Ranma 1/2 Will Also Have a New Animated Series: the official announcement arrived in conjunction with the broadcast of the last episode of the Urusei Yatsura remake, in the form of a trailer that you can see below.
There are no precise details yet, but from the video it is easy to imagine that the transposition will be more faithful to the style of manga by Rumiko Takahashialso published by us from 1996 to 1998 (the original work dates back to 1987).
Able to achieve great success at an international level thanks to its fantastic cast of characters, Ranma 1/2 tells the story of a young martial arts expert who, together with his father, inadvertently gets wet in the waters of a cursed spring which transformed both.
Depending on contact with cold or hot water, In fact, Ranma finds himself changing sex while the father becomes a huge panda. Likewise, many other characters are subject to the same transformation.
A finally faithful transposition?
Protagonist of several video games that have been turned upside down in the West, Ranma 1/2 could enjoy a new animated series a transposition finally faithful to the mangawhich was still being serialized during its original airing.
This situation forced the authors of the cartoon at the time to slow down the pace of the narration while waiting for the release of the new tankobon, or to create filler episodes which inevitably affected the general quality of the production.
The interesting thing is that there are several stories from the Ranma 1/2 manga that did not have a correspondence in the anime: an opportunity that the new series just announced could seize on.
