AniWorthRanpou
Introduction
TV anime adaptation of Masatoshi Uchizaki's gag comedy manga "Ranpou".
Mild-mannered Japanese kid Rampou is kidnapped by aliens whose UFO-based experiments turn him into a warp boy who truly believes that he can do anything.
(Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.13/10 · 146
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Audience reviews
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ProxyLain
A forgotten work, and one that will probably remain forgotten like most of the good works in existence.
The opening itself says it's a crazy anime, and that's literally what it is.
Ranpou follows the episodes divided into two parts in a single episode, each part with a different insane story. At least at the beginning, most of the episodes are about the characters getting into fisticuffs for some stupid, nonsensical reason because of Ranpou, and it's very funny.
There's not much to say about an insane comedy, just that it's very funny, it's hardly ever not funny. Of course, not all episodes are that funny, but most are.
One episode references Macross and Minky Momo, two 80s classics.
One thing you can't help but notice is how extremely good the animation is here. There's a lot of sakuga…
Read at the sourcejadedXotaku
Damn is the opening theme with Chika Sakamoto (who also voiced the titular character) truly infectious. Some anime is so obscure they get almost completely forgotten, and Ranpou unfortunately falls into that category. When I'd checked hashtags for this on instagram when I originally saw an episode (that I now know was ep. 11) back in 2018, zero posts came up. Not until trying the tag in hiragana did I find anything, and even then there were few. Ranpou the Flying Warped Boy (or Rampoo) was a 21 episode series originally aired on Fuji Television in 1984, about a handsome teenager who's turned into a short perverted blonde haired menace by a UFO. Why? Because fuck it. And inevitably, hilarity ensues. No home releases in any country to my knowledge, though the full series can now be found onl…
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