There is one thing I'll criticise the new Ranma series for: it's exactly the same story. Sped up a little, and more of a focus on the martial arts, but it's the same story.

When I got word I'd made the final pass of scripts for the Trans Comedy Award, I seriously sat down and began thinking of how I wanted to do what would be "Closetspace UK." Closetspace is a very specific story I'd created in 1992, and the (what would have been 2015) UK adaption would be that same story with some changes to match a UK setting (Setting the story in London's Shepherd's Bush instead of Austin's Hyde Park, making Allison Pakistani instead of Mexican).

But the main change I wanted to do involved the episodic stories. Each episode of Closetspace UK would toughly match up with the webcomic. So if you read the comic, you'd be spoiled for the story. Or if you wanted to know Allison's secret before it was revealed on TV, you could just read the comic.

The solution? Change the endings.

The stories would be roughly the same, with cultural changes, but the endings would be readapted. I'd likely have revealed Allison was trans much earlier to the audience and made her secret her video game addiction. Victoria would have been trans and not a drag queen (I've already adapted that in the comic she's a trans drag-queen), and likely not die (her death from AIDS being on of the big markers that I wrote this in the early 90s).

The idea would be, you get the same story, but new things to see and experience. Something I wish the new Ranma series had done. I've seen quite a bit of the series somehow, and there's no surprises or changes (other than putting the ice-skating episodes back where they were supposed to be in the first run) from the original series.