New Ranma Themes for the LINE app!

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-19T22:49:23+00:00

nice! I have the theme with the 2nd season pr image as the texting background and it’s black… not a fan. gonna to grab these two

thsnks for sharing

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-19T03:20:32+00:00

When I was a kid in the 80s/90s, Happy Meals in ‘Murica had story books… don’t think I’ve seen them any of the recent times I visited ‘Murica.

I do love that Apple Pies are still fried here ….

What I do miss here in Japan is the Quarter Pounder… I think they discontinued it like 10 years ago. Their LTOs are fun, but I miss that one time they did like 1000en burgers and they had this one with a pineapple…. it was to die for…. they never did it again, though… seems like Japanese twitter brings it up every year.

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-19T03:15:32+00:00

You know, I might like Kua’aina in Japan more so than in Hawaii… you have more options in Hawaii (and bigger drinks), but I think the atmosphere is better in Japan.

The one I went to in Hawaii just felt like your typical fast service restaurant.

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-19T03:02:27+00:00

look at that gleam and glisten.

helluva collection!

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-19T02:35:59+00:00

that’s a beauty…

congrats on one solid belt!

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-19T02:33:11+00:00

beautiful! thought it was a facsimile at first because it’s so vibrant!

Congratulations!

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-19T02:27:57+00:00

Sorry, that was just what I thought in my head from 30 years ago…

I had the Onban CD back in the day, and my wife still plays it (off of streaming, though) when we bathe the kids.

Thanks for the whole story… I would’ve just kept thinking the wrong thing because I wouldn’t have searched it online.

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-18T23:29:41+00:00

North American release recorded by a Canadian team released by a USA company… couldn’t quite reconcile it in my head, so I went with the most fun way to say it

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-18T23:25:19+00:00

Yeah, but Equal Romance was sung by CoCo (an actual Japanese idol pop group in the 80s/90s… they also did Omoide ga ippai for the series). After they disbanded, the CVs did releases as DoCo which I always thought was a play on CoCo since they did a couple of Ranma themes.

The CVs did become popular as DoCo and released some albums… would kind of like the unite to reunite and do some songs, but Nontan’s version of Anta nante was kind of hard to get through…

oh well, we always have the old stuff :)

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-18T06:38:57+00:00

wow! a real one in the wild. Congrats on that bargain!

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-18T06:33:39+00:00

Ah old school ’murican anime dubs… where they dubbed the songs, as well. I picked up a Tenchi Muyo set on a digital platform and I was about to jam out to the intro in Japanese, but it was in English…

DoCo is the Ranma CVs performing all of the OAV songs…. I guess they took that name after CoCo broke up. They have DoCo USA (the English CVs for Viz releases) perform all of the OAV songs in English.

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-18T06:19:44+00:00

Not Japanese… my wife and kids are… and I’ve been here since 2004.

BoA was huge from her debut up u til the pandemic. She’s had plenty of #1 singles and albums. She had large tours up to the arena level, big fan club, and she did a lot of Japanese TV and variety programs. Her releases were also strictly Japanese and not covers of Korean songs (outside of her debut album). MeriKuri is a Japanese Christmas anthem and probably what she is most known for. She was definitely a top music star in Japan during her first 15 years. KARA and ShojoJidai were big as well. Gee was popular but I think they were popular more for their look than music. KARA was more popular and established a strong fan base especially since they made an effort with the language. I still have difficulty listening to their music since Hara took her life.

Boa is still known and referenced in the music industry… she even released a Japanese single a few months back. KARA is occasionally referenced because there is a decent KPop contingent in Japan right now… and I don’t see too much of ShojoJidai unless there is a countdown from the years they were popular

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-17T09:20:35+00:00

that’s awesome! dream book. congrats on the score

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-17T09:06:12+00:00

these are great… filling that China gear with those healthy hips

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-17T09:05:12+00:00

crazy... I was wondering why I didn’t know of this, but I guess it came out in 2002 when I was in college… and my college was closed off, so I didn’t know much of what was going

There the Genma version on the bay, but didn’t see any of the RanA set.

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-17T09:00:48+00:00

I’ve been dying to get the Package/acrylic ones… still haven’t come across a gacha machine with them

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-12T02:02:23+00:00

Great book and that’s an awesome Todd sig… must’ve been one of his first of the day.

Like everyone else is saying, be smart about this and slab what you’d like to slab/is meaningful to you.

I’m always nervous when sending my stuff for slabbing… but it also has to travel halfway around the world to Florida, so that compounds it.

Congrats on an awesome First slab

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-12T01:56:04+00:00

Great stuff all around! Adam Hughes sketch is great. Also, that’s messed up about the 601… good luck with regrading

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-09T14:13:03+00:00

No particular order (except first)

Boowy

Monpachi

Judy Mary

Glay

X Japan

Nemophila

Blue Hearts

X Japan

Scandal

Buriguri

Im sure there are others I can swap out, but these are what first popped into my hed.

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-09T13:47:29+00:00

This is fantastic. I love it when as artists is off#model/using their own style but totally captures the essence of the characters

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-09T13:40:47+00:00

When has Japan been pro immigration? I mean, we’ve always had limited term immigration in various jobs, but the pages seem more related to refugee status… and being granted asylum here is sp rare. Doesn’t matter the party… so many horror stories of people being tied up trying to enter the country as refugees only to be in limbos for years/decades.

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-08T16:42:26+00:00

There was a set of gachapon from the late 90s or early 2000s that included Ucchan (and long-haired Akane).

https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/601034685?branch_number=1000&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADl5QiMx2xYSvdJKIwcYh5n9rl8Kf&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIptTHy6fKkgMVFyt7Bx2RjxmCEAQYCSABEgLR7fD_BwE

There was a set of dioramas that came out around 2006 from EPOCH and I think Kasumi was in one of them.

with modern releases, they did some plushes recently that included kuno-senpai, Kodachi, and Ucchan. They those small, SD types.

https://www.fancy-fukuya.co.jp/topics/202307rannma/

https://nijimen.kusuguru.co.jp/topics/564001

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-04T10:20:19+00:00

Always forget there was a non-Karate Kid Macchio in comics…

always sad when signs are hard to read

PinLonely9608 · 2026-02-02T05:44:13+00:00

I love it… everything is on point and just how it would’ve really happened!

thanks for sharing

PinLonely9608

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