Don't Know What To Do - A Ranma 1/2 Podcast
Sep 22, 2026 · 2 hr 11 min · 15 segments
It's time for your favourite Ranma 1/2 themed game show! Tonight's contestant, a Ranma blind Bookkeeper Percival, must listen to hedgey's completely fair and non-nefarious descriptions of Ranma media…
Okay.
For clarification, for listeners at home, I am aware of the fact that I have used words like filler and episode kind of weirdly.
Like, I have referred to manga-exclusive chapters as episodes.
I've been like, oh, in the context of like, oh, this is a Ryoga episode, you know? Like, oh, this is like a Ross and Rachel episode.
I don't mean like this is as in literally an episode that aired on TV, therefore this is filler.
I mean it in the sense of this is a storyline that fits in this specific category of storyline that you see frequently throughout Ranma.
Yeah, I was just about to ask, I was like, we're clarifying which type of filler, because I know now these days people use filler for nonsense definitions, which I know you don't, but...
I, like, I dislike how many people, like, to them filler just means that it is not canon.
Um...
And it's a bit more complex than that to me.
Because that stuff happened in the manga, but, like...
What he does while on the planet does not matter.
King Kai could have asked him to do anything and been like, okay, here's your power-up, and it would have made sense.
Therefore, the events that transpire in this specific setting are filler.
It is just anything you can fill in to this event that is not necessary to, like, advance the main narrative or a character narrative or something is being advanced.
If you're not doing that, to me, that's filler.
And filler is important.
It's important for pacing, and, like, it also gets nebulous depending on the genre.
It's kind of hard to talk about, like, what makes something filler if it's, like, a sitcom-style story.
Burns isn't filler.
Okay.
For clarification, for listeners at home, I am aware of the fact that I have used words like filler and episode kind of weirdly.
Like, I have referred to manga-exclusive chapters as episodes.
I've been like, oh, in the context of like, oh, this is a Ryoga episode, you know? Like, oh, this is like a Ross and Rachel episode.
I don't mean like this is as in literally an episode that aired on TV, therefore this is filler.
I mean it in the sense of this is a storyline that fits in this specific category of storyline that you see frequently throughout Ranma.
Yeah, I was just about to ask, I was like, we're clarifying which type of filler, because I know now these days people use filler for nonsense definitions, which I know you don't, but...
I, like, I dislike how many people, like, to them filler just means that it is not canon.
Um...
And it's a bit more complex than that to me.
Because that stuff happened in the manga, but, like...
What he does while on the planet does not matter.
King Kai could have asked him to do anything and been like, okay, here's your power-up, and it would have made sense.
Therefore, the events that transpire in this specific setting are filler.
It is just anything you can fill in to this event that is not necessary to, like, advance the main narrative or a character narrative or something is being advanced.
If you're not doing that, to me, that's filler.
And filler is important.
It's important for pacing, and, like, it also gets nebulous depending on the genre.
It's kind of hard to talk about, like, what makes something filler if it's, like, a sitcom-style story.
Burns isn't filler.
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