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Jun 12, 2012 7:44 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Hah hah, I should have anticipated Ryoga's entrance a long time before it happened.
“Money can't buy dere”
Apr 10, 2016 9:03 PM
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Shinosuke's story is so sad, I hope he lives in the end.
LOL Ranma is jealous when he shouldn't be ( even though Shinosuke's hot XD)
May 22, 2016 2:56 AM
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Pretty meh, hope next episode be better. But those gigantic animals were funny - I mean, seriously? All this years and still nobody noticed it? All the media was able to pull is only one blurry photo, while our heroes just straight walked into bunch of it just - well, by simply wandering around?
There is such thing as shit taste. Only idiots think that every "work of art" should have the same value.

Oil and nuclear are civilisation saviours. Deal with it.
Oct 21, 2016 6:37 PM
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Since when did Akane become so curvy? Not like I'm complaining but remember Ranma calling her flat-chested lots of times but this really begs to differ LOL
Mar 13, 2017 4:02 AM
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The best Ranma episode so far.
Wow, even Akane's cooking tastes good there.
There has to be a way to save Shinnosuke without that water.
Jan 16, 2021 4:53 PM
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Tenth said:
Since when did Akane become so curvy? Not like I'm complaining but remember Ranma calling her flat-chested lots of times but this really begs to differ LOL

Akane had a growth spurt between the TV series and the 2nd movie/OVAs.
Girl filled out nicely.
Aug 5, 2021 12:21 PM
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Another pretty boring side-story about some dude who isn't relevant outside of this OVA :/
Jul 25, 2022 3:29 AM
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Love the OP and ED. I think the OVA OPs are actually better than the show OPs. That's probably a hot take.
The English version of the OP Boku Tachi Wa Kore Kara actually played in Movie 3. There's no English version of the Movie 3 OP. Not sure how I didn't notice it. According to the wiki, movie 3 was bundled as an OVA by Viz which was probably a smart move considering the short length of it.

This is kind of a serious episode but I enjoyed it. Definitely way better than Movie 1 and 2 with Akane getting kidnapped to be married off by a random guy. Jealous Ranma is cute lol.
Feb 1, 2023 10:10 AM
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I wonder why only the animals are getting gigantic by drinking the spring water but not humans lol. The Ops and EDs of these OVAs are infinitely better than the ones in the TV series.

Oct 29, 2023 12:04 PM
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No wonder Shinnosuke is so forgetful. He's suffering from brain damage. Haha!
Akane can cook good food for once. Haha!
Ranma getting jealous was funny!
I need more Ukyo screen time! I only saw her a bit in the OP/ED. I'm sad.
May 19, 2024 3:50 AM

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Very bad and idiotic episode.
Mar 22, 2025 2:59 AM
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Is time to watch these OVAs.
A magic forest, an old promise and a mysterious man, I wonder how Akane ended in that forest in the first time.
A new character, a guy from Akane's past who has some kind of amnesia and needs magic water to survive. In the OVAs Akane cooking has improved, here by the magic water but in the past OVAs that girl Kurumi actually liked it. Akane in that barrel, I haven't see you well Akane hahaha. Ranma is jealous and he has the right to be. The ed was so good.
Sep 25, 2025 5:07 PM
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Pretty good start to this collection of OVA episodes, OP and ED were really nice again too, a shame the ones in “Movie 3” didn’t carry over but I like these ones a lot too, looks like the OP even changes again for the next episode, not sure about the ED yet but it is interesting to see Christmas themed visuals when it’s September for me lol.

And this situation with Shinnosuke is a bit more of a serious one, or at least it seems that way, the old man seems like he has a few screws loose so I wouldn’t doubt it if he’s wrong about Shinnosuke dying, but if he’s right then that’s really bad, so of course Akane feels obligated to stick around and help, especially because Shinnosuke saved her in the past, and then again here in the present, well if you count 1994 as the present lol. And Ranma’s got the wrong idea now because of Shinnosuke’s absurdly bad forgetfulness, but the next episode looks like it might be a fun one with Ryoga being added to the mix as well, let’s see how this story ends.

And oh yeah, that Akane fanservice was HOT, I don’t remember her being that curvy like someone else mentioned, but you won’t hear me complaining lol.
Jan 21, 10:55 AM
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Welp, I decided to watch this after waiting a month for an announcement of the third season of Ranma 1/2 (2024), but since a month passed by, and no third season was announced, I'm going to assume that the remake has been cancelled (good, because fuck the remake, and a win-win situation for me either way), and so I'm just going to watch the rest of these OVAs/Specials that I'm already familiar with because I read them in the manga already. A new season of a remake is usually announced either days after the final episode of a season, or a few days later, so it's unusual that a third season of the Ranma 1/2 remake wasn't announced, if ever. I wouldn't be surprised if an Inuyasha remake was announced instead (even if it already has a complete adaptation, so there wouldn't really be any point to making one, but since video games get remakes anyway, a remake is still possible). I wasn't planning on watching these OVAs/Specials because I was going to just stick with the remake all the way to the end and assumed that new seasons of the inferior remake was going to be announced straight away. That's what happened with Fruits Basket (2019) and Rurouni Kenshin (2023). The third seasons of those shows were announced either straight after the final episode of the second season, or within a week after the final episode of the second season aired. Anyway, the only good thing about the remake is the fact that it doesn't have filler episodes. The original show is better in every way.

So this episode, and the next, is an action arc that is 13 chapters long in the manga.
wildhoodJan 23, 12:50 PM

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