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We wrap up our spooky month of covering the most Halloween appropriate Ranma 1/2 stories, which naturally brings us to the haunted underwear stories. Yes, plural. Nobody joins us once more as we start to recognize the various patterns that come up around the fourth or fifth time Ranma is offered magical cursed items under mysterious circumstances. Once you deal with one ghost, you've seen em all.

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We begin our coverage of spooky tales in the realm of Ranma 1/2 with Mitch, who discovers a couple new characters with minimal context but gets the gist of it anyway because Halloween episodes are actually pretty self explanatory. Let's enjoy the frights together.

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It's time for your favourite Ranma 1/2 themed game show! Tonight's contestant, a Ranma blind Bookkeeper Percival, must listen to hedgey's completely fair and non-nefarious descriptions of Ranma media and try to decipher what's what. Which parts are manga canon? Which parts are filler? Which parts are completely made up? Maybe the answers tell us more than we'd expect.

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Dan returns to help us break down a little bit more of the Ukyoverse. Mainly all the Gender going on, for both her and her weird harem of one-off rivals. A level of Ranma 1/2 queerness that has earned capitalization indeed.

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In this episode, hedgey goes solo once more for the sake of making things easy to edit while on holiday. Enjoy your various one-off insights on the behind the scenes of your favourite Ranma 1/2 podcast this go around, from Game Boy games, to emails, to boxer/nun romcoms. There's always more to talk about around here.

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Friend of the show Mitch joins us once again to see how the art of adaptation can teach us many things, like Ranma's drink preferences, the writer of the week's waifu preferences, and how to make things better by making them worse. Remaking things is a fine art indeed.

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Over 30 episodes into this podcast, are you ready to learn about the first arc? We're joined by Grant, aka Ironcus, depending on your level of familiarity with him, as we go through his own discovery of the series and look at the beginning with fresh eyes. And also the birth of yet another KunoxNabiki shipper.

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We had our fun talking about gender and pride, and now it's time to talk about the more agonizing half of pride with M as we break down Episode 49 of Ranma 1/2. Ranma's Declaration of Womanhood goes places, and some hearts may not be prepared for it, but we'll guide you through it and discuss what happens when someone on the writing staff does, in fact, think about it.

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Happy Pride Month! To celebrate, we welcome back Nobody to help us talk about Ranma's complex gender. Rumiko Takahashi doesn't think about it, and neither should you, but if you decided to think about it anyway then we provide some food for thought on Ranma, gender, and Ranma's gender

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In this episode, we grab some popcorn with Dan and sit down for a fun double feature of two well received Ranma movies that might not actually be movies, depending on who you ask. What even is a movie anyway? Let's tune in and find out.

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The fight for control of the podcast continues as Professor Hedgey and Doctor Symbolicgodzilla cover the relationships and intimacy between the Ranma 1/2 cast, at least in their eyes. Turns out some of them don't have the healthiest viewpoints.

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Come on, let's all time travel! Hedgey and Swarley dive into the Ranma 1/2 episodes featuring time travel, of which there are multiple, of course. Enjoy learning about this classic Ranma staple.

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It may seem like deja-vu. Symbolicgodzilla joins us to once again discuss Nabiki Tendo, the best girl. But didn't we cover this already? Maybe. But this time we get into the nuances of what makes a Ranma story a Ranma story, and why doesn't Nabiki get as many dakimakuras as she used to? All equally important questions, of course.

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Happy April 1st, everyone. We are back with our ongoing coverage of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, with our favourite Haruhiologist, M. April is the month that never ends, because we're going over the infamous Endless Eight and its connections to fandom thereof. It's business as usual with this anime you all know and love.

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We're joined by our new buddy, Mitch, and delve back into the world of filler. But not just any filler. Family filler! Let's discover the best types of Ranma 1/2 stories involving the entire family doing what they do best: stupid sitcom nonsense.

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It's time to open your ears and listen to us discuss some cool action scenes with our guest, Swarley. In this episode we break down the Ranma 1/2 element that's most crucial to everyone's enjoyment: the ki system and rules. The most important part of any shounen series.

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Let's gather round the campfire with Nobody and talk about our favourite cow-poke, Ryoga Hibiki, a flawed individual with a big character arc. We all know his true love is Ranma, but this cowboy managed to test the waters a little with a few other love interests. How compatible are these love interests? Let's check out this small chunk of the love polyhedron and find out.

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We're joined by M to discuss the ideal recognizable Ranma 1/2 character who is popular enough to popularize a trope but not popular enough to be seen as a proper main character by her own creator. Perhaps we may shed some new light onto our subject matter, and maybe revise some waifu rankings along the way.

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It's time we review the Ranma 1/2 remake, with help from our new guest, Matt, from the appropriately titled Random Rhapsody Network. Covering a whole season would take some time, though, so instead we cover the same story three different times. A very thought out take on what it means to adapt a story and how the times changed the way we process media.

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In this episode we put on our work tie and have an interview with Harley and Dylan Acres, the twin brothers who spent the last 30 years running Rumic World, one of the oldest fan websites around, dedicated not just to Ranma 1/2, but Urusei Yatsura, Inuyasha, and literally everything connected to Rumiko Takahashi ever. If you've ever been curious about early Internet anime culture, or what it's like to manage one of the sites you only ever see on the list of citations at the bottom of a Wikipedia page, now's your chance to imagine another world nearly lost to time.

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This holiday season, join hedgey, Nobody, and just about every Ranma character imaginable in our celebration of all the Ranma 1/2 Christmas specials, and also the non-Christmas special album that's still festive enough to be most of the episode. And it's a hefty episode!

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Recurring guest, Swarley, has spun the wheel to randomly select recurring Ranma 1/2 one-off characters to learn about. It is an endless well of characters, so tune in to find out if your favourite characters who weren't good enough to show up more than twice will make the cut.

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Don't listen to this episode on an empty stomach, because symbolic is here to help us break down everyone's favourite boymode chef, call dibs on the best girl, and also discuss some mouthwatering Japanese cuisine.

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We rope in local Chinese food enjoyer, Swarley, to discuss the Ranma 1/2 love interest with second billing. She must be important, if these anime intros are to be believed, so let's see how she rose to the top by being brat.

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How would you like to play a game? Playing today is our new contestant Dan, who will learn alongside all of you the depths of the trademarked best character in Ranma 1/2: Ranma's mom. Tune in and try your luck as we decipher the ups and downs of her many appearances, as well as the incredible world of Rumiko Takahashi's sign gags.

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In this episode, we talk about how nobody respects Akane with our good friend Nobody, who allegedly respects Akane. The second lead of the entire franchise, so easily forgotten by her own series. Let's break down all the potential she reached, or perhaps didn't reach.

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In this episode, we bring in Pixel, our video game expert, to go over Ranma 1/2: Treasure of the Red Cat Gang, for the Nintendo Super Famicom, which YOU can play at home! You maybe shouldn't, but nothing's stopping you!

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Part 2 of our research into the Jusenkyo springs and the strange rules that follow them. This time, Elena/hedgey and symbolicgodzilla delve into the many, MANY side characters and one-offs and what they can tell us about the strange laws that govern the Ranma 1/2 universe, or Ranmaverse, as we call it.

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In this episode, your host is joined by symbolicgodzilla to do important research into the most important part of the Ranma 1/2 universe: the Jusenkyo springs. Join us in this first part of our very scientific documentation of the series transformations.

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Are you ready to learn about the fascinating world of supplementary anime music and the surprisingly important role Ranma 1/2 had in it? Our guest Swarley was dragged in to learn, and you can too! It's time for a history lesson in a little production company called Kitty Films.

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In this episode we bring in some experts. Friends of the show, M and Nobody help rank all the themes from the original animated run of Ranma 1/2. Where will your favorites rank? What about the half you've never heard of? How many times do I accidentally mix up the words "outro" and "intro"? Tune in to find out as the Official tierlist gets made.

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We're back with more Ranma, and this time we roped in minor Internet celebrity, slowbeef, to discuss how people watched anime in the 90s, and how one of the worst introductions to the Ranma 1/2 franchise became the most common. The ideal experience people wanted us all to have.

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The main Ranma 1/2 rivalry gets broken down in a very comprehensive guide to delinquent manga. Swarley returns, this time to discuss everyone's favourite perpetually lost boy who fights via indiscriminate punches and kicks and sometimes turns into a pig.

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Our friend Swarley joins us to discuss the best Ranma 1/2 dad, the one and only Genma Saotome. Will we successfully capture the essence of his high class parenting? Will the audience come out having learned some important lessons of how to love their kids? Will all the recording issues we experienced this episode be super noticeable and everyone will laugh at my editing skills? Tune in and find out!

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We invite back symbolicgodzilla to discuss the two most popular and important Ranma 1/2 characters: Kasumi and Nabiki, the Tendo sisters. What even are these characters? How accurate are fan depictions and wikis? How lethal are they? Find out the answer to these questions and more in our in-depth character breakdowns.

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Elena/hedgey is on holiday and goes solo. It's time for a personal breakdown of what inspired this goofy Ranma 1/2 podcast to begin with and a more thorough breakdown of what this series even is.

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Another episode, another friend of the show who wants to learn about some weird stuff. Rocia joins us this time around to learn about some of the best and worst experiences Ranma's forays into video games have to offer.

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Today we're joined by M Healy, from Battle of the Blorbos, a podcast about weirdo characters. Ranma has a thing or two to say about random weirdos, so let's break some of those down real quick.

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We're back, with new guest, Pixel Bismuth. What does someone with no Ranma experience ask about? Martial arts, of course. Let's break down the shounen half of Ranma 1/2 and see how it holds up to the expectations of young Dragon Ball readers reading manga ads in the 90s.

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Our first guest, symbolicgodzilla, joins us to give a quick rundown on what exactly IS Ranma 1/2 and the legacy it's spawned that we will have to slowly unpack over the course of this podcast. There's a lot to summarize.

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