The official website for the new anime adaptation
of Rumiko Takahashi ’s manga “ Ranma 1/2 ” revealed the
project’s second promotional video. The video features a snippet of the opening
theme song, “ Iinazukekkyun ,” performed by Ano ,
and confirms that the anime is scheduled to premiere on October 5 in
Japan (and later on Netflix globally).
Unfortunately, the Netflix hack in the previous months
completely leaked this new twelve-episode series, so this news is perhaps no
surprise to anyone. The only thing left to offer is that, when
it is released, fans will finally be able to watch it in high quality, and not
the poor definition in which it was leaked.
For her part, Rumiko Takahashi began
publishing the manga through Shogakukan 's Weekly
Shonen Sunday magazine in August 1987 and ended it in March 1996,
compiling the work into a total of thirty-eight volumes. The work was adapted
into an anime in April 1989 by Studio Deen , and was followed
by a new adaptation of 143 episodes in October 1989, produced by the same
studio.
Ranma 1/2
Synopsis
Ranma Saotome is a top-class martial artist and a
prodigy of the Saotome School of Anything Goes martial arts. During his
training in China, he and his father meet a terrible fate when they
accidentally fall into a cursed spring. Now, Ranma is cursed to turn into a
girl when cold water splashes on him, and only hot water can turn him back into
a boy.
Things get even more complicated when Ranma discovers
that his father has arranged for him to marry one of Soun Tendo's three
daughters in order to secure the future of the Tendo dojo. Although Soun learns
of Ranma's situation, he is still determined to go through with the engagement,
and chooses his youngest daughter Akane, who happens to be an expert martial
artist and has a reputation for hating men.
Source: Comic Natalie
(c)高橋留美子・小学館/「らんま 1/2」製作委員会
