Don't Know What To Do - A Ranma 1/2 Podcast
Sep 8, 2026 · 2 hr 16 min · 10 segments
Dan returns to help us break down a little bit more of the Ukyoverse. Mainly all the Gender going on, for both her and her weird harem of one-off rivals. A level of Ranma 1/2 queerness that has earned…
So, we have had an episode covering Ukiyo on this show before, and at the time- I specifically said that, like, we could do an entire episode on Ukiyo and gender, so I tried my best to discuss everything else in that discussion, knowing that we would get a second opportunity for any other gender stuff.
And it seems that now is the time.
Ukiyo is proving to have more to say about her.
I don't know, we'll get to him eventually.
He's kind of a nothing guy.
Musa's kind of a goose egg.
Other characters, though, pretty straightforward, but there's stuff to say about Ukiyo, mainly the things surrounding her.
Yeah, a lot of the characters that are introduced around her and as an interest to her are surprisingly genderified as well.
Some more than others.
Some of them I kind of have to be like, eh, but like...
There are multiple, like, outright gender non-conforming characters in the same way that she is, because that's just her thing.
And as we've discussed previously on this show, there's not really a reason for why Rumiko Takahashi wrote Ukiyo this way.
Other than she just felt like it, you could easily remove the gendered aspect of Ukyo's character and it would change nothing as far as the narrative is concerned.
The whole thing about her being Rama's fiancé and getting abandoned as a child, all of that could still make sense if she did not also present as male half the time.
Honestly, I think it actually does make part of her character make sense.
Walk with me here.
Just the whole presenting as both male and female made her extremely unflappable towards finding out Ranma's secret.
It was like, hee hee hee, I could do this all day!
Yeah, and that is fun.
But, like, my point is more that, like, if you remove that element from her, almost every story that she's in, like, she'll have a different tone to her.
She'll be a very different character.
But, like, the stories would still make sense.
So, we have had an episode covering Ukiyo on this show before, and at the time- I specifically said that, like, we could do an entire episode on Ukiyo and gender, so I tried my best to discuss everything else in that discussion, knowing that we would get a second opportunity for any other gender stuff.
And it seems that now is the time.
Ukiyo is proving to have more to say about her.
I don't know, we'll get to him eventually.
He's kind of a nothing guy.
Musa's kind of a goose egg.
Other characters, though, pretty straightforward, but there's stuff to say about Ukiyo, mainly the things surrounding her.
Yeah, a lot of the characters that are introduced around her and as an interest to her are surprisingly genderified as well.
Some more than others.
Some of them I kind of have to be like, eh, but like...
There are multiple, like, outright gender non-conforming characters in the same way that she is, because that's just her thing.
And as we've discussed previously on this show, there's not really a reason for why Rumiko Takahashi wrote Ukiyo this way.
Other than she just felt like it, you could easily remove the gendered aspect of Ukyo's character and it would change nothing as far as the narrative is concerned.
The whole thing about her being Rama's fiancé and getting abandoned as a child, all of that could still make sense if she did not also present as male half the time.
Honestly, I think it actually does make part of her character make sense.
Walk with me here.
Just the whole presenting as both male and female made her extremely unflappable towards finding out Ranma's secret.
It was like, hee hee hee, I could do this all day!
Yeah, and that is fun.
But, like, my point is more that, like, if you remove that element from her, almost every story that she's in, like, she'll have a different tone to her.
She'll be a very different character.
But, like, the stories would still make sense.
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