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  • Oof I'll never forget getting the first Ranma 1/2 manga as a kid. It was my first egg moment. All I could think was how I'd never touch hot water again.

    I don't even know why I got that manga, had never heard of it but it was on a list of manga that my local book store could order and I just randomly picked it. It took over 25 years after that for my egg to break but Ranma 1/2 awoke something in me. Growing up when and where I did I couldn't really explore those feelings and ideas but I never stopped thinking about it.

    • when i was 11 i watched it and i didnt understand why they kept saying this was a curse because "it would be cool to be able to switch between genders like that" and "doesnt everyone wanna be both male and female??" clueless genderfluid child. i know several trans people whether nonbinary, transfem or transmasc that had their awakening because of ranma 1/2. Rumiko Takahashi cracked a lot of eggs with that series.

      • Hahah right?! Didn't sound like a curse at all. Not being able to switch between genders felt more like a curse to me.

      • This. I vaguely remember my cousin asking if I knew about it, explained the premis, and I felt exactly the same.

    • For me it was the anime and quite the opposite feeling in regards to hot water...

      But yeah, OP is right (name checks out), Ranma's comedic treatment of gender is doing stuff to the minds of unsuspecting eggs.

  • a friend of mine from church recommend this to me a full decade before my egg cracked, i got about halfway through season 2 before stopping because i couldn't process the feelings. i read the manga this year (after being out for almost a year) and it's pretty good

  • Ranma taught me that any everyday activity can be a martial art and multiple freaks out there want to destroy any sort of domestic relationship.

  • I've never watched it, we had a box set when I was growing up. I assumed it was my step-mother's as she's far more into anime. But now maybe I think it was my mother's (mtf bio father) lmao

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