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Cinderella Boy (Japanese: シンデレラボーイ, Hepburn: Shinderera Bōi) is a one-shot manga created by Monkey Punch. It was originally published in the Kobunsha magazine Popcorn in 1980. An alternate version was published in Anime DO in 1982. The plot follows the adventures of impoverished private detective Ranma Hinamatsuri and his thrill-seeking rich girl partner Rella "Cindy" Shirayuki in a futuristic city named "Kirin Town". Kirin Town is a lawless European city-state with its own currency with the name of the city being a pun on the English word for "killing". The two are badly injured when they stumble across an organised crime operation and are put back together into the same body by a mysterious doctor. Every night the stroke of midnight, their shared body changes both form and identity. Ranma becomes Rella, or vice versa. Neither is aware of any actions or situations their partner is involved in, completely losing consciousness until twenty-four hours later, when the change comes around to them again.[1]
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Cinderella Boy | |
シンデレラボーイ (Shinderera Bōi) | |
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Manga | |
Written by | Monkey Punch |
Published by | Kobunsha |
Magazine | Popcorn Anime DO |
Demographic | Seinen |
Published | 1980, 1982 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tsuneo Tominaga |
Produced by | Tetsuya Dobashi Tetsuo Kanno Hiroaki Shigematsu |
Written by | Michihiro Tsuchiya |
Music by | Kensaku Tanikawa |
Studio | Magic Bus |
Licensed by | |
Original network | WOWOW, AT-X, Television Niigata Network |
Original run | 21 June 2003 – 13 September 2003 |
Episodes | 13 |
The names of the story's protagonists both reflect the nature of their change.
Discotek Media have licensed the anime for a North American release.[3]
# | Title | Original airdate | |
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1 | "A Fable of a Never-Sleeping Town" (Japanese: 眠らぬ街の寓話) | June 24, 2003 | |
Ranma and Rella are investigating a client's spouse when they learn that the casino where he is losing money is a front for an arms dealing operation. Their car crashes, apparently killing both of them, but Ranma reappears after a week, only to have the gangsters try to finish him off. | |||
2 | "The Fairy In the Back Alley" (Japanese: 路地裏の妖精) | June 30, 2003 | |
Rella reappears at midnight with no memory of how she ended up naked and falling into the hotel pool (as Ranma escaped from the gangsters). She takes on a missing persons case only to discover her employer is out to murder the missing teenager, and then Ranma reappears, wearing a dress in a women's locker room. | |||
3 | "A Sweet Trap In The Toy Country" (Japanese: オモチャの国の甘い罠) | July 9, 2003 | |
Concerned about his missing day while Rella was in control, Ranma goes to the hospital for a check-up, but stumbles across a dying man and ends up wanted for the murder. | |||
4 | "The Sea Where the Beauty and the Beast Play" (Japanese: 美女と野獣のあそぶ海) | July 16, 2003 | |
Rella finds herself in a sewer where Ranma was looking for a lost pet but quickly finds herself hired by a jeweller to use her uncanny resemblance to a foreign monarch to replace a fake piece of jewellery with the genuine article before their mistake is discovered, only to be caught up in schemes to kidnap and kill the real Queen Natasha. | |||
5 | "Countdown of the Poisoned Apple" (Japanese: 時計仕掛けの毒リンゴ) | July 23, 2003 | |
Dorothy witnesses the transformation and informs her mistress who goes out to eat and gets a note telling her the dish is poisoned. She spends the rest of the day looking for the antidote only to have to hand the problem over to Ranma at midnight. | |||
6 | "How To Cook Three Little Pigs" (Japanese: 子ブタの兄弟の料理法) | July 28, 2003 | |
Alice's organisation is after three killers known as the Mad Pig Brothers who stole information from them, so she hires Ranma then tells the Mad Pigs he's coming. | |||
7 | "Once Upon A Time, In A Dirty Town" (Japanese: 昔々、ゴミだらけの街で) | August 6, 2003 | |
In a retrospective, Ranma meets Rella for the first time when he's hired to find out where she lives, only to discover he's pointed the way for her to be killed and he needs to save her and his best friend. | |||
8 | "An Angel In a Country of Gold" (Japanese: 黄金の国のエンジェル) | August 11, 2003 | |
9 | "A Bouquet for the Killer Angel" (Japanese: 殺しの天使に花束を) | August 18, 2003 | |
10 | "A Lying Red Riding Hood and an Honest Wolf" (Japanese: ウソつき赤ずきんとホントの狼) | August 25, 2003 | |
11 | "The Lost Magician" (Japanese: 行方不明の魔法使い) | September 3, 2003 | |
12 | "Who Has The Blue Bird?" (Japanese: 青い鳥は誰の手に?) | September 9, 2003 | |
13 | "Cinderella Does Not Sleep" (Japanese: シンデレラは眠らない) | September 16, 2003 |
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