Can Ranma be pregnant with Ranma's child?

[BigShot Jordan]

I was watching one of my friends tapes the other day(very good stuff) and I have one question. If Ranma as girl type suddenly became pregnant(for whatever reason) but then switched back to boy type would he still be pregnant.

This may seem like an odd question,but it's been on my mind a lot lately.

see you space cowboys.

[Yoshi-chan]

I don't think that could happen O.O;;;

[WierdIsraeli]

i believe that i read somewhere takahashi saying something in the lines of "don't even go there" (paraphrasing)

[7thKeeper]

Her exact quote would be (I think) "I'm not going to go there and neither should you."

[Falinah]

I'm afraid to say that although your concept is....interesting, I believe that it is physicaly impossible.

[PsychoGoatee]

That was...disturbing :D

[Ranma-Chan]

Now THAT's really interesting. Well I hope it dosen't happen. Ranma will not be able to turn back into a boy again when he/she becomes pregnant.:rolleyes: :eek: :D

[Ura]

I can't see it really being a problem for Ranma. I mean look at the way he reacted when Mikado kissed Him/her. I can't see Ranma getting that far with a guy

[raynebc]

Male anatomy doesn't accomadate fetuses... It would probably kill the baby if pregnant Ranma (girl type) went to boy type... God knows what it would do to Ranma!

[tekblade]

ya know i always thought about what the hell would happen if this happened :lol: but yeah if he turnd to a guy who knows ...

[NeneMaxwell195]

I only got Ranma season one so I am not to sure, but I think that Shampoo gets cursed and becomes a cat right?

So what would hapen if Shampoo got pregnant and became a cat, or as a cat got pregnant and became human, unless she becomes a male cat?

[iwakura]

Originally posted by 7thKeeper
Her exact quote would be (I think) "I'm not going to go there and neither should you."

Yes, this is the proper answer to this question.

[BigShot Jordan]

Blah...I don't even know why I brought that up in the first place. Quite mind boogling though ;)

see you space cowboys.

[DarkGremlin]

I seem to remember reading in an interview that if such a thing was written in, that it would mean Ranma would be unable to transform back into boy-form until after the baby's birth.

I forget who that interview was with, I'll have to see if I can find it again. :sulkoff:

[Alesil]

To make things even more perverse, Ranma could be pregnant with his own child! He could errr... make a donation, change and errr... Even I won`t go there. :D

*EDIT* Ok, so I went there a bit. :)

Just occured to me, that somebody like that would be riddled with diseases. All the recessive genes in the childs body would be "activated" because "both parents" are of identical DNA. :dead:

[raynebc]

I wonder if such a pregnancy would be possible. Using modern science, lab monkeys (scientists) could take some DNA, make a clone, and then tweak it to make another clone of the opposite gender. If the pregnancy worked, that would be one f*'d up kid..

(Would that count as inbreeding, I mean, with yourself, and not another member of your family?)

[Alesil]

Originally posted by raynebc
I wonder if such a pregnancy would be possible. Using modern science, lab monkeys (scientists) could take some DNA, make a clone, and then tweak it to make another clone of the opposite gender. If the pregnancy worked, that would be one f*'d up kid..

(Would that count as inbreeding, I mean, with yourself, and not another member of your family?)

The whole point in why inbreeding is genetically bad is that you`ll be more likely to have the harmfull recessive genes from both parents (since they tend to run in the family). Somebody with identical dna from both parents would errr... be f*ed up indeed.

I suck at biology in school, but I think I`m right on this one. Feel free to correct me if I`m wrong, though. :)

[raynebc]

You would definitely be right. With less than even the DNA of 2 different family members, all the genes would have to be inherited from a single person (instead of the usual two), meaning that the possibility of a sh*tload of bad ones being inherited by the child would be enormous.

[Guildenstern]

I would think that since it's all magic and whatnot that the baby wouldn't transfer with the transformation. When Ranma is a boy the baby is just sort of in stasis. When he turns back into a girl the baby's back. But going with that brings up another question if a male Ramna somehow avoids all contact with water for nine months and then turns back into a girl would she start going through labor right there or would the baby be at whatever stage it was when she first turned back into a guy?

:heh:...

Actually let's just not go there at all.

[7thKeeper]

Originally posted by Guildenstern
Actually let's just not go there at all.

Yes let's not..

"I'm not going to go there and neither should you."

[tfcreate]

:heh: :sweatdrop :dot:
Scary subject......
TFC

[ClefFSChan]

This topic is DISTURBING!:eek:

[Alesil]

Originally posted by ClefFSChan
This topic is DISTURBING!:eek:

Quite so! :D

Hmmm... Suppose somebody would "take a sample" from Ryoga in P-Chan form and use it to inseminate a female pig? The possibilities are endless...

[GouryG]

Yes let's not..

"I'm not going to go there and neither should you."
I agree, though who would be the male partner if female Ranma were to explore the sexual side of his / her female side. That could be scary.

[eatpork]

I actually made a fan fiction on this once. It sets after the comic ends and Ranma and Akane are married, and what happens is everyone has a drunken bash, and somehow they get so drunk that one of the guy characters ----- girl Ranma and gets him pregnant.

He finds out because when he's a guy he feels sick all the time and can't stand it, so he stays a female, and goes to Dr. Tofu who tells him he's pregnant. And Tofu tells him that since he's pregnant, he won't be able to turn back into a guy and until the baby's out, if he does, he male insides won't be able to withstand it and he and the baby will both die. So for the next nine months he has to take cold baths.

It kind of played out like one of those romantic comedies (yeah, I ripped it off from Nine Months... but I believe that Knocked-Up ripped it off from me). Ranma feels like crap for doing a dude, and Akane leaves him, but he pursues her, and they go through a soul searching journey and ultimately they discover that they really love each other and decide to raise the baby as if it were both of theirs (yes there's a lesbian kiss). It's all romantic and ----.

And there's a bunch of flashback scenes where eveyone's trying to remember who Ranma could've been with. The majority think that Kuno's the father, since he's the only one who doesn't know about Ranma's condition.

Yeah, it's a pretty crappy story, but that's what fanfictions' about, not being original enough to create your own story, so you use someone else's characters to make a story only you would like.

[SamIam]

Actually the writer could have easily sidesteped the issue completely by mandating that the curse (in addition to the transformation) further curses the individual by preventing them from creating progeny ... i.e. that such cursed individuals are "magically sterile" or perhaps prevented from romantic physical interaction as in some kind of "love barrier".

[HolyWhippet]

You want to consider disturbing? Does female Ranma ever have periods? If she doesn't I'd say pregnancy would be impossible.

[John Faulkner]

I'm afraid to say that although your concept is....interesting, I believe that it is physicaly impossible.
What, and Ranma being able to change sex by splashing water is?

In the crazy world of Ranma, I think this is a definitely green light. If pregnancy occurs when Ranma is male, just do a caesarean section - or just splash some freaking cold water onto him at the time of labour. Also, don't forget that in the natural world, some organisms are hermaphrodites. Ranma would just be the human equivalent of a sequential hermaphrodite.

Also, like other hermaphroditic deities, the dual sexual aspect of Ranma suggests a unity - something like a god (cf. yin and yang): therefore, any offspring would logically be like a messenger of god. Now can we see the symbolic significance!

[SamIam]

hmmmm .... how about this ... the curse actually involves the magical "recreation" of the victims body (for the inhabitation of the newly cursed host) ... this can then presuppose that the spirit has moved on (or is not present in any case) ... and that the unoccupied body is held in some alternate dimension/magical domain situated between life and death. Thus the "pregnancy" could be handled in a number of ways ... such as:

1. The male Ranma will not be affected in any way ... only upon transformation, the female Ranma will show progressive signs of fetal development.

2. The male Ranma will get sick and become dysfunctional ... in some kind of sympathetic bond to the suffering female Ranma ... and at some point (during the night when the cameras are off) ... viola! Baby Ranma is born ... bares a striking resembance to Gohan - with tail ... haha ... and perversely named "Nian-Gao" or just "Gao" (chinese rice cake)

Sam

[iwakura]

I could see Shampoo involved in some sort of plot, if it means she can somehow use it to blackmail Ranma into a permanent relationship.

Shampoo drugs Ranma-kun. She collects a sample and freezes it, then splashes Ranma into girl form. 14 days of bondage scenes later, Shampoo inseminates Ranma-chan after thawing out the sample.

9 months later a child is born, but alas since it's 100 percent Ranma genes it's going to be mentally retarded...

[SamIam]

I could see Shampoo involved in some sort of plot, if it means she can somehow use it to blackmail Ranma into a permanent relationship.

Shampoo drugs Ranma-kun. She collects a sample and freezes it, then splashes Ranma into girl form. 14 days of bondage scenes later, Shampoo inseminates Ranma-chan after thawing out the sample.

9 months later a child is born, but alas since it's 100 percent Ranma genes it's going to be mentally retarded...

... what if the child turns out to be a cross dresser! Say for instance, a boy (that does not change) but has the mindset of a female (with the desire to dress as such). ... and so, in a bizarre parody of his parent the child is forced to play the role of boy and girl depending on the situation. :lol:

[PrincessJenni]

its an interesting question isnt it? i've always tried not to think of this issue coz it creeps me out. but i always thought that he wouldnt be able to change into a boy until the pregnancy was over

[Pengi_Ken-Ohki]

To make things even more perverse, Ranma could be pregnant with his own child! He could errr... make a donation, change and errr... Even I won`t go there. :D

*EDIT* Ok, so I went there a bit. :)

Just occured to me, that somebody like that would be riddled with diseases. All the recessive genes in the childs body would be "activated" because "both parents" are of identical DNA. :dead:


Why did nobody properly address this sooner? You guys fail at nerddom.

CLEARLY Ranma's girl side is not just a ranma minus Y chromosone. His ("her") genes are that of the girl who fell in and died, hence the red hair.

What I have often wondered, because I am not as messed up as you people, is whether you can therefore create an army of duplicates. Or can the curse only curse 1 thing at a time? Or is the curse spent once used and the water must wait for another creature to die in it?

[DraniX]

An obvious disinterest, a barely managed smile...

[HolyWhippet]

Why did nobody properly address this sooner? You guys fail at nerddom.

CLEARLY Ranma's girl side is not just a ranma minus Y chromosone. His ("her") genes are that of the girl who fell in and died, hence the red hair.

What I have often wondered, because I am not as messed up as you people, is whether you can therefore create an army of duplicates. Or can the curse only curse 1 thing at a time? Or is the curse spent once used and the water must wait for another creature to die in it?

I'm afraid you are going to have to hand in your nerd credentials for obvious failure to examine the facts.

Firstly, female type Ranma in the manga has no specific hair colour. The series is drawn in black and white with only colour on the covers - and the covers show Ranma with a variety of different hair colours.

Secondly, also from the manga is Herb. Herb was knocked into the spring of the drowned girl also. His female form looks much the same as his male form, just with breasts.

Finally, take a closer look at Ranma's mother. Female Ranma looks a lot like her, the hair is about the only main difference.

[Pengi_Ken-Ohki]

Actually I rather enjoy not being an authoritive source on harem anime.