fans of Ranma who complained about the censorship (the manga wasn't about that) or colors of the hair of Ranma when is a girl ...but in the manga it wasn't a fact about that her hair color was red, Rumiko wasn't happy with the first Ranma 90's (for me was good) but it did have a lot of episodes that wasn't relevant to the real history, and never developed the essence of main couple romance. Support this anime, it's doing things right, we will LOVE the real finale of RUMIKO story and not the rushed ending they gave us in the 90s.

I watched Ranma when I was younger, so I was initially skeptical, as I'm not usually a fan of reboots. But this show truly knocks it out of the park! It stays true to the original source material while adding a fresh twist. The characters are super likeable without ever getting on your nerves. Some parts of the story are totally absurd, but that just makes it even more fun to watch!

It's got humor, emotion, and tons of action. The charm of this series really shines through - it feels like the creators knew exactly what they wanted to bring to the table, and they nailed it. Great animation style and music too. I'm really enjoying it, and I'm sure anime fans will feel the same!

Watcher from the first series when I was 10 to 12 years old, I also read the full manga (twice) and did a rewatch of the whole original series in the mid 2000's.

Now I quite enjoy watching this with my daughter (10 years old also so the loop is finished). Not only do I like the anime but I also enjoy seing my children launghing at the same misunderstandings and jokes!

The reboot is quite in synch with the manga and has also quite taken from the original series of anime. Yes the hair color for Ranma/girl has changed (but Rumiko didn't quite think it was faithful to the colored panels from the manga at the time) and we have some level of censorship (nipples mainly) while still maintaining the nudity but those are not really quite that bothering.

Another difference is the choice of including textured panels, some changes of colors/contrasts in some scene and we have quite a few interjections which are reminders of the manga. I think it is quite interesting, rather than obnoxious.

Lastly we need to speak about the things which are better here as I saw many bad reviews on this anime solely based on the love for the old one. The old anime was far from perfect: We had a lot of fillers, the pace was slow and some episodes were just not interesting. Also we lacked some very important arcs from the manga. In addition as, it was older, the old animation had a retro feel which was attractive for us but it was quite less appealing for the younger public.

Here the pace is quite faster, which is not a sacrifice to the story. It is quite dynamic and I think it will help prevent some episodes with a lower rating. Also it will help advance in the manga quite faster, which in turn will allow us (let's hope) to have a full manga animated.

Lastly this anime allows quite a few new young people to have access to this wonderful series which itself is quite a win in my point of view.