The staff of Studio MAPPA’s Ranma 1/2 Season 3, the continuation of the new anime adaptation for Rumiko Takahashi’s Ranma 1/2 manga, revealed a new trailer to preview its theme songs. Fumino performs the opening theme song “Sunao Miman (Below Honesty),” and Yuika performs the ending theme song “Kawaikunai (Not Cute).”
Ranma 1/2 Season 3 premieres on October 3 at 24:55 JST (effectively October 4 at 12:55 a.m. JST) on NTV in Japan. Netflix will stream the anime worldwide after its TV broadcast.
Ranma 1/2 Season 3 will see most of the cast and staff members from the previous season reprising their roles.
The new cast members include:
- Masako Nozawa as Grand Master
- Jun Fukuyama as Sentarō Daimonji
- Mayumi Tanaka as ???
- Saori Hayami as ???
- Minami Tanaka as Tsubasa Kurenai
Kōnosuke Uda is again directing the anime at MAPPA. Returning chief animation directors Yoshiko Saitō and Kōsuke Kawamura will be joined by Riko Kaneda and Haruki Miura. Masahiro Kurio also returns as main animator with the addition of Atsuko Ishida and Yoshihiro Takeda.
The anime’s first season premiered nationwide in Japan in October 2024 while the second season premiered one year later in October 2025. Both the first and the second season are available to stream on Netflix.
Here’s an overview of the original Ranma 1/2 manga series from VIZ Media:
Years ago, Genma promised his old friend Soun Tendo that Ranma would marry one of Soun’s three daughters and carry on the family’s martial arts school. Except that the girl picked to be Ranma’s bride doesn’t seem to like him, Ranma keeps getting into fights…and did we mention that whole changing into a girl thing?
