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Ranma 1/2: people, places, and things
by Terry Martin
revised December 7, 1992
{Including JIS kana and kanji codes in braces.}
This started as a list of name translations to answer a query. I added
descriptions to make it a cast list for anime showings. Then, someone else
who wanted to make a card game asked for a list of each character's weapons
and martial arts techniques, and for a list of magic items. I put in
episode and manga chapter numbers for reference. And the list keeps
growing...
PEOPLE
The cast:
Saotome {$@Aa25=w(J}
Ranma "disorderly horse" {$@MpGO(J}
Our hero (sort of). The martial art of kempo is his life.
Training with his father at the mysterious Jusenkyou
training ground in China, he was thrown into a spring called
Nyanniichuan, where a young girl drowned 1500 years ago. He
emerged as a young girl, according with the spring's curse.
When splashed with hot water, he changes back to a boy, but
when splashed with cold to room temperature water, he turns
into a girl again. He uses rough, masculine Japanese in
either form. Akane's iinazuke (fiance) by their parents'
arrangement.
Name:
In credits, written in kanji for male Ranma,
and in hiragana for female Ranma.
Distinctive features:
Ponytail. Often wears Chinese clothing.
Aliases:
osage no onna "pony-tailed girl" to Kunou
mukodono "son-in-law" to Cologne
`Ran-chan' to Ukyou
Akane's cousin `Ranko' to Nodoka
Voices:
(male) Yamaguchi Kappei {$@;38}!!>!J?(J}
(female) Hayashibara Megumi {$@NS86!!$a$0$_(J}
Genma "black/dark horse" {$@8<GO(J}
Ranma's insensitive father. Long ago he arranged with his
closest friend, Tendou Soun, that their children would
marry. While training Ranma at Jusenkyou, Ranma kicked him
into Shonmaoniichuan where a panda drowned 2000 years ago.
Genma emerged as a panda, and as the guide explained the
spring's curse, whacked Ranma into Nyanniichuan. He becomes
rather accustomed to living as a panda, using wooden signs
to communicate.
Distinctive features:
Round glasses with loops around each ear.
Voice: Ogata Kenichi {$@=oJ}!!8-0l(J}
Tendou "the way of heaven; providence; destiny" {$@E7F;(J}
Akane {$@$"$+$M(J}
The youngest daughter, age 16. A hot-tempered boy-hating
kempoist, yet admired by many boys at school. She refuses
to be betrothed against her will, especially to a hentai
weirdo like Ranma (who doesn't like being engaged to a violent
tomboy any better). Despite their constant bickering and
denials, they grow to like each other (and feel jealous when
the other appears more interested in another suitor). At the
start of the series, she's had a crush on Toufuu-sensei since
she was very young. Akane is comically inept at traditional
feminine pursuits like cooking, sewing, and tea ceremony.
She is also unable to stay afloat in water.
Aliases:
Frequently called kawaikune "uncute" by Ranma
Voice: Hidaka Noriko {$@F|9b!!$N$j;R(J}
Nabiki "bend/wave/sway" {$@$J$S$-(J}
Akane's conniving older sister, age 17. A mischievous
mercenary and con artist, she finds ways to turn a profit from
the odd situations she becomes a part of.
Voice: Takayama Minami {$@9b;3!!$_$J$_(J}
Kasumi "haze, mist" {$@$+$9$_(J}
The eldest daughter, age 19. A traditional, proper Japanese
girl, taking over the household duties of her dead mother,
keeping house and cooking for the doujou's many guests. She
takes the bizarre events around the doujou in stride with
cheerful obliviousness or sympathetic remarks on the obvious.
Voice: Inoue Kikuko {$@0f>e!!5.5W;R(J}
Souun "fast cloud" {$@Aa1@(J}
The emotional father. Souun and Genma trained together as
Happousai's students before starting their own martial arts
schools. Now the fathers try to force Akane and Ranma to bond
against their will, which rarely does any good. Souun is
furious whenever Ranma turns out to have yet another fiancee,
or when Ranma seems to prefer one of them to Akane.
Voice: Oobayashi Ryunosuke {$@BgNS!!N42p(J}
Hibiki "resound" {$@6A(J}
Ryouga "good fang" {$@NI2g(J}
Ranma's rival since junior high, when he challenged Ranma to a
fight in the vacant lot behind his house. But, eternally lost
boy that he is, it took him a four-day journey all over Japan
to find his way there, to find that Ranma has gone off with his
father on a training expedition. To avenge the grudge, he
went to China after Ranma, eventually blundering his way to
Jusenkyou, where a pony-tailed girl chasing a panda knocked him
off a cliff and into Heitouenniichuan, where a black pig
drowned 1200 years ago. A panda rescued the little black
pig, only to deliver him to the Chinese guide for dinner,
who fortunately drops the pig into a wok of boiling water.
Ryouga blames Ranma for his condition, and his anger
multiplies when he finds out that Ranma is really directly
responsible for it. When this comes out, Ranma remorsefully
swears not to reveal Ryouga's secret. As a pig, Ryouga
becomes Akane's pet "P-chan", and falls deeply in love with
her, but believes no one could love him as a human with his
curse. Akane is unaware that the pet pig she sleeps with is
Ryouga, despite several close calls, and is angry whenever
Ranma abuses her piggy.
In addition to a complete inability to follow directions,
Ryouga is fooled even by Ranma's most ridiculous disguises.
Extremely strong, he often shatters rocks and walls in his
anxiety.
Entrance: Episode 7. Volume 2 part 2.
Distinctive features:
Cute fangs. Wears a yellow and black headband around
his head, or around his neck as a pig.
Weapons:
Slings headbands, wields a heavy, sharp-rimmed
umbrella, and uses his belt like a blade.
Aliases:
as a black pig: P-chan to Akane, Charlotte to Azusa
Voice: Yamadera Kouichi {$@;3;{!!9(0l(J}
Kunou "9 abilities" [can also be written "no competence"] {$@6eG=(J}
Tatewaki "belt sword, sword at one's side; bringing a sword" {$@BSEa(J}
Kunou Tatewaki, 17-sai (17 years old), is the boastful school
kendo champ, of wealthy samurai lineage. As class president,
he ruled that anyone who would date Akane must first defeat
her. At the start of the series, Akane defeats their attempts
every morning. In the meantime, he falls in love with the
pony-tailed girl (Ranma), and agonizes over which girl he loves
more. He hates Ranma for being too close to both. After Ranma
defeats Kunou, the other students accept Ranma and Akane's
betrothal.
Entrance: Episode 2. Volume 1 part 3.
Distinctive features:
Wears samurai robes and carries a bokutou.
Weapons:
A bokutou (wooden kendo sword) which he wields as
effectively as a blade.
Aliases:
Aoi Ikazuchi "Blue Thunder" according to himself
`Tatchi' to his father
Voice: Suzuoki Hirotaka {$@NkCV!!MN9'(J}
Kodachi "little long sword" {$@>.B@Ea(J}
His even stranger younger sister, age 16. She's a formidable
martial arts rhythmic gymnastics expert from the rival Saint
Hebereke's girls' academy, who wins her matches by default
by taking out her opponents before the competition. After a
thwarted attack on Akane in her bedroom before their
upcoming match, Ranma, chasing P-chan, accidentally knocks
her off the doujou roof, then unknowingly rescues her. When
she comes to and sees who "saved" her, she falls for Ranma.
Enemy of Akane and Ranma as a girl.
Entrance: Episode 11. Volume 2 part 9.
Distinctive features:
Black roses are her trademark. Sometimes they appear on
her clothing, or she holds one between her teeth. Spins
her lash-like ribbon in the air, sometimes casting black
rose petals all around. Villanous laugh, like B-ko
(Project A-ko).
Weapons:
Her favorite is the ribbon, but she's apparently
skilled with many. Gives bouquets of black roses
loaded with exploding powder causing sleep or
paralysis.
Aliases:
Kuro-bara no Kodachi "Black Rose Kodachi" {$@9u%P%i$N>.B@Ea(J}
`Kotchi' to her father
Voice: Shimazu Saeko {$@EgDE!!:c;R(J}
Midorigame "green tortoise" {$@%_%I%j%,%a(J}
Kodachi's deceptively-named pet alligator.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 19. Volume 9 part 2.
(`kouchou' "principal") {$@9;D9(J}
The antagonistic authoritarian principal of the high school
with a mania for Hawaii. When he returns from America, he
announces that he has a big present for his students: a new
rule that all boys must have marabouzu-style shaved heads and
all girls have very short okappa haircuts, unless the students
get a coconut containing an exemption slip within three days.
He goes to extreme lengths in his attempts to cut Ranma's
ponytail and make an example of him, but gets only several
poundings.
In the manga, the students force him to reveal that
although he doesn't remember where that coconut with the
exemption slip is, he tattooed directions to it on the shaved
head of his long lost son Tatewaki, who he left behind 3 years
ago. He makes crazy rules to inconvenience his students,
especially Ranma, who thwarts his discipline.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 46. Volume 12 part 1.
Distinctive features:
Deep tan. Miniature palm tree growing on top of his
head. Wears sunglasses, a lei, and an aloha shirt.
Often uses English (well, Japlish) words and phrases.
Sometimes rides a skateboard.
Weapons:
Wields a pair of barikan (hair clippers) or large
shears. Hands or throws exploding pineapples to
unsuspecting students. Has used silly tricks like
remote-control planes with sharpened propellors and
trained hair-clipping lobsters.
Voice: Hitouchi Tateno {$@?NFb!!7zG7(J}
Happousai "8 treasures alike" {$@H,Ju@F(J}
A powerful old man, possessed of an evil spirit. The feared
and loathed sensei of Genma and Souun. 10-several years ago,
he harshly trained them by making them take part in his
plundering and endure the punishments when he left them behind.
Finally, they got him drunk, chained him in a barrel, threw the
barrel in a cave, and sealed the cave with dynamite and a
boulder hung with Buddhist scriptures.
Years later, he escapes. He moves into the Tendou doujou
to train his successor, where Genma gives him Ranma to train.
A 110% pervert, he constantly goes around lifting skirts,
stealing women's underwear for his extensive collection, and
committing frottage. His perversions are the source of his
strength; without touching young female bodies or underwear, he
loses his power. Ranma and Akane are his favorite targets.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 15. Volume 7 part 5.
Weapons:
A small pipe, with which he flips opponents long
distances, and the long-forgotten devastating secret
Happo-dai-karin technique, which turns out to be
throwing fuse bombs.
Alias: `Happy' to Cologne, as he called himself at 18
Voice: Nagai Ichirou {$@1J0f!!0lO:(J}
Kuonji "eternal temple" {$@5W1s;{(J}
Ukyou "right of Kyoto/capital" {$@1&5~(J}
Ranma's kawaii iinazuke "cute fiancee". 10 years ago, on a
training journey with his father, Ranma stole okonomiyaki
from Ukyou's father's yatai (food cart), defeating Ukyou every
day. However, it was a friendly rivalry -- Ukyou drew pictures
with okonomiyaki sauce on them for Ranma.
Ukyou's father told Genma that Ukyou said she wants to be
Ranma's wife. Genma said Ranma already has a fiancee. Ukyou's
father said too bad, he was thinking of giving them the yatai
for a dowry. Genma said we'll take her.
In this quandary, he made Ranma decide; he asked Ranma
which he liked better, okonomiyaki or Ukyou. Unaware of
Ukyou's wish or even that Ukyou is a girl, Ranma chose
okonomiyaki, so Genma and Ranma ran off with the yatai and
leave Ukyou behind. Shamed and ridiculed by her peers, Ukyou
decided she wouldn't like boys forever, dressed and lived as
one, and devoted herself to okonomiyaki style martial arts.
Years later, when Ranma discovers her actual gender and
Ukyou discovers that Ranma does not get along with his other
fiancee, they reconcile and she becomes enamored of him. Ranma
generally treats Ukyou only like an old friend. She runs the
Utchan okonomiyaki shop in town.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 23. Volume 9 part 5.
Distinctive features:
Wears a bandolier of small spatulas and a huge spatula
on her back.
Weapons:
Wields a huge spatula. Throws small sharpened spatulas.
Alias:
`Utchan' to Ranma
Voice: Tsuru Hiromi {$@Da!!$R$m$_(J}
(`Ukyou no chichi' "Ukyou's father")
(A background character seen only in flashbacks when he
arranges his daughter's marriage with Genma, who takes the
dowry and runs.)
Ono {$@>.G5(J}
Toufuu "east wind" {$@ElIw(J}
The local chiropractor, skilled in martial arts medicine, when
he's himself. Whenever he sees Kasumi, his glasses steam up
and he becomes a babbling fool (and dangerous to his patients),
as everyone but Kasumi knows. Genma gets a job at his clinic,
doing chores.
Entrance: Episode 2. Volume 1 part 3.
Voice: Mitsuya Yuuji {$@;0%CLp!!M:Fs(J}
`Betty-chan'
The skeleton Toufuu-sensei manipulates, and dances with in glee
after seeing Kasumi.
Gosunkugi "5 `sun' [measure: about an inch] nail" {$@8^@#E#(J}
Hikaru {$@8w(J}
Classmate of Ranma and Akane. Obsessed with Akane, he takes
pictures of her and tries to gain her companionship. Jealous
of Ranma, he nails voodoo dolls with strands of Ranma's hair
to trees and posts. He becomes a spy for Kunou and Kodachi in
their plots to cause trouble for Ranma. Wears unconvincing
disguises when he tries to do something sneaky.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 96. Volume 5 part 1.
Distinctive features:
Dark patches under his eyes. Wears burning candles
strapped to his head.
Voice: Futamata Kazunari {$@FsKt!!0l@.(J}
Sarugakure "monkey + hide" {$@1n1#(J}
Sasuke "help + assistance" {$@:4=u(J}
The Kunou's ninja, who defends the Kunou mansion against
intruders with strange traps. Replaced Gosunkugi's role
at the start of Ranma 1/2 Nettouhen. (A silly, cartoony
character.)
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 2.
Name:
Reference to the legendary monkey-stylist ninja
Sarutobi Sasuke of Mt. Kunou.
Voice: Chiba Shigeru {$@@iMU!!HK(J}
the Nyu-che-zuu/Jo-ketsu-zoku "woman hero tribe" {$@=w7fB2(J}
Shampoo "coral + raw, uncut jade" {$@;9`y(J}
A cute Chinese girl, champion of the Joketsuzoku, defeated in
her village's annual contest by Ranma as a girl. She gives her
the kiss of death, and chases her out of China trying to kill
her. After showing up in Japan seeking Ranma, she is defeated
by Ranma the boy, but this time she declares her love for him
and calls him "husband". By the customs of her clan, recorded
in the Joketsuzoku scriptures, when defeated by an outsider, if
it is a woman you give her the kiss of death and kill her, but
if it is a man you marry him.
She tries to make Akane forget everything about Ranma by
washing her hair with her special formula 110. Crushed when
Ranma reveals his secret to her, she returns to her village
and renews her training at Jusenkyou with her grandmother,
who knocks her into Maoniichuan, where a cat drowned 1800
years ago. Assured that Ranma is really a man, she returns
to Japan and tries to get Ranma to fall in love with her,
working at her great-grandmother's Chinese restaurant and
making deliveries on her bicycle.
Entrance: Episode 15. Volume 4 part 4.
Distinctive features:
Long purple hair. Wears Chinese clothing and round hair
ornaments that stay on her fur as a cat.
Weapons:
Wields a pair of maces with big spheres on the end.
Also wielded a big curved sword when out to kill Ranma.
Voice: Sakuma Rei {$@:45W4V!!%l%$(J}
Cologne (`o-baba') "possible + rugged mountain place" {$@2DVG(J}
Shampoo's ancient, powerful great-grandmother, who tries to make
Ranma marry Shampoo, subtly grooming him by training him in new
martial arts techniques. Runs the Nekohanten restaurant.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 3. Volume 5 part 6.
Name:
Isn't revealed until Happousai recognizes her much later.
Distinctive features:
Hops around on a gnarled wooden staff somewhat like
a pogo stick.
Weapons:
Her staff.
Voice: Asou Miyoko {$@Kc@8!!H~Be;R(J}
(`Shampoo no chichi' "Shampoo's father")
In the manga, Shampoo's father witnesses her fall into
Maoniichuan, and also works at the Nekohanten restaurant.
(Only a background character, but he has a big part in
the NES CD-ROM action game as the boss of the final stage.)
Voice: Ginga Banjou {$@6d2O!!K|>f(J}
Mousse/Moose "wash + thread" {$@]te/(J}
A boy blindly following his love, Shampoo, who hates him.
Even with his thick glasses, he mistakes statues, telephone
poles, and bystanders for other people. He shows up in Japan
looking for Shampoo, but Cologne tells him Shampoo is going to
marry Ranma. A hidden weapons expert, he challenges Ranma
to a man-to-man fight. When Ranma defeats him, he returns to
China and goes to Jusenkyou to train, but he walks into
Yaazuniichuan, where a duckling drowned 1300 years ago. He
returns to Japan with a supply of Yaazuniichuan water to turn
Ranma into a duck, too, but fails. Moose hates Ranma and
would like to do away with his rival for Shampoo's affections.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 5. Volume 5 part 7.
Name:
Written "Moose" in Nettouhen, but "Mousse" was probably
the original intent.
Distinctive features:
Thick glasses. Wears a white robe.
Weapons:
Mousse is a hidden weapons expert. He usually throws
various tangling weapons on the ends of long chains.
As a duck, his eyesight is sharp enough to accurately
throw knives which he hides in his wings.
Aliases:
as a duck: Muu-Muu
Voice: Seki Toshihiko {$@4X!!=SI'(J}
Linlin, Ranran
Shampoo's "younger sister" villagers of her clan, who
trained very hard in ridiculous martial arts techniques
when they saw Shampoo beaten by Ranma. They come to
Japan to ask Shampoo how she killed Ranma, and when they
find out she hasn't, they try to. Shampoo stops them the
first time and gives them the kiss of death. But when
their techniques later backfire, Shampoo ends up saving
their lives. (Forgettable, silly characters who show how
far Nettouhen sunk in quality, IMHO.)
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 40.
Name: Break the bathing-product pun pattern.
(Ranma 1/2 purists may choose to ignore these
two as outside the manga canon, but they come
back in Nettouhen episode 72.)
Voice:
(Linlin) Mita Yuuko {$@;0ED!!$f$&;R(J}
(Ranran) Kobayashi Yuuko {$@>.NS!!M%;R(J}
Guest stars:
Jusenkyou guide {$@<v@t6?%,%$%I(J}
The Chinese guide who explains the tragic legends befalling
those who fall in the springs of Jusenkyou, and translates for
Ranma and Genma at the Nyuchezuu village.
Voice: Yamadera Kouichi {$@;3;{!!9(0l(J}
Ono Kin {$@$-$s(J}
Toufuu-sensei's mother, who comes to town for one episode
toting a butsuban shrine to her husband and a picture of a
musclebound girl, with good hips for bearing grandchildren
(her main qualification), that she's arranged for Toufuu to
marry.
Appearance: Episode 14.
Voice: Oota Toshiko {$@B@ED!!=J;R(J}
Sanzenin "3000 temples/mansions/palaces" {$@;0@i1!(J}
Mikado "emperor" {$@Dk(J}
One of the Golden Pair, a charismatic martial arts figure
skater. Very handsome, and very conceited. Trying to set
a new record for kissing cute girls.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 7. Volume 2 part 6.
Voice: Inoue Kazuhiko {$@0f>e!!OBI'(J}
Shiratori "white bird" {$@GrD;(J}
Azusa "catalpa tree" {$@$"$:$5(J}
One of the Golden Pair, a cutesy martial arts figure skater.
When she sees something she considers cute, like P-chan
("Charlotte!"), she gives it a French name and very selfishly
claims it (and if a man has it, beats him over the head until
she gets it). She challenges Akane to a martial arts ice
skating match with P-chan as the prize.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 7. Volume 2 part 6.
Voice: Matsui Naoko {$@>>0f!!:Z:y;R(J}
Daimonji {$@BgJ8;z(J}
Sentarou "boil/decoct first son" {$@@yB@O:(J}
Sentarou, unconscious on a wild horse charging through the
rain, is "saved" by Ranma. Happy to have found a strong girl
his grandmother could approve of, he tries to take Ranma for a
bride (and Akane after she comes to rescue Ranma).
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 75. Volume 6 part 9.
Name: Common name with unusual kanji.
Voice: Shimada Satoshi {$@EgED!!IR(J}
(`baa-sama')
His grandmother, master of tea ceremony style martial arts,
who tests Ranma to prove her as strong and as worthy as
Sentarou claims.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 75. Volume 6 part 9.
Weapons: Tea ceremony implements.
Alias: the Iemoto {$@2H85(J}
Voice: Kyouda Naoko {$@5~ED!!>0;R(J}
Miyako-ooji "main thoroughfare of the metropolis" {$@ETBgO)(J}
Satsuki "tea moon" {$@Cc7n(J}
The 1988 Miss Tea Ceremony, intended bride of Sentarou.
In Nettouhen, daughter of the "dark side" martial arts tea
ceremony school.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 112. Volume 6 part 11.
Name: Common name with unusual kanji.
Sanae "tea sprout" {$@CcID(J}
Her monkey, trained in tea ceremony, who takes her place.
Entrance: Volume 6 part 10.
Name: Common name with unusual kanji.
(`doujou yaburi') {$@F;>lGK$j(J}
The doujou yaburi, who fights the champions of each doujou for
their kanban (doujou signs). He challenges the Tendou doujou
to a fight the next day. Souun and Genma want Akane and Ranma
to fight him together, but Akane insists she can handle it
herself, and Shampoo has offered Ranma her Nanniichuan mix if
he goes on a date with her then.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 12. Volume 8 part 1.
Voice: Kamiyama Takumi {$@?@;3!!Bn;0(J}
Kurenai {$@9H(J}
Tsubasa "wings" {$@$D$P$5(J}
A beautiful junior high schoolmate of Ukyou's, who gives Ukyou
presents and sends Ukyou love letters. Ukyou told Tsubasa she
already has a fiance. Tsubasa challenges Ranma to win Ukyou.
Skilled at camouflage and disguise.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 27. Volume 10 part 9.
Voice: Yamada Eiko {$@;3ED!!1I;R(J}
Shirokuro "white-black" {$@%7%m%/%m(J}
Ryouga's dog, age 4. The only one in Ryouga's household that
can find her way home. Appears on television as a lost dog
looking for her master, with a litter of two-tone puppies that
Akane adores.
Entrance: Volume 11 part 1.
Distinctive features:
White on one side, black on the other.
Name:
Shiro "white" and Kuro "black" are common dog names.
Bake-neko {$@2=$1G-(J}
A huge ghost cat, looking for a wife, inhabiting Maomoorin,
a large lengedary bell given to Ranma by Shampoo.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 54. Volume 14 part 2.
Distinctive feature:
Giant white cat. Frequently says "nya" (meow) for "na",
and uses "nya" as a verb ending.
Voice: Yoshimura You {$@5HB<!!$h$&(J}
(?)
Yotarou {$@M?B@O:(J}
A weak little boy who doesn't like to go outside. He loves
pandas, and tells his mother he will go outside and play if
he gets a panda for Christmas.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 57. Volume 14 part 6.
Voice: Matsui Naoko {$@>>0f!!:Z:y;R(J}
(`Maman')
His mother, who gratefully serves the panda expensive
delicacies.
Voice: Yokoo Mari {$@2#Hx!!$^$j(J}
Bakuchi Ou King "Gambling King `King'" {$@GnTu2&#K(J}
The unscrupulous carnival gambler to whom young Ranma, 10 years
ago, loses his shirt and the Tendou doujou he would eventually
marry into. King returns with Ranma's signed promise in
writing, to claim the doujou and turn it into a casino.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 67. Volume 15 part 4.
Distinctive features:
Looks like and dresses similar to a playing card King.
Voice: Aono Takeshi {$@@DLn!!Ip(J}
the -man men
Niku, An, Karee, and Piza
In the Tsinghai region of China, four little men come to the
Yakusaikan store seeking a 4000 year old secret "dragon's
hair". They coerce the shopkeeper to draw them a picture of
the person who has it now, who has a conspicuous ponytail.
Eventually they find Ranma, who uses it to tie off the end of
his ponytail and never removes it because it's his "seal".
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 70. Volume 15 part 8.
Distinctive features:
Their heads look like niku-man, an-man, curry-man,
and pizza-man.
Voices:
Tanonaka Takeshi {$@ED%NCf!!M+(J}
Chiba Shigeru {$@@iMU!!HK(J}
Shimada Satoshi {$@EgED!!IR(J}
Hase Arihiro {$@D9C+!!M-MN(J}
Picolette Chardin II
The blond-haired blue-eyed French prince with the flexible
face. Twenty years ago, a starving Souun and Genma, after
losing in a martial arts dinner contest and being presented
with a huge bill, promised one of their daughters to marry
into the Chardin family.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 87. Volume 16 part 8.
Distinctive features:
Blond-haired, blue-eyed gaijin. Can stretch his mouth
bigger than someone's head. Mixes French and Japanese.
Voice: Namba Keiichi {$@FqGH!!7=0l(J}
Madame Saint-Paul
Monsieur Picolette's governess who trains Ranma in martial
arts dinner.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 87. Volume 16 part 9.
Voice: Mita Yuuko {$@;0ED!!$f$&;R(J}
(`kage no don' "shadow don")
Fuurinkan Koukou's school observer, appointed by its first
principal. Ranma discovers him running the long-neglected
second school store in the dark basement. The principal
wants to get rid of him, but he knows all of Fuurinkan's
secrets.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 98.
Voice: Masuoka Hiroshi {$@A}2,!!90(J}
Pansuto Tarou
A monster steals the Jusenkyou client register from the guide
and comes to Japan seeking Happousai. Happousai baptised Tarou
in Niuhoomanmaorenniichuan, where a yeti riding a bull carrying
a crane and an eel drowned 2500 years ago, but Tarou can live
with that. No, Happousai cursed him with something even
worse... he baptised him with the name "Pantyhose Tarou", and
by his customs, only Happousai can change it.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 103. Volume 18 part 1.
Voice: Furumoto Shinnosuke {$@8EK\!!?7G7Je(J}
Harumaki
The ghost of an old man who enters Ranma's dreams. He
wishes to relive a date with lost love Gyouko-san, whom
Ranma-chan reminds him of.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 126. Volume 20 part 9.
Konjou (M-A-R-I-K-O) Mariko
A martial arts cheerleading expert from Seisyun Gakuen,
who strikes down her team's opponents while cheering. She
knocks down the entire Fuurinkan Koukou volleyball team
except for Akane. She falls for Kunou Tatewaki and
challenges Ranma to a martial arts cheerleading contest
for him during their schools' upcoming kendo match..
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 136. Volume 21 part 7.
Distinctive features:
Constantly cheers out words alphabetically.
Weapons: Cheerleading implements (batons, pom-poms...)
Saotome Nodoka
When Ranma was an infant, Genma left with him because his
mother's influence was detrimental to training Ranma in
Saotome-style martial arts. When he left, he promised to make
him a man inside and out, or they would commit seppuku like
men. Nodoka wants nothing more than to see her son grown to
be a man, and intends to hold Genma to his promise if he isn't.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 142. Volume 22 part 2.
the Shichi Fukudoujin "7 gods of martial arts luck"
When Happousai trained in China, he stole a half scroll containing
a secret technique from the Shichi Fukudoujin. The legend of the
scroll holds that a prince on a white horse will come for the
holder and make her happy, so he sells it to an old woman for food
money.
Name:
Based on the 7 Fukujin, the Seven Deities of Luck,
who come to Japan from afar in a treasure ship on
New Year's Eve, bringing good luck. The Seven Deities
are:
Bishamon(ten), the God of War and Defense, whose
spear is said to protect people from evil.
Daikoku(ten), the God of Wealth and Harvest, who
brings luck to farmers. He carries a huge treasure
sack and carries a magical gavel of luck.
Hotei, the potbellied God of Happiness and
Prosperity, who carries a huge sack of treasures to
ensure a happy and prosperous life like a treasure
hammer, a money-producing purse, etc.
Ben(zai)ten is the Goddess of Arts and Wisdom, a
talented beauty who plays the biwa.
Ebisu, the smiling God of Fishing and Commerce
worshipped by merchants, usually depicted with a
fishing rod and a huge red sea bream.
Fukurokuju, the God of Wealth and Longevity, a
very old man with a huge bald head a long full beard.
He holds a crooked cane with a scroll attached to the
top containing the secret to gaining wealth and
longevity. Usually accompanied by a crane, another
longevity symbol.
Juroujin, the similar God of Longevity, who looks
very much like Fukurokuju. He holds a similar cane,
and also a flat fan in one hand. Usually accompanied
by a stag. He and Fukurokuju are usually confused,
though they have different origins. They've been
depicted playing karuta together.
Raichi {$@%i%$%A(J}
Granddaughter of the old woman Happousai sold the scroll to,
who after a series of misfortunes, doubts the power of the
scroll and seeks Happousai. She tracks him down to the
Tendou doujou and throws the scroll at him. It ends up in
Akane's hands, just as the "prince", Kirin, arrives.
Jasmine {$@%8%c%9%_%s(J}
Raichi's ususual elephant.
Kirin {$@%-%j%s(J}
The leader of the 7 Fukudoujin, who finally comes and takes Akane
away. He holds the other half of the scroll, whose power comes
when both halves are used as a pair, so there is a rule that the
bearers of the two pieces must marry. He takes Akane away to
his castle in China. Ranma and company go to rescue her.
Bishamonten {$@Ht<VLgE7(J}
Name:
The first two kanji in the traditional name are
replace with "hisha", a shogi piece name.
Weapon: A big polearm.
Daikokusei {$@Bg9u@1(J}
Daihakusei {$@BgGr@1(J}
The go-playing twins.
Name:
Daikokusai doesn't resemble Daikoku at all. His
counterpart Daihakusai replaces the kanji for "black"
in his name with "white". They look more alike than
Fukurokuju and Juroujin and play go (as black and
white) instead of karuta.
Muu {$@L5(J}
The Fukudoujin version of Hotei. A walking wall.
Weapon: His tremendous belly.
Monron {$@%b%s%m%s(J}
The Fukudoujin version of Benten.
Weapon: Her biwa.
Ebiten {$@7CHfE7(J}
The Fukudoujin version of Ebisu.
Weapon: His fishing pole.
Mint, Lime, and Herb
Three very dangerous people from China.
Entrance: Not yet in tankubon.
Name:
Funny how Chinese characters have kanji that sounds
like English words, isn't it?
Extras:
Hiroshi {$@$R$m$7(J}
Brown-haired classmate who admires Akane (and Ranma even if
she is
really a guy). (A common background character.)
Entrance: Episode 5. Volume 1 part 8.
Name: Given in Nettouhen.
Voice: Tsujitani Kouji {$@DTC+!!9L;K(J}
Daisuke {$@Bg2p(J}
Black-haired classmate who admires Akane (and Ranma even if she
is really a guy). (A common background character.)
Entrance: Episode 5. Volume 1 part 8.
Name: Given in Nettouhen.
Voice: Koyasu Takendo {$@;R0B!!Ip?M(J}
Yuka {$@$f$+(J}
Akane's friend with long brown hair.
Name: Given in Nettouhen.
Voice: Toshima Masami {$@K-Eg!!$^$5$_(J}
Sayuri {$@$5$f$j(J}
Akane's friend with short black ponytailed hair.
Name: Given in Nettouhen.
Voice: Kamei Yoshiko {$@550f!!K';R(J}
Arumajiro-kun
Kunou Tatewaki's trusting pet dog (and his poison tester for
Kodachi's cooking).
Entrance: Volume 20 part 10.
PLACES
Jusenkyou/Chouchuanshan {$@<v@t6?(J}
"Land of Cursed Springs"
In the remote Pa-yen-k'a-la mountains in the Tsinghai region of
China, lies the training ground of Jusenkyou (or Chouchuanshan
as the Chinese call it). It contains over 100 springs, each
with its own tragic legend.
who how age spring
--- --- --- ------
Genma kicked 2000 Shonmao-* "panda" {$@7'G-(J}
Ranma thrown 1500 Nyan-* "girl" {$@L<(J}
Ryouga fell 1200 Heito-uen-* "black pig" {$@9uFZ(J}
Shampoo thrown 1800 Mao-* "cat" {$@G-(J}
Ranma seeks ? Nan-* "man" {$@CK(J}
Mousse walked 1300 Yaa-zu-* "wild duckling" {$@3{;R(J}
Tarou dipped 2500 Niu-hoo-man- "bull-crane-eel-
mao-ren-* yeti" {$@5mDa17LS?M(J}
" bottled 1200 Shannen-* "virtuous man" {$@A1CK(J}
" really ? Chuan-shon-
got tsu-* "twins" {$@AP@8;y(J}
" doused 1600 Chan-yui-* "giant octopus" {$@>O5{(J}
* each spring name ends in -nii-chuan "-drowning-spring" {$@E.@t(J}
Properties of the springs:
Those who fall in one of the springs become cursed: cold
water turns them into whatever sort of creature drowned
there centuries ago, and hot water turns them back to their
normal selves.
Water mixed with a Nanniichuan onsen mix cured Ranma and Genma
temporarily, but it was a cheap imitation that only worked
once. Ranma wants to go back to the real Nanniichuan.
Ranma and Ryouga found the Japanese (Wafu-) Nanniichuan, but
it was inoperative.
As an newborn, Happousai dipped Tarou in Niuhoomaorenniichuan,
turning him into a baby monster like a winged minotaur with
an eel-headed tail. When Tarou went back to Jusenkyou and
doused himself with water from Chanyuiniichuan, his cursed
form gained tentacles and the ability to shoot ink. He
brought back Shannenniichuan to make Happousai virtuous, but
it was really Chuanshontsuniichuan, which doubles what it
splashes.
Tendou doujou {$@E7F;F;>l(J}
"Tendou martial arts school"
A doujou in Nerima, Toukyou, where the Tendou family lives.
Souun and Genma intend for Ranma to marry Akane and take over
the doujou eventually.
Fuurinkan Koukou {$@IwNS4[9b9;(J}
"Windy Forest Hall High"
The local high school, which Ranma, Akane, Nabiki, Kunou, and
later Ukyou attend.
Name: Sounds like Wind Chime Hall.
St. Hebereke Jogakuin {$@@;%X%Y%l%1=w3X1!(J}
"St. Hebereke girls' academy"
The rival school for girls which Kodachi attends.
Name: `hebereke' means "drunk".
Neko Hanten {$@G-HSE9(J}
"Cat Chinese restaurant"
The restaurant Cologne and Shampoo (and Shampoo's father) run.
Utchan {$@$&$C$A$c$s(J}
Ukyou's okonomiyaki restaurant.
THINGS
Magic objects and strange arts:
Long ago (as told in volume 10 part 1), Happousai stole a bracelet
from Cologne containing tablets that cause the swallower to fall in
love with the next member of the appropriate sex one sees. In Ranma
1/2 Nettouhen episode 37, instead he stole a magic "nan-ban" mirror
that had the power to transport people to another time and place
when tears are shed on it, and also had the bracelet in episode 35.
Nanniichuan mix
Shampoo shows Ranma a packet of Nanniichuan mix, an onsen mix
of the Jusenkyou niichuan series, which turns ordinary water to
Nanniichuan water, and offers him some if he goes on a date with
her. The mix cures Ranma and Genma temporarily, but it's a
cheap imitation that only works once.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 12. Volume 8 part 1.
Gouriki soba {$@9dNO%=%P(J}
"herculean strength noodles"
On New Year's Eve, Happousai makes special noodles with male
strength hormones to give the eater herculean strength. He
is distracted by idol girls in bathing suits on TV, as
Kasumi sets the table with New Year's soba. Akane, just
beaten in an arm wrestling contest by Shampoo, unknowingly
eats his soup, and plans a rematch. Ranma tries to make
Akane eat antidote berries before the hormones cause an
embarrassing side effect -- whiskers.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 29. Volume 11 part 9.
Kou-sui sekken {$@93?e9ab%(J}
"resist water toilet soap"
Shampoo's water-proof soap slips away and accidentally ends
up in Ryouga's possession, curing him (and later Genma, in
the manga). Shampoo and Ranma spend a 5-part story trying to
get it back, only to discover the cure is temporary.
Name: Sounds like flavored soap.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 43. Volume 12 part 7.
Mao-moo-rin {$@G-KbNk(J}
"cat demon bell"
A large bell possessed by a ghost cat who seeks a bride.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 54. Volume 14 part 2.
Kimen-ryuu ken-in-jutsu {$@4nLLN.7}0u=Q(J}
"Kimen school fist print technique"
Ryouga, lost in a forest, gives a starving old man some food.
The grateful old man brushes a drawing on Ryouga's stomach to
make Ryouga the strongest man in the world. The only way for
the drawing to come off is for Ryouga to lose a match.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 61. Volume 14 part 7.
Mangan maru {$@K~4j4](J}
"wish-fulfillment sword"
At a shrine in the mountains, this magic sword in a stone
withstood the trials of generations of samurai trying to pull
it out. Kunou, by virtue of being the one millionth to make
the attempt, draws it forth, and the sword grants him three
wishes. He uses the first to beat up Ranma in front of the
students and the panda. When he uses the second to get a date
with the pony-tailed girl, Ranma and Genma realize that this
sword could cure them, so Ranma immediately sends Kunou a
letter from the pony-tailed girl asking for a date.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 64. Volume 15 part 1.
In Nettouhen episode 65, Shampoo buys a magic string from a Chinese
salesman. If the red string is tied around your finger and another
person's for five hours, that person will love you forever.
Ryuu no hige {$@N5$NI&(J}
"dragon's beard hair"
A whisker with which a special soup can be made to cause
hair to grow (and grow and grow...) on men. While training
in China, Ranma-chan saw a man with a bowl of rice soup
chased by a restaurant owner. She hit the runner and ate
the soup. When Ranma turned back to a boy, his hair grew
wildly. So the owner gave Ranma the whisker as a seal to
tie off his ponytail with.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 70. Volume 15 part 8.
In Nettouhen episode 115 (or volume 19 part 10), a travelling
salesman sells Gosunkugi magic paper dolls. If you write a command
on a paper doll and stick it on someone's back, they will follow the
order.
In Nettouhen episode 131 (or volume 21 part 4), another mysterious
salesman sells Akane love-fortunetelling sakura rice cakes, that
mark the faces of those who eat them showing their romantic love.
Martial arts techniques:
Neko-ken {$@G-7}(J}
"cat-fist"
A cat style martial arts technique Genma trained Ranma in
by covering him with fish cakes and dropping him in a pit of
hungry cats, causing Ranma's ailurophobia.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 2. Volume 5 part 2.
(Ka-chuu) ten-shin ama-guri-ken {$@!J2PCf!KE7DE4E7*7}(J}
"imperial broiled sweet chestnuts (in the fire)-fist"
The technique of moving ones hands very very fast to snatch
chestnuts from a burning fire, learned by Ranma to get the
fushichogan medicine from Cologne.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 4. Volume 5 part 10.
Shiryou no Bon-odori {$@;`Nn$NK_MY$j(J}
"Bon-dance of the spirits"
Sanzenin's combat skating technique of spinning in place and
raining punches and kicks on his opponent.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 8. Volume 3 part 8.
Wakare no merry-go-round {$@JL$l$N%a%j!<%4!<%i%s%I(J}
"merry-go-round separation"
A Golden Pair combat skating technique of holding someone by
the legs and spinning in place.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 9. Volume 4 part 1.
Baku-sai-ten-ketsu {$@Gz:UE@7j(J}
"blasting point hole"
The art of making rocks explode by punching a hole with one
finger. Taught to Ryouga by Cologne.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 10. Volume 6 part 5.
Saotome-ryuu ougi {$@Aa25=wN.1|5A(J}
"Saotome school secret technique"
A technique of last resort when faced with an undefeatable foe,
employed by Ranma against Ryouga, made up of three parts:
run, think, attack. In other words, run away and think up
some way to attack again.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 11. Volume 6 part 7.
Happou dai-ka-rin {$@H,JuBg2ZNX(J}
"Happou- big shining corolla"
Happousai's secret technique, long ago written on a scroll and
hidden because it was too powerful, which he later rediscovers.
The technique is throwing firecracker bombs.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 26. Volume 11 part 4.
Kunou-ryuu bokutou sasara kuzushi {$@6eG=N.LZEa$5$5$iJx$7(J}
"Kunou school bokutou whisk destruction"
The principal's technique of using a pair of barikan in a
circular motion to reduce a bokutou (wooden sword) to a whisk,
then, as the barikan comes up and around, simultaneously shave
his opponent's head.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 46. Volume 12 part 3.
Hi-ryuu shou-ten-ha {$@HtN5>:E7GK(J}
"flying dragon ascension destruction/defeat"
The technique of drawing your opponent into the center of a
circle, making your opponent hotter and hotter while keeping
yourself cool, then releasing your cool punch at the center
so that the temperature difference generates a whirlwind.
Taught to a weak Ranma by Cologne when Happousai took away
his strength.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 49. Volume 13 part 4.
Saotome-ryuu ura waza hiougi {$@Aa25=wN.N"5;Hk1|5A(J}
"Saotome school underhanded trick secret techniques"
Techniques employed by Ranma against an invincible Ryouga:
Rou ga shuuhaitai {$@O52g=1GXBV(J}
"wolf fang attack from behind figure"
Attacking from behind with hooked fingers like a
the fangs of a pouncing wolf. The set-up: Ranma
points behind Ryouga and cries "What's that!?"
Mouko ichigeki tai {$@LT8W0l7bBV(J}
"fierce tiger hit figure"
Striking from above like a tiger pinning its prey
beneath its paw. The set-up: Ranma points at the
floor, "Someone dropped 100 yen!"
Kaeru rekishi tai {$@3?m`;`BV(J}
"frog run over and killed figure"
Mowing down and crushing like a frog beneath a tire.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 61. Volume 14 part 8.
Shishi houkoudan {$@;b;RRvS,CF(J}
"lion roar projectile"
A technique of projecting one's "ki" at someone, which Ryouga
learns from a scroll he got from a civil engineer, who used
the technique for excavation.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 123. Volume 20 part 1.
Mouko takabisha {$@LT8W9bHt<V(J}
"fierce tiger domineering"
Another technique of projecting one's "ki" which Ranma
discovers to counter the shishi houkoudan.
Appearance: Nettouhen episode 124. Volume 20 part 5.
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