Ranma ½ poster

Ranma ½ (1989)

Series · 25m episodes · Rated TV-14 · In Japanese

Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Comedy, Fantasy, Foreign (non-English), Sci-Fi

A martial artist's life gets whimsically complicated when cold water brings a most unexpected transformation.

Campy, with absurdist humor. A comfort watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.

Streaming on Hulu, Hoopla (free), Fandango at Home (free), Pluto TV (free), Prime Video and Tubi (free).

Ranma ½ parents guide

For a TV-14, this one goes further: moderate sex and nudity. Beyond that, mild language and some violence.

Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the TV-14 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.

Scare
Not scary
Jump scares
None noted
Gore
No gore
Violence
Some violence
Some fighting or peril.
Sex and nudity
Moderate
Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
Language
Mild
Mild words like damn, hell or crap.

How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.

What is Ranma ½ about?

Ranma Saotome, a teenage martial artist, and his father Genma travel to the 'cursed training ground' of Jusenkyo in China. There, despite the warnings of the Chinese guard, they fall into the cursed springs. From now on, whenever Ranma is doused in cold water, he turns into a girl and a cute, well-built redhead at that. Hot water changes him back into a man again, but only until the next time. To make matters worse, his father engages him to Akane Tendo, a girl who hates boys.

Cast and crew

StarringKappei Yamaguchi, Megumi Hayashibara

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