The Best Anime Like Ranma ½

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For Ranma ½ fans looking for more anime similar to the manga and anime's tone, style, concept, and theme, there are a number of titles to choose from. The following list ranks the best anime that are like Ranma ½, with the order determined by votes from anime fans like you. Based on the popular manga series by Rumiko Takahashi, the anime Ranma ½ originally aired in 1989 from April 15 to September 16. Of the story, Takahashi had noted the target audience was women and children. The 18-episode martial arts-themed anime, along with the manga, are considered among the first to make an impact on U.S. readers.

Similar anime to Ranma ½ include InuYasha, Urusei Yatsura, and Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, which also combines action, comedy, and martial arts. Other anime like Ranma ½ are Maison Ikkoku, Dragon Ball and its martial arts tournament, and Rin-ne, which shares another similarity with Ranma ½ with its supernatural element.

If you notice any anime like Ranma ½ missing, feel free to simply add them to the list yourself and help this recommendations list grow!

Most divisive: Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple

Over 300 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of Good Anime Like Ranma ½

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128 votes
InuYasha
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Inuyasha (Sunrise, 2000), also known as Inuyasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale, is a Japanese fantasy anime series based on the manga series by Rumiko Takahashi. A teenage girl periodically travels back in time to feudal Japan to help a young half-demon recover the shards of a jewel of great power.
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53 votes
Maison Ikkoku
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Maison Ikkoku is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It was serialized in Big Comic Spirits from November 1980 to April 1987, with the chapters collected into 15 tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan. Maison Ikkoku is a bitter-sweet comedic romance involving a group of madcap people who live in a boarding house in 1980s Tokyo. The story focuses primarily on the gradual developing relationships between Yusaku Godai, a poor student down on his luck, and Kyoko Otonashi, a young, recently widowed boarding house manager. The manga was adapted into a ninety-six-episode television anime series created by Studio Deen that ran on Fuji TV from March 26, 1986 to March 2, 1988. A Final Chapter movie, three OVAs, and a music special were also produced, with a live-action movie made by Toei in 1986. A live-action TV special aired in May 2007 on TV Asahi, with a finale aired in July 2008. Both the manga and anime have been released in North America by Viz Media.
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52 votes
Urusei Yatsura
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Extraterrestrials challenge Earth.
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62 votes
Fruits Basket
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Orphan Tohru Honda moves in with a classmate and his cursed family.
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44 votes
Rin-ne
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Rin-ne (NHK-E, 2015) is a Japanese supernatural slice of life anime series based on the manga by Rumiko Takahashi from Brain's Base animation studio. Sakura Mamiya has been able to see ghosts ever since she was little, but when she meets her ever-absent classmate for the first time, she realizes that he's far more than what he seems
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35 votes
Nisekoi: False Love
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To avoid a gang war, Raku Ichijo and Chitoge Kirisaki pretend to be lovers.
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60 votes
Kämpfer
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29 votes
Full Metal Panic!
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Anti-terrorist unit tries to protect a high school student.
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51 votes
Dragon Ball
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Goku and Bluma begin a quest to find the seven Dragon Balls.
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28 votes
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple
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Shiraham Kenichi begins training at a mysterious dojo after meeting a cute girl.
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51 votes
Naruto
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Naruto Uzumaki is is determined to develop his ninja skills.
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40 votes
Samurai Harem
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38 votes
Pokémon
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Ash, Brock and Misty battle to become great Pokémon trainers.
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18 votes
Cheeky Angel
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Cheeky Angel is a comedy romance action manga series by Hiroyuki Nishimori. The story revolves around the adventures of 15-year-old schoolgirl Megumi Amatsuka, a popular and beautiful tomboy that always get into fights with a secret: she used to be a boy. Originally a serial in Shōnen Sunday, it has been collected in 20 tankōbon volumes and adapted as a 50-episode anime series. In 2001, the manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen.
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26 votes
Stop! Hibari-kun
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19 votes
Cross Game
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Cross Game is a romantic comedy baseball manga series by Mitsuru Adachi that was serialized by Shogakukan in Weekly Shōnen Sunday between May 11, 2005 and February 17, 2010. It is collected in 17 tankōbon volumes, with the final volume published in April 2010, shortly after the end of the anime series. It received the 54th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga in 2009, and has been praised internationally as quietly brilliant and a great success. The series was adapted as a 50-episode anime television series that aired on the TV Tokyo network from April 5, 2009 to March 28, 2010. The first episode of the anime, which covers the time frame of the first volume of the manga, received high praise, even outside of Japan. Cross Game is the story of Ko Kitamura and the four neighboring Tsukishima sisters, Ichiyo, Wakaba, Aoba, and Momiji. Wakaba and Ko were born on the same day in the same hospital and are close enough that Wakaba treats Ko as her boyfriend, though nothing is officially declared, while Aoba, one year younger than them, hates how Ko is "taking" her sister away from her.
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19 votes
Slayers
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A sorceress and a swordsman join forces to battle a demon lord.
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19 votes
Ai Yori Aoshi
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An engaged college man lives in a house full of beautiful women.
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15 votes
Sexy Commando Side
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15 votes
The Mega-Burst Space OVA
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Kämpfer

Samurai Harem

Cheeky Angel

Stop! Hibari-kun

Cross Game

Sexy Commando Side

The Mega-Burst Space OVA