Rumiko Takahashi’s classic Ranma 1/2 manga is getting an “all-new” new anime adaptation, Weekly Shonen Sunday has announced.
Not much else has been revealed at this time, but details will be dropped in an announcement event on July 17 6PM JST. It will be livestreamed on the official Ranma 1/2 X (formerly Twitter) account.
This will mark the second remake of a Takahashi manga, following the recent four-cour Urusei Yatsura anime. The first consecutive two-cour portion of that show premiered in October 2022 while the remainder started airing on January 11 (effectively January 12 at 12:55 AM JST) this year.
Ranma 1/2 debuted in the 36th 1987 issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday and ended in the 12th 1996 issue of the magazine. The titular character of the story is afflicted with a curse that causes him to transform into a girl when splashed with cold water. The manga originally inspired an 18-episode anime that began airing in 1989. This was followed by Ranma ½: Nettou-hen, which ran from 1989 to 1992 with 143 episodes.
Viz Media describes the manga as:
Years ago, Genma promised his old friend Soun Tendo that Ranma would marry one of Soun’s three daughters and carry on the family’s martial arts school. Except that the girl picked to be Ranma’s bride doesn’t seem to like him, Ranma keeps getting into fights…and did we mention that whole changing into a girl thing?
The previous anime were produced by Studio Deen and had Atsuko Nakajima (Komi Can’t Communicate, Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto, Trinity Blood) as character designer. Tsutomu Shibayama (Chibi Maruko-chan co-director) directed the first series while Koji Sawai (.hack//Legend of the Twilight) and Junji Nishimura (Vlad Love, Extreme Hearts) co-directed Nettou-hen.
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Source: Weekly Shonen Sunday TV YouTube channel