*Ranma 1/2 is also one of those shows that a lot of other anime series tried to copy after it was popular. For instance, in the first episode of Bleach the main orange-haired kid's father randomly attacks him over breakfast and engages him in a martial arts fight. That father/son relationship was totally stolen from Ranma 1/2. Ranma was such a major manga/anime title in the 90s; for a long time Naoko Takeuchi was the best-selling manga artist/writer in Japan, having major hits with Maison Ikkoku (I'm told that's very good), Ranma 1/2, and then Inuyasha. I've seen a lot of stuff in anime that references or borrows from Ranma.
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Date: 2006-07-02 04:56 am (UTC)