The new Ranma 1/2 anime officially has Season 2 in production, as announced after today’s episode. Studio MAPPA is animating, and an announcement trailer has been released for the sequel.
A special illustration by the anime’s character designer Hiromi Taniguchi was also released to commemorate the announcement.
Ranma 1/2 Season 2 Announcement Illustration by Hiromi Taniguchi
Most of the original voice cast from the original returned, with new additions including Akio Otsuka as Soun Tendo (replacing Ryusuke Obayashi, Cho as Genma Saotome (replacing Kenichi Ogata) and Kenichi Ogata as Narrator (replacing Tadashi Nakamura, who passed away in 2019). The Ranma 1/2 staff includes:
Director: Konosuke Uda
Series Composition: Kimiko Ueno
Character Designer: Hiromi Taniguchi
Chief Animation Director: Hiromi Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Yoshioka, Yoshiko Saito, Nao Otsu
Lead Animators: Nao Naito, Rie Aoki
POP Artwork: Minami Kitamura
Art Director: Chihiro Okawa
Color Designer: Yukiko Kakita
Compositing Director: Atushi Kano
Editing: Keisuke Yanagi
Sound Director: Konosuke Uda
Sound Effects: Takuya Hasegawa
Music Selection: Makiko Chihara
Sound Production: dugout Inc.
Music: Kaoru Wada
Production Planning: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co., Ltd.
Rumiko Takahashi began the Ranma 1/2 manga as her third major series (following URUSEI YATSURA and Maison Ikkoku) in August 1987. The manga was serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine until March 1996. VIZ Media licensed it in English.
The manga was previously adapted into two anime series by Studio Deen: Ranma 1/2 and Ranma 1/2 Nettohen. The two anime together ran for a total of 161 episodes from 1989 to 1992. In addition, the series also got 12 OVAs and three films. A live-action TV special was released in 2011.
The story Ranma and Genma Saotome, a father-son duo who end up falling in a cursed lake and getting cursed. Ranma’s curse has him turning into a girl every time he is splashed with cold water (and reverting when splashed with warm water), while his father turns into a panda under the same conditions. The fact that Ranma is set to marry Akane complicates this further, as she is does not end up liking her fiance at their first meeting.
