- Released By : VIZ Video
- Length : 78 minutes
- Language : English & Japanese
- Subtitle : English
- Region : 1
Contains episodes "Curse of the Scribbled Panda," "Legend of the Lucky Panda," and "Mystery of the Marauding Octopus Pot!"It's not easy being a teen-aged martial artist named Ranma Saotome, but it's even worse when your martial artist father Genma takes you from home at an early age to go on a decade-long training mission. He doesn't speak a word of Chinese, and yet he insists on bringing you to the cursed training ground known as JUSENKYO, where falling into one of many springs instantly turns you into whoever - or whatever - drowned there last. And then, the two of you have this little accident.ôCurse of the Scribbled Pandaö: Ranam and the others visit an exhibit of cursed Chinese paintings at a local festival. During a scuffle over food between Genma and Ranma, the exhibit is crashed into and three scary monsters depicted in the paintings are unleashed upon the world! Two of the paintings depict traditional demons (which Soun, Happosai and Genma must fight), while the third demon-a very girlish demon-declares she won't go back into her painting unless Ranma takes her out on a dateà ôLegend of the Lucky Pandaö: The Saotome School of Martial Arts is a harsh school indeed, and, according to Genma, the training never ends! Tumbling off a cliff one day and into a rver, Genma (in prolonged panda form) finds himself deep in a rural, almost feudal Japanese village. There's Kanna, who's identical to Akane; Kotaro, who looks just like Ranma; not to mention Kuno and others! Can it be that Genma really is the ôLucky Pandaö of local legend, or is it that he's more like a curse? ôMystery of the Marauding Octopus Pot!ö: Perhaps business and pleasure really shouldn't mixà.For Soun and Genma, an all-expenses-paid trip to a picturesque seaside village to combat a mysterious, marauding ô octopus potö mostly means the villagers have to pick p the tab for the two's all-you-can-eat sashimi. After Ranma is attacked by this some how familiar critter, all three martial artists pander: who in the world could possibly fit into such a small space as a ceramic, octopus-catching crock? And even if they're right about the crook in the crock, can they capture it without also implicating themselves?!