Ranma 1/2 TV Anime: Season 6 - Random Rhapsody DVD Box Set
The sixth broadcast season ofRanma 1/2includes some of the silliest  entries in a continuity known for its silliness: a seaside resort is  terrorized by a ceramic octopus trap, and upperclassman/school gasbag Kuno is stricken  with amnesia after a watermelon gets stuck on his head. But at times, the  premises feel decidedly thin. When Akane is kidnapped by a Minotaur-like monster (the adult version of a  baby Happosai bathed in the most accursed spring at Jusenkyo--the one in which a  Yeti riding an ox carrying a crane carrying an eel drowned), Ranma and the  gang discover there are worse fates than turning into a girl--or a monster.  Director Junji Nishimura spoofs Japanese monster movies in "Scribbled Panda," as a  Kabuki-style spider and demon emerge from a Chinese scroll to attack a  carnival. But the most horrible beast is an icky-cute little drawing who develops a  crush on Ranma: it's likeHello Kittyon a rampage. Ranma's furious  when a newcomer who practices Martial Arts Calligraphy won't accept a challenge  because Ranma's handwriting is so atrocious.     The filmmakers balance the slapstick by making kindness an element in  the way Ranma, Akane, and Ryoga defeat a Snow-Woman (Yuki-onna) and a  bizarre Abominable Snowman who threaten to turn Furinkan into an outdoor icebox.  Telepathic boy Satori sums up the series when he visits the Tendo-Saotomi  household and screams, "The people in this house are weird!" (Rated 13 and older: brief nudity, slapstick violence)--Charles Solomon