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NEWS: New Ranma 1/2 Short Debuts at Takahashi's Tokyo Event

KabaKabaFruit wrote:

Teriyaki Terrier wrote: Hopefully this short will be licensed and will have orginal cast members. Richard Ian Cox did such a fantastic job with Ranma, as well as the other cast members. I don't think it'll be a problem to reunite the original cast considering that it was dubbed by Ocean but I strongly disagree about Cox fitting the role as Ranma. Sarah Strange I thought really fit Ranma's male personality to a T and Cox just made him sound like a punk from Season 4 and up. I only hope if Viz does decide to get this that they will get Sarah Strange back to voice Ranma again. I believe any contract disputes that she had with Viz back then are already long over with.

Nah, I think Richard Cox fit Ranma more (and he sounds closer to Kappei Yamaguchi) , plus Sarah Strange quit voice acting (plus I didn't like her performance as Ranma to begin with) so, Ranma's pretty much gonna be Richard Cox anyway!!

I think Maryke Hendriske, would do well as Akane (although I despise her) , considering Myriam Sirios no longer does voice acting (plus I didn't like her high pitched yelling, it should have been more like Noriko Hidaka's ), and Jillian Micheals would probably nail Nabiki Tendo's sarcasm (that's probably the whole reason I like Nabiki)

RJ wrote:

Wyvern wrote: Here's the intro video in case anyone missed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf953nWYSlA&feature=related Thanks for the link! My Japanese is terrible but if I understand correctly, Inuyasha was wondering why he and Ranma had the same voice. If so, thats hilarious.

Oh, really? Ha! Nice one.

And if Richard Cox were to play Ranma, that joke would still work.

I don't really have a strong preference between the two, actually, but I don't think it's likely for Sarah to come back, considering that she voluntarily quit the role, and she is now a fairly well-known live action actress in Canada, which probably puts her out of Viz's price range. She also hasn't done any voice acting since quitting Ranma.

Ranma was finished being released in the US in 2002, but it ended in Japan in 1992, with OAVs following that. I hope this new short is well enough received to maybe get a few more OAVs done, especially the ending. It deserves that at least.

I don't really have a strong preference between the two, actually, but I don't think it's likely for Sarah to come back, considering that she voluntarily quit the role, and she is now a fairly well-known live action actress in Canada, which probably puts her out of Viz's price range. She also hasn't done any voice acting since quitting Ranma.

Dark Elf Warrior wrote:

Thats geat that there is another Ranma 1/2 short. I thought Ranma 1/2 was gone, and that I was one of the few people who still liked it. Its nice to see that Ranma still lives on. But I have a question about this Ranma 1/2 short being the first one in 12 years? I thought the Ranma 1/2 TV series ended in 2002? Unless are they talking about the OVAs? To know what I'm talking about, look up Ranma 1/2 in the encyclopedia.

The 2002 dates mentioned in the Encyclopedia article are the release dates for the final boxset of Rnama 1/2 in North America. The area under vintage has the Japanese airdates at the very top, which ended in 1992. The OAV's continued on from 1993 to 1996, which is where the "new anime in 12 years" comes from.

It'd be nice to see this available in R1, even if on just a special DVD (how about pairing it with a release of the old Ranma 1/2 Video Jukbox?). Though, I'm almost guaranteed VIZ would get it and I'd hate to see VIZ really go after the nostalgia factor and charge old-school Ranma 1/2 prices.

Takahashi Rumiko to me would almost seem like the god of manga today.

Don't you mean goddess?