Ranma Saotome
Japanese
Seiyuu:
Kappei Yamaguchi (male),
Hayashibara Megumi (female)
English
Voice Actor:
Sarah Strange (male, #1),
Richard Ian Cox (male, #2),
Brigitta Dau (female, #1),
Venus Terzo (female, #2)
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.
Genma Saotome
(早乙女 玄馬)
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.
Akane Tendou
(天道 あかね)
Japanese Seiyuu:
Noriko Hidaka
English Voice Actor:
Myriam Sirois
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.
Nabiki Tendou
(天道 なびき)
Japanese Seiyuu:
Minami Takayama
Akane's sister, a shrewd businesswoman.
Kasumi Tendou
(天道 かすみ)
Japanese Seiyuu:
Kikuko Inoue
English Voice Actor:
Willow Johnson
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.
Sou'un Tendou
(天道 早雲)
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.
Ryouga Hibiki
(響良牙)
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.
Tatewaki Kunou
(九能 帯刀)
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.
Kodachi Kunou
(九能 小太刀)
Japanese Seiyuu:
Saeko Shimazu
English Voice Actor:
Teryl Rothery
Kunou's sister, "The Black Rose", she falls for boy Ranma.
Doctor Ono Toufuu
(東風 小乃)
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.
Happousai
(八宝斎)
Genma's and Souun's former master, Happousai is a panty stealing pervert
who's about 1'6" tall.
Shampoo
(シャンプー)
Japanese Seiyuu:
Rei Sakuma
English Voice Actor:
Cathy Weseluck
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.
Cologne
(コロン)
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.
Mousse
(ムース)
Weapons master with poor vision who wants to marry Shampoo so he must
kill Ranma. He turns into a duck.
Ukyou Kuonji
(久遠寺 右京)
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.
Pantyhose Taro
(パンスト太郎)
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.
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).
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