Ranma ½ (2024) Season 3

The monkey was the fiance the whole time and the actual girl shows up on a horse at the end. I sat there for a solid minute just staring at my screen. Sentaro falling for the real one instantly after all that is so stupid and so funny

A tea whisk as a weapon should not look that good. MAPPA drawing the steam and the outlines going thick during the showdown gave a gag fight way more weight than it deserved and I am completely fine with that

An entire episode arguing that kneeling counts as a martial art and MAPPA animating those toe-slides like a real duel is exactly the kind of nonsense I signed up for. Watching Ranma take a tea whisk seriously is never going to stop being funny

That dub casting gag is genuinely the best part. Hearing Vincent Martella as Sentaro turning on the dramatics is something you cannot unhear and I kept expecting him to pitch a rollercoaster

A monkey in a kimono with a tea whisk outclassing Akane had me grinning the whole face-off. The seiza sliding looked so weirdly smooth it stopped being silly and became impressive

I lost it when Akane dropped the act and slapped him. The whole sparkling-eyes bit had me fully convinced she was under the spell and then she flips it on him. My favorite gag of the season so far

Kuno swinging in yelling his own name like a herald of chaos is exactly the kind of nonsense this show does well. Sent flying again within a minute. Perfect use of him

Akane spitting that pill out the whole time and just letting Ranma sweat was so good. She got him completely. Deserved after all the smugness

the whole blindfold scramble got exhausting after a while. too many people throwing water and grabbing each other. wanted more of Ryoga and less of the chaos pileup

That cliffside bit where Ranma kicks Akane into the water to keep her from seeing anyone else is the kind of unhinged logic I watch this show for. Nobody else would solve a problem like that

The scene where Akane touches his face all gentle and Ranma is blushing hoping it worked and then she slaps him and says as if Id fall for you was so good. My favorite beat of the episode by far

Genuinely surprised how much I still hate Happosai even with the nicer animation. The groping gag got old fast and the bracelet plot mostly existed to set that up. Ryoga showing up lost was the only thing that pulled me back in

Ranma calling Cologne Colon-chan and proposing marriage on the spot sent me. The way he just latches onto her with zero shame is exactly the kind of dumb gag this show does well

Akane spitting the pill out and letting Ranma think it worked just to slap him is the meanest and funniest thing shes done all season. I was sitting there feeling bad for him too

Cologne putting Happosai in his place in the stall was the part that landed for me. Two old masters going at it and she just dismantles his whole story about being a noble thief. Needed that

Ranma running away being called the Saotome Secret Technique will never not be funny to me. Joseph Joestar would be proud of that coward

I went in just wanting the fight and walked out weirdly into ranma telling akane he didn't fight for her. the mutual respect nod he and ryoga share at the end is what sold the whole episode for me

ryoga calling ranma's punches weak right after eating that flurry almost made me feel bad for ranma. almost. dude trained under a swinging boulder for days so of course he shrugged it off

cologne is such a menace. tying akane to a tree and declaring the winner gets a date with her like she's a prize. akane screaming she has no right to decide that was the funniest part of the whole episode

the way the score swells during the montage cutting between ranma and ryoga training all night does a lot of heavy lifting. that last distant explosion before cologne confirms he mastered it got me