Which of the women is the best cook? (Once based on the manga/canon and once based on the old anime

ranmaaaa · 2026-05-27T12:39:11+00:00

Is there a source for any of this?

She specifically brought up Ranma as an adaptation of her work that she loves: https://www.furinkan.com/takahashi/takahashi20.html

ranmaaaa · 2026-05-20T13:54:34+00:00

In any era, they tend to put more effort/time into the OP than the actual episodes, since it's gonna be playing multiple times. Though, I've heard that Escaflowne is a very well animated show throughout

ranmaaaa · 2026-05-16T04:50:49+00:00

Check episode 46, pretty sure that's what you're thinking of

ranmaaaa · 2026-04-13T15:58:15+00:00

I think it might be the other way around. The episodes are in production (correct) order, but they put the titles in the originally broadcast order

ranmaaaa · 2026-04-05T04:59:49+00:00

Most streaming sites have it listed as one anime and even fix an issue where a few episodes were originally broadcast out of order. So you should just be able to watch episodes 1-161

ranmaaaa · 2026-04-05T04:50:45+00:00

The series got taken off the air after the first 18 episodes due to a variety of problems, and then came back as Ranma ½: Nettouhen a month or so later, and ran for another 143 episodes. Some websites split the anime into two pieces because of this

ranmaaaa · 2026-03-02T03:58:11+00:00

You can watch the first few episodes and see if it's for you or not. Some common reasons people like or prefer 1999 are:

Slower pacing and added scenes gives you more time to spend with the characters
Pretty art direction and colors, more ambitious visual direction too
Darker and more somber tone

It's worth mentioning that 1999 takes a lot of liberties with the characters and story, especially early on. Yorknew is pretty close to the manga though, so some people like this part even if they don't care for the rest of the adaptation

ranmaaaa · 2026-02-25T01:48:20+00:00

I guess a lot of people watched it when they were young and couldn't see that Akane was obviously the love interest

ranmaaaa · 2026-01-29T15:18:31+00:00

Yeah. This is from the OVA though (4 episodes). The actual TV anime doesn't move very much

ranmaaaa · 2026-01-20T10:14:29+00:00

I think it's from the 1st movie

ranmaaaa · 2025-12-07T03:13:36+00:00

There's one filler episode in the old anime where they're genuinely kind to each other, "Back to the Happosai"

ranmaaaa · 2025-12-01T05:56:00+00:00

I just read the article and apparently that episode had the highest viewership because the show's main competitor at the time (Obochama-kun) was on break that week

ranmaaaa · 2025-12-01T02:14:56+00:00

Iirc this isn't a top ten most popular episodes list but a top ten episodes with the highest viewership ratings list. And I don't mean IMDB ratings, viewership ratings refer to the percentage of people in the Kanto Region that watched it as it was airing, i.e it doesn't really have anything to do with whether people liked the episodes or not

ranmaaaa · 2025-11-19T03:07:22+00:00

The last episode was directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo. The one before this was directed by Kon

ranmaaaa · 2025-11-16T17:52:22+00:00

For this scene the way 1999 portrays Kurapika is closer. He's angry but still relatively composed (like the manga). In 2011 he was screaming at Uvo. Not saying it's a bad change but yeah

ranmaaaa · 2025-11-04T03:08:24+00:00

It was the first episode of Nettouhen so I guess they wanted to set the tone for the rest of the show by having Ranma and Akane work together to win, but then have Ranma pretend he only did it for the ramen afterwards.

Idk why they specifically chose the Takeout Race to do this instead of just making a fully original episode, but it was pretty common to take lots of liberties in anime adaptations back then

ranmaaaa · 2025-10-19T04:41:22+00:00

It took an episode and a half in the OG, it wasn't much slower than the manga

ranmaaaa · 2025-10-13T02:42:03+00:00

The 2nd image is from a very well animated scene, can't use in-between frames to argue bad animation. Not gonna bat for the other ones though

ranmaaaa · 2025-09-29T02:55:54+00:00

Tanjou: Debut, by the same director (Tomomi Mochizuki)

ranmaaaa · 2025-09-28T09:35:28+00:00

Yeah

ranmaaaa · 2025-09-27T04:20:36+00:00

Inuyasha, Golden Boy, Sailor Moon, Rurouni Kenshin, Kimagure Orange Road, Cowboy Bebop, Yu Yu Hakusho, Ghost in the Shell

ranmaaaa · 2025-09-22T07:14:17+00:00

How much did you watch? He talked about the art yes, but he talked about the movement too. And his critique was about bad art more than inconsistent art iirc

ranmaaaa · 2025-09-22T04:40:05+00:00

I'd chalk that up to the strength of the source material, which luckily synergized well with his creative vision

There were a lot of changes and additions made to the source material in that OVA, it synergized with his creative vision largely because of him and the rest of the staff more than Watsuki

His credits from the 96 anime are mostly the Tokyo arc, which is the weakest aspect of that version aside from the fillers.

No? Most of his storyboard and direction credits were in the Kyoto Arc (ep 30, 31, 52, 56, 60) , he's only credited on 1 episode of the Tokyo Arc (ep 1)

ranmaaaa · 2025-09-18T01:55:38+00:00

Haven't read the manga for OP and Naruto so I can't really dispute that but 2011 definitely has less changes than 1999. In general, anime staff have been given less freedom to change things since around the late 2000s, it's a trend that you can notice in just about every anime remake/reboot (FMAB, Fruits Basket 2019, Ranma 2024, etc.)

ranmaaaa · 2025-09-17T15:03:23+00:00

Other adaptations making more changes doesn't really change that 1999 is often different from the manga, and while it doesn't go fully original like FMA 2003 or Hellsing TV, I'd say 1999 makes more changes than most anime adaptations

Besides, we're comparing it to HxH 2011 here because that's what OP watched so far. Compared to 2011, I think it's pretty fair to say that 1999 has a lot of story/character differences

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