Talk:List of Ranma ½ manga

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This article is to be a listing pointing to separate articles for the manga. I don't own the books; by looking at an online version at http://www.anymanga.com/ranma/, there are subdivisions no covered by the way that the books are split. The books are split into "parts", but these part numbers start over at intervals, which seem to be a good way to organize them:
 * section 1: volume 1 chapter 1 - vol2ch6
 * section 2: vol2ch7 - vol4ch10
 * section 3: vol5ch1 - vol7ch4
 * section 4: vol7ch5 - vol9ch4
 * section 5: vol9ch5 - vol11ch6
 * section 6: vol11ch7 - vol14ch1
 * section 7: vol14ch2 - vol16ch7

Site appears to switch from Viz scans to original Japanese with English digitally added at vol17ch5; can't determine the section splits from that point beyond, so I'd have to have the books to complete it. These sections are also split into subsections not matching the site (e.g. v6ch4 and v8ch8) so the articles could also go by subsection rather than the larger sections. JeremyGU (t &middot; c) 04:10, April 15, 2010 (UTC)

I do not know how or why they chose to split the manga the way that they did. It is completely artificial and makes no logical sense. I honestly don't see any reason at all to try to split the manga at this level. I made a single table with both the Japanese volume chapters (which should always be used for reference as other translations might have altered their volume chapter layout as Viz did with the English translation) and the Viz English translation numbers. If anyone has other language translations and wishes to enter them into this table for cross-reference that would be good as well.

I have also included a breakdown by story arc. The story arc is the most logical way to do separate pages for the description of the manga.