how did it end?
how did the series end?? pleas can anyone tell me im dying to know, i heard rumors that akane and ryoga got together is it true?
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No, these creatures from china come and kidnap Akane yada yada yada, Ranma rescues her with the help of Ryoga. Akane and Ranma finally start their wedding with a barrel full of water as a wedding gift that will cure ranma but everyone who is cursed goes after it and eventually the whole wedding is ruined. Then the wedding is post-poned.
The End
God, the ending was disappointing...
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its a rather pathetic ending that doesnt tie up any loose ends. In the last ep Ranma's mom wanting to meet him becomes an issue, but she leaves never knowing the truth. The curse is never solved and worst of all the last scene.
akane and ranma face the camera and one of them says "is that it?" to which one of them reply "yup" then they say bye and run to school/home.
The cartoon ended before the comic series so they never resolved it in the cartoon. Later in the series, Ryoga finds a new girlfriend who likes pigs.
The comic series sort of copped out in the ending and didn't really resolve anything.
During some conflict in China, Ranma and Akane finally admit their feelings to each other. They go back to Japan and are about to be married. Ryoga is about to travel to his new girlfriend and Shampoo is showing some acceptance of the fact that Ranma has chosen someone else and that Mousse will always be there for her.
But then Akane finds out that as a wedding present, Ranma is suppose to receive a barrel of the magic water that will cure him. She storms off. Shampoo and Ukyo attack her, Kuno attacks Ranma with a real sword. Kodachi shows up in a wedding dress. Ranma finds the barrel with the magic water but Genma, Ryoga and Mousse all walk in on him. They fight over the barrel but Happosai, mistaking the barrel for sake, drinks all its contents.
The Tendo and Saotome families decide to postpone the wedding till Ranma and Akane get all their conflicts worked out. And there, the story ends.
It really looks like Takahashi wanted to keep the story open-ended, just in case she would have to return to Ranma if her next series didn't work out. But since her next series was an even bigger hit, she had no need to go back.
She also left the situation with Lum pretty open-ended too.
For real. Who was Ryoga's new girlfriend? I always hoped he would end up with Ukyo, they seemed to be an obvious match considering Ranma would obviously end up with Akane and Shampoo with Mousse.
shareAt serie, Ryouga ends with nobody. Actually, he does not even appear at last two episodes; the same happens with all the others, Ukyo, Shampoo and Mousse, nobody knows exactly what happens to them.
Disappointing, isn't it?
Still, Ranma is my prefered anime, so sad it ended.
Rumiko Takahashi isn't really capable to find a suitable ending. Her open endings sometimes might work out, like in the Mermaid series, but it was complete crap what she did with Ranma. It's annoying...!
shareSince the ending of the Anime came first, we can't complain there. But to be honest I thought the Manga ending was justified. I mean come on, Ranma and Akane were 16...do you honestly think they should have gotten married? I would have thought that a tidy ending in one Manga tying up everybody would have been the bigger convenient cop-out.
The WHOLE point of the series (manga) is the relationship between Ranma and Akane. More importantly trying to find and confess the feelings that each had with the other. It's what EVERY teen goes through. With the final Manga ending with Akane at death's door at the hands of Saffron, Ranma came to the realization that he loved Akane. (While never truely telling her word for word), it was his inner feelings that were important to break through. Akane went through the same thing when she thought she heard him say it (though he never did). She was so adament about not getting married throughout the series, she broke through when she accepted the wedding in the final scenes.
THAT is the point. Their inner feelings towards each other. Something that neither could do at the same time throughout the entire series. Now that they have, all of the other lunatic characters mean nothing. While it still would have been nice to see where everybody ended up or got cured, it wasn't the point of the story.
The storyline is a slightly weaker version of Urusei Yatura's 11 chapter "Boy Meets Girl" finale, later shown after the anime as Urusei Yatsura The Final Chapter.
Besides not having giant mushrooms nearly destroy the entire planet, it doesn't have the following exchange, which sums up the entire series:
Female Lead: Even if it takes a lifetime, I'll make you say it [IE: "I Love you.]
Male Lead: I'll say it on my deathbed.
Rest assured, though that the character's actions in the scene right before this completely belie this.
Akari Unryu, she wasn't in the anime.
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Both endings suck. Especially the anime ending which really wasn't an ending at all, it just ended at a story that happened in book 17 of the manga series.
The manga series was way better compared to the anime series, but still, nothing special. Sure Ranma and Akane got married (which is expected) but none of the other characters ever got piece of mind.
You're to assume that Shampoo and Mousse got together, but even that was sad. The whole series Shampoo goes after Ranma not caring about his relationship with Akane, it'd seem like she'd stop at nothing to get Ranma; but as soon as they got married her attitude changes all of sudden to a "well, I guess I'll just settle for Mousse then".
Ryoga wanted nothing but to see Akane happy, so she let Ranma and her marry. We're suppose to assume that he got together with that Akari chick.
But Ukyo is what really pisses me off. It's like she got with no one (maybe she just got with that cross-dressing guy). But who knows?
The final story is the wedding of Ranma and Akane. And at the wedding all of Ranmas' fiancees and Akanes' admirers came back for one last desperate chance ruining the wedding (makes you feel bad for Mousse, just earlier Shampoo finally gave in, and one hour later she goes after Ranma again). It's like nothing changed.
Plus, they never got rid of their curses. It's like Takahashi wasn't planning to end the series at all, she just got tired of writing it and decided to come up with a last-minute ending right then and there.
Even though Ranma 1/2 is my second favorite anime series, I have to admit that the problem was with that show was that Takahashi spent too much time developing Akane and Ranmas' relationship and didn't acknowledge the other characters (I guess she kind of tried with Ryoga giving him Akari and all).
I try to dismiss the ending and stick to the road leading up to the ending. It's much more enjoyable that way. It's like you can make up your own endings for all eternity (but I'm still waiting for Takahashi to write a reunion special so we can see what happened to everybody).
Well, I'm assuming she wrote Ranma like she writes Inuyasha. Takahashi admitted she comes up with stories on a weekly basis. A story that pops up in the manga is just a result from one day she thought, "This sounds good. I'll do that."
That's why I found your post hilarious Kyo. It's probably exactly what you stated: "... She just got tired of writing it and decided to come up with a last-minute ending..." She doesn't plan ahead what-so-ever.
I love your idea for a reunion. I don't see it happening but that'd be amazing if she created a 5 or 10 episode series. Even one more movie would be awesome.
I agree, the ending left a bit to be desired for. On the other hand, it did fit into previous stories. In older Ranma adventures, things would look like they would turn out perfectly (Ryoga would get a girlfriend other than Akane, Ranma would get rid of Kuno and Kudachi, there's a Spring of Drowned Man in Japan, etc), then at the last minute, something ruins it.
In my opinion, the most ridiculous thing is this: They made it seem like such a big deal, trying to find the Spring of Drowned Man to become fully male/human again. But it didn't seem like it was that hard to get to China or the Jisenkyo springs! At least once during the series, Shampoo took a trip to China to visit her family. We knew that she wanted to be cured of her Jisenkyo curse. Why didn't she jump into Spring of Drowned Girl while she was there? Why couldn't Ranma or any of the others swim or take a boat there? It just didn't make sense. I guess they were kind of attached to their cursed forms, much as they denied it.
Well... they did seem to find some advantages of their transformations. Besides at times it is not easy to go at a certain place when you go to a city/nation or some other place when you are there. (Go to NYC, but was not possible to visit Broadway).
They should had easily said that Shampoo and Mousse who travel to China often, didn't care for their transformations so they left themselves as that, while those who had hard times to travel where the ones who actually wanted the course removed.
Guess there really are people who act worse than 12 year olds.
Either Rumiko is not the great story teller everyone thinks she is; or she just suffers of what many writers have; they have this great idea but don't know how to execute it or they do something that ends up being pretentious.
Like LOTR and the Eagles. We can't use them as we have the "Moral" test of going through that ourselves.
Guess there really are people who act worse than 12 year olds.
Even though Ranma 1/2 is my second favorite anime series, I have to admit that the problem was with that show was that Takahashi spent too much time developing Akane and Ranmas' relationship and didn't acknowledge the other characters (I guess she kind of tried with Ryoga giving him Akari and all).
She did what? She basically put every character on pause developmentally after a certain point.
AT LEAST she gave an ending to Maison Ikkoku. That is my favorite manga/anime. share
For real. Who was Ryoga's new girlfriend? I always hoped he would end up with Ukyo, they seemed to be an obvious match considering Ranma would obviously end up with Akane and Shampoo with Mousse.
I agree I think Ukyou was a great match up for Ryouga. I know the second movie hinted at it but it was never meant to be.
Ryouga's new girlfriend Akari was actually pretty nice. She was just a sweet girl who loved pigs, even before she found out he became one. share
But then Akane finds out that as a wedding present, Ranma is suppose to receive a barrel of the magic water that will cure him. She storms off.
Uh, it's possible I missed something but why would this make her angry? Wouldn't this be ideal if they were going to finally be an official, married couple?
Okay, I'm not going to go into any major details, mostly because people have done a pretty good job with the ending of the manga (though Ranma & Akane's wedding was postponed).
But as to the Anime, I'm going to point out that people seem to mostly be talking about the end of the 7th Season, which is not the end of the Anime, there's the OVA's after that. Which, admittedly, give you no more of an ending. Just thought I'd mention it though.
My only real question in the end is how long until Nabiki ends up with Kuno and Kasumai with the Doctor. That's what I was waiting for.
Although the ending is a bit disappointing, there's no real reason to "finish" the series as it stands now. I mean, most of the rivals have now moved on (Ryoga with Akari, Shampoo with Mousse, etc.). Akane now already knows how Ranma feels about her, so there wouldn't be as much to fight over or develop since the secret is out.
It WOULD be nice for the creator to come back and do like 1 more volume though, just to wrap things up. Maybe, hoping against hope, she might come back and do just that after finishing Inuyasha (which looks like it's on its last 2 legs)? There's certainly fan demand for it.
At least in Inuyasha Ryoga seiyuu is the main character and Ranma is a henchman of the wolf guy.
in the latino español dont know of the jap version.
The manga's end is supposed to make it clear that Ranma and Akane ARE going to marry, even though they don't go all the way to tying the knot at the end. (Then again, they are still in high school, so it's probably just as well.) I think we're supposed to assume that Ryoga ended up with Akari Unryu and Ukyo ended up marrying Konatsu. Mousse would most likely (hopefully) marry Shampoo, although he'd probably have to challenge her and then defeat her in combat. As for their curses: no, none of them will EVER be cured. It's something the five cursed characters will just have to live with. Of course, since in the manga Ranma's mother Nodoka knows about his curse and is OK with it, that problem is resolved. And on a personal note, I actually like the idea better that none of the characters will ever be cured. Somehow it's just more interesting that way.
The anime, sadly, dosen't resolve anything. After the TV series comes the two movies and then the OAVs, the last of which is the episode where Akane gets possessed by an evil doll which then tries to kill Ranma (a story that was also in the manga). Of course, you could say that this leaves it open for interpertation as to exactly who ends up with who in the anime. Since Akari and Konatsu never made it into the anime, I like to think that Ukyo ended up with Ranma and Akane ended up with Ryoga. It's clear Akane does like Ryoga as a friend, at least, and they've even dated a couple of times. Of course, Ryoga would probably have to come clean with her eventually that he was P-Chan, since she's destened to find out eventually if they did marry, and of course Genma and Soun would be devistated that Ranma would not be marrying any of Soun's daughters. And in the anime the problem with Nodoka is never resolved. Hopefully when she inevitably does find out she'll react the same way she did in the manga, by deciding that Ranma's personality is manly enough, and the logical conclusion that the curse is something he really can't be blamed for.