Ranking of Kings

Zokku is a barrel-chested man of average height. He has black eyes, black hair grown into a fluffy mullet, large eyebrows, and a thick moustache. He wears gray chainmail over a blue shirt.

Zokku is a vicious criminal who doesn't think twice about attacking his benefactors, however, unlike the other criminals he displays a high degree of cunning and opportunism.
He was the first to realize they had been rescued by Miranjo , and understood the implications of going agianst her wishes. Likewise, he was one of the first to realize that Ouken is exceptionally-dangerous, and quickly adapted to the situation by offering Ouken the crown of the Bosse Kingdom (though Ouken ignored him).


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Akane is the shortest of the main characters, being shorter than Ranma Saotome in his male form, but a little taller than Ranma's height as his female form. She has short black hair (blue highlighted in the anime) and brown eyes. At the beginning of the series she had long hair, but after it was cut off during a fight between Ryoga Hibiki and Ranma, she kept it short for the rest of the series [2] . In the remake version, the color of her hair is now bluish-black and her eyes are light brown. In the beginning of the series, her hair ribbon is now dark pink instead of yellow.
She usually wears the girls' uniform for Furinkan High School , but has a wide variety of outfits. For training or anticipated combat, Akane wears a light yellow gi and is barefoot. In the remake version, her school uniform dress is light blue instead of sky blue.

Akane in her gi. Akane in the 2024 anime.

While Akane is generally shown as compassionate and helpful towards anyone in trouble, she's also a vulnerable, stubborn, relentless and very short-tempered girl. She frequently becomes angry and jealous, and is apt to hit Ranma when this happens, often a reaction to Ranma's own bad traits like his smart mouth and insensitivity, but also due to rampant paranoia and willingness to generally believe the worst of the situations she finds him in. Despite her temper, Akane has a more prominent gentle side. She has come to the aid of her rivals, even consistently feeling compassion towards or helping people who try to make her life miserable (or in the first case even kill her), like Shampoo , Happosai or Kuno . She has repeatedly expressed extreme disapproval in attacking or hurting anyone unable to defend him or herself, and refrained from striking Ranma when he was turned into a small child despite being insulted [ citation needed ] . She has also apologized for her behavior, once she has had time to cool down or learn the facts, and consistently risked her own life trying to help Ranma without a second thought, showing extreme courage in this regard given her own comparatively limited skills/increased danger. For example, she chose to use a magic paper doll to take the damage for Ranma rather than herself, when both were bitten by lethally poisonous snake-herbs/wines, effectively consciously trading her life for his, and entered the Orochi's mouth in an effort to save him from being eaten.

Most of her flaws can be attributed to insecurities about her own attractiveness, skill, or lack of traditionally feminine talents. Despite this, she seems to have an appeal to the opposite gender. Ryoga, Shinnosuke, Kuno and Gosunkugi have all been in love with her and she's considered attractive by her schoolmates, but given that she seems generally, but not consistently, oblivious to the first case and the others have largely been of a highly negative nature (constant assaults from Kuno and sports club members, general stalking from Gosunkugi) this has not served to build up her self-esteem.
Her insecurity often leads her to overreact upon finding Ranma in compromising positions and to punt, repeatedly whack, stomp, or attack him with bokken, shinai, mallets, arrows, stones, tables or any other available blunt object. Ranma seldom seems injured in the following panels (whether due to differences in strength, or restraint on her part), but in the Reversal Jewel story, she punched him so hard into the horizon that he was in a full body cast. Although in the anime this was also due to sustaining a follow-up beating from Kuno and Ryoga. She's also seemed to be concious about her appearance and bust size to an noticable degree, which Ranma seems to not fully grasp and accidentally presses a button more sore than he's aware of.
She's also once stated a remarkable double-standard in this regard as she was burning with outrage and vowed to never forgive him if he deigned to strike her even once during her relentless assault while wearing a 'battle dougi' that greatly enhanced her fighting power. During the 'Nabiki's fiancé' arc she got upset just from overhearing an affirmation that a dejected Ranma found this treatment very taxing (though she only clobbered him after he derisively insulted her as well), so while she's remorseful about specific instances, and has gradually strengthened her restraint as the series progresses, she doesn't stop the pattern as a whole.
Akane has difficulty trying to sort out her feelings for Ranma. There are times when she is on the verge of telling him how she really feels, but this is almost always interrupted by comedic circumstances, and they return to their usual barbs and antics, but she is consistently worried when he is endangered and overjoyed when he turns up safe.
Akane does have a need for being comforted when sad or scared, but they are both usually too uncomfortable to interact in this manner. Unlike most other main female characters, she's expressed great, traditionally 'feminine', fears of ghosts or reptiles and can be extremely frightened simply from a scary story, being in a casino, or imagining Kuno drugging girl Ranma.
Despite not being as technically skilled as several other characters in martial arts, she takes pride in her legacy and position as the scion of her father's Tendo-Ryu, and never backs off from a fight or rejects a challenge.
Akane seems to get along well with people who are technically her rivals, like Ukyo and Cologne. She tends to be naive in often wishing to believe the best of everyone even when repeatedly proven to the contrary, as with Nabiki or Shampoo. The two most notable exceptions are Ranma and Kuno. In the former case attributed to her own insecurities being fueled by regular insults and the very awkward and chaotic semi-relationship, and in the latter due to intense harassment.
Ranma easily owes Akane his life several times over (though the opposite holds true as well). She is kind, helpful, self-sacrificing, forgiving and somewhat naive towards people in general, even technical enemies, being the only character in the series who can almost match Kasumi in her ordinary mood. She's also very appreciative if Ranma treats her with consideration, and is consistently worrying about, cheering him on, or going to extremes to assist him. When severely upset however, she undergoes a bipolar shift into a state of arrogant derogatory insults, unreasonable paranoia and self-righteous violence, on average treating Ranma worse than his arrogant and extremely insensitive behavior justifies, but she can just as swiftly switch back to being very kind again and make a shamefaced apology whenever she realizes a mistake. Kasumi’s initial assessment that "She's really a very sweet girl. She's just a violent maniac." has consistently held true, if usually only in Ranma's case. That said, Ranma has also been beaten up several times by his other paramours, Akane is simply around him more often. It is also more evident in the anime than in the manga.
Despite being short-tempered and even occasionally speaking in a rude tone similar to Ranma, Akane seems to remain respectful towards her seniors, as she always refers to Kuno as "Upperclassman Kuno" and Happosai as "Grandfather Happosai", despite the former's constant attempts to date her and his annoying lack of awareness, and the latter's general and unabashed perverted antics. She even tends to refer to Genma as "Mr. Saotome", even while criticizing him for being lazy, a coward, or just a poor parent.


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The owner is an elderly man with glasses and white hair. He has a full mustache and wears glasses and a beanie . In the manga he wears a scarf, light coloured jacket with a pattern and medium coloured pants, while in the anime he wears a medium grey gi with a black belt and sandals. In the manga he only appears three times, but pops up several times in the anime, revealing new information about the phoenix in a few instances in an attempt to be helpful.

In the dub he is much more of a skeptic about the phoenix and its capabilities, but in the end eventually declares that he believes. He has an idea about the potential problems that a hatched phoenix can create, but his principles are not strong enough to resist sufficient monetary temptation.


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In the manga, the Dojo Destroyer wore a white gi, had yellow skin and almost never spoke, fighting silently and restlessly. In the anime, however, he was a dark-skinned man wearing a green gi, and was much more talkative, boasting about his past fights and taunting his opponents.


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The Orochi is a giant, eight-headed dragon with a very unusual physical form; the eighth and largest head actually forms its body, with the seven smaller heads positioned on the ends of smaller, long necks that emerged from the "neck" of this singular massive head. These heads move and act independently of each other, and resemble a classic "Asian" dragon, albeit one lacking horns. Overall, Orochi resembles something of a dragon-like octopus but with additional heads at the end of its neck "tentacles".


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He is stocky, middle aged man, Genma wears glasses with a frame that wraps around his ears, a white bandanna that covers his head, and a white gi. He used to have hair, but is now completely bald.
As a panda, he normally walks upright and will use signs to communicate. A common means for Genma to avoid answering embarrassing questions or temporarily dodge responsibility is to turn into his cursed form and play with a ball. He is much more comfortable with his cursed form than Ranma, and does not have as many issues and problems with it as Ranma does with his.

Genma follows his own interpretation of the Anything Goes Martial Arts code, which isn't exactly all that virtuous itself to begin with. Though he himself claims to be a model martial artist, and makes a point of telling Ranma about the right thing to do, it is evident that he does not practice what he preaches. He mostly concerns himself with food, generally looks out for himself, and is an occasional coward when it comes to confrontations with Happosai. When confronted with wrongdoings that he has committed, Genma typically either attempts to justify them through pleading or ridiculous logic, or else tries to either flee from or ignore the problems he has wrought.
It is debatable as to whether Genma is so much "evil" as he is "stupid". While definately selfish and cowardly, he usually does not act with deliberate malice. His primary flaws seem to be a strange combination of impulsiveness and stubbornness; Genma can set his goals in a whimsical fashion, and then will immediately start trying to pursue them without further thought and long beyond the point when common sense would suggest he stop. This is exemplified by the matter of Ranma learning the Nekoken ; it speaks depths about Genma's character that he would take one look a single page of a training method and immediately force his increasingly-traumatised son to undergo it four times before finally deigning to look at the next page, which warns he should never have started it in the first place.
Despite Genma's usual state of poverty, he was shown as having gotten a job at Dr. Tofu's clinic at the start of the series; it's unclear how long he remained there, though, as Dr. Tofu Ono and his clinic vanished from the attention of the manga around the time that the Joketsuzoku entered the story on a permanent basis. Genma has helped Soun Tendo when the latter is called upon for help, though on occasions he has tried to just leave it to Soun. He has displayed a lack of shame in pawning family possessions, most notably when he made several determined attempts to steal the Saotome family treasure to pawn it despite its value of only about 2,000 yen. [3] He also pawned the coats that Nodoka had made for him and Ranma years ago, although he did buy them back. [4] Genma also developed a technique called the Tatami Flip that he used multiple times to beat up on debt collectors when Ranma was still young. [5]

Genma in panda form using a sign to communicate

Despite being cursed, Genma actually seems to like his panda form and freely goes about in public in it. He regularly uses it in attempts to circumvent attention when in danger of being taken to task by others by transforming into it and playing with a tire or ball. If he cannot avoid the problem, he often foists the obligation onto Ranma, which usually creates even more chaos. Although pandas cannot talk, Genma is able to communicate his thoughts while in this form by writing on wooden signs (more common in the manga), which he sometimes uses as weapons against Ranma when he is annoyed with his son. In the anime he was once shown as able to produce enough of them to construct an entire boat.
When his wife Nodoka visits, he turns into a panda in an effort to hide his and Ranma's curses from her. In this situation, he is known as Mr. Panda and is Ranko's (Ranma's female form's alias to Nodoka) pet. Nodoka has seemed far more fond of Ranko than of Mr. Panda. When both of them were sick, she fussed over Ranko, while merely commenting that Mr. Panda had warm fur. Another time, when she was helping Ranko cook dinner, she fed the inedible foods cooked to Mr. Panda. Genma's panda form was also briefly given the nickname Kumahachi , when a young boy named Yotaro discovered him and took him in as an incredibly pampered pet.
Genma consistently enjoyed being stronger than Ranma during their training trips, since it allowed him to claim most of the food, but was disturbed when Ranma recently passed his prowess in regular fighting (without special techniques), and the latter used the opportunity to repeatedly severely beat him up.
However, beyond dedicating one and a half decade of his life to teaching Ranma, there have been a few occasions when Genma has been shown to care about his son. While they were both training separately in the mountain to fight each other in a week's time, Ranma fell asleep and was covered in a blanket by Genma, although he found out that his father had also stolen his food. While helping to teach Ranma the Soul of Ice necessary to perform the Hiryū Shōten Ha , Genma wept genuine tears of regret when he had to use Embarrassing Photo-Fu and show compromising photos of Ranma to Akane and Ukyo Kuonji .
Genma is insecure about his baldness and misses the head of hair he formerly had. In the manga he is revealed to have tried out countless hair tonics to regrow his hair, none of which worked. He was overjoyed when an experimental tonic that he was trying out for Cologne had some success. However extreme growth was triggered by anger while laughter caused it to all fall out, ultimately rendering the tonic ineffective. [6]
Genma's tendency to think both only in the short-term and in regards to himself alone is perhaps the primary sticking point in their relationship, with Ranma begrudging all of the trouble he is forced to endure because of Genma's mistakes.


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Happosai is a tiny man, about the same height as Cologne. He is completely bald except for some hair on the sides of his head and has a pencil-thin mustache. He wore a gi years before when training Soun and Genma, but now wears a two piece medium colored outfit (dark maroon in the anime). He also makes use of various disguises when needed and when on his underwear raids typically sports a traditional Japanese mask made from a folded tenugui. It is more a ceremonial disguise than an actually functional disguise, and is believed to have its roots in the now-discouraged practice of yobai or night-crawling. One of the common depictions of Happosai is wearing this mask and carrying a furoshiki laden with loot.

The only things Happosai cares about are martial arts, being a nuisance and satisfying his own hedonism . The very definition of a dirty old man, he regularly indulges in perverse activities such as groping, or attempting to peek on, and/or stealing the lingerie of Akane , Ranma, and just about any other attractive female he sees. While Ranma owns no female undergarments, Happosai has attempted to get the latter's female form to model a bra for him. One of his few, non-perverse, regular habits is cooking sweet potatoes with a camp fire he builds in the back or front yard. Nevertheless, several times characters have taken issue with this habit, albeit, only because of what he uses for kindling, among which are; their personal belongings, the moxibustion sheet Ranma needed, the paper detailing a french Martial Arts Dining technique and, in one instance, the Anything Goes Martial Art School's Dojo sign.
He is addicted to his perversion; not being able to touch a woman is like not being able to breathe for him. He goes through severe withdrawal at one point, becoming very weak and crawling along the ground, repeatedly muttering "pretty ladies." In this part of both the manga and anime, Happosai was cursed with an odor that repelled women. Not able to touch any women, he nearly ends up dying in Ranma's arms until the rain of a storm changes Ranma into his female form, allowing Happosai to regain some of his strength. He is often seen on panty raids, touring the neighborhood toting a sackful of women's undergarments twice his size and shouting out his signature battle cry of "Dai ryo ja!" (What a haul!) while being pursued by the women he stole from.
He is somewhat vain and consistently attempts to modify past events to place himself in a far more favorable light, unblemishing his younger self into a valiant, but victimized bishonen ladykiller. In reality, Happosai was simply an ugly, diminutive, and unpopular thief. When compared to Cologne who was a normal looking girl of normal height when she was young who grew smaller with age it shows he might have Dwarfism since he's been the same height for his whole life. He has remained the same over the decades. Beyond asserting that Cologne gave him a stolen heirloom as a romantic token of affection, he likewise claimed that he received the butterfly brocade from his friend Rakkyosai as a symbol of their friendship. In truth he knocked out the latter with a large mallet and stole it.
He is also extremely petty, sadistic and vengeful towards anyone who sufficiently displeases him. Happosai has gone to relentless extremes to torment Ranma, Genma and Soun by sticking them with large, unpaid food bills, incriminating them as neighborhood panty-thieves, calling the zoo to pick up Genma, or leaving false panda paw prints on the walls. But while his revenge schemes are usually comically silly, he has been unhesitant to cripple Ranma for life by permanently taking away his strength and then informing all his enemies. While he instructed Soun and Genma, Happosai kept his two students as personal slaves, who he tormented, incriminated, and starved for his own entertainment during their "training". He was also willing to kill the Niku Men if they did not give up information regarding the Dragon's Whisker. He has proudly proclaimed himself as "evil until the day I die", although, as noted above, he simply sees himself as 'misunderstood' on other occasions.
Happosai has quite rare good moods, when he shows a more benevolent side, such as when he assisted the mother of Pantyhose Taro in giving birth. Also, the old man does have a soft spot for little children whom he helps at times. In the anime, Happosai tried to give up on his bad habits when he fell in love with a young teacher named Midori. But ultimately, his perversion won him over and he lost her favor after revealing himself to be the neighborhood panty thief, whom she despised. However, Happosai at least apparently has a somewhat 'chivalrous' side, as he stated a code against fighting born women when female Ranma was first presented as a disciple, and indeed never hits or even directly defends himself against them even when given regular beatings for his thefts and gropings.
Going by the German edition of the Ranma ½ Memorial Book ( The Art of Ranma ½ in English), he is likely the person Ranma despises most and views as his personal archenemy. He is one of the very few individuals Ranma has (once) actively attempted to kill, alternately post to the North Pole, but the latter has also occasionally shown compassion towards or helped to save the life of his grandmaster.
His relationship with Cologne is expanded on in the anime. At Age 18, Cologne used to have feelings for him despite his lechery and shortness but Happosai's relentless lechery ended up breaking the romance and he left Cologne's village with a pack of stolen valuables.
Strangely, Nabiki and Kasumi seem to mostly be exempt from Happosai's actions. Although, early in both the manga and anime series, he enthusiastically attempted to peek on Nabiki when he thought she was naked in a bathhouse. In the anime episode " Enter Ken and His Copycat Kerchief ," Happosai and Copycat Ken attempted to grope both Kasumi and Nabiki, though Nabiki simply punches them away. In " The Horrible Happo Mold-Burst! ," all three Tendo sisters had a battle aura surrounding them because of Happosai's attempt to steal their underwear.


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Haurmaki's grandson has medium-to-long length light color hair (changed to brown in the anime) which includes a substantial fringe which reaches to just above his eyes. His outfit consists of a dark shirt and trousers with a black cape over it.


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Gosunkugi has short, dark hair and characteristic dark circles under his eyes. This is most likely genetic as both of his parents have this characteristic. He is skinny and typically wears the gakuran worn by male students at Furinkan High School . When performing his voodoo rituals he straps candles to his head. In the Nightmare! Incense of Spring Sleep OVA Gosunkugi's skintone is a ghostly white.

Gosunkugi is a quiet, antisocial individual, noted by his classmates as tending to blend into the background. He is shy and uncertain, but has something of a vengeful streak and is rather obsessive, particularly when it comes to things that interest him greatly, like the occult or Akane. He is also somewhat of a daydreamer.


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Hinako's adult form as a tall, curvy woman is what she would likely have looked like had she not been sickly as a child, although her child form is more reflective of her true emotional and psychological age. In both forms, she has long dark hair (medium brown in the anime) and wears clothing that allows her to alternate between forms, although when she transforms into an adult it becomes form-fitting which accentuate her curves.

Hinako's personality is as variable as her form, shifting between two very different states. In her child form, she acts mostly like a small child would. She talks in a high-pitched voice, craves ice cream and similar junk foods, watches anime on TV ( Doraemon is her favorite), and generally acts very spastic, childish, and immature. Despite this, she still has a strong commitment to being a teacher and feels very responsible for her students.
In her adult form, Hinako acts like an elegant, confident, and somewhat vain adult woman, and is more effective in her disciplining methods because of her forceful personality, gorgeous figure, and her tendency to drain and blast people who disobey her. While she is mainly well-intentioned and righteous, and can be gentle, she also seems to have a more vindictive side as an adult, actually enjoying the punishment that she deals out. Her adult form is also quite sensuous and sexual, in appearance. Because of this, Hinako is not afraid to use it to her advantage to take control of the situation when dealing with male delinquents. However, she retains some of her childish traits. In either form, she enjoys sweets, attractions, toys, and video games, eats like a slob, and doesn't properly take care of her apartment. Hinako is quite forgetful, even overlooking to bring her wallet into a restaurant or getting side-tracked from her original reason to visit the Tendo household once she became enamoured with Soun. She can sometimes lack good judgment, once deciding to help Akane learn to swim without knowing the basics herself. She is also quite weak for what she perceives as very manly and upright grown men who are kind to her. The longer a period she stays in an adult state, the more her energetic and irrational childish personality makes itself known.
Hinako is obsessed with enforcing discipline and justice at Furinkan, and she will do so, at any moment, if she feels someone is being a delinquent. Her primary target in this endeavor has been Ranma, whom she wishes to take care of so that everyone else will fall in line. Even so, her dedication to teaching also means she wants him to succeed in her classes, and has made an effort to help him with his studies. They did also team up against Principal Kuno after his abusive methods of discipline made him seem like a delinquent to her.


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Hiroshi has shaggy light brown hair and Daisuke has black hair (dark brown in the anime) that is parted. The two are always seen together and make small asides and comments about the situation. They are the most normal of Ranma's friends.

Despite being Ranma's supporters, Hiroshi and Daisuke can also be quick to accuse of things such as molesting Miss Hinako . They can be considered the counterparts to Yuka and Sayuri , Akane's friends.


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The Guide dresses in a Mao suit, which includes a matching tunic, pants, and cap with a star in front. Ranma Saotome also wears this outfit on occasion.


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In general, Kasumi has been remarked as being beautiful. During the The Battle for Miss Beachside episode, she was surprised at just how many men wanted to ask her out. It was also notable that she won the contest in a landslide victory over Shampoo, Ukyo and Akane despite not being an actual contestant.

Kasumi is a peaceful character in a cast of rather frantic people. She is invariably shown as cheerful and pleasant, seldom seeming fazed by the wild events that surround her. Once the lunacy subsides, she amiably helps to clean up any destruction, and generally seems content in working hard to take care of her family, the household and make any guests feel at home. Even she was saddened when her sister ruined the family, but prepared to walk the streets to sell flowers to pay the bills. She doesn't appear to be devoid of social life, given that she's been shown to go on trips, or visit friends, and regularly accompanies her family on various entertainment activities.
Kasumi can sometimes appear oblivious, but has also been shown as highly perceptive. She's been able to see through Nabiki's schemes, and immediately noticed that something was amiss with Akane, when a spirit doll possessed the latter. In the second instance, their more patently attentive middle sister took considerably longer.
Kasumi also sometimes gives wise/sagely advice, where she has made spot-on, if somewhat harsh, character observations. She may keep a cool head and cheerful attitude to help maintain the tranquillity of the household (or whatever is left of it) and hold her family together. In the anime, she sometimes explains unusual phenomena or makes observations about fighting methods during matches in the dojo.
Her name translates as "mist". If intentional, this may imply that her perspective is rather clouded, in case Japanese cultural symbolism overlaps with Western in this respect, but could also symbolize grace, amongst other connotations. In the first few chapters she was upset simply by seeing the results of Akane's sudden haircut, so she may have trained herself to stay calm as a defense mechanism.
Kasumi appears to be quite intelligent in an academic respect. Early in the series, she borrowed a book about shiatsu/human pressure points from Dr. Tofu. This is an advanced topic for somebody outside of the medical profession. She also managed to translate an excerpt from a French book, but stated that her knowledge of the language was quite limited. It is, however, unclear if she is too occupied by her housework for scholarly pursuits.
Kasumi appears to be virtually devoid of negative instincts. An entire story was devoted to this point. The other household members falsely assumed that their lack of consideration and various destructive mishaps had turned her murderously ferocious, due to 'dammed up aggression'. However, when faced with these troubles, and the author notes stated that her anger had reached its peak, she simply reprimanded Ranma, who had been tagged as scapegoat for each incident, by lightly tapping him on the forehead, a common form of discipline given to Japanese children. Yet even here, she thought that she might have been overreacting. Another character observed that she was "a perfect saint" in conjunction.
During the time she was possessed by an oni, her concept of evil seemed to be non-lethal, but highly annoying pranks such as placing paralysis potion in the dinner, knitting "crossdresser" on Ranma's clothing, ironing Genma's panda fur, or scratching Soun's back bloody with oversized nails/claws.
Her nature is in sharp contrast to Nabiki’s, and they frequently state highly dissimilar considerate/cynical views of the antics surrounding them. They were respectively portrayed as an angel and demon in 'The Memorial Book'/'The Art of Ranma ½' (Page 45). Her father has been shown to be very protective of her. In the above-mentioned possession case, he was upset by the very thought of budging a hair on her head, even if it would get rid of the oni. Akane has admitted to viewing Kasumi as a personal role model in certain respects, and has tried to emulate her looks, nature and feminine talents.
Like the rest of her family, she has also never held a grudge against Nabiki for any of the latter's ruthless schemes, no matter how much she has suffered from them. Instead, Kasumi has tried to talk her into showing consideration, and they generally seem to be confidantes of each other, despite their diametrically opposed personalities. She also revealed to her father that Nabiki wanted to sell the dojo and play with the money, to ascertain that he tried to bring together the flustered Ranma and Akane, when her younger sister had taken up the engagement. Given that she has likewise tried to talk Ranma into seeing Akane in a more forgiving light, rather than directly berating the latter, she seems unwilling to cause any form of mental anguish whatsoever towards others. Kasumi instead wields 'soft power' when she thinks it seems necessary and might be of any help, while simultaneously trying to take care of her family.
But as alluded previously, she has firmly berated her father when the latter almost lost their house to the 'Gambling King', and after learning about his mishaps with the Chardin family.
In the manga, Kasumi generally seems to treat Happosai with consideration (volume 13, chapter 2; volume 19, chapter 9; volume 28, chapter 11) even calling him "grandpa" in one translation. (volume 13, chapter 3) He has also never been shown to directly pester her. However, in the anime episode "The Horrible Happo-Mold Burst!," all three Tendo sisters were surrounded by battle auras when Happosai attempted to steal their underwear, although only Akane took physical action.


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Katsunishiki is mostly light coloured but has a few spots. He wears the mark of the yokozuna's rank, the white tsuna , around his neck over a dark keshō-mawashi . He is quite large, being taller than a human, and is very strong.

He is highly intelligent, he understands Akari's commands and is utterly devoted to her, serving as her guardian and personal mode of transportation.


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Kinnosuke is a tall and handsome young man with a fair complexion and dark hair. Despite his incredibly cheap lifestyle, he has a decent assortment of fine suits for both formal and casual affairs.

Kinnosuke is charming and well-mannered and has expensive taste. He is skilled to keep up an appearance of being well off. He is not afraid of arriving in grand style. He is also very prideful and competitive, when he is determent to make Nabiki use her own money and is not satisfied with just sending the bills to her family. He doesn't hensitate use his victims' money to the point where they are bankrupt, suggesting a sociopathic personality.


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Kodachi is a teenaged girl of medium height with curvaceous build.  Her hair is very dark and almost always worn in a distinctive one-sided ponytail. In the remake version, her hair is bluish-black which is a contrast to her older brother Tatewaki's natural black hair. Unlike her brother she wears clothing appropriate for school and other walks of life, but apparently always wears her gymnastic leotard and toe shoes underneath.  If she feels the need for combat she will often whip off her outer clothing in one move and fight in her leotard.

Unlike his other suitors, Kodachi is not actually betrothed to Ranma. Since there is no formal engagement involved in her relationship with Ranma, he usually brushes her off more often than his three fiancées. She resents this and responds with more poisons and other foul tricks. Though she has stated that she's actually aware that Ranma doesn't love her, she simply refuses to let that get in her way. She thinks he will eventually give in if she continues to make an effort.
She is a good cook who prepares elaborate meals that seem to be based in French cuisine. In one story, students who consumed her cookies described them as delicious—before they fainted because she had laced them with sleeping powder. She uses her culinary expertise to her advantage by placing poisons, toxins, serums, and other strange substances in her victims' food to attain something she wants from them, especially when Ranma is involved.
She apparently has a strong flair for the dramatic. When entering and leaving a scene or leaping throughout the city, she is regularly accompanied by a small stream of black rose petals billowing about her, complemented by a shrill, maniacal cackle that is one of her trademarks. But if she has to or otherwise feels like it, Kodachi is more than capable of acting like a perfectly well-mannered lady, and a first class host.
Like her brother, she is unaware of Ranma's curse and views his same-gendered form (in this case, the girl) as a rival for the affections of his opposite-gendered form (in this case, the boy). In the anime at least, unlike Tatewaki, this can be attributed to simple ignorance of Jusenkyo curses rather than outright denial, as she has not seen Ranma change forms in this continuity. However, in the manga, she has watched Ranma transform from male to female and not recognized what just happened, immediately asking "the pig-tailed girl" what she did with Ranma. This may imply that, like her brother, she has come to hold the idea (due to lack of explanations about Jusenkyo ) that her "enemy Ranma" can somehow whisk her "beloved Ranma" away by magic.
Kodachi seems to enjoy spending time in the extensive gardens of the Kuno estate, particularly near the large pond, where she keeps her giant pet crocodile, whom she has lovingly named Mr. Turtle (or Mr. Green Turtle in the anime, occasionally referred to as "Mr. Scaly Green" in some episodes of the dub).
As her brother has expressed, Kodachi's manga incarnation is shown as quite twisted. She's been more than willing to ambush and beat up rival schoolgirls, and use potentially lethal weaponry during her matches. She also enthusiastically attempted to murder Nabiki or Hinako Ninomiya , when Ranma was engaged to the former (though this never occurred in the anime version of that same story), respectively

suspected he was attracted to the latter, and was completely unconcerned about killing an innocent bystander on the off chance that he'd be Asuka's 'boyfriend.' She's been relentlessly vengeful against her brother. Simply for destroying one of her many Ranma posters, she paralysed him, then tied him up and threw him into a basin containing her crocodile. She's repeatedly attempted to use similar anaesthesia against male Ranma, in order to force her attentions on him, and also assaulted a crowd of romantic couples in this manner, with the stated reason being simple entertainment and because she viewed them as "bugs". Nevertheless she is not completely unreasonable as she was perfectly willing to return Kuno's album of pictures of Ranma's female form if he simply apologised to her for destroying the aformentioned picture.
However, her anime counterpart isn't completely heartless. In "Genma Takes a Walk" she provided Ranma and Genma with free room, board, and food when they were kicked out of the Tendo house, and in "Dear Daddy...Love, Kodachi," she was also shown to truly care for her brother and father. The former used to be a stand-in at her school parent's meetings, and she was eager to meet the latter when informed that he had returned from his long trip abroad. Curiously, she never shares a scene with her father in the Manga.
Of interesting note is that Kodachi has been bitter rivals with another girl, Asuka Saginomiya, AKA the White Lily, since they both were six years old, and violently assaulted each other's claimed "boyfriends" until only one of them was conscious. Since Kodachi 'won' the competition they agreed to compete again ten years later. Asuka has a largely similar personality, being haughty, eccentric, showy and ruthless, but seems somewhat less extroverted and more refined, if a bit snobbish. She also enjoys using explosives to defeat her foes. In their most recent battle, Akane allowed Ranma to pose as Kodachi's beau, since she was insulted by Asuka's dismissive attitude towards him. The match ended in a draw, as it was revealed that Asuka's more handsome date was simply someone she struck down just previously.
Kodachi is the only one of the fiancees that has ever admitted that she knows Ranma doesn't love her and just likes pretending that he does. This occurred during the Asuka storyline. Also, compared to Shampoo and Ukyou, her arrival at Ranma's and Akane's surprise and failed wedding was much less violent. The other two brought exploding food, while Kodachi arrived in a wedding dress.


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Kogane has long dark brown hair which reaches down to her waist and gray eyes. During her first appearance she wore her old Furinkan High uniform, before changing into a Yukata upon her return. Given her status as a ghost, Kogane has the ability to change her physical tangibility so that she can chose whether or not to interact with other objects as well as making herself completely invisible.


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Konatsu has shoulder-length hair that he wears tied back in a ponytail. He wears a medium colored shinobi shōzoku. This consisted of a jacket with long extensions at the collar that can be wrapped around the head to create a mask in addition to trousers, wrist and ankle wraps, and sandals. He wears a wire mesh shirt beneath the jacket. Both the jacket and trousers had prominent patches on them. It is not clear if Konatsu still wears the same shinobi shōzoku to sneak around at Akane Tendo and Ranma Saotome 's wedding, although this one is of a similar color. He wears a waitress-style kimono when working at Okonomiyaki Ucchan's .

Konatsu was brought up as a kunoichi woman by his family. Because of this he behaves, thinks and talks like a demure, humble and subservient. He is very shy at times, barely ever showing signs of anger and oftentimes extremely kind and naive. However, he doesn't mind trying to poison others through trickery, though generally only by temporary paralysis. He usually wears female ninja clothing or cute waitress outfits, though in his last prominent appearance he was just as happy to dress up in men's uniform (albeit a ridiculously over-decorated one) in order to attract female customers to Ucchan's, and referred to himself by his real gender. [3]
His personality seems to be that of a Cinderella , being extremely grateful and loyal for the least amount of kindness, something Ukyo takes advantage of by letting him work double shifts for ¥10 an hour (it was originally ¥5, but Ranma convinced Ukyo to raise it up by five). [4]
When Konatsu ate an ingredient called Toshintan his full fighting instinct/ability was brought forth, and her personality changed to that of a Ninja assassin whose only desire was to fight and kill Ranma. The end result was that Konatsu and Ranma knocked each other unconscious.


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Kurumi has chin length brown hair that she wears higher by using a very long red ribbon that also functions as her weapon. She has dark brown eyes and typically wears a white sailor suit uniform with a blue collar, red ribbon, and blue skirt. Her training outfit is a short-sleeved light pink jumpsuit secured by a red sash around the waist. When she was younger Kurumi wore her hair in a similar manner and also used a similar training outfit. She is shorter than Natsume and about the same height as Akane.
As the younger of the two sisters, Kurumi is the opposite of Natsume. She can be characterized as being warmer, and her personality and attacks appear to be associated with fire. Kurumi is more personable, kind-hearted, and empathetic, but is also more childlike. She is also known for her enormous appetite.


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Ling-Ling has dark magenta hair tied in both bun side of her head with a slight curved lock in front of her ears and has royal blue eyes while Lung-Lung has green hair with a large penduulum like locks in front of her finge between her sides. and has mint green eyes. They seem to have hairstyles similar to Shampoo's.
The twins stand stand roughly a head shorter than Shampoo, are much flatter-chested than Shampoo, Akane or Ranma's female form, and Lung-Lung talks with a noticable lisp, all of which imply youth. They wore an Asian Cheongasm uniform much like Shampoo does when they are in their duty.

In the dubbed version of Two, Too Violent Girls: Ling-Ling & Lung-Lung , Akane specifically notes that Shampoo means they are "sisters in all but blood" - siblings in the sense of tribal affiliation and close personal friendship, but the subtitled version implies that they are genuinely her little siblings by blood. They proclaim that Shampoo is their inspiration for trying to train so hard to become great martial artists, and they are heartbroken when Shampoo first seems to have betrayed their laws by giving up and reamaining dishonored, then actually tries to prevent them carrying out what the law demands.
In personal terms, the twins are inseperable; they are best friends and staunch allies, and their fighting style revolves around working in tandem with each other. Ling-Ling does seem to be the dominant twin, though, and is the one who gives the orders and comes up with the plans.


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Madame St. Paul is one of many practitioners of Martial Arts Dining and as such is able to stretch her mouth to at least just below her waist, [8] typically after hearing/seeing something which she views as shocking. [9] [8] Given her high position amongst the servants of the Chardin Family, Madame St. Paul is extremely strict, particularly towards Ranma whilst she receives her bridal training. [9]
In both the anime and manga, Madame St. Paul appears as a rather tall woman, standing several heads higher than both Akane and Ranma's female form. [10] [1] She appears to be roughly in either her late 30's to mid 40's and is always seen wearing rounded glasses along with a dark Victorian-style dress (colored Navy blue in the anime). Her hair is also styled to resemble that of a cooked chicken or turkey.


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Maomolin has the appearance of a massive cat with ghostly white fur and yellow eyes. He goes about naked, save for a comparatively tiny bell - to give an indication of how large Maomolin is, whilst proportionally this bell is the size of a typical cat's bell compared to him, the bell is around the size of a human head. Somehow, the bell dangles below his chin even though he doesn't use a collar to hold it in place. He seems to be somewhat chubby, but it could just be a particular dense and fluffy fur coat.

Maomolin is a surprisingly complicated character, but first and foremost, he is desperate and stubborn. While the reason why he is so determined to take a human wife is never covered, he has been chasing one for three millennia. While normally he can be quite polite and courteous, his desperation means he is not above less than moral behavior to try and acquire a wife. He promises to treat any bride he may win with kindness, love and respect, but at the same time, is very slow to take "No" for an answer, and is perfectly willing to try force to make a woman become his wife.

Maomolin after a fight with Ranma using the Nekoken .

Despite this, there are limits to what he will tolerate; when Ranma's female form enters the Nekoken and mauls him savagely, he declares that he will not marry a woman who is such a brute. Apart from violence, though, he otherwise seems quite understanding of "character flaws" (or at least is so desperate that he will overlook them) - even revealing that he was actually a guy failed to dissuade Maomolin from trying to woo the distinctly disinterested Tsubasa.
Maomolin acknowledges his flaws, to an extent, but at the same time, can be less than sympathetic to those who are shy about matters of the heart. While talking with Ryoga, his reaction to discovering Ryoga's bashful nature and how it interferes with his courtship of Akane causes the bakeneko to start laughing, call Ryoga shyer than he is, and proclaim that Ryoga is pathetic.


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The first copy was identical to Ranma's female form but lacked his curse. It predominantly wore his long-sleeved Chinese shirt and pants, but once wore a short dress and much more revealing clothing on two occasions. Conversely, the second copy was identical to Ranma's male form.

It also acquired some of his attitudes towards Akane Tendo as well as himself. At first the copy hit on any young man in came across until it discovered that Ranma was really a male. After this it fell in love with him and began to pursue him aggressively.


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Mousse has long, black hair which is either past shoulder length in the manga or waist length in the anime and teal eyes. He wears a long, white robe with a diamond pattern on the chest with black cuffs and voluminous sleeves from which he produces his arsenal of hidden weapons. Underneath this he wears black or dark blue pants.
Characterized by his extremely bad eyesight, Mousse has to wear Coke-bottle glasses that are so thick that his eyes cannot be seen when he puts them on. He tends to have them propped up on his forehead or concealed in his robes, leading him to commonly mistake other things or people for the person he is trying to talk to (e.g. Ranma or Shampoo) or grab onto (Shampoo), even when the subject he is looking for is close by.
Mousse's vision appears to improve greatly while he is a duck, but this may be because when he is in his cursed form, he has to always wear his glasses, with which he can actually see well enough in both forms. However when a jizou statue blatantly disguised itself as either Shampoo or Ranma, Mousse failed to see any difference from the originals even while wearing them, (however lack of sleep could have contributed to this). Unfortunately for him - either on reflex or to appear cooler when making an important statement - he tends to take off his glasses and thus embarrasses himself when he talks to the wrong addressee.

Despite his obsessive behavior, Mousse truly cares for Shampoo's well-being. In the last story arc of the manga, Shampoo is enslaved through the use of a magic egg that exaggerates a hatchling's imprinting instinct. This occurs a second time later in the arc, and Mousse is offered the chance to make her his slave. Instead, he uses a mirror to imprint her on herself, granting her free will. Unfortunately for Mousse, she immediately resumes her pursuit of Ranma without even thanking him, and he remarks that he will be kicking himself over this decision for years.
This should be seen in relation to that Shampoo repeatedly attempted to enslave Ranma through a permanent love-inducing pill, and later casually confessed to him (during Akari's introduction story) that she would have used any similar magic long ago if she possessed any.
He hasn't been above occasionally using dirty tricks or traps to succeed, and in an early appearance he thoughtlessly almost skewered Kasumi when attempting to snare and kidnap Akane, as well as some children when aiming for Ranma, but he turns more considerate towards the end.
He's shocked at the prospect of 'just' running into some kids with his bike, although after he noticed that they looked exactly like Ranma and Ryoga, he reflexively bumped their heads together. He has apparently refrained from using dishonorable methods after they almost caused Shampoo to lose what little respect she had for him (his superior skill and enormous resolve to never give up), and Ranma embraced the practice to even sillier extremes.
He has also displayed nearly limitless tenacity and dedication when fighting for the chance of 'winning' her affection, even if she callously sabotages his prospects, or Amazon law apparently doesn't grant him any automatic rights through overcoming either her 'groom' or herself. It seems more like a case of proving his worth.
Mousse dislikes Ranma with a great intensity, but at the same time seems to be developing a more relaxed rivalry with him, much like Ryoga did. He has gone as far as to help him on a few occasions, like during the fight with Pantyhose Taro , the confrontation with the Musk Dynasty warriors, and the final battle with Saffron.
However during the first two occasions he initially planned to betray him, and the third time he was largely motivated by the draining Jusenkyo springs and (later) to free Shampoo from their slavery. Regardless, he did help to save Ranma's life in the latter two instances.
Towards the end of the manga, when both Ranma and Ryoga were turned to kids by a magic mushroom, simply seeing their likeness maddened him enough to reflexively slam their heads together, so he apparently holds an antipathy towards Ryoga as well, perhaps due to his constant defeats at his hands. However, they initially collaborated to get a cure for themselves only during the initial Musk chapters, and he was briefly upset when he and Ranma thought Ryoga had died in a fissure caused by Herb. Here he also saved Ranma from one of Herb's killing strikes to repay his debt for Ranma's assistance to unlock his duck curse. During the Saffron arc he Ranma & Ryoga also all watched each other's backs through collaborative teamwork.
His first objective remains to win Shampoo, but not necessarily by going through Ranma. Mousse was enthusiastic at the prospect of seeing Ranma and Akane get married. In the final season of the anime (" Let's Go to the Mushroom Temple "), he pitted himself against both Kuno and Ryoga to prevent them persuading Ranma & Akane to take the antidote to the love-inducing mushrooms they had eaten. He also attempts to get Ranma and Akane to marry faster at the very end of the manga, knowing Shampoo was up to something.
He hasn't interacted with Kuno in the manga, but they accidentally allied against Ranma during the Hiryu Shoten Ha story. In the separate anime continuity he and Ryoga teamed up against Ranma once, although this was mostly Mousse's idea. Here, he also trained together with Ranma, Ryoga and Kuno to beat copycat Ken, and initially allied with Ranma and Ryoga in the episode " Back to the Way We Were... Please! ". However, even here Mousse apparently isn't a good acquaintance of either Ryoga or Kuno, and the episode "Back to the Way We Were ... Please!" noted that Mousse is too occupied with training to have made any friends.


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He wears an electrified pink collar around his neck that reads his name. This collar is made of 'memory metal' that cannot be removed without receiving a painful shock. Splashing it with hot water nullifies the electric field and allows it to be reshaped. It also contains a small hidden compartment.


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Her appearance was only shown in three panels in manga Chapter 225, though it is during a dream of Akane's so it is unknown how reliable her appearance is. There were a few anime flashbacks that were filler which showed she resembled Nodoka except with sky blue colored hair, similar to her manga appearance except that in the mange her hair is black.

She was also shown to have been a kind and nurturing mother to the young Akane, and comforted her when she was sad over accidentally breaking a carnation intended as a Mother's Day present [5] [6] .


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Nabiki has chin-length hair (brown in the anime) that she wears in a bob cut. As the middle sister, she is midway in height between her sisters, which also characterizes her personal style. Aside from the Furinkan High School uniform for female students, she tends to wear a tank top and shirt with shorts or sweater and jeans at home. Nabiki has a more extravagant sense of fashion than either Akane or Kasumi, although it is revealed that she also borrows Akane's clothes. She is frequently depicted in the manga wearing costumes drafted by Erté. In the remake version, her brown hair in the anime is darker.

Nabiki has been shown to be observant, [19] curious, [20] resourceful and cool under pressure. [21] But also as sadistic, [22] petty, [23] sarcastic, [24] manipulative, [25] contemptuous, [26] impatient, [27] extremely greedy, [28] irresponsible/wont to foist her blame onto others, [29] nearly barren of conscience or compassion and completely amoral, [30] but seems to be childish at times, [31] and is very fond of all types of tasty treats, including junk food. [32] She has shown no compunctions about severely betraying her family, [33] or cheerfully and extensively tormenting someone who's just saved her own life twice over. [34] She has also taken advantage of the situation her family finds themselves in with the embattled engagement between Ranma Saotome and her sister Akane . [35]
Nabiki is eminently fond of money. She's extremely miserly, [36] is proud to never bring a wallet to a date, [37] and even keeps a large jar of 1-Yen coins. [38] She has been shown to get her belongings either through stealing them from Akane (being wholly unconcerned about getting them destroyed or thrown away), [39] as gifts from infatuated victims, [40] for providing unreliable information, [41] or through emptying her father's meagre savings to have a good time. [42] But she has turned extremely vengeful if forced to waste her own money, [43] and has also been mentioned to invest her earnings in personal stocks. [44] She has taken advantage of Ranma's comparatively honest, straightforward nature and his moral 'inhibitions' for an effortless income source, such as regularly selling revealing or semi-revealing photographs of girl Ranma(Set of five for 3000/5000 yen!) to many of her schoolmates, [45] taking world-wide orders for above-themed handkerchief prints, [46] attempting to use him as a servant, [47] or generally swindling him. [48] Her love of money frequently leads her to betray her family to gain more of it, [49] and she's been more than willing to ruin them to win a bet, [50] or destroy her sister's wedding to get presents. [51] She's been shown as completely indifferent to the plights she puts them through. [52] However, she will occasionally work together with her family, such as revealing the Gambling King's bad habits in order to win back their shared living space, i.e: the house, [53] though she initially helped the latter in his endeavours to swindle kindergarten children of their money. [54]
She has been shown as entertained by the insanity and supernatural chaos surrounding Ranma, [55] and interested in the romantic (or otherwise) entanglements he and Akane get involved in, [56] despite repeatedly expressing an extremely low esteem of his character. [57]
She will occasionally set up dangerous, or potentially life-threatening situations for simple amusement, like informing all his paramours that he was going to give Akane an engagement ring, even without profit involved, just to watch the spectacle when he's beaten up, and destroying Nodoka's/the Saotome family's house in the process, [58] using him as a human shield against an attack from his paramours and initially planning to continue doing so in the long run, [59] or lying to her father that he's fallen in love with Kuno to provoke an attack. [60] However, she's been contemptuous and annoyed when this has involved her father making a public spectacle of himself, pretending not to know him. [61]
Her intelligence and talent for manipulation has helped her to mostly use less refined characters to personal advantage without any negative accountability. Whenever she deals with Ranma, for example, she's bluffed [62] or threatened to blackmail him, if her frauds, manipulations or other schemes have angered him ('Hurt me and everyone will get the photograph'). [63]
She once feigned love for him, since she found it entertaining to play with his and Akane's emotions, and cheerfully tormented them with extended hardships, including inadvertently re-establishing the morning attacks on her sister by spreading newsletters, auctioning Ranma's services, letting him take damage in defense of her, using their compassion against them by feigning heartbreak, and having fun with the tension from Akane's paranoia and the couple's flustered insecurities about their relationship. [64] At one point, Kasumi remarked to her father that Nabiki told her that she planned to sell the dojo for a life of leisure, [65]
It seemed Nabiki's real plan was to sell Ranma back to Akane permanently, but Akane refused to pay Nabiki anything even when Nabiki severely lowered the price on several occasions. After Ranma and Akane got into another fight, even Nabiki worried they had broken up for good and that she took things too far [66]
When Ranma pretended to get genuinely attached and asked her for a date, she informed Akane, [67] resulting in the couple making up. [68]
Nabiki has shown expert acting skills, being able to easily fake tears or make utterly convincing expressions, [69] and even use ventriloquism to imitate another voice. [70] She's effortlessly kept up a straight-faced over-dramatic play-act about feigned love even while in free-fall from a helicopter, simultaneously allowing a rival swindler to fall after refusing to pay her in exchange for a working parachute (she sabotaged the one he was wearing). She kept up the act even as he lay dying in a crater on the ground, and only briefly let up a triumphant grin while using his money to call an ambulance to win the competition, to instantly effortlessly switch back to the unflinching theatrics. Afterwards, she was depressed and genuinely weeping, but the stated reason was not lost love, but rather regret for not making their bet concern 10,000 Yen instead of 10 Yen. [71]
Although Nabiki has been shown with a personal social circle, [72] certain other regular cast members have stated a dislike due to her conscience-free and duplicitous nature. [73] Ukyo has attacked her together with Shampoo and Kodachi, and the latter two intended to kill her. [74]
She's deliberately appealed to or created a demand in potential customers, such as encouraging Tatewaki Kuno to keep his infatuation for Akane and the "pigtailed girl" in the first manga chapters (she instantly had pre-prepared pictures of both ready for sale, implying that she thrived from encouraging the attacks on her sister just previously), [75] to consistently sell him semi-revealing photographs, though she's sold collections of Ranma-chan to a queue of other schoolmates as well. [76] Among other things, she has auctioned Ranma to the school's many sports clubs to help fill out their teams, and been willing to transfer her engagement to Ukyo and Kodachi for 6350 Yen. [77]
Nabiki also indifferently framed him for assault as an eternal blackmail source out of annoyance for him accidentally destroying her concert ticker, until he destroyed the 'evidence'. [78] When she cheerfully ran up a huge gambling debt during her battle with Kinnosuke Kasha-Oh, she also seemingly sold girl Ranma as a waitress, dragged away by a neck-chain, to a casino to help work off her gambling debt, and was completely blasé/at best mildly curious after the latter managed to escape from his captors. [79]
She's shown no business ethics whatsoever. She has taken the principal's money and ran from the taken assignment, [80] repeatedly lied about non-working solutions ('Money first!'), [81] and left Ranma pay her food tab despite just promising that she'd treat him. [82] Another notable incident showed her taking advantage of an amnesiac Kuno by convincing him that he owed her 5,000 yen, which she instantly regretted only for not making it 10,000. [83] She's also unashamedly told Ranma to catch and beat up a 'stalker' in exchange for one of her 5,000 Yen picture sets of his female form, which she's never been shown to let him/her get a quota from. [84] She's made a claim that, despite not having any talent in the martial arts, she has pride in her legacy and won't refuse a challenge, but instantly dumped the assignment on Ranma. [85] The only signs of 'honour'/petty pride she's displayed was a burning need for vengeance due to being outsmarted/"taken advantage of", [86] and when accidentally forced to waste her own money, [87] but in both cases endeavoured to inflict vastly greater amounts of 'payback'.

Nabiki's mischievous nature is referenced by a manga splash page depicting her wearing a demon suit [88] in opposition to her elder sister Kasumi's angel. Although when Ranma severely manipulated Akane's feelings to make her give up a "battle-dougi" (since it boosted her fighting skills beyond his own), and the latter responded with love and acceptance, he felt like scum, which was visibly shown in a similar symbolic manner. [89]
There is a marked contrast in character between the two sisters. They are frequently used as two diametrical 'cynical'/'considerate' perspectives on the antics surrounding them. [90] Nabiki has been referred to as 'have no maidenly heart' by the narrator during the intro of the Kasha-Oh arc, [91] and two stories have been devoted to dealing with Kasumi's lack of 'negative' instincts, [92] the former placed right before Nabiki's lengthy competition with Kinnosuke Kasha-Oh. [93] Kasumi has been able to see through her schemes, but like her father has been extremely forgiving, and at most vainly tried to convince her otherwise. [94] Although she made a careful balance-tipping choice comment to their father when the latter was about to accept Nabiki's and Ranma's engagement at the expense of the flustered Akane. [95]
Akane is shown to generally wish to believe the best of Nabiki, despite all evidence to the contrary, and shows disappointment from her sister's betrayals. [96] Nabiki has expressed at least a modicum of respect towards the latter, as she's stated that she considers Akane tougher than herself, [97] but Kasumi has also mentioned that they've had a tendency to fight a lot. [98] In contrast to Akane, Ranma is more suspicious of her motives, [99] frustrated with being repeatedly cheated and abused as one of her tools. [100] Although he's been bound not to retaliate, either by threat of blackmail, [101] or his own ethical restraints, which prevent him from attacking those who cannot fight back. [102] He views her as extremely greedy for casually selling him/her as a waitress, [103] and then allowing Kinnosuke to fall without a parachute. [104] Despite this, he remains willing to assist her even as she ruthlessly takes advantage of his compassion. [105]
Her father has been mortified or broken when taking the brunt of her schemes, and through these situations she's the only daughter he's ever been shown to be openly upset with. Yet, he's never been shown to hold a grudge afterwards. [106]
Despite her normal crafty behavior in the manga series, she has shown nostalgic and melancholy feelings for her dead mother. When Ranma was under the threat of obligatory suicide if he revealed himself to Nodoka, Nabiki initially tried to expose him out of jealousy. But for once, she relented and vowed to stay out of their way, simply telling him to speak to his mother while she was still around. [107] Nabiki has consistently been shown as enthusiastic when Nodoka visits the family and calls her 'auntie Saotome. [108] Nabiki was the most fiercely opposed to allowing the sloppy and ditzy, but well-intended and righteous Hinako to propose to Soun. [109] But when the teacher bribed her with 10,000 Yen, she immediately relented and set them up on a date. [110]
An odd tidbit is that she’s shown more upbeat attitude towards Ryoga than any other male, save perhaps her father, [111] as she’s been enthusiastically interested in the former's love life with both Akane and Akari. [112] She's been shown to enjoy eating the delicacies he brings her family from various visited regions, [113] so perhaps the reliable source of free treats is the cause of this?
As a minutiae, Nabiki and Kasumi have not been shown as victims of Happosai's actions, though he enthusiastically attempted to peek on Nabiki early in the manga, when he thought she was naked in the bathhouse. [114] Given Happosai's vast power, and utter ruthlessness when provoked it's uncertain to base this on fear. It's possible that this 'immunity' is granted because Kasumi is the only household member who regularly treats him with consideration, while Nabiki is simply too hard to tease or outsmart. She also does not appear to be energetic enough to keep his interest and tends to stay out of his way. Though they have not shown antagonism, given that he didn't mind offhandedly granting Nabiki's request to stop/knock out Ranma, when she was chasing the latter to find out why he wouldn't undo his pigtail (The reason being that it was kept in place by the supernatural hair-growth stopping 'Dragon's Whisker'). [115] In an instance from the separate anime continuity, Kasumi has a battle aura surrounding her because of Happosai's actions, while Nabiki simply punches him away.
In the anime, Nabiki has generally been more compassionate. She has shown a soft side for her sister in " Tendo Family Goes to the Amusement Park! ", and was also genuinely distressed at Kasumi's possession and her father's willingness to sacrifice his life during " The Evil Ogre! Hell Hath No Fury Like Kasumi Scorned ." Most of her harsher moments such as auctioning off Ranma did not appear in the animated adaptation.
She narrates the compilation episode, Tendo Family's Annoying Acquaintances! . A reason for her miserly ways are provided, with all the jobless lodgers at the Tendo home, Soun Tendo has little money to give to Nabiki. Along with this, Ranma's tendency to inadvertently disturb the peace of the Tendo house(such as causing a mob of people to crash into her bath in the short) annoys her. Nabiki felt there was something suspicious about P-chan's behavior.

Nabiki has been stated to not possess any 'maidenly feelings', or 'be completely heartless' in the initial author notes of the Kasha-Oh story-arc, depending on the translation. [116] She has used her classy and attractive appearance to fleece and swindle any potential suitors for all they are worth, conning them into giving her expensive food, clothes and jewellery. At the point she's gauged that they've reached their financial limit, she immediately breaks up the relationship and blackmails them to pay her additional money afterwards by threatening to distribute their love-letters. [117] Nabiki is very good at faking amorous emotions to fit her needs. She thinks it's amusing to repeatedly manipulate and abuse Ranma's feelings with sadistic play-acting. [118] An (unsuccessful) rival swindler may have been another victim of this deception. [119]


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Natsume has light brown eyes and long, dark brown hair that she wears back with a high topknot secured with a white tie. Her fringe is parted in the middle and she has two long strands of hair that hang down from her ears. She is taller than Kurumi and about as tall as Ranma in his male form. Natsume typically wears a dark blue short-sleeved school dress with a white sailor outfit-style collar. Her training outfit is a sleeveless, low cut light purple jumpsuit secured by a white sash around the waist. When she was younger Natsume's hair was shoulder-length and held in a ponytail with a white bow. She also wore a similar training outfit that was a medium blue with a black sash.
As the older of the two sisters, Natsume is the opposite of Kurumi. She can be characterized as being colder, and her personality and attacks appear to be associated with ice and wind. More mature, reserved, polite, and ruthless, Natsume notably lacks Kurumi’s voracious appetite.


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Nodoka is a gentle, attractive woman, who very closely resembles Ranma's female form, noticeable after Nabiki comments on how similar they look during Nodoka's first visit to the Tendos. Nodoka has shoulder-length hair (medium brown in the anime) that she wears up and typically dresses in a kimono. She always carries around a long bundle, the family katana covered by a wrapping.

Nodoka wants nothing more than to see her son, to whom she has not spoken since he was two years old. She is not the only one who has been affected by the ordeal, however. Ranma has tried on numerous occasions to talk to her as a man, but Genma repeatedly foiled his efforts. For Nodoka, her glimpses of Ranma as a male have been fleeting at best, usually because he was pursuing some other objective at the time, or attempting to escape her.
When she met Akane, she quickly approved of her and offered to help with her cooking skills so that she could make a better wife for her son. She also dotes on "Ranko" and has aided her to similar ends. In her most notable incident of the sort, she took Ranko shopping to find her more suitable feminine clothing, including a bra, something Ranma would never normally wear. But the existence of Ranko's identity created a strange situation for Ranma when Ryu Kumon arrived. Posing as Ranma, the rival martial artist had sought out Nodoka for his own ends. She was initially convinced as to the imposter's identity as her son, but became suspicious after seeing him interact with Akane Tendo and was eventually told the truth.
Nodoka, while kind and slightly old fashioned, has a very strange set of principles. She seems to despise perverts, but is willing to allow and even encourage Ranma to perform perverted acts such as peeping on girls, play with women's underwear and even have him spy on Akane while she takes a bath. It is explained, however, that she sees this as the way her son can "prove" his manliness. Her actual view of a true epitome of masculinity seems to lie much closer to the savage, imposing, independent and semi-militaristic Ryu Kumon.
In contrast to her enthusiasm to see Ranma, she has displayed an often comical lack of concern for her husband, going as far as to not notice him right next to her, and making almost no response at all when Ryu Kumon said he was dead.


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Nu takes the form of a mass of snow clumped together in the form of a rudimentary humanoid shape, dominated by a single distinguishable feature; a massive, bright red, crystaline eye. This mass usually looms to an enormous stature, well over the height of a man.

Nu is a snow spirit of some undetermined, elemental-like nature. Less intelligent than the yuki-onna with whom he travels, he serves the Snow Girl as a devoted companion and protector, seeking to guard her against all threats - including humans who might interfere with her. Exactly how much intelligence or personality he has is ambiguous, but the absolute center of his world is his beloved mistress; everything he does is motivated by his desire to keep her safe from any possible threats.


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He is a skinny, middle aged man, Occhan's most distinguishing feature is his large bald head, which is shaped like a spatula.


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As the priest of a Shinto shrine , the Oni Priest wears a light colored (white in the anime) kariginu with a contrastingly dark ebōshi . The Priest has a very rectangular facial structure, with abnormally large ears and a dots on both his cheeks along with two on his forehead. The anime also shows the Priest as having black-colored hair. [1]

Given his position, the Priest is extremely knowledgeable about the sealed Oni, including its various powers and the ways it can be exorcised from those who it possesses. [1] [2]


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The Panda Doodle is a crude, almost scribble-like drawing of a bipedal female panda, with her feminity being showcased by a shapeless dress around her upper torso, a misshapen necklace, and a small flower on her left ear. Even when released into the physical world, she still looks "off" compared to the humans around her.
In the anime, she reveals that she has the ability to transform into a beautiful human girl, with long flowing brown hair in an odango style similar to that worn by Shampoo , blue eyes, and an elegant, long-sleeved, ruffled Chinese dress colored in blue and red.

The Panda Doodle is a romantic soul, yearning for the company of a handsome and kind boy to ease her loneliness. She has a melodramatic streak, and can get quite flamboyant in expressing her dismay, but underneath it she is quite innocent; her idea of a goodnight kiss involves a kiss on the forehead, when even Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo immediately presumed she meant one on the lips. She is capable of getting jealous, but is not as suspicious or violent as many of the other girls whom Ranma has romantically interacted with in the series. The anime adds a further suggestion of her fundamentally decent character, in that she decides to forgo life in the human world when she sees Ranma endangering himself to save Akane from the wall-scroll demons.


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The principal is known for his Hawaiian appearance, consisting of sunglasses, a palm tree-like topknot, Aloha shirt, lei around his neck, capri pants, and sandals. He also became heavily tanned. In the anime he is also shown to wear suits on occasion. Principal Kuno typically uses disguises to attempt to escape, but these are easily seen because they always have a Hawaiian theme. His hair is dark brown styled in a coconut tree short top knot.
Before going to Hawaii the principal dressed in a similar manner but in Japanese style, with a chonmage-like topknot and white ruffled collar.
Upon meeting with his son and Kodachi who is happy to see him in the estate, Principal Kuno is dressed in a brown formal suit jacket with a white long sleeve button shirt with a red neck tie on the collar, brown formal pants and black shoes. He was not seen wearing his sunglasses as his eyes are shown to be brown. When meeting his son, Tatewaki at their home, he commonly wears his sunglasses where he keeps it underneath his jacket.

Generally the Principal is viewed as almost completely insane, with his only wanting in life to make the lives of the Furinkan High School students as miserable as possible. He does this by introducing new rules seemingly whenever he can gain from the situation, such as when he tells Akane she can't move to the next grade unless she can swim (which gives him the opportunity to teach her).
Despite his first impression the Principal does also seem to care a lot for his family, with him actually crying at the thought of his son, Tatewaki , whom he hasn't seen for three-years at the time of his introduction. In the anime continuity, he is also extremely willing to make his daughter Kodachi maintain her preconceived/aged memories of her father, even going as far as to hide his true personality from her until he shows it to her when she introduces Ranma as her fiancé after he confronts him and accidentally shaves the right side of Tatewaki's hair due to his knack of cutting Ranma's pigtails.
He is also serious and strict when scolding his son Tatewaki during their family dinner with Kodachi who makes the former got furious of his actions before leaving. Since their reunion as father and son, he and Tatewaki are fighting in hostility due to his abusive and humiliation acts towards his son even both are fighting each other in the estate in whoever is the master of its estate which causes Kodachi to cheer them both. But after their confrontation, Principal sadly admits to Tatewaki about his actions of being tough and wants his son to be strong like he was before he pushes his son into the roof showing that he was acted dramatically due to his antics.
The three years which the Principal has spent in Hawaii also seems to have changed his personality considerably and develop an almost Otaku-like obsession with Hawaiian culture. Prior to leaving, he seemed comfortable in traditional Japanese attire prior to leaving, but after returning he mostly wears a very Hawaiian outfit. Also upon returning his language becomes littered with Hawaiian Pidgin (or English words in the original Japanese).


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Ranma can be considered of about "average" height compared to his fellow characters who are of the same age, as most of them are also around the same height, although Akane Tendo and several of the other females are slightly shorter than him, while Tatewaki Kuno is taller. His female form is shorter than his male form and half a head shorter than Akane.
Ranma has a strong, athletic body forged from constant training since childhood. Ranma's female form is diminished in pure strength, but is much more agile. His female form is also depicted to be very attractive, which he discreetly takes pride in and often uses to his advantage. According to Dr. Tofu's mother, girl-Ranma has the ideal female form and was her top candidate to marry her son. [3] Ranma's female form also notably possesses or gains purple eyeliner, most likely to bring out her physical beauty. It has been revealed more than once that the female form has a larger bust size and smaller waist size than Akane, which has infuriated the latter whenever Ranma has pointed it out. [4] Later in the manga it is revealed that both their bust sizes increased, with female Ranma's breasts still staying larger. [5]
Ranma's most recognizable physical trait is his trademark pigtail, although before he was cursed he wore it instead as a ponytail. [6] In the anime, male Ranma has black hair while his female form has red hair. In order to help distinguish between Ranma's forms in the manga, Takahashi always drew Ranma's female form with a shiny spot in her hair. However when the first chapter of the manga when published in Shonen Sunday was printed in color, it portrayed Ranma's female form as having the same black hair as her male form. In the remake version, Ranma's hair remains black due to digital color graphics and gains a white hair clip being adorned to his trademark pigtail and his eyes are grey. His female form however, her hair is either pink or light red and her eyes are light pink.
Ranma favors Chinese-style clothing in the form of long-sleeved or sleeveless shirts in red colors while the other being a yellow gold short-sleeved shirt with a single slash design in each sleeve and a red single Chinese button on the collar, black pants (also dark blue or blue-green in the anime), and slip on shoes. This has served him well when changing into his cursed form or back. Ranma has his own gi which he will occasionally don specifically for learning a new technique. Before he and his father Genma fell into the cursed springs at Jusenkyo, he wore a white karate gi but loses his karate pants when he transformed into a girl after falling into the spring. When Ranma wears his main Chinese-style clothing in his female form, the sleeves from her button shirt is loose and while he wore sleeveless, it was loosened into mini short sleeves. It was later altered in the remake version where the sleeves became sleeveless. In Episode 2 at the remake version where Ramna dries his pants while in her female form, he wore yellow boxer shorts underneath and his red Chinese button shirt finally shows more buttons when it was loose. On her female form, his yellow boxer shorts are loosened to resemble loose cotton shorts. Ramna later wears a another red sleeveless Chinese-button shirt without a collar and was tucked into a white belt.
In his childhood, he wore a gakuran at his former school that he attended with Ryoga Hibiki , but is able to get away with not wearing the one required for boys at Furinkan High School . He also wears a tank top, either as a undershirt or not, and when he "dresses up", will usually put on a Mao suit, including the signature cap with a star in front. However he has also dressed in Western formal wear on a few occasions. [7] Ranma has worn a wider variety of outfits in his female form than in his male form. She will dress in women's clothing voluntarily depending on the circumstances, usually in order to get something she wants, but also when she has to. In several instances however Ranma has involuntarily transformed back into a male while dressed as a woman. [8] When he sleeps at their home, he wore a white tank top and yellow shorts with a dark blue trim.

Ranma in the 2024 anime. Female Ranma in the 2024 anime.

Rumiko Takahashi herself has described Ranma's personality as a mixture of nice, clean-cut, frank, energetic, indecisive, stubborn, picky, stingy, rude, aggressive and sly, [9] and has stated that she finds flawless characters rather boring. [10] Under normal circumstances, he is fairly carefree and generally friendly to those around him. However, he also lacks experience in social situations and frequently speaks and acts without considering the consequences, or the feelings of others. He sometimes insults people by gloating about inflated perceptions of his prowess, or taunting them about their perceived flaws. For instance, he once boasted that his female form had a larger bust than Akane, despite that she was happy about her own growing bosom. He frequently insults the areas his fiancée has complexes about, by calling her an over-muscled, overweight, un-cute, clumsy, macho jock tomboy with poisonous cooking skills. Ranma has also given other people insulting nicknames, with shifting degrees of justification, for example calling Cologne "old hag" or "old ghoul", Happosai "old freak" or "old lech", Ryoga "clueless moron" or "sucker", Nabiki "heartless bitch", or Pantyhose Taro "pantyhose guy".
For this same reason, it is relatively easy to embarrass him. When faced with such a situation, he can freeze up or verbally lash out when found in highly incriminating 'amorous' positions. Nabiki has sometimes taken advantage of Ranma's lack of finesse and weak defenses against crying or emotional girls, manipulating him and various situations to her own advantage. While he occasionally blames others for his problems, Ranma has sporadically taken responsibility for matters not mainly his fault, such as when Akane's hair was accidentally chopped off during his first fight with Ryoga, or trying to soothe Ukyo's rage at being left behind.

Male Ranma in the manga, together with his adventuring allies, Ryoga and Mousse.

He takes great pride in his prowess as a martial artist and occasionally brags about it. Although he frequently has the skills to back it up, his overconfidence can also lead to trouble. Ranma tends to rely on direct tactics and planning, but he is adept at learning from his mistakes in a fight and generally takes advantage of an opponent's weaknesses during a later encounter. He will not back down from a challenge during very serious situations, or when his pride has been wounded, even if he is completely outmatched and unsure of how to overcome an opponent. Despite this, he will apparently refuse a match if he considers the opponent to be too ridiculous, given that female Ranma tried to withdraw when set up to fight the monkey Sanae in "martial arts tea ceremony". Apparently Ranma takes pride in his strength, skills and basically being a man, while in female form she takes pride in her beauty, but still takes her pride as a martial artist seriously.
His pride recurrently results in him being unable to accept defeat, and becoming preoccupied with trying to win the next skirmish against his foe. He also has a prominent petty side to his character which manifests itself in these situations. If he's repeatedly defeated, humbled or otherwise feels humiliated, he takes it personally, howling statements of revenge at the moon or even crying on the floor. He will frequently stoop to trickery or cheating in the rematch. Among many examples, he couldn't stand seeing Akane become more powerful through the use of super-strength soba. Nabiki and Kasumi both observed that he held a big grudge after she turned back to normal, which he satisfied through gloating while repeatedly defeating her in arm-wrestling. He was also willing to 'feign' love for her strictly to get rid of a similarly enhancing sentient battle-dougi, in part because he couldn't stand the thought of her being more skilled than him, and also because it was a severe nuisance that was literally coming between them between them.
He frequently uses insults, violence, or harebrained schemes when dealing with those who upset him, usually worsening the problem instead of solving it. But while his cunning generally lacks finesse, he generally makes an effort to try to avoid conflict through the use of disguises, trickery, and theatrics. Sometimes, he has attempted to use reasoning and diplomacy, to no avail. On one occasion, Ranma even set up a play in an effort to convince Happosai to change Taro's name. He has also attempted to haggle with Nabiki, clumsily tried to make her lose her eternal self-control by sifting through her room for potentially embarrassing letters, or feigned love for her, Shampoo, Ryoga, Tsubasa, and Akane under certain odd or extreme circumstances. However, his straightforward schemes and sleight-of-hand are usually effortlessly countered by more devious characters such as Nabiki, Cologne, Shampoo or Taro. Perhaps most prominently, he routinely uses his shapely female form, combined with a fabricated innocent persona, to convince hormonal boys to treat him to food, or buy something he is attempting to sell. Ranma also does this to set up simple traps for Happosai or as part of schemes to fool, make fun of.
On several occasions, he has stated that he sees it as a martial artist’s duty to protect normal people from monsters, the supernatural and similar threats, and has saved bystanders in danger of getting hurt. He has protected all of his friends and rivals. He's even rescued enemies, such as Herb , who was trying to kill him.
Ranma apparently has limited respect for suspicious or obnoxious authority figures, such as his father, his teacher Hinako Ninomiya, or Principal Kuno. He is rather irresponsible, and usually doesn't display much interest in academics. He often skips school, flouts the regulations when he does attend, and otherwise dodges situations that don't involve martial arts or his personal interests. Other examples include juggling his various paramours and fighting tooth and nail against Hinako's attempts to give him private tutoring in English. His willingness to fight back against the Principal seems to have gained him some respect from his schoolmates, but they have also stated a certain contempt due to his shamelessness and weird condition.
He also a low tolerance for people who try to steal from him, manipulate him, or otherwise treat him very badly, such as Nabiki or Happosai. He generally considers Kuno , Shampoo and Kodachi to be annoying pests. At the same time, he can also be very forgiving and usually doesn't seem to stay mad for very long. For instance, despite that Herb severely tormented him out of sheer malevolence, he still opted to save Herb's life. Ranma has also made efforts to help out Kuno or Mousse , and refrained from seeking revenge against the Phoenix people after his conflict with Saffron . While his father frequently stole his food when he was small, and subjected him to the Cat-Fist technique, he usually just seems mildly irritated, but he has also been vengeful at times, repeatedly beating up Genma upon learning that he had become superior to his father in general hand-to-hand sparring. He has reacted in a similarly harsh manner whenever Genma interfered with the reunion of Ranma and his mother .
Another exception to this rule would be Happosai, whom Ranma has been stated to truly hate, and apparently considers a personal archenemy according to The art of Ranma ½ relationship chart. He never misses an opportunity to trick or torment the ancient pervert, and once explicitly attempted to kill the grandmaster by punting him and a 5m diameter Happo Fire Burst over a cliff, even before he almost turned Ranma powerless for life thanks to a weakness moxibustion point. Even Happosai, however, has been a recipient of Ranma's compassion. Most notably, Ranma permitted him to come back to stay at the Tendo Dojo after finding him marauding a tourist resort disguised as an octopus jar (for thievery and peeping in the manga, and to help a starving young girl in the anime), when he became very sad from loneliness. Ranma also helped to save the sprightly senior's life by eventually deciding to assist in creating a rejuvenation potion, and together with Akane freed him from a death curse cast by a matronly ghost.
One of Ranma's worst habits is that when preoccupied with his own thoughts or training with his father, he is generally oblivious to his surroundings. The most notable consequence of this is when he accidentally kicked Ryoga into the "Spring of the Drowned Pig" while pursuing his father at the cursed springs of Jusenkyo , effectively ruining Ryoga's life even further than before. He's accidentally mowed down child Hinako when late for school, but Kuno's head is his most frequent "stepping stone," which appears to be intentional since the two despise each other. Another victim of his carelessness is the Frog Hermit, who was knocked into the "Spring of the Drowned Frog" when Ranma accidentally kicked out his bamboo pole from under him.
Ranma has often professed his wish to become all male again. However, this has not stopped him from using his girl identity to his advantage. He has often used his female form to conceal his true identity from others, most notably Ryoga and his mother, Nodoka. Other times he has used it to obtain favors from Kuno, or other situations when being female would benefit him. Sometimes, he's even taken pride in that his girl form is more attractive than Akane. In the anime, he enjoys ice cream Parfait, although he is always female when she eats them because he considers it somewhat embarrassing for men to consume.
Ranma's speech is casual and unrefined, using a coarse form of Japanese (English in the case of the American-translated anime and manga). He rarely uses -san, -kun, -chan or any other traditional Japanese honorifics. He does use -sempai (elder student) for Kuno, but that is more for sarcasm. Others he uses honorifics for include his benefactor Soun (Ojisan or "Uncle"), his childhood friend Ukyo (Ucchan), the considerate Kasumi (usually -san), and even Ojiisan and Obaasan for Happosai and Cologne when he's not mad at them. And while Akane usually uses honorifics for other people, she rarely addresses him with one. This is amusing since it would denote that the two are particularly intimate with each other.


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Rouge has long dark hair that is held back with a tie and necklace-like band. Her clothing reflects a more Indian influence, as she wears a jewel on her forehead, earrings, hoop necklace, sleeveless low cut top with a skirt and translucent pants. She wears a pair of arm bands, bracelets, and anklets. Her cursed form wears the same clothing minus the pants and adds two more heads and four more arms. Rouge's appearance becomes much more fierce in this form, as heads have slitted pupils and noticeable fangs.

Rouge is generally presented as "over-feminine". She is vain, shy, melodramatic, sensitive to the point of easily fainting when mentally exhausted, and fond of traditionally "girlish" superstition like astrology and blood groups. Very polite, somewhat helpful, and apparently compassionate in her regular state, but also violently vengeful when upset, and mostly disregards any damage she causes, or doesn’t act consistent with her regret, alternately thinks it’s a "sign of bad luck". By comparison when going into her cursed form she takes on the persona of an asura.
An Asura is a Hindu demon/deity said to be extremely powerful. These three-faced, six-armed creatures are described as being very aggressive. In this state Rouge's personality turns far more brash and destructive, greatly enjoying to fight, eat, and blow things up, being comparatively "over-masculine". Her mind is apparently split into three mostly identical, independently sentient parts.


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Ryoga's usual outfit consists of a yellow and black speckled bandana around his head, a yellow long sleeve tunic with pale yellow collar and the folded sleeves, black trousers with yellow leg bands around the ankles and a black sash-like belt and black Tai Chi shoes and pale yellow socks. He is sometimes shown wearing a pale yellow sleeveless shirt and his trousers are now dark blue. His black hair, particularly the front fringe, is quite long, obscuring his bandana at the front. Quite often, Ryoga carries around a black backpack and a red bamboo umbrella either tucked into straps on top of his backpack or in his hand. In the remake version, he remains unchanged except for his facial features to make him more mature than his rival, Ranma.
Before he was cursed into his P-chan form, he was seen wearing an indigo sleeveless shirt in matching pants, and his bandana is pale yellow.
In his P-chan form, Ryoga's clothes can be seen falling off when he got washed up by cold water in various occasions in every episode. He appears as a small black pig as his yellow and speckled bandanna on his head becomes his collar.

Ryoga's most notable characteristic is that, like his parents (and even his entire family), [12] he has no sense of direction whatsoever. He is unable to go the right way, often sticking to the letter of any directions given to him, regardless of whether the path eventually turns. [1] He has an inability to understand even the simplest of directions or draw any legible maps, [13] once running the wrong way at the start of a three-legged race [14] [15] or getting lost in Shampoo's house for hours; looking for the exit. [16] [17] He cannot even follow someone pointing in the correct direction.
In the anime, this condition is worsened by Ryoga's ability to traverse obscene distances in surprisingly little time on foot. This, combined with Ryoga's complete lack of direction, results in him having essentially no idea where he is at any given time, which allows him to miss his destinations by insane margins. [18]
Inversely, the manga depicts Ryoga needing much longer travel times, and has not explicitly been seen to swiftly and randomly traverse continents under his own power. However, in his first appearance he quickly overshot Tokyo by 500 kilometres twice in a row, [19] apparently within the span of a few days. Through the aid of the Gekkaja , he also quickly made it all the way from Jusenkyo to Moscow and back while out to get some dumplings in Peking. [20] His map was also once shown to contain a forest, a café, a road with a red car, the Tendo dojo, some Oni , China, and France, [13] and he once sent Akane a postcard in which the photograph displayed that he had unwittingly traversed to Hong Kong. Ryoga's family house is within sight of Mount Fuji, where his dog Shirokuro and her puppies live. [21]

Ryoga thinking about his relationship with Akane.

Ryoga generally leads a nomadic lifestyle, and only occasionally manages to find his home . [22] His poor sense of direction and his curse have regularly subjected him to imminent misery, constantly placing him lonely and lost in the wilderness, at the mercy of hungry predators. [1] [17] When first introduced, he is a very angry and seemingly unapproachable individual. [1] Ryoga is very emotional, often following his heart rather than his head. However he has shown capability of using strategy when he is focused or lacking distractions. [ citation needed ] He is emotionally fragile, straightforward and naive. He regularly feels depressed, which thus far has served as the source for his chi projection. [23] He is generally shy, humble and polite, especially around women. He is often easily tricked and used by some of the more manipulative characters, particularly Ranma, [24] [25] and turns extremely grateful, loyal and self-sacrificing for any kindness offered to him, and his compassion is just as overemotional as the rest of him, even bringing him to tears after realising that he is incapable of even trying to harm Ranma when the latter was weakened by Happosai. [26] [27] That said, while he is often used by Ranma, he's not above manipulating himself, albeit somewhat unknowingly. This is usually done in his P-Chan form. In addition, like many other characters in the series, Ryoga is always willing to blame others, mainly Ranma, for his misfortunes, regardless of how involved the other party was in them (for example blaming Ranma for not meeting him to fight, despite missing the fight being his own fault). Sometimes he cares for what happens to him, which makes him a friend of Ranma.