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We were asked about the way that Shampoo speaks in Ranma 1/2 and if that was an accurate portrayal of how she speaks in the Japanese manga and anime. If you've ever wondered, here's the answer!
www.furinkan.com/features/articles/chinese.html
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We have a lot of new interviews on the site over the last few weeks:
Rumiko Takahashi talking with DaVinci magazine about the new Ranma 1/2 adaptation:
www.furinkan.com/takahashi/takahashi96.html
An interview with ano, the opening theme singer of the new series:
www.furinkan.com/features/interviews/ano.html
And a translation of NHK's Grand Poll Results on fans favorite Takahashi characters, songs, series and media:
www.furinkan.com/features/articles/toprumic.html
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"To put it bluntly, if I couldn't play the role of Ranma again, I didn't even want them to remake it while I was still alive." -Kappei Yamaguchi
We wanted to share a great new interview below with Kappei Yamaguchi (Ranma) and Noriko Hidaka (Akane) that we've translated.
www.furinkan.com/features/interviews/yamaguchi4.ht…
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It's been awhile since we've checked in with everyone on our complete list of social media, so if you're on any of the following services, please give us a follow, and of course, everything ultimately goes back to Rumic World at www.furinkan.com/ !
Youtube youtube.com/@TheRumicWorld
BSky bsky.app/profile/rumicworld.bsky.social
Twitter/X x.com/rumicworld1
Tumblr www.tumblr.com/rumic-world
Facebook www.facebook.com/therumicworld
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Many old faces are returning for the new Ranma 1/2 anime! Kappei Yamaguchi (male Ranma), Megumi Hayashibara (female Ranma), Noriko Hidaka (Akane), Minami Takeyama (Nabiki), Kikuko Inoue (Kasumi), Koichi Yamadera (Ryoga), Rei Sakuma (Shampoo) will all return!
New voices include Cho (Jaken) as Genma Saotome and Akio Otsuka (Inuyasha's father) as Soun Tendo. Kenichi Ogata (Genma) will serve as narrator for the new series.
Mappa will be the animation studio with Konosuke Uda directing. Ano will provide the opening theme with music by Kaoru Wada (of Inuyasha fame). Character designs are by Hiromi Taniguchi. The show will debut on Nippon Television and Netflix on October 5th.
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In shocking news a new Ranma 1/2 anime has been confirmed in this week's issue of Shonen Sunday (Shonen Sunday 2024 Vol. 31). A comment from Rumiko Takahashi included on the image announcing the show's return states, "I'm really looking forward to seeing what kind of action scenes we'll see in the new Ranma anime!" Additionally the cover of Sunday mentioned that a "secret Ranma 1/2 announcement is inside."
The advertisement mentions a streaming announcement on July 17th with more information. At this time there is no further information about cast, crew, premiere date or number of episodes planned, simply Takahashi's comment and a confirmation for more information coming in July.
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We've translated a wonderful interview with three of Rumiko Takahashi's editors, Tomofumi Arito, Kento Moriwaki and Riri Okamoto, who all worked on her new artbook, COLORS and shared their story of putting it together with Weekly Bunshun, it's a really great interview about their process.
www.furinkan.com/features/interviews/editors2.html
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We've translated the Maison Ikkoku Music Box set of interviews with the musicians behind the series. This very rare interview came with the complete set of CDs cataloging the music of the series including Kenji Kawai and Hideharu Mori (of Picasso).
www.furinkan.com/features/interviews/musicboxmi.ht…
#maisonikkoku #めぞん一刻
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We've reuploaded our complete color pages of Urusei Yatsura video after the last one got blocked due to the music we used in it. Happy to have it back up!
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A very rare interview we've been wanting to translate for some time now. This is an interview with many of the musicians that worked on Urusei Yatsura from the very rare Complete Musicbox set that contained all of the music for the series.
www.furinkan.com/features/interviews/musicboxuy.ht…
Shinsuke Kazato (風戸慎介), Fumitaka Anzai (安西史孝), Koji Nishimura (西村コージ), Katsu Hoshi (星勝), Toshiyuki Omori (大森俊之), Mitsuru Kotaki (小滝満) and sound director Shigeharu Shiba (斯波重治) all discuss their influences and favorite tracks.
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