Product Details

• Actors: Ranma 1, 2 TV
• Directors: *
• Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen
• Language: English, Japanese
• 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 18, 2003
• Run Time: 625 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000C52F4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,122 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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At the end of its seventh season, the Ranma 1/2 broadcast series concluded with its 161st episode. Although the filmmakers' imaginations were clearly flagging at times, this final collection offers very funny and oddly touching moments. The gentler side of the characters emerges in "Run Away with Me," as an old man revisits his lost youth with girl-type Ranma. "Meet You in the Milky Way" plays off the Asian sky myth of the Weaver Princess and the Cowherd. Princess Ori and Kengyu the herder visit Earth as martial artists, although the story may be a dream of Akane's. In "Mushroom Temple," Ranma and Akane inadvertently eat "love mushrooms"--and decide to marry. The perpetually quarreling duo addressing each other as "pretty baby" and "honey" may set a new standard for improbable humor, although Kuno, Ryoga, and Mousse turn their love feast into a free-for-all. More typical are the slapstick incidents: ghost cat Mao Mo Lin busts up a seaside beauty pageant and falls for Tsubasa, not recognizing his true gender. Nabiki and Sasuke sell scandalous photographs of "the pigtailed girl" to Kuno. Ryoga discovers the "Lion Roar Blast" technique, which grows more powerful as the practitioner grows more depressed, forcing him and Ranma to stage a misery contest. Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2 ranks among the undisputed classics of anime, and few animated series can match the chaotic hilarity of its more inspired moments. (Rated 13 and older: brief nudity, risqué humor, slapstick violence) --Charles Solomon

Product Description

For poor Ranma Saotome even a normal day is unbelievably strange. Due to an accident at a cursed Chinese training ground, when martial artists Ranma and his father Genma get splashed with cold water, dad turns into a giant panda, and male Ranma becomes a buxom young girl! RANMA FOREVER! Ranma ½, one of the most acclaimed and recognized anime series on the market! From the creator of InuYasha and Maison Ikkoku. Ranma Forever is the seventh and final season of martial arts adventures. The martial arts madness never stops with 24 more TV episodes of comedy, romance and mayhem!

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny, touching, but without closure, June 20, 2005

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Billy Mendoza "Slave of Swami" (Virginia Beach, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ranma 1/2 TV Anime: Season 7 DVD Box Set (DVD)

I did my research. They intended to make the true ending of Ranma 1/2 for OAVs, but Kitty, the company responsible for distributing Ranma 1/2, went out of business BEFORE they could make the last episode. This left me with a seriously unsettled feeling having followed the series since 1991 and not having any closure. This series is defintely full of laughs and touching moments for Ranma and Akane, but at the end of the last episode, you may find yourself looking for the manga. The questions left: Will Ranma ever become normal again? Will Akane and Ranma ever be together? This DVD boxset will NOT answer said questions.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ranma Forever!, June 4, 2006

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This review is from: Ranma 1/2 TV Anime: Season 7 DVD Box Set (DVD)

So after all the crazy antics. All the gender/speices tranformations, the crazy martial arts tournaments and everything else under the sun it all comes down to the seventh and final season of Ranma 1/2.

This season does the series justice by giving its fans a season to remember and most importantly closure. The seventh season combines all the highs (no lows here!) of the past six seasons. The show throws in one more crazy race one more contest for a feast and all the famed side characters we have met along the way. From Picolei, to the Frog Hermit. Dr. Tofu to Colonge, the gang is all here! There is also an end to Ranma's three crazy ladies and his three arch nemesis. Still what makes this season so fantastic is the series two part finale where Ranma's mother finally arrives with a secret that dives deep into Ranma's past. You will learn the whole story that brought Ranma and his father to where they are today and the other shocker that shows us why Ranma can't go back home.

Still, why would you want a show to do that. We must never dwell on the past we must only look forward and eventhough the final episode never gives us a true window towards Ranma's future you can see in his eyes that he truly has gain alot from the past 7 years. A sharp mind, and pure soul and yes true love for Akane.
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*Recomended Episode: Instruments of Destruction*

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Still a great series, but what's up with the interviews?!, February 1, 2004

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P. Krug (portland, oregon United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ranma 1/2 TV Anime: Season 7 DVD Box Set (DVD)

Well, obviously if you've been collecting the entire Ranma 1/2 anime series up till now you'll no doubt buy this one. This is the last of the anime to be translated into English. (In chronological order, however, the movies come after this, then the O.A.V. series.) Anyway, the show itself maintains it's greatness, however there's one MAJOR problem, that being with the extras. They have interviews with the American voice actors, but it's in the same room where they're having the going-away party, and the backround noise is so loud it's harder than hell to hear a single word the actors are saying! Jeez, I mean, what's so hard about taking them aside into a seperate room so that the interviews can be conducted in quiet?! The whole reason I bought the Ranma Forever box set was for the voice actor interviews, and now I can barely hear what's being said! So I felt a tad bit jipped. It's because of this disapointing extra that I knock the overall rating down a star, although you do get to see what the actors (those that appear in the live-action extras, anyway,) look like. Well, anyway, that's all.