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First 18 episodes, separated from this as a first season, were glorious! When I finished, I read many comments on Ranma anime in general, most of them saying that it gets repetitive and boring quick after this first season, which means from the beginning of Nettou Hen. Of course I didn't believe it - I mean, how can such a good and original anime turn boring??!
In case you are asking the same question and have a LOOOT of spare time, you can see a perfect example how it's done in this show.
First 20-30 episodes were not that bad, it still had the spark of originality and good funny moment from time to time.
Episodes 30-80 is where the torture starts: you basically have a few major topics, repeating over and over, only being served to you in many different ways and disguises. it's very hard to keep attention because it's not entertaining at all.
Epsidodes 80-120 - I don't remember the exact point/episode, where I totally stopped paying attention to the show when playing. I just clicked play and did whatever I needed in the meantime, in a few cases I even fast forwarded through half of the episode when it was really bad and it was hurting me even to only listen to it
Episodes 120-143 - Again, I don't remember the exact ep, but I said to myself that since it's nearing end of the series, the quality is ought to go up. It wasn't necessarily true. Most of the epsidoes near end were as crappy as your average nettou hen episode. Few of them held some kind of promise(mainly those Ranma+Akane focused), but none of them 'SURPRISINGLY' resulted into anything meaningful. If you want at least some kind of a 'progress' episode, you have to wait for the last two eps and let me warn you, even those don't mean or change anything in the end.
So yeah, it left me angry and unsatisfied after finish, cursing myself once again for being such a completionist.
I started watching the OVAs and so far, it looks like another Love Hina case. With Love Hina it somehow made sense, because they had only 26 episodes in the original, not enough to execute the whole hate turning into romance scenario, but with Ranma it is pure bullshit. Pardon my language, but there is no milder way to say it. What is the point then? What is the point of making and from viewer's side watching 161 episodes(130 of them deadly boring) with 0 development and then concluding it all in 10 standard lenght OVAs?!
If this series had some decent conclusion, it could have been much better in general - this may sound desparate, but even a damn kiss in the very last episode would save this A LOT! But this way, it was completely worthless. It's not exactly bad, but like I said, worthless and pointless. If I knew, I'd watch the first season and then jump straight to OVAs, would save me a hella lot of time!