The manga inspired the Ranma 1/2 television anime series in April 1989.
The anime continued into the Ranma ½: Nettō-hen series in October 1989, and it ran until September 1992.
Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura manga recently inspired a new television anime that premiered in the Noitamina programming block on Fuji TV in October 2022.
The anime will premiere nationwide in Japan on October 5 on the NTV channel at 24:55 JST (effectively, October 6 at 12:55 a.m. JST).