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Ranma 1/2

Also known as Ranma ½.

Studio: Studio DEEN , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Kitty Film , Viz Media , Fuji TV , Selecta Visión
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

After taking a surprise dip in a cursed spring while on a training journey in China, martial artist Ranma Saotome and his father, Genma, aren't quite themselves anymore. Now Ranma turns into a girl whenever he's splashed with cold water, and Genma turns into a panda!

Their new forms cause nothing but confusion at the Tendou dojo, where Soun Tendo is waiting to introduce one of his three daughters to Ranma - as his fiancee! Turns out Genma and Soun arranged the match long ago, but the girl, Akane, and the boy, Ranma, aren't exactly crazy about the idea, or each other! Or are they? Watch the gender switching, jealous rages, and martial arts battles unfold all over again!



Note: Episodes 7-9 of Ranma 1/2: Nettou-hen were originally meant to be seen between episodes 13 and 14 of this series.

Tags: Gender Bending , Family Life , Martial Arts , Slapstick , Heterosexual , Mixed Gender Harem , Arranged Marriage , Tsundere , Episodic , Nudity , Female Harem , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Cohabitation , Animals , Male Harem , Cultivation , Ojou-sama , Shogi

Tetsuwan Birdy

Also known as Birdy the Mighty.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Bandai Visual , Central Park Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Tsutomu, a perfectly average student, is busy studying for his high school exams when he stumbles into a police chase in progress. Caught in the crossfire, the boy is hit and on the verge of death when he's approached by a young woman. Birdy is on the scene and, by joining her consciousness with his, manages to save him from his imminent demise. Now they share a body and will have to learn to live together as she continues her career, capturing criminals and saving lives as an interplanetary police agent.

Tags: Gender Bending , Aliens , Body Swapping , Henshin , Urban , Shapeshifting , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Super Power , Tokusatsu , Male Protagonist , Nudity

Tetsuwan Birdy DECODE

Also known as Birdy the Mighty: Decode.

Studio: Aniplex , A-1 Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Tsutomu Senkawa is an average high school kid who is busy studying for his senior entrance exams. Tsutomu goes out for some fresh air, after a hard day's work studying for a big test, when he runs into a guy fleeing from a pretty young lady. The pursued man is actually an interplanetary criminal on the run from a Federation agent called Birdy Cephon Altera. Caught in the midst of this chase, Tsutomu gets thrown by the man at Birdy, which kills Tsutomu. Fortunately for Tsutomu, there is a way to keep him alive, although it comes at the price of discarding his body. He ends up merged into Birdy's body.

Tags: Aliens , Dissociative Identities , Urban Fantasy , Robots , Body Swapping , Seinen , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Gender Bending , Tokusatsu

Tetsuwan Birdy DECODE:02

Also known as Birdy the Mighty: Decode 02.

Studio: Aniplex , A-1 Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Birdy and Tsutomu are still co-existing in the same body, as Birdy continues her duties as Federation Investigator and celebrity persona, and Tsutomu seeks to balance them with his normal everyday life. When a criminal group connected to the Ryunka incident escape from custody, hiding themselves and their alien identities on Earth, Birdy and Tsutomu are thrown back into action. It seems, however, that there are other forces involved, as well as old faces, which give Birdy time to reflect on the past, and the people that influenced her.



Tags: Gender Bending , Aliens , Body Swapping , Dissociative Identities , Robots , Time Manipulation , Seinen , Henshin , Tokusatsu , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist

Lupin III

Also known as Lupin the 3rd.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy

Hard-boiled, cocky, classy and silly. These words only begin to describe the amazing master thief Lupin the Third. With the help of some quick gunplay by his partner Jigen, Lupin takes on the world in elaborate heists, classic car chases, and nasty explosions. Fujiko, a buxom redhead with a penchant for betrayal, always gets tangled up in Lupin's capers. The stoic but swift swordsman Goemon is just as inclined to kill Lupin as he is to help him. And Lupin can never seem to lose the relentless Tokyo Police Inspector Zenigata. What sort of trouble will this band of misfits get into next?



Tags: Seinen , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Episodic , Crime , Male Protagonist , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Mafia , Detective , Cars , Police , Samurai , Travel , Crossdressing , Football , Yakuza , Prison

Ranma 1/2: Nettou-hen

Also known as Ranma ½ (1989).

Studio: Fuji TV , Kitty Film , Studio DEEN
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

Ranma Saotome, the boy who turns into a girl with a splash of water, always has his hands full fending off crazed admirers. One of the most fanatical is Shampoo, a girl from a tribe of Chinese Amazons who tried to kill girl Ranma, was defeated by boy Ranma, and then proposes marriage to him due to her clan's rule. Things get a little crazier when Shampoo falls into a cursed spring and turns into a cat! And even crazier when Mousse, who is in love with Shampoo, challenges Ranma to a battle over... Ranma's fiancee, Akane...?



Note: Episodes 7-9 were originally meant to be seen between episodes 13 and 14 of the original series.

Tags: Arranged Marriage , Gender Bending , Mixed Gender Harem , Martial Arts , Episodic , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Shounen , Female Harem , Male Harem , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Cultivation , Nudity , Slapstick , Animals , LGBTQ+ Themes , Shogi , Time Manipulation , Cohabitation

Meitantei Conan

Also known as Case Closed.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Yomiuri TV , Animax , YTV , TMS-Kyokuchi
Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Mystery , Psychological

Kudo Shinichi is a seventeen year-old high school detective whom people call the "Modern Sherlock Holmes." However, one night after a date with his childhood sweetheart, Ran, Shinichi witnessed an illegal trade and, caught off his guard, was knocked unconscious and fed a drug that was supposed to kill him... but he woke up and found himself shrunken to a seven year-old. In order to track down the men who did this to him, Shinichi hid his identity and lived with Ran, whose father happened to be a hopeless detective, and with that came a series of murders and mysteries that he must solve.



Note:
Includes Keisatsu Gakkou-hen - Wild Police Story in episodes 1029, 1038, 1042, 1061
Episodes 11, 52, 76, 118, 162, 184, 208, 342, 356, 449, 452, 487, 488, 489, 490, 515, 516, 521, 522, 651, 734, 804, 805, 927, 928 aired with a runtime of ~50 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.
Episodes 96, 129, 174, 219, 263, 304, 383, 479 aired with a runtime of ~90 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.
Episode 345, 425 aired with a runtime of ~115 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.


Tags: Detective , Tragedy , Crime , Espionage , Age Regression , Conspiracy , Police , Male Protagonist , Fugitive , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Primarily Teen Cast , Criminal Organization , Heterosexual , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast , School , Educational , Tsundere , Crossover , Love Triangle , Football , Martial Arts , Tanned Skin , Ojou-sama , Female Harem , Tomboy , Karuta , Magic , Idol , CGI , Video Games