So can't get enough or Ranma 1/2 or maybe just curious to see what all the hype is all about? Well here are some movie clips (MOV format) that you should check out! All the clips are intros to various Ranma 1/2 series in Japanese, so they contain really good theme songs as well as great art! I highly recommend each one, but some more than others. I gave ratings for each clip with stars, a maximium of four being the best, so you have an opinion on which ones to get first if you aren't going to get them all (sure, getting them all may sound quite a crazy thing to do, but like Lay's potato chips, you can't just have one. =) ). Due to the video clips' large sizes they may be hard to obatin. However I think your time will be well spent (unless your internet provider charges by the hour! =) ) if you decide to download any of these. The majority of these movies were recorded in 320X240 resolution in millions of colors with a sound quality of 16-bit 22kHz mono (excellent audio/visual quality).

Ranma 1/2 Special Opening (DoCo 1-2) (24.7 megs) - **** - One of my favorite openings - catchy theme song too!

Ranma 1/2 Special Ending (DoCo 2-1) (28.5 megs) - *** - Christmas related clip - it's fairly long (hence the huge file size), but the video has a flying panda so it's alright then.

Ranma 1/2 Video Game Trailer (4.7 megs) - ** - Shows the intro for a Ranma 1/2 video game while playing the japanese TV intro 1 song (Yappappa...).

Ranma 1/2 TV Intro 1 (20.6 megs) - ** - The first Ranma 1/2 intro(?) for the series(every new season has new openings - I think). The intro music should sound familiar to anyone who has seen Ranma 1/2.

Ranma 1/2 TV Intro 2 (20 megs)- **** - Another one of my favorites - contains appearances of many of the main characters too.

Ranma 1/2 TV Intro 3 (19.7 megs) - *** -

Ranma 1/2 TV Intro 4 (17.5 megs) - *** - Pretty interesting intro - looks like it was done with some finger painting. Contains a very catchy theme song too.

Ranma 1/2 TV Intro 5 (19.1 megs) - *** - Another interesting intro (I don't mean that in a bad way).

Ranma 1/2 TV Intro 6 (19 megs) - **** - I really like this one! The theme song that goes with this has to be the best one out of the bunch!

Ranma 1/2 TV Intro 7 (19.6 megs) - ** -

The following DoCo music videos are all great! The art is especially good on these DoCo clips but they are drawn a bit differently. All of these files are quite big, but they are definately worth the download. All of the following are 320X240 video clips in millions of colors with sound in 16-bit at 22kHz. What should all this jargon mean? Translation: these are pretty nice looking/sounding video clips.

Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 1-3 (31.2 megs) - **** - Music video for Ranma DoCo Track 3 - Akai Kutsu no SUNDAY [Red Shoe Sunday]. If there were only one reason to get this, it would be to see Shampoo and her blimp.

Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 1-4 (32.4 megs) - *** - Music video for Ranma DoCo Track 4 - Usotsuki [Liar]. Subways and aquariums finally brought together.

Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 1-5 (32.3 megs) - *** - Music video for Ranma DoCo Track 5 - Sukoshi Dake Sakamichi [Only a Little Hill Road]. What do you get when you stick a dancing panda, pig, duck, and a cat together? Beats me, but somehow this video manages to pull it off.

Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 1-6 (29 megs) - **** - Music video for Ranma DoCo Track 6 - Omoide ga Ippai [Full of Memories]. Mostly of Akane at school.

Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 1-7 (29.1 megs) - *** - Music video for Ranma DoCo Track 7 - Kare [Boyfriend]. Kasumi just hanging out at the Tendo Dojo - cooking food like usual.

Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 2-2 (32.1 megs) - **** - Music video for Ranma DoCo Track 9 - Jugyouchuu no Shougakkou [In the Middle of Class of Elementary School]. Has the whole crew here, singing at a school.

Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 2-3 (32 megs) - ** - Music video for Ranma DoCo Track 10 - Owaranai Natsu Yasumi [Neverending Summer Vacation]. The animators got to get out more often.

Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 2-4 (34 megs) - **** - Music video for Ranma DoCo Track 11 - Kagayaku Sora to Kimi no Koe [A Glittering Sky and Your Voice]. ... and he/she can swim too!

Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 2-5 (35.9 megs) - *** - Music video for Ranma DoCo Track 12 - Koi ga Hitotsu Kiete Shimatta no [Love Vanished Once (Regrettably)].

Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 2-6 (38.8 megs) - **** - Music video for Ranma DoCo Track 13 - FUKUZATSU-na Ryouomoi (Live Version) [Complex Two Thoughts] .Very cool, the female Ranma 'gang' in concert.

The MOV files here are basically the same as the full sized DoCo videos except they are considerably smaller in size. Although they aren't quite small in size (from 3-7 megs in size), they are a lot easier to download. The difference between these files from the full sized ones are that these are 1/4 the picture size (160 X 120 X millions) and have a 8-bit 11kHz sound. These compact versions of the full doco clips are actually of pretty decent quaity.

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo Music Video 1-1 (2.9 megs) -

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo Music Video 1-2 (6.1 megs) -

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 1-3 (6.0 megs) - Also availible here

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 1-4 (7.3 megs) - Also availible here

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 1-5 (6.2 megs) - Also availible here

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 1-6 (5.7 megs) - Also availible here

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 1-7 (5.6 megs) - Also availible here

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 2-1 (6.8 megs) - Also availible here

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 2-2 (6.4 megs) - Also availible here

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 2-3 (6.3 megs) - Also availible here

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 2-4 (7.1 megs) - Also availible here

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 2-5 (7.5 megs) - Also availible here

Compact Ranma 1/2 DoCo music video 2-6 (7.5 megs) - Also availible here

Here are links to some MP2 audio files of the different Ranma 1/2 openers and closings from the TV series (each season had a different intro/outro song). Each of the files have been recorded in CD like quality (128kbit/sec stream), so these songs sound VERY good. They are also the full versions of the songs (what's heard on TV) so that makes them even better. So what the heck do these songs actually mean in English? Click here to see the English translations of a few Ranma 1/2 songs! Oh yeah, I also used a four star rating system as I did in the movies. As you see, all of the songs are either 3 or 4 stars.

Ranma 1/2 TV Opener 1 (3.2 megs) - *** - Jajauma ni sasenaide (Don't make me a shrew) - All of these opener music files are the full versions of the theme songs that correspond to the MOV TV intros.

Ranma 1/2 TV Opener 2 (3.9 megs) - **** - RITORU DEITO (Little Date).

Ranma 1/2 TV Opener 3 (3.6 megs) - *** - Omoide ga ippai (Full of memories).

Ranma 1/2 TV Opener 4 (3.3 megs) - **** - Zettai! (Absolutely!).

Ranma 1/2 TV Opener 5 (3.4 megs) - **** - Chikyuu OOKESUTORA (Earth Orchestra).

Ranma 1/2 TV Opener 6 (3.4 megs) - **** - Mou nakanaide (Don't cry any more)- This is my favorite opener.

Ranma 1/2 TV Opener 7 (4.7 megs) - *** - RAVU SHIIKAA Can't Stop It (Love Seeker Can't Stop It).

Ranma 1/2 TV Opener 8 (.5 megs) - ** - A short dialog involving Ranma and Akane.

Ranma 1/2 TV Closing 1 (3.3 megs) - *** - PURATONIKKU tsuranuite (Let's be Platonic).

Ranma 1/2 TV Closing 2 (4.1 megs) - **** - Equal ROMANSU (Equal Romance).

Ranma 1/2 TV Closing 3 (3.1 megs) - **** - Don't mind lay-lay Boy (Don't mind after-next boy).

Ranma 1/2 TV Closing 4 (3.1 megs) - **** - RAMBADA Ranma (Lambada Ranma)- This is my favorite closing of the bunch. The cool thing about it is that you get to hear most of the japanese characters' voices.

Ranma 1/2 TV Closing 5 (4.5 megs) - *** - Friends (Yawmin).

Ranma 1/2 TV Closing 6 (3.7 megs) - *** - Hinageshi (Red Poppy).

Ranma 1/2 TV Closing 7 (3.8 megs) - *** - Positive (Morikawa Miho).

Ranma 1/2 TV Closing 8 (3.9 megs) - *** - Niji to taiyou no oka (A hill with a rainbow and the sun).

All of the following songs are tracks from the Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo Collection CD (consists of both DoCo First and DoCo Second CDs). This CD contains, in my opinion, the best Ranma 1/2 songs. Most of the songs have an upbeat tempo that all sound great, but all the songs sound great! All the following MP3s are recorded at 128kbit/sec from a 16-bit Stereo 44.1kHz stream (close to CD quality). Although, if you do happen to stumble across the CD in a store, I would recommend in buying it!

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 1 (0.6 megs) - ** - Boku-tachi wa Kore Kara [Us After This] - Short and soft instrumental introduction to the Best of DoCo CD. Listening to this gives no hint of what the upcoming songs are like. This is rather slow and soft, while most of the DoCo songs have an upbeat tempo. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 2 (3.6 megs) - **** - An upbeat tune involving many of the female characters (sometimes incorrectly misinterpreted as the Ranma 1/2 Special Intro). Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 3 (4.3 megs) - **** - Akai Kutsu no SUNDAY [Red Shoe Sunday] - Shampoo and her friends pull off a snappy song. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 4 (4.3 megs) - *** - Usotsuki [Liar]. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 5 (3.3 megs) - *** - Sukoshi Dake Sakamichi [Only a Little Hill Road] - Has a slower tempo than most of the other songs. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 6 (3.5 megs) - **** - Omoide ga Ippai [Full of Memories] (DoCo Version). Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 7 (7.1 megs) - *** - Kare [Boyfriend]. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 8 (4.6 megs) - **** - Kiyoku Tadashii KURISUMASU [A Pure and Honest Christmas] - Upbeat tune christmas song - good song!(also sometimes known as the Ranma 1/2 Special Closing). Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 9 (4.5 megs) - **** - Jugyouchuu no Shougakkou [In the Middle of Class of Elementary School] - A very nice song with an upbeat tempo! Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 10 (4.2 megs) - *** - Owaranai Natsu Yasumi [Neverending Summer Vacation]. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 11 (3.7 megs) - **** - Kagayaku Sora to Kimi no Koe [A Glittering Sky and Your Voice] - Great tune (also sometimes known as a special intro). Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 12 (5.4 megs) - *** - Koi ga Hitotsu Kiete Shimatta no [Love Vanished Once (Regrettably)] - One of the few DoCo songs that has a slower tempo, but like ALL the DoCo songs, its good. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma 1/2 Best of DoCo track 13 (6.3 megs) - **** - FUKUZATSU-na Ryouomoi (Live Version) [Complex Two Thoughts] - This has got to be my favorite DoCo song! It involves Ranma-chan and her gang in a live concert, singing a very upbeat song. Get it!!! Temporary alternate file location.

The following songs are backround MP3 files - the backround music you hear during an episode of Ranma 1/2. All of these have been encoded at 128 kbit/sec (CD quality). A special thanks goes out to Christopher Figueroa Porreca for doing all the descriptions and ratings for the Background songs!!

Ranma BGM 1 (3.3 megs) - **** - First intro song, Yappappa, pretty catchy!!! . Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 2 (2.0 megs) - *** - Very speedy songs, appear very frequently in the series 'Two songs' 1)Action song, mostly used when there's a running scene, also used in a few battles. 2)Action song too, pretty cool drums, used in some fights. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 3 (2.2 megs) - *** - 1/2 Very fUnNy!!! 'Includes 3 songs' 1)Funny song, mostly used when Happosai is planning something nasty!!! 2)Funny song too, frequently used when happosai is doing some pervert thing... 3)Another funny song, used when something funny happens, probably Happosai again... ( = . Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 4 (2.9 megs) - **** - An excellent mix, it includes my favorite background music song!!! 'Includes 3 songs' 1)Pretty funny song, used a lot in the series, sounds like a circus song. 2)This one's got to be my favorite of the background music songs, it appeared in the skating saga, very cool song, get it!!! 3)A mythic song, makes you imagine you were in a bamboo forest somewhere in Japan.... Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 5 (1.8 megs) - *** - Strange combination a mean song, and a funny song??? 'Includes 2 songs' 1)Mystic song, used when Happosai escaped from the cave where he had been trapped for years, sound like a Samurai song, pretty intriguing , it's got a pretty deep bass-line. 2)Kind of Funny song, sound pretty electric, like a lot of little hammers smashing, and little coils going "booing"!!!. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 6 (1.8 megs) - ***1/2 - Very nice action songs, the second one's pretty cool!!! 'Includes 2 songs' 1)Action-like song, sounds like a jungle song, very cool drumming effect, lots of percussion, pretty cool "hammering" effect on the guitar. 2)Really cool song, pretty heavy guitar and drums, no too fast, but pretty aggressive, and the guitar's got a pretty cool mini-solo!!!. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 7 (2.8 megs) - **** - Although the first song isn't that great, Ryoga's songs rule!!!... specially the third one...'Includes 3 Songs' 1)A slow song, very mystic. 2)This is Ryoga's song, used when Ryoga is preparing for a fight, it rules!!! 3)Another one of Ryoga's songs, used when he's walking away, thinking about Akane as usual, it rules too!!!. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 8 (2.0 megs) - *** - Pretty Sentimental songs...'Includes 2 Songs' 1)Sentimental song, mostly used when characters are thinking about one another, used most of the times when Ryoga gets sentimental about Akane, Akane gets sentimental about Ranma, or ViceVersa, pretty slow, calm song. 2)This song's got an accordion in it, it was used when Satzuke went to live to the tendo Dojo for a couple of days, sounds pretty Italian. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 9 (2.2 megs) - ***1/2 - The Funny song, and the Western are pretty nice!!! 'Includes 4 songs' 1)sounds pretty scary, it's got an eerie violin in it... I don't know why, but it sound a bit funny too though?... 2)Really funny song, it's got a pretty speedy tempo, then it suddenly takes a pause and let's a pretty cool 'tremolo' effect sound, it's also got a pretty cool effect which sounds like air coming out of a tire, Sounds powerful!!! 3)Sounds like a funny western song, sometimes used in the ending scenes of some episodes. 4) 6 second, strange PIECE of song???...it ends with a choir chanting: "RAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNMMMMMMMMAAAAAAA!!!"???... ( =. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 10 (3.6 megs) - **** - Very cool song, sounds just like another Ranma 1/2 Intro song, or maybe just another DoCo song!!! 'Includes only one long song' 3:46 Minutes long, a portion of this song appeared in the skating saga, when the skating ring's fashion team appeared, and dressed up Ryoga and Ranma girl in pretty cool outfits, also used when the skating matches were about to begin, and when Akane was teaching Ranma how to skate. This song's got vocals in it, synthesizer solos, and a pretty cool piano. Very fast tempo, excellent song. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 11 (3.6 megs) - ***1/2 - very nice mix, it's a got a bunch of songs in it, from a funny song, to a pretty aggressive tune, to a sentimental song, kind of nice!!! 'Includes 5 songs!!!' 1) 6 second piece of song, begins like a funny song, and ends in a choir singing something. 2)Kind of funny song, sounds like an old Irish bag-pipe song, with the distinctive Ranma 1/2 humor. 3)Pretty funny song, it's got a cool effect, sound like if it was done with a straw [Like when things or people go up or come crashing down in some old cartoons] 4)Pretty aggressive song, used in most fights. 5)Same as RNMABK08, song 1, pretty Sentimental song, mostly used when characters are thinking about one another, used most of the times when Ryoga gets sentimental about Akane, Akane gets sentimental about Ranma, or ViceVersa, pretty slow, calm song.[Only that this one's got bass in it]. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 12 (1.8 megs) - *1/2 - I don't like the second one at all, the first one's kind of nice though... 'Includes 2 Songs' 1)Pretty nice song, very magical, kind of like a Zelda song, but it's got a cool Asian Flute in it, it was used when they took the old 'pitchers' {which were "supposed" to cure Ranma and Ryoga from their curse} to the three rocks up on the mountain top, pretty cool Asian type! 2)Sounds pretty classic, I don't like this one that much, it's mostly piano, sounds like Di' Blasio... . Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 13 (2.3 megs) - ***1/2 - The Jazz one's pretty cool, and the action one is very frequent in the episodes. 'Includes 3 songs' 1)kind of funny song, pretty Asian style too, it's got a pretty cool Asian Xylophone intro. 2)Cool JAZZ music, sound like a 1930's Mafia/Detective movie, with a very deep Bass and a very cool piano, and some background ahhhhhh!!!'s 3) Action song, used in a few fights and encounters. . Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 14 (1.4 megs) - *** The first song's pretty cool when trying to be scary!!! ( = 'Includes 2 songs' 1)Ghostly song, pretty eerie, it was used when the ghost in the Furinkhan school appeared. 2)Kind of slow, kind of funny, sounds like the songs used in the Pink Panther, 1930's style. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 15 (3.1 megs) - *1/2 - Much too sad song, the first one's kind of nice though, kind of sentimental... 'Includes 3 songs' 1)Pretty slow song, used when a character stands alone somewhere, thinking. [except Ryoga, Ryoga's got his own thinking song, it's in RNMABK07] 2)Sounds pretty classic, like the songs used in old Walt Disney movies, Snow White?...Slow orchestra type. 3)Very, very sad song, It's got a sad violin all the way, pretty sad... ) =. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 16 (3.9 megs) - 4)**** - Pretty cool, nice songs, the four of them rule, the first one's pretty magical, the second one's pretty speedy, the third one's pretty cool, and the last one's really funny. 'Includes 4 songs' 1)Sounds pretty magical, used in the old 'pitchers' episode. 2)Action theme, probably the best action theme, it's got a pretty cool 'slapping' bass, used in the best fights, very speedy song!!! 3)Speedy action song, used in a few battles, but mostly in chasing scenes, it's even got some amazing Mini-Drum solos, very nice!!! 4)Very, very nice, and VERY, VERY funny song, in fact the funniest song of them all, used in ending scenes, mostly concerning Happosai, oh yeah, and its got a cool effect which sounds like a car breaking, or a horse, see for yourself, very funny song, Get It!!!. Temporary alternate file location.

Ranma BGM 17 (3.3 megs) - *** - Kind of nice, very 80's like, Madonna?...NOT!!!...It's got a pretty cool base-solo though. 'Just one long song' The last background song, it's only got one song in it, pretty snappy, sounds like any other DoCo song, , but it's got a totally cool slapn' bass solo, very good reason to download this file!!!. Temporary alternate file location.

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Need a MOV player? I've found Apple's Quicktime movie viewer to be one of the best in its class. To find it, go to Apple's QuickTime Home Page. You should find a version there for both PCs and Macs. You might also notice that some of these files have the extensions GZ. This is just another compressed format, like ZIP. An extremely good program which decomresses these type of files (as well as a plethora of other compressed formats) is called WinZip. Go to the WinZip home page to find out more info or to download the program.

So, like the songs but still wondering what the heck the lyrics mean in english? The following are the lyrics for quite a few Ranma 1/2 songs including Japanese transliterations (in english). To see the actual Japanese characters, read on and find out.

All the Ranma 1/2 lyrics listed above in one archive with actual Japanese lyrics - Files can be viewed with any text editor but to see the actual Japanese characters, get NJSTAR Japanese Word Proccessor .

My knowledge of MP2 and MP3 files isn't that great. But what I do know is that they are near CD quality audio files that use complex algorithms to achieve ULTRA small file sizes(in comparison to WAV files). MP2 files are compressed with a 1:6 size ratio and MP3 are 1:10 (when recorded at 16-bit/stereo/44.1kHz) when compared to WAV files. The ratios increase even more when recorded originally at a lower sound quality. That is a huge difference in size, and best of all, the MPEG files sound great! Need a MP2/MP3 player? Well, all you really need is a decently fast computer (Pentium class+) and a sound card. Here are some links to audio MPEG player related files:

The following files are just a few that I liked of anime other than Ranma 1/2. Check them out if you're interested.

Tenchi Muyo! TV Movie Intro (avi format) (14.5 megs) - Cool Tenchi Muyo! TV series opener (full version of the song is listed above).

tenchi-op.zip - 4.0 megs : Tenchi Muyo! TV intro - full version! - A very good upbeat song! Get it!

Tenchi Muyo! OAV Movie Intro (mov format) (12.5 megs) - Cool Tenchi Muyo! OAV opener.