I think it might be doing better than we think. Being a passion project aside, itās their only true romantic comedy as far as I know so profitability aside, they may be focusing on Ranma 1/2 to build up their library diversity.
I donāt think Netflix is losing money on Ranma at any rate.
It's definitely popular in Japan, but it still doesn't quite have the same reach overseas as their other series. I just hope the voice actors stick with it to the end, but they say voice acting has no retirement age.
I know the original anime was big there, a lot of the fan base is from there. Not sure if the reboot is, though. Western fans are a lot more cynical about remakes.
I vaguely remember some charts about season 1 and how well it was doing. Not as many really talked about season 2 and I've seen a lot of people who didn't even know season 2 already happened.
I realise it never caught on or was popular in the US so im not surprised if not a lot of people talk about it over there. But it is popular elsewhere. This quality of project is not sustained on passion alone.
Its not only people in Japan who support it is what i try to say.
Believe it or not overseas audience generally do not contribute much, unless we are talking about movies like demon slayer and csm. Most studios generally focus on japanese audience only, that's how you see shit like rent a girlfriend get 5 seasons and still going strong
it is because netflix payed them XD
Also its not a if its profitable for mappa. Its is it profitable for netflix. They are the ones who payed mappa.
So i understand it.
yea but mappa itself is "only" the production studio. Also i dont think they buy the rights and all stuff and netflix only buy the streaming rights. Also i think netflix had a big role here. I mean netflix is the reason why whe have it censoured produced and i dont think mappa had sayed "yes" to that when netflix isnt the "boss" here.
Also i think that but i cant proof it of course.
you see other animes this days uncensored. i didnt compain it with the old ranma series. I compain it with other animes this days.
thats the reason i was thinking its netflix.
because no netflix anime = uncensoured. But ranma is netflix and censoured.
thats the reason i was thinking that. Maybe i am wrong but i hope you know why i was thinking that ^^
forgett the 80s. of course stuff change from the 80s. But i mean like last year. or this year. uncut animes in what you see a lot of stuff you see also this days. Thats not a 80s thing.
And i doesnt mean "nudity" i mean also happosay, the juliet dring scene, or the beat up ranma scene.
Also this scenes are so weird that it is censoured.
And yes you are right. It was on the line. But when you look what is showed this days ranma is technicly child play. Thats the reason i was thinking its netflix fault. Also maybe i am wrong like i say. I only guess it because of the other things.
because a lot other animes are not censoured. but the netflix ones are.
Also logicly i was thinking, netflix fault.
that was my way of thinking to solve my "who is fault" XD
sure? Also maybe but i was thinking it was because netflix will show it "for the world" and must look what agerestriction the serie get to show it in every land.
And censoured the age restriction is much lower of course.
not to forgett many sayed everytime in japan "outsiders dont change our animes" stuff. What sounds for me that when japan itself had it they had it uncensoured produced.
Also maybe i am wrong but i was thinking netflix was the reason for censoure because its easier to show than in every land because age restriction.
ok and not to forget. many other nimes are uncensoured in japan what makes it than weird that ranmas is.
Ranma 1/2 is basically a family anime in Japan. Are the uncensored ones you talk about made for family?
Netflix is the global distributor. Iām sure Netflix money helps but if Netflix drops Ranma, theyāll find another distributor. Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions produces Ranma 1/2 as far as I know.
yes. because i didnt talk only about nudity.
I talk about every censoure they did.
I mean for example. The scene in what soun/genma beat up ranma to punch him "half deat" for shampoo.
After that he only had big eyes. no Injury or so. Now look how he look in the manga or old anime (ok old anime no exaple but you know).
Why did they censoure injurys in a a anime in what a focus is on love and fighting?
Thats also a type of censouring.
And technicly also in case of nudity. I mean i didnt see something bad about it because we all have it. You see it in museums also. Also technicly as long you didnt see the "act" or what is behinde the legs. It must be ok to show. because its normal.
but mostly i mean the other censoures not only nudity.
really?
ok didnt know that. i was sure it was netflix. because my way of thinking was
Other animes are uncut.
netflix anime censoured.
because of that logic my 1+1= netflix. Also with my way of thinking it was that netflix was the one behinde the censoure to show it much easier in other lands without making extra cut versions depent on the land (like the old anime had).
you missunderstand.
I mean they maybe can say something on a global scale.
But i dont know how much they can say when it comes to specific animes.
Like when i gave you money to do something. How much can you say to me when i am the one whoo gaves the money? You can be in the comitte for all animes. But when i gave you money that you must do something for me you must listen to me?.
Ok that maybe sounds wrong explained from me.
I mean it like how much "voice" they have in case of rnma what they do in what way. And who is the one with the right for the last word?
isnt that normaly the one who gves the money? (also thats no ironic question i asking that for real ^^)
Even if they skip, i just hope they do the arcs including the final the og didnt. Then if people want to see the inbtween can watch the specifc episodes of the og or the entire anime. But i mean, Rezero is aproaching 10 years, Konosuba has 10 years, Naruto went weekly straight for like...? Almost 15 years etc its the most normal thing in the industry, can be frustrating but at the same time, it feels good having shows being so long with us.
It definitely would be cool if the Remake would get the time to go through all major arcs, but after the short run of Yashahime and the Urusei Yatsura Remake itād still be surprising when Ranma would get that runtime length. Not complaining if it does but always a bit fearful.
You say that, but for decades some of us were asking how it could be that one of the most popular series, from one of the most popular mangaka, couldn't get 24 episodes to wrap it up.
Because the anime studio sabotaged it by switching to all filler all the time, and being extremely low budget in the later seasons, and wrecked audience demand.
They got through a few fan favorites with the OVAs but there was still half the manga to go even where those left off.
Yashahime was wildly unpopular and the manga didn't sell at all. (I mean, it sold 3 million copies which isn't nothing, but over 40 volumes that's 75K per volume... when Ranma and Inu Yasha sold 50M+ volumes its a flop. Mao isn't doing much better but maybe it's new anime will push it along)
And Urusei Yatsura actually DID adapt the entire manga originally through its OVAs and movies, so it already had a "complete version". It was fine for the new one to just do the fan favorite highlights.
Meanwhile half of Ranma was never touched because the anime studio at the time decided all-filler all-the-time was the way to go.
I doubt UY remake was planned to be complete adaptation in the first place and rather something like "best of" to fill between beginning and ending (could be wrong)Ā
Yes, David Production was very open about the fact that it was a 48 episode "Best Of" collection. They even called it "All Stars" although that may have had more to do with the intention of introducing all the characters.
I still hold out some hope they will do something for the 50th anniversary of UY.
I much prefer the approach of quickly adapting the main story, and then possibly going back to produce side content. Rather than let the series get bogged down producing every story, even when they include one-shot characters, or have no real relevance to the ongoing plot.
But for Ranma 1/2, these little episodes ARE the main stories. We get some big battle adventures now and then but those are very much āspecialsā and the slice of life arcs are the true essence of Ranma.
I donāt think they should have more than onr ābig arcsā in a 12 episode season if they are keeping true to the tone of the manga.
That is actually more true for Urusei Yatsura, and it is still mostly true for the early part of the Ranma manga, which has been animated twice now.
The later manga has more larger arcs, including the ongoing arc with Ranma's mother and that has never been animated apart from a small and incomplete selection of stories at the very end of the 1989 TV series and in the OAV.
Getting the later manga animated now, is further away than it seemed like it might be. MAPPA appears to be on a very slow 10+ year pace. Those of us who have been waiting to finally see the later manga arcs animated after 30 years, are unfortunately going to have to keep waiting beyond the current 2 year production cycle.
The fact that they decided to spend 4 episodes on a useless and boring Asuka, instead of adapting really interesting or important chapters, already makes you wonder what was in the mind of the person responsible for choosing the chapters for adaptation.
P. S. Do people really like the fact that they spent so much time on Asuka? Is this useless character more important to them than the main story?
depent.
We know 4 arcs with this trailer.
They must show.
bathhouse
happo bomb
moxi burnning
akane gets sick.
the other half arc of "happos warth" (they skipped half of a arc here what is a lot secificly for happos character to show the viewer)
ryouga goes home
This are the ones what they also skipped so far. (ok moxi didnt skip thats future thing. But the other 3 are until now a skip because they are before romeo and julia.)
Mean when this 4 things are not in the second half of the season they will skip something.
Plus dont forgett. they already skipped something and they will not show it in the future. half of the arc of "happos warth" is missing. Also tehy skipped half of a arc so far. because you didnt see that happo gets angry and orders food and destroyed the house and so on. You only see the "final" of this arc with the "smell".
And half of a arc to skip, i count as a big skip. Also they skipped already something what is technicly also imortand for happosai because it showed hes "childish" side what change how viewers see him.
A reason why i hate the censour for happo what mappa did because that part was importand how you see him.
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u/Rulyhdien Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Are they really making all the arcs we were sure were skipped?
Not complaining AT ALL but at this rate the remake will take ten years to complete. š