The key visual for the second season of the "completely new anime" based on Rumiko Takahashi's hit manga "Ranma ½" has been released. In the center are Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo, with their faces close together, surrounded by Ranma, Shampoo, Ryoga Hibiki, Kunou Tatewaki, Saotome Genma(Panda), as well as new characters appearing in the second season: Mousse, Kuonji Ukyo, Happosai, Colon, and Gosunkugi Hikaru.
The second promotional video for the second season, which uses the opening theme "Wo Ai Ni" by the music unit Wednesday Campanella, has also been released on YouTube. The video shows the changing relationship between Ranma and Akane, and depicts a "slapstick fighting romantic comedy" with a unique cast of characters.
To commemorate the broadcast of the second season, Shogakukan's online manga service, Sunday Webry, is making the original manga from the first season available for free until October 5th.
The soundtrack CD "TV Anime 'Ranma 1/2' Original Soundtrack" will be released on December 24th. In addition to the 44 BGM tracks composed and arranged by Kaoru Wada, it will also include TV-sized versions of the opening theme "Kokkonkkyun" and ending theme "Anta Nante" from the first season.
"Ranma ½" was serialized in the manga magazine "Weekly Shonen Sunday" (Shogakukan) from 1987 to 1996 by Takahashi, who is also known for "Urusei Yatsura Yatsura" and "Maison Ikkoku." The series depicts the hectic daily life of high school martial artist Ranma Ranma Saotome, who turns into a woman when splashed with water, and his fiancee Akane Akane Tendo. While training in the indiscriminate fighting style with his father, Genma, Ranma, while training in the Chinese Jusenkyo, develops a unique condition that causes him to turn into a woman when splashed with water and revert to a man when splashed with hot water. Upon returning to Japan, Ranma and his son end up staying with Genma's best friend, Soun Tendo, and by chance, he becomes engaged to Soun's daughter, Akane.
The series was adapted into a TV anime series that aired from 1989 to 1992, and this will be the first time it has been adapted into a TV anime series in approximately 32 years. The first season aired on Nippon Television from October to December 2024. The second season will be broadcast on the same station every Saturday at 12:55 a.m. starting October 4th.
*Cast (titles omitted)
Ranma Saotome: Kappei Yamaguchi ▽ Ranma: Megumi Hayashibara ▽ Akane Tendo: Noriko Hidaka ▽ Nabiki Tendo: Minami Takayama ▽ Kasumi Tendo: Kikuko Inoue ▽ Soun Tendo : Akio Otsuka ▽ Genma Saotome: Cho ▽ Ryoga Hibiki: Koichi Yamadera ▽ Shampoo: Rei Sakuma ▽ Mousse: Toshihiko Seki ▽ Ukyo Kuonji: Kaori Tomokazu Sugita ▽ Kodachi Kuno: Ayane Sakura Sakura ▽ Happosai: Kazuhiko Inoue ▽ Cologne: Ako Mayama ▽ Kono Tofu: Toshiyuki Morikawa ▽ Emperor Sanzen'in: Mamoru Miyano ▽ Azusa Shiratori: Aoi Aoi Yuki ▽ Gosunkugihikari: Akira Ishida ▽ Ichiro: Tomokazu Seki ▽ Narration: Kenichi Ogata
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