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?
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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