Groomer excited for the new Ranma anime
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I don't think a lot of people have read/watched this here. At one time the anime was a popular runner up to Cowboy Bebop/Evangelion/Trigun etc, although the manga is a lot funnier actually. If you haven't read it yet it's online (not familiar with the colorization). For me it's one of the funniest mangas I've read, more relatable to normal people than stuff that depends on meta humor.
Point A, everyone including Ranma knows he's a dude. Nobody ever gets confused except for strangers and psycho gag characters. Once people know about the transformation, they instantly accept his actual identity. It's called a curse, he hates it, and half the plotlines are about trying to get rid of it.
American fans sometimes described the series as a "transgender sex comedy," but in hindsight that was wishful thinking by weird people that would later become groomers (if they weren't already). There is no existential pondering over male and female experiences, nor is there any sex, or even the hint of sex.
Point B, the clear majority of trooners are girls trying to become men, not the other way around.
There are a lot of topless women and jokes about either intentionally or accidentally peeping on topless women, though. As well as at least one pervert joke character. I’m not sure I’d call it a sex comedy, and certainly not a transgender sex comedy, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say there’s “[not] even a hint of sex.”
Which isn’t a bad thing, it’s all well-written and funny, I’m just saying that it is definitely a little racy.
You're right, there's a lot of topless panels and accidental groping is a stock joke. I guess I've been Overton Window'd by trannies getting banged in Playstation games.
It does make me think about how much sexuality is age-appropriate, as Ranma's fanbase had a ton of kids in it, including myself. On one hand you have cute girls, occasionally topless, and on the other hand there are no allusions to intercourse. In my mind it hit the right tone.
Like I said it was tame for japan. Consider in roughly the same time period we had city hunter running in it's rival shonen magazine. The same city hunter with its jokes about big dicks and lecherous humour, sex and trannies and hos.
It's not American tame but it's pretty tame for japan at the time