This is the Ranma movie that puts the whole Tendo dojo on a boat and dares you to notice it's basically a very long TV episode with a bigger budget. Lychee turning up with Jasmine the elephant to collect on a three-generation-old debt is peak Happosai: the old goblin handed over half a scroll promising a prince, then let someone else's family wait a century for the bill. Then Prince Kirin shows up swinging giant chopsticks, grabs Akane as his destined bride, and Ranma has to chase her across the sea while still flipping genders every time water hits him at the worst possible moment. Fans admit the humor lands softer here than the series at its sharpest, and the plot is a straight line, but the Seven Lucky Gods fights and Ranma's furious, unspoken reason for going after Akane are the real reason you press play. He'd never say it out loud. He doesn't have to.

A girl named Lychee turns up at the Tendo training hall with her enormous elephant, Jasmine, looking to settle a score with the lecherous martial arts master Happosai. Long ago he handed Lychee's great-grandmother half of a legendary scroll meant to bring happiness to whoever holds it. Three generations of women in her family have waited for a prince who never came. The moment Lychee lets go of the scroll, Prince Kirin finally shows up, but by then Akane Tendo, Ranma's reluctant fiancee, is the one holding it. Kirin and the Seven Lucky Gods carry Akane off to be his bride aboard his flying barge. Ranma and his friends chase them to Nekonron, China, to stop the wedding, which leads to a showdown with the Seven Lucky Gods of martial arts. The film is a comic adventure built around that rescue.