Why I believe Ryoga will two time Ranma in a Ranma X Ryoga crack ship
There's not enough posts about my favorite shounen, Ranma 1/2 on this sub, so I decided to make one, especially about my favorite crack ship in the series
Ranma x Ryoga is one of my favorite crack ships for many obvious reasons. It's a classic foe to lovers romance and is also BL with enough canon ship tease events to be on the edge of credible while also firmly crack ship tier. Rumiko does throw a bone to the crack shippers pretty often with Ranma bugs bunnying to mess with Ryoga only for him to fall for it every time, and there's the fishing pole arc which REALLY fired up the Ryoga X Ranma shippers despite the implications. It's a very popular ship and a BL classic, however there is one noticeable deviation from canon that I find unacceptable. There's an common truism in shipping fanfics that the pair end up falling madly in love with each other and are devoted lovers, but that deviates from a core and I think funniest aspect of Ryoga's character, that he's a two timing pathetic rat bastard who will fall for the first girl that treats him remotely decently
Ryoga has no loyalty and this is established canon. When Ranma pulls his bugs bunny act and pretended to be his fiance in order to ruin Ryoga's date with Akane. Ryoga fell for it and like the simp that he is, immediately thought this girl was into him and tried to bone him when Ranma sweettalked about how much he loved him in an attempt to fuck with him.
More egregiously, The entire situation with Akari. As a male rival in a comedy Harem, he actually achieves the unprecedented feat of having an independent love interest that isn't into the MC. Bro legit won the lottery in terms of harem rivals and what does he do? Immediately squanders it and tries to two time both Akane and Akari bc this rat lacks the ability to commit and hold a profit. Who does he think he is? KuGOAT?!
Ryoga's two timing rat behavior is a heavily underrated part of non betrayal ship fics and I think a heavily underutilized source of drama and comedy. Imagine the crack fic where Ranma pulls a funny scheme to fuck with him, being like I'll turn into female Ranma and kiss him wouldn't that be funny bro, gets too into it, and then have it backfire on him with him getting cucked bc Ryoga tossed his ass aside for Akane. There's so much more toxic ship potential lost here and as a fan of Total drama and its toxic shipping bullshit, I see undiscovered gems waiting to be mined.
So in summary, please recommend me toxic Ranma X Ryoga Yaoi ships where Ryoga two times.
Posted May 13, 2026, 6:26 PM UTC