Ranma 1/2: Season One: The Digital Dojo; TV Anime Season 1 DVD Box Set | 
| Actors: Ranma 1, 2 Tv
Studio: Viz Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $49.98
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 12200
Format: Animated, Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 450 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 3681
UPC: 782009236818
EAN: 0782009236818
ASIN: B000JVT28G
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: I only sell items in great condition with original artwork.
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THE HISTORIC FIRST SEASON! Now you can own the complete collection of Ranma 1/2, Season 1 for one low price with the Ranma 1/2 Digital Dojo DVD Boxset! A compilation of the entire first season of Rumiko Takahashi's wildly hilarious martial arts romance comedy! Now you can own the entire historic first season on four disks for one low price! Romance, comedy, martial arts mayhem, multiple personality changes, devilish dolls, haunted caves, magical phoenixes, evil ogres, legendary monsters and more! It's not easy being teenage martial artist Ranma Saotome, but it's even worse when your martial-artist father Genma takes you from home at an early age to go on a decade-long training mission. He doesn't speak a word of Chinese, and yet he insists upon bringing you to the cursed training ground known as Jusenkyo, where falling into one of the many springs there instantly turns you into whoever-or whatever-drowned there last. And then, the two of you have this little accident... From now on, a splash of cold water will turn your father into a giant panda, while you...well, you turn into a red-haired (and problematically well-built) female version of yourself. Hot water will reverse the effect, but only until the next time. What's a half-guy, half-girl to do? Bilingual: English & Japanese English Subtitles Parental guidance suggested. Rating - 13+
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 Finally, a price no anime lover can resist... December 26, 2006
N. Maddix (Iowa City, IA USA)
20 out of 23 found this review helpful
Viz will finally be re-releasing the complete first season of one of Rumiko Takahashi's most beloved anime's: Ranma 1/2. In case you don't somehow know about this anime, it's about a martial artist, (Ranma Saotome) and his unfortunate luck in having the ability to change into a female when struck by even the tiniest of cold water. (You'll be many classic moments when just when you think it couldn't happen, it does). Genma, Ranma's father seeks to have his son wed one of Soun Tendo(u)'s beautiful daughters, so he can carry on the Anything-Goes Martial Arts School. Akane is pretty much chosen by her other sisters because of her tomboy nature and her extreme hatred towards boys. Along the way, Ranma meets up with many other interesting characters, including Kuno, the indecisive upperclassman, Ryoga, his arch-rival, and eventually, even Shampoo, the barbaric amazon girl from China.
Nex to the OVA series, Season 1 is considered by many to be a excellent starting point for the 7 season Ranma 1/2 series. Season 1 is 18 episodes long, with each show clocking in anywhere from 20 to 25 minutes. This set will be presented in the original Japanese version (with English subtitles), and by the English cast as well. Overall, both versions are great in my honest opinion (of course, the original is superior).
For Ranma veterans and those that have been swayed by the previous release of this season and its enormous price tag. The question that might be on everyone's mind right now is, how can Viz offer this set so cheaply now in comparison to before? In my next paragraph, I'm going to attempt to take a stab at this perplexed thought.
Recently, many classic anime series (and new ones) have been released in what is called a "thin-pak". Basically all DVDs are in a very thin opening in the contents of the DVD Set. What this does is decrease the overall price, thanks to less packaging. However, sometimes with new releases, extras are often left out that were once included with the original. Postcards, opening/closing scenes with subtitles and no subtitles, previews of other animes, encyclopedia of the anime, etc.) I would assume that we'll be getting the anime and just the anime, but I could very well be wrong. For most of us anime fans, getting the animes we love as a drastically reduced price is often worth it in the end.
Make no mistake, I am simply guessing at this because of experiences with past anime sets. (Take the Anime Legends series of Love Hina, Escaflowne, etc, remember when those sets often reached into the hundreds of dollars?)
Another important thing to worry is, will their be less discs than in the original set (I believe the original had seven discs), and if so, will the quality of the picture be reduced as a result? In most cases, companies have been careful with picture quality, and being able to cram more into a dvd has improved over the years as technology as advanced.
So, let's assume, the picture quality is great, and there are no extras in this set. Is it worth the 50 percent price cut from the original? I would think so! I've been a fan of this series for a long time, just waiting for this very moment when Viz would hear its fans calling for a cheaper set of the anime they know and love, and thus they have answered the call (hopefully).
So, give it a shot. Amazon has, of course, a 30-day money-back return policy. Also, it's only a matter of time before the rest of the seasons are released. And, assuming the prices will still remain steady, you'll be getting a great deal on a great anime. So, give in to your craving and go for it already! :)
 Viz watch where you put the credits! April 22, 2007
Lionheart (Texas, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
First, I want to say that the quality of these episodes are excellent and the subtitles are all written and translated well into English. However, I just wish that Viz would have made the text in the intros less noticeable. Covering Akane and Ranma's entire head and face with big blocky blue letters? Blocking most of Ranma walking across the screen with big fat letters? Thats a little annoying. I know that you can still watch the textless opening and closing as a special feature but since most of the time you're watching the episodes themselves, it would've been nice for the credits to have been placed more carefully for all the episode intros, instead of having the text interfering with the characters and ruining the enjoyment of watching the intros before each episode. This review applies to the just recently discounted edition, I'm not sure how the text is placed for the openings and endings of the previous more expensive Viz/Pioneer edition. Other than that, everything else is fine.
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