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• Actors: Kappei Yamaguchi, Megumi Hayashibara, Noriko Hidaka, Kenichi Ogata, Hirotaka Suzuoki
• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: Catalan, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
• 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: November 12, 2002
• Run Time: 600 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006LPGU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,244 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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The fourth broadcast season of this popular transgender comedy feels less inspired than the third (collected in the Hard Battle set). Ranma's duel with a feline specter in "My Fiancé, the Cat" plays like a retread of "You Really Do Hate Cats!" from the second season. In episode 17 Kasumi encounters a childhood friend after many years, but the reunion doesn't really go anywhere. Although series creator Rumiko Takahashi says the three-part "Ranma Gets Weak" story line is a personal favorite, it's not much fun. A trick of Happosai's deprives Ranma of his strength, so everyone pounds him into mochi. Ranma is funny when he's undone despite his strength, not when he's just a punching bag. Another problem is that Richard Ian Cox, who's taken over the voice of boy-type Ranma, sounds less like a petulant teenager than Sarah Strange did.

But the better moments in this collection are still great fun. In episodes 15 and 16, a Martial Arts Calligraphy master leaves Ryoga with a pattern on his stomach that looks like Betty Boop's face. This story reveals the grudging affection Ranma and Ryoga share, despite their ongoing rivalry. (Only the perpetually lost Ryoga could dramatically bid everyone farewell--then set off on a loop trail.) Happosai's incurable fetish for girls' underwear severs the student-teacher bond in episode 10 and blights the old lecher's nascent romance with a pretty preschool teacher in episode 13. (Unrated; suitable for ages 12 and older: slapstick violence, nudity, mildly risqué humor) --Charles Solomon

Product Description

In ranma 1/2 outta control the fourth season of adventures based on the comics of rumiko takahashi were introduced to ranmas high school principal the infamous gambling king ranmas mom an all-ryoga episode and more. Studio: Viz Media Llc Release Date: 12/10/2002 Run time: 600 minutes Rating: Nr

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pay atention to the other reviewers, April 29, 2003

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

This review is from: Ranma 1/2 - Outta Control - The Complete Fourth Season Boxed Set (DVD)

The ones who say that this season isn't all that. They happen to be right. There are a few good episodes (written by takahashi) and a lot of bad episodes (written by amateurs) and a few should-have-been-good episodes written by takahashi that were butchered to fit in one episode.And the art/animation quality? Don't get me started. The few episodes where they flashback to the beginning of the series painfully demonstrate how far the series has degraded. In fact, if you really want to see how far this series falls short, watch 2-3 of the OVA's THEN watch this. They were producing this season on the cheap, that's for sure.I got it, because I intend to collect the whole series. Non-collectors should think twice. And if you're looking for a Ranma gift for someone, pick season one or two. They're better.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a Masterwork -- More of the Same Really, February 27, 2003

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Bridget (Starkville, MS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ranma 1/2 - Outta Control - The Complete Fourth Season Boxed Set (DVD)

There weren't a lot of surprises on this DVD.

Voice Acting: I'd really like to know where the voice actor for Ranma that I fell in love with the first season went. If I knew I'd beg him to reprise the role, because the current American voice actor rubbs me the wrong way.

General Content: I had high expectations. I thought maybe we'd meet Ranma's mother. They teased us but didn't deliver. There was very little Shampoo, always a mistake. She's one of the more interesting sympathetic characters and she was wasted this season.

Overall: This is one season that I don't think I would have missed if I'd skipped it entirely. More of the same, little development beyond where the characters already were. Buy it if you love Ranma, but try not to be disappointed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A bit less memorable than before, January 12, 2003

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Joshua Kaufman (Cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ranma 1/2 - Outta Control - The Complete Fourth Season Boxed Set (DVD)

Ranma 1/2 is easily one of my favorite series. It's got great varying characters, a great Japanese voice cast, wonderful songs, good FITTING BGM, tons of comedy, and pure over-the-top fun. But for whatever reason, the quality seems to go down bit by bit as the series goes along, with much more mediocrity than before though still plenty of moments of greatness (much like The Simpsons became in later years). That's not to say it's bad though.

I think the reasons for this shift in quality is simple -- for whatever reason they decided to compress many of the manga-based stories into one episode, when they really should probably have been two. But not only that, they decided to take some elements of manga stories and use it in FUTURE episodes -- for instance, the 1st episode where the principal returns (the only haracter ntroduced in this season that appearas in more than two episodes), in the Manga there's a section about who he actually is (I won't spoil if you don't know), but they turn that section into a whole new episode in a later season.

Another things is a matter of sameness -- Happosai still glomps everyone all the time, Ryoga still blames Ranma all the time, etc etc. While yes characters have certain personalities, things tend to be a bit Ranma-centric (the manga is guilty of this too) than it really needed to be.

Still, there's plenty of good stuff to be found. For instance, there's the three part Moxibustion arc, where Happosai makes Ranma weak, which is Takahashi's favorite part, and there's the hilarious epsidoe where Azusa the cleptomaniac ice skater claims Kuno as her "Marrianne". And my favorite episode is the final one, with the return of Ling-Ling and Lung-Lung.

Now, as far as the DVDs themselves go, there's not much difference from seasons 2-4. Same type of so-called extras, 4 DVDs in 5-5-5-5-4, and nice box with Shampoo's picture (interesting becasue she's in so few episodes this season, another minus in my book). Really, to sum it up, it's good if you really love Ranma, but make sure to get the first two seasons, and season 3 is a BIT better than this one.