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ranma-rewatch · 3 years

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Episode 21: This Ol' Gal's the Leader of the Amazon Tribe!

*checks watch* Oh, hey, it’s time for more Ranma 1/2! Hope things are going well for you, person reading this. I’m...fairly sure I know what’s coming? I just don’t really remember exactly how it happens. Will I like it? Will I not? We’ll have to see, next paragraph, after I’ve seen the episode again.

That was...not what I was expecting? This storyline is both moving much faster and much slower than I remember, if that makes any sense. How? Well, let me recap it a bit first.

The episode starts with someone flying into the city on birds. More specifically, a bunch of small birds supporting a larger bird who doesn’t seem to fly, and the person is riding on that bird. It’s weird. She arrives in a construction zone, an old woman with a walking stick taller than she is, and she says something about looking for her son-in-law. Actually, she says it a lot. A steel girder almost falls on her head, but she hits it with her stick in mid-air, shattering the metal into dust, before running off.

It cut from that to Ryoga attacking Ranma. Why? Well, Ryoga doesn’t really need a reason, but this time he does. Namely, the whole Ranma kissing Akane thing from the last episode. Of course, Ranma was in cat-mode at the time and doesn’t remember it at all, no matter how much Ryoga tells him it’s real. After Ryoga gets splashed with cold water, Ranma is then attacked by Sasuke and Kuno for the same reason, and combined with piglet-form Ryoga’s help, Ranma actually gets kinda beat up in the process.

Heading back to the home, he realizes that Akane’s probably mad if it is true, and we see her in the dojo, but she isn’t really working out the way she usually does when she’s mad. If anything, Akane seems conflicted. Ranma shows up to talk about it with her, and immediately apologizes. Akane asks if he remembers doing it, and he admits he doesn’t. Then, Akane wonders, did it not matter? Would Ranma have kissed anyone, and it just happened to be her?

Not understanding what is going on, Ranma stumbles over answering too long, until Akane starts actually getting riled up, calling him a flirt. That pisses Ranma off, so they get into an argument. There’s also a scene where their dads are playing shogi, and they wonder about that pink cat Shampoo sent them, especially since it’s unlikely she knew about Ranma’s fear of felines.

The answer to that comes as Ranma goes to take a nice, hot bath to clean off after the fights he’s had. The cat jumps in with him, and before he can freak out about his greatest fear being in the room, Shampoo emerges from the bath right where the cat had been, and she’s very naked. Yep, the cat was her that whole time!

In a case of Ultimate Bad Timing, Akane comes to take a bath herself and sees Ranma in the bath with a naked Shampoo. We cut directly from that to Ranma practicing what to tell Akane later. Namely, that he won’t apologize or back down, instead being firm on the fact that it wasn’t what it looked like and he did nothing wrong. And we wonder why Ranma has relationship problems.

Akane appears, and she seems fine...before knocking Ranma into a pond. Not long after the water changes him into his cursed form, the old lady from the beginning appears, and Ranma has a very hard time fighting her. She won’t explain who she is or why she’s fighting him, then disappears. That felt...a bit pointless, honestly.

Later, Shampoo comes by the house again, with food. It seems she has moved to Japan officially, and lives and works at a nearby ramen shop. As everyone’s eating the food, the old woman shows up again, taking a place at the table to eat. It’s revealed that she is Shampoo’s great-grandmother, named Cologne, and she’s there to make sure that Shampoo and Ranma get married. Soun fires back about the engagement Ranma already has to Akane, but Shampoo seems to think she has a good argument for why she should be the one to take Ranma’s hand.

She takes him into the bathroom and uses cold water to turn back into a cat, and it’s revealed exactly what happened. Heading back to China, she was shamed for failing to either kill or marry Ranma, and thus had to train with Cologne. They did that at Jusenkyo, for some reason, and Shampoo fell into the Spring of Drowned Cats. So, apparently the curse is Ranma’s fault, and thus he has to marry her. He rightfully points out that’s utter nonsense, but Cologne doesn’t care.

They fight for a bit, with Cologne showing off one of those moves where it looks like there are a bunch of her but only one is real. Ranma uses food and Cologne’s hunger to figure out the real one, but that doesn’t really matter. She’s a bit impressed by him, but still knows he’s far too inexperienced to ever really stand a chance against her. Then she hits him with her stick, and says something about how he’ll be begging to marry Shampoo in a few days.

Why is that? Well, it seems she did something quite diabolical. She apparently hit a pressure point that has caused Ranma to be incredibly sensitive to water. Even cold water feels boiling hot, but it still activates his curse. To turn back to his preferred form, he’d need to use hot water, but with how sensitive his skin is, hot water would be torture to endure. Thus, he can’t turn back into his uncursed state unless he does exactly what Cologne tells him.

Let me start with the stuff I like about this episode. First off, this is a really interesting way to build a story arc that’s very different from the ones that came before. All the story arcs in season one were pretty typical for anime. Each event led directly to the next, it all felt like single stories that just took multiple episodes to tell.

But if you didn’t know the last episode was part of a story arc, you wouldn’t guess that to be the case. It felt like a single-stand alone episode. And it kind of was. Only two things really carried over: Shampoo the Cat being mailed to them, and Ranma kissing Akane at the end of the episode. In fact, when I saw Ryoga and Ranma fighting, it took me a second to realize what they were talking about, because I didn’t think that event from last episode would be carried over.

I really like how it was done, though. The show made it pretty clear that Akane was feeling some feelings about the whole thing, but Ranma was too caught up in the idea that she’d just be plain angry about it to miss what she was really telling him. She wanted him to tell her that actually it did mean something that in his cat-state, he still sought her out and was affectionate towards her. She didn’t want it to be meaningless. That’s really cute, and the miscommunication there was less annoying than it sometimes is and more adorable. Free relationship tip: learning how to properly communicate to your partner is really important!

The concept of finally introducing a character who is actually a better fighter than Ranma is good. Cologne isn’t Ryoga or Shampoo or Kuno. He can’t just beat her in a cool fight, she’s far more experienced and skilled, something that from here will kind of drive the entire arc. The fact that Shampoo ended up with a cursed form that Ranma finds so terrifying is also interesting. She’s kind of scary to him anyway, this unrelenting force who won’t leave him alone no matter what he does, so making her cursed form that but to the tenth degree is pretty neat.

Last good thing: I really love how nonchalant Kasumi is with Shampoo. Like, to her it’s just like, “Oh, Shampoo! You’re back, that’s lovely, do you want to stay for a meal?” Either Kasumi doesn’t understand the complex romance plot going on, or she does and finds it not reason to stop being a good host.

What didn’t I care for? Well, like I said at the start, it feels like this arc is moving too fast and too slow at the same time. In one episode, this story resolves the Akane/Ranma kiss from last episode, the mystery of the pink cat, introduces a new focal player in the story, and curses Ranma with something he’ll have to fix. That’s a lot to happen, and I was really shocked the pressure point thing happened in this episode too.

But at the same time...I really found my interest waning in the back half of this episode. The Cologne fight just isn’t super gripping, to me anyway, especially when the technique she uses just feels very bland. There’s a good five or so minutes, about a quarter of the runtime of the episode, that I was just bored in.

I also like reintroducing Shampoo, only three episodes after she left, was a bit of a mistake, especially when she’s basically a main character from here on out. I know she was very popular, but even then giving the audience some time away from her let’s them miss her, if that makes any sense.

There was originally going to be a Cologne based Character Spotlight, but then I decided not to because we still haven’t seen a lot from her, and also I’m very tired and my birthday was Monday please stop bullying me

So, yeah, if you couldn’t tell I’m kind of meh on this episode. It’s not bad. It’s not great. I enjoyed the first half quite a bit, but the back half was a little more of a struggle. It was in fact a big enough dip that I’m putting this episode fourth from the bottom, just above the P-Chan introduction episode.

Episode 7: Enter Ryoga, the Eternal ‘Lost Boy’

Episode 12: A Woman's Love is War! The Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics Challenge!

Episode 15: Enter Shampoo, the Gung-Ho Girl! I Put My Life in Your Hands

Episode 9: True Confessions! A Girl's Hair is Her Life!

Episode 2: School is No Place for Horsing Around

Episode 19: Clash of the Delivery Girls! The Martial Arts Takeout Race

Episode 6: Akane's Lost Love... These Things Happen, You Know

Episode 13: A Tear in a Girl-Delinquent's Eye? The End of the Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics Challenge!

Episode 17: I Love You, Ranma! Please Don’t Say Goodbye

Episode 20: You Really Do Hate Cats!

Episode 16: Shampoo's Revenge! The Shiatsu Technique That Steals Heart and Soul

Episode 8: School is a Battlefield! Ranma vs. Ryoga

Episode 11: Ranma Meets Love Head-On! Enter the Delinquent Juvenile Gymnast!

Episode 4: Ranma and...Ranma? If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another

Episode 5: Love Me to the Bone! The Compound Fracture of Akane's Heart

Episode 1: Here’s Ranma

Episode 3: A Sudden Storm of Love

Episode 21: This Ol' Gal's the Leader of the Amazon Tribe!

Episode 10: P-P-P-Chan! He's Good For Nothin'

Episode 14: Pelvic Fortune-Telling? Ranma is the No. One Bride in Japan

Episode 18: I Am a Man! Ranma's Going Back to China!?

But hey, maybe things will be different next time? I’m actually pretty sure I’ll like it better, because now we’re really getting into the stuff I can remember. Namely, Ranma is going to be introduced to what will be his signature technique in “Behold! The 'Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire' Technique”. I’ll be there next week, and I hope you will too.

#episode 21 #This Ol' Gal's the Leader of the Amazon Tribe!#ranma 1/2 #ranma saotome #akane tendo #shampoo #cologne #anime analysis #anime rewatch

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sacks-of-kittans · 5 years

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Do a long Shino post

This is gonna be Tenten grade “long ass post”

So even though we wait to actually learn about Shino, he wants to be seen. Not the hero just to be noticed.

For Shino they could have given a lesson, but they don’t. Like the most attention he got was making it through the Chunin exams but you know fuck that. He won by default and was probably pissed.

I also thought they were gonna marry him off to someone since he’s an important member to his clan, but instead he becomes a wholesome teacher. He could be both but I wish they did something for him, they did it for Choiji. By I guess he was “creepy bug guy”

Design

Part 1

Sorry about gif it’s hard to find him a good gif

He defiantly looks creepy, and we never see his eyes. He’s got the big coat, we don’t see his mouth. Does he have casual clothes? Who knows the writers wanted a strong character that they could forget about. I feel like they were expecting the show to just to have the chunin exams and then say good bye, but then the show kept going.

Part 2

Less creepy looking

Blank period

Was he in it? Was Kiba? They did go to the wedding

Boruto

Tearcher man with lazed eyes and ready to help

Alright development

He’s in the chunin exams and does pretty well. He’s kinda the back bone of the team. Kiba is dumb and Hinata didn’t really want to be a ninja. He makes it far cause he’s got a cool creepy jitsu. He almost killed the kid with broken arms. Then in the next round we don’t get to see the fight. Kankuro has a little bitch moment by keeping his real power concealed. But those two do end up fighting and Shino. Shino was important to that attack in Kohona.

In the filler arcs we do get some more answers about Shino, more on his Jitsu, how he treats his team mates (no jealousy or rivalry) and how he wants to be seen. I know most people hate the fillers, but when they’re about the other characters I’m happy. We even see him and Ino fight together which was fun because they never interact ever. He was salty about missing the Sasuke rescue mission because he felt like he could have done something and maybe be a hero that helped or at least seen. His whole friend group was distraught about the loss of Sasuke and Shino still blamed himself.

Shippuden

Soo, I don’t remember him much. But he was probably hella important during the war arc and everyone thought that Hinata having a crush on naruto was an important secret even though she told naruto during the pain fight her feelings. Shino was smart to save Kiba from the Hinata clone and we still learn he’s still feeling invsible. His infinity dream doesn’t even seem cool just cause it’s him and a giant beetle.

Blank period

He goes looking for a wedding gift and that’s it I’m sure

Boruto

He’s a good teacher that not enough people appreciate. He can’t drink? I think? They did s scene with him and Hanabi? I don’t know.

Relationships

The show “liked Asuma” and forgot about Kurenai. Team 8 and Team 10 should have been closer, they’re both all from clans, and they all swear to protect the kid, Mari? I thought that kid would be more important. But you know they forgot that shit.

Kurenai

Since they forgot about her we didn’t see her much interacting with her students. How did she train them? She was hot, no lie. I could see her giving her team a “how to flirt” lesson. She does tell Shino that he’s a good teacher and he shouldn’t feel bad I think. That is something I wish was more explored. Kurenai wasn’t sure she should have her team yet, and Shino being the new Iruka caused him insecurity. There was more opportunity that wasn’t taken

Kiba

He’s dumb and Shino and him seem to have a play relationship. They’d been buddies for years why aren’t they closer. Kiba isn’t even in Boruto maybe. I wish they were closer and maybe let Kiba be the bigger man and help Shino feel seen.

Hinata

He wants to be seen by Hinata, I never saw it in a crush way but more as in they could connect if given the chance. They’re both quiet people and Shino was probably like oh thank god domeone sane on my team who I could talk to. But noooo his team was barking and moaning about naruto.

Sasuke

They fought by each other once and were in higher ranks of chunin exams. I wish they did talk more cause maybe Sasuke would calm down. They have cool styles and clans so why not? And Sasuke could have brought some attention to him. Shino needed more friends

How to rewrite Shino better

During the chunin exams I would probably let him fight kankuro and kankuro give up mid battle. Maybe

I’d have him talk to neji more. Maybe a filler would be him asking Ino “how to make friends” since she’s outgoing, maybe add Lee to that mix for the episode. I would let him save naruto during a war arc. After the war Kurenai hugs her team and mari favorite is Shino cause he’s the most fatherly figure out of both team 8 and team 10. Another filler episode is Shino’s bugs eating Choiji food and Shikamaru talking to him about it, before Shino can say anything Kiba is like f you, Shikamaru Shino wouldnt let that happen. So then they’re pissy and Hinata and Ino are like y’all you gotta talk, turns out they’re rare cool bugs (and not Shino)that Tsunade needs for a medical thing.

And I would give Shino a cute little hobby that’s totally unexpected like knitting (teaching Hinata how to knit for naruto) something like that.

I know the show had to be naruto centered, but naruto would be better if they didn’t put empathasis on character and then forget about them. Also I bet there were BUGET (budget) things and he wasn’t in the top characters so they forgot about him.

So a recap

I wouldn’t say he’s flawed in saying he’s forgotten

#naruto #anti naruto ending #ask #anon

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