I'm still buying the Viz Ranma comics as they come out, though
I've got the Japanese manga, and have read translations or summaries
of much of it.

Haven't been trying to keep up with the Viz video releases: there's
too much new content right now to buy DVDs of stuff I've got in one
or two other formats already.

In things Takahashi, I've gotten the first Viz Maison Ikkoku DVD
set, and preordered the second. The irony here is that will take
me up to episode 24. My first exposure to MI was a 24 episode
fansub marathon, shown by a local anime club in 1996 just befor
the first Viz release of MI.

I'm still on the Animeigo Urasei Yatsura DVD preorders, but I
haven't gotten around to watching them.

It seems like Inuyasha fandom is about where Ranma 1/2 fandom
was in late 1995 when I got involved: it looks like the manga 
might be drawing to a close, and there's one group of fans
actively tracking the Japanese releases and another group tracking
the US releases.

The difference is there is less time lag in both US and Japan than
their was in the case of Ranma. Viz hasn't been keeping up with the
manga in real time, but at least they started close to the same time.
And I think it's been taken for granted there was a US market for the
anime.

I haven't had time to follow it as closely, but it seems like it's
a story with a strong audience appeal to both male and female audiences.

Another random note: I saw something in the US NewType lately that
seemed to say they were making a TV series of some of Takahash's short
stories.

Video series I'm in the midst of seeing for the first time: "Ai Yori Aoshi"
and "Snow Fairy Sugar" (both waiting for the US release).

Ai Yori Aoshi seems a little unsure if it wants to be a romance or
a comedy (episodes lean one way or the other), but the plot seems to be
going _somewhere_, and I'd recommend it.

Sugar is extremely cute and emotional/sentimental, but I suppose
it's not what most people would call deep.