Oh look, someone is doing a reverse Interstella 5555.

Clarity edit: For those who don't know and won't look it up, Intersella 555 is a very strange animated film that was based around one of Daft Punk's albums. In fact, the movie has no dialogue and is played entirely to the album. It features a band of aliens, a literal band like instruments, that gets kidnapped and taken to Earth where they're recolored to look like humans and their memories are changed, much like in this image set, except from alien to human not human to alien. It's a pretty interesting experiment in animation and worth a watch if you like Daft Punk.

Last edited on 28 April 2017, 02:10 UTC.

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I thought exactly the same !

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Honestly, the 4th page hit, and "Better Harder Faster" started playing in my head XD

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This should be named "Ranmars 1/2".

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"Ranmars ½ - Better, harder, faster, deeper."

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And they even got Kasumi! The artist sure likes to put a shine on the gold. And the machine's got no clue what to make of Akane's mind.... :) Onwards to Helium!

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[DAFT PUNK INTENSIFIES]

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interstella 5555?

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The artist has stated that Female Ranma will be in this. She just hasn't been introduced yet.

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God I hope it's not one of those 'Mousse saves Shampoo', 'Ryoga saves Ukyo' (made more likely by him being in her memories rather than Ranma), 'Ranma saves the Tendo girls' cliched stories.

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I like to blame the oxygen deprivation. Slave Auctions always mean crowd filler. I wonder if we'll see a cameo of any War of the Worlds aliens, Santa Claus, Gwen Ten, or Lum?

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Well, I'll be damned, The artist even remembered Akane's classmates Yuka and Sayuri. Yuka should have brown hair, though.

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Maglad: The story may not be drawing much inspiration from Interstella 5555, but you cannot watch the segment for Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger and not see a resemblance between it and pages 4-11 of this comic.

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The scene where the other girls are turned into another color and have their memories changed is absolutely based on Interstellar 5555.

See for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAjR4_CbPpQ

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And now Ranma-chan will have to play a brainwashed slave girl to infiltrate the bad guy HQ.

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Maglad- Since it's a Ranma comic first, the main idea is "Ranma and/or crew show up and everything goes crazy." I've read Burrough's John Carter, much of Ranma, and only enough of Gor to not read more of Gor. You do raise some very good points, and some proper traditionalist points, but I for one do not think that any of it is a wasted opportunity. So far, it's well-crafted, on-model, and humorous.

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[pg 34 or 30 by the internal numbering]

Wait, what?
Girl-ranma is saying she's always been green, but just last page she was complaining about them dying her skin. 😕

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Wait, so Ranma forgets that he was dyed green in the very next panel? o_O

Was he brainwashed or wasn't he? MAKE UP YOUR MIND, WHOEVER MADE THIS.

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Did everyone forget about Male Ranma behind Female Ranma in the last panel?

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@Hikikomori Gamer
No, we all saw it. It's just common enough in Ranma stories that nobody thought it worth mentioning. 😉

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@Maglad
Ukyo x Ranma-chan, pls.

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My problem with this comic? It's not sexy enough to really be good porn, and it's not got enough of a coherent plot to be a good non-pornographic doujinshi...Which leaves it little places to go.

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Cute riff on Edgar Rice Burroughs' _A Princess of Mars_ that appears to be loosing its focus.

To be fair to the writer there are times in the manga where things are not consistent; like Sham Pu not even considering why the Guide would be there with two strangers. Heck, one of the reasons the anime is so different is Sham Pu was popular so she showed up way earlier then in the manga.

As for "Ranko" wearing gold, a common trope in sci-fi is what we consider valuable may be viewed as worthless in another culture. In the "Treasure of the Lost Planet" episode of _Lost in Space_, the treasure of a pirate who was from a planet filled with silver, gold, and gemstone turns out to be simple pig iron. In Catspaw (Star Trek) gemstones like rubies, sapphires, and diamonds can be manufactured and so are worthless. The female Draenei PC in WoW can comment "This planet has a tremendous supply of sandstone. The inhabitants must be wealthy beyond their dreams."

In fact, in the novel Utopia silver and gold are used for chamber-pots and close-stools (portable toilets) and anything else that gives the metals low esteem...which is why slaves in Utopia are the only people who wear the metals.

Last edited on 19 August 2017, 11:35 UTC.

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Per the artist's comments on his DA: Going from "they dyed my skin" to "it's always been green" was a continuity error and a mistake and he owns that, didn't catch it until someone pointed it out. Far as having male and female Ranma out at the same time, an explanation will be provided and he concedes that the story is departing from standard Ranma 1/2 stuff (I have no comment on this, never watched/read it).

Also, to Maglad and anyone else commenting on the costumes, apparently the author is contemplating a Patreon account, and one of the perks will be a pastie-free version of this comic.

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Actually having male and female Ranma out at the same time is NOT departure from the "standard" Ranma 1/2 stuff as it was in the manga as part of the Mirror Mansion saga.

In the anime Copycat Ken allowed female Ranma to fight male Ranma (Ken in disguise).

So people complaining about there being two Ranma don't know Ranma 1/2 as well as they think they do.

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Impressive how the slinky golden suit stays in place even while she is fighting the two guards. Is it glued to her body or something?

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Oh shit, Ranma has become Miss Martian. LOL!

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I claim this gallery in the name of Mars!!!

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Jazzy81, I assume nipple clamps/rings keep it in place.

Honestly I think it liiked great when she had pale skin, but am I the only one that thinks it looks weird with the green skin background now? ;aybe another color would be good, like switching from gold to light purple, light blue, or white silk straps. Can still have gold accesdsories but.. well, gold on green just looks weird.

But my real question though, is, why does male Ranma appear with clothes on? It wouldnt have been that hard to make him appear named and then add a text bubble stating "then I took the clothes of one of the guards".

Anyway, since we have male ranma around, I guess most of the girls can go into his harem now?

By the way I think I haven't mentioned before: I really like the color shading and light on the art

Last edited on 19 August 2017, 23:12 UTC.

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Super disappointed with this twist.

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Throughout all this, the most annoying thing is that the artist STILL gives Akane - who had brown eyes in the anime - blue eyes, and Ukyo - who had blue eyes in the anime - brown eyes.

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pg35, wow Ryoga is bad with directions AND grammer.

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@MitchellTF
Ranma splitting in two is one thing, but when one of those Ranma have their personality changed and doesn't even remember who they are... this ruins the whole concept of Ranma. Granted if say the female Ranma ONLY started hitting on her male self it could create some somewhat interesting scenes... but then you remember mirror clone story and realize that it wouldn't work. Ranma would not really care and wouldn't accept the female self at all. So the story can't really go any good place from there.

Having a female Ranma that isn't "Ranma" in her mind go after other males would just be boring and painfully ooc. It would be pretty disgusting.

@arcesp
It is a commission so the artist is bound by the restrictions of the one that is doing the commission. Anyone can make a new commission, but ironically enough people that make these kind of bad commissions often have money that they pour into it... I mean how much do you think a project like this would cost the person making the commission? At the very least 500usd... why would an artist turn down such an offer even if they found the story to be poorly written?

But here is an idea. Get in contact with the artist and make your own commission. Have him make a retake that starts from the point you suggested and ignores that other stuff. Think of it as two branching stories that started from the same point.

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The Black Thunder of Martian High!

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These green martians are missing a few limbs.

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I knew i heard the word "Quatloos" before! Star Trek TOS: "The Gamesters of Triskelion"!!!

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So, are we just doing Movie 2?

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Can you quit with this fighting filler and get to the hentai stuff already? Cheers.

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I have no idea what the hell is going on anymore, but I guess I'm committed now...

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The time when a doujinshi (right?) going too far you've lost all your libido :)

I dunno how u guys feel but there are times I thought it just a normal run of the real Ramma 1/2, just with a far worse script =)).

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Alright, this is going nowhere and I am totally flaccid. Get to the hentai already.

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At last, saw tits at p72.

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i don't even know why i keep checking the update. this is a regular comic nothing erotic

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Is it me or does the whole "brainwashing" aspect seem like it was abandoned?

Last edited on 09 July 2018, 04:27 UTC.

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@ Morgan_Maximara
Who is this "Ranko" you speak of? There was never any such character in the Ranma manga or the anime. Is it some sort of fanon character or something?
As for your comment about gold and other precious metals and minerals. Are you really correct? Think about it. Even if a substance is seen as worthless on one planet, as soon as interstellar travel is created and trade established... what was once seen as worthless can be a precious local treasure. Say Eden needs salt? But salt simply can't be found anywhere in their galaxy and every planet that has salt are hoarding it. Now all of a sudden the need for trade is created. To me though, girls wearing gold or silver etc are more about being aesthetically pleasing. Even if the metal/mineral itself isn't worth much, it functions as bling bling that can often highlight he beauty of the slave. Same goes with the color on the girls. Some of the girls would look good with red skin while others would look terrible having that color. For instance female Ranma looks pretty bland with green skin but would have looked spectacular if her skin was made red or snow white.

As for character popularity changing the story in the anime? If that was the only liberty they had taken the anime might not have been such a disappointment at times. The real problem was the creation and introduction of anime only characters that while not adding anything of value to the story themselves, still managed to steal screen time from the canon characters from the manga. At some points for no reason at all an anime character only was created and replaced the original manga character in a scene and made the episode worse for it. While there are other characters that are victims of this, no character was subjected more to this than the Blue Thunder himself. Having his importance and scenes outright stolen from him, some of them being some of his most memorable scenes in the manga, One episode only characters showed up and stole the spotlight and changed the whole plot (as seen in the delivery race episode). And then there was his ninja dwarf Sasuke, one of the most loathsome Scrappy's in any anime. His inclusion changed the whole idea of what the Kuno family were, making Tatewaki look even more of a buffoon than he did in the manga... his interaction also stole many/all? scenes that Tatewaki had with Gosenkugi... replacing the voodoo enthusiasts ans the Blue Thunder's sometimes confidant. Most, nay ALL of Tatewaki's major story arcs involving his pigtailed girl were ruined in the anime.

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Okay...this comic is just...nothingness. The characters barely even act like people, it drags like heck...and it abandons the "Ranmaness" pretty quick. The brainwashing is brushed over...or ignored. Ranko is written out...there's no attempt at getting home...And it's 80 pages of...RANDOMNESS.

Ilyia, while it's not been mentioned. Ranko IS "Female Ranma." It is a fan nickname.

Last edited on 22 July 2018, 19:41 UTC.

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Will something actually happen?

Will our heroes(?) find a plot?

Find out next time on whatever the fuck this has become!

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The Sailor Scouts, because "why not".

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star wars crossover btw...

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Even brainwashed and with her memory erased, Akane is still a cunt.

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