Can't help you with the SM stuff but, 
	Taro appears in the 18th volume of the japanese collected Manga.
Ranma's mother, I don't think she shows up until the thirties. I'm not
sure about which volume it is exactly. [He acutally doesn't even know he
has a mother until he asks Genma about it one day.] 

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