

Anime News Network's New York Comic-Con 2016 news coverage sponsored by Yen Press.

Anime News Network's New York Comic-Con 2016 news coverage sponsored by Yen Press.

Viz Media announced at its Otakon panel on Friday that it will rerelease the Ranma ½ original video animation (OVA) and all the Ranma ½ films on one Blu-ray Disc set in 2017.

The Ranma ½: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China ( Ranma ½: Chuugoku Nekonron Daikessen! Okite Yaburi no Gekitou Hen!! ) and Ranma ½: Nihao My Concubine ( Ranma ½: Kessen Tougenkyou! Hanayomewo Torimodose! ) films are sequels to the Ranma ½ television anime. Ranma ½: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China originally played in Japan as a double-feature with Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling . The films debuted in 1991 and 1992, respectively, and Viz Media released both films on VHS and DVD in the late 1990's.

Viz Media also released the Ranma ½ OVA series on VHS in 1998 and 1999, and later released the series on DVD. The series consists of three OVA sets: the six-episode Ranma 1/2 OVA , the two-episode Ranma 1/2 Special OVA , and the three-episode Ranma 1/2 Super OVA . Viz also released the half-hour Ranma ½: One Flew Over the Kuno's Nest (Ranma Nibun no Ichi: Chō Musabetsu Kessen! Ranma Team vs. Densetsu no Houō) film with the OVA.

Viz Media released the original television anime in remastered Blu-ray Disc sets March 2014 and May 2016.