Ranma 1/2 – Ukyou Kuonji

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Jul 162014
 

Heyhey! It’s Wednesday and the week is half over. Just breezes by when I’m on a three-day workweek schedule. It’s already time for a mash-up but first:

Ranma 1/2 is an anime that is aimed at an older audience. The mash-ups featured here are 100% safe for children of all ages, but parental discretion is advised before viewing the anime or reading the manga with children.

That’s the last time I have to put up that warning as this is the last week of the Ranma theme!

Ukyou is yet another of Ranma’s would-be fiancés although she at least can argue that she has a legitimate claim. Back when Ranma was a little boy he used to spar with “Ucchan” every morning. If he won (and he always did) he’d win an okonomiyaki (think a Japanese style pizza creation) breakfast. Ukyou’s father offered Ranma’s father his okonomiyaki cart as a dowry if he agreed to Ranma and Ukyou becoming betrothed to one another. Genma ran off with the cart and left Ukyou behind. Years later, Ukyou returns to find justice by defeating Ranma but ends up falling in love with him. Ranma calls her “the cute fiancé”.

Here we have Deema as Ukyou in regular and anime-style face. I said in my Shampoo post that as I was drawing this piece I thought that Sass would have been better for Ukyou. That’s because of the costume. Sass has more human proportions with longer limbs than the other characters. Shampoo’s costume didn’t really need those longer limbs to look right but it turns out Ukyou’s does. I had to cheat a little with the proportions to make things look right.

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So that’s it for Ranma 1/2. Next week is a new theme! See you next Wednesday to find out what’s coming next!

 

Ranma 1/2: Mousse

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Jul 092014
 

It’s Wednesday and I’m dog-beat tired. I had a lot of trouble falling asleep with the loud wind last night and I got woken up over an hour earlier than expected by my cat. Joy. Let’s try to wake ourselves up with a mash-up huh? But first:

Ranma 1/2 is an anime that is aimed at an older audience. The mash-ups featured here are 100% safe for children of all ages, but parental discretion is advised before viewing the anime or reading the manga with children.

Mousse is a guy from Shampoo’s village of Chinese amazons who’s been in love with Shampoo since childhood. Unfortunately for him, Shampoo just doesn’t love him back (though it turns out she does care for him). He’s the master of hidden weapons, able to strike with multiple weapons (some unconventional) hidden within his robes. He’s also extremely short-sighted. Without his glasses, he can’t tell Shampoo from Cologne (her great-grandmother).

Here we have Big Oonch dressed as Mousse. Since he’s wearing the thick glasses, there was no point in drawing an “anime” face, so there’s just the one version this week. Oonch’s legs are too short to do the dynamic fighting stance pose I wanted to, so he’s standing plain. As always, click on the picture to enlarge it.

Mousse

Next week will be the final Ranma mash-up, featuring Deema. Who will it be? Come back Wednesday to find out!

 

Ranma 1/2: Shampoo

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Jul 022014
 

It’s Wednesday. The first work day of the week for me. What’s even better is that Thursday will be the last work day of the week. Two-day work week! Aww yeah! Let’s get this day rolling with a mash-up. But first:

Ranma 1/2 is an anime that is aimed at an older audience. The mash-ups featured here are 100% safe for children of all ages, but parental discretion is advised before viewing the anime or reading the manga with children.

“When he’s a boy, she just wants him. When he’s a girl, she wants him dead.”

That sums up the early relationship between Ranma and Shampoo, a Chinese Amazon who follows female Ranma (she doesn’t know about male Ranma) back to Japan in order to kill her to restore Shampoo’s reputation after being defeated by Ranma in a fight, as decreed by her tribe’s traditions. When MALE Ranma accidentally defeats Shampoo in combat, she falls in love with him, again as per the traditions of her tribe. It’s okay to be defeated by an outsider, so long as he’s male. When she finds out the truth that male and female Ranma are one and the same, she runs off in tears. When she returns, she has her very own Jusenkyo curse. She turns into a cat when splashed with cold water. How fortunate that Ranma is terrified of cats, right?

Casting Sass as Shampoo was a no-brainer for me. Shampoo turns into a cat! After finishing the theme however, I wonder if it might have been better to have Sass dress up as Ukyou instead. I’ll talk more on why when I get to Ukyou. For now, back to Shampoo. I knew I wanted to feature the outfit Shampoo wears the first time we meet her. Little did I know how difficult it would be to find a GOOD picture of it. It’s not her most popular look so none of the promo art for the show has her in it. I had to rely on screen captures from the episodes. I went with my own pose as a result. With that said, here Sass is with both her normal and anime-inspired faces.

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That’s all for this week. Next week, we meet another member of the Chinese Amazon tribe.

Ranma 1/2: Kodachi Kuno

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Jun 252014
 

It’s Wednesday! Time for me to go back to work to pay the bills which allow me to keep bringing this website to you. But before I go, let’s Mash. It. Up. First though:

Ranma 1/2 is an anime that is aimed at an older audience. The mash-ups featured here are 100% safe for children of all ages, but parental discretion is advised before viewing the anime or reading the manga with children.

OOOO-hohohohohohohohohoho!!!!!!!

That laugh could only mean one thing: It’s time to meet the Black Rose. Kodachi is Kuno’s younger sister. She attends St. Hebereke School for Girls and is the champion of their rhythmic gymnastics martial arts team. Akane first meets her as she’s beating up Furinkan High School’s rhythmic gymnastics team so they’ll have to drop out of the upcoming meet between the two schools. Akane intervenes and a new enemy is born. Of course, Kodachi winds up infatuated with Ranma’s male half which only serves to deepen the rivalry.

Below we have Zoë as Kodachi ready for a match both in my traditional style and with anime facial features. Now originally, I wasn’t going to use Kodachi. I’ve already drawn Zoë in a leotard before (in her Cammy mashup)  and I had just drawn Nektara in Akane’s schoolgirl uniform so I wanted to do something different. I was going to draw Zoë and Skitter as the Golden Pair, Azusa Shiratori and Mikado Sanzenin. While I was doing picture searches for them, I decided that Skitter as Mikado wasn’t going to work out for me. Goodbye Golden Pair. That meant finding another female character for Zoë and really, Kodachi was the only logical choice. All things considered I’m glad I reconsidered and went with Kodachi. The leotard came out so much better this time. As always, click on a picture to enlarge it.

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That’s all for this week. Three more Ranma mash-ups to go! Next week, we meet the mighty Chinese Amazon, Shampoo!

Ranma 1/2: Kodachi Kuno
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Ranma 1/2 – Ryoga Hibiki

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Jun 182014
 

It’s Wednesday! Better than Tuesday, doubly so when it coincides with payday though never as good as Friday. Always fun for mashups! First though:

Ranma 1/2 is an anime that is aimed at an older audience. The mash-ups featured here are 100% safe for children of all ages, but parental discretion is advised before viewing the anime or reading the manga with children.

It’s Ryoga Hibiki!
Yeah! That’s it! Yeah!
Ryoga Hibiki?
Long time no see!
Just answer my question. Tell me, why didn’t you come to the fight?!
But I…Ryoga, I waited for you at the agreed place for three days.
Three days?!!
Oh sure…you waited THREE days, but when I got there on the FOURTH day, you already turned tail and ran!
Fourth day?
Uh Ryoga, let me ask YOU a question! Correct me if I’m wrong but the place where we agreed to meet for the fight was the vacant lot behind your house right? So why the heck did I have to wait for three days for you to show?
Don’t patronize me! Do you think I was just strolling around Japan for my health?!!

Ryoga is a childhood rival from Ranma’s past who follows him to Furinkan High School in order to continue their grudge match. He falls in love with Akane (something she’s mostly oblivious to) and becomes one of Ranma’s rivals for her affection. Over time, he develops a grudging friendship with Ranma. When he isn’t trying to beat Ranma senseless, he’s usually helping him in some way or another.

Almost never have I connected with a character as much as I have with Ryoga. He has a terrible sense of direction, he has an almost overwhelming feeling of loneliness and he can’t bring himself to tell the girl he likes how he feels (been there!). Of course, I don’t turn into a little black piglet when splashed with cold water.

Here’s Todrick dressed as Ryoga. In plain and “anime” style face. I didn’t feel like searching for a picture of his actual backpack, so I just made up a design. As always, click on a picture to make with the bigness.

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That’s all for this week! Next week, we get to meet Kuno’s twister sister, The Black Rose! See you there!

 

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