Tag: Megumi Hayashibara

Ranma ½ Splashes Back Onto Screens This Fall!

This year is looking fabulous with the return of many beloved Japanese animation classics from the 90s and Ranma ½ is perhaps the most iconic!

Ranma ½ Manga CoverRanma ½, the beloved manga and anime series from the 80s and 90s is being resurrected for 2024!

Thanks to Nippon TV and Netflix, animation studio MAPPA is producing a new Ranma ½ anime premiering in the fall which will reintroduce the wacky world of Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo to the world with a modern level of animation quality backing it up.

Ranma Saotome (Kappei Yamaguchi/Megumi Hayashibara), a sixteen-year-old martial artist who has been learning martial arts while travelling with his father most of his life, has his life turned upside down when his father takes him to China. While sparring at what is supposed to be a training ground in the mountains, Ranma cursed when he falls into a magical spring and finds that he’s been transformed into a girl! being splashed with hot water reverses the curse, but only until the next time he’s touched with cold water, which reactivates the curse. His life is further complicated when his father, Genma, tells him that he’s to be married to Akane Tendo, the daughter of Genma’s best friend.

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What’s (Sadly Not) Happening with Sazan Eyes?

The supernatural is wonderfully represented in Yuzo Takada’s Sazan Eyes; it is exotic and steep in Tibetan lore.

Sazan Eyes

By Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest)

Late last year, King Records teased at a new Sazan Eyes in the single by voice actress and singer Megumi Hayashibara. The song “Samhāra ~Sei Naru Chikara~” (Samhāra ~Holy Power~) released with very little fanfare September 2015, and Anime News Network (ANN) reported that it was going to be used for a new 3×3 Eyes anime rumoured to be under development. Footage from the original OVAs was used and since then, no further reports have been brought forth about this series’ status. A year is coming close to pass and I want to know what’s happening!

I love this world created by Yuzo Takada. The supernatural is wonderfully represented; it is exotic and steep in Tibetan lore. The politics which goes on between the ladies and lords made me a huge fan. With these powerful immortals running around Earth, the world is not going to remain safe. However, with a helpless human Yakumo turned zombie warrior, the last remaining Sanjiyan Unkara (a powerful mystic), Pai, might find peace if only other magical entities were not chasing after her.

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