Ranma ½/Other Recurring Characters

Ukyo Kuonji
"Voiced by: Hiromi Tsuru (JP), Kelly Sheridan (EN)"

The last of Ranma's fiancées to appear, Ukyo is the victim of a childhood crush gone horribly wrong. First, she made a Childhood Marriage Promise to Ranma that he would end up forgetting about (not that he knew what he was promising at the time -- and then he ended up accidentally sabotaging the promise in the first place), and then, when her father and Genma apparently made an Arranged Marriage... but then Genma stole her dowry and ran off with it, leaving her behind. Believing Ranma had been in on it, Ukyo swore revenge and began crossdressing as part of an elaborate vow, tracking Ranma down with the intent of making him pay for deceiving her... only to discover it had all been Genma's fault, and Ranma was never even told about the engagement. Between this, the fact she was still in love with him, the fact Ranma evidently found her attractive despite the crossdressing, Ukyo believes she has a legitimate chance at winning Ranma's heart, and calls off her revenge to instead try and woo him to her. Generally the nicest of Ranma's fiancées, but she has her ugly side too and can use threats, destructive ambush-beatings, or manipulation when she feels it's called for. It's worth noting that she is the only fiancée who always regrets manipulating the others.


 * Acceptable Feminine Goals: As much of an independent businesslady, restaurant owner, powerful martial artist, and successful chef as she is, every last one of her daydreams about the future involve being a devoted homemaker to Ranma, even those where she's the sole breadwinner in the house.
 * Arrogant Kung-Fu Girl: In the anime, she is the latest of several generations of Kuonjis to practice Martial Arts Okonomiyaki, and she is very proud of this fact and her skills. A Filler episode has her get beaten by a master of Martial Arts Crepes and being utterly devastated, even angrily asking if Ranma is insinuating that she shouldn't care so much about martial arts because she's a girl before declaring that she doesn't even deserve to be Ranma's wife if she's that inept a fighter. She then spends the rest of the episode in training for a rematch.
 * Subverted Trope: In the original manga, however, she seems to have made up her style singlehandedly to try and get revenge on Ranma and Genma, and she is here portrayed as being more or less indifferent to her actual skills as a fighter -- a late manga filler arc has her fighting a Martial Arts Takoyaki fighter she beat as a kid, and who has been wearing a goofy mask ever since. Not only does she admit outright that she never expected him to take the terms (whoever lost would wear a goofy mask forever after) seriously, to the point she implies that if she had lost she would have thrown it away once they weren't around each other any more, she is quite happy to lose the fight because it means that he will now take the mask off and leave her alone.
 * Bifauxnen: At first, and debatedly later on in the manga, where she continues to wear her more masculine school uniform and this coupled with the art makes her look more like a boy then the anime does.
 * Bokukko: Despite her tomboyish behaviour, she still has a definite femininity about her.
 * Boobs of Steel: Possibly subverted. She's one of the most formidable females, and a late manga arc has her fighting a battle that isn't much less intense than one of Ranma's customary brawls, while in the anime she's the only fiancée to have a special attack (Batter Dragon, which creates a giant dragon of raw batter that engulfs a foe and then explodes, cooking them into the center of a giant okonomiyaki), but many fans lean towards the opinion she's one of the flattest fiancees, if not the flattest. This is because of how easily she managed to pretend to be a boy, and the fact she still looks fairly masculine in the manga after her gender is revealed.
 * The Bully: In the manga. Perfectly willing to attack those without martial arts skills to prove a point, most notably Nabiki during her stint as Ranma's fiancée and masterminding the attack against Miss Hinako.
 * Cheryl Blossom: Third of the official fiancées to appear, has some good qualities from both the Betty and Veronica, a valid "third choice"... yep, she's got this written all over her.
 * Childhood Marriage Promise: Via two convoluted plots, sort of. When they were kids playing together, her dad brought up the idea of Ukyo marrying Ranma to Genma Saotome, who insisted Ranma was already engaged. His resistance to the idea immediately vanished when Mr. Kuonji admitted his cart was Ukyo's dowry. Before that happened, though, she and Ranma stole the recipe for the Kuonji family's secret okonomiyaki sauce and made a batch, promising to let Ranma have the first taste (which is Serious Business even in real life) if he promised that, if it was good, he would "take care of her for the rest of her life", a promise to which Ranma agreed. Unfortunately for her, Ranma still thought she was a boy at the time, and had no idea what she was asking of him to boot. Not that this stopped Genma stealing the cart anyway.
 * It's made more complicated by the fact Genma claims that, before he took the cart while abandoning Ukyo, he asked Ranma which he liked better; okonimyaki, or Ukyo. Keep in mind that this is Genma we're talking about, meaning he may have been lying to shift most of the blame to Ranma. Even if it's true, he not only distracted Ranma beforehand with an okonimyaki, but was asking a little kid the answer to a question he wouldn't have understood even if he had been aware that Ukyo was actually a girl.
 * Covert Pervert: A mild case. If someone she likes calls her cute, asks her if she likes him, takes the initiative, or such, she easily turns blushing, flustered and Comedic Sociopathy awkwardness-whacking prone. - "Oooh I'm so embarrassed!" (Runs away). However, if she feels like taking the initiative, she can get almost as lecherous as Shampoo - "Move your finger from that photograph! I want to see his **** !"; "Remember when we slept together as kids? Hurry over!" (Drooling); "Hi, I just decided to barge in on you in the bath. Now let your buddy Ucchan scrub your body all over! Don't be shy... hey where are you running off to?" - This, and the constant romantic fantasies, is the reason why almost nobody doubts her raging heterosexuality, despite the cross-dressing.
 * Drop in Character: Almost a case of Demoted to Extra after Konatsu's introduction arc. It gets to the point where she falls as low as Kodachi and Shampoo in
 * Exotic Weapon Supremacy: Spatulas and noodles are pretty deadly in her hands.
 * Feminine Women Can Cook: Subverted. She's a tomboy but is every bit as good as Kasumi in the kitchen.
 * The Idiot From Osaka: Although she's no more of an idiot than the rest of the cast, she does fit numerous Osaka associations.
 * Improbable Weapon User: Like many other cast members, she uses an over-the-top weapon: a cooking spatula the size of a baker's peel. She has also attacked people with noodles. Then there's the tempura flakes mixed with gunpowder, and the Okonomiyaki batter mixed with glue... or the flour, which is just flour, but good for blinding opponents. Her crowning achievement consisted of heating up a large section of steel flooring in a construction using a blowtorch, and using THAT as a giant-size grill for an okonomiyaki the size of a parachute.
 * Love Makes You Evil: Mainly in the manga, which makes her much nastier. For example, in one chapter, she joins Kodachi and Shampoo in assaulting Nabiki Tendo after she tries to auction Ranma off to them.
 * Miko: Shown to be a part-time miko in one of the late manga stories; she was presumably only there a short time or is a very casually employed miko, as she never displayed any of the associated spiritual powers.
 * New Transfer Student: She transferred into Furinkan explicitly to track down Ranma.
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Crossdressing highschool ninja cook (businesswoman miko).
 * One of the Boys: At least, this was the relationship she shared with Ranma and which he tries to keep her in.
 * Pet the Dog: Despite her own romantic entanglements and gender issues, she steadfastly stands by Konatsu and was willing to accept "her" back in her home when everyone still thought Konatsu was a woman in love with her.
 * Romantic Runner-Up: Ranma actually likes Ukyo, whereas he either actively dislikes his other paramours or finds them annoying (he will still help them out though)... but he only likes her in the same non-romantic way as he likes Kasumi, of course.
 * Sarashi: Is shown wearing one when her gender is first revealed. The manga implies she keeps on doing so afterwards, though perhaps somewhat looser now that she isn't trying to hide her gender, while the anime implies she starts wearing bras again.
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: In the anime, she once dressed up in girly dresses and the like to try and make Ranma start seeing she was serious about the engagement. Everyone was entranced by her beauty (even Tatewaki) -- except him.
 * Shipper on Deck: Actively tries to get Ryoga and Akane together, though more for ulterior motives than actually finding them a cute couple.
 * Ship Sinking: With Ryoga in the Kimodameshi story. The anime did not handle its translation of this story so well, to the extent that some fans saw it as actually promoting the couple.
 * Tomboyish Ponytail
 * Transfer Student Uniforms: Ukyo's winter male uniform is decidedly different from the typical Furinkan winter uniform, probably belonging to her previous (boys-only) school (sky/navy blue against Furinkan's midnight blue in the anime; in the manga the latter are solid black with buttons and loose collars while hers is screentoned, tightly-collared, and has no visible buttons.) She does wear the same shirt and slacks as everyone else during spring and summer, though.
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: Due to Ranma's bond with Akane.
 * Wholesome Crossdresser: She dressed up in male clothing as a symbol of the fact Ranma had "ruined her womanhood". Though she continues to dress in a rather masculine fashion after joining the regular cast, she does enjoy wearing feminine clothes when she has the opportunity and is quite emphatically straight.
 * Yandere: A mild case, but she tends to be a bit crazy to those she seems to like.
 * Admittedly, the most widely-recognized moments when she's hit Ranma for affectionate behavior, the end of her introduction story and during the Reversal Jewel, do have extenuating circumstances. In the former, she was still mad at him, as she'd only just found him after ten years spent bearing a grudge. In the latter, she slapped Ranma for demanding she say she love him... because he was forcing her to say so mere moments after she had demanded to know the truth behind the rumors that he was plotting to confess his love for Shampoo, rumors that he refused to deny before doing so.

Hikaru Gosunkugi
"Voiced by: Issei Futamata (JP), Michael Benyaer (EN)"

A creepy, reclusive, unpopular, nerdy sort of boy who has a deep crush on Akane, which she is unaware of, evidently because she was nice to him. Fixated on black magic, but totally inept at it; far more likely to hit his thumb when trying to perform Ushi no Koku Mairi (a Japanese cursing ritual) then make it actually work. He even got himself struck by lightning once in the anime, after apparently managing to call a storm to school successfully. In the manga, he's a pathetic member of Akane's class, ignored by just about everyone, while in the anime he's an equally pathetic transfer student introduced in the sixth season.


 * Black Magic: He wants to master this and use it to get rid of his rivals for Akane's hand, most notably Ranma, but it basically never works. On the other hand, the one time that he actually got his hand on real magic (the control paper dolls), he only used it to mildly embarrass Ranma through a pratfall, so it is very questionable if he is really ruthless, or just doing harmless venting, in the same way many others use fighting games.
 * Butt Monkey: Unlucky in basically all his appearances.
 * Camera Fiend: Takes pictures of Akane whenever he can, in the manga took pictures of Ranma while trying to learn something to use against Ranma (failed since Ranma could sense where he was at all times), and also took one of the photos Kodachi altered in that canon.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: To Akane, for a while.
 * Designated Villain: He's a villain because Ranma and the rest of his class were bullying him.
 * Fan Nickname: "Voodoo Spike", because he's always running around nailing little handmade dolls to trees and gates and things, which looks like some sort of halfwit attempt at a voodoo ritual.
 * Hollywood Voodoo: Actually, averted. While the various rituals and spells he performs look a lot like Hollywood Voodoo to Westerners, to the extent that it's the source of his Fan Nickname, they are actually all 100% authentic Japanese mysticism. The habit of wandering around with lit candles strapped to his head is from Shinto; they're supposed to help him see ghosts and into the spirit world. The little straw fetishes he's always driving nails into are from a cursing ritual called "Ushi no Koku Mairi", which is actually illegal in Japan.
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain : He's a villain because Ranma bullied him.
 * Loners Are Freaks: A chicken and egg trope here; is he left alone because he's such a freaky little guy, or is he such a freaky little guy because nobody wants to be his friend?
 * Looks Like Cesare: The pallor, tightly drawn skin and circles under his eyes are hereditary; both of his parents are the same.
 * Nightmare Fetishist: Perhaps more so in the anime than in the manga; even beyond his cursing ritual obsession, he's a fanatic for gathering grimoires of black magic (especially those focuses on cursing), thinks that taking a girl to a purportedly haunted graveyard and telling her about various methods of inflicting curses on people you don't like are romantic dates, and his only problem when he realised his girlfriend was a ghost was the fact that if he got serious with her, he'd have to give up on Akane.
 * Powered Armor: In the manga, buys a "Warsuit" that latches onto Ranma's wrist to power up. However, this Ranma-level suit was designed with three major limits to prevent misuse: once assembled and worn, it can't even move unless latched onto the primary target; once engaged, the user MUST land a punch on the target within a time limit, or the suit will self-destruct; if the user successfully lands a punch, the suit will deactivate and fall apart. Since its advertised as a weapon against bullies, it's an intelligent method of self-control.
 * Stalker with a Crush: Takes photographs of Akane working out during gym class, but in both canons she doesn't really notice him given he's so low-key and subtle compared to the flamboyant and much more vivid Kuno and (somewhat) Ryoga. Sneaking around in her backyard taking photos of her or staking out her jogging route kind of fall into second place compared to attacking her with a sword in front of school every morning while bellowing declarations of love.

Dr. Tofu Ono
"Voiced by: Yuji Mitsuya (JP), Ian James Corlett (EN)"

A minor character introduced as the local chiropractor and acupuncturist, who has tended to Akane's injuries since she was a little girl, which caused her to develop a Precocious Crush on him. Fixated on Kasumi, turning into a bumbling idiot whenever he hears her voice or even sees a photo of her, never mind actually seeing her. Dropped from the manga by the end of the Full Body Cat's Tongue Pressure Points story, but remains a minor fixture of the anime.


 * Big Brother Mentor: To Akane, which is the basis of her crush on him.
 * Brother Chuck: He vanishes without a word once Cologne takes his place as official font of obscure wisdom.
 * He shows up from time to time in Filler episodes late in the anime, but his plot importance was gone by the end of Season 2. In the manga, after volume 12 he's gone for good.
 * Love Makes You Crazy: Holy crap...
 * Love Makes You Dumb: Yeah, he's this, too. Even beyond the fact he routinely hurts himself around Kasumi, he does stuff like insist on bringing the vital notebook needed to cure Akane's amnesia around to the Tendo Dojo, even though he knows Kasumi will be there and he'll destroy it if he sees her. Which is exactly what happens.
 * Informed Ability: We're told he's a strong martial artist, but we never see him do anything other than manipulate pressure points, and then for health purposes.
 * He actually did stop Ranma's attacks without even trying at the beginning. Had he been around more, he might have shown us more of his abilities.
 * He's shown doing one finger pushups in the anime, just to stay in shape, and efficiently fights the "toad sennin/Frog Hermit" with pressure-point attacks late in the series.

Akari Unryu
A sweet, gentle girl who shows up very late into the manga. Heir to the Unryu farm of Sumo Wrestling Pigs, she rides around on her hand-reared Yokozuna Pig, Katsunishiki, seeking a man strong enough to defeat him, the only man she will be allowed to marry. When Ryoga succeeds, she instantly falls in love with him, and he quickly becomes attracted to her in return. A very minor character, her subsequent appearances pretty much amount to cameos, as she says and does almost nothing that has any major impact on the plot.


 * Best Her to Bed Her: An odd example; it's not her that would-be suitors have to defeat, but her pet pig.
 * Beta Couple: With Ryoga -- Word of God is that, out of the entire Love Dodecahedron, only they are a couple.
 * Expy: A nearly identical (but explicitly shown as having high levels of Super Strength) character called Anna shows up in the anime. While you'd think the manga was first, the episode with Anna (called; "Ryoga, Run into the Sunset") actually came first.
 * Small Girl, Big Gun: She usually traipses around Japan riding an ENORMOUS yokozuna pig. Yes, a champion sumo pig. And it's pretty strong, too.
 * Official Couple
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: A perfectly straight example, which makes her kind of stick out in this cast of hilarious psychos.

Konatsu the Kunoichi
The son of a loving couple, his mother died at a young age and his father, for reasons unknown, married a grotesquely hideous woman who already had two disgusting daughters, then died himself. Jealous of Konatsu's appearance, his stepmother both raised him as a girl and treated him hideously; despite Konatsu being a prodigy in the arts of ninjitsu, he never managed to kill off his stepfamily (not through lack of trying) and was resolved to being their slave. Until the day Happosai, Soun and Genma wandered into the "Sexy Ninja Teashop" and, horrified by the fact the "sexy ninjas" were his stepfamily, destroyed it, whereupon they sent him for revenge upon Ranma. Konatsu decided he'd rather stay in Nerima, particularly after Ukyo treated him kindly and unintentionally caused him to fall in love with her, and began working at Ucchan's Okonomiyaki after his stepfamily was driven away with the help of Ukyo, Ranma and Akane. Though Ukyo still treats him in a way anyone else would consider ridiculously shabby, it's much more then he had at home and so he's content with it.

The last main cast member to be introduced to the series, and the only one to appear less then Akari, he's a distinctive character who still managed to become quite well-liked by some fans.


 * Attractive Bent Gender: Attractive to those who don't know the dark truth.
 * Bishonen: Very, and sort of a spoof of it.
 * The Chew Toy: The Universe seems to hate this boy. Forget Akane, forget Mousse's claims, or Ranma's vain melodrama. Only Ryoga has ever been as badly off as Konatsu, and only Ryu Kumon comes close.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Yes, he's very goofy. But Happosai called him a "Genius Kunoichi" for a reason... even if he was wrong about the gender.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: Loves Ukyo, but, unlike the rest of the cast, doesn't really act on it... at least not beyond trying hard to be of use to her, rescuing her if anything dangerous happens, and writing "I LOVE UKYO" all over his diary.
 * Dropped a Bridget On Him: Does this to everyone in the cast at the end of his introductory story.
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: VERY!
 * Extreme Doormat: Pretty much all capacity for active resistance has been beaten out of him (literally) over the years.
 * Me's a Crowd: Knows a legendary technique that allows him to do this.
 * Ninja
 * Perpetual Poverty: His stepfamily kept him in the most appalling conditions, never giving him the slightest amount of money. He, consequently, has almost no grasp of how money works.
 * Wholesome Crossdresser: Dresses and acts like a girl because he was brought up to do so, but seems to avoid male garb only because he's too used to dressing as a girl and/or Ukyo likes his ability to attract hungry guys to her shop.

Nodoka Saotome
"Voiced by: Masako Ikeda (JP), Lisa Bunting (EN)"

Ranma's long-absent mother is a late-comer to the series. Back when Ranma was just a little boy, his father took him away from home, assuaging Nodoka's complaints by vowing he and Ranma would commit Seppuku if he failed to make Ranma a "man among men". After Ranma's little accident at Jusenkyo, Genma decided it would be best to avoid Nodoka, though she eventually did find out -- fortunately for her son and husband, the precise event had Ranma at some of his best behavior and she decided that the curse wasn't grounds to make Ranma kill himself. Generally a very sweet and motherly sort, but she is just as fixated on honor as her son and husband are (perhaps more so), and she's still carrying that sword around by the series' end, watching and judging Ranma's behavior...


 * Abusive Parents: While played for laughs almost as much as her husband is, she's just as bad, if not worse. Despite the fact that the contract consists of a verbal vow ("I will make Ranma a man among men") and a written seal ("I will commit Seppuku: Genma, Ranma"), both of which are incredibly vague, she is totally willing to call it in if she ever judges Ranma to somehow be unmanly. She is so fixated on the idea that whenever she visits looking for Ranma, she keeps a sword in constant reach, in preparation for the decapitating strike she will be called on to use in the ceremony. In fact, she seems to have the swordswoman's equivalent of an itchy trigger finger, being quite willing to draw it at the slightest hint that her son is being unmanly (both before and after finally meeting him,) and going all the way to donning the requisite regalia if he does something very unmanly. She doesn't get many appearances in the series once she moves into the Tendo Dojo, though.
 * Dojikko: Don't stand near her if she draws her sword. Or if she sits on a "DO NOT SIT" water valve.
 * The Fettered: Frequently believed to cling so tightly to the contract in order to draw the emotional strength from it she needs to survive being separated from her son and husband for so many years.
 * Honor Before Reason: She will hold Ranma to the contract Genma wrote up come hell or high water, despite the fact it is so vague it is almost impossible to truly determine what would actually fulfill it successfully. She does partially avert the trope when.
 * Hot Mom: Basically looks like a slightly older Ranma-chan.
 * Iconic Item: The Saotome Family Sword. Wrapped in a bundle, sheathed, or live, it's pretty much glued to her hand.
 * Kimono Is Traditional, and Nodoka the Yamato Nadeshiko wears some almost at any given time.
 * Mama Bear: Tries to protect Akane and Ranma with everything she has, if she thinks they're being threatened.
 * Perpetual Poverty: Her prior, "poor" house was demolished and she had to move to another one, and has to recycle martial arts scrolls just to have paper to make envelopes. Ranma says she's the model wife of a poor martial artist. Even more so after the Fiancee Brigade (Shampoo, Kodachi, and Ukyo) destroyed her house due to a misunderstanding.
 * The Pollyanna: Even though her situation would give anyone soul-crushing despair, she's always cheerful and optimistic.
 * Strong Family Resemblance: Allowing for age, the only difference between female Ranma and Nodoka in the anime is hair and eye color. In the manga, there's not even that.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: If you ignore the business with the sword, she's the best example of a normal one in the series.

Sasuke Sarugakure
"Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba (JP), Robert O. Smith (EN)"

Early in the anime, the animators either couldn't find a voice actor for Gosunkugi, wanted a role for Shigeru Chiba, or decided that the spooky boy was a rather shallow character and/or didn't make much sense as the Kunos lapdog and servant. Instead, they decided to create a new character to take that role, and thus was born Sasuke Sarugakure, whose name means something like "Ninja from the Hidden Monkey Village". This ugly midget Ninja is most frequently seen at Tatewaki Kuno's side, but he will also serve "Mistress Kodachi" if she needs his assistance as well. Sasuke serves as something of the Jack-of-all-trades manservant to his masters, doing everything from spying on their enemies/love interests, to cooking their food, to cleaning their house, to making shadow puppets to help them sleep, to helping them train or fighting at their side -- it's implied he may have actually been their primary caretaker when they were children. In return, he is rewarded with horrific mistreatment. He is forced to sleep outside in all weathers like an animal, fed only leftover scraps (and that infrequently; he once had to live for ten days on a single bowl of brine, and he's forgotten what milk and watermelons taste like), forced to drink the water from the storm gutters, and frequently beaten and berated by his charges.


 * Badass Normal: He's rather fast but sucks at combat.
 * Butt Monkey: Even more so than Kuno, as he generally doesn't mean any more harm than needing to serve his master and is fairly amiable if not being compelled by that.
 * Canon Foreigner: Created exclusively for the anime.
 * Happiness in Slavery: He's happy working for the Kunos despite their poor treatment of him. Though he would like if they treated him better.
 * Made of Iron: While not very good in combat, he has a tremendous threshold for pain, quite capable of feats like remaining in an exposed mailbox, in the middle of a blistering heatwave, for three whole days with no food or sleep in order to wait for his designated quarry to pass by.
 * My Master, Right or Wrong: He's well aware that his masters are insanely abusive and barely capable of feeding themselves without him, yet stays loyal to them and refuses to leave.
 * Punch Clock Villain: Has no problem with Ranma or his relationship with Akane.
 * Ninja: A parody or subversion as, in a city full of practitioners of Supernatural Martial Arts, he's a clumsy incompetent with minimal fighting skills and armed with basic ninja tricks. He is, however, incredibly fast (able to go from one end of the school gym to the other, help Akane spring over the leaping horse, and then dart back into the shadows where he started from, all without anybody seeing him) and very skilled at the art of camouflage... though not so good with outright disguise.
 * Old Retainer: Not that old, but he has worked for Kuno since he was a child.
 * There Was a Door: Kuno- "I meant through the door you blithering idiot!" (after Sasuke bursts up through a loose panel in the floor to give a report in person.)

Hinako Ninomiya
"Voiced by: Yumi Touma (JP), Janyse Jaud (EN)"

The last of the major characters to be introduced (in the manga -- the anime was cancelled before she was created, so in that canon she was merely the subject of an OAV and appears in a second one, Nightmare Incense of Spring Sleep), Hinako was hired by Principal Kuno ostensibly as a new Homeroom/English teacher for Ranma's classroom, but more likely as yet another of the principal's "attacks" on Ranma for his own amusement. Hinako's story begins many years before the series, when she was a little girl in the hospital for an unidentified ailment. Happosai, wandering by, dropped in and either took pity on her, saw someone he could use to help him steal underwear from the nurses, or both. He subjected her to a regime of Pressure Point manipulation that would endow her with the ability to drain the Battle Aura from other people, which he insisted would help her get better. Flash forward to the present day, and she's all better... but now she's stuck looking like a kid unless she drains somebody's Battle Aura, and she'll only remain in her adult form until she uses up the ki she stole. Obsessed with stomping out "delinquency", she frequently clashes with Ranma, particularly after she falls in love with Soun Tendo.


 * Adult Child: She's somewhere in her twenties, yet looks (and acts!) maybe ten or twelve years old, tops, most of the time.
 * All Love Is Unrequited: Though she falls head-over-heels for Soun Tendo, his daughters and future son-in-law object to the idea and he himself doesn't seem to reciprocate, partially because he's still mourning his first wife.
 * Chronic Hero Syndrome: The biggest case in the series, exceeding even Akane.
 * The Ditz: In child form, or after going too long without changing into it.
 * Energy Absorption: One of her two modes of attack, it temporarily renders the victim too weak to stand. It also makes her immune to even the fiercest of Ki Attacks.
 * Genki Girl: In kid form, she acts somewhere between this and The Ditz.
 * Glam of Shazam
 * Hello, Nurse! and Ms. Fanservice: Her adult (and true) form. 'Nuff said.
 * Immortal Immaturity: Despite her age, when she's a kid, she acts more childish then her own students, goofing off, staring into space, sleeping at her desk...
 * Kamehame Hadoken: After she drains ki, she can launch it as a massive blast of ball lightning, which shrinks her back to a child but usually instantly defeats her opponent.
 * Littlest Cancer Patient: She was one of these until Happosai "cured" her.
 * The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Under normal circumstances, her personality definitely changes whether she's an adult or a child. However, being stuck as a little girl has affected her so much that, if she stays too long in her "real" adult mode, though, her mind will wander and she'll start acting like a kid again.
 * Sensei-chan
 * Stripperiffic: As she does not change her clothes, what is normally a modestly fitting outfit for her child form becomes almost indecently short-skirted and low-necked on her adult form.
 * Soap Opera Disease: She had a "weak constitution" as a child, complete with IV and adorable cough. She got better.
 * Sweet Tooth: When in child form, her obsession with sweets rivals Ranma's.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting: Between "child" and "adult", via the "Happo Go-en Satsu"

Maomolin, the Bakeneko
A giant ghostly cat that Shampoo accidentally brought back to Nerima from a visit to China, Maomolin wants to claim a human wife and will do anything to get one.


 * Grand Theft Me: Possessing people is his primary spiritual power. It never does any good.
 * Interspecies Romance: Despite the fact he's a cat, he's fixated on taking a human wife.
 * I Owe You My Life: In the anime, Ryoga saves him from a pack of dogs, so Maomolin offers to grant Ryoga a wish, declaring he is also a guy and must repay such a debt. Upon hearing about his shyness and how this interferes with his desire to court Akane, he possesses Ryoga and proposes for him.
 * Mega Neko
 * Obake: He's the ghost of a cat from China, able to steal bodies and lay curses on people. Most commonly identified as a "bakeneko" (literally "ghost cat").