Cologne (Ranma ½)
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| Cologne コロン |
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 Cologne in the anime |
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| Alias: | Old Ghoul Living Mummy |
| Gender: | Female |
| Age: | Manga: 100ish Anime: 300ish |
| Family: | Shampoo, great-granddaughter Shampoo's father, son-in-law (manga only) |
| Love Interest: | Young Happosai, (Anime only) |
| Rivals: | Ranma Saotome Happosai Mousse |
| Occupation: | Café Owner |
| Residence: | Formerly: Joketsuzoku Village, China Now: Cat Café, Furinkan |
| Fighting Style: | Chinese Amazon |
| Attacks: | Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire (Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken) Dragon's Heaven Blast (Hiryū Shoten Ha) Breaking Point (Bakusai Tenketsu) Sameken |
| Seiyū: | Miyoko Aso |
| Voice Actor: | Elan Ross Gibson |
| 1st Appearance (Manga): |
Volume 4 |
| 1st Appearance (Anime): |
TV Series, Season 2, "This Ol' Gal's the Leader of the Amazon Tribe!" |
Cologne (可崘 Ke Lun or コロン Koron) is a fictional character in Rumiko Takahashi's anime and manga series Ranma ½.
Cologne is the great-grandmother of Shampoo and upon Shampoo's return to Japan, she moved to Japan with her and opened the Cat Café in Furinkan.
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[edit] History
Shampoo's great grandmother, contemporary of Happosai, and possibly a leader (or the leader) of the Chinese Joketsuzoku tribe. She is very elderly, being either one hundred years old (manga) or three hundred (anime). Many years ago, as a young lass, she was quite beautiful (and normal size), in contrast to Happosai, who was basically the same, only younger. The cause of her shrinkage is unknown.
Cologne calls Ranma Saotome "future son-in-law," and though she tries to trick and scheme to get Ranma to marry Shampoo at first (as well as at a couple of opportunities that fall into her lap), most of the time she is there as an aside, seeming to find joy in just watching the madness. She is a grand master of martial arts, and occasionally teaches Ranma new techniques, sometimes doing the same for his rivals. She gets around by pogoing on a gnarled wooden staff that she sometimes uses as a weapon.
[edit] Special Techniques
Of the entire Ranma cast, only Happosai (and possibly Ranma's nekoken form) could compare with Cologne's sheer skill, though Happosai's full battle aura, Ryoga's perfect shi-shi hokodan or Rouge's and Saffron's fire projection all seem quite beyond her in terms of raw power. She is the grand master of the Chinese Amazon martial arts and likely knows many ancient martial techniques that have been passed down for thousands of years. In addition to the martial arts, Cologne is knowledgeable in several other disciplines such as arcane lore, cooking, Chinese mythology and magic artifacts.
It is likely that she trained generations of Chinese Amazon warriors before she trained Shampoo, making her at least partially responsible for the Chinese Amazon tribe being the powerful warrior tribe that they are today. Cologne is also capable of trickery in combat such as holding back her true martial arts abilities in order to lull her opponents into a false sense of confidence, which once worked on Ranma all too well. Overall, regardless of her opponent's skill, Cologne is truly a force to be reckoned with.
- Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire (火中天津甘栗拳 Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken): Punches that move so fast that you can grab chestnuts roasting on an open fire without getting burned. Cologne taught Ranma this technique in order to help him build up his speed so he could snatch the Phoenix Pill from around her neck. The anime says he could throw up to 300 full-strength punches per second after undergoing the training for this technique[citation needed]. Ranma mastered this move in a fish-catching contest in a carnival and thereafter managed to steal the Phoenix Pill (which Cologne had replaced with a candy, to be on the safe side).
- Breaking Point (爆砕点穴 Bakusai Tenketsu): The Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken made Ranma incredibly fast, so Cologne taught Ryoga Hibiki this move to help him defeat Ranma so that he could win Akane, leaving Ranma for Shampoo. It causes any inanimate object to shatter with a mere touch and, more importantly, severely toughens the trainée's durability.
- Flying Dragon Ascension Blast (飛龍昇天波 Hiryū Shoten Ha): Creates a whirlwind using an opponent’s hot, angry battle aura against the cold, indifferent battle aura of the person using this technique, when moving in a spiral motion. Cologne took Ranma to the forests of Japan and revealed this ancient technique that creates a tornado using hot and cold battle aura and a spiraling movement so that he could fight Happosai without his strength, which had been sapped by the old pervert's moxibustion.
- Shark Fist (鮫拳 Sameken): A blast of water in the shape of a shark, only usable when in water and standing on a shark—used as a foothold. In the anime, this technique is replaced with another attack called "Fist of the Ice Bear," which consists of Cologne standing atop a life-size ice sculpture of a polar bear and launching it at the enemy with a wave of her staff.
- Full-Body Cat Tongue: A pressure point attack that makes the target unable to bear high temperatures without being badly burned. In Ranma's case, it prevented him from turning back into a male. Can be cured by the Phoenix Pill, which she apparently also created.
- Splitting Cat Hairs (anime): Cologne creates 14 separate afterimages that spin around her opponent at varying speeds while hitting the opponent with her staff. Defeatable if the user is hungry and the opponent is holding food because the real one will eat.
[edit] Trivia
- Latin American Spanish Voice Actor: Magda Giner.
- In the Latin American dubbing she's said to be 3000ish, possibly a translation mistake. There's a Christmas episode where she says (referring the dead of Jesus Christ and not literaly):"Yo sólo tenía 500 años cuando todo ocurrió" ("I was only 500 when everything happened".)
- Although she's Shampoo's great-grandmother, she often refers to Ranma as her "future son-in-law", which on a technical level would be incorrect unless she was Shampoo's mother.
- A running gag in the series involves some calling Cologne a disrespectful name (Makeral Jerky, Mysterious Mummy, old ghoul, etc) which is quickly followed by Cologne wacking them over the head with her staff, even if they are well out of it's reach.
[edit] References
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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 | Minor Characters | |
| Media | |
| Manga | TV Series | Movies | OVAs | |
| Other Articles | |
| Anything Goes Martial Arts | DoCo | Items | Locations | |
