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Ranma 1/2 - Anything Goes Martial Arts - The Complete Second Season Boxed Set

Ranma 1/2 - Anything Goes Martial Arts - The Complete Second Season Boxed Set

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: *Drools*
Review: *stroke boxset* Precious... precious. This collection is deffinatly worth getting. I am not a material person, but it is now my prized possession. The humour, and twistings story lines collaborating with the underlining love story makes this the best anime comedy series that i have seen. I hate romantic comedies, but the story of Ranma is unlike any other. Season 2 is just as full of fun as the first season, just with more plot twists and colorful characters introduced. Rumiko Takahashi, will you marry me? *kidnaps*
bahaha!
Buy this.... now.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I loved this!
Review: After renting volumes 1 and 2, and the OAV Deperatly Seeking Shampoo on VHS, it was a pleasure to buy this DVD Box Set! Now I'm hoping I'll get the 3rd season DVD Box Set!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great second season!
Review: After some research, i collected this info for the Second Season DVD boxed set, which you'll find even more entertaining than the first season. This is what you may expect in the 2 DVD set:

"Darling Charlotte"
>Episodes: The Abduction Of P-Chan & Close Call! The Dance Of Death...On Ice
>P-Chan gets abducted and in order to get him back, Akane and Ranma needs to win a martial arts figure skating competition.

"Its fast, or its free"
>Episodes: P-Chan Explodes! The Icy Fountain Of Love Clash Of The Delivery Girls! & Clash Of The Delivery Girls! The Martial Arts Takeout Race
>Discover how the martial arts figure skating competition comes to an end; and later, discover that while being a kid, Ranma is traded for fish by his father, without any repercussions at all, until now.

"Cat-Fu Fighting"
>Episodes: You Really Do Hate Cats! & This Old Gal's The Elader Of The Amazon Tribe!
>Find about Ranma's secret weakness & the "Cat Fist" martial arts technique

"Chestnuts on an Open Fire"
>Episodes: Behold! The Chestnut Roasting On An Open Fire Technique & Enter Mousse! The Fist of the White Swan
>Meet Mousse and see Ranma fighting him for the very first time. [Thanks to Cologne, Ranma is stuck in his girl persona, btw]

"Cold Competition"
>Episodes: Cool Runnings! & The Race Of The Snowmen Danger At The Tendo Dojo!
>Ranma enters a race to win the Phoenix Pill that will cure him from not being able to turned back to his boy persona; also...find about the Dojo Destroyer.

"Breaking Point"
>Episodes: Ranma Trains On Mt. Terror & The Breaking Point!?
>Ryoga is trained by Cologne in the Breaking Point technique in order to become a match for Ranma.

"Fowl Play"
>Episodes: The Abduction Of Akane & Ranma vs. Mousse: To Lose Is To Win
>Mousse kidnaps Akane in order to confront Ranma, who needs to prevent Mousse to convert Akane into a duck.

"The Evil Wakes"
>Episodes: Enter Happosai, The Lustful Lecher & Assault On The Girl's Locker Room
>Meet Happosai, Soun's and Genma's perverted and most powerful master.

"Goodbye Girl-Type"
>Episodes: House Of Gadgets! Guests Check In, But They Don't Check Out & Goodbye girl-type
>Three urns hidden in strange places, that need to get reunited in order to cure the Jusenkyo curse.

"Tough Cookies"
>Episodes: It's A Fine Line Between Pleasure And Pain & S.O.S.! The Wrath Of Happosai!
>Ranma, eating Akane's cookies???

"Ranma and Juliet"
>Episodes: Kissing Is Such Sweet Sorrow! The Taking Of Akane's Lips & Bathhouse Battle! We're In Some Hot Water Now
>Juliet played by Akane and Romeo played by ... Then, without hot water at the Tendo's, everyone visits the public bathhouse, without knowing that Happosai will be on sight.

This is your chance to meet new characters and see how the old ones get faster, stronger or maybe just keep falling in love.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Funny
Review: As you can already tell, this maga is kinda funny.
With a little romance, and a little fighting scenes.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It still doesn't beat the first season...
Review: But it is nevertheless very, very good. It doesn't have the continued-story soap opera like quality that the first season had, nor does it follow the manga continuity with such slavishness. Which is a shame, because I like that:)The wacky humor hasn't changed, Ranma is still changing genders at the drop of a hat, Akane still can't cook, and Ryoga (as P-Chan) has taken up semi-permenent residence at the Tendo dojo.New characters include Mousse (Shampoo's ex-fiancee) and Cologne (Shampoo's grandmother). And there is Happosai, trainer of Genma and Soun and easily the most lecherous character in all of anime.We are also introduced to a continuing theme/plot device: Ranma's pathological aversion to cats. So much so that he will turn into a cat to get away from them.The extras on this are nothing to wite home about. Some creditless opening and closing themes and a few other goodies. But it's the stories that count after all. Definitely worth a buy.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: DEFENETLY BETTER THAN THE FIRST SEASON....
Review: I am a big RANMA 1/2 fan... ...
i think the second season is much better, more fun,more action, more episodes (4 more episodes!) and its drawn better!

if you liked the first season than you'll love the second one and the 3rd one... (from the middle of the 4th season it starts to get a little...[bad] and there are more clisheas......

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I have to get it :)
Review: I have seen the the first box set (Digital Dojo),I actually own it,and I can say it was terrific . no doubt that the nex one will be as good as the first ,then again it may be better.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good overall, but the series is starting to loose something
Review: I love the first season of Ranma, but this second season has lost some of what made the first season great. Instead of a continuous story, the second season is comprised of many short story arcs. One can see that the series is becomming more episodic, and loosing sight of the overall story.

I don't want to give the impression that it isn't enjoyable though. The Ryoga episodes in particular are hillarious, and worth the price of the box set. On the other hand, the episodes featuring Happosai reuse the same gag ad nauseam. Happosai is so one-dimensional that his character can be a big turn-off. Overall, this season is a bit hit-or-miss for me: with some really great episodes mixed in with some mediochre ones.

However, the relatively low price for a full season of anime may make this box set attractive. Also, the picture quality struck me as a bit higher when compared to the first season. I still noticed some compression problems, but they weren't obvious enough to detract from the content. The only other thing I should point out is that Viz is reusing the title screens from the VHS, for the beginning of the episodes; and it looks awful. Though they're only on screen for about three seconds so it may not bother you much.

Ranma has a (well-deserved) strong following; but I felt that I should warn potential buyers that the second season lacks some story elements found in the first season--specifically continuous character development. In fact, I've often heard it said that you can watch any Ranma anime (TV episodes, movies, or OVAs) after seeing the first season. So, if you're thinking of introducing friends to Ranma, the first season is a must-buy, and the second season is less necessary.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great anime!
Review: I recently rented Ranma 1/2 TV vols. 1 and 2, and the first OAV on video a few years ago...and I was amazed! So amazed that I had to get my Mom to buy this DVD box set! I first found out about this anime by reading the manga!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great series just keeps on getting better
Review: I won't bother going in to how wonderfuly hilarious the Ranma series is, and this season will not disappoint. The only real gripe I have is with the way they treated the opening and closing. For starters, they decided to ditch the Japanese title screen (which says Ranma 1/2 and under it in kanji is a phrase that translates to anything goes martial arts) in exchange for their own really REALLY ugly english one. Thankfully in the last disc where they have the clean opening and endings, they kept the original logo. Secondly, they did not give romaji lyrics to the opening and ending themes, something that while not major, is a nice feature that appears on almost every anime releases(1st episode is translated english, 2nd is romaji, 3rd none and repeat). They also ditched the title screen for each episode which had the Japanese for the episode written out as Akane reads it, and instead they put in their own title screen with the english translation of the title. But not everything is bad however, this time around they used soft subtitles for the signs and what not, vs. season 1 where the subtitles were hard. This is a feature that is much appreciated. All in all however, this minor gripes should not prevent you from enjoying 22 more episodes of the hilarious antics of Ranma 1/2!


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