Ranma ½

About Ranma ½

Ranma Saotome, a teenage martial artist, and his father Genma travel to the 'cursed training ground' of Jusenkyo in China. There, despite the warnings of the Chinese guard, they fall into the cursed springs.

Ranma ½ is an action-adventure, animation, and comedy series that ran on Fuji TV. Its themes are joyful, curse, absurdist, and love polygon.

It ran for one season of 161 episodes between April 1989 and September 1992.

Kappei Yamaguchi leads the cast as Ranma Saotome ♂ (voice), and Megumi Hayashibara as Ranma Saotome ♀ (voice). The series began as a manga. Produced by Studio Deen.

It streams on Hulu in the United States. Ranma1/2, Rent-a-Girlfriend, and My First Girlfriend Is a Gal make useful companions to Ranma ½, all filed under gender swap and based on manga. TMDB voters put it at 8.6 out of 10 across 1,556 votes and it carries a TV-14 rating.