Ok, here goes…
Completing the Ranma anime series/movies/OVAs was my first real anime collecting quest.
All told Ranma Nibbun no Ichi has 162 episodes in the regular series of which I have only episodes 1-158 ( thought I had completed it, but I recently found out I was mistaken )
20 OAVs and 2 movies
I enjoyed the series much more than I ever imagines I would, and incidentally this is where my obsession with Megumi Hayashibara comes from ( she did girl-type Ranma’s voice in the japanese version ).
The manga series ended oddly ( and if I may be so bold, rather poorly. The damned fool is worse than Masaki Tenchi when it comes to pickin’ a girl he likes ). The series ending manga was supposed to the conclusion of Ranma and Akane’s wedding but it was crashed by Genma, Mousse, Ryoga and Soun, who were under mind control from Shampoo who ordered them to stop the wedding. She gained mind control over them when she used an ancient chinese artifact ( from over 2000 years of ancient chinese amazon history, hehe ). The artifact was a magic egg. If the holder of the egg threw it at you and it hits you, the magic from the egg surrounds you and you fall helplessly in love with the egg’s wielder. As you can imagine Shampoo tried desperately to hit Ranma with the egg. She failed to hit Ranma but she did hit Genma, Mousse, Ryoga and Soun in her many attempts to capture young Ranma’s heart.
Bah! I’m rambling… Anyways, seeing their wedding being destroyed they decide that they didn’t really want to be married anyway and run off into to sunset. And that was the end…
Now for a Ranma fan a HUGE as I, that was a bitter disappointment. But it in no way diminished my love for the series as a whole.
Whew, that was quite a post from one such as myself, I hope it shed some light =)