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#Media Club Plus


Anonymous User asked:

Regarding the recent Media Club Plus bonus episode: My anime history bona fides are spotty at best, but since it has largely been overlooked in the west outside of being the venue of weird tape copying weirdos in the 90s, I just wanted to mention Ranma 1/2s implementation of the trope. It's kind of split in two -- Ranma's dad, Genma, who is only barely lecherous in comparison but does so mostly via Ranma because he's trying to get him married, is mostly just a scared-of-his-wife-guy. And then there's the actual lecherous master, Happosai, who trained Genma, who is honestly the horniest implementation of this, and is also almost always portrayed as an actual villain every time he appears.

I don't have a real thesis with this, but hearing y'all talk about HxH in conversation with Dragon Ball got me thinking about how Ranma 1/2 ran almost concurrently with the original Dragon Ball. The works have completely different goals, and while I could never vouch for Ranma in the modern era for ... infinite reasons, it, and more directly its fandom in that nascent era of the internet, are still a fond memory.

Actually I almost brought up Ranma 1/2 during the recording but figured it would take too long to get into and maybe wasnt worth it since i knew it was going to be a long recording. good to have it here on the cohost anyway. definitely a contemporary of Dragon Ball in terms of weird horny old martial arts guys

anyway i watched 40 episodes or something of Ranma on Hulu a few years ago when i was bedridden with strep throat for a few weeks. it's total madness. it's not very good but it is fascinating.