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A well-behaved, serious student popular with the girls is one day abducted by a UFO, causing his appearance and personality to undergo a complete 180-degree change. After acquiring superhuman and perverted abilities, he drags other students and teachers into bizarre incidents—this is the story of Ranpō.
00:00Hello, and thank you for tuning in today. Today's topic is violence.
00:19This film is violent, telling the story of a diligent student who was popular with the ladies in a school under the poverty law system, but one day he is abducted by a UFO and his appearance and personality change 180 degrees. He then acquires superhuman and perverse powers, and causes chaos by involving other students and teachers.
00:45Now, let's take a look at this work.
00:49Ranbou was based on a novel by Masatoshi Uchizaki and aired for a total of 21 episodes in 1984.
01:01The story begins with a scene in which Ranbou and Shutaro cause a commotion during a Japanese class taught by Mr. Kakumaru.
01:08As per usual, Mr. Kakumaru tightens his grip around Ranbou's neck, but when Mutsumi tells him to loosen his grip a little, he quickly gives up on Ranbou.
01:19The strong smell spread throughout the school, causing a huge commotion, but when Mr. Kakumaru shouted at them to stop, he misheard him as saying to make the water temperature just right, as if mocking the commotion, and made a hot spring appear in the classroom, where he relaxed by soaking in it.
01:40Then, Professor Kakumaru, whose anger reached its peak, chased after Ranbou, causing the commotion to become more intense and get out of hand.
01:50In fact, until recently, Ranbou was a popular, honest, and serious boy in his class, but after he was involved in a certain incident, his situation changed drastically.
02:04And Mutsumi renovates the event that started it all.
02:10The incident occurred during a field trip for teachers and students, when a UFO suddenly appeared and Ranbou was dragged inside. After a while, Ranbou, with a completely different appearance and physique, and the mouse Nakataro were suddenly released from the UFO.
02:31After that, he frantically begins stealing lunch boxes and other food from students and teachers one after another, but no one realizes that he is being violent based on his appearance or behavior.
02:43Amidst the chaos, Mutsumi reports that Ranbou has been kidnapped by a UFO, and while Professor Kakumaru and Professor Iwasaki are searching for him, suddenly a hot spring gushes out of the ground, from which Ranbou and Shutaro appear.
03:01The teachers are shocked to see how completely Ranbou has changed, but when Ranbou forcibly drags Kakumaru-sensei into the hot springs, an enraged Kakumaru-sensei chases after him.
03:15From this point on, a crazy school drama begins with Ranbou, who has become a demon and a weirdo.
03:23Now, let me introduce the characters.
03:27Ranbou is the protagonist, a second-year junior high school student, who suddenly becomes a perverted boy after being abducted by a UFO, and ends up getting his friends and teachers involved in a slapstick comedy.
03:43Although they lack human intelligence and a near total lack of sense of shame, they possess superhuman abilities such as the ability to fly, breathe fire, run at high speeds, and behave with unbelievable violence.
03:57In addition to eating anything that comes into their mouths, they also have a tendency to be violent and reckless, and if they infect others, they will behave in a reckless manner, just like violent people.
04:12One theory, as Mutsumi thinks, is that they were replaced by aliens when abducted by a UFO.
04:21Shutaro is a genius rat with an IQ of 1300, and appears alongside Ranbo during the UFO abduction incident.
04:32From then on, Ranbou becomes his friend, strategist, and inventor, and their brains are a match for each other, creating various inventions such as time machines, anti-aging drugs, and robots.
04:48Jingo can also speak, and there are many scenes where he complains about Ranbo's unreasonable demands.
04:58Mutsumi is a violent classmate and girlfriend, but she is also well aware of his violent side before the kidnapping, so at first she is confused by the stark contrast.
05:10However, due to my natural curiosity, I gradually got used to his perversion and often spent time with him, as if I enjoyed his company.
05:23Dr. Kakumaru is Ranbou and Mutsumi's homeroom teacher, and when Ranbou takes up residence in his home, he also becomes their guardian.
05:31From then on, both Confucius and I found our lives to be rough and tumble, but we somehow managed to survive thanks to our innate toughness and tolerance.
05:43Although she dreamed of marrying her colleague, Professor Iwasaki, her violent behavior caused her to run out of savings and she ended up living in poverty.
05:52Shutaro's invention seems to have brought some improvement to people's lives.
05:56Iwasaki Hiromi is a teacher at the junior high school that Ranbou attends, and is the daughter of a wealthy family.
06:06Because she was in a relationship with Kakumaru-sensei, she was often exposed to or caught up in violent and mechanical behavior, and she seemed particularly troubled by the idea of her skirt being lifted.
06:18Karataro
06:21His real name is Kogara Karataro, a violent school leader with 10,000 followers across the country.
06:30He has repeatedly left school, repeated a grade, and been in juvenile detention, so his real age is estimated to be around 23 years old.
06:38While he is confused by his sudden appearance as a violent person, he becomes his nemesis or bad friend at school.
06:48His family is wealthy and specializes in treasure hunting, and they own a pet crow that wears sunglasses just like him.
06:55Akemi is a violent classmate and Mutsumi's best friend.She is a strong-willed and athletic female student who punishes any violent students who try to bother her mercilessly with her fists.
07:10Hulk, whose real name is Hulk Hogan, is a violent classmate with an abnormally large head. Rumor has it that 80% of his body weight is concentrated in his torso, and he can travel back in time by swinging a bat, making him an extraordinary character.
07:31All of his family members looked the same, and his older brother, Genichiro, was a skilled detective known as the Dirty Hulk.
07:40Patch was an eccentric classmate who was nicknamed Patchenkazou because he would stick to everything.
07:47At first, he was just a strange mob character, but his personality was well-received and he became popular, becoming one of the main characters.
07:58Goriyama Torako is a violent classmate and a notoriously ugly student at school.
08:04Once, he sent a rough love letter, but he came to his own conclusion and gave up.
08:12Later, since her family was a farming family, she fell in love with the farmer's son.
08:18Miyuki and Masahiko are siblings whose parents are fishmongers, and while the older sister Miyuki is wildly in love with the younger,
08:30His younger brother, Masahiko, was a silly boy with a runny nose, and whenever he got into an argument with Ranbu, he was beaten to death by Miyuki.
08:39Aoba Hana lives in the same apartment building as Professor Kakumaru and Ranbou. She is 150 years old and was born in the Edo period. She is also a psychic and runs a counseling center called Aoba Shu.
08:54She is also a mother who has given birth to a total of 56 children, and is a scary old woman when she gets angry, but she currently lives alone after separating from her husband.
09:05As his name suggests, Hossamochi is a doctor who suffers from the chronic illness Hossa, and goes on a rampage alongside Hossa.
09:15However, contrary to his violent behavior as Hossa, he is a genius doctor and a great womanizer, always seducing beautiful women and nurses.
09:25On the other hand, at the hospital he runs, he is also a mad doctor who turns dying patients into cyborgs without giving them a second thought.
09:35As an aside, at the time of its broadcast, Ranbou was forced to stop tuning, and the show was also frequently interrupted by professional baseball games, which led to the decision to cancel it.
09:49It also appears that the final episode, episode 21, was not aired in some regions, which was a disappointing ending for fans.
09:58Incidentally, episode 21 is a digest version of the episode that was aired, edited by Nakataro himself, and while it looks back on the content with the main characters, it also seems to have been broadcast into space in response to the UFO aliens that appeared in episode 1.
10:17Additionally, the manga series ran for nine years and published a total of 37 volumes, but the final volume, volume 37, was unusual in that it did not include the final chapter.
10:32In fact, there are eight episodes that were not included in the book, and it is said that this was due to a mistake in the number of pages published in the book.
10:44However, the final chapter appears to have been included in a book released as an e-book in 2011.
10:56Now, it's finally the final episode.
10:59The books are stranded in a plane crash and spend a week wandering around what appears to be a deserted island.
11:10However, with water and food running out and in a hazy state of mind, they were unable to use their compass and had no idea which direction to go, so they were blocked off from firing.
11:21The cause of the plane accident was that the pilot, Lampou, fell asleep, and when a surprised Professor Kakumaru woke him up, he broke the control stick.
11:33As a result, the plane became uncontrollable and crashed onto an unknown island.
11:43Lampou, the very person who caused the accident, shows no remorse and is discovered for some reason finding sea turtle eggs and keeping them warm without eating them.
11:53After a while, the egg cracks and hatches, revealing a baby dinosaur.
12:04Everyone is surprised, but they are so hungry that they chase the baby dinosaur, wanting to eat it, and Professor Kakumaru successfully catches it.
12:14At that moment, Patch appears and informs them that Hulk, Hana-san, and the others have been taken away by unidentified animals.
12:25When Professor Kakumaru heard the news, he became frightened that it might be the dinosaur's parent, and he helped the baby dinosaur escape, but it was too late; the group was already surrounded by koala-like creatures.
12:39As they run to try to escape the island's jungle, their friends disappear one by one, and eventually only Ranbou and Mutsumi remain.
12:52Meanwhile, the missing companions are being captured by an unknown creature and thrown off a cliff one by one.
13:02However, the place where it was dropped was like a pile of bulky garbage, and everyone was surprised to see an unexpected sight.
13:14Meanwhile, Ranbou and Mutsumi are also captured, and as they struggle to escape, a giant dinosaur appears. Ranbou musters up his courage and fights the dinosaur, but is easily defeated.
13:27However, a baby dinosaur appears and asks for help from Ranbou, who has returned it to him as an egg.
13:39Afterwards, Ranbou and Mutsumi ride a giant dinosaur and are taken to the cliff where Professor Kakumaru and the others fell, from which they can see a resort area with a beautiful beach.
13:51The scene suddenly changes to a rock concert venue, and while the characters are sitting in the audience, Ranbou stands on stage with a microphone and begins singing with his friends, including Mutsumi.
14:08Then, as the excitement reaches its climax, Ranbou and Shutaro appear on screen as the island is shown at sunset, and the show comes to an end.
14:22Now, let's take a look at the chaos that is Ranbu.
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