This holiday season, join hedgey, Nobody, and just about every Ranma character imaginable in our celebration of all the Ranma 1/2 Christmas specials, and also the non-Christmas special album that's still festive enough to be most of the episode. And it's a hefty episode!
Recurring guest, Swarley, has spun the wheel to randomly select recurring Ranma 1/2 one-off characters to learn about. It is an endless well of characters, so tune in to find out if your favourite characters who weren't good enough to show up more than twice will make the cut.
Don't listen to this episode on an empty stomach, because symbolic is here to help us break down everyone's favourite boymode chef, call dibs on the best girl, and also discuss some mouthwatering Japanese cuisine.
We rope in local Chinese food enjoyer, Swarley, to discuss the Ranma 1/2 love interest with second billing. She must be important, if these anime intros are to be believed, so let's see how she rose to the top by being brat.
How would you like to play a game? Playing today is our new contestant Dan, who will learn alongside all of you the depths of the trademarked best character in Ranma 1/2: Ranma's mom. Tune in and try your luck as we decipher the ups and downs of her many appearances, as well as the incredible world of Rumiko Takahashi's sign gags.
In this episode, we talk about how nobody respects Akane with our good friend Nobody, who allegedly respects Akane. The second lead of the entire franchise, so easily forgotten by her own series. Let's break down all the potential she reached, or perhaps didn't reach.
In this episode, we bring in Pixel, our video game expert, to go over Ranma 1/2: Treasure of the Red Cat Gang, for the Nintendo Super Famicom, which YOU can play at home! You maybe shouldn't, but nothing's stopping you!
Part 2 of our research into the Jusenkyo springs and the strange rules that follow them. This time, Elena/hedgey and symbolicgodzilla delve into the many, MANY side characters and one-offs and what they can tell us about the strange laws that govern the Ranma 1/2 universe, or Ranmaverse, as we call it.
In this episode, your host is joined by symbolicgodzilla to do important research into the most important part of the Ranma 1/2 universe: the Jusenkyo springs. Join us in this first part of our very scientific documentation of the series transformations.
Are you ready to learn about the fascinating world of supplementary anime music and the surprisingly important role Ranma 1/2 had in it? Our guest Swarley was dragged in to learn, and you can too! It's time for a history lesson in a little production company called Kitty Films.
In this episode we bring in some experts. Friends of the show, M and Nobody help rank all the themes from the original animated run of Ranma 1/2. Where will your favorites rank? What about the half you've never heard of? How many times do I accidentally mix up the words "outro" and "intro"? Tune in to find out as the Official tierlist gets made.
We're back with more Ranma, and this time we roped in minor Internet celebrity, slowbeef, to discuss how people watched anime in the 90s, and how one of the worst introductions to the Ranma 1/2 franchise became the most common. The ideal experience people wanted us all to have.
The main Ranma 1/2 rivalry gets broken down in a very comprehensive guide to delinquent manga. Swarley returns, this time to discuss everyone's favourite perpetually lost boy who fights via indiscriminate punches and kicks and sometimes turns into a pig.
Our friend Swarley joins us to discuss the best Ranma 1/2 dad, the one and only Genma Saotome. Will we successfully capture the essence of his high class parenting? Will the audience come out having learned some important lessons of how to love their kids? Will all the recording issues we experienced this episode be super noticeable and everyone will laugh at my editing skills? Tune in and find out!
We invite back symbolicgodzilla to discuss the two most popular and important Ranma 1/2 characters: Kasumi and Nabiki, the Tendo sisters. What even are these characters? How accurate are fan depictions and wikis? How lethal are they? Find out the answer to these questions and more in our in-depth character breakdowns.
Elena/hedgey is on holiday and goes solo. It's time for a personal breakdown of what inspired this goofy Ranma 1/2 podcast to begin with and a more thorough breakdown of what this series even is.
Another episode, another friend of the show who wants to learn about some weird stuff. Rocia joins us this time around to learn about some of the best and worst experiences Ranma's forays into video games have to offer.
Today we're joined by M Healy, from Battle of the Blorbos, a podcast about weirdo characters. Ranma has a thing or two to say about random weirdos, so let's break some of those down real quick.
We're back, with new guest, Pixel Bismuth. What does someone with no Ranma experience ask about? Martial arts, of course. Let's break down the shounen half of Ranma 1/2 and see how it holds up to the expectations of young Dragon Ball readers reading manga ads in the 90s.
Our first guest, symbolicgodzilla, joins us to give a quick rundown on what exactly IS Ranma 1/2 and the legacy it's spawned that we will have to slowly unpack over the course of this podcast. There's a lot to summarize.