Ranma 1/2 13らんま1/2 Season 2 Episode 1
Spoiler Abstract/Synopsis
GOSUNKUGI Hikaru has a serious crush on Akane. Nevertheless, since Ranma entered the image, Gosunkugi turns into decided to search out his weak point and exploit it. To that finish, he groups up with Kuno-senpai to search out Ranma’s weak point. After every week, he finds nothing. This makes Kuno sad. Nevertheless, after they hear Ranma scream in terror, they race to search out out the trigger, solely to fall right into a pit Gosunkugi dug.
Gosunkugi redoubles his efforts to uncover Ranma’s weak point. Ranma refuses to inform Akane, revealing that Gosunkugi was beneath the dojo, making an attempt to be taught the key. Nevertheless, when a neighbor’s cat beneath the care of the Tendou’s care escapes, Ranma’s worry of cats is unmasked. Ranma’s father explains that he triggered it because of a meaningless coaching train. Gosunkugi overhears and will get scratched by the cat consequently. He experiences his discovering to Kuno.
Gosunkugi “lures” Ranma and Akane to the health club/auditorium, although his makes an attempt to get Ranma to fall by the stage flooring doorways fails. Nevertheless, he has cats within the room beneath the stage. Ranma places up a courageous entrance inflicting Gosunkugi to assume perhaps Ranma isn’t afraid of cats. Nevertheless, when Akane drags Ranma to the exit, a large tiger awaits on the opposite facet.
Ranma snaps, inflicting the cats and the tiger to interrupt by the stage in terror. With out touching the ground, Ranma shreds it in addition to Kuno’s bokutou (wooden katana). Genma disguises himself as an previous girl to calm Ranma down, nevertheless it fails. Nevertheless, he has a bag of matatabi and leaves it with Akane. She fires the Japanese catnip at Ranma. Consequently he flies to her like a cat, even kissing her. She’s embarrassed and sends him flying consequently.
Ideas/Assessment
I didn’t keep in mind this story from the unique Ranma 1/2. That’s as a result of the episode it was featured (20) was mainly a rewrite. Nevertheless, for the 2024 adaptation in Ranma 1/2 13, the story follows the manga story (chapters 37 by 40) rather more intently from what I can inform. Crappy Netflix adaptation apart, it was an amusing episode.
Cat-o-phobia (Ailurophobia)
I acquired a couple of chuckles from the 2024 Ranma 1/2 13. Gosunkugi (Hikari, as Netflix insists on calling him, although nobody within the episode addresses him by his given title) is a nutty man. We don’t get a historical past on his crush with Akane. I appear to recollect studying that within the manga, he was a switch scholar whom Akane was good to, to the purpose of giving him a bento. His feud with Ranma began when Ranma snatched mentioned bento from Gosunkugi, making an attempt to do him a favor. (Akane isn’t an excellent prepare dinner.)
Nonetheless, the episode did issues in such a manner that the historical past isn’t actually wanted. It’s sufficient that we see Gosunkugi is obsessive about Akane. Thus he’s obsessive about discovering Ranma’s weak point. Laughably, that turned out to be ailurophobia–a worry of cats.
Whereas the standard slapstick humor exists all through the episode, it actually kicks up a notch when Ranma loses it. Ranma inflicting a tiger to flee in terror and conceal behind Kuno simply cracked me up. Additional, the absurdity of Ranma shredding the health club/auditorium flooring (it’s a mixed place in Japanese colleges)amused me. I wasn’t laughing laborious, however I did get an excellent chuckle out of all of it. That additionally utilized to Ranma obliterating Kuno’s treasured bokutou.
We’re nonetheless within the early days, so the “will they or gained’t they” side of Ranma’s and Akane’s relationship hasn’t gotten tiresome but. As such, I kinda appreciated the love “Neko Ranma” confirmed to Akane. After all, she needed to get silly about it, however in a manner, I perceive her embarrassment.
Last Ideas and Conclusion
Let me wrap up my assessment with some last ideas.
As standard, Netflix “localizers” are the principle downside with Ranma 1/2 13. I put up with their rubbish for 12 episodes throughout the first season. Let’s simply say that I opted for somebody doing an correct however readable subtitle textual content file to provide myself reduction so I don’t should learn that rubbish. It boggles my thoughts that this type of substandard work isn’t solely discovered to be acceptable by Netflix, however little doubt, the one that did it’s happy with the rewrites and innovations they did.
I forgot how irritating Genma may be as a personality. Nevertheless, higher irritations are sooner or later.
It was nice listening to ISHIDA Akira because the voice of Xellos within the Slayers anime titles.
I at all times love listening to HAYASHIBARA Megumi as feminine Ranma. She nonetheless hasn’t misplaced a beat, although the episode didn’t require a lot of her.
In the long run, Ranma 1/2 13 amused me, and that’s good. Netflix’s subtitles enraged me, and that’s dangerous. However when you get an excellent adaptation, it’s a good episode.
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