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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.


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Ryu has short dark hair held back by a white headband. He dresses in a quasi-military style, with a black tank top, utility belt, black gloves, fatigue pants, and combat boots. He began dressing like this after setting out on his journey to find the Umi-Sen Ken as a young boy. [1] Prior to this he wore a patchwork gi due to poverty.

Ryu Kumon is a driven, manly, and quite ruthless, martial artist, and was willing to go to extremes in order to restore his family's dojo, including pretending to be Ranma, attempting to rip the latter's heart out when he was distracted by his mother, threatening to expose the latter if he interfered, and briefly considered torturing Nodoka for information, but couldn't go through with it.
The deaths of his parents, and his harsh lonely life have turned him fierce, cold, militaristic, and independent, seemingly preferring killing to stunning strikes (against the bear and during his initial confrontation with Ranma). Ryoga, and Konatsu, are the only characters in the series that are at least as miserable as himself.
However, his word is his bond, he has a strong chivalrous streak and saved the life of Nodoka without a second thought when he thought that she was an endangered bystander; and he was very touched by, and grateful for, her motherly love, and reevaluated his life after learning the truth of his school. So, much like them, he seemed very positively affected from being treated with consideration.
Unlike most other young male fighters in the series, he is not shy with attractive young women, and seems quite confident in his ability to charm them. He also mostly lacks the usual goofy quirks, and seems unused to magic oddities.


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Sakura is described to have short brown hair in a bun and is noted to look very similar to Nodoka Saotome .


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Sarutoru is the shortest of the three henchmen, which is emphasized by his tendency to adopt a stooped forward posture. He has short brown hair with chin-length sideburns and dresses similarly to Torristan and Wanton , wearing a sleeveless shirt, pants, and studded two part cloth garment around his waist secured by a belt. Unlike the other two he wears a gold circlet around his forehead, a type of breastplate on his torso, and has elbow-length gloves and knee-high boots. These have identically coloured elbow and knee pads built in.


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Shampoo has knee-length dark hair (blue/purple in the anime) with a fringe and two strands hanging in front that are secured with ties and dark pink eyes. She dresses in various forms of Chinese clothing, usually a matching blouse and pants, over which she may wear an apron while working. Her combat outfit consists of a light colored long-sleeved blouse and pants with the addition of a dark breastplate and a pair of metal arm-guards, making her one of the few characters to wear any form of armor. For formal occasions she favors sleeveless cheongsam . In the remake version, her hair is now bright purple with a white shine and her pink eyes are no longer darkened.

Shampoo in her cursed form

Her cat form is light colored with dark ears and paws, a characteristic fringe, and similar strands that frame its face. In the anime, it has light pink fur with darker pink paws and ears.
Several characters like Ranma and the Jusenkyo Guide has commented that Shampoo is cute. During the Phoenix Pill arc, a date with her as the prize was enough to motivate dozens of onlookers to participate in the Snowman Race. Her cat form is also considered adorable by Kasumi.

Shampoo shows elements of the tsundere character, given her initially hostile temperament towards Ranma Saotome [1] [2] before slowly becoming more attracted to him until she finally stops her plans for revenge in favor of ensuring her marriage to Ranma. [3] [4]
She is manipulative. She has repeatedly shown as devious [5] [6] and strategic [7] as well as not being above scheming, [ citation needed ] play-acting [ citation needed ] or completely ruthless behavior to advance her position towards the object of her attention. [8] However, Shampoo does seem to enjoy having fun from the trouble she causes, [9] particularly if it means she can get close to Ranma as a result. [6] [10] [11] [12]

Shampoo being smitten with Ranma.

Given Shampoo's violent and protective behaviour, she views anyone who attempts to get between her and Ranma as an "obstacle" which must be killed. [13] [14] However, she has also resorted to other methods to remove an "obstacle", such as when she used the "Xi Fa Xiang Gao" to wipe Akane's memories of Ranma; [15] [16] [17] until they return at which time she decides to resort to her usual violent techniques. [18] [19]
With her knowledge of pressure points and moxibustion , [15] [16] Shampoo is open to the idea of manipulating other's will to her advantage, whether that be to eliminate Akane [20] or increasing the likelihood of Ranma returning her feelings for him. [21]
Of all the fiancées, Shampoo is the most sexually uninhibited and the most sensual, possibly due to her upbringing in a society including extensive warrior training for both males and females. Nudity is also not a problem for her, as she rather enjoys being naked and has attempted to seduce Ranma many times, even in dangerous places like under a giant bell. Early in the series, Kasumi Tendo had a talk with her about modesty. Although she did cease her faint-inducing habit of popping out of the tub naked anytime Ranma tried to take a bath, the conversation has apparently had little effect on her behavior other than that.


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Shinnosuke has dark hair (brown in the OVA) with a fringe and a small ponytail. He wears a bandage around his head and a blue shirt under a dark blue overcoat, which is similar to what his grandfather wore as a zookeeper.

Shinnosuke lacks tact, which can make appear rude due to his blunt honesty. One of his major flaws is that he has no short-term or long-term memory. He often forgets names and people altogether and often gets caught in his own traps because he forgets where he placed them. One of the few things he is able to remember on a regular basis is Akane Tendo 's name, which is a testament to his deep feelings for her. In the OVA this frequently earns him a Megaton Punch from his grandfather, who he tended to forget often.


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Soun is a middle aged man with shoulder length hair and a mustache, which he did not wear when he was younger. He is usually seen in a medium coloured gi (brown in the anime). In the remake version, he remains largely the same only his mustache became thicker.

Soun is very emotional, and is prone to visibly displaying this, whether it be a tragic, happy, or angry occasion. He is regularly brought to tears when caught up in sentimentality, compassion, worrying about his children, or if he thinks their affection is in doubt. They occasionally gush from his eyes.
Soun still mourns, and is extremely loyal to, his deceased wife. He has a traditional Japanese altar devoted to her memory somewhere in the house, prays for her every year on the day of their wedding anniversary, and visits her grave in memorial of her death. However, he remained capable of joking about it to lighten up the mood, when offered compassion by Hinako Ninomiya .
His relationship with Genma comes under strain as the latter is wont to severely mistreat his wife, Nodoka Saotome , which Soun naturally finds outrageous. He was similarly upset after learning that the latter invented martial arts schools intended for burglary. In the manga they are not explicitly implied as friends, rather than fellow previous training partners, as they don't seem to independently interact much socially. They had neither seen nor heard from each other in many years at the beginning of the story, and Soun was initially shown as unaware of what Nodoka looked like. They seem to be on more friendly terms in the anime and frequently play shogi together, though Genma tends to cheat. Soun cheats as well though, so it could be that both of them do so as a way of training together.
Soun's wish to maintain the school legacy and occasional cowardice in confronting Happosai both mirror Genma's, although he has also been willing to stand firm against and attack Happosai on several occasions, sometimes by himself, and forcefully strangled the latter in wrath when he had apparently crippled Ranma for life with a 'weakness moxibustion'. He can be quite ruthless towards his old master, having attempted to kill or post him to the North Pole, but can also show pity and help him, depending on the situation.
Unlike Genma, he has also been portrayed as mostly honorable and a generally good person, frequently showing compassion towards others and offering hospitality or aid for people in trouble. He was willing to assume responsibility, as the master of the household, and apologies to Hinako upon finding her and Ranma in a very compromising bedroom position.
He's also acted as referee for formal martial arts matches. In many instances, he has worried about Ranma's welfare when overviewing them, and determinedly stepped in to interfere when the latter was about to be strangled to death in his confrontation with Ryu Kumon , and tried when Akane was about to be struck unconscious by the Dojo Destroyer , but in the latter case he was stopped by being bumped on the head by Ranma's suddenly entering bicycle.
He tends to become very angry whenever he suspects that Ranma is 'cheating' on Akane or otherwise is treating her badly, being intensely paranoid in this regard. Soun wants nothing less than the best for his daughter, and looks forward to the day she and Ranma will marry. He has become similarly intensely furious and overprotective when hearing the very notion of striking Kasumi, even to get rid of an oni possession leading her to poison and scratch his back bloody. He apparently constantly forgives Nabiki for any misdeeds, as he's never shown to hold a grudge beyond the initial shock or treat her less than charitably afterwards. When enraged, he displays a giant battle aura , frequently in the form of a giant demon headed version of himself, which most people, except Happosai and his daughters, find very intimidating. While quite old-fashioned in some respects, he honestly cares very much for his daughters' well-being.
The trait that is most taxing for Ranma's and Akane's nerves is his willingness to openly talk about their relationship. He has no trouble loudly expressing the very awkward couple's feelings for each other, and is completely oblivious as to whether this creates conflict between the two. If they lash out against each other in the face of his enthusiasm, he sometimes turns sad and confused.
Despite his flaws, Soun is a respected member of his community, and is regularly approached to take care of unusual problems, like apprehending assaulting pigtail-cutters during the Dragon's Whisker arc, help get rid of an oni when Happosai first appeared, or later when the grandmaster terrorised a tourist resort as a thieving and molesting 'octopus jar'.
It is assumed that Soun has some stable job or another source of steady income. He's never explicitly seen training students, although this may simply occur off-screen. In the separate anime continuity, however, one episode revolves around the fact that the dojo has no students at all, leading to monetary troubles. Soun has also complained about the costs of hosting two freeloading house guests, but conversely has not pushed either Genma or Ranma to somehow earn their keep, although Genma briefly worked for Tofu Ono . Soun likely earns money from the recurrent monster or troublemaker hunts, and has rented out the dojo, and had Kasumi serve food, for a local ladies' club meeting. He doesn't mind occasionally treating his family to dinner, or a vacation by the sea, but does complain about money troubles in the anime. In the manga he is mortified when Nabiki spends his meagre savings on expensive gifts for herself, or when a battle between Pantyhose Taro and Rouge repeatedly made holes in the house. In the latter case the family handled the repairs themselves, rather than let a craftsman look at it, despite Akane's being shown as very lacking.
Soun seems fully aware of Ryoga Hibiki 's piglet curse after watching the latter change in front of him in the bath. He was completely unsurprised when seeing it again during Taro's introduction story. Despite knowing this, he doesn't seem to mind that Akane keeps the former as a pet, and allows him to sleep in her bed at night.


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Tatewaki is one of the taller characters and has short dark brown hair. In the remake version due to digital color graphics, his hair was black to match up his manga version. Three years ago he was shaved bald by his father in the course of a fight, which he still resents. He normally wears the kendo uniform, known as a kendogi, in the form of a white uwagi (also blue in the anime), with medium colored hakama (also black in the anime), even while at school, moreso than the gakuran worn by the male students. Once in competition he wore the bōgu or training armor. Tatewaki has also dressed in a formal men's kimono depending on the circumstances. He also wears a purple formal suit during the Parents and Teachers Day in his younger sister, Kodachi's school.

Tatewaki comes from wealthy samurai stock, and speaks in flowery poetic text. No matter how many times Ranma defeats him, he continues to be supremely confident in his abilities, though he does sometimes acknowledge his defeats. He has a huge ego, which led Tatewaki to nickname himself "The Blue Thunder of Furinkan High," a moniker used by no one else. This is apparently not the first such nickname he has given himself, either, as when he first introduces himself, one of Nabiki's classmates notes that the last she knew, he was calling himself "Shooting Star".
He is totally clueless when it comes to Ranma's dual nature, making him the only one at school explicitly unaware of it even late in the manga (although Principal Kuno and all of the teachers except Hinako Ninomiya may be unaware in the anime). Unlike the other characters in the series, Tatewaki is ignorant of Jusenkyo and thus doesn't know how its curses work; thus, while he has seen Ranma go from boy to girl or vice versa before, and acknowledges that there is magic at work in the switching, he does not realize that the two are one in the same. Likely goaded by the fact the only explanation he has received was the almost deliberately unhelpful "her (the pigtailed girl's) body and soul both belong to Ranma" from Nabiki Tendo, he has decided that Ranma is a lecherous playboy who uses black magic to switch with or whisk away Tatewaki's "pigtailed girl" at any moment he pleases.
While Tatewaki is clueless about Ranma's curse, social matters, and several other things, he seems to do well in school. Its even mentioned in the episode "Ranma's Calligraphy Challenge" that his handwriting is very good and in a cursive style.
He spends a lot of his time in school talking to Nabiki as they are in the same class. She frequently manipulates him to obtain money through trickery, information, or selling photographs of female Ranma and her sister. When it initially appeared like he was going to 'dump' Akane for Girl-type Ranma, she encouraged him to keep his previous infatuation, since 'she wouldn't let him two-time her sister', and instantly offered him photographs of both. Beyond this, she generally seems to regard him with derision, while he once stated that he detests her in turn.
Tatewaki's strong sibling rivalry with Kodachi is a running gag. He once angered her by destroying her pictures of male Ranma and she retaliated by poisoning and throwing him to her pet alligator, Midorigame (Mr. Turtle / Green Turtle or Mr. Scaly Green in the English anime), and through spreading nasty rumors about Tatewaki and the pigtailed girl. He also has a small dog named Armadillo, who acts as a taster for any food his sister cooks.
Another common gag is his willingness to share everything he writes in his diary with female Ranma or any other girl he is interested in, usually Akane. He claims this helps to build trust in a relationship.
Tatewaki Kuno has an old fashioned way of speaking and refers to everyone by either their full or last name (Akane Tendo instead of Akane and "Saotome" instead of Ranma). He also demands to be referred by impersonal terms of respects such as Sempai/Upperclassman by other students. Nabiki makes fun of this by referring to him as Kuno-chan/baby, a more casual term used for close friends or kids.
In both continuities, he's been shown to ally with Mousse , Gosunkugi , or Ryoga against Ranma, though it's only happened a few times in the manga with one case being an accident (in Ryoga's case, after seeing a picture with Ranma kissing Akane, and during a noodle-eating competition, and with Mousse during the Moxibustion Saga ). Tatewaki and Ryoga attacked Ranma in Ukyo's Skirt! The Great Girly-Girl Gambit as well as trying to prevent Ranma and Akane from getting together in "Let's Go to the Mushroom Temple!". He and Ryoga smashed up Ranma and sent him to the hospital for an entire month in a full-body cast in the first OAV. He also trained with Ranma, Ryoga, and Mousse in order to defeat Ken in "Enter Ken and his Copycat Handkerchief". Even if they may team up, Tatewaki is not friends with Ryoga or Mousse and appears to on somewhat better terms with Ranma in the anime, even though they generally loathe each other more in the Manga.
Though he generally acts antagonistic towards Ranma, there have been some occasions where he has teamed up with, talked politely with him or even asked help from him in certain situations either involving arguments with his sister or his father. He was willing to give transportation to the other members of the cast (including Ranma) to Nekonron after Akane was kidnapped by Kirin in the first movie (though it's seems that he thought Ranma was helping him save Akane).


Ranma ½

Torristan is a tall, slender man with large eyes and a dark blue mohawk similar in appearance to a bird's comb. A beak that he wears over his mouth further adds to his bird-like appearance, which can be considered funny by people who have not previously seen him. As a result Torristan makes his appearance more imposing by normally wearing a black and red mask that both hides his face and also makes his voice slightly deeper. He also wears a white turban with a pink feather headdress as well as a cape fashioned to resemble bird's wings and a long-sleeved full length dark purple robe.
Beneath this he dresses similarly to Sarutoru and Wanton , wearing a sleeveless shirt, pants, and studded two part cloth garment around his waist secured by a belt. Unlike the other two his gloves reach more than halfway up his arms and he wears shoes.


Ranma ½

Tsubasa has white skin, dark blue-grey eyes and a long brown hair tied with a yellow bow. He usually wears the typical schoolgirl sailor uniform.
In his date with Ranma, he wears a pink dress decorated with bows, white socks, a pair of Mary Janes and a yellow hat.
When his gender is revealed, is shown that his underwear consist in a white tank top and pink underpants with yellow cats on them.
In episode 156 he wears a violet beach dress.

Tsubasa likes to dress as a girl at the point that he preteds to be one, he also loves to disguise himself as inanimate objects, something that he uses to camouflage himself. Despite pretending to be a girl, Tsubasa likes girls and hates other boys, this makes other classmates think that is due the pervert boys.
When he falls in love with one girl, Tsubasa is a extremely harasser with her, showering her with gifts and sending her mountains of love letters and Tsubasa ignores her when she refuses him at the first time, as is shown with Ukyo and female Ranma.
If he has competence in love, Tsubasa becomes completly jealous and he will do anything to hurt or humiliate his rival, as how he did with Ranma. Tsubasa is too competitive, she fells proud to be more cute that his rivals and mockes them as when he calls Ranma "butt ugly".
However, his pigheadedness has a limit and when realizes that he has been rejected, Tsubasa breaks to mourn and realizes everything, even he apologizes as when he did with Ranma after mocking her. But even just after this bad moment he can fall in love again whit another girl as female Ranma when she tells Tsubasa that she's cute enough to get herself a boyfriend very quickly.


Ranma ½

Ukyo has long black hair (brown in the anime) that she will usually either secure with a headband or bow, or hair tie if she is in school. She normally wears the attire of okonomiyaki chef, which consists of a short-sleeved blouse with the sleeves tied back (blue with white trim in the anime) and form-fitting black pants. This outfit is equipped with a bandolier holding several small throwing spatulas, while her larger combat spatula is worn across her back. After she began attending Furinkan High School , instead of wearing the girls' uniform, Ukyo wears the gakuran from her former school. This is a medium color in the manga and a medium gray in the anime. She has also worn a variety of other outfits.

Overall, Ukyo is charming, determined and reliable, getting along with Akane most of the time, including spending time socially independent from Ranma. [ citation needed ] However, she is not above trying to hurt Akane or guilt-tripping Ranma into being with her if it suits her needs. [ citation needed ] She frequently attempts to indirectly break Akane and Ranma's engagement, but with little success. To assist her, Ukyo will often get Ryoga to help with her schemes, but usually becomes infuriated with him given his lack of judgment, abysmal sense of direction and general cowardice towards Akane. [14] [15]
Ukyo has shown charitability by temporarily hosting the Tendos (albeit unintentionally) [16] and permanently providing room and board for the male "kunoichi" Konatsu , due to feeling empathetic when hearing about his horrible background. [17] She generally seems dependable to her friends, as she turned very concerned and immediately ran to the aid of her fellow okonomiyaki cook Occhan , when she thought they had been hurt by the Cursed Spatula . [18]
However, she's also been shown as being somewhat rude and having a harsh tongue. She can be quick to insult others and even had a tendency to refer to people as "Jackass", namely Ranma when they were younger.

Ranma and Akane admire Ukyo's drawing of Shussemaru.

She is extremely principled and proud of her work, to the degree she felt compelled to devour a batch of okonomiyaki as punishment for it failing to ferment correctly. [19] Ukyo is generally unconcerned about skipping school, since she learns more by visiting/eating at other restaurants. [ citation needed ] She appears very business-minded, being very excited at the opportunity to "make a killing", [20] [21] and strictly manages her finances, [22] but occasionally feels the need to take a vacation from the "salt mines". [15] Beyond her regular occupation she has been shown to work extra as a miko , and is allegedly a very talented artist. [23]
Mostly likely due to her training as a child after being abandoned by Genma , [14] Ukyo displays no fears in her hardworking personality, as shown by her being unfazed by the several ghosts which haunt the Tunnel of Lost Love . [15]
Her style of fighting is a legacy style from her father based on their food preparation, and vaguely reminiscent of ninja patterns, but this status as an apparent "ninja-cook" is never expanded upon. It is somewhat noteworthy that the Iga clan of shinobi resided in Ukyo’s home area, Kansai .

Ukyo, Shampoo and Kodachi visiting Ranma shortly after his return home.

Unlike her relationship with Akane, Ukyo shares a rivalry with both Shampoo and Kodachi over who'll become Ranma's fiancé with the three of them becoming very possessive when the other's are around, resulting in several skirmishes. [24] [25] [26] [27] Despite this, Ukyo and her rivals also regularly team up against a mutual threat. [25] [28]
Despite finding it embarrassing to admit, Ukyo has admitted to having strong romantic feelings towards Ranma [29] [30] and as such is willing to give up her business, [31] even her entire lifestyle, [32] for his sake.
Though, while Ranma has shown concern about her feelings and considers her a good friend, he has also made it clear that he does not feel the same in return, and goes to extremes to get rid of her when she gets too close. [32] Unlike Shampoo and Kodachi however, Ranma does not consider or treat Ukyo as a pest. [ citation needed ] He usually calls her "Ucchan" and she calls him "Ran-chan" ("Ranma-honey" in the english dub), the nicknames they used for each other as children. [14]
Even though she moved to Furinkan , Ukyo continues to wear the uniform from the all-male school she previously attended. [33] [4] She does, however, choose to wear the female gym uniform. [34] In spite of her short-temper and initially appearing rather masculine, Ukyo often displays more of a feminine demeanour, [32] [35] and becomes easily embarrassed when forced to talk about her affection for Ranma. [29] [36] [7] That said, she has shown highly amorous desires towards him, as shown by her urging Genma to remove his fingers covering the crotch of a photograph of a nude adult Ranma. [37] She also cheerfully entered the Tendo bathroom whilst Ranma was using it so that she may wash his back before offering they sleep in the same bed like they did during their childhood. [38]
Ukyo appears to have some strict standards for masculine behaviour and has shown great derision towards Mousse for "disappearing" without her during the Hot Springs Obstacle race [24] and, repeatedly, towards Ryoga's extreme shyness. [39] Inversely, Ukyo found the discovery of Ranma's curse rather humorous and initially used him a play-thing after she first learnt of it. [40]


Ranma ½

He is a middle aged man with a scruffy beard and a giant spatula, and was the one who taught Okonomiyaki Martial Arts to Ukyo.


Ranma ½

Wanton is a tall, powerfully built man who is the largest of the three henchmen. He has whiskers on his cheeks and dresses similarly to Sarutoru and Torristan , wearing a sleeveless shirt, pants, and studded two part cloth garment around his waist secured by a belt. Unlike the other two he wears a headdress more similar in style to that worn by Toma's regular warriors, as well as a metal collar around his neck attached to a chain, pair of armbands, and short boots.


Ranma ½

Ying Ranma is identical to Ranma's female form, save for her eyes, which are icy blue and lack pupils. Shortly after being created, she untied her hair, keeping it loose until her death.

Ying Ranma is absolutely focused on the original Ranma Saotome. Cologne declares that her ultimate intent is to control Ranma, but she herself speaks only of the two of them being "together forever".
At the same time, her fixation manifests itself in a strongly romantic fondness for Ranma; her on-screen activities consist mostly of romantic activities, such as snuggling together in a treebranch under the moonlight. She repeatedly refers to Ranma as "my love", and even Soun & Genma are forced to note that they act like a loving couple when they are together, which they quip twice about it making sense given they are two sides to the same person. When she is destroyed, Ying Ranma repeatedly begs for Ranma to save her.
She shows little signs of caring about the presence of others so long as they do not interfere with her goals, but she has a very possessive streak; interfering in her desires to have Ranma to herself prompts a violent response, and she is especially hostile towards Akane for this reason.
Ying Ranma has inherited Ranma's ailurophobia, and is at one point driven off in fear by the sight of Shampoo in her cat form. [1]


Ranma ½

Yotaro's mother has long hair, tied halfway by a large white ribbon, which reaches to just above her waist (slight brown in the anime) that also covers most of the left side of her forehead. She dresses in a long dress which covers her whole body (in the anime, the sleeves of her dress also covered all of her arms below her wrists). Yotaro's mother also wears a necklace, which was altered slightly in the anime to include a gold/yellow Christian cross.


Rave Master

When Alice was young he, surprisingly, retrained much of his facial feature and body structure to his present day self. [1] Alice is an elderly man with various distinct features. He has slanted, dark eyes with wrinkles on his face surrounding said scheme. He possesses thin eyebrows that are almost covered at the top by the hat he wears at all time. His nose, being his most prominent factor, displays a swirl in the center; also being gifted with a broad shape. Further down his wrinkly face, Alice spots a small mustache atop of his thin lips, and, inside his mouth, several missing teeth. Under his chin is a loose, long beard that connects to his sideburns. He has bony, hairy, and short legs. [2]
Alice choice of wear is a simple shirt and a small cloth covering his lower regions. His shirt spots several medic symbols; two on each arm and one on the back. The layers of his collar are adorned with a dark color encompassed by a much lighter color. The small black cloth he wears displays white Japanese Kanji characters. This cloth, however, appears to only cover the frontal area. On top of his head he dons a hat spotting two rabbit-like ears with a light-colored heart engraved at the center. Around his chest, he keeps a small bag with a visible medic symbol. Alice prefers to travel in small wooden sandals that connect by a thin string. [2]

Alice is a rather joyous old man, constantly playing pranks on people and loving his occupation: doctor. When first introduced, Alice tricked the Rave Warriors into thinking that he was a female nurse, though it was evident to Musica that he was lying. He tends to laugh at every occasion specially when people are befuddled when in his presence. When he randomly created an antidote that switches souls, later using it on Haru, Elie, Musica, and Plue, he comments on how funny he finds the situation and runs away whilst claiming that it is fun. [3] However, when Elie showed kindness to him, he gladly offered to fix her broken arm and even hands them various bottles of elixir. However, some of the elixirs were used to play further pranks on them. [4]
During the time Alice creates an elixir and hands it to Shiba Roses , with hesitation, he displays a more serious nature and actually shows depression at the thought of losing a dear friend. [5] When Shiba takes his last breath, Alice weeps furiously. [6] [7]


Rave Master

During his youth and his years as a Azure Sky Warrior, Alpine had a clean-shaved face and wide-opened eyes, as well as a pointy nose. [1] Covering the right side of his face is a moderate-size green bang that reached below his neck, reaching to his abdomen. The left side of his face was, however, slightly covered as well but left his blue eye visible to the public. Encompassing his blue iris are slanted figured eyes, crowned with thin, green eyebrows. Further, he spots thin eyelashes and small lips, and a normal sized neck. [2] Fifty years later, after Overdrive and Resha's death, Alice gains several different facial features, with the two most prominent aspects being a mustache and a beard on his face. His eyelashes and eyebrows are slightly thicker. However, he retrained his hair figure similar to how he kept it years back; with the right side covering his face and the left side left visible. His face is now covered in wrinkles. Alpine is of average height and weight. [3]

Alpine's current attire

Alpine's former outfit consists of blue-clad armor that spots a red orb on the center of the collar. Adorning the shoulders are two silver plates supporting the loose cape that reaches below his feet, and, the plain-white cape, expands shoulder width. Engraved on the armor's abdomen is an intricate silver symbol surrounded by dark outlines. On the sides of the armor, placed directly opposite to each other, are two, separate, figures that appeal the armor's shoulders, similar to wings and a shield; further, several golden strands hang from the opened shoulders. His arms are shielded by the armor's garments, which hide a white attire underneath. Around the waist are two blue plates, respectively, hanging loose that spot many golden patterns. Alpine's thighs are covered by white baggy pants. His choice of footwear is that of blue boots that resemble the armor's design. His most prominent gear is two wing-like objects that spring up from his hair, being kept in the same place since his years as a Knight of the Blue Sky. [2] Years later, Alpine wears a dark robe with lighter outlines, and heart-shaped figures around the waist and reaching down diagonally to the opening of his cape. Under the cape are normal, plain clothes with the Symphonia logo in the center, and several thick clothes placed on top of each other. He wears simple shoes. [4]

Alpine shows a rather cruel nature towards the intent of harm upon Resha Valentine , always standing by her side and easily losing his temper when she is in danger. When Shiba Roses demands entrance to the castle to see Resha, Alpine coldly orders the guards to let him in, which he intends to use in his favor to teach him a "lesson" the hard way; claiming that guys like him don't understand words. When Shiba makes a remark of Resha's hatred towards making the Holy Bring, a furious Alpine is quick to dictate that he is committing treason against the Kingdom. Noting this as treason, he takes a foot forward and states that he will handle Shiba, showing his affection to his believes: the Kingdom. [5] Despite said statement, Alpine is also noted to be calm most of the time, and even admit his true perception of things, [6] and retains his calm nature even when he is explaining things of great magnitude. [7] When Resha 'dies', he contains his tears and believes that Shiba, who was chosen by Resha as the Rave Master, should receive his support as well. [8]
He also does not argue with people when they have their minds set on something, as he accepts Shiba's wager of losing his life in order to see who the real Rave Master is, and who Rave will elect as the new Rave Master. [9] However, he shows signs of sorrow when people he loves deeply die. [10]


Rave Master

Cattleya is a fair-skinned young woman of average stature who bears a striking resemblance to her late mother Sakura Glory with straight, long black hair that she keeps in a low ponytail where shorter strands of her hair fall over the side of her face and grows inches past her chin while her fringes run across her forehead, with the longer strands reaching down to her chestnut eyes [1] and she has a voluptuous figure.
Cattleya would often don light colored tank tops that emphasize her bosom, and pair with it short skirts. Her feet are clad in a pair of low-heeled, black sandals.

Cattleya is a bit of a spitfire and is very good with domestic chores like cooking and cleaning. Filling the void her parents left behind, Cattleya was forced to fulfill the role of both parents at a young age. She loves Haru with all her heart and tries her best to keep him happy. Although she keeps his best interest at heart, Cattleya's love for her brother, at times, clouds her judgment. She is not below keeping the truth from Haru if it means protecting him. [2] Regardless, she remains supportive of her brother's decisions, and willingly backs down if she knows she is in the wrong.


Rave Master

Celia is a beautiful young girl, with a curvaceous figure. She has blue colored eyes and long hair. As a mermaid, her upper body is that of a humans while her lower body is that of a fish, having a green fish tail instead of legs. She wears a blue bikini with clam shell designs, a necklace, star shape ear rings and three braces on her left arm. She also has a mark at the back of her left hand. Celia can use turn Magic to temporarily turn her tail into human legs.

Celia is innocent girl who is nice to everyone, respecting her villages principles of always repaying kindness onto others. For that she welcomed Haru and his friend to her home for him saving her, since then Celia has been smitten with Haru and completely falls in love with. Her innocence is however to a fault, as can sometimes be gullible and clumsy, such as spending a whole year away from home just to find a necklace for her sister and releasing Lilith from her trap for believing her promise of turning Celia into a real human so she can be with Haru. Celia however is clever enough to suspect a lie and released Lilith in the middle of her spell as a contingency and attack even if Celia sustain injuries from her double cross.


Rave Master

Chien is a tall, large man distinguished by his massive, rounded belly. His head is bald, adorned only by a single leaf, its stem seemingly sprouting from Sian's very nape and then spiralling up to the top of his head, and he has dark, thick bags under his eyes, which tend to retain a sleepy expression; his nose is rounded, and his jaw squared and thick. His well-built, somewhat slender arms are notably long, almost reaching down to the ground; in comparison, his already small, stocky lower body appears even smaller. Chien bears tattoos on both shoulders, each representing a stylized leaf shape, reminiscent of a heart placed upside-down. [2]
Chien wears a dark tank top on his round torso, complete with light sections in correspondence to the edges and belly area, and bearing motifs identical to his tattoos on the chest and upper back; this very same emblem appears on the leather armbands cirling each of his forearms. A scarf is wrapped around his neck, its ends secured on the front by a thick clasp: this appears to be a small, studded drum, complete with two sticks secured to it via ropes. Chien's attire is completed by plain, somewhat loose light pants, getting tighter close to their prominent hems, and dark shoes. [2] He carries around his Dark Bring , Dux Dormir , in the form of a pendant hanging from his neck. [3]

Befitting his Dark Bring and his fighting style, Chien loves sleeping, and can become annoyed or even angry if someone wakes him up for matters he considers trivial. [4] He is cruel and ruthless, and shows no qualm in viciously brutalizing his defenseless opponents while they are rendered asleep by Dux Dormir . [5] In contrast to his brutish appearance, he is somewhat analytical, seeing through Branch's attempt to pass the prisoner Nagisa off as Elie , [6] and managing to work out Koala's plan to discover the Liberation Army's headquarters without the latter needing to tell him. [7]


Rave Master

Chino is a slim young boy with short, almost shaved, black hair, with a widow's peak , and slightly short sideburns. He has slanted, large gray eyes, very thin eyebrows and a mildly round nose. His skin color is that of a light tan.
Chino dons a simple outfit. He has a white t-shirt covering his upper body. The shoulders are colored in a dark blue, almost black, as well as the neck. At the end of the sleeves the t-shirt regains its original white color. He wears light green pants reaching down to his knees, having part of the top covered by the white shirt. Due to the constant rain in Ska Village, Chino wears yellow rain boots with a lighter color at the bottom.

Chino holds a grudge towards the "demons" of Ska Village for making it rain constantly. He is always attempting to kill them by throwing rocks at them. When he first met Haru Glory, he tells him to leave him alone so he can get rid of the demons. However, when Haru stops Chino from throwing a rock at a frog, Chino gets mad and tells him that he does not know anything of what is going on, and runs away. As stated by Haru, Chino only bullied the frogs because they are powerless, reflecting what the Thunder Man was doing to the Ska villagers. Ever since the rain started, Chino has not placed a single smile on his face, as stated by his mother. However, his whole personality changes when Haru, Elie and Plue stop the rain. He smiles and becomes great friends with the frogs. He also says that he wants to be just like Haru when he grows up. When Haru and the others get ready to leave, Chino gets sad but understands why, and wishes them good luck on their journey.


Rave Master

As a young woman, Clea had silky brown skin that was mostly left uncovered in the stomach, high regions of the chest, arms, and thighs; as well as portions of her legs. She possessed moderate-sized breasts and long, skinny legs. Clea had slightly slanted brown eyes with thick eyelashes and thin eyebrows. [1] She donned a small mildly round nose, and; further, plain thin lips. She kept her black hair tied in a ponytail at the back and in the front, she displayed two big bags, which went down pass her eyes, and several other strands covering her forehead that almost reach her eyebrows. Engraved on her left arm is a purple tattoo resembling an opened leaf with many smaller figures springing from the sides. [2] Years later, Clea's appearance changes dramatically, moreover similar to that of a bird. Her mouth is replaced by a pretty large, yellow beak with two holes on the side, acting as her nose. [3] Her breasts have grown tremendously, and now she spots a fur-like concept hovering below her neck. Her hair has grown, and her body is now mostly covered in robes. [4] [5] [6]

Clea's full appearance

During her youth, Clea simply wore a reveling outfit under a white cape that held the symbol of Symphonia on the back. The cape, being larger than her in both width and height, severed as a shelter for her exposed body. However, when she removes the cape, only a small, tight tank top can be noted, with small armor pieces shielding her forearms. Towards her lower regions, dark panties and two loose garments standing opposite to each other, with Kanji written on it, act as her clothes. Further down, Clea owns two large boots that cover most of her long legs. [7] After being brought back to life to protect the Rave Stones, Clea wears clothes that entirely cover her body. With the most prominent object being that which stands on top of her head, resembling a bird with spread wings and a large feather-like tail hanging loose. The right side of her arm is shield by a garment that has Kanji written on it, and covering her stomach is a dark sleeveless shirt with a belt surrounding her waist (Which has a intricate design). [8] She now wears white baggy pants and simple boots. The only object that remains, however, is a cape similar to her old one. [4] [5] [6]

Clea, when young, appeared to be the most energetic and extrovert of the Knights of the Blue Sky , and had no problem telling the truth in front of people. [9] She rarely seemed to seriously bother with small conflicts, as displayed when she had a smile on her face when facing Shiba Roses in combat. When it comes to Resha's well-being, however, she does not joke around and treats her like family. [10] Years after Overdrive , Clea seems to of had gained a more quiet persona, but still retains her charismatic personality when near loved ones. [11]