Ranma 1/2
Plot
Ranma 1/2 is the story of a boy who turns into a girl, and his dad who turns into a panda. It all started on a training trip. Ranma and is father, Genma, went to China on a training mission, and came upon Jusenkyo, a cursed ground littered with different springs. Genma couldn't speak Chinese very well, which is partly what got them into the mess. Anyway, Genma and Ranma were both knocked into the spring, and Ranma came out as a girl, while Genma came out as a panda. They later found, that they had fell into Spring of Drowned Girl, and Spring of Drowned Panda, therefore cursing them so that whenever they are splashed with cold water, they turn into whatever drowned in the spring. When Ranma was little, his father promised him to be engaged to his best friends daughter, so that the very skilled martial arts boy could take care of the Tendo Dojo. His name is Soun Tendo, and his daugters are Kasumi, Nabiki, and Akane. After the training mission, and the unfortunate accident, they went to live in the Tendo home. The three Tendo daughters were surprised when a panda and a girl showed up at their house, claiming to be one of their fiances (a cold rain was coming down as Ranma and Genma were walking). But, the truth was eventually found out, when the youngest Tendo daughter decided to join Ranma in the bath (she still thought that Ranma was a girl) but when Ranma got into the hot water, he turned into boy form again. So, it ended up that Akane walked in on a him not a her. Akane now calls Ranma a pervert. Since Akane is the same age as Ranma, the older two daughters decided that she could marry Ranma (not really because of the age factor, they didn't want to marry a pervert!). So Akane was stuck with Ranma, but they do fall in love, though they hate to admit it and they fight ALL THE TIME! So, as Ranma is settling down, he finds he has yet another bride-to-be! Ukyo was his childhood friend, and he thought Ukyo was a boy at the time, but her father Genma said that he would promise his son would marry Ukyo, in exchange for the family's Okonomiyaki (Japanese pizza) cart. And Ukyo finally caught up with them after Genma ran away with the cart. She is determined to get his mind off Akane and onto herself. She owns a Okonomiyaki resteraunt called "Ucchan's." Ucchan happens to also be Ranma's childhood name for Ukyo. She has two other rivals, Kodachi the Black Rose (Kuno's sister) and Shampoo. Shampoo was beaten by Ranma (in girl form) in her Amazon village and set out to then kill Ranma, but couldn't do it when she found out that he was also a boy. He said his true form was really the girl form, and so Shampoo went out to train in Jusenkyo, where she fell in a spring and now turns into a cute little cat when splashed with cold water. She later found out that his true form was really boy, so now Shampoo seeks to marry him instead of to kill him. Shampoo's grandma, Cologne always calls Ranma her "Future-Son-In-Law." Shampoo and Cologne own a Ramen resteraunt. Not only does he have a ton of girls that want to be or all ready are engaged to him, but he has severale rivals too. Among the many different enemies that he encounters, Mousse, Kuno, Ryoga, and Happosai are some. Mousse is in love with Shampoo, and believes that if he kills Ranma, he can have Shampoo, even though he is cursed himself, and will turn into a duck if splashed with cold water. Kuno is just self obbsessed and thinks that if he kills Ranma, he can get Akane (in fact, he loved Ranma in girl form, for he doesn't know Ranma's little secret). Ryoga is in love with Akane, and is always batteling Ranma, because Ranma once stoll his bread, and while searching for him, Ryoga was pushed into a cursed spring by a mysterious girl and panda (guess who they were?) and now turns into a little black pig. Akane found the black pig once, and named it P-Chan, but she still doesn't know that the pig is really Ryoga. Finally, Happosai. He is just a plain pervert always trying to steal womens bras and panties, and since he was the master of Soun and Genma he sorta hangs around sometimes. Therefore, if Ranma is in girl form, he, or should I say she, is in BIG trouble! So, with all these girls who love him, and they all the boys that love them after him all the time, there is never a boring moment in Ranma Saotomes life!
NOTE: There is lots of other interesting information in the character profiles that may help explain more of the story.
Character List/Profile
Genma is Ranma's father, who turns into a panda when splashed with cold water. He was very irresponsible when it came to his son's marrages. He has a wife that he loves, but he can't let her know about him and Ranma, or she will punish them severely. Genma always fights with Ranma.
Ranma is that crossdressing, pervert that the story is based around. When he turns into his girl form (which makes him, we'll just say, have a very nice figure), he can get food for free, or attract many men who want to marry her, she's even had to battle with her future husband to get out of some arrangements. He has lots of fiances and fiance-want-to-be's, but he is only in love with Akane, but he covers it up by fighting with her all the time. He is very good at Anything-Goes Martial Arts, and is always up for learning new types of Martial arts, including a Tea Ceramony Martial Arts and another type where you try to beat your opponent, by eating all of your food faster then they can. He is TERRIFIED of cats, and so when Shampoo sneaks herself into a tub with him, he will go balistic (when he was little, his dad threw him into a pit of starving cats as a training exercise, and Ranma had meat tied all over him). If it is to much for him to handle, he startes to act like a cat, and will become almost indestructable! He calls Ukyo his "cute fiance." He gets very jealous of the other men around Akane, but will never admit it.
Soun has his three daughters, and whoever is wed to Ranma, will take over their family's dojo. Soun loves all his daughters very much, and is very sensitive. He crys a lot over this and that. But, he can also explode with anger and boot Ranma through the roof! His wife died and he and his children all miss her. He was trained by the perverted Happosai.
Kasumi is all around nice and a very sweet person and will never get to upset at anyone. She is following in her mother's foot steps and takes care of her entire family, plus the two extra people living with them, Ranma and Genma. Dr. Tofu, the family docter, is in love with her, but Kasumi doesn't know it. After Dr. Tofu sees her, he rids around the town on his skeleton, who I believe is called Betty.
Nabiki loves money, and will do ANYTHING to strike up some sort of a deal with someone. Nabiki will even pretend to be in love with Ranma, get him as her fiance, and then sell him off to Shampoo, Kodachi, or Ukyo.
Akane is the youngest Tendo daughter and is engaged to Ranma, which is good because she too is very good at martial arts and is training in the dojo most of the time. She is really in love with Ranma, but hids it. Almost every boy in school wants to "date" with her, so they all attack her when she goes to school. They think if they can beat her, that she will go out with them. So, with a ton of boys going at you at once and a ton of other fiance-want-to-be's trying to kill you and get you out of the way, it is a good thing Akane is good at martial arts! She used to have a crush on Dr. Tofu, for he treated the many injuries she would get, so she grew her hair long, to look more like Kasumi, but it was chopped off when a stray bandana from Ryoga flew at it. Akane took in P-Chan, Ryoga's little black pig form, as her pet and she doesn't know that P-Chan is really Ryoga. Akane get EXTREMELY jealous of other women around Ranma, but will never admit it.
Cologne is Shampoo's grandma, and is always calling Ranma "Future-Son-In-Law." She owns a Ramen resteraunt with Shampoo called the Nekohanten. She is VERY old. She sometimes walks around on a pole type thing.
Shampoo is the Amazon women who loves Ranma. She doesn't speak Japanse very well. When splashed with cold water, she turns into a cute little cat, which scares Ranma even father away. She owns a Ramen shop with her grandma called the Nekohanten. Mousse loves her. Shampoo often times rides around on her bycicle, and will even run over people. She finds no problem with jumping into a bath tub with Ranma. She is good at martial arts and will often times try to get Akane out of the way, or even try to kill Akane.
Mousse is very much in love with Shampoo, and does everything to try and get Ranma out of the way. He turns into a duck when splashed with cold water. He wears glasses most of the time. Chains and other things come out of his hands, and he uses them to fight.
He thinks he is the greatest person ever, and is convinced that Akane and "the Pigtailed Girl" (who is really girl form Ranma) are as in love with him as he is in love with them. He is good with a sword, and is rivals with boy form Ranma, for he wants to get Akane. He doesn't know that Ranma and "the Pigtailed Girl" are the same person, and when Nabiki tried to explain it to him, he got the wrong idea, the VERY wrong idea! Nabiki told him that Ranma "owns her body and soul" but he didn't take it the right way.
Ryoga has absolutly NO sense of direction, and will get lost in his own backyard. It sometimes takes him weeks to show up for a battle. He is in love with Akane, and is Akane's pet when transformed. He turns into a little black pig, which Akane took in and named P-Chan, and Akane has no idea that it is really him. He is rivals with Ranma for both Akane and because Ranma stole his bread in school. When looking for Ranma, he was knocked over by a girl and panda (AKA Ranma and Genma) and fell into the Spring of Drowned Pig.
Happosai is the martial arts master of Soun and Genma. He is VERY old, and VERY perverted. He is obbsessed with women's bras and panties. There was a child that he even named "Pantyhose Taro."
Ukyo is Ranma's "cute fiance." Her nickname (given to her by Ranma when they were childhood friends) is Ucchan, which is also the name of her Okonomiyaki resteraunt. When they were little, Genma agreed to marry Ranma to Ukyo, in exchange for the family's Okonomiyaki cart. But, he just ran off with the cart. Ranma always thought Ukyo was a boy, until she hunted him down later in his life. She calls Ranma "Ranma Honey." She is also a good martial artist, and tries to get to Ranma's heart.