Cinderella Boy

Synopsis:

Episodes:

• Episode 1: A Fable Of A Never Sleeping Town (Aired: 06/21/2003)
• Episode 2: The Fairy In The Back Alley (Aired: 06/28/2003)
• Episode 3: A Sweet Trap In The Toy Country (Aired: 07/05/2003)
• Episode 4: The Sea Where The Beauty And The Beast Play (Aired: 07/12/2003)
• Episode 5: Countdown Of The Poisoned Apple (Aired: 07/19/2003)
• ... and 8 more episodes

Characters:

• Hinamatsuri, Ranma (Main) - Voice Actors: Koyasu, Takehito, Schlosser, Raul, Flores, Óscar, Mannella, Franco
• Shirayuki, Rella Cindy (Main) - Voice Actors: Touma, Yumi, Rodríguez, Toni, Carli, Cláudia
• Alice (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Inoue, Kikuko, Fiorentini, Francesca, della Mare, Gisa, Mendoza, Rommy
• Dorothy (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hori, Junko, Samara, Helena
• Monkey Punch (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Monkey Punch, Santos, Vagner
• Son, Tai Jin (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Chafurin, Biondi, Pietro, de Barros, Borges

Staff:

• Mikami, Tetsuo (Producer)
• Tsuchihashi, Tetsuya (Producer)
• Tominaga, Tsuneo (Director)
• Takahashi, Hideo (Sound Director)
• Enomoto, Mamoru (Episode Director)
• Okajima, Kunitoshi (Episode Director, Storyboard)
• Sugai, Yoshihiro (Episode Director)
• Ueno, Fumihiro (Episode Director)
• Suenaga, Mitsuyo (Script)
• Tsuchiya, Michihiro (Script)
• Miyake, Yuuichirou (Storyboard)
• Imanishi, Kazuto (Planning)
• Kobayashi, Toshimitsu (Chief Animation Director, Animation Director, Character Design)
• Kon, Fumiko (Animation Director)
• Matsuzaka, Sadatoshi (Animation Director)
• Minami, Shinichirou (Animation Director)
• Monkey Punch (Original Creator)
• Nakatake, Manabu (Key Animation)
• Santi, Rafael (Recording Engineer)
• Schlosser, Raul (ADR Director)
• Suzuki, Rumiko (Color Design)
• Suzuki, Shinichi (Animation Director)
• Takahashi, Maho (Art Director)
• Tanaka, Masaki (Animation Director)
• Tokura, Eiichi (Animation Director)

Reviews:

• User rafi160 (Score: 8/10):
  Ranma(Broke Detective) and Rella(Rich, Bored Thrill Seeker) run a R&R detective agency to solve mysteries, crimes and lost pets. One night while breaking in to a Mafia Boss casino and being chased down a broken highway road they get into a accident which changes their lives. Dr. Grimm who find them uses their bodies has a experiment for his future idea of saving the earth. Thus both Rama & Rella are unified in one body & at the stroke of midnight one will vanish and the other will takeover. Viewers will witness the history and relationship of Ranma & Rella while they go on therenew found journey. If you like the feel of Lupin & Cowboy Bebop(similar character designs) you enjoy this anime. This also has a mature sexiness/ comedy to it. Wish there was a season two with the cliffhanger that was left behind. If you are looking for a quick enjoyable anime to pass time you will enjoy this.
• User THEAnimeHERO (Score: 7/10):
  If you ever wanted to see a more romantic team up of Lupin & Fujiko, then this anime is the closest you’re gonna get. Cinderella Boy is sort of a mix of Lupin the 3rd, Birdy the Mighty, Baron Ashura & Ranma 1/2. From Monkey Punch, the creator of Lupin the 3rd , brings a really odd idea for a story. Originally made as a one shot manga in 1980, Cinderella boy is about a pair of private detectives; Ranma & Rella. What makes it akin to Lupin are the obvious character designs and the similarities stop there. The characters don’t have much in common withthe familiar Fujiko & Lupin outside of appearances. nnThe main story is these two botched a job & are in a car accident. A mysterious scientist operates on them; fusing them together. And this is where the other comparisons come in. Following the story of Cinderella when the clock strikes 12 they switch bodies & have no memory of the other person’s activities. Obviously, this means a lot of awkward situations during the sudden strike at midnight hence the Ranma ½ similarities, especially when certain characters have crushes. nnThe anime is 13 episodes long each focusing on different jobs but the pair Ranma & Rella have enough energy to make even the simplest of cases very entertaining. There’s an ongoing mystery as we do learn who operated on them and why. A organization is involved creating legitimate intrigue in its sci-fi undertones of the final episodes. It’s very interesting how it evolved from a detective story. The 13 episodes do work well in keeping me engaged to the story & once again it’s mostly because of the characters. nnRanma Hinamatsuri is a good guy with a big heart & passion for justice. His hobbies include collecting classy toy car models & has a fear of heights. Despite looking like a brown jacket Lupin, Ranma isn’t really a professional but he manages to get the job done. It’s his unpolished skills that made things really funny for me. Rella Cindy Shirayuki kind of steals the show. Both Ranma & Rella do have their share of dramatic episodes but Rella has a more assertive yet selfish personality. Actually, Rella has a bigger backstory themed episode than Ranma. She’s very motivated & easily angry allowing for a lot of energy in her scenes. Rella is a rich girl and her maid creates multiple gadgets for the ongoing episodes. Despite being wealthy, Rella seeks thrills but isn’t as heroic as Ranma. I wish there was more flashbacks or episodes where we got to see both of them together but given the plot of sharing a single body it’s an impossibility. Rella is the life of the party while Ranma offers a more comical approach to the series. nnCinderella boy manages to create it’s own underworld in Kirin Town with some recurring characters. It’s not very clear if this city has advanced technology such as flaying cars or this was…
• User Zanryu1337 (Score: 6/10):
  Cinderella Boy is average in many things. And it is a quintessential anime for it's time (early 2000s). From the art, the sound and the background, it just screams late 90's / early 2000s. But to start of: Cinderella Boy is a series made out of a 1980 one-shot by Monkey Punch, author of Lupin III. And the style of the characters is very reminiscent of that. Especially the male lead, Ranma, has a very goofy side to his movements. The female lead, Rella, on the other hand doesn't bring very much to the table. Together they're flung into an incident which alters their bodies to fuseinto one and switch body functions, personalities, and so on, on a 24-hour basis.nnTherein lies the biggest weakness of Cinderella Boy: two leads which share the screen time. Since the leads can't interact which each other because of the fusing, we follow two protagonists, which can't express any chemistry with each other, except for the first episode. The only exception to this is when they record videos in which they blame each other or fill the other in on details regarding their situation prior of the transformation. This routine happens in all the later episodes and gets tedious pretty fast. Luckily the anime has a good pace, but mostly struggles with its direction.nnIn the earlier episodes the main duo has to solve crimes/disappearances within their detective agency in a crime infested city. But the later episodes mostly ignore this setting and they have to fight a paramilitary group. While it certainly increases the stakes of the story, it was very carelessly done as the city itself offered a wide variety of story threads which could have been followed. But in the end, most actions of the side characters and enemies had extremely minor motives or simply weird points of view and explained them poorly.nnNonetheless, Cinderella Boy is an okay anime if you want an okay time-sink. It doesn't convince the viewer with the story or the characters, but with the pace it takes the viewer on a nice trip.

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Related Anime/Manga:

• Cinderella Boy (manga - Adaptation)