Shortly after its season finale, MAPPA announced that the Ranma 1/2 remake anime series will be getting a second season in a new announcement video. Series character designer Hiromi Taniguchi (Deca Dence and Saga of Tanya the Evil Operation Desert Pasta co-character designer) released a new illustration to commemorate the announcement.
Konosuke Uda (DAYS, Victory Kickoff!) is directing the new anime series, with Taniguchi as character designer and co-chief animation director and Kimiko Ueno (Astro Note) as series screenwriter. Nao Naito and Rie Aoki are main animators, while Kaoru Wada (Tesla Note) is composing the music. MAPPA is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • Kappei Yamaguchi as Ranma Saotome (returning)
- • Megumi Hayashibara as female Ranma (returning)
- • Noriko Hidaka as Akane Tendo (returning)
- • Minami Takayama as Nabiki Tendo (returning)
- • Kikuko Inoue as Kasumi Tendo (returning)
- • Akio Otsuka as Soun Tendo
- • Cho as Genma Saotome
- • Koichi Yamadera as Ryoga Hibiki (returning)
- • Rei Sakuma as Shampoo (returning)
- • Kenichi Ogata as the Narrator (the original voice of Genma)
- • Tomokazu Sugita as Tatewaki Kuno
- • Ayane Sakura as Kodachi Kuno
- • Toshiyuki Morikawa as Tofu Ono
- • Mamoru Miyano as Mikado Sanzenin
- • Aoi Yuki as Azusa Shiratori
The first 12-episode season of Ranma 1/2 premiered in Japan on October 5, 2024 and ended on December 22, 2024. It has been streaming exclusively on Netflix. The new adaptation is the second remake of a Takahashi manga, following the four-cour Urusei Yatsura anime series.
Rumiko Takahashi’s original manga series was serialized on Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday from August 19, 1987 to March 6, 1996. A total of 38 tankobon volumes were released during its publication.
The manga originally inspired an 18-episode anime that began airing in 1989. This was followed by Ranma 1/2: Nettou-hen, which ran from 1989 to 1992 with 143 episodes.
Viz Media publishes physical volumes of the manga in English and describes the series as:
Being a teenage martial artist isn’t easy, especially for Ranma Saotome. During a training mission, Ranma takes an accidental dunk in a legendary cursed spring in China. Now, every time he’s splashed with cold water, he changes into a girl! That would be enough to complicate anyone’s life, even without the arranged fiancée who doesn’t like him (or says she doesn’t) and the constant stream of rivals and suitors for both his male and female forms. What’s a half guy, half girl to do?
Source: Ranma 1/2 Official Anime Twitter, MAPPA YouTube Channel
