Voice actor Jun Fukuyama is joining the voice cast of the ongoing second season of the Ranma 1/2 TV anime series. Season two began airing in Japan on October 4, 2025 and is also streaming on Netflix worldwide in select countries and territories.
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Fukuyama will voice the leader of the school’s drama club and is expected to appear in the second season’s 10th episode (22nd episode overall in the series), which will premiere on December 6, 2025.
A short preview video for the upcoming episode was also released.
Konosuke Uda is directing the second season after working on season one, with other returning staff including Hiromi Taniguchi as character designer and co-chief animation director, Kimiko Ueno as series composer, and Kaoru Wada as music composer. MAPPA is handling the animation production.
Nao Naito and Rie Aoki are credited as main animators, with Masahiro Kurio also joining as a new main animator for the second season.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast stars:
- • Kappei Yamaguchi as Ranma Saotome
- • Megumi Hayashibara as female Ranma
- • Noriko Hidaka as Akane Tendo
- • Minami Takayama as Nabiki Tendo
- • Kikuko Inoue as Kasumi Tendo
- • Akio Otsuka as Soun Tendo
- • Cho as Genma Saotome
- • Koichi Yamadera as Ryoga Hibiki
- • Rei Sakuma as Shampoo
- • Kenichi Ogata as the Narrator
- • Tomokazu Sugita as Tatewaki Kuno
- • Ayane Sakura as Kodachi Kuno
- • Toshiyuki Morikawa as Tofu Ono
- • Mamoru Miyano as Mikado Sanzenin
- • Aoi Yuki as Azusa Shiratori
- • Toshihiko Seki as Mousse
- • Kaori Nazuka as Ukyo Kuonji
- • Kazuhiko Inoue as Happosai
- • Mayama Ako as Cologne
- • Akira Ishida as Hikaru Gosunkugi
The first 12-episode season premiered in Japan on October 5, 2024 and concluded on December 22, 2024. It is also streaming exclusively on Netflix.
Rumiko Takahashi’s original Ranma 1/2 manga series was serialized on Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday from August 19, 1987 to March 6, 1996. A total of 38 tankobon volumes were published in Japan.
The manga series first inspired an 18-episode anime in 1989. It was followed by Ranma 1/2: Nettou-hen, which aired from 1989 to 1992 with 143 episodes.
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Viz Media releases the Ranma 1/2 manga in English and describes the series as:
Being a teenage martial artist isn’t easy, especially for Ranma Saotome. During a training mission, Ranma takes an accidental dunk in a legendary cursed spring in China. Now, every time he’s splashed with cold water, he changes into a girl! That would be enough to complicate anyone’s life, even without the arranged fiancée who doesn’t like him (or says she doesn’t) and the constant stream of rivals and suitors for both his male and female forms. What’s a half guy, half girl to do?
Sources: Ranma 1/2 Official Twitter, Anime News Network
