Reviews

I always enjoyed the manga and so it's fantastic to see Ranma get the same treatment as the 2022 Urusei Yatsura anime. It was so fun to see so many of my favorite characters again and get to laugh at the early storylines all over again. I think that the animation style really lent well to the story and gave all of the characters some extra charm. The only complaint I have is that it was only one cour, but I can understand if that means the quality can keep up, though it'd be nice if it didn't take several years to finish all the best manga stories.

For those unfamiliar with the source material, this is a story from the 80's and 90's about a boy who can turn into a girl depending on the temperature of water poured on him. This leads to a lot of outdated gags and notions throughout the story, but if you can go "This is from almost 40 years ago, so of course it is this way," then you'll enjoy it a lot more than if you try to hold it up to modern ideas of how to talk about genderfluidity and such. That said, to me it never felt like Takahashi was coming from a malicious place but simply tried to find the humor in the situation.

Anyway, if you enjoyed the manga you will likely enjoy this adaptation. If you enjoyed the previous anime, I don't think this adaptation will disappoint but it is of course different in some respects. If you want to avoid nudity (though they censored the nipples this time), then you should probably skip this anime.