Ranma Characters
This article pertains to the Ranma 1/2 anime series.Warning: Spoilers follow
Japanese Seiyuu: Kappei Yamaguchi (male), Hayashibara Megumi (female)
The main character and best all around martial artist in the series, who doesn't seem too interested in getting married. Nevertheless, he is pushed into several different situations where people want to or are arranged to marry him (or her).
Ranma and his father, Genma Saotome, went to a haunted springs training ground in China to practice their Martial Arts. When Ranma fell in a spring, he got out as a red haired girl. Now whenever he gets splashed with cold water he becomes female. With warm water, he turns back to a male.
Japanese Seiyuu: Kenichi Ogata
Ranma's father. He went to the haunted springs in China with his son. He fell into a spring and came out as a panda. Now with cold water, he turns into a panda. With warm water he turns back into a man.
Japanese Seiyuu: Noriko Hidaka
The first of Ranma's fiancees we meet, and also the least eager to marry him. Her cooking is increadibly bad and her demeanor is decidedly tomboyish and hostile towards Ranma most of the time.
She lives in Nerima,Tokyo.
Japanese Seiyuu: Minami Takayama
Akane's sister, a shrewd businesswoman.
Japanese Seiyuu: Kikuko Inoue
Akane's oldest sister, she's a good cook and seems to have taken over the domestic capacities of the Tendou house since the Tendo mother died.
Japanese Seiyuu: Ryunosuke Obayashi
Akane's father, and old training parter of Genma's who agrees to marry one of his daughters to Genma's son before he really knows what's going on.
Japanese Seiyuu: Koichi Yamadera
Ranma's foil, and the only character who can beat Ranma in a fair fight (as far as I've read/seen). Ryouga turns into Akane's pet pig (P-Chan), always gets lost, and really wants to have a relationship with Akane, but is too ashamed of the fact that he turns in to a little black pig.
Japanese Seiyuu: Hirotaka Suzuoki
"The Blue Lightning of Fuurinkan High". When Ranma enters the scene, Kunou considers himself to be the front-runner for Akane's affection. He falls for girl-Ranma, however, and never figures out "her" identity.
Japanese Seiyuu: Saeko Shimazu
Kunou's sister, "The Black Rose", she falls for boy Ranma.
Japanese Seiyuu: Yuji Mitsuya
The friendly neighborhood chiropractor who's fixing up Ranma whenever Akane beats him up. Watch out when he sees Kasumi, though, his glasses get foggy and he doesn't really know what he's doing anymore.
Genma's and Souun's former master, Happousai is a panty stealing pervert who's about 1'6" tall.
Japanese Seiyuu: Rei Sakuma
Chinese Amazon who originally wanted to kill Ranma because she thought Ranma was a girl, and Ranma defeated her in a fight. The tradition of her village dictates that she marry the man who defeats her, and kill any woman who defeats her. Worth noting that she turns in to a cat, and Ranma has a phobia of cats.
English Voice Actor: Elan Ross Gibson
Shampoo's great grand-mother, and contemporary of Happousai. Cologne calls Ranma 'son-in-law', as though he was already married to Shampoo, and she knows quite a bit about martial arts.
Weapons master with poor vision who wants to marry Shampoo so he must kill Ranma. He turns into a duck.
English Voice Actor: Kelly Sheridan
Okonomiyaki chef who Ranma thought was a boy, and who Genma had apparently betrothed Ranma to in exchange for a food cart, but Genma loused on the deal.
Fell in (牛鶴鰻毛人溺泉) the spring of drowned "yeti holding an eel and bird riding a ox"; named by Happousai as per the ritual in his village.
Ranma Saotome
(早乙女 乱馬)
English Voice Actor: Sarah Strange (male, #1), Richard Ian Cox (male, #2), Brigitta Dau (female, #1), Venus Terzo (female, #2)Genma Saotome
(早乙女 玄馬)Akane Tendou
(天道 あかね)
English Voice Actor: Myriam SiroisNabiki Tendou
(天道 なびき)Kasumi Tendou
(天道 かすみ)
English Voice Actor: Willow JohnsonSou'un Tendou
(天道 早雲)Ryouga Hibiki
(響良牙)Tatewaki Kunou
(九能 帯刀)Kodachi Kunou
(九能 小太刀)
English Voice Actor: Teryl RotheryDoctor Ono Toufuu
(東風 小乃)Happousai
(八宝斎)Shampoo
(シャンプー)
English Voice Actor: Cathy WeseluckCologne
(コロン)Mousse
(ムース)Ukyou Kuonji
(久遠寺 右京)Pantyhose Taro
(パンスト太郎)Principal Kunou
Kunou's father, though Japanese by birth has spent some years in Hawaii and has returned with very dark skin and a penchant for Hawaiian attire, and wants to give the entire school bad hair-cuts (buzz cuts for boys, bowl cuts for girls).
