A Critic: Ranma 1/2

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Ranma 1/2

action/adventure/comedy/romance

Age rating: 18+(for inappropriate content only)

Ranma Saotome has been training with his father since he was very young to take over the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts. Now the two are introduced to the Tendo’s family and Ranma is told that one of Tendo daughters is to be his fiancé. Ranma has a small problem though: when he has cold water dumped on him, he turns into a girl.

Many, many adventures follow. I give this anime a 9. I loved it. It is extremely random, but very funny. Other opinions may vary. This show goes beyond what I like to call un-naked-nakedness into naked un-naked-nakedness. It probably doesn’t make sense unless you’ve already noticed this in other animes already. Basically, girl Ranma ends up being top naked, but it’s not in a way that is lucrative at all. He’s just naked. That’s all there is to it. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone under 17, and even then to mature 17 year-olds. By the way, this anime has NO closure at the end. If you want to watch the anime and then read the manga afterward, the anime follows the manga pretty exactly up to Vol. 22 Ch. 6. Starting with 7 is new material though. All of which concludes very nicely at the end. Yay for closure.

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In case you were wondering where I'm coming from with my criticism, I figured I should write a little about who I am. I am a woman who has grown up in a very conservative environment. Morally, at least. When it comes to violence..........let's just say I grew up with six brothers. And what do brothers do?......................... I'll let you answer that.

Now, having grown up with this plethora of brothers, and with only two sisters (one ten years older, one seven younger), I have come to be quite the tom-boy. So when I give harsh criticisms to shoujo animes, it's because I find them completely ridiculous in their girlishness. (Though I still watch them because I often find that they are hilarious in their girly-ridiculousness. So they may be a drama-romance, but I watch them for comedy's sake.)

I know that this is kind of taboo a little in our society (with separation of church and state and therefore no one really talks about religion), but I'm going to throw this out as well: I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Therefore, I try to have pretty high standards for myself. So if you watch one of these animes and think, "What the heck was she thinking was dirty in this?!?!?!?" it's because I thought there was, and apparently you don't.

Now, if you've gotten this far, I commend you for reading my self-related rantings and I only have one more thing to say. If you have questions about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, DO NOT just randomly search us on the web. You have no idea how many people write ridiculous falsehoods about us (though these things aren't as prominent as they used to be if you search my church on the web). Instead, go here. I'm sure you can find an answer to your questions there.

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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Ranma 1/2

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