Ranma 1/2 Nettouhen  episode 35
Hitotsubu korori.  Zetsurin horegusuri
(aired on 90.07.13)
 
This story is basically the same as the one in the manga, volume 10.
 
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Some guy tries to pick up Ranma-chan at the beach.  Ranma-chan says that
she'll go out with him, but Akane yells at her.  She tells the guy that
Ranma is really a boy.  Akane then tells Ranma to return to a boy, but
Ranma-chan says that he will turn into a girl when he swims anyways.
 
Happosai has a lot of girls chasing after him as he goes and steals a lot
of bathing suits.  Ranma-chan goes to beat him up and returns the stolen
bathing suits.  Then Happosai disguises himself as a watermelon and tries
to pick up some girls.  Ranma-chan beats him up again.
 
Shampoo says "I love you" to Ranma-chan, as she comes with the noodles
that Nabiki had ordered.  Shampoo's great-grandma had opened their Chinese
restaurant at the beach for the summer.  Shampoo then asks Ranma out on a
date after she finishes work.
 
Ranma tells Happosai that he will introduce a girl friend to him.  Then
Happosai decides that he will give a bracelet to the girl as a present.
Ranma takes Happosai to see Shampoo's great-grandma.  He offers the
bracelet to Shampoo, but Shampoo's great-grandma tries to beat him up,
saying that the bracelet is an old Chinese bracelet with a special secret.
But, Happosai escapes.
 
Then Shampoo's great-grandma tells Ranma, Akane, and Shampoo about the
love at first sight medicine.  Happosai overhears, and escapes when they
all try to catch him.  But Happosai dropped one of the medicines when he
ran away.  Shampoo picks it up and puts it in Ranma's mouth.  Then Ranma
looks at Akane.  Ranma says that Akane is cute and gets closer to her,
trying to hug her.  But Ranma was only acting.  He didn't really swallow
the medicine.
 
When Akane was trying to beat up Ranma, the panda comes from behind and pats
Ranma on the back.  Ranma swallows the medicine.  Angrily Ranma turns around
to yell at Shampoo's great-grandma for the antidote.  Then Ranma falls in
love with Shampoo's great-grandma.  Ranma grabs her and starts running to
get married.  Then Soun comes and kicks Ranma.  He says that Ranma will have
to kill him if he wants to marry Shampoo's great-grandma.  But the effect of
the medicine had worn off.  Later Shampoo's great-grandma tells them that
the 3 medicines have different effectiveness.  One is just momentary, one
is for one day, and one is forever.
 
Shampoo tricks Happosai and gets the bracelet.  She comes to Ranma, who was
still unconscious from shock, and tries to make him eat the medicine.  But
Akane pours water on Ranma.  Shampoo throws one of the medicines at Ranma's
mouth, but it misses.  It bounces around and lands in Akane's mouth.
 
When Akane's father finds out, he pours hot water on Ranma-chan and makes
Akane look at Ranma.  But Shampoo quickly pours cold water on Ranma, just
before Akane looks.  Akane tells everyone that she'll decide who she is
going to look at.  Then Ranma takes the remaining medicine to Shampoo's
great- grandma and asks which one Akane had eaten.  Shampoo's great-grandma
says that Akane had eaten the one day medicine.  Then Akane says that all
she had to do is avoid looking at boys for just one day, and she walks away.
After Akane had left, Shampoo's great-grandma tells everyone that she had
made a mistake, and that the medicine that Akane had eaten is the forever
medicine.  Ranma runs out to look for Akane.
 
Akane was walking around the beach with a blindfold on.  She accidently
steps on Ryouga, who had been wandering around looking for Akane.  When
Ryouga looked up and saw Akane, he called out for her.  But Ranma came by
in time to hit Ryouga into the ocean.  Then Ranma tries to tell Akane that
the medicine she had eaten was the forever medicine.  But Akane doesn't
believe him and runs away.  Ranma chases Akane and pushes her into the
ocean because Happosai was also running for Akane.
 
Shampoo comes running with a pot of hot water and the last medicine.  Shampoo
throws the medicine at Ranma, but it lands in P-chan's mouth.  P-chan falls
into the ocean and throws up the medicine.  Shampoo dives into the ocean
after the medicine.
 
Then Ranma says that he will turn himself into a boy for Akane.  After Ranma
pours the hot water on himself and they look at each other, Ranma asks Akane
if she had already fallen in love with him.  But Akane hits Ranma.  Akane
says that because Ranma threw her into the ocean, she threw up the medicine.
Then Akane throws the medicine into the ocean.
 
Hitoshi Doi, Japanese Open Systems Engineering    doi@jrdvax.enet.dec.com
Japan Research and Development Center             decwrl!jrdvax.enet!doi
Digital Equipment Corporation Japan