Product Details

• Actors: Kappei Yamaguchi, Megumi Hayashibara, Noriko Hidaka, Minami Takayama, Kikuko Inoue
• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Viz Video
• DVD Release Date: April 16, 2002
• Run Time: 550 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000640VB
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,715 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Ranma 1/2 - Anything-Goes Martial Arts - The Complete Second Season Boxed Set" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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This set of 22 episodes constitutes the second broadcast season of Rumiko Takahashi's gender-tweaking slapstick comedy. The many combat scenes are executed in slightly fuller animation than in the OAVs, and there's a little more nudity in the bath scenes, including a shot of Ryoga's bare buns. But the freewheeling mixture of mayhem, metamorphoses, and martial arts continues--with just a touch of sentiment to leaven the insanity. When Ranma and Akane have a run-in with a pair of champion figure skaters, they reduce the rink to a wading pool, with a little help from the geographically challenged Ryoga. Shampoo the Chinese Amazon returns with her wizened Great-Grandmother Cologne, who teaches the cast a variety of ancient fighting techniques. Ranma and Ryoga battle kendo champion and gasbag Kuno, his twisted sister Kodachi, ninja Sasuke, and Happosi in their frantic search for a Japanese Nan'niichuan (Enchanted Drowned Man Spring)--only to discover it's a franchise that's gone out of business. Even the redoubtable Ranma has a weakness: he's afraid of cats. But he breaks through his fear and demonstrates his mastery of the recherché technique of "Cat-Fu." Ranma often acts like a jerk, but he assuages Akane's hurt feelings by eating the cookies she baked, even though he knows ptomaine will follow. At a time when many American animated series are imitating live action, Ranma 1/2 is a zany reminder of the special fun only animation can provide. Unrated; suitable for ages 12 and up: Slapstick violence, nudity, mildly risqué humor. --Charles Solomon

Product Description

This 22 episode, 5 DVD box set continues in its second season to develop the on-going storylines of Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo, their families and introduces even more of the series' zany cast of characters. Get to know the infamous Golden Pair of the high school combat figure skating world; Mikado "Emperor" Sanzenin; Azusa Shiratori, the girl who gives anything "cute" a bad name (before taking it home); Sasuke, loyal ninja manservant to high school swordsman Tatewaki "Blue Thunder" Kuno; Cologne, the hundreds-of-years-old-leader of the same Chinese Amazon tribe that introduced the sassy Shampoo; Mousse, the nearsighted master of hidden weapons and all things avian; Happosai, lecherous master of both Ranma and Akane's fathers; plus a host of others!

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great second season!, April 3, 2002

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Javier Giese "__kurt__" (Monterrey, Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ranma 1/2 - Anything-Goes Martial Arts - The Complete Second Season Boxed Set (DVD)

After some research, i collected this info for the Second Season DVD boxed set, which you'll find even more entertaining than the first season. This is what you may expect in the 2 DVD set:

"Darling Charlotte"
>Episodes: The Abduction Of P-Chan & Close Call! The Dance Of Death...On Ice
>P-Chan gets abducted and in order to get him back, Akane and Ranma needs to win a martial arts figure skating competition.

"Its fast, or its free"
>Episodes: P-Chan Explodes! The Icy Fountain Of Love Clash Of The Delivery Girls! & Clash Of The Delivery Girls! The Martial Arts Takeout Race
>Discover how the martial arts figure skating competition comes to an end; and later, discover that while being a kid, Ranma is traded for fish by his father, without any repercussions at all, until now.

"Cat-Fu Fighting"
>Episodes: You Really Do Hate Cats! & This Old Gal's The Elader Of The Amazon Tribe!
>Find about Ranma's secret weakness & the "Cat Fist" martial arts technique

"Chestnuts on an Open Fire"
>Episodes: Behold! The Chestnut Roasting On An Open Fire Technique & Enter Mousse! The Fist of the White Swan
>Meet Mousse and see Ranma fighting him for the very first time. [Thanks to Cologne, Ranma is stuck in his girl persona, btw]

"Cold Competition"
>Episodes: Cool Runnings! & The Race Of The Snowmen Danger At The Tendo Dojo!
>Ranma enters a race to win the Phoenix Pill that will cure him from not being able to turned back to his boy persona; also...find about the Dojo Destroyer.

"Breaking Point"
>Episodes: Ranma Trains On Mt. Terror & The Breaking Point!?
>Ryoga is trained by Cologne in the Breaking Point technique in order to become a match for Ranma.

"Fowl Play"
>Episodes: The Abduction Of Akane & Ranma vs. Mousse: To Lose Is To Win
>Mousse kidnaps Akane in order to confront Ranma, who needs to prevent Mousse to convert Akane into a duck.

"The Evil Wakes"
>Episodes: Enter Happosai, The Lustful Lecher & Assault On The Girl's Locker Room
>Meet Happosai, Soun's and Genma's perverted and most powerful master.

"Goodbye Girl-Type"
>Episodes: House Of Gadgets! Guests Check In, But They Don't Check Out & Goodbye girl-type
>Three urns hidden in strange places, that need to get reunited in order to cure the Jusenkyo curse.

"Tough Cookies"
>Episodes: It's A Fine Line Between Pleasure And Pain & S.O.S.! The Wrath Of Happosai!
>Ranma, eating Akane's cookies???

"Ranma and Juliet"
>Episodes: Kissing Is Such Sweet Sorrow! The Taking Of Akane's Lips & Bathhouse Battle! We're In Some Hot Water Now
>Juliet played by Akane and Romeo played by ... Then, without hot water at the Tendo's, everyone visits the public bathhouse, without knowing that Happosai will be on sight.

This is your chance to meet new characters and see how the old ones get faster, stronger or maybe just keep falling in love.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Getting better..., August 27, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Ranma 1/2 - Anything-Goes Martial Arts - The Complete Second Season Boxed Set (DVD)

Okay, with the second season of Ranma 1/2(or the first, since this in Japan they started a new Ranma series beginning with this season), we can see that the characters are starting to get more in place, and although Akane and Ranma are still slightly out of character from the comic, they aren't treated as bad as they were in the first season. Ranma switches outfits in this season to the one he usually wears(in the comic, although he has a blue shirt instead of a red one). More of the characters are introduced, including Mousse, Happosai, Cologne, and Sasuke, who is an original character(voiced by Shigeru Chiba, who also voiced Raditz in Dragonball Z and Kuwabara in Yu Yu Hakusho). I do feel Sasuke is a bit out of place(I would have preferred Hikaru Gosunkugi from the beginning), but I can adjust. The animation gets a bit screwy at times, but it's pretty good, more or less. The dub actors seem to be getting a bit more in tune with the characters, although Ranma at times sounds really screwed up, like when he screams, "I'm REALLY angry!," at Mikado. But, the series is getting improved. Well, on to season 3!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It still doesn't beat the first season..., June 9, 2002

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robert bezold (moscow, idaho United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ranma 1/2 - Anything-Goes Martial Arts - The Complete Second Season Boxed Set (DVD)

But it is nevertheless very, very good. It doesn't have the continued-story soap opera like quality that the first season had, nor does it follow the manga continuity with such slavishness. Which is a shame, because I like that:)The wacky humor hasn't changed, Ranma is still changing genders at the drop of a hat, Akane still can't cook, and Ryoga (as P-Chan) has taken up semi-permenent residence at the Tendo dojo.New characters include Mousse (Shampoo's ex-fiancee) and Cologne (Shampoo's grandmother). And there is Happosai, trainer of Genma and Soun and easily the most lecherous character in all of anime.We are also introduced to a continuing theme/plot device: Ranma's pathological aversion to cats. So much so that he will turn into a cat to get away from them.The extras on this are nothing to wite home about. Some creditless opening and closing themes and a few other goodies. But it's the stories that count after all. Definitely worth a buy.