Ranma ½
- Genre: action comedy romance ecchi
- Author: takahashi rumiko
- Artist(s):
- Year: Aug 5, 1987 to Feb 21, 1996
- Original Publisher:
- Status： Finished
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Saotome Ranma
Main
Training with Genma at Jusenkyo in China, Ranma was thrown into a spring called Nyanniichuan. He emerged as a young girl, according with the springs curse. When splashed with hot water, he changes back to a boy, but when splashed with cold to room tempera...
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Tendou Akane
Main
Height: 52"Hobbies: Martial arts (especially for anger-management), sportsAkane is far from being delicate and her exuberant, life-loving demeanor is apparent in everything she does. Although she appears to be non-klutzy on the movement scale, shes a lead...
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Chardin Picolet
Supporting
Picolet Chardin II, commonly referred to as Picolet Chardin or simply Picolet, is a member of the wealthy Chardin Family. He is also a "speed eater" from the La Belle France School of Martial Arts. Picolet is named after a Japanese diaper type product, wh...
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Cologne
Supporting
Cologne is the great-grandmother of Shampoo. She accompanies Shampoo on her return to Japan, and opens the Cat Caf in Furinkan. She is a contemporary of Happosai, and well over one hundred years old. She calls Ranma "bride-groom" and "son-in-law" ...
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Gambling King
Supporting
Casino King is the name that the Gambling King gives to any area where he can set up his rigged gambling games, which include dice games, card games against the King himself, and pachinko machines. It is typically little more than a small stall at a fair ...
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Happosai
Supporting
Soun and Genma trained during their youths with the evil and perverted Happosai. The little man is THE master of Anything Goes Martial arts (Musabetsu Kakutō Ryū). He is also a panty thief and lecher beyond belief. In return for training, he berated and c...
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Hibiki Ryouga
Supporting
Ryouga stands out in the crowd due to his regularly rough appearance. He spends much of his time wandering, often depressed over having to spend so much of his time alone in the wilderness, with the slightest rain turning him into a defenceless pig at the...
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Jusenkyo Guide
Supporting
The Jusenkyo Guide is an unnamed man who works at Jusenkyo and usually warns anyone that comes there that they should not train there or they will fall under a grave curse. He knows the names of the hundreds of pools through the area, how long ago the spr...
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Katsunishiki
Supporting
Katsunishiki is Akari Unryus prize sumo wrestling pig. He is the 14th yokozuna (grand champion) and is rampaging through Nerima....
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Konatsu
Supporting
Konatsu, sometimes mistakenly referred to as Konatsu Kunoichi, is a male kunoichi or female ninja and the love interest of Ukyo Kuonji toward the end of the manga. Like all of Ukyos love interests, he is a male to female cross dresser.Konatsu is often men...
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Konjo Mariko
Supporting
Mariko Konjo is a cheerleader from Seisyun High School.Mariko is a common Japanese name meaning "child of true benefit." This could be a reference that she benefits the teams she cheers for and ensures that they do not lose, or simply that shes vain, tren...
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Kunou Kodachi
Supporting
Kodachi, known as "The Black Rose" in the gymnastics community, is presented as Tatewaki Kunos sister and a student at St. Hebereke School for Girls (St. Bacchus School for Girls in the manga). This is in contrast to several members of the regular cast, w...
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Kunou Tatewaki
Supporting
Tatewaki Kuno is an upperclassman at Furinkan High and was the big man on campusat least until Ranma came along. Hailing from a very wealthy family, he is also captain of the kendo club and wields both his fortune and sword with equal ease. Given t...
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Kuonji Ukyo
Supporting
Ten years ago, on a training trip in the country, Genma stole Ukyos fathers okonomiyaki yatai (food cart), leaving her behind and breaking the arrangement he and her father made. However, before this Ranma and Ukyo were friends, though Ranma never knew sh...
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Kurenai Tsubasa
Supporting
Tsubasa Kurenai is a suitor of Ukyo Kuonji who followed her to Furinkan after she left her old school. Despite appearing to be a girl, Tsubasa, like most of Ukyos suitors, is actually a male to female cross-dresser.Prior to the events of the series, Tsuba...
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Madame Saint Paul
Supporting
Madame St. Paul is the taskmaster responsible for training Ranma in the ways of Martial Arts Dining. Her name is a reference to a Japanese floor cleaning spray (because Picolet's name references another type of floor cleaner).(Source: Rumic World)...
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Maomolin
Supporting
The Ghost Cat lives in the large bell that he wears around his neck. He is constantly searching for a fiancee, and has a smaller version of his bell. Whomever holds this bell becomes his fiancee.Originally Shampoo holds the smaller bell, but refuses to ha...
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Miyakoji Satsuki
Supporting
Satsuki Miyakoji is the 1993 Miss Tea Ceremony and is quite beautful. She is too shy to meet with Sentaro so she sends her pet monkey Sanae in her place. Satsuki means "tea moon" the joke here being the tea reference. Miyakoji means "main thoroughfare of ...
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Mousse
Supporting
Mousse is a long-time friend of Shampoo, though she might not view it that way. He has been in love with her for most of his life, but she finds him annoying at best. He cant see very well without his glasses, often mistaking someone for something else. H...
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Mrs. Tendo
Supporting
Mrs. Tendo is the mother of Kasumi, Nabiki, and Akane, and the wife of Soun. She passed away many years ago leaving Soun to raise the children. It is never said how she died, but the family still thinks of her lovingly. After Mrs. Tendo's death Kasumi ass...
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Ninomiya Hinako
Supporting
Hinako Ninomiya was employed by Principal Kuno to help deal with all the "delinquent" students at Furinkan High. Initially she appears to an elementary school aged child who is rather giddy and excitable. In actuality her tale is much more complex.When Hi...
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Old Washer Woman
Supporting
This elderly woman, can almost always be seen cleansing the outside of her house by pouring water on the sidewalk. More often than not, she accidently splashes Ranma.(Source: Rumic World)...
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Ono Toufuu
Supporting
Dr. Tofu Ono is the local chiropractor and often helps Akane and Ranma when they have bumps, bruises or dislocated joints from their many fights. He is very knowledgeable about martial arts techniques although he is never seen practicing. He helps Ranma d...
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Orochi
Supporting
The Eight Headed Orochi is a large dragon that lives in Ryugenzawa. The moss from his body is what creates the Water of Life that Shinnosuke needs to live....
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Pantyhose Taro
Supporting
Age: 18-20Aliases: Collant Taro, Pantyhose Freak; Baggy Pantyhose or Pantyhose Guy by Ranma; Vulgar One by RougeOccupation: Martial artist Known relatives: Mother, Happosai, godfatherCurse: Human to Yeti-Bull-Crane-EelHaving "Pantyhose" for a nameFighting...
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Saotome Nodoka
Supporting
Nodoka is Ranmas loving mother. She hasnt seen him and Genma in over a decade though, when they left on their training trip. Stating that a doting mother would hinder Ranmas training, Genma made a contract with her to raise Ranma as "man amongst men", and...
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Saotome Genma
Supporting
Genma Saotome is Ranma Saotomes father and the sensei of the Saotome Dojo of Musabetsu Kakutō Ryū karate ("School of Indiscriminate Grappling," more commonly known in the West as "Anything Goes Martial Arts"). During the time when Genma took Ranma on a de...
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Shampoo
Supporting
Shampoo met Ranma when Ranma (as a girl) and Genma (as a panda) drop into a contest in a village of the Joketsuzoku ("Chinese Amazons") and the pair gorged themselves on the feast for the winner of the villages martial arts contest. As village champion, S...
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Shinnosuke
Supporting
Shinnosuke and his grandfather both live in the forest of Ryugenzawa, where they protect the local villagers from the giant animals that they once kept as pets. Years ago when Akane was vacationing with her family in Ryugenzawa, she got lost in the fores...
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Shinnosukes Grandfather
Supporting
Shinnosukes grandfather is deceptively weak, or at least, he seems to be. He always seems to muster up enough strength to unleash his Megaton Punch when his grandson forgets something important. Grandfather raised Shinnosuke and has seen that he gets the ...
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Shiratori Azusa
Supporting
Azusa Shiratori is Sanzenins skating partner. A master of skating anything goes martial arts, she often likes cute things and gives them names....
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Tendou Soun
Supporting
Soun is the head of the Tendou household and one of the two families to practice Anything Goes Martial Arts. Hes a widower, left to single-handedly take care of his three daughters. He has a large house that is occasionally in need of repairs due to the f...
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Tendou Nabiki
Supporting
Nabiki is the second daughter of Soun Tendou. The most important thing to her is money, and she would do anything to achieve it, including blackmailing her own family members. In some stories, she plays an important role in trying to extort money or placi...
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Tendou Kasumi
Supporting
Kasumi is the eldest of the Tendou girls and the most gentle of the lot. She graduated high school and spends most of her day looking after the Tendou household, acting as the familys substitute "matriarch" ever since her mothers untimely death by cooking...
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Unryu Akari
Supporting
Akari Unryu comes from a family that raises sumo wrestling pigs. Her pig, Katsunishiki is the 14th yokozuna (grand champion) and is rampaging through Nerima when he encounters Ryoga. Due to a promise made with her father, Akari can only marry someone who ...
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Yotaro
Supporting
Age: 8-10Eyes: Dark blueHair: Blond in the manga, brown in the animeFirst Appearance (Manga): Vol. 14 (Japanese)First Appearance (Anime): Episode 75 "Step Outside!"Rivals/Opponents: Onna-RanmaYotaro is a young and frail boy who is unable to go outside, de...
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Yotaros Mother
Supporting
Yotaro's mother, or "Maman" as he calls her, worries deeply about her son who never wants to go outside and play. She decides to get him a panda to help cheer him up.(Source: Rumic World)...
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