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{{nihongo|'''''Cinderella Boy'''''|シンデレラボーイ|Shinderera Bōi|lead=yes}} is a [[One-shot (comics)|one-shot]] [[manga]] created by [[Monkey Punch]]. It was originally published in the [[Kobunsha]] magazine ''Popcorn'' in 1980. An alternate version was published in ''Anime DO'' in 1982. The plot follows the adventures of impoverished private detective Ranma Hinamatsuri and his thrill-seeking rich girl partner Rella "Cindy" Shirayuki in a futuristic city named "Kirin Town". Kirin Town is a lawless European city-state with its own currency with the name of the city being a pun on the English word for "killing". The two are badly injured when they stumble across an organised crime operation and are put back together into the same body by a mysterious doctor. Every night the stroke of midnight, their shared body changes both form and identity. Ranma becomes Rella, or vice versa. Neither is aware of any actions or situations their partner is involved in, completely losing consciousness until twenty-four hours later, when the change comes around to them again.<ref name="enoki">{{citation |author=Enoki Films staff |title=CINDERELLA BOY by Monkey Panch |url=http://enokifilmsusa.com/library/cinderella.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040527205211/http://www.enokifilmsusa.com/library/cinderella.htm | |
{{nihongo|'''''Cinderella Boy'''''|シンデレラボーイ|Shinderera Bōi|lead=yes}} is a [[One-shot (comics)|one-shot]] [[manga]] created by [[Monkey Punch]]. It was originally published in the [[Kobunsha]] magazine ''Popcorn'' in 1980. An alternate version was published in ''Anime DO'' in 1982. The plot follows the adventures of impoverished private detective Ranma Hinamatsuri and his thrill-seeking rich girl partner Rella "Cindy" Shirayuki in a futuristic city named "Kirin Town". Kirin Town is a lawless European city-state with its own currency with the name of the city being a pun on the English word for "killing". The two are badly injured when they stumble across an organised crime operation and are put back together into the same body by a mysterious doctor. Every night the stroke of midnight, their shared body changes both form and identity. Ranma becomes Rella, or vice versa. Neither is aware of any actions or situations their partner is involved in, completely losing consciousness until twenty-four hours later, when the change comes around to them again.<ref name="enoki">{{citation |author=Enoki Films staff |title=CINDERELLA BOY by Monkey Panch |url=http://enokifilmsusa.com/library/cinderella.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040527205211/http://www.enokifilmsusa.com/library/cinderella.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 27, 2004 |publisher=[[Enoki Films]] |accessdate=December 19, 2014 }}</ref> |
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==Characters== |
==Characters== |
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;{{nihongo|Ranma Hinamatsuri||}} : The acrophobic and technologically illiterate hero, he's constantly struggling to keep his agency self-supporting, partly because he regularly takes poorly paying cases out of a sense of chivalry. He also has no head for alcohol and collected model cars. Before becoming a detective, he was a local gangster who developed scruples. |
;{{nihongo|Ranma [[Hinamatsuri]]|雛祭 乱馬|Hinamatsuri Ranma}} : The acrophobic and technologically illiterate hero, he's constantly struggling to keep his agency self-supporting, partly because he regularly takes poorly paying cases out of a sense of chivalry. He also has no head for alcohol and collected model cars. Before becoming a detective, he was a local gangster who developed scruples. |
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;{{nihongo|Rella Shirayuki||}} : A wealthy and adventurous woman who joined with Ranma to create the R&R Agency. She has an enormous capacity for alcohol and loves gadgets and computers. She also has an eye for jewellery and can expertly distinguish real from fake at a glance. Her father is a major organised crime figure in Japan, and she is estranged from him. |
;{{nihongo|Rella Cindy Shirayuki|レラ・シンディ・白雪|Rera Shindi Shirayuki}} : A wealthy and adventurous woman who joined with Ranma to create the R&R Agency. She has an enormous capacity for alcohol and loves gadgets and computers. She also has an eye for jewellery and can expertly distinguish real from fake at a glance. Her father is a major organised crime figure in Japan, and she is estranged from him. |
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;Son Tai Jin: Top mobster in the city, whenever he sees Ranma he orders his men to kill him. However, he has a good reputation as a pillar of the community with the public at large. |
;{{nihongo|Son Tai Jin|孫 大人||Pinyin: Sūn Dàren}}: Top mobster in the city, whenever he sees Ranma he orders his men to kill him. However, he has a good reputation as a pillar of the community with the public at large. |
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;Alice: Mysterious woman who spies on Ranma and alternately saves him and sets him up to see what will happen. |
;{{nihongo|Alice|アリス|Arisu}}: Mysterious woman who spies on Ranma and alternately saves him and sets him up to see what will happen. |
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;Alamis de Panini: Wealthy buffoon who appears on every one of Rella's days to try to woo her. He is the son of a wealthy pharmaceutical manufacturer who Rella suspects of having poisoned her in Episode 5. |
;{{nihongo|Alamis de Panini|アラミス・デ・パニーニ|Aramisu de Panīni}}: Wealthy buffoon who appears on every one of Rella's days to try to woo her. He is the son of a wealthy pharmaceutical manufacturer who Rella suspects of having poisoned her in Episode 5. |
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;Dorothy: Rella's elderly and maternal maid who dislikes Ranma for his lack of class and leading her mistress into danger. She makes gadgets for her mistress. |
;{{nihongo|Dorothy|ドロシー・小津|Doroshī Ozu}}: Rella's elderly and maternal maid who dislikes Ranma for his lack of class and leading her mistress into danger. She makes gadgets for her mistress. |
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;Dr. Grimm: The scientist who fused Ranma and Rella's bodies into one using his Personality Fusion theory. |
;{{nihongo|Dr. Grimm|Dr.グリム|Dr. Gurimu}}: The scientist who fused Ranma and Rella's bodies into one using his Personality Fusion theory. |
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;Pinocchio: All-knowing underworld informant who enjoys making Ranma meet him on a window-washer's platform to do business. |
;{{nihongo|Pinocchio|ピノキオ|Pinokio}}: All-knowing underworld informant who enjoys making Ranma meet him on a window-washer's platform to do business. |
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;Tinker Bell: A net informant whose identity is unknown, Rella relies on her to gather information, it searches any information on the net. |
;{{nihongo|Tinker Bell|ティンカーベル|Tinkāberu}}: A net informant whose identity is unknown, Rella relies on her to gather information, it searches any information on the net. |
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;Wendy: Bar owner who is enthusiastically attracted to Ranma but is also one of Son Tai Jin's many girlfriends. |
;{{nihongo|Wendy|ウェンディ|Wendi}}: Bar owner who is enthusiastically attracted to Ranma but is also one of Son Tai Jin's many girlfriends. |
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| NativeTitle = 眠らぬ街の寓話 |
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| ShortSummary = Ranma and Rella are investigating a client's spouse when they learn that the casino where he is losing money is a front for an arms dealing operation. Their car crashes, apparently killing both of them, but Ranma reappears after a week, only to have the gangsters try to finish him off. |
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| Title = The Fairy In the Back Alley |
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| NativeTitle = 路地裏の妖精 |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|6|30}} |
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| ShortSummary = Rella reappears at midnight with no memory of how she ended up naked and falling into the hotel pool (as Ranma escaped from the gangsters). She takes on a missing persons case only to discover her employer is out to murder the missing teenager, and then Ranma reappears, wearing a dress in a women's locker room. |
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| Title = A Sweet Trap In The Toy Country |
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| NativeTitle = オモチャの国の甘い罠 |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|7|9}} |
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| ShortSummary = Concerned about his missing day while Rella was in control, Ranma goes to the hospital for a check-up, but stumbles across a dying man and ends up wanted for the murder. |
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| Title = The Sea Where the Beauty and the Beast Play |
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| NativeTitle = 美女と野獣のあそぶ海 |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|7|16}} |
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| ShortSummary = Rella finds herself in a sewer where Ranma was looking for a lost pet but quickly finds herself hired by a jeweller to use her uncanny resemblance to a foreign monarch to replace a fake piece of jewellery with the genuine article before their mistake is discovered, only to be caught up in schemes to kidnap and kill the real Queen Natasha. |
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| Title = Countdown of the Poisoned Apple |
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| NativeTitle = 時計仕掛けの毒リンゴ |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|7|23}} |
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| ShortSummary = Dorothy witnesses the transformation and informs her mistress who goes out to eat and gets a note telling her the dish is poisoned. She spends the rest of the day looking for the antidote only to have to hand the problem over to Ranma at midnight. |
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| EpisodeNumber = 6 |
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| Title = How To Cook Three Little Pigs |
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| NativeTitle = 子ブタの兄弟の料理法 |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|7|28}} |
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| ShortSummary = Alice's organisation is after three killers known as the Mad Pig Brothers who stole information from them, so she hires Ranma then tells the Mad Pigs he's coming. |
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| EpisodeNumber = 7 |
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| Title = Once Upon A Time, In A Dirty Town |
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| NativeTitle = 昔々、ゴミだらけの街で |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|8|6}} |
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| ShortSummary = In a retrospective, Ranma meets Rella for the first time when he's hired to find out where she lives, only to discover he's pointed the way for her to be killed and he needs to save her and his best friend. |
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| EpisodeNumber = 8 |
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| Title = An Angel In a Country of Gold |
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| NativeTitle = 黄金の国のエンジェル |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|8|11}} |
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| EpisodeNumber = 9 |
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| Title = A Bouquet for the Killer Angel |
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| NativeTitle = 殺しの天使に花束を |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|8|18}} |
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| Title = A Lying Red Riding Hood and an Honest Wolf |
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| NativeTitle = ウソつき赤ずきんとホントの狼 |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|8|25}} |
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| EpisodeNumber = 11 |
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| Title = The Lost Magician |
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| NativeTitle = 行方不明の魔法使い |
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|9|3}} |
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| Title = Who Has The Blue Bird? |
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| NativeTitle = 青い鳥は誰の手に? |
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| EpisodeNumber = 13 |
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| Title = Cinderella Does Not Sleep |
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| NativeTitle = シンデレラは眠らない |
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Cinderella Boy | |
シンデレラボーイ (Shinderera Bōi) | |
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Manga | |
Written by | Monkey Punch |
Published by | Kobunsha |
Magazine | Popcorn Anime DO |
Demographic | Seinen |
Published | 1980, 1982 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tsuneo Tominaga |
Produced by | Tetsuya Dobashi Tetsuo Kanno Hiroaki Shigematsu |
Written by | Michihiro Tsuchiya |
Music by | Kensaku Tanikawa |
Studio | Magic Bus |
Licensed by | |
Original network | WOWOW, AT-X, Television Niigata Network |
Original run | 21 June 2003 – 13 September 2003 |
Episodes | 13 |
Cinderella Boy (Japanese: シンデレラボーイ, Hepburn: Shinderera Bōi) is a one-shot manga created by Monkey Punch. It was originally published in the Kobunsha magazine Popcorn in 1980. An alternate version was published in Anime DO in 1982. The plot follows the adventures of impoverished private detective Ranma Hinamatsuri and his thrill-seeking rich girl partner Rella "Cindy" Shirayuki in a futuristic city named "Kirin Town". Kirin Town is a lawless European city-state with its own currency with the name of the city being a pun on the English word for "killing". The two are badly injured when they stumble across an organised crime operation and are put back together into the same body by a mysterious doctor. Every night the stroke of midnight, their shared body changes both form and identity. Ranma becomes Rella, or vice versa. Neither is aware of any actions or situations their partner is involved in, completely losing consciousness until twenty-four hours later, when the change comes around to them again.[1]
The names of the story's protagonists both reflect the nature of their change.
- Ranma shares a name with Ranma Saotome, the title character of Ranma ½, who also changes into a girl under certain conditions. However, the original Cinderella Boy manga predates Ranma ½ by several years.[2]
- Rella is named after Cinderella, who is known for undergoing a major change at the stroke of midnight. Her last name "Shirayuki" translates into "Snow White" and the episode titles also evoke fairytales.
Discotek Media have licensed the anime for a North American release.[3]
Characters
[edit]- Ranma Hinamatsuri (雛祭 乱馬, Hinamatsuri Ranma)
- The acrophobic and technologically illiterate hero, he's constantly struggling to keep his agency self-supporting, partly because he regularly takes poorly paying cases out of a sense of chivalry. He also has no head for alcohol and collected model cars. Before becoming a detective, he was a local gangster who developed scruples.
- Rella Cindy Shirayuki (レラ・シンディ・白雪, Rera Shindi Shirayuki)
- A wealthy and adventurous woman who joined with Ranma to create the R&R Agency. She has an enormous capacity for alcohol and loves gadgets and computers. She also has an eye for jewellery and can expertly distinguish real from fake at a glance. Her father is a major organised crime figure in Japan, and she is estranged from him.
- Son Tai Jin (孫 大人, Pinyin: Sūn Dàren)
- Top mobster in the city, whenever he sees Ranma he orders his men to kill him. However, he has a good reputation as a pillar of the community with the public at large.
- Alice (アリス, Arisu)
- Mysterious woman who spies on Ranma and alternately saves him and sets him up to see what will happen.
- Alamis de Panini (アラミス・デ・パニーニ, Aramisu de Panīni)
- Wealthy buffoon who appears on every one of Rella's days to try to woo her. He is the son of a wealthy pharmaceutical manufacturer who Rella suspects of having poisoned her in Episode 5.
- Dorothy (ドロシー・小津, Doroshī Ozu)
- Rella's elderly and maternal maid who dislikes Ranma for his lack of class and leading her mistress into danger. She makes gadgets for her mistress.
- Dr. Grimm (Dr.グリム, Dr. Gurimu)
- The scientist who fused Ranma and Rella's bodies into one using his Personality Fusion theory.
- Pinocchio (ピノキオ, Pinokio)
- All-knowing underworld informant who enjoys making Ranma meet him on a window-washer's platform to do business.
- Tinker Bell (ティンカーベル, Tinkāberu)
- A net informant whose identity is unknown, Rella relies on her to gather information, it searches any information on the net.
- Wendy (ウェンディ, Wendi)
- Bar owner who is enthusiastically attracted to Ranma but is also one of Son Tai Jin's many girlfriends.
Episodes
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1 | "A Fable of a Never-Sleeping Town" (Japanese: 眠らぬ街の寓話) | June 24, 2003 | |
Ranma and Rella are investigating a client's spouse when they learn that the casino where he is losing money is a front for an arms dealing operation. Their car crashes, apparently killing both of them, but Ranma reappears after a week, only to have the gangsters try to finish him off. | |||
2 | "The Fairy In the Back Alley" (Japanese: 路地裏の妖精) | June 30, 2003 | |
Rella reappears at midnight with no memory of how she ended up naked and falling into the hotel pool (as Ranma escaped from the gangsters). She takes on a missing persons case only to discover her employer is out to murder the missing teenager, and then Ranma reappears, wearing a dress in a women's locker room. | |||
3 | "A Sweet Trap In The Toy Country" (Japanese: オモチャの国の甘い罠) | July 9, 2003 | |
Concerned about his missing day while Rella was in control, Ranma goes to the hospital for a check-up, but stumbles across a dying man and ends up wanted for the murder. | |||
4 | "The Sea Where the Beauty and the Beast Play" (Japanese: 美女と野獣のあそぶ海) | July 16, 2003 | |
Rella finds herself in a sewer where Ranma was looking for a lost pet but quickly finds herself hired by a jeweller to use her uncanny resemblance to a foreign monarch to replace a fake piece of jewellery with the genuine article before their mistake is discovered, only to be caught up in schemes to kidnap and kill the real Queen Natasha. | |||
5 | "Countdown of the Poisoned Apple" (Japanese: 時計仕掛けの毒リンゴ) | July 23, 2003 | |
Dorothy witnesses the transformation and informs her mistress who goes out to eat and gets a note telling her the dish is poisoned. She spends the rest of the day looking for the antidote only to have to hand the problem over to Ranma at midnight. | |||
6 | "How To Cook Three Little Pigs" (Japanese: 子ブタの兄弟の料理法) | July 28, 2003 | |
Alice's organisation is after three killers known as the Mad Pig Brothers who stole information from them, so she hires Ranma then tells the Mad Pigs he's coming. | |||
7 | "Once Upon A Time, In A Dirty Town" (Japanese: 昔々、ゴミだらけの街で) | August 6, 2003 | |
In a retrospective, Ranma meets Rella for the first time when he's hired to find out where she lives, only to discover he's pointed the way for her to be killed and he needs to save her and his best friend. | |||
8 | "An Angel In a Country of Gold" (Japanese: 黄金の国のエンジェル) | August 11, 2003 | |
9 | "A Bouquet for the Killer Angel" (Japanese: 殺しの天使に花束を) | August 18, 2003 | |
10 | "A Lying Red Riding Hood and an Honest Wolf" (Japanese: ウソつき赤ずきんとホントの狼) | August 25, 2003 | |
11 | "The Lost Magician" (Japanese: 行方不明の魔法使い) | September 3, 2003 | |
12 | "Who Has The Blue Bird?" (Japanese: 青い鳥は誰の手に?) | September 9, 2003 | |
13 | "Cinderella Does Not Sleep" (Japanese: シンデレラは眠らない) | September 16, 2003 |
References
[edit]- ^ Enoki Films staff, CINDERELLA BOY by Monkey Panch, Enoki Films, archived from the original on May 27, 2004, retrieved December 19, 2014
- ^ ANN staff (March 15, 2003). "Monkey Punch's Ranma". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
- ^ "Discotek Media Licenses Cinderella Boy Anime". Anime News Network. November 28, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
External links
[edit]- Cinderella Boy (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia