Ranma 1/2 Makes You Bi and Trans

[@KaagKagamine5]

I don't think Ranma aged badly, in fact the succesors inspired by Ranma did, and is in a lot of ways hilarous because Rumiko created romcooms in manga but the reason why it stays like a fine wine its because is a comedy about misoginy, specifically misoginy in the martial arts cinema at the time. Ranma who's at heart a good boy grows with misonistic parents, therefore he hates the fact of the girl curse, hates how most of his rivals (minus Ryoga) make less of him for turning into a girl, while on the other hand Akane is criticized for benig a tomboy too devoted to martial arts, yet her rivals don't get any of that just because they stay feminine. Her sisters choose her in hopes that Ranma fixes her. Yet the opposite happens, thru Akane Ranma learns that his value stays the same despite his looks, he can use the curse in his favour and he doesn't need to rely on it if he wants some ice cream or other 'girly' stuff and because Ranma never once understimates Akane she also accepts herself, her 'imperfect' self was never bad. She's still cute and lovable despite the length of her hair, Ranma will eat her bad food and accept her ugly gifts because it's her.

[@marocat4749]

Ranma amost of the time learns to swallow his pride too , him being shameless opportunist is making him less sexist. And he is also the same person showing, he is still badass and still the same person. just being a girl allows him to express a lot better. including being cute. And yeah ramna has dysphobia as girl and is a trans man then. Thats why he goes through redicilous lenghes. He loves akame more, but he still does want to be a full dude a lot.

[@hcsnake]

If anything it aged extremely well, because it makes modern-day zoomer westoids get mad and cope for ridiculous, irrelevant and illiterate reasons. Back then people simply enjoyed a good series.

[@broskijoeski127]

Yes exactly!

[@enid9911]

There is also a lot of misandry like in Love Hina. Or have you missed the part where the men are violently hurt, especially Ranma, who constantly gets beat up by Akane for the most innocent things? = misandry.

[@justinn8541akaDrPokemon]

Ranma is gender-fluid because he changes gender based on WATER temperature. I am making a joke about water and fluidity.

[@brojoe44]

ya but gender-fluid means u change gender based on how ur feeling, while ranma always feels like a man. So in fact he's transmasculine, because there's times he's a girl and feels genderdysphoric.

[@brojoe44]

the only time canonically he felt like a woman was when he hit his head and forgot everything, and they brainwashed him to think he was a girl.

[@HimitsuHunter]

You know... Rumiko probably heard the term... and IMMEDIATELY thought of that gimmick. Cause her brain is made of Puns.

[@MediaFREAKED]

I was always a fan of the fan term “aquasexual” since his gender doesn’t change (arguably),

[@justinn8541akaDrPokemon]

@@brojoe44 I am making a joke about water and fluidity. I know Ranma is a man who can change into a girl, being one or the other. I also know that Ranma always sees himself as a man. Other than that, I don't really have anything else to say about your comment. I just wanted to be clear that I made a joke.

[@stayderpn]

People don’t understand this show came out in the 80s and wasn’t a show that was about LGBTQ or anything like that. People in this time period had a different mindset so it’s weird to see people trying to turn it into something it’s not. It’s a show about a guy who fell in a pond and got cursed to be a girl every time he gets wet. Just like his dad turns into a panda and the other guy into a pig. It’s not that deep.

[@beergnomedc]

You are an actual moron. Rumiko Takahashi has VERY specifically said that this work was about all that and more. Just because you can't read subtext doesn't make you right.

[@davvistavaratipula4276]

​@@beergnomedcStupid gringo. The anime is not about LGBT experiences or trans reading.

[@ChaoticTechnician]

For real. People nowadays bring up things from the past only to change it and put it in their own ideals. An example is that Ranma 1/2 albeit old had the remake that was done recently. Now it's popularized again, and you can see how diffirent the past versus the present is now.

[@SttudDioPierrot]

There are 3 types of people in this world -Ranma 1 Half -Ranma Half -Ranma 1 & A Half

[@agramuglia]

James Somerton: Ranma One Two

[@AndriaSilvaful]

I have never thought about it. I’ve always called it “One Half.” But “Ranma 1 & a half” is objectively wrong. Or else it would be 1 1/2 I wonder what is the percentage of people who call it “one half” vs “half” vs other things

[@JoshuaRWorkman]

It was always one half to me.

[@Rodrigo_Vega]

and a fourth: - Hispanics: Here it was translated as "Ranma & Half", "Ranma y medio".

[@wheeliescoot]

@@agramuglia NO WAY HE CALLED IT ONE TWO 😭

[@funkystudios12]

I'm not sure if I would lable Ranma as bisexual, but Akane on the other hand does have strong bisexual vibes, she loves him no matter what form he takes.

[@borjankosarac3645]

That’s where a lot of the mix of themes both aging poorly and being still relevant comes in; Akane just loves Ranma, by the end the physical form is irrelevant to her. People also make what I consider valid points about whether Ranma is truly dealing with dysphoria when female, or is struggling with the binary of it all. He’s not able to express “non-manly” traits as a male but seems to relish in them in the other form… So much to take in here.

[@Roxlimn]

Akane feels like heterosexual with strong demisexual vibes. By the end, she loves him regardless of what forms he takes, but it's because of the emotional connection they have, not because she's specifically turned on by either form.

[@marocat4749]

She loves him as person, so she is still openminded straight? Maybe curious and open. If its only ranma, i mean she could be bi open but she is more about the person than the sex.

[@dio5858]

You'll be surprised to know this show aired in the middle east back then, it was heavily edited of course but still one of my favorite childhood shows

[@hamstersandwich9917]

Ranma was definitely one of the more memorable shows I recall as a child watching spacetoon. Its very interesting how the middle East never really seemed to distinguish between Western and Eastern animation, often blending them under the same umbrella (as it should imo)

[@pablocasas5906]

The opposite happened in Latin America, Ranma ½ was broadcasted in children-oriented channels, and while some countries did edit some of the nudity, some did not and the dub was pretty faithful to the original Japanese version. Ranma's Neutral Spanish dub is so well regarded that for the remake some of the original VAs have reprised their roles, including Akane, Ryoga, Kasumi, Soun and the Jusenkyo guide. Sadly, Ranma and female Ranma's original VAs didn't reprise their roles despite both of them being active

[@0iqBita117]

THE INTRO SONG WAS A FUCKING BANGER

[@pablocasas5906]

@@0iqBita117 was it a cover of the Japanese version or it was an original tune, because the Latin American Spanish opening song kept the original tune and the Spanish were this; El amor siempre va sin razón Y fue así que llegó a mi corazón ¿Cómo fue?, aún no sé qué pasó Aversión o atracción lo que nos unió Discutir, por todo pelear Una extraña manera de amar ¿Por qué no demostrar amor? Un "te quiero" y ya, con un beso y ya Y así todo podría ser mejor Mira que el tiempo va de prisa Tal vez te puedas arrepentir Todo se acaba, y no avisa Tienes tu vida por vivir Si me vez, Ranma soy de ti Este amor está creciendo Por favor, Ranma di que sí Y te entregaré mi corazón Oye lo que estoy diciendo Olvida la amargura y dame tu ternura Discutir, por todo pelear Una extraña manera de amar ¿Por qué no demostrar amor? Un "te quiero" y ya, con un beso y ya Y así todo podría ser mejor

[@dionysus913]

So Ranma 1/2 has a special place in my heart due to one incident: I, being too young, wasn’t around for Ranma 1/2 during its peak. But my cousin was. And when I went to Ohio over the summer, up to Lakeside, he took the chance to show me his little collection. Being the gullible child I was, I asked him if the water gender change was possible. He, jokingly, said yes. I immediately ran northbound, out of the rented cabin, and jumped directly into Lake Erie, in the vain hope something similar would happen to me. I was extremely disappointed to find out I had been tricked. Disappointed and wet. But jokes on him, it did work! It just took like ten years to finally kick in.

[@leafiot]

aww, so glad u found who u are!

[@dumbloser666]

thats hilarious i wouldve done the same exact thing as a kid. glad u figured urself out :)

[@rallyupmankind]

This is a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[@OshaWott123]

You still havent changed genders, youve just gotten way mors delusional 🙄 grow tf up before it's too late

[@NicolasSorzano-nm3uw]

That's a reallt sweet story. Glad it all worked out 😊

[@idenforce]

But...won't Ranma always try to find the cure to never become a woman again during the anime?

[@Lexi_Zone]

Always trying to find a cure so you don't have to feel like trapped in the wrong body anymore? Yeah I just can't see how this could be read as an accidental trans narrative. /s

[@OshaWott123]

​@@Lexi_Zone i know the cure! It's called growing tf up

[@esquilovezes7791]

spoiler ahead: . . . . by the end of the manga he kind of accepts it and even states that it's not a curse but rather a part of who he is

[@かん猫]

@@esquilovezes7791 Ranma in the Japanese version doesn't accept the constitution of becoming a woman until the end. Is it tampered with in the international localization?

[@esquilovezes7791]

@かん猫 in the final chapter he states "I'm not sure when, but I guess somewhere along the line, I just stopped caring about it." (referring to getting his "normal" body back) and "I understand that my girl side was always a part of me anyway. Maybe it was never a curse to be cured to begin with." He doesn't straight up say "I accept it" but it's pretty clear what he meant, it's not a curse but rather a part of who he is.

[@PraetorFenix]

No, Ranma changes SEX from a magical non real Mcgufin. He ALWAYS identifies as male, is disgusted by the advances of Kuno and the rest of the guys. He's as straight as can be. The worst insult you can do to him is comparing him to a girl.

[@maxspecs]

Ranma never starts loving guys. But he does start acting more feminine and sometimes exploitive of his own female form as he grows more accustomed to it. Anything goes in his style of fighting, after all.

[@jessiec668]

@@PraetorFenix I don't think they were implying that Ranma himself was bi. Akane might be, as she doesn't seem to care too much about Ranma's physical form besides sometimes being annoyed at how he uses it to trick people. Their relationship starts off rocky not because of the curse but because A. He originally lied by omission by not saying he was a guy and B. They're both tsundere about their feelings towards each other. The show also plays with sexual orientation by having so many guys fall for girl-type Ranma. As for insulting Ranma by comparing him to a girl... That is definitely true early on. When he transforms, he keenly feels like a man trapped in a woman's body (hence why so many trans people relate to the character, as they also feel trapped in the "wrong" body). Later in the series, however, Ranma seems to generally accept/be indifferent to his condition and isn't so bothered by it. At that point, he may be considered gender-fluid.

[@Piromysl359]

​@@maxspecsTell us you've never watched the show without actually saying it.

[@maxspecs]

@@Piromysl359 Pantyhose Taro did nothing wrong.

[@ClayYount]

@@jessiec668 yeah, I don’t remember Akane ever showing physical attraction to girl-form Ranma so there’s not much evidence she is bi. She obviously cares about Ranma in either form, but she doesn’t really express physical attraction to anyone. She’s more interested in martial arts so…fight-sexual?

[@treniangames]

How would an anime make you trans where the protagonist fights in each chapter to find a way to "reverse" the curse that turns him into a woman, a curse that he hates with all his soul, even traveling to the past to try not to be cursed?

[@MrSoulbucket]

if anything this show makes you a panda more

[@Lexi_Zone]

Because seeing Ranma be uncomfortable with being the wrong gender felt relatable to people who were trans? Keep in mind trans men exist and probably related even harder to his whole "I need to rid myself of this womanly form once and for all!" But trans women can still relate to the idea even though the genders are reversed.

[@CharlemagneGuy127]

Because Twitter freaks like the video creator are stupid have to make up headcanons that never existed.

[@OshaWott123]

​@@Lexi_Zonehey troon can you go comment somewhere else? We're tired of your psychotic babbling

[@grampagohan3385]

​@@Lexi_Zone it would still be wrong cause he was originally a man and got cursed. Trans people just hate their true selves

[@DonCesar93]

What is this revisionist history about Ranma? He always hated transforming into a girl.

[@MistyKathrine]

You didn't watch the video...

[@Piromysl359]

​@@MistyKathrine The entire premise of the video is wrong.

[@MistyKathrine]

@@Piromysl359 The entire premise is correct, you just didn't watch it to know that.

[@Piromysl359]

@@MistyKathrine The premise assumes there is some trans allegory, when in fact there is noone and if you think it is, then it is just a result of your obsession with gender identity and eisigisis.

[@MistyKathrine]

@@Piromysl359 That literally isn't even what the video was about...

[@DoctorLazers]

Is it really a big take to say Ranma doesn't age well in terms of Western political correctness? It's a piece written in the 80s, by a straight woman, that grew up in a very heteronormative society. Japan as a whole barely saw gay rights as anything more than a gag until like, 10 years ago. Rumiko Takahashi simply had no context for any of these themes at that time.

[@agramuglia]

I am less interested in saying how well the show ages and more interested in how it impacts its audience

[@DoctorLazers]

@agramuglia Fair enough. I was referring less to your analysis and more to the myriad of articles you referenced stating the show was problematic or poorly aged etc... Just seems like sort of a, "Birds fly, fish swim," statement. A story about genderbending written by a woman that had probably never heard of transgenderism, let alone understood any of the modern nuance related to trans-identity, would create something that really deals with it in a meaningful way. I think Ranma actually does address some interesting themes of gender ON PURPOSE. Mainly, Ranma's fragile and wounded masculinity. He often comes off as extremely insecure in his masculinity due to his curse, but it manifested in much the same way any insecure teenage boy would behave. Unsure if he's performing masculinity correctly, worried about being thought less of, and constantly trying to prove his manliness by fighting, competing, etc... This falls off a lot later in the series but is pretty prominent early on.

[@jmhaces]

The story: "I am Ranma. I am a dude who is under a magic curse that transforms my body into a girl against my will but mentally I remain myself all the time and I want to break the curse so that I no longer change bodies. I like women and I reject men in both forms." Way too many people: "Ranma is trans or bi or gay or something."

[@davvistavaratipula4276]

They're so stupid

[@maduinargentus5878]

So, uh, a story with the main character be internally a dude but have a female bod (even if only occasionally) is extremely easy to have a transmasculine read, please And the bi reading is because most cast members are hot regardless of gender and everyone is a fucking walking disaster, obviosuly

[@jmhaces]

@@maduinargentus5878 When the reason he has a female bod is that it's a magic curse, he remains a dude by default and it happens against his will, and the reason you're arguing he's trans is that he wants to break the curse and remain the same sex he was born as and he identifies as, yeah, it's a terrible argument that it's a trans story. An asshole transphobe could as easily claim it's an anti-trans story based on what it's portrayed in the story and that asshole would also be making shit up by inserting their own views on what the story actually shows. Ranma was born a man, is a man, sees himself as a man, wants to be a man, and the only reason he's ever in a woman's body is because of a magic curse. Zero trans people are born the sex they identify as. That's iterally the point of being trans. Can you argue Ranma is trans' Sure, you can and a lot of people do. Does that argument make sense except in the most shallow disingenuous manner? No, not really.

[@jmhaces]

@@maduinargentus5878 I mean, if you want to interpret what the story portrays in the most shallow way possible to fit what you want to think, sure. Ranma occasionally has a female body because of a magic curse and he remains mentally a man. But trans people are not born the sex they identify as, do they? Ranma is. And your argument to why Ranma is bi is "because everybody is hot and a mess"? By your logic Genma, Ryoga and the rest are probably into banging animals.

[@wagnar]

@@maduinargentus5878 How could be a trans reading when becoming a different gender is a CURSE that the main character wants to be CURED. That the most anti trans message I have ever read.

[@kevinp6886]

People that is seeing this series through the modern western lens instead of what a japanese society pre-2000's were seeing things, i recommend not applying any headcannons. Let's just say ranma doesn't have identity problems is undeniable that from start to end he saw himself as a man.

[@MistyKathrine]

You know that Japan has queer people too right? A lot of them liked this show back in the 90s too.

[@kevinp6886]

@MistyKathrine they have queer people If you define them with your definition, you are not getting it, queerness is not something globally defined, just like conservative or liberals views are not the same for both the west and the east.

[@MistyKathrine]

@@kevinp6886 Major Japanese LGBT rights organizations ILGA Japan and OCCUR were founded in 1978 and 1986 respectively. So I'm not sure what your point is. Queer people have always existed in Japan and they have been fighting for their rights in Japan long before Ranma even existed.

[@kevinp6886]

​@@MistyKathrine Google this - does japan understand trans ideology like the west

[@kevinp6886]

@@MistyKathrine does japan understand trans ideology like the west Google that it will let you understand.

[@samulrd]

If you want to review a gay anime just watch Papa to kiss in the dark

[@Tempo1337]

As an enby I am honestly just jealous of Ranma's ability to just freely shift gender presentations at will. This isn't a commentary on the narrative or issues within the series or characters, just a personal thing for me. Surface level, for sure. But still.

[@MungkaeX]

I wouldn’t call it “at will,” as that implies they have far more control over their transformation than they truly hold. Especially considering the number of times that transformation is forced upon them by others, it’s symbolic of the internal struggle many of us have when being presented with external factors they have no control over.

[@OshaWott123]

"As an enby" ☝️🤓 you really think anyone takes you seriously? Stop playing pretend

[@Randomizer903]

Oh gee... I wonder where all the dislikes are coming from

[@Andrewgtv05]

Well I’m a fan of the series and I’m not Bi or Trans

[@angelsartandgaming]

While I didn't grow up with Ramna, CrimsonEnder's part reminded me of how I discovered that I was genderfluid. When I was a teen, everytime there was a genderbend scene (example Naruto), I felt something click in my head, but I didn't know what it was. Yes it was usually used as a gag and yes it's kinda harmful these days, but I kept envisioning myself being able to do that willingly. So one time I discussed it with a friend and I said that... And I quote because of context... "I think I have a genderbend fetish"... Yeah back then, I thought fetish meant something akin to a hyperfixation because I knew it meant to have an extreme interest. But I did NOT know it meant SEXUAL interest at the time. Either way, he said he felt that way too but on a much broader level. That he wanted to stay a boy. This was the first time I found out he was trans and wanted to be called he/him pronouns. It wasn't until later I discovered that I'm fluid. Specifically when I started playing Animal Crossing New Leaf, the first game that allowed you to have boy hairstyles on girls and vice versa. I would always switch up if I felt more feminine or masculine that day. Today I'm like... In between.

[@OshaWott123]

LMAOOOOOO "GENDERFLUID" you people will believe anything, wont you? If you knew about John Money and the other creators of "queer theory" youd hate yourself for falling for their pedo tricks

[@ArchLOL]

Citing the episode where Ranma loses their memory as a positive example is really telling of people who fetishize femininity rather than approach it in a healthy way. Ranma in that episode turned into a stereotype of a girl, who acted all cute and innocent and wanted to do flower arranging. It was pretty obvious

[@FloxyTekTV]

So many freaks in the comments

[@Gonzas97]

This type of videos are the result of showing an old show to a newer generation that has many wrong ideas inside their mind. Back in the day nobody ever thought ranma was a trans show, now people say it is a trans show. I am sorry everybody, but no, ranma has never been about this, specially when HE wants to get rid of this hability.

[@MistyKathrine]

This show has always been highly associated with trans people and queer people in general. You must have lived under a rock if you think otherwise.

[@Oshawott789]

​@@MistyKathrine no one was talking to you, freak

[@ViperousVT]

@@MistyKathrinethat’s because you’re a white supremacist like your butt buddy Anthony

[@MistyKathrine]

@@ViperousVT You're projecting again.

[@AMoniqueOcampo]

This show was SERIOUSLY ahead of it's time. Tons of genderbending and nudity and major queer vibes with Fem-Ranma and Akane. I feel like it really questioned a lot of gender roles and things regarding gender presentation.

[@rhavols]

yse

[@Grumpy_Bomber]

Touch grass looser

[@wagnar]

No. Ranma never identified himself as a woman. It was a CURSE. He hated the fact he transformed into a woman until the last chapter of the manga and tried to find a CURE until the end. Akane didnt like him as a woman. In fact most of the romantic moments happened when he was a male. She actually called him a pervert/hentai for transforming into a woman. I dont see how anyone could read Ranma as a trasgender manga. If anything it reinforces most of stereotypes of heteosexual society.

[@rhavols]

@@wagnar I agree more with this you spoke facts 🔥

[@Lexi_Zone]

No ones saying its a transgender manga. They're saying it accidentally captures a lot of a transgender narrative and that many trans people were drawn to the story and characters besausw they recognised those elements. No one even said Ranma was a trans woman. If anything, his experience of wanting to rid himself of his female body is something trans _men_ relate to.

[@sileix5208]

ACK

[@Ironorchids]

I’m on a flight to Phoenix, as I have two family emergencies to deal with at once. Thank you for uploading this. I needed this so badly, they… it’s bad. I don’t know what I’m saying. Thank you. ❤

[@sternritternovad]

Best Wishes I hope everything works out

[@OshaWott123]

Boo hoo

[@Ironorchids]

@ lol

[@wheeliescoot]

As a genderfluid transmasc person who grew up socialized and raised as a girl, I relate to ranmas anguish of feeling “trapped” in a “woman’s” body in the first few seasons. Ranma is a super relatable character to me because he sees himself so differently from how the rest of the word sees him. Everyone sexualizes him far more in his girl form than his boy form, despite the fact that both forms he’s just “him”. I haven’t finished the series past the third season of the first run, so I’ve heard he starts accepting his femininity more, but that’s just my reading!! Akane’s arc also explores what femininity means both broadly and to her specifically. She’s been taught that being docile is the way to get men to like her, despite plenty of men loving her for her martial arts prowess. She sheds a part of this idea with her feminine trait, her long hair, being cut. And as she falls for ranma, she recognizes that attraction isn’t just what society tells you it is. It isn’t always “gentle woman falls for strong man”. There’s more, and I haven’t finished the series so I know there’s even more, but this series is rich with discussions about assigned and found gender, sexuality, and identity. Anyone who waters it down to just a “gag” is being obtuse on purpose.

[@wheeliescoot]

I think it’s also important to note my dad showed me this anime as a kid, and when I grew up I realized I was bi and trans…lol

[@devingunnels3251]

Seek help

[@zoro115-s6b]

@@devingunnels3251 Maybe you should seek some grass and some maidens.

[@devingunnels3251]

@@zoro115-s6b bro you think men can become women

[@zoro115-s6b]

@@devingunnels3251 Yes, obviously.

[@FlamingoSugar]

As someone who's still figuring out my own relationship with my gender (at the tender age of 33), I have such a soft spot for shows with messy gender expression. As empowering and joyful as it is to see someone confident and assured in their gender, it's equally joyful to see people engage with it more fast and loose, with less clear-cut answers. Ranma 1/2 is one of those shows that really stuck with me over the years and I'm so happy that the new anime is introducing it to more people! A wonderful review as usual, Ant! And I was delighted to hear both Crim and Chloe chime in with their own personal experiences!

[@zoro115-s6b]

I feel like Ranma is the answer to "we've had enough good queer rep, we need more bad queer rep." It's messy. Every character in the show is some kind of disaster. It probably goes too far at points and makes some definite blunders. But it's having fun with it and that makes it work. Akane's attempt at conversion therapy wasn't the best look, but at the same time amidst this cast of lovable scumbags, Akane being wildly homophobic isn't even that surprising. Sometimes we need some LGBTQ wrongs to go with the LGBTQ rights.

[@OshaWott123]

Youre seriously a full grown adult falling for this shit? Grow the fuck up

[@OshaWott123]

Grow tf up

[@mitsurugi52]

21:28 I didn't read the manga or watch much of the anime until several years ago (what I saw as a kid was 4 out of order episodes on an untranslated VHS) but I saw this as both Ranma being relieved of the self-consciousness of the gender binary. She's relieved of the stresses of performing societally-proscribed masculinity, but she also isn't yet mentally weighed down by the lived experience of the stressors of societally-proscribed femininity. Not sure if Ranma would be ultimately better off as one or the other or somewhere else entirely, but here she's like a kid who knows she's a girl, but hasn't experienced the pressures of conformity, she's behaving on a purely self-defined identity and its kind of nice.

[@notsusan]

why are you using "she" for Ranma? He literally calls himself male over and over, when he's in Ranma-chan form he uses male pronouns and heavily-male-gendered grammar.

[@SuperiorPosterior]

13:06 The problem with Ukyo is that she's ultimately uncaring towards Ranma's desires in life. She's the cute, calm fiancée, sure, but she also wants Ranma to settle down and help with _her_ Okonomiyaki restaurant, whereas Ranma wants to continue honing-and in the future, teaching-his Art. For Ukyo, martial arts are a means to an end. For Ranma, they're his way of life. Akane and Shampoo are the same as him in that regard, though one would see him used as breeding stock for Chinese super babies, while the other would happily share in his capacity as a teacher of martial arts.

[@sternritternovad]

Every series shows it's cracks but the thing about Bleach and Ranma, is the overall message becomes more meaningful years later. Also the characters more deeper insecurities means more to people after they've endured trying times.

[@LittleBlackFoxInali]

What does this have to do with Bleach?

[@sternritternovad]

@LittleBlackFoxInali Another series that shows it's cracks but is actually more appreciated years later.

[@sleepy9102]

Ranma does use his female body to distract his opponents. But his opponents are dumb enough to fall for it the joke goes both ways.

[@Nethar6]

While I can see the Ranma TransFem reading, I do think it comes more from the TransFem reader than from the material. I agree with Anthony on the relieve Ranma shows when being a Girl. I too see a similarity with that as a neurodivergent Cisman and the relieve I felt when I stoped trying to perform neurotypical masculinity, and just stopped giving a shit and stating "I am not just a man, I am the defining article." I stopped performing and just being. What I see in Ranmas genderfulidity and in the amnesia episode, is a Ranma freed from the burden that performed masculinity places on him. The parts of him he himself doesn't always like but doesn't know how not to be while still being "The Man". I agree with Akane that "girl ranma" isn't the same person, not the real ranma. Just a Ranma that doesn't have to constantly push to meet expectation of masculinity. At the same time real Ranma is a guy and a jerk (forvigable only by being 16-18) and there are many parts of masculinity he rejoices in. Just as he rejoices in the ability to slip into the freedom of not being a guy and just being himself when not performing for performance sake

[@Version0111]

3:23 Kasumi 7:05 Ryoga

[@modvavet]

Yeah, that was making it kind of hard to listen to. Great points, otherwise

[@notsusan]

THANK YOU lol

[@shenotski]

Literally missed the point of the show.

[@thirdwheel9938]

The reboot looks so ass but the original anime and manga is not going anywhere so

[@blastermaster5039]

This.

[@baez1301]

Is a comedy about Male toxicity and Misogyny, but you guys somehow manage to make it all about sexual orientation and being trans somehow.. also saying that the new show is better than the old show is such a bad take.

[@kyoneko87]

Figuring out Ranma is messy. I read Ranma as a guy who sometimes wants to indulge in feminine things. Although Ranma is gender fluid but mostly identifies as male?

[@davvistavaratipula4276]

Ranma enjoys being a girl when they give him free things. He's not gender fluid allegory and trans allegory

[@thelastdictator482]

I know a lot from Ranma 1/2 is and can be problematic, but I'd just like to chip in that as a younger GenX, I credit watching the original anime for helping me to wrap my head around various flavors of trans and queerness. When I first started encountering the concept in the real world as a straight southern boy in the 90s, it wasn't really a big deal to me personally because I'd already encountered the shadow of the idea. Just goes to show that representation matters if something "not-seeking-to-be-harmful" can have a good outcome, how much can "good" representation do?

[@taveonlittle3958]

Ranma 1/2 has nothing to do with being bi and trans

[@benjaminarnold6554]

This anime (well manga specifically) was how I first got feelings about gender dysphoria. Well that and the silly old DND cursed belt that flipped your gender. My childhood was nerd. Also, oooh noooo ranma ruined _my_ gender. (Had to because of the community post. Sorry, not sorry)

[@CrimsonStudioz]

Here's the thing with old stuff, you have to read it with a pinch of salt it was made in a very different time You gotta talk what you need and throw out the rest, and in my opinion something like ranma provided to me more good than bad and it doesn't exist in vacuum I think you people need to read more of Rumiko Takahashi's works she really can write fun characters even if they are problematic sometimes

[@valentino-valentina]

25:40 I feel like this is a kind of narrow view on what it means to be transmasc. I say this as someone happily married to a transgender man, who sometimes does in fact use his feminine qualities to his advantage to get through certain social situations. It's just a reality for some people. He's less likely to be assaulted in a women's bathroom, and customers tend to be less confrontational with him when he doesn't pitch his voice down. Learning to live with himself and his body such as it is, even if it's not traditionally masculine, is just a part of his life. Simply put, there is no "correct" way to be trans. Anyway, sorry, great video overall and as someone who watched Ranma when I was 4 and is now bi and nonbinary, i wholly agree with the title.

[@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247]

Ryuga was Roanoa Zoro before "Romance Dawn" was even a gleam in Eiichiro Oda's eye. Badass, adversarial relationship w/ one of the heroes, couldn't find his own ass w/ both hands and a road-map.

[@zoro115-s6b]

Ryoga is Zoro's dad, no one can tell me otherwise. His ass got so turned around he ended up in the East Blue.

[@il3fortunato664]

Ryoga, Sanosuke (Rurouni Kenshin) and Zoro are the big 3 of the "no sense of directions" trope in manga and anime 😂

[@Malcadon]

I recommend checking out a fan-comic called 'Sailor Ranko' by legendary videogame designer Rebecca Ann Heineman. Its basically Ramna as a Sailor Scout and it goes places. I also recommend checking out an old-school anime out called 'Princess Knight'. It was written back when Japanese women were still expected to be in arranged marriages and be "good housewives", and actively challenged that notion with a story of a girl forced to live as a boy, but the story takes a twist, inadvertently creating the first gender-fluid anime protagonist.

[@pablocasas5906]

I find it kind of funny that there's some many fanfiction crossovers between Ranma ½ and Sailor Moon, at least those made by U.S. fans, and it is because I grew up watching Ranma ½ and Sailor Moon dubbed into Neutral Spanish and there were plenty of dub VAs who worked in both shows: - Female Ranma was voiced by Irma Carmona, who voiced Michiru Kaioh/Sailor Neptune in the original series and Crystal. Though female Ranma's new LA Spanish VA, Alicia Vélez, voiced a minor character in SM Crystal, though their mother voiced Diana all of the anime and princess Kakyuu in Sailor Stars; - Akane is voiced by Rossy Aguirre who voiced Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury, which I always found it kind of funny since they look very similar. Rossy has voiced both Ami and Akane in their original series and their remakes; - Shampoo was voiced by the late Araceli de León, who voiced Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter.

[@CuppaLLX]

Sailor ranko amazing

[@samuelromero4696]

It's been almost a decade since the last time i heared about Sailor Ranko XD. Should give it a read again sometime and see if it ended or was ultimately left unfinished

[@Malcadon]

@@samuelromero4696 She ended the series recently with a good conclusion. The ending was likely due to the poor health and passing of her wife, Jennell Jaquays, a legend in the tabletop RPG industry. It was so sad.They were a great power-couple.

[@samuelromero4696]

@@Malcadon Literally just took a peek at their dedicated Sailor Ranko page and read the comments on the last chapter uploaded there just for curiosity........ Not many words i can say, apart from giving my condolences. I honestly don't remember that much about Sailor Ranko's plot aside from the obvious (Ranko being a Sailor Scout) but i surely remember i had a good time reading through it back on 2013-2014. So, all i can do now is to wish and hope the best for Rebecca after such a deep loss.

[@bobbyb9258]

So in the end zero character is gay and zero character is trans... well except Ranma who's a man in the body of a woman in his magical, involuntary, short-timed and reversible transformation. Every other theory you've presented about the characters in the video or the comments is pure headcanon. The social topic of gender roles sure is treated and with characters that don't exactly conform to them... but in a coming of age and comedic context. This is 80's Japan, they even had to precise it in the readaptation so people wouldn't get surprised by the concepts such as arranged marriage, underdeveloped China, and no personal computing. So I don't see why you're surprised or even in denial LGBT topics aren't treated.

[@MistyKathrine]

Akane is literally bisexual though. Konatsu is trans.

[@marianoretamoso4749]

isn't the plot literally the boy trying to remove his curse?

[@agramuglia]

Yes. And what other people with a female body would want to be a man?

[@marianoretamoso4749]

@agramuglia mental gymnastics

[@samulrd]

​@@agramugliai guess if a boy had his penis forcibly removed by his parents at a young age and since then he constantly wishes he could kill himself because of it then i guess he would pass as a trans icon to you people then

[@flavorgod]

@@agramuglia This is that insanity your ideology has brought you to.

[@Saithene]

your argument is saying that being Trans is a Chinese Curse. do better.

[@CoolgamerJAW2]

I love Rumiko’s work Urusei Yatsura and Ranma 1/2 are some of my favorite anime of all time

[@ITdud3]

What next drink water and breathing make trans.

[@Kingtuna545]

I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with me but I like both sailor moon and Ranma and I am a straight person through and through I just think they’re neat

[@jamescox4008]

Nothing wrong here. I'm the same way. People just have the wrong idea about people being "unstraight".

[@RobinLionheart]

The fandom used to say that Ranma 1/2 doesn't have love triangles, it has love polygons.

[@drackyslime]

Love polygons where some lines also have bloodlust

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

Berserk is the only love triangle I can actually think of cuz guts wants casca wants Griffith wants guts. All that other stuff isn't a triangle, it's more like a V shape.

[@medalkingslime4844]

I grew up with friends who loved this manga as it was coming out and only vaguely knew that it was the predecessor for modern harem anime and this video is how I find out what the actual premise of it is... oh. I guess I need to turn in my weeb and queer cards until I read it.

[@Fonky_Fesh]

I clicked on this thinking the meme title meant this was going to be a joke video

[@pablocasas5906]

Something that I find kind of interesting about the new Ranma ½ anime, is that in the Latin American Spanish dub, male Ranma is voiced and openly gay VA and female Ranma is voiced by a VA who identifies as non-binary, don't know if they were picked in part because of that, especially since most of the Latin American fandom wanted the original voices back (and both Ranmas original VAs are still active and apparently auditioned for the role), especially since the original dub VAs for Akane, Ryoga, Kasumi, Soun and the Jusenkyo Guide reprised their roles, but both Ranma's new VAs are doing a fine job, though I think female Ranma's new VA, Alicia Vélez, does a great job

[@Dragoran5836]

Oh wow story written between 1987-1997 in homogenous and conservative Japan has unfortunate stereotypes. Who could have seen that coming. People angry to Takahashi don't seem understand environment it was drawn in.

[@agramuglia]

I don't think anyone is angry

[@greysuit6190]

How is no one talking about Konatsu? Who is really hard to view as not trans, from the original manga, and takes the place of tsubasa in the manga, not to mention the bits about her considering her love with ukyo “forbidden love,” and refers to herself as a woman before the reveal. I feel like konatsu was a missed point that could’ve painted a bigger picture of the weirder bits of how gender is viewed in this series, and I think there are weird things with her too

[@bluexephosfan970]

Konatsu is a manga only character unfortunately, so a lot of fans don't know about her. Hopefully she makes it into the remake!

[@greysuit6190]

@ that’s been one of my main hopes for the remake weirdly enough, knowing that she’s manga only and also my favorite character from the original series

[@hawkflame9584]

Konatsu was the first time I realized there was such a thing as a lesbian transwoman. It felt like a number of fans back in the 90s had trouble reconciling this, even using masculine pronouns to refer to her. To me, even as a cisgendered straight man, that never felt quite right. I just called things as I saw them: she’s a transgendered woman who loves women, ergo she’s a trans lesbian (may have used a more dated term back then, it being the 90s and all) . Didn’t occur to me that that was a thing before that, but that just seemed like the simplest way to read the character.

[@greysuit6190]

@ I just can’t believe people can call her a man considering she introduces herself as a women, is proud of her beauty, enjoys looking that way, and calls her feelings for ukyo “forbidden love” because she’s a raging lesbian. She was my favorite character before I even understood what being trans was and that probably should’ve been a sign of something lmao

[@stephr5914]

Konatsu... who wouldn't have any feminine traits if his family hadnt intentionally raised him wrong. Still being canonically male and referred to as female from this modern lens is what's baffling.

[@silverunlucky]

I learned of Ranma 1/2 at the ripe age of like 8 lolol. I had these Inuyasha dvds that I got from a lot of places that had 3 episodes each. I mean I had like dozens of them at least like 40ish. Every single one the previews that will play before it got to the main menu Ranma 1/2 was one of them. Wanted to watch jt for years, but didnt watch it for so long though. When I finally got to it I was like "This is one of the best things ever. I want that curse!" Read the manga soon after and fell even more in love with the series

[@SoulStarSketchin]

I was a huge fan of the original series and I’m so happy studio Mappa is all over this and exceeding all expectations. This series alone is still the first long running anime be manga I ever finished back in the day. And yes there is tons and tons of lgbtq elements all over the place but I promise you it’s enjoyable no matter what spectrum you’re on

[@flashtheshapeshafter]

I was just thinking about how much much Ranma covers this subject despite how old the manga is while reading Ayakashi triangle, and then the anime gets a remake, just perfect timing

[@notsusan]

old millennial here, had OG Ranma on VHS, new show's music sucks but as long as the old seiyu are back I'm all-in for the remake.. on the bit with Ranma getting 'stuck' thinking he was always a girl... when he doesn't have head trauma, he always identified as male. That's why Akane is trying to get him to remember. Looking at that as somehow 'problematic' is wild to me - she knows how Ranma, in his own words AND his actions, including the very male forms of speech he uses, believes himself to be a man. Wouldn't trying to erase that and force him to stay a girl (out of what, convenience?) be WAY more problematic? the opposite sounds like absolute body horror. can I be totally frank here? I think it's great when queer people can find things they identify with in media, that's an important thing, but your first guest calling Takahashi a "coward" for not writing a character the way she wants? Acting like a female SHONEN manga-ka, especially in the late 70s/80s/90s like Takahashi, doesn't know about gender issues is honestly offensive to me. You cannot imagine the misogyny she would have dealt with. There is so much female-created art in Japan that gets labeled queer or problematic in the west that is just women (mostly straight and cis, but obviously not a monolith), working out their frustrations with the oppressive gender roles they're forced into, and I hate it. If a work speaks to someone LGBT, awesome! If it makes you think, awesome. But calling a woman a "coward" for not turning a series that came out in the 80s, targeted to young boys, into a trans-lesbian love story, is BS.

[@deathmetalparrot172]

Ranma 1/2 has less of a love triangle and more of... Charlie Kelly's conspiracy theory about Pepe Silvia

[@paulshipper143]

I feel that if the admission fee is accepting a guy can magically turn into a girl and the entire cast of characters are unrealistically exaggerated... people don't need to worry about harmful tropes. I would be more worry about people taking after the insane fighting than taking cues on how to deal with different people.

[@GottMitUns.]

We need more gatekeeping in anime

[@AkatsukiLink]

Yep! Anime needs to get back undergroun d and we need to gatekeep it from these destructive libtards!

[@Ceiling559]

Gatekeeping isn't usually healthy if you want your community to thrive

[@maverick5169]

Ranma hates his female body and will always see himself as a man I swear people do insane mental gymnastic like the Azurill glitch to have fictional characters ""represent"" them lmao

[@vincentmartin9667]

My introduction to Ranma and Takahashi was when a Morman friend of mine had me watch the series witih me.

[@ginoongsalvador]

This is absurd 😅

[@SnipingIsFun]

No, not it doesn't. Ranma is literally a boy who is cursed. Something he is trying to get rid of. And he has always been into women. Trying to throw terms onto him that don't fit only makes your viewpoint even crazier. Actual fans know what the series is about and it's not that. And Japan would also call out this nonsense you are trying to push.

[@Dragonage2ftw]

Japan doesn't like you weirdos.

[@ViperousVT]

And Japan doesn’t like you racist

[@zoro115-s6b]

Where does he suggest than Ranma himself is bi or trans?

[@MistyKathrine]

You didn't even watch the video... Also, according to polls, 70% of people in Japan are in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage and don't feel like their government is doing enough to protect LGBTQ people.

[@servilleta__6075]

Actual fans know that when given the opportunity to rid himself of the curse he refuses since it's something he's gotten used to. His view point is backed up by the manga itself. What are you talking about?

[@BurritoBoy01]

UGHHHH IM TROONING

[@StarDowner41]

BASED

[@marcruth4531]

I was first introduced to Ranma through the SNES game when I was around 10 in the mid 90s. Five, or six years later I discovered the anime, and had a thrill when I realized this is where the fighting game with the panda I played years before had actually come from.

[@kittenannebunteman1047]

I feel Ranma is genderfluid because he recognizes the role in society he needs to play as a male, but when he wants to act contrary to those societal gender roles he chooses to change into a female so he can - learn to ice skate without being embarrassed. Eat ice cream and other treats etc. And no matter how many times he states he is going to China and become a full man again (did he ever actually do it... no) Also I think sometimes critiquing shows and mangas with today's lenses, isn't taking into consideration when it was made and how much we have explored and learned since then.

[@ericespiritu1468]

Konatsu, who likes Ukyo is closer to transfem

[@zacharygrinner6528]

Can't watch the video right now, but can confirm the title. Grew up watching it, and now I'm bi. Took me a long time to comprehend people's hatred for gay and trans people specifically because ranma had inadvertantly normalized some of that stuff to me early on.

[@undisclosedmusic4969]

Can confirm it is sufficient but not necessary, as I am bi despite never having watched this and not even understanding anything in the video 15 minutes in 😂

[@zacharygrinner6528]

@undisclosedmusic4969 Lol it'd be wild if it was neccesarry - if all LGBTQ people shared Ranma as a common identity ancestor.

[@undisclosedmusic4969]

@@zacharygrinner6528😅

[@Vintagesonic1]

Dawg, watching an anime does not change your sexuality. 💀😭

[@Grumpy_Bomber]

🤡

[@tesnacloud]

The whole Tsubasa rant feels like a fundamental misread of the authors intent. Tsubasa is portrayed as doing precisely two things wrong. Stalking and a refusal to accept that his love interest isn't in turn interested. Two things many other heteronormal characters are portrayed as doing. Tsubasa's crossdressing is playing with how easy it is for Akane and Ranma to jump to conclusions. They are portrayed as foolish. And Akane trying to conversion camp Tsubasa is portrayed as really stupid. As well as ineffectual. And Tsubasa misunderstood Ranma's curse as just being cross dressing because he doesn't know about magic and sees Ranma in guys underwear with a very masculine body shape. He assumes that when he saw Ranma as a girl, Ranma was just cross dressing, not under the influence of an actual magical body change.

[@SAlcocer12]

Read all the Manga in HS and watched the anime on KTEH. Love love LOVE this series!

[@Dr.Mlieko]

Can you be unwillingly trans tho?

[@MistyKathrine]

Considering that trans people don't choose to be trans, yes.

[@refreshazure]

I had biochemical dysphoria i had to decide trans to woman or be miserable rest of my life so i pick the happy one it was more about fleeing what testosterone did to me but i found my happiness in a female role.

[@GyaruRespecter]

Yes, it's called grooming. Happens to most of them before they commit suicide. Anthony knows this, as he's a strong supporter of it.

[@channel45853]

Yeah, I don't like the whole curse angle. That's forcing someone to be what they don't want to be, which would sorta make it bad trans rep, no?

[@MistyKathrine]

People don't usually choose to be trans so yes.

[@SammyRobinson62232]

I remember when I was in 7th grade (now 10th). My history teacher allow me to borrow the first volume of Ramma 1/2. And I remember enjoying it as it was just very fun. As I don’t think I thought of much about the gender aspect. Since I was dealing with interalize sexism, luckily I had gotten out of by the middle of 8th grade Also my history teacher was a cool teacher who let me borrow books even ban ones. Like Maus. And he was also the head of our anime club.

[@Flare935]

You know, I never even got super into the series, but I read the first couple of chapters in a manga in my high schools library. It all makes sense now.

[@c.h.s9022]

We can have complexity: meanwhile i just watched it for girls slapstick and martial arts action

[@Aerlas]

The Sailor Stars from the 90s Sailor Moon anime could also be, and have been, analyzed from a genderqueer perspective. Not so much the manga version of them though. Naoko Takeuchi was very much against that take on them.

[@BlooftubeBloof]

Kinda disappointed this didn't go into a feminist angle cause its very obvious in all her work. A guy forced to live life as a women at a time when being a woman was being challenged, especially in japan. She adds a lot of fanservice to appeal to the male audience but also is smartly subtle about feminist issues. Why I like Lum from Urusei Yatsura, clearly very obvious she was designed by a women and the female gaze even if people might assume her to be male gaze-y.

[@nicklundy9965]

Yea. I read it was a commentary on how women were treated in Japan in that time while at the same time being a satire of the battle shonen boom with Dragonball and Fist of the North Star.

[@MistyKathrine]

@@nicklundy9965 Ah yes, the first romantic comedy battle shounen.

[@maxspecs]

There’s the argument that Ranma’s written as a person who’s born as a girl but raised as a guy, but is also written to be physically a guy to bypass censorship and editors that only look at surface level writing.

[@Lexi_Zone]

I think the story does a good job of disconstructing some of its assumptions about gender roles, even though on the surface it presents them pretty straight. Ranma wants to be manly; Ranma values his masculinity a lot. And often that's not even on a toxic way, because he also tries to be a nice guy a lot of the time. I mean, he's always trying to get along with and do right by Ryoga, Mousse, etc. whilst they're getting ready to backstab him. Ranma is also prone to crying, gets upset when his favorite clothes are damaged "like a girl" (Ryoga's words, not mine). So yeah, I think Takahashi-sensei was doing some things there.

[@sadman2478]

Ranma has nothing to do with being bi or trans and that's not hateful. People like you are just narcissists.

[@MistyKathrine]

You didn't watch the video.

[@davvistavaratipula4276]

​@@MistyKathrineYes it is. The trans reading is stupid

[@baldr8790]

Too bad Ranma hates becoming a woman, he hates it He tries in every way to become just a man again It's certainly not his choice and he wanted to become that way So no Ranma 1/2 has nothing to do with being trans or bi

[@agramuglia]

You are so close to getting it.

[@Jay-gi6oh]

@@agramuglia Nah, he gets it. You're just over analyzing a simple romantic comedy anime/manga.

[@Oshawott789]

​@@agramuglia research john money

[@zoro115-s6b]

How do you manage to write this sentence without getting it. This isn't even mental gymnastics, this is the mental equivalent of breaking your thumb to get out of handcuffs. Are you okay?

[@leojared7816]

Nevermind the decades of fans coming and going to like Ranma who never had this issue.

[@xxkankala1671]

What issue

[@Gabrielle-bb2zq]

And me, I rule for Nabiki who is single all along and kind of aware about the gender nonsense. (Oh my, I love the bisexual haircut, I had no idea it's a thing). I'm aroace by the way and kind of non-binary (questionning). I have always loved the idea of cross-dressing stories but I'm always disapointed (see 25:08) because the character(s) never do(es) this for fum and never actively play(s) with genderconformity, what's Ranma eventually does sometimes even it's for selfish shenanigans. And like you said, Ranma 1/2 hits close with toxic masculinity, it makes me forget/forgive the transphobe tropes.

[@davvistavaratipula4276]

transphobic tropes? hahaha gringos are idiots

[@cheekyfella1086]

Your appearance is exactly how I imagined it would be right after I read the title. This is why trump won.

[@agramuglia]

I am so important that I can sway country wide opinion? You think too highly of me.

[@davvistavaratipula4276]

​@@agramugliaI am Latino and I completely disagree with you. People here know that Ranma hates being a woman, the only time he accepts it is to get free stuff and help Akane with the rhythmic gymnastics competition. the same series tells you that it is a curse and that Ranma seeks to undo it. stupid gringo

[@Raevyn01]

@@agramuglia Nah, don't worry. Nobody thinks highly of you

[@ViperousVT]

@@agramugliabruh your so stupid AF that’s all you leftists can do is cope and seethe 😂 🐍

[@HansLemurson]

I definitely didn't run through detailed scenarios in my head about how I would handle living with a gender-changing curse. Nope! That was not me as a teenager at all. Somehow I ended up transgender. 🤷 Ranma 1/2 just lit a fire in my brain that never went out. My girlfriend got concerned that I seemed a little _too_ obsessed with the series...

[@OshaWott123]

You have a fetish 🙄

[@andrewparsons2391]

I was seriously tempted to make a sarcastic comment about "Breaking News, 30 year old comedy from more conservative culture deemed to have 'problematic elements' by modern audiences from different culture!', up until the last few minutes of the video. But it certainly is true that looking back, there's plenty of 'Oh wait, that kinda fucked up' moments to be had. I mean, 99% of comedy IS watching someone else's misfortune and laughing at them after all. Straight cis guy myself, read all the manga watched all the anime (still have like 50 VHS tapes in the closet that I haven't played in literal DECADES...). I myself never got anything more from Ranma than a somewhat fetishistic interest in transformation in general. If it awakened something in someone else, let them to realize something important that changed them for the better, GOOD! But, it's almost a certainty that this was never anything intended by the author, just a Happy Accident. Sometimes, you get more than you were expecting. It's easy to see how a transman in specific would relate to Ranma's gender induced trials and tribulations though. If you want Ranma stories ACTUALLY dealing seriously with issues of sex and gender, you'll have to dive into the huge and deep pool of Ranma fanfiction. Richard Lawson's 'Thy Outward Part' perhaps. Ranma would probably suffer from having 'Toxic Masculinity' even if he were never cursed, purely as a result of being raised by Genma, and the INCREDIBLE amounts of horrible shit his dad put him through. The curse just exacerbated it. Trivia fact, among the fanfic community at the time, a 'Pregnant Ranma Problem' referred to someone over-analyzing something meant to NOT be taken seriously.

[@memetheew]

Ranma has nothing to do with gender-fluidity. It is about gender roles. How a "feminine man" isn't something to be ashamed of, or being a "manly woman" not about changing your gender itself.

[@MistyKathrine]

It's literally about gender fluidity with the main character having a gender presentation that changes frequently.

[@memetheew]

@MistyKathrine That's called an allegory! It is a visual representation of Ranma's more feminine side. But he still identifies as a guy. You guys are so dense I swear.

[@MistyKathrine]

@@memetheew Some gender fluid people identify as guys in real life as well.

[@memetheew]

@@MistyKathrine to be genderfluid you would identify as a guy or as a girlndependingnon the situation (I won't get into my thoughts on that) but that's definetely what doesn't happen in Ranma. In Ranma it doesn't matter what sex Ranma has, he always identifies as a guy. At most Ranma is an allegory to break gender roles (completely oposite to trabsgenders) and also a history about a lesbian couple in a sense.

[@MistyKathrine]

@@memetheew Harvard defines Gender Fluid as: " Gender fluidity refers to change over time in a person’s gender expression or gender identity, or both. That change might be in expression, but not identity, or in identity, but not expression. Or both expression and identity might change together." That's the textbook definition and by that definition Ranma is definitely gender fluid as he changes his gender expression.

[@AlAensland]

Keep dreaming dude.

[@Lazy_Sasha]

Haven't even seen one second of the video. But I'm bi and trans. The first anime I saw and first manga I collected the entire series of was Ranma 1/2. Coincidence? I think not.

[@ladyaceina]

why not discuss konatasu the character who is stated to have the soul of a kunochi thats born every 100 years refers to herself in feminine pronouns dresses and acts like a woman and calls her love with ukyo as forbidden you said you read the manga but you only talk about tsubasa who only appears in ONE ARC of the manga while konatsu appears in multiple arcs in the back end of the manga

[@lucasoliver2571]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on One Piece and how the anime has handled trans characters over the years, from Ivankov to Kiku.

[@demo_AAA]

Does it also make people zoophiles?

[@LadyMajolish]

The moment I saw Raman 1/2’a trailer on the Netflix previews, immediately went into the description of the anime and I was already thinking in my mind. “Is it me or this anime giving off Bi energy?”

[@TheShockVox]

Who's the bi? Because Ranma generally only shows romantic interest, what little he does show, for Akane. And Akane just pretty much likes Ranma and Dr Tofu. I don't think she ever she's Ranma as a girl once she knows the deal with his curse.

[@MistyKathrine]

@@TheShockVox Akane is literally bi though and the comics and the 89 series were pretty explicit about it with Shampoo even going so far to mock Akane for being attracted to Ranma as a girl. Also Akane mentions that Shampoo is very pretty several times. In one of the TV original episodes, a girl moves into the Tendo Dojo, this girl ends up sharing Akane's bedroom and wearing Akane's clothes, there are 2 times in the episode where Akane is shown visibly blushing at this girl.

[@Saithene]

it's you.

[@wagnar]

⁠@@MistyKathrine False. Akane never felt attracted to Ranma as female. She even calls him “hentai” or pervert for transforming into a woman. Akane always has been completely heteosexual, first loving Dr. Tofu and then Ranma. She always considered Ranma as male and all romantic scenes between them happens when he is on male form (their only kiss, most of the times he rescue her, their final scenes when they are about to marry, etc) There is no bi or trans reading in Ranma. Stop trying to push a false agenda. Rumiko Takahashi was asked in an interview if Ranma had an agenda and she replied it was only a comedy and the transformation was just an excuse for gags. If anything Ranma has a very conventional and patriarcal reading: his mom only accepts him when she realizes he is very MASCULINE DESPISES his curse, Tsubasa and Konatsu who are transvestites are used for gags and jokes, Ranma beat the crap of a guy who kissed him by force yet he wasnt that shocked when Shampoo kissed him by force too despise he wasnt romantically interested in her, there is a completely different treatment to harassment from people from different gender than same gender, etc

[@MistyKathrine]

@@wagnar You're in denial about something that is super obvious to the most of us. Akane is bi and always has been.

[@abhishekverma4029]

I have never watched ranma or read its manga,so I Since I knew you would be making this vid, I watched knight,s watch vid on ranma & he thought ranma enforces traditional gender roles via using gender switching. After watching your vid , I am more suprised cause I thought you would,ve been going like ~ actually this shows the struggles of trans PPL,so most of ranma is pretty pro trans or the author herself said something which proves this. But ,here anthony, you show how it may be problematic instead & you did dip in that part of being about trans exp cause reality is messy & not a perfect script but it wasn,t as big of a part of the vid ,I expected. If I have to think , it seems like ranma is just about a romcom ,with what if this awkward events happened. Inalso have to wonder, is it wrong for these kinds of shows to be made in the first place. Cause of if were to watch this show at a time in my life ,when I knew nothing about LGBTQ or gay, trans,etc. I would,ve seen ranma as a comedic anime with gender switching. And at best some kind of theme, of what life would,ve been if I was born as a girl instead of man. Which I have thought about.

[@jaydenjohnson4221]

There’s nothing bi or trans about ranma the show is about a guy who gets cursed 😂

[@TheRealUncleHappy]

A character becoming comfortable in a gender they weren't born in...sure, nothing trans about that at all.

[@jaydenjohnson4221]

@ the ironic thing about this is that if you actually watch the show ranma hates being a girl lmao you western anime fans are all the same

[@blackjay4596]

I don't think you watched pasted reading the title

[@jaydenjohnson4221]

@ I did but ok and I thought all of his points were trash

[@TheRealUncleHappy]

@@jaydenjohnson4221 Since you watched it then name off the points. Go ahead. You wanted attention, here it is. Put up or shove off.

[@sal5432100]

You're proof that gatekeeping is required.

[@shoestringVA]

I literally would not be the trans mess I am now without this show. I know it's before a lot of trans slang and inside jokes, but it's hilarious to me that Rumic never intended for Ranma to be a big statement on gender identity, while there's promo art of her in a trans flag colored wedding dress sitting on top of an egg. Sometimes life imitates art. And sometimes life writes hundreds of headcanon fanfics where said art is about a repressed transbian discovering herself.

[@marocat4749]

I would say the opposite, Ranma very intentional, is an arrogant jerk, i find it good he is exploiting his women form. And yep he is a lot of the time a transman. And the sam time grows as person. And i love he is the same shameless person and in process learns to be less prideful. Hew is still but less sexist. Also its a romcom, romcoms often have people harming each other for fun.

[@brojoe44]

"like in the 90s?" you mean 80s...

[@criticalnarwhal]

I mean it’s kinda both? The manga ran from 1987 to 1996, with the first anime airing in Japan in 1989 and running until 1992, not including OVAs.