Ranma 1/2 The Movie Big Trouble in Nekonron, China takes the basic Ranma formula and turns it into a 75-minute movie. The movie starts with a fly by introduction of the main characters starting with Happosai the founding father of the Anything Goes Martial Arts. Happosai is doing business as usual as he enjoys stealing various female undergarments. On his outing he decides to steal a pair of Akane’s panties too. Ranma decided to intervene and put an end to his perverted ways once and for all. However, it backfires and now it looks like Ranma was trying to steal her panties. Outraged Akane tries to attack Ranma. This attack turns out into an all out parade of characters through out the series.

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I love anime. They have the best characters and stories out there. I grew up watching anime and never knew it. Speed Racer, G Force, and others were on cable TV. Today these are crappy examples of anime, but it’s still anime. It was a different type of cartoon then what I was used to watching. I remember watching and being sucked into the stories even as a kid I knew these were good.

This was a tough choice, but I feel it’s a good choice. You either love it or hate it. With it’s love triangle upon love triangles, wacky situations, and even crazier characters this has to be one of the funniest anime I have seen. I am talking about Ranma ½. The title along isn’t the only thing that’s strange about this series. I started watching this series sometime during high school. I didn’t see it in order though, I saw parts of episodes from seasons 2 and 3, then some parts of the movies, then OAV series. So I started in the middle and worked my way to the beginning. Watching it out of order was interesting to say the least. Who is this? What is that? What just happened? Why is that funny? Even with all the questions I had I was hooked.

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