The Three Ways Ranma Saotome Ruins Your Gender

You might have imagined that I had mined out Ranma 1/2. For three years now, I have been using February as an excuse to talk about one specific romantic comedy from the 1980s that left permanent marks on my brain not because of how it represents romance but because of how it created an English-language fandom space and how that fandom space helped to raise me from my status of Barely A Human Ex-Cultist to Capable Of Talking To Humans. Between multiple How To Be Articles, covering Ranma, Akane, Ukyou and Tarou, an article connecting Akane Tendo to the idea of hyperreality, talking about the subreddit’s repetition of history, weird things that just happened in it, shipping lanes discourse, and of course, also a Story Pile article about it, you might imagine that maybe, maybe, I’ve tapped out the well of Ranma 1/2 conversations.

Of course not.

Of course not.

What I want to talk about today, what I want you to consider, is three different ways in which Ranma Saotome, specifically, just ruins your gender relationship, even not in the ways you think.

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