Ranma ½ (2024) 2nd Season Episode 6 Discussion

Is it me or did they adapt like 7 chapters this ep?

I instantly hate it. I've been loving Ranma 1/2 all this time (never watched/read OG) but good god I hate old perverted man stereotype, and this one has to be the worst of all. If the episodes after this one become all about old man touching women over and over I might have to actually drop this and it sucks.

@chekkit +1, let’s just say it aged really badly… (no)
This old weirdo is seriously cringe, it’s uncomfortable to see this animated today.

Ugh. The old bastard is finally back. I knew it was gonna happen eventually. But I was kinda hoping we'd get more Happosai-less Ranma 1/2 before his debut. Anyway, I'm surprised by how much content was adapted in this episode. But I'm not that upset by it. I don't care about this bastard getting more screentime. But I am pleasantly surprised that some of his antics were toned down. Particularly, his groping of women's chests. Now he just humps their backs or legs. It's still gross, but not as much as it was previously, while still getting the point across. Not a bad compromise. Also, his new voice actors are good. The English VA in particular nails the creepy old man take. I'm lowkey glad the OG VA of Happosai didn't return to voice him because I was sick and tired of listening to him in the old anime.

Even though this adaptation will probably do all it can to tone this bastard down, I don't think I'll ever truly change my mind about him. You can polish it all you want, but a shithead will always be a shithead. I understand what Takahashi tried to do with this character. He was basically a parody of the perverted old master trope, like Master Roshi. He was written by a woman, so instead of being wise and respectable, it's just a piece of shit everyone hates, which is how it probably would be irl. But the old anime took this way too far. I genuinely don't understand what Deen saw in this mf. He's the creepy old man type, combined with an indestructible childlike body like Jariten, literally the worst of both worlds. And for whatever reason, Deen gave this mf lots of repetitive back-to-back filler episodes, which almost ruined the old anime for me. Even after all these years, it still baffles me.

I don't care what anyone says, but the remake would already be better than the old anime just for not having those shitty filler episodes, which it definitely won't. This is barring all the other improvements of the remake, including how it doesn't mischaracterize Ranma and Akane like the old anime did. The episode itself was quite good. But I just hate the character Happosai so much.

@0451 i glad that they toned happosai down alot he was a little more bearable compared to the original anime and consider he only appears in important arcs only then he will have less screen time as well. you also think they toned him down enough in the remake ?

Listen, I understand that Happosai is a character from the 80s and standards and humor were different then. But would it really have changed the story that much to remove him or at least make his perversion slightly more legal? We're in 2025, and we still have Roshi-level perverts in modern anime? I really couldn't enjoy this episode.

Ngl I see some people exaggerating how annoying Happosai is. Sure he is really creepy and weird but at the same time he sets up a good villain for Ranma and overall the comedy and main pull for the show is still here.

I do really hope that they increase the romance between Ranma and Akane tho because that’s one thing I really miss about the old anime

ye happosai the molester is finally here even back in the 1990s when the original tv show aired he was a very hated character

Nothing is spared these days. After celebrating one of the best episodes so far last week with Shampoo's "Metal Arts Takeout," we're now gathered to examine what is probably one of the worst. And for the first time, we don't have a complete 1:1 adaptation, but rather several changes.

I had actually suspected that Happosai might be completely cut in the #MeToo era. However, it seems they can't do without him entirely. At least they seem to have toned him down a bit.
That, and the fact that Ranma apparently no longer flashes his breasts to lure him into a trap, which was a running gag in the original series.

We've also been spared things like the morning butt-slapping scene in chapter 64 this time around.

In the original, the destruction of Happosai's underwear collection was the reason for Ranma's exile in the front yard.


Furthermore, the destruction of Happosai's underwear collection was the reason for Ranma's exile in the front yard.

It seems like every Takahashi series has that one incorrigible jerk character: Ryūnosuke Fujinami in "Urusei Yatsura," Myoga in "InuYasha," or Sabato Rokudo in "Kyokai no Rinne"—though I can definitely sympathize with the latter two more than with the obnoxious Happosai.

Yeah, I was quite surprised at how cleverly they managed to cram six chapters into one episode without disrupting the flow too much. Chapter 64, as you already pointed out, is a bit "chunked up" between chapters 63 and 67, and "Happosai as P-chan" (chapter 66) is interspersed, but otherwise, apart from the aforementioned cuts, they've stayed relatively close to the original. If I didn't know the manga, I probably wouldn't have even noticed that there were six chapters.


Ironically, the bathhouse story (Chapter 65), which even got a whole episode in the old anime, was actually the most entertaining – not because of Happosai's peeping in the women's bath, but because the whole banter between Ranma and him, including numerous verbal sparring matches, came across quite well.

I'm curious to see if we'll get this episode later.

Shampoo's scene from the old anime was also cut. In the old anime, there was a scene where Cologne warns Ranma about Happosai's wrath. But since Shampoo doesn't appear in the corresponding scene in the original manga either, it was clear that it would be omitted.
]I didn't live in the '80s, so I might not be able to judge this accurately, but according to my mother, groping jokes weren't particularly funny or popular even back then – at least she couldn't remember them being.

In Germany, there's a classic – "The New Year's Punch" from 1973, which is repeated on TV every New Year's Eve. In it, the father gets so drunk at the turn of the year that, among other things, he ends up slapping his daughter's bottom. So, it seems that was the kind of humor back then somehow... Anyway...

Next week, though, it's back to our old form with Dojo Destroyer.