From: nasato@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Neil Asato)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: Re: What is this Manga?
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:32:48 GMT
Organization: University of Engineering, College of Engineering

I should correct myself (and improve my memory more).

In article <1992Aug25.003428.13918@news.Hawaii.Edu> nasato@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Neil Asato) writes:
>In article <1992Aug24.110116.15036@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au> eda171s@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (D.M. Bateson) writes:
>>
>>I recently came across a manga that seems very similar to Ranma 1/2
>>and I was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about it.
>>
>>A description of the contents follow (Note: don't expect great accuracy)

>>
>>The title:
>
>     Futaba-kun Change (by the way, a literal translation of "futaba"
>is "budding"[like a plant])
>
>>
>>The Characters:
>
>     Futaba: normal state is male. energized state is female.
>          tends to attract feelings while in other state, and
>          is somewhat more powerful in strength.
>     Futana: Futaba's older sister. loves her sex life :) . Is a college
>          student. her male form is as handsome as Futaba's female 
>          form is beautiful. a lech (or is the proper term "slut" ?)
>          to the core. male form seems to have above normal strength,too
>          (beat up a competitor once).
>     Father of Futaba: Like Futaba in power (seems hereditary).
>          Uses her/his power to maintain a powerful lingerie/department
>          store (?) chain. Pretends to be an air-head. very high-level
>          strength in female form.

     The sur-name is Shimeru (sp?, again this is from my unreliable 
memory). The father is actually a famous actress (beats me why my
memory failed here). 

>     Misaki: friend of Futaba-chan, girl-friend of Futaba-kun.
>          (Futaba pretends to be two different people who happen to
>           have the same name). occassionally sees Futaba-chan as
>           a rival for Futaba-kun's affections (Futaba is unaware
>           of this). As a result of a blood transfusion from Futaba,
>           the story is becoming even more bizarre by the issue
>           (how does the labels of sexual orientation apply when 
>           the people's sex changes on their excitement level?)
>     Futaba's friends: don't recall their names off hand. Each
>           one is a parody of the lech stereotype: one flings
>          himself at anything vaguely female, one stares in concentration/
>          memorizing everything, and the other shoots blood from his
>          nose (I do not remember the origins of this, maybe the idea
>          of a hormone rush or something).
>     There are a lot of other characters, though these are the main ones.
>There are some background characters from popular anime, manga, and
>games (Misaki's room has a whole set of stuffed Street Fighter 2
>characters dolls).
>
>>
>>The Rationale?:
>
>     Whereas his previous work "You and Me" parodied anime and
>manga in general, this one specifically targets the hentai aspects.
>
>>
>>Anything else of interest:
>>
>
>     They have just made it up to 3 volumes. For those who buy the
>first run, do not throw it out when you buy the compilation, the
>artist seems to be one of the few artists who is willing to redraw
>panels he was not satisfied with (one example is the ending of 
>part where Futaba's father's store is burning). 
>
>>
>>
     There was an anime show called, if I remember correctly,
Space Command New Momotaro. It was parody of mecha shows, shows
that use legends for the hook of the premise, and some others.
I think the last episode had in the background Aro's alligator
symbol and the jogging Buddha (from Paranoia Theatre) among the
crowd of cheering fans (possibly Aro's works are more well known
than I otherwise would think it would be).