@@Moonreax Ranma has less of a plot than Gintama - Ranma has NO plot, lol. There's like one villain and he's only there for 3 episodes in the original series. Seven years later, Pokemon did an episode similar to those three and similar to another Ranma episode, and, unlike Ranma, Pokemon actually handled the plot very seriously and very consequentially. I give Ranma credit for trying, but those four episodes aged very poorly and I hope the remake handles them a little better. What Ranma has instead of a plot is a central theme, which is challenging gender roles. The patriarchal culture forced Ranma to be 'manly' and suppress his feminine side. When he gets the power to turn into a girl, he explores his feminine side and becomes a whole person. His yin and yang come together.
@@Moonreax It doesn't neatly fit any anime genres like slice of life or shonen. The closest thing I can compare it to is Looney Tunes, and with Ranma being Bugs Bunny. (And I mean that in the best way possible. There's a reason Ranma is a timeless classic.) But now and then it has moments that are a little more serious and Ranma is a bit of a tragic hero because he's expected to meet society's expectations of men and society's expectations of women. He mostly rejects both sets of expectations.
There's no such thing as a main conflict or main villain in Ranma, heh. It's just the characters getting into random shenanigans.
Oh... So it's mostly like Gintama then XD
@@Moonreax Ranma has less of a plot than Gintama - Ranma has NO plot, lol. There's like one villain and he's only there for 3 episodes in the original series. Seven years later, Pokemon did an episode similar to those three and similar to another Ranma episode, and, unlike Ranma, Pokemon actually handled the plot very seriously and very consequentially. I give Ranma credit for trying, but those four episodes aged very poorly and I hope the remake handles them a little better.
What Ranma has instead of a plot is a central theme, which is challenging gender roles. The patriarchal culture forced Ranma to be 'manly' and suppress his feminine side. When he gets the power to turn into a girl, he explores his feminine side and becomes a whole person. His yin and yang come together.
hmm I see, hope the slice of life stuff is really well done and entertaining in this case XD
@@Moonreax It doesn't neatly fit any anime genres like slice of life or shonen. The closest thing I can compare it to is Looney Tunes, and with Ranma being Bugs Bunny. (And I mean that in the best way possible. There's a reason Ranma is a timeless classic.) But now and then it has moments that are a little more serious and Ranma is a bit of a tragic hero because he's expected to meet society's expectations of men and society's expectations of women. He mostly rejects both sets of expectations.
Oh, that is pretty interesting, makes me curious what all shenanigans they'll get into XD