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Second Television Series - Season 2
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Episodes
13 - 24 Season
overview: Episode 13: らんまの弱点
1-18|Nettohen 1-22|23-46|47-70|71-94|95-118|119-143|
More information began to appear about the second season of Ranma 1/2 on May 23rd when artwork for Mousse debuted, however it was not until June 22nd that the new casting annoucements concerning Mousse, Ukyo, Happosai, Cologne and Gosunkugi were made. This was just a few weeks ahead of the annoucement that Takahashi's then on-going series, MAO would also be receiving an anime from Sunrise.
Ranma no jakuten
(Ranma's Weakness)
Hikaru Gosunkugi, a strange student at Furinkan High is photographing Ranma and complaining. It seems that he too is in love with Akane and has developed an enmity for Ranma due to his engagement to Akane. As Gosunkugi continues to watch and photograph both Ranma and Akane, Ranma confronts him, and Gosunkugi swipes a hair from Ranma's head in an attempt to curse him with an occult ceremony. Kuno launches his usual attack on Ranma and is easily defeated, when Gosunkugi offers to discover Ranma's weakness in order to humiliate him. Kuno uses the opportunity to make Ranma promise that if Kuno defeats Ranma, Ranma will arrange a date for Kuno and the Pig-tailed Girl. Ranma feels confident no one will ever discover his weakness and so he readily accepts.
Gosunkugi begins to openly question everyone in the Tendo Household about Ranma's supposed weakness, which makes Akane curious about what it could be. Ranma assures her that he does not have a weakness, but when Hanachiyo, the neighbor's cat that Kasumi is watching goes missing, Ranma ends up finding it in a bush and screaming in horror. As it turns out, Genma reveals that due to a malicious and ill-conceived training regimen when Ranma was ten years old, involving dumping Ranma into a pit of cats while he was wrapped in sardines, Ranma has developed an overwhelming fear of cats. The rest of the family is in disbelief but take the opportunity to cover Ranma in felines just to see if it's true. While attempting to recover that night, Akane and Ranma discuss his fear, while Kasumi places Hanachiyo in a cat carrier so it does not bother Ranma any further. Using that opportunity, Gosunkugi sneaks up and opens the box, discovering Ranma's secret fear. The next day at school, Ranma and Akane receive a letter from "Akane" saying that she needs help and is being held captive in the gym. Ranma and Akane go to investigate only to find Gosunkugi cross dressing as Akane. Gosunkugi springs a trap for Ranma, but ends up dropping Akane into the basement of the gym. Ranma follows and quickly finds that Gosunkugi has filled it with cats. Ranma resists as best he can, but then Gosunkugi reveals he also placed a tiger in in with them. Akane points out that a tiger would scare anyone, and Ranma's feat reaches its pinnacle, causing him to begin to yowl like a cat.
In the gym, Kuno comes running to see if Gosunkugi's handiwork has paid off, only for Ranma to leap from the basement hole and attack Kuno, shredding his boken like it was paper. Ranma himself has transformed into a cat, as he has mastered the dreaded Cat Fist that Genma attempted to teach him so long ago. With his personality transformed into that of a cat, Ranma goes on a rampage, shredding things and jumping into around the school. Genma arrives in an attempt to calm him down, but fails, leaving Akane with a bag of catnip to use. The catnip works and Ranma leaps into Akane's lap where he shares a brief kiss with her, which embarrasses Akane enough that she punches him into the sky. Ranma lands in the swimming pool with no memory of what has occurred and Akane marches home in embarrassment.
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