Ranma ½

Anime series broadcast on VTV, Venevision and RCTV between the 70s and early 00s.

Toonami was a block in Cartoon Network Latin America created in 2002 mostly dedicated to anime, which served as the main hub of the medium in LatAm TV until its cancellation in 2007. After the block's death, anime slowly became a rarity in Cartoon Network Latin America, slowly disappear from LatAm airwaves until becoming all but extinct, with very few airing across the 2010s.

Toonami was revived in 2020 with Crunchyroll's support to air more anime in the channel, but the block would eventually die again in 2022 after Sony bought the streamer, ending its deal with Cartoon Network. Wanner Channel's Wanime block was born as a spiritual successor shortly afterwards.

That second death was not to last, as the new channel Adult Swim announced they would bring back Toonami as part of its schedule, with the Wanime block coexisting alongside it rather than overriding it.

Anime on Wanime: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/19893

Note: For obvious reasons, all Western series aired in the block, such as Justice League, won't be included in this stack.

The best anime comedy in my opinion

Magic Kids was an Argentine cable channel which aired cartoons, anime and live shows aimed at kids and young teens. The channel was founded on January 12, 1995, and went defunct on May 24, 2006.

Personally, I never managed to watch the channel because I'm not Argentine, but I recognize the importance it had for anime in Latin America

figuring my way through gay girl feelings with anime. some explicitly queer, some implicit, some that's just girls having a nice time being girls bc, hell, i sure didn't get to do that until pretty recently.

stuff ive seen, a lot i haven't yet, just tryna keep it all together, maybe there's something here for you too.

pleeeeaaaase dm me more wlw and sapphic stuff to check out

Anime with both comedy and romance, usually romantic banter or some type of rivalry... and of course tsunderes.

This is a list of Great, Long Anime. Watching these anime as a glue to hold together shorter anime is a great way to experience these anime. They are quiet long, so binging them is out of the question. Having long seasons, these anime anime start to blur the line between a show and a life style.

This list is filled with Action, Sports, and Military Anime as these genres and themes are more able to be spanned out to many episodes with enemies increasing intensity every arc. In many of the listed anime, the plot revolves around the struggle between two or more groups. The conflict in the opposing groups allow for many interactions that frequently span many episodes before resolving. The main characters have incredible physical power and have intense action scenes with notable conflicts with other characters, taking advantage of the opponent's weaknesses.

The selection is made by the best of the long anime, and are currently ordered by number episodes.

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This is the second part of a collection of articles where I aim to explore the evolution of anime related music. This part of the list attempts to collect a list of most iconic performances on the "New Age" of anime music.

The term "New Age" used in this list refers to a phase after the "Anime Songs" phase. During this phase there started being more "tie-up songs" that that essentially were "tied" to the animated series in order to gain more exposure and market reach to the song itself. This was an interesting approach for many as it opened a new model on how to sell these products to the market.

The theme songs essentially dropped that strong connection to the series demonstrated by their lyrics and the emotion invoked by the song related to the series. Instead of that the song and the lyrics talk about the series or the characters with an indirect manner forming a supposed link between the performance and the series in question.

The supposed link consists of "the spirit" of the performance which refers to the indirect nature of the performance in relation to the series itself, and "the product" which refers to the stand alone nature of the performance itself as observed without the supposed connection to the initial series. The root of "the spirit" can be said originating from the earlier phase.

These types of theme songs were more common and popular after 1980s. The defining moment that can be said had influence on changing the theme songs away from this model is the popularity of the series "Urusei Yatsura" and how it used to promote a several "tie-up" songs that in contrast to "Anime Songs" by their nature don't necessarily have anything to do with the series, story or the characters as far as the direct approach goes.

I will write my thoughts on each of the entries on this list to further explain why I think the series and the theme songs included as a combined package have attained "iconic" status when it comes to the scene of "New Age" anime music in contrast to the "Anime Songs". I will also give a score related on how well "the spirit" and the "product" perform parallel to each other while complimenting the series as a whole. The series are ordered based on that score.

The term "iconic" in this list is defined by the popularity and how deeply established the spirit and the elements of the performance relating to the spirit establishing the product are in addition of them being supposedly intertwined with the series as a whole experience.

Related stacks:

Chapter 1 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/24451
Chapter 2 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/24454
Chapter 3 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/24455

List of anime that aired in Peru. This third part is going to cover anime that originally aired in the 80's. The stack is going to be updated if some title is missing or hasn't been aired in Peru.

Many are familiar with Akemi Takada's '80s-defining character designs for the adaptations of Rumiko Takahashi's manga (whom I have also covered in an interest stack dedicated to her), but there is another person that is credited for translating Takahashi's characters within the wider anime (and promotional material) context. Atsuko Nakajima is a prominent animator, animation director, and character designer whose name emerged during Studio DEEN's prime years in the late '80s up until the early '00s, serving one or two of the roles above across its multitude of productions.

There is an interesting progression in Nakajima's design output. While she already had a certain tendency for hair complexity in her designs (see the nuances of Ranma 1/2; it stands out to me how there's a lot more to Kasumi's hair than how it looks), the advent of the 2000s and the rise of digital animation saw her trying out more extravagant and detailed appearances. Sharp faces complement the hair which brings forth a stronger emphasis on individual hair strands which have a notable sheen, such as her work in Taiho Shichau Zo and her animation direction work on Rurouni Kenshin.

As the title suggests, though, the standout element of Nakajima's character designs are the detail and expressiveness of her eyes. Evolving past the Takada-and-Takahashi-fused characters of Ranma 1/2, Nakajima maintained the glass-like look of her characters' eyes, which can be seen even with characters of a serious nature (i.e. having slanted or thin eyes like in Hakuoki). There's a doll-like element to her design philosophy that reflects or at least bears resemblance to the flashy and hyper-stylized bishounen and bishoujo aesthetic of shoujo manga.

Frankly, finding similarities in Nakajima's style is a bit harder to pin down, since she seems to be more flexible with adapting to the original manga artist's style. If there's a way to encompass her overall style, it would be the aforementioned doll-like attributes of her characters, the sharp lines that accentuate their presence in the frames, and a subtle luster that gives off the impression of an aura amplifying their importance.

Atsuko Nakajima profile: https://www.furinkan.com/features/interviews/atsukonakajima.html
Some illustrations: https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts?tags=nakajima_atsuko

Recommended watch order for the Ranma ½ series, based on release order.

MAL is a bit weird about grouping, but in essence there are:
- 161 main series episodes
- 12 episodes of OVAs
- 3 movies
- 7 special episodes, mostly recaps and music videos
- An advertisement for the "It's a Rumic World" exhibition

So in total, that's about 186 episodes worth of Ranma ½ content, plus a short crossover advertisement.

In terms of manga, the original Ranma ½ manga is where all of the adapted anime content comes from. It's hard to give a chapter where the anime "leaves off" because so much was skipped/altered/added for the adaptation - it's generally regarded as best just to start from the beginning. However, if you really want to not repeat any stories, the main series' latest adaptation is chapter 229, and the OVAs' latest adaptation is chapter 365.

There's also Eiga + OVA Ranma ½, a manga adaptation of the Michi wo Tsugu Mono OVAs and the Chou Musabetsu Kessen! Ranma Team vs. Densetsu no Houou movie released after the fact. It's made by directly using animation cells from the OVAs and movie, so you're not missing much by skipping this one. Maybe for the best, as it seems to be fairly obscure.

There was also a live-action adaptation in 2011.

They won't be included here, but aspects of Ranma ½ also make cameos in:
- The 4th Urusei Yatsura OVA, Rage! Sherbet!
- The 8th Urusei Yatsura OVA, Goat and Cheese
- The 10th Urusei Yatsura OVA, Terror of the Girly-Eyes Measles
- The 12th Urusei Yatsura OVA, The Obstacle Course Swim Meet
- Episode 21 of the Urusei Yatsura remake
- Episode 17 of Season 2 of the Urusei Yatsura remake
- Episode 90 of Inuyasha
- Episode 2 of Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi
- Episodes 2, 4, 11, and 20 of Kyoukai no Rinne
- Episode 14 of Kyoukai no Rinne 2nd Season
- Episode 14 of Kyoukai no Rinne 3rd Season
- Episode 93 of Pokemon Sun & Moon
- An Episode of Koko wa Green Wood

ok this list includes gender bending mostly by magical means, some are through surgeries and lastly some of the list was a male in previous life that upon the reincarnation became female.

I will try to put as many anime where tomboys have been the protagonists or are very present in the story. Some series are repeated.


Having 50 as a limit is awful.

PBS affiliate KTEH (now KQEH) aired lots of anime in the US in the late 90s and early 2000s, much of which was never seen before on television in the USA

Anime from 1980-1989