Tanjiro Kamado vs Ranma Saotome

[Jcogginsa]

Tanjiro Kamado, the main character of Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba.

vs.

Ranma Saotome, the main character of Ranma 1/2

One's polite, the other is cocky, who wins the bout?

Bonus: they sit and talk

[Nik Hasta]

Ranma has skill, strength and diversity of moveset while Tanjiro might be competitive in speed at his absolute peak.

Having a hard time seeing the Nerima master losing this one.

[The Drunkard Kid]

Not to mention that Tanjiro's big attacks are fire based, while Ranma's big attacks turn the ambient heat generated by his opponents into tornadoes/energy blasts that oneshot people way higher on the totem pole than Tanjiro is, assuming Ranma even bothers to take the fight seriously.

[Jcogginsa]

Not to mention that Tanjiro's big attacks are fire based, while Ranma's big attacks turn the ambient heat generated by his opponents into tornadoes/energy blasts that oneshot people way higher on the totem pole than Tanjiro is, assuming Ranma even bothers to take the fight seriously.

I don't think Tanjiro's attacks involve actual flames

[Fallman]

If he's giving off a lot of heat, that's still good enough. The Hiryu Shoten Ha doesn't require actual fire, although that helps.

[Jackalope89]

And Ranma has no problem playing dirty either.

[Kuro]

If Ranma decides to play dirty, he can just pretend to play dead and then when Tanjiro comes over to investigate, Chestnut punches him into oblivion.

Scenario 2... he simps for Nezuko?

[Dark Soul # 7]

And Ranma has no problem playing dirty either.

So...?

Tanjiro fights inhuman opponents that have given in to their selfish desires and hatred of humanity. They don't give rat's ass about honor and stuff like that. They just joyfully murder at the behest of Muzan. Tanjiro has to fight tooth and nail to survive these encounters and has no time for stuff playing fair and what not.

Ranma "fighting dirty" isn't what's going to win him this match.

I don't think Tanjiro's attacks involve actual flames

There is some debate about whether the elemental effects are just visuals for the reader/viewer, or if they're actually manifested during the fights.

[Jcogginsa]

As far as the actual match goes, I figured Tanjiro by the end of the series would be a challenge, since that one speed breakdown made him out to be very fast, and he started at "slices apart huge Boulders" and escalated several times from there.

[The Drunkard Kid]

So...?

Tanjiro fights inhuman opponents that have given in to their selfish desires and hatred of humanity. They don't give rat's ass about honor and stuff like that. They just joyfully murder at the behest of Muzan. Tanjiro has to fight tooth and nail to survive these encounters and has no time for stuff playing fair and what not.

Ranma "fighting dirty" isn't what's going to win him this match.

There is some debate about whether the elemental effects are just visuals for the reader/viewer, or if they're actually manifested during the fights.

The fighting dirty thing is kinda important, because Ranma's fighting style is a lot sneaker than Tanjiro's, in ways that don't involve being a murderous monster. He's calibrated for sadistic murderers, not cheerfully petty conmen.

It's also really not important because Ranma has the stats and skills needed to casually stroll up to Tanjiro, rip the sword out of his hands, tie it into a bow, then feed it to him, all without Tanjiro being able to do anything to stop him. Like, he literally has a set of feats where he is throwing an entire banquet into the mouths of an entire crowd and a ridiculously superfast opponent faster then any of them could perceive, while in his weaker girl form, while also being barely able to walk from hunger after starving himself for days beforehand.

[Nik Hasta]

As far as the actual match goes, I figured Tanjiro by the end of the series would be a challenge, since that one speed breakdown made him out to be very fast, and he started at "slices apart huge Boulders" and escalated several times from there.

If Tanjiro could hit Ranma then he'd do some serious damage.

But, as noted, Ranma is much more skilled, much stronger, has way more combat options and is probably a little bit faster all things considered. He really only needs to tap Tanjiro a few times to do huge amounts of damage and he could also just target his sword to rob him of his main offensive option.

[Dark Soul # 7]

The fighting dirty thing is kinda important, because Ranma's fighting style is a lot sneaker than Tanjiro's, in ways that don't involve being a murderous monster. He's calibrated for sadistic murderers, not cheerfully petty conmen.

Sure, but that means he's got a sneakier or trickier fighting style. Not that he's fighting "dirty". Which, I admit, is a semantic pedantic difference. But "dirty" just feels silly for a death match.

[Sharpandpointies]

sure, but that means he's got a sneakier or trickier fighting style. Not that he's fighting "dirty". Which, i admit, is a semantic pedantic difference. But "dirty" just feels silly for a death match.

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thank you

[Jcogginsa]

If Tanjiro could hit Ranma then he'd do some serious damage.

But, as noted, Ranma is much more skilled, much stronger, has way more combat options and is probably a little bit faster all things considered. He really only needs to tap Tanjiro a few times to do huge amounts of damage and he could also just target his sword to rob him of his main offensive option.

I have a much better idea of where Tanjiro is Speedwise than I do Ranma, so could you explain what Puts Ranma beyond Tanjiro in that regard?

[Sharpandpointies]

I can do a quick rundown of the basics.

Let's start with Kuno. Kuno is a guy who swings around a bokken such that he stabs like...a dozen times a second, the air pressure from each stab (not swing) generating long distance impacts that crack stone. He does this on speed alone. He's waaaay faster than humanly possible.

Let's jump to Ryouga. Ryouga casually, effortlessly blitzes Kuno and two other high-end martial artists - both of whom can beat up Kuno himself - simultaneously. Ryouga gets hooked up to a rope and swung toward a boulder that is ALSO on a rope, swinging toward him. They meet at the bottoms of their swings, so at their highest speeds. Ryouga - in the instant before the boulder hits him/he hits the boulder/they crash together, really - stabs his finger over fifty times into the boulder, deep enough to put a hole in the granite. It is then revealed that he perfectly punched out Akane's name with those holes he put in the boulder.

Ranma - in his first big speed arc - fights Ryouga. Using the speed he has learned from his special training, he hits the insanely, super-tough Ryouga with what appears to be a single punch. It sounds a little odd, but that's all. This actually HURTS Ryouga, which shocks everyone. Ranma does it again. It hurts Ryouga again.

FINALLY the superfast Ryouga catches on - Ranma is hitting him ~400-500 times in the exact same place with what looks - and feels - to him like a single punch. Roughly. Feels a little weird, has a weird sound, but that's all. And it takes him getting hit two, three times with it to catch on that he is being hit literally a multitude of hundreds of times with every punch, not once.

That's not a normal person not catching on immediately. That's Ryouga, to whom normal people would be moving in extreeeeme...sloooow...motion.

Ranma only gets faster from here, doing stuff like 'throwing all of the heaps of food in front of himself into the mouth of the guy across the table and into the audience watching their food-eating fight so fast that nobody - none of the superfast martial artists watching - grasp that he's actually feeding everyone in the room, basically, while pretending he's the one eating it'. He does this when exhausted and half-starved.