Ranma 1/2: One Page Per Volume, Part Seventeen

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Art goes from left to right for it is flipped.

I picked this one from the last part of the “Nabiki's fiancé" story because I love the way the page is designed, establishing background shot, the foreground shot of Ranma looking nice in his dressy Mao uniform, the three vertical panels to the right of about the same size switching back and forth between Ranma and Nabiki, then the big sound effect GLONK and the bottom panel, where the movement of the eye across the page ends naturally in the bottom right corner* just as Nabiki stops on her bicycle with another sound effect, the trace of her wheels emphasising that stop along with the comedy of it running over the supine Ranma.

(Kind of summarising the whole arc in a way, if you ignore Akane's part in it: Ranma keeps being run over by Nabiki's desires even when he thinks he's prepared, until she decides to stop...)


*Bottom left corner on the original unflipped page, of course, but same thing!