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VUDU/Fandango at Home has Ranma ½: The Complete Series (English Dubbed) (1989) (Digital HDX Anime TV Show) on sale for $34.99.

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Includes all 7 seasons w/ OVA collection (173 episodes)
  • Season 1: 23 Episodes
  • Season 2: 23 Episodes
  • Season 3: 23 Episodes
  • Season 4: 23 Episodes
  • Season 5: 23 Episodes
  • Season 6: 23 Episodes
  • Season 7: 23 Episodes
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  • Ranma ½: The Complete Series [vudu.com] (English Dubbed) (1989) (Digital HDX Anime TV Show)
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      • Note, includes all 7 seasons w/ OVA collection (173 episodes)
        • Season 1: 23 Episodes
        • Season 2: 23 Episodes
        • Season 3: 23 Episodes
        • Season 4: 23 Episodes
        • Season 5: 23 Episodes
        • Season 6: 23 Episodes
        • Season 7: 23 Episodes
        • Ranma ½: OVA Collection (1993): 12 Episodes
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This is a great deal for the $. I loved the hell out of this show back in jr high. The tapes were absurdly expensive and you had to wait a month for each one.

Then followed all of the chat room roleplays, the fanfics (anyone remember daigkusei no ranma?), the bootleg wall scrolls, the discussions on rec.arts.anime.misc, etc. this show was my jam for at least three years. It dominated mid-90s cosplay, and probably filled a good 20% of animerica's ad pages. It made sense as this was Viz' flagship show.

You had your fandoms with who was the best fighter, which love triangle had the best plot development (or square...or pentagon?)...and of course, who was the hottest. The snes game was pretty good...the PS1 game was like a badly-handling version of Tekken.

This show also kicked off many a sub-vs-dub debate, because not only was the show expensive, but Viz also released the subs at later time than the dubs...and also charges $5 more for it. So it went from a "which is better?" debate to a "is it worth it?" debate.

However, if you're a post-2006 anime watcher, I recommend catching a few episodes to see if it's your thing. I can't really imagine anyone younger than 35 who could get into it. It's one of those shows that's either watched by old-heads or studied for academic purposes for some undergrad-level anthropology class, lol.

However!!! Whenever I meet a ranma fan, I know that he/she and I can totally jam it out...it's like a secret handshake for all of the geriatric millennials anime fans. Give a holler if you grew up with this show.
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This was a favorite of mine when I was in high school, I've just recently started watching it with my family as the 12 year old is really in to anime. If it was on some other service I would have bought it but I'm really not up for making another account. But it is a wonderful series.
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Good Anime but it's better to donate to the Japanese animators (by looking up their websites online) who only make pennies unfortunately, than paying for a temporary license to watch.

The license can be revoked anytime and there is nothing you can do, since you agreed to their terms upon purchase. Like we saw before with Amazon, Funimation, and recently Sony...
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rosujin
04-16-2024 at 01:24 PM.
04-16-2024 at 01:24 PM.
Ranma 1/2 is where it all started for me about 20 years ago. I remember one summer, between HS and college, one of my friends lent me a stack of Ranma 1/2 VHS tapes. It must have been about 20 tapes and that I could barely carry them all back to my car. They were dubbed in English, but I found them interesting. I decided to try studying Japanese in freshman year of college. By senior year, I did study abroad in Tokyo. After I graduated I found a job and lived in Osaka for 3 years. I became fluent, moved back to the US and spent the next 10 years working for Japanese companies based in the states.
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04-16-2024 at 02:02 PM.
04-16-2024 at 02:02 PM.
Quote from JIWC :
Looks like iTunes does include the OVAs as well (total 173 episodes)
how do you buy the entire series? I only see season by season. Also, is it dual audio? Or Eng only like this?
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erthian
04-16-2024 at 02:53 PM.
04-16-2024 at 02:53 PM.
Quote from Nelly_platinum :
it's on itunes also minus the ovas for the same price

I'd MUCH rather have iTunes. Am I missing out with the OVAs?
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Nelly_platinum
04-16-2024 at 02:54 PM.
04-16-2024 at 02:54 PM.
Quote from erthian :
I'd MUCH rather have iTunes. Am I missing out with the OVAs?

i messed up.the ovas are included with itunes so you're good to go
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echo_808
04-16-2024 at 06:24 PM.
04-16-2024 at 06:24 PM.
Quote from Nelly_platinum :
it's on itunes also minus the ovas for the same price
Subbed version too?
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Nelly_platinum
04-16-2024 at 06:25 PM.
04-16-2024 at 06:25 PM.
Quote from echo_808 :
Subbed version too?

just dubbed
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04-16-2024 at 07:40 PM.
04-16-2024 at 07:40 PM.
Quote from Nelly_platinum :
just dubbed
Woah woah woah. So no subbed on iTunes at all? What about the VUDU version?
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04-16-2024 at 07:41 PM.
04-16-2024 at 07:41 PM.
Quote from FancyMint8485 :
So they're selling the dub and sub versions separately, just like back in the VHS days when we got two episodes per $25 tape?
Ya but man were they sure magical then.
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04-16-2024 at 09:00 PM.
04-16-2024 at 09:00 PM.
Still remember me in the 6th grade would spent the whole afternoon, after the half day of school on Saturdays, sitting at the corner of the local comic bookstore reading this manga every week. That was probably the happiest time of my life.
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LightningDemon
04-16-2024 at 09:16 PM.
04-16-2024 at 09:16 PM.
Watch in japanese with english subs.... american voices were abysmal.
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04-16-2024 at 09:38 PM.
04-16-2024 at 09:38 PM.
question for the vudu experts. if I redeem an HD digital movie code on vudu (onward) I got from a physical movie bundle, will it auto upgrade to 4k?
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04-16-2024 at 09:52 PM.
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Quote from erthian :
Ya but man were they sure magical then.
I still have some subbed VHS tapes from the early days, back when Bandai was selling under the Anime Village label. And my subbed VHS tape of Riding Bean from AnimEigo with its "First day of release" sticker (there was actually a recall on that day 1 batch, but I never got mine replaced - they weren't recorded in HiFi stereo).
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04-16-2024 at 10:44 PM.
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Quote from starcaptor :
This is a great deal for the $. I loved the hell out of this show back in jr high. The tapes were absurdly expensive and you had to wait a month for each one.

Then followed all of the chat room roleplays, the fanfics (anyone remember daigkusei no ranma?), the bootleg wall scrolls, the discussions on rec.arts.anime.misc, etc. this show was my jam for at least three years. It dominated mid-90s cosplay, and probably filled a good 20% of animerica's ad pages. It made sense as this was Viz' flagship show.

You had your fandoms with who was the best fighter, which love triangle had the best plot development (or square...or pentagon?)...and of course, who was the hottest. The snes game was pretty good...the PS1 game was like a badly-handling version of Tekken.

This show also kicked off many a sub-vs-dub debate, because not only was the show expensive, but Viz also released the subs at later time than the dubs...and also charges $5 more for it. So it went from a "which is better?" debate to a "is it worth it?" debate.

However, if you're a post-2006 anime watcher, I recommend catching a few episodes to see if it's your thing. I can't really imagine anyone younger than 35 who could get into it. It's one of those shows that's either watched by old-heads or studied for academic purposes for some undergrad-level anthropology class, lol.

However!!! Whenever I meet a ranma fan, I know that he/she and I can totally jam it out...it's like a secret handshake for all of the geriatric millennials anime fans. Give a holler if you grew up with this show.
I grew up with this show as well! I prefer subs but I remember the dub of this show was pretty good.

Another group that should give Ranma a try are people who weren't watching anime until Toonami in the early 2000s and liked Inuyasha. They were created by the same manga artist.
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04-17-2024 at 01:06 AM.
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Bought this on Microsoft Store for the same price. One of the best stand dubs from the era.
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