Five new voice actors will star in the upcoming Ranma 1/2 anime television series remake, which will premiere in Japan on October 5, 2024. Netflix will stream the series weekly worldwide.
New cast members (who did not reprise these roles in the previous Ranma 1/2 anime series) include:
• Tomokazu Sugita as Tatewaki Kuno • Ayane Sakura as Kodachi Kuno • Toshiyuki Morikawa as Tofu Ono • Mamoru Miyano as Mikado Sanzenin • Aoi Yuki as Azusa Shiratori © RT,S/R
They join a main voice cast that includes several returning members from previous anime projects, starring:
• Kappei Yamaguchi as Ranma Saotome (male) • Megumi Hayashibara as Ranma Saotome (female) • Noriko Hidaka as Akane Tendo • Minami Takayama as Nabiki Tendo • Kikuko Inoue as Kasumi Tendo • Akio Otsuka as Soun Tendo • Cho as Genma Saotome • Koichi Yamadera as Ryoga Hibiki • Rei Sakuma as Shampoo • Kenichi Ogata as Storyteller
Konosuke Uda (DAYS, Victory Kickoff!) is directing the new Ranma 1/2 anime, with Hiromi Taniguchi (Deca Dence and Saga of Tanya the Evil Operation Desert Pasta co-character designer) serving as character designer and co-animation director and Kimiko Ueno (Astro Note) as series scriptwriter. Nao Naito and Rie Aoki are serving as key animators, while Kaoru Wada (Tesla Note) is composing the music. MAPPAis handling animation production for the new series.
The original Ranma 1/2 manga series by Rumiko Takahashi debuted in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday on August 19, 1987 and ended on March 6, 1996. A total of 38 tankobon volumes were released during its serialization.
The original manga inspired an 18-episode anime series that began airing in 1989. It was followed by Ranma 1/2: Nettou-hen, which ran from 1989 to 1992 for 143 episodes. Viz Media released the manga in English in North America.
The previous anime was produced by Studio Deen and had Atsuko Nakajima (Komi Can't Communication, Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto, Trinity Blood) as character designer. Tsutomu Shibayama (co-director Chibi Maruko-chan) directed the first series while Koji Sawai (.hack//Legend of the Twilight) and Junji Nishimura (Vlad Love, Extreme Hearts) co-directed Nettou-hen.
©Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan/Ranma1/2 Project
The new Ranma 1/2 anime is the second remake of Takahashi's manga, following the recent four-volume Urusei Yatsura anime.
VIZ Media describes the series as follows:
Being a teenage martial artist isn't easy, especially for Ranma Saotome. During a training mission, Ranma accidentally jumped into a legendary cursed spring in China. Now, every time he's splashed with cold water, he turns into a girl! That's enough to complicate anyone's life, even without an arranged fiancée who doesn't like him (or says she doesn't) and a constant stream of rivals and suitors for both his male and female forms. What's a half-boy, half-girl to do?
Source: Ranma 1/2 Official Anime Twitter, Official Anime Website
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