Ranma ½
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| らんま½ (Ranma nibun no ichi) |
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| Genre | Action, Comedy, Romance, Martial arts, Shōnen, Harem |
| Manga: Ranma ½ | |
| Authored by | Rumiko Takahashi |
| Publisher |  Shogakukan  VIZ Media Egmont Star Comics Editorial Toukan Glénat Egmont Kärnan AB Egmont Kustannus Ivrea Egmont Sakura Press Tora Aman Publications SDN BHD |
| Serialized in | Weekly Shonen Sunday |
| Original run | 1987 – 1996 |
| No. of volumes | 38 |
| TV anime : Ranma ½ (TV)/Ranma ½ Nohetten | |
| Directed by | Tomomi Mochizuki(season 1) Koji Sawai (season 2 - season 5) Junji Nishihara Tsutomu Shibiyama (season 1) |
| Studio | Kitty Films, studio DEEN |
| Network | Fuji Television, Animax      Animax RTL II (only 80 episodes) GMA Network Cartoon Network Canal 5 |
| Original run | 1989-04-15 – 1992-09-25 |
| No. of episodes | 161 |
| OVA: Ranma ½ OAV | |
| Directed by | Junji Nishimura |
| Studio | Fuji Television, Kitty Films, Shogakukan Productions, Pony Canyon |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Released | 1993 to 1996 |
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| Movie: Ranma ½: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China | |
| Directed by | Shuji Inai |
| Studio | Fuji Television, Kitty Films, Shogakukan Productions |
| Released |  1991-11-02 1998-06-09 (DVD) 2003-04-20 (DVD) 2005-07-11 (DVD) |
| Runtime | 81 minutes |
| Movie: Ranma ½: Nihao My Concubine | |
| Directed by | Akira Suzuki |
| Studio | Fuji Television, Kitty Films, Shogakukan Productions, Pony Canyon |
| Released | 1992-08-01 1998-10-16 (DVD) 2005-12-05 (DVD) |
| Runtime | 59 minutes |
| Movie: Ranma ½: Team Ranma vs. the Legendary Phoenix | |
| Directed by | Junji Nishimura |
| Studio | Fuji Television, Kitty Films |
| Released | 1994-08-20 2003-01-28 (DVD) |
| Runtime | 31 minutes |
| Game: Ranma ½: Hard Battle | |
| Developer | Atelier Double |
| Publisher | DTMC Inc. |
| Genre | Versus Fighting |
| Platform | Super Nintendo |
| Released | 1994 |
Ranma ½ (らんま½ Ranma nibun-no-ichi?, "Ranma half-of-one") is a comedy anime and manga by Rumiko Takahashi about a boy named Ranma Saotome who was trained from early childhood to age 16 in the martial arts, and who becomes a girl when splashed with cold water (and is turned back into a boy with hot water) due to a magic curse.
The manga was serialized in Japan in Shogakukan's Shonen Sunday where it ran from 1987–1996. Takahashi has stated in interviews that she wanted to produce a story that would be popular with children. Ranma's main audience were boys from elementary to junior high school age. In western fandom, the anime is sometimes criticized for creating some internal inconsistencies compared to the manga[citation needed], which was less popular in the United States. Another major complaint is the animated series padding out the original story excessively[citation needed] and lacks a strong ending, though the series in North America tends to be much more analyzed than in the East.
Ranma was extremely popular among American otaku in the 1990s, and popularized many of anime's most common visual gags. The infamous 'cursed springs' plot device has even come up in anime-themed custom role playing games as a quick transgender device. In fact, the anatomical logistics of the cursed condition were purposely glossed over by Ranma's creator to avoid making it too complicated or a detraction from its comedic effect.
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[edit] Storyline
On a training journey in the Bayankala Mountains (Bayan Har Shan) in the Qinghai Province of China, Ranma and his father, Genma Saotome, fell into the cursed springs at Jusenkyo (loosely translated, it means Springs of Sorrow). Each spring is associated with a story about someone or something that drowned in it hundreds or thousands of years ago, and anyone who falls in a spring is cursed to turn into whatever drowned in that spring whenever they come in contact with cold water, although they keep their original minds, personalities and skills in the new form; hot water reverts the cursed to their original form. Genma fell into the Spring of the Drowned Giant Panda, and Ranma fell in to the Spring of the Drowned Girl.
Upon returning to Japan, Genma informs Ranma that he has been engaged to a girl that he has never met when only a few blocks away from that girl's house. At the same time, Soun Tendo tells his three daughters that one of them is to marry Ranma (whom they have never even heard of) in order that the Tendo dojo might be carried on. When they first meet Ranma, they see him in his female form. This causes some confusion until Akane Tendo sees Ranma in his male form (after walking in on him in the bath) and finds out that he becomes a she upon application of cold water. The two older sisters push the engagement on the youngest sister, Akane, since she "hates boys" (due to the rude ways they treat her at school), "and Ranma is half girl." Thus begins the love/hate relationship between Ranma and Akane that lasts for the rest of the series.
This, combined with multiple suitors for both Ranma and Akane, many strange forms of martial arts, and the various curses of many of the cast members, makes this a bizarre series.
[edit] Manga
[edit] Origins
Takahashi drew inspiration for Ranma ½ from a variety of real-world objects. Some of the places frequently seen in Furinkan are modeled after actual locations in Nerima (both the home of Takahashi and the setting of Ranma ½). In addition, links have been shown between the manga and people, paintings, and even films.[1]
[edit] Japanese Publication
Ranma ½ began publication in September of 1987, appearing in Shonen Sunday 1987, Volume 36, following the end of Takahashi's previous major work Urusei Yatsura. From September 1987 until March of 1996, Ranma ½ was published on a near weekly basis with the occasional colorized page to spruce up the usually black and white manga stories. After nearly a decade of storylines, Ranma ½'s final chapter was published in Shonen Sunday 1996, Volume 12.[2]
Following publication in Shonen Sunday, the storylines are then grouped and published into small collections known as tankōbon. These are published several times a year, and color pages are converted to the normal black and white. Ranma ½ was eventually serialized into 38 of these volumes. In 2002, Shogakukan opted to republish these under a new format, the shinsōban. These were essentially the same as the tankoubans save for a different cover and the inclusion of the original colorized pages in Shonen Sunday.
In addition to the regular storylines, Ranma ½ has had several special releases. First, The Ranma ½ Memorial Book was published just as the manga ended in 1996. Acting as an endcap to the series, it collects various illustrations from the series, features an interview with Rumiko Takahashi,[3] and includes tidbits about Ranma: summaries of his battles, his daily schedule, trivia, and a few exclusive illustrations. Second, a Movie + OAV Visual Comic was released to illustrate the OAV episodes "The One to Carry On" (both parts) and the theatrical movie "Team Ranma vs. the Legendary Phoenix." It also included information on the seiyu, character designs, and a layout of the Tendo dojo. Finally, guidebooks were released for three of the Ranma ½ games; these included more than just strategies, also featuring interviews.[4]
[edit] United States Publication
VIZ Media, a company owned by Shogakukan and Shueisha, publishes the English version of the Ranma ½ manga. Viz started publishing the Ranma ½ in 1993 with subsequent volumes being relatively slow to come. Each graphic novel covers roughly the same amount of material as a tankouban, but Viz incorporated minor differences in grouping so that the English language version spans 36 volumes rather than the Japanese number of 38. Volume 36, the final volume, was released in stores on November 14, 2006[5], thus making it Viz's longest running manga, spanning over 13 years.
On March 18, 2004, Viz announced that they would be reprinting a number of their graphic novels. This was more than just a simple reprinting, with each title slightly reformatted. The content remained the same, but the novels moved to a smaller format with different covers. In the case of Ranma ½, the covers shifted from a variegated style to a more uniform cover. In addition, the price dropped to $9.95.[6]
However, the title would still retain its "flipped", left-to-right format, like the first edition. The popularity of Ranma ½ among early otaku was such that several scanlations and manga summaries in various forms have existed for years before the completion of the official release.
[edit] Characters
Ranma ½ features a large and diverse cast of characters. The table that follows presents the regular characters, ie, characters that had recurring spots or story-arcs. Some characters may have featured more prominently in either the anime or manga, but all are present in both. For further reference, please see the minor characters article. Japanese names are in the Western order (given name, then family name). Rather than a straight alphabetical listing, the characters are grouped into loose affiliations with more prominent characters listed before supporting characters within individual affiliations. Portrait drawings are from the manga.
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Ranma Saotome (早乙女 乱馬 Saotome Ranma?) | Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (male) Megumi Hayashibara (female) Sarah Strange/Richard Cox (male) Brigitta Dau/Venus Terzo (female) |
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| Training with Genma at Jusenkyo in China, Ranma was thrown into a spring called Nyanniichuan. 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. As for our well-built 16-year-old hero/heroine, the martial arts is his life. He also possesses a rather large and easily wounded ego, believing his physical strength to be his only virtue. Whenever his pride is damaged, Ranma feels the need to rectify the situation, even when it's not necessarily in his best interest to do so. | ||||
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Genma Saotome (早乙女 玄馬 Saotome Genma?) | Voiced by: Kenichi Ogata (Japanese), Robert O. Smith (English) | ||
| Genma is Ranma's insensitive, selfish and greedy father. He originally took Ranma to Jusenkyo because he'd heard about it in a Chinese brochure even though he can't read a word of Chinese. He also got cursed, turning into a panda. Unlike Ranma, he doesn't have much trouble with it, especially because he can get away with his problems in his panda form. While Genma frequently preaches duty and honor as a martial artist, he's truly a poor example to set those standards by. For all the wrongs he has committed, he usually tries to get Ranma to shield him from the consequences whenever any of those actions catch up with him. Considering Genma's personality, it's a miracle that Ranma managed to grow up with any scruples at all. | ||||
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Nodoka Saotome (早乙女 のどか Saotome Nodoka?) | Voiced by: Masako Ikeda (Japanese), Lisa Bunting (English) | ||
| Nodoka is Ranma's loving mother. She hasn't seen him and Genma in over a decade though, when they left on their training trip. Stating that a doting mother would hinder Ranma's training, Genma made a contract with her to raise Ranma as "man amongst men", and if he failed, they would both commit Seppuku. However, because Ranma's curse makes him a woman half the time, they spent most of her appearances hiding from her as Ranko Tendo and her pet, Mr. Panda. Nodoka's heart was constantly broken by knowing that she wanted nothing more than to see her son again. Eventually in the manga, she does meet Ranma and Genma and discovers their curses. She was more accepting than either of them expected, however, mostly because after a while, she actually began to suspect that Ranma and Ranko were in fact, the same person. | ||||
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Akane Tendo (天道 あかね Tendō Akane?) | Voiced by: Noriko Hidaka (Japanese), Myriam Syrois (English) | ||
| Akane is Soun's youngest daughter at age 16. She is a hot-tempered boy-hating girl, yet is stalked by nearly all of the boys at school, including Tatewaki Kuno. She is against her engagement with a pervert like Ranma. Though she denies her interest in Ranma, she is still jealous of his other fiancees (Shampoo and Ukyo).
Akane is totally inept at traditional feminine pursuits like cooking, sewing, and tea ceremony, but she keeps trying and takes pride in her work. When someone, usually Ranma, criticizes it, she usually gets upset. Even in the martial arts, she is often clumsy. And she can't even swim, no matter how many times she had tried to learn how to do it. It seems that her clumsiness is the result of working in anger rather than letting the process flow. |
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Soun Tendo (天道 早雲 Tendō Sōun?) | Voiced by: Ryunosuke Ohbayashi (Japanese), David Kaye (English) | ||
| Soun is the head of the Tendo household and one of the two families to practice Anything Goes Martial Arts. While he owns his own dojo, students are never seen and he has a large house that is in need of constant repair due to the fights that take place, usually between Ranma and Akane. Oddly he has no visible source of income and spends most of his time playing shogi (Japanese chess) with his longtime friend Genma. Soun is just like all the other members of the family—except for Akane—and Genma in that he wants his daughter to say she loves Ranma already—or the other way around. He appears anxious to see this happen, barging in to announce his intentions to start planning the wedding if anything that seems romantic between Ranma and Akane is taking place. Soun is able to manifest himself as a floating snake with a giant human head whenever one of Ranma's numerous suitors seems to flirt with him. He generally assumes these incidents are Ranma's fault. | ||||
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Nabiki Tendo (天道 なびき Tendō Nabiki?) | Voiced by: Minami Takayama (Japanese), Angela Costain (English) | ||
| Nabiki is the middle daughter of Soun and quite the entrepreneur. In most stories that she plays a vital role, she attempts to extort money in some fashion from someone—anyone could be her victim. One of her most common methods is to sell clandestine photos of Akane or Ranma's female form, and is also the oddsmaker for Ranma's fights. She has a somewhat sarcastic attitude that is a sharp contrast to her older sister. | ||||
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Kasumi Tendo (天道 かすみ Tendō Kasumi?) | Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Willow Johnson (English) | ||
| Kasumi is the eldest of the Tendo girls, and the most traditional in the Japanese sense. She has graduated high school and spends most of her day looking after the Tendo household, acting as the family's substitute "matriarch" ever since her mother's untimely death by cooking, cleaning, and saying “Oh, my!” at the various antics that take place around the house. Sweet, innocent, caring and somewhat oblivious to the lunacy, Kasumi is probably the only character who never gets hurt at any point in the series, if you don't count her temporary possession by a mischievous demon. | ||||
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Shampoo (珊璞? Pinyin: Shān Pú) | Voiced by: Rei Sakuma (Japanese), Cathy Weseluck (English) | ||
| Shampoo came to Japan to kill the female Ranma after he defeated her in an annual martial contest, so he and Genma could eat the prize, a fully stocked banquet table. She gave Ranma the "Kiss of Death", a promise to track her down and eventually kill her. However this turns out differently when she realized Ranma was a boy. Now due to Amazon law, she must marry him. She returns home to be re-trained at Jusenkyo by her great-grandmother Cologne, but she became cursed and turns into a cat—the one thing Ranma fears most. Having returned to Nerima, Shampoo waits tables at the Neko Hanten, her great-grandmother's restaurant, and delivers ramen by bicycle, occasionally running down people—particularly Ranma—on the streets and rooftops. | ||||
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Cologne (コロン Koron?, Pinyin: Ke Lun) | Voiced by: Miyoko Aso (Japanese), Elan Ross Gibson (English) | ||
| Cologne is Shampoo’s great-grandmother and the leader of the Chinese Amazon tribe. She came to Nerima to see what this “future son-in-law” was made of, but she ended up staying and opening a café so that she could aid Shampoo in winning Ranma's heart. Though an extremely old woman, she remains a dangerous martial artist who has taught Ranma numerous long-forgotten Amazon techniques. Unlike the rest of the cast, Cologne seems to prefer to sit in the background and watch the madness unfold. If she has a motive—whether it be to help Shampoo in her efforts or to aid Ranma in his battles—only then will she step into the fray. She also runs a Chinese restaurant called the Neko Hanten, where Shampoo and Mousse both work. | ||||
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Mousse (沐絲? Pinyin: Mùsī) | Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese), Brad Swaile (English) | ||
| Mousse is a longtime 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 has refused to marry him on the grounds that he cannot defeat her in combat. He can't see very well without his glasses, often mistaking someone for something else! He comes to Nerima in search of this "new fiancé" that Shampoo has, and he stays to attempt to woo his sweetheart. Now a worker at the Cat Café, he turns into a duck thanks to his own Jusenkyo curse. When in human form, his clothes hold weapons of drastic proportions; he has needles, chains, swords, and just about anything else imaginable under that cloak. In duck form, Mousse can hide knives in his feathers. | ||||
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Jusenkyo Guide | Voiced by: Kouichi Yamadera (Japanese), Ian Corlett (English) | ||
| The Jusenkyo Guide turns up at odd points during the series. Though he speaks in somewhat broken Japanese, he is very knowledgeable about subjects concerning all things Chinese, especially the Jusenkyo Springs. Although he seems to genuinely care about the well-being of the people he guides, most of them end up falling into a spring and getting to hear him recite a very tragic story. For this reason, he keeps a list that contains the names of everyone who has been cursed. He also has a daughter named Plum and remains uncursed despite the long period of time he has been there and the number of people he has watched get cursed. | ||||
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Tatewaki Kuno (九能 帯刀 Kunō Tatewaki?) | Voiced by: Hirotaka Suzuoki (Japanese), Ted Cole (English) | ||
| Tatewaki Kuno is an upperclassman at Furinkan High and was the big man on campus – at 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 to spouting off Shakespearesque poetry (he quotes Confucius in the Japanese original), he is madly in love with Akane. He also falls for Ranma’s female half and never realizes that she is really his mortal enemy in girl form. He never finds out her identity or her name due to his oblivious nature and appears to be too shallow to care; he only refers to her as the "pigtailed girl" for the entire series. | ||||
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Kodachi Kuno (九能 小太刀 Kunō Kodachi?) | Voiced by: Saeko Shimazu (Japanese), Teryl Rothery (English) (Sylvia Zaradic (Season 6-7)) | ||
| Kodachi Kuno is the sister of Tatewaki and attends an all-girls school. A champion of Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics, she is defeated by Ranma (female) and thus earns her hatred. She believes that the female Ranma is in love with male Ranma, with whom Kodachi fell in love after he saved her from a fall, and thus a rival. Over the course of the series, she shows up with various plots to make him love her, usually through some sort of deviousness: paralysis gas in roses, sleeping pills in cookies, that sort of thing. | ||||
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Principal Kuno (九能 校長 Kunō-kōchō?) | Voiced by: Tateno Hitouchi (Japanese), Scott McNeil (English) | ||
| Principal Kuno is the long-absent principal of Furinkan High. Apparently off in Hawaii for quite some time, he returns rather suddenly and proceeds to make as much trouble as possible for the students. He is forever trying to discipline Ranma, especially in regards to his braided ponytail. Given to affecting Hawaiian speech and culture, he is also the long-lost father of the Kunos. His children are not particularly happy to see him, though. | ||||
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Ukyo Kuonji (久遠寺 右京 Kuonji Ukyō?) | Voiced by: Hiromi Tsuru (Japanese), Kelly Sheridan (English) | ||
| Ten years ago, on a training trip in the country, Genma stole Ukyo's father's 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 she was a girl. Shamed and ridiculed by her peers, Ukyo decided she wouldn't like boys, dressed and lived as one, and devoted herself to okonomiyaki-style martial arts. After a heated battle, Ranma discovers her true sex. Meanwhile, she discovers that he does not get along with his "uncute" fiancée, Akane. They reconcile, and she falls in love with him again. Ranma still treats her as only an old friend, and her plots to win him over are less violent than those of his other suitors. Although she lives to cook okonomiyaki and runs a restaurant, "Ucchan's," to that end, Ukyo would give it all up to marry Ranma. | ||||
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Hikaru Gosunkugi (五寸釘 光 Gosunkugi Hikaru?) | Voiced by: Issei Futamata (Japanese), Michael Benyaer (English) | ||
| "Voodoo Spike" Gosunkugi is the least popular student in Furinkan and a student in Ranma's class. He's a painfully shy boy with few friends. Like many of the Furinkan students, he loves Akane and attempts to win her by doing away with Ranma through Voodoo magic. He also enjoys taking photographs on the sly and teams up with several other characters, notably Kuno, in various plots. Most of his parts were given to Sasuke, the ninja servant of the Kunos, in the anime. | ||||
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Dr. Tofu Ono (小乃東風 Ono Tōfū?) | Voiced by: Yuji Mitsuya (Japanese), Ian James Corlett (English) | ||
| Dr. Tofu is the resident chiropractor and well-liked by the residents of Furinkan. He is also a martial artist, though never seen practicing, and is quite competent at tending Ranma and Akane in their various scrapes. He is also madly in love with Kasumi and becomes quite dangerous (albeit unintentionally so) when she is around. In these instances, he becomes an incompetent fool, sometimes harming his patients. The anime gives him a larger role than the manga does. He always seems to know what to do—until Kasumi arrives. | ||||
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Hinako Ninomiya (二ノ宮 ひな子 Ninomiya Hinako?) | Voiced by: Yumi Touma (Japanese), Janyse Jaud (English) | ||
| Hinako is a teacher hired by Principal Kuno for the purpose of reforming Furinkan High's many delinquents. Due to Happosai’s intervention when she was a small child, she has an unusual metabolism. By sucking out her enemy's life force through a circular opening, usually that of a five-yen coin, she transforms from an innocent child into a rather provocative woman. As a child, she is goofy and acts absurdly. In her adult form, she tends to be a bit cold and morbid. Either way, however, she always knows what she's doing and has a crush on Soun. | ||||
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Ryoga Hibiki (響 良牙 Hibiki Ryōga?) | Voiced by: Koichi Yamadera (Japanese), Michael Donovan (English) | ||
| Ryoga is a childhood rival of Ranma's and is famous for losing his way thanks to a poor sense of direction. After spending years looking for Ranma, he finally finds him in China but gets pushed into a Jusenkyo spring by Ranma and now changes into a small piglet. Given more fuel for his hatred, he seeks him out and discovers Akane who thinks that little “P-chan” is quite cute. Of course, she doesn’t know that it’s really Ryoga, but that doesn’t stop him from falling in love with her. A physically strong martial artist, he spends his time getting stronger in an effort to take down Ranma—if he can ever find his good friend and nemesis. | ||||
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Happosai (八宝斎 Happōsai?) | Voiced by: Ichirō Nagai (Japanese), Paul Dobson (English) | ||
| The very definition of a dirty old man, Happosai is the grandmaster and founder of the Anything Goes Martial Arts school. Genma and Soun were his original disciples, but they got fed up having to steal lingerie for the old lech and decided to try and finish him off. They were quite surprised when he showed up many years later to make them miserable and find a successor in the Art. Unfortunately for Ranma, he was the incorrigible old freak's choice. He is a strong martial artist with but one weakness: bras and panties. Happosai is so obscenely addicted to his perversion that he suffers from withdrawal if he goes without them for an extended period. It seems as though he always shows up at the most inconvenient moments. | ||||
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Pantyhose Taro (パンスト太郎 Pansuto-Tarō?) | Voiced by: Shinnosuke Furumoto (Japanese), Matt Hill (English) | ||
| Pantyhose Taro has possibly the most unique curse in the series, having been baptised in the Spring of the Drowned Yeti Holding an Eel and Crane while Riding an Ox after his birth. Unfortunately, it was Happosai who performed the honor after helping his mother give birth while he was in one of his rare good moods. In Taro's society, the baptiser also receives the honor of naming the child, and he chose "Pantyhose," believing everybody would like it. Taro enjoys the power his cursed form possesses, even going back to Jusenkyo to get an octopus curse to add tentacles to his back. A cold and ruthless individual, he is driven entirely by his desire to capture Happosai and be renamed. | ||||
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Miscellaneous - Inspirations", Ranma ½ Perfect Edition, retrieved April 25, 2006.
- ^ "Ranma ½ (manga)", Anime News Network, retrieved April 25, 2006.
- ^ "Interview with Rumiko Takahashi from the Memorial Book", Ranma ½ FAQ, retrieved April 25, 2006.
- ^ "Manga Summaries", Ranma ½ Perfect Edition, retrieved April 25, 2006.
- ^ "Product page for volume 36", Viz Media, retrieved October 20, 2006.
- ^ "2004 Press Releases", Viz Media, retrieved April 25, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Shonen Sunday Museum (Japanese)
- Viz Media North American publisher of both anime and manga.
- Ranma ½ Perfect Edition One of the most comprehensive Ranma ½ resources available.
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Ranma ½ Characters
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| Saotome Family | |
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| Ranma Saotome | Genma Saotome | Nodoka Saotome | |
| Tendo Family | |
| Soun Tendo | Kasumi Tendo | Nabiki Tendo | Akane Tendo | Mrs. Tendo | |
| Chinese | |
| Shampoo | Mousse | Cologne | Jusenkyo Guide | Pantyhose Taro | |
| Kuno Family | |
| Tatewaki Kuno | Kodachi Kuno | Principal Kuno | Sasuke Sarugakure | |
| Notable Furinkan Residents | |
| Ukyo Kuonji | Hikaru Gosunkugi | Dr. Tofu Ono | Hinako Ninomiya | Konatsu | |
| Major Adversaries | |
| Ryoga Hibiki | Happosai | Mariko Konjo | Herb | Ryu Kumon | Saffron | |
| Recurring / Other Characters | |
| Akari Unryu | Tsubasa Kurenai | Shinnosuke | Ranma ½ minor characters | |
| Other Articles | |
| Locations in Ranma ½ | Anything Goes Martial Arts | Chinese Amazons | |
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