Thursday, October 11, 2012

Missed opportunities in Ranma 1/2

When you think about it, there were an awful lot of incidents in the Ranma 1/2 series where a female character could have been taken advantage of, either through magical means or through some form of helplessness such as unconsciousness or bondage. I decided to make a quick list, which I'm sure will miss some possibilities.


  • Kodachi uses rose bouquets which emit some sort of paralysis gas/powder, which could be turned around and used on her or another girl as in my post yesterday.
  • Mousse is fond of trying to bind is opponents in chain. One could imagine him binding Ranma, then leaving him, and rain or other water turning him into a girl but still bound. Or maybe Mousse would bind a girl thinking she was a guy. Hmm, Kasumi chained up and left by Mousse, because he thought she was Ryoga and wanted to prevent the guy from following him.
  • Female Ranma is drugged twice by the martial arts tea ceremony guy.
  • Hikaru renders Akane unconscious with chloroform during the play Romeo and Juliet.
  • Ranma becomes falling down drunk during the play Romeo and Juliet.
  • Female Ranma is shocked unconscious while fighting with Mr. Turtle at the Kuno house.
  • Akane is rendered unconscious by a booby trap in the Kuno house.
  • Someone could have been dosed with the day or lifetime love pill from the bracelet Happosai had stolen.
  • Mousse had Akane in bondage during the arc where he threatened to give her a Jusenkyo curse to turn into a duck.
  • Shampoo, Akane, or female Ranma (or someone else) could have been given a more interesting order after eating the kairaishi mushrooms.
  • Principal Kuno had both Akane and female Ranma in bondage.
  • Ranma was, of course, rendered helpless by the ultimate weakness moxibustion, and was at times in female form.
  • Kuno could have made more interesting wishes with the wishing sword.
  • Pantyhose Taro had Akane in bondage, and came close to having Shampoo the same way (and dressed only in pantyhose).
  • Kuno had female Ranma unconscious on Watermelon Island.
  • More interesting instructions could have been written on the magic paper dolls Gosunkugi bought.
  • Akane was left in bondage and untended, except for duck-Mousse, by Cologne during the reversal jewel arc. Mousse might have left her there to be found by someone else.
  • Female Ranma was found unconscious and woke up in a bed during the Cinderella arc about the guy who wanted her to stomp on his head.
  • Female Ranma would have done anything for Ryoga during the fishing pole arc. Or the fishing pole could have been used on some other girl.
  • Akane, Shampoo, Pink and Link were all unconscious by the time Ranma got them out of the poisonous forest. If he had managed to do it without injuring himself, and brought them to a location where the crowd wouldn't find them, he theoretically could have taken some advantage of the situation.
  • Kasumi paralyzed the family when she was possessed by the oni. This presumably means she either has the paralysis potion/powder on hand in the kitchen, or is easily able to mix it. Someone else could get his hands on it and use it.
  • Rakkyosai is able to use his ink to bind people. He might have postponed the search for the brocade butterfly (or whatever it was called) and bound some of the girls for some fun.
  • All sorts of things could have happened when Akane, Ukyo, Hinako, and female Ranma were marooned on the island with all of the male students. The fact that they were able to overpower Ranma and do some (pretty innocent) things to her show that their martial arts skills might not have provided sufficient protection.
  • Akane was bound by Ukyo during the incense of spring sleep arc. Although she was able to break the ropes without too much trouble. One could imagine Ukyo used something stronger.
  • Both Akane and Ukyo were bound (in bunny outfits yet) during the arc which introduced Konatsu.
  • A tentacle monster plays with Akane and Ranma at the end of the Jellyfish Beach chapter. It might instead have done something a lot more ecchi.
  • Akane is held in a prison cell by the phoenix tribe. Except she overpowered the guards easily when she broke out, so it might not have worked out too well for them if they had entered the cell and tried to do anything to her.
  • The phoenix tribe's eggs could have been used to enslave Akane or female Ranma, as they did Shampoo, and then interesting things could have happened. Or maybe Ranma, Ryoga or Mousse could have slipped a few extras into a pocket, and used them after getting back to Nerima.

2 comments:

  1. You've only scratched the surface, and can't believe you missed one of the best candidates. When Ryouga was in the bath with a naked Ranma-chan and made the mental connection. He lunged at her, and she only just barely sprayed him with cold water in time. Leaving P-chan perched on her ass. A few inches and it would have been a fully male Ryouga laying on top of her, his groin pressed into her rear.

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    1. Yeah, I knew I was only hitting the most obvious ones, and even overlooking some of those. I think I was just getting a feel for the scope of the possibilities.

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