La serie de manga Ranma ½ presenta un elenco de personajes creados por Rumiko Takahashi . La historia gira en torno al adolescente japonés Ranma Saotome, que se ha entrenado en artes marciales desde la primera infancia. Como resultado de un accidente durante un viaje de entrenamiento en China, está condenado a convertirse en una niña cuando se le salpica con agua fría, mientras que el agua caliente lo convierte de nuevo en un niño. A lo largo de la serie, Ranma busca una manera de deshacerse de su maldición, mientras que sus amigos, enemigos y muchas prometidas obstaculizan e interfieren constantemente.
Muchos de los personajes están igualmente maldecidos para convertirse en animales u otras criaturas cuando reciben salpicaduras y son expertos en diferentes e inusuales tipos de artes marciales. Las intrincadas relaciones del gran elenco entre sí, las características inusuales y las personalidades excéntricas impulsan la mayoría de las historias. Aunque los personajes y sus relaciones son complicados, rara vez cambian una vez que se introducen firmemente y se instalan en la serie.
Familia Saotome
Ranma Saotome
Ranma Saotome (早 乙 女 乱馬, Saotome Ranma ) , es el protagonista principal de la serie . Un hábil artista marcial de 16 años, pasó la mayor parte de su juventud en viajes de entrenamiento con su padre. El último de estos viajes los llevó a Jusenkyo, China, donde cayó en la Primavera de la Chica Ahogada y se transformó en una chica bien formada con el pelo rojo (en el anime; permanece negro en el manga). Desde entonces, cambia a esta forma de niña cada vez que lo rocían con agua fría, mientras que el agua caliente lo devuelve a un niño. Gracias a un acuerdo entre su padre y Soun Tendo, está comprometido con la hija de Soun, Akane. Debido a una serie de otros enredos involuntarios, tiene varios intereses amorosos adicionales, entre los que destacan el chino Amazon Shampoo, el chef okonomiyaki y amigo de la infancia Ukyo Kuonji y Kodachi Kuno, la hermana menor del rival Tatewaki Kuno. Está muy enamorado de Akane, pero no quiere admitirlo. Cuando otro hombre muestra interés general en ella, no puede evitar ponerse celoso, lo que lo lleva a deprimirse, a planear algo para separarlos o a preocuparse.
Las artes marciales son la vida del héroe de 16 años. Siempre que su orgullo sea dañado, Ranma hará todo lo posible para rectificar la situación. Puede parecer mezquino, arrogante e irrespetuoso, ya que es propenso a jactarse y lanzar insultos. A pesar de estos defectos, conserva un centro moral a lo largo de la serie y tiene poco o ningún problema para ayudar a los necesitados. Ranma también tiene un miedo extremo a los gatos como resultado de cuando su padre lo entrenó en la técnica errónea de 'Cat Fu' (猫 拳, Neko Ken ) . Si está aislado con un gato en un espacio muy pequeño, o cuando ya no puede hacer frente a su miedo a los gatos, comienza a comportarse como un gato y se convierte en un maestro del 'Cat Fu' y solo Akane puede calmarlo. . Él y Akane se acercan más a lo largo de la serie, cada uno haciendo todo lo posible para salvar al otro cuando está en problemas. La razón por la que Ranma tolera su gran cantidad de pretendientes no es solo porque generalmente es muy amigable y se preocupa por ellos (haciendo todo lo posible para asegurarse de que Shampoo no lo odie, por ejemplo), sino principalmente porque se considera un galán. . A pesar de esto, Ranma es el blanco de la mayor parte de la violencia que ocurre en la historia.
Genma Saotome
Expresado por: Kenichi Ogata (japonés); Robert O Smith (inglés; doblaje de Viz Media), Dave Bridges (inglés; doblaje de Animax Asia); Serge Bourrier (francés); Thomas Rauscher (alemán); Michele Kalamera (italiano) [1]
Interpretado por: Arata Furuta
Genma Saotome (早 乙 女 玄 馬, Saotome Genma ) es el padre de Ranma y el sensei de las artes marciales Anything Goes (無差別 格 闘 早 乙 女流, Musabetsu Kakutō Saotome Ryū , "Estilo Saotome de agarre indiscriminado") . Entrenó con Soun bajo Happosai. Debido a que fueron tratados como esclavos, finalmente lo sellaron dentro de una cueva y abrieron sus propias escuelas. Desde muy joven, Genma llevó a Ranma a un viaje de entrenamiento continuo para perfeccionar sus habilidades. Entonces su esposa Nodoka estaría de acuerdo con este plan, él prometió convertir a Ranma en un "hombre entre hombres" bajo la amenaza de que ambos cometieran seppuku si fallaba. Originalmente llevó a Ranma a Jusenkyo porque había oído hablar de ello en un folleto chino, aunque no podía leer una palabra en chino . Durante su entrenamiento allí, Genma cayó en un manantial maldito, lo que le dio una maldición de panda gigante . A diferencia de Ranma, no tiene muchos problemas con su maldición, especialmente porque puede escapar de sus problemas en su forma de panda. Él y Ranma finalmente regresan a Japón para cumplir con un matrimonio arreglado entre Ranma y Akane para mantener la escuela en marcha. Él se esconde de su esposa permaneciendo como un panda mientras ella está cerca, y ella simplemente cree que Ranko, la forma femenina de Ranma, tiene al "Sr. Panda" como mascota.
Genma sigue su propia interpretación del código de "lucha indiscriminada", que no es exactamente tan virtuoso en sí mismo para empezar. Con frecuencia predica el deber y el honor como artista marcial, pero parece ser un mal ejemplo para establecer esos estándares. Aunque él mismo afirma ser un modelo de artista marcial, y se asegura de decirle a Ranma lo que es correcto hacer, no está por encima de actuar cobardemente, robar una dote o solo velar por su propio bienestar. Por lo general, intenta huir de cualquier problema que haya causado o en el que esté enredado, y le echa el asunto a Ranma si no puede. Su amor por la comida domina regularmente su amor por su hijo, una vez lo cambió por un plato de ramen, y en otra, cambió al bebé Ranma por una comida de pescado. Es muy abierto con su forma de panda y la usa regularmente para evitar preguntas, ya que los pandas no pueden hablar. En forma de panda, se comunica escribiendo en letreros de madera que parece sacar de un tipo de espacio de martillo en esa forma.
Si bien suele ser demasiado vago o asustado para mostrarlo, Genma es un consumado artista marcial. Es extremadamente fuerte y ágil a pesar de su tamaño, y su forma de panda aumenta aún más sus habilidades, logrando que su hijo corra por su dinero en la mayoría de sus batallas o spars serios. La mayoría de sus técnicas especiales son ridículas de contemplar (pero, sorprendentemente, no del todo inútiles), y las usa con bastante frecuencia. Sin embargo, creó un par de escuelas "serias": el Umisenken que le permite ocultar su aura y ejecutar ataques de emboscada por la espalda; y el Yamasenken que le permite hacer que los oponentes pierdan el enfoque, crear poderosos bombardeos de vacío o dar golpes mortales y penetrantes. Habiendo descubierto que estas técnicas eran mucho más peligrosas de lo que pensaba, decidió sellarlas; se revela que ha creado las técnicas para poder sobrevivir en condiciones extremas mediante el robo. Por lo general, recurre a agarrar a Ranma de la misma manera que agarra un neumático cuando es un panda para influir en él. Genma también es capaz de invocar un aura de batalla de proporciones épicas similares a la de Happosai, pero solo puede usarlo por períodos muy breves (posiblemente solo medio minuto) antes de colapsar por el esfuerzo excesivo, lo que lo hace bastante inútil.
Nodoka Saotome
Expresado por: Masako Ikeda (japonés); Lisa Bunting (inglés, Viz Media dub) [2]
Nodoka Saotome (早 乙 女 の ど か, Saotome Nodoka ) es la madre de Ranma y la esposa de Genma. Sin embargo, no los ha visto en más de una década, cuando se fueron de viaje de entrenamiento. Declarando que una madre cariñosa obstaculizaría el entrenamiento de Ranma, Genma hizo un contrato con ella para criar a Ranma como un "hombre entre hombres". Si fallaba, él y Ranma debían cometer seppuku , un ritual de suicidio común entre los samuráis. Ella siempre tiene una katana con ella para ese propósito. Debido a que la maldición de Ranma lo convirtió en una mujer la mitad del tiempo, pasaron la mayor parte de las apariciones de Nodoka ocultándose de ella como el primo de Akane, "Ranko", y su mascota, el Sr. Panda. El corazón de Nodoka se rompía constantemente al saber que no quería nada más que volver a ver a su hijo. Ella, a su vez, no está interesada en Genma.
Cerca del final de la serie de manga, Nodoka finalmente descubrió las identidades y maldiciones duales de Ranma y Genma. Ella fue más tolerante de lo que habían esperado, sobre todo porque eventualmente comenzó a sospechar que Ranma y Ranko eran, de hecho, la misma persona. Una vez que supo la verdad, decidió no obligarlos a cometer seppuku mientras Ranma siguiera interesado en las chicas y continuara peleando como un "hombre entre hombres". Más tarde se mudó con ellos, lo que permitió que los tres volvieran a ser una familia "normal".
Familia Tendo
Akane Tendo
Expresado por: Noriko Hidaka (japonés); Myriam Sirois (inglés; doblaje de Viz Media), Claudia Thomas (inglés; doblaje de Animax Asia); Magali Barney (francés); Stella Musy (italiana); Min-Jeong Yeo (coreano); Tatiane Kelpmair (portugués); Patricia Acevedo (español, OVA), Rossy Aguirre (español americano), Victoria Ramos (español europeo) [1]
Interpretado por: Yui Aragaki
Akane Tendo (天道 あ か ね, Tendō Akane ) es la protagonista femenina de la serie y la hija menor de Soun a los 16 años. Se encontró por primera vez con la forma masculina de Ranma como un extraño desnudo emergiendo de un baño caliente en el baño, como lo había hecho hasta ese momento. solo lo conocí en forma de niña. Su familia la eligió para que se comprometiera con él y continuara con el dojo de la familia Tendo. Debido a numerosos argumentos y malentendidos, su compromiso no tuvo un buen comienzo y ambos se suavizaron más tarde. A pesar de la aparente burla de Ranma, Akane es a menudo venerada debido a su belleza y fuerza.
Akane regularmente se siente inferior a Kasumi en belleza y actividades femeninas, a Ranma y sus otras prometidas en cocina, artes marciales o gimnasia, y a otros estudiantes de natación. Ella se esfuerza por sobresalir en todo, pero es torpe o completamente inepta ( especialmente en la cocina, el sabor de su cocina puede incapacitar a la mayoría de las personas durante una cantidad significativa de tiempo), excepto en el trabajo escolar y ciertas actividades deportivas, como el voleibol. También es una artista marcial capaz, sobresaliendo particularmente en el uso de una amplia variedad de armamento arcaico, y es bastante popular entre los chicos de la escuela, aunque preferiría un poco menos de atención de ellos, especialmente Tatewaki Kuno. Cuando alguien, con frecuencia Ranma, menosprecia su falta de éxito, o la llama desagradable, fea, musculosa, poco femenina y poco femenina, a menudo se siente molesta y también se pone muy celosa cuando una de las otras prometidas de Ranma muestra afecto físico hacia él, aunque ella a menudo dirá que ella no se ve afectada. Ella ama a Ranma en el fondo, a pesar de que con frecuencia se niega a mostrarlo. Sin embargo, al final del manga, ambos aprenden el afecto que se tienen y deciden aceptarlo abiertamente.
La personalidad de Akane por lo general oscila entre el desprecio violento, irascible, distante y de malos modales hacia su pretendiente a la amabilidad con respecto a otros seres queridos o simplemente a los extraños en general.
A pesar de sus aparentes desventajas, de las tres prometidas, se considera que Akane tiene el mejor reclamo como pretendiente de Ranma; esto la coloca como el principal objetivo para el resto de las prometidas.
Soun Tendo
Expresado por: Ryusuke Obayashi (japonés); David Kaye (inglés, doblaje de Viz Media), Russell Wait (doblaje en inglés, Animax Asia); Giovanni Petrucci (italiano); Bardo Miranda (español) [1]
Interpretado por: Katsuhisa Namase
Soun Tendo (天道 早 雲, Tendō Sōun ) el jefe de la familia Tendo, uno de los dos que practica las artes marciales Anything Goes. Tiene una casa grande que ocasionalmente necesita reparaciones debido a las peleas que allí se desarrollan. Si bien es dueño del Musabetsu Kakutō Ryū Tendo Dojo y es su maestro actual, no se ha demostrado explícitamente que tenga estudiantes, lo que hace que la fuente de sus ingresos sea incierta. Los representantes de la comunidad se le acercan con frecuencia cuando tienen problemas con fenómenos inusuales, por lo que esto puede proporcionar algo, y él ha alquilado el dojo para reuniones sociales. Se muestra que tiene mucho cuidado con los gastos y se molesta cuando su hija Nabiki gasta sus ahorros en regalos caros, o cuando Ranma tira la cena al suelo. A pesar de esto, es un anfitrión muy atento y complaciente en su dojo con todo tipo de visitantes.
Estudió con el fundador del estilo, Happosai, con Genma, quien es un amigo cercano. Su entrenamiento fue nada menos que abuso y trabajo esclavo, por lo que finalmente lograron alejarse de él. Él y Genma establecieron un matrimonio arreglado entre su hija, Akane, y Ranma para unir las escuelas Tendo y Saotome y continuar con su legado. A pesar de las protestas de ambas partes, creen que los dos eventualmente llegarán a amarse. Soun está ansioso por que su hija diga que ama a Ranma o viceversa. Comenzará a anunciar planes de boda si Ranma y Akane parecen tener una relación sentimental.
Soun es muy emocional, a menudo se pone a llorar con solo pensar en un pensamiento triste (aunque esta tendencia a llorar es un rasgo exclusivo del anime). También es viudo, que se quedó solo para cuidar de sus tres hijas. Es muy respetuoso con su difunta esposa, cuya tumba visita con regularidad, y la llora constantemente. Es extremadamente protector con sus tres chicas, especialmente con Kasumi, y se entristece si su afecto está en duda. Quizás por esta razón, tiende a enojarse mucho cada vez que sospecha que Ranma está 'engañando' a Akane o que de otra manera la está tratando mal, siendo intensamente paranoico en este sentido. Generalmente asume que la mayoría de los incidentes son culpa de Ranma, y a menudo se manifiesta como una cabeza de oni fantasmal flotante para asustar o intimidar a Ranma en tal situación. En combate, Soun lucha con frecuencia completamente vestido con una armadura samurái tradicional y es experto tanto en el combate cuerpo a cuerpo como en el uso de una amplia variedad de armamento arcaico. En el anime, pasa la mayor parte de su tiempo jugando shogi con su antiguo compañero de entrenamiento Genma.
Nabiki Tendo
Expresado por: Minami Takayama (japonés); Angela Costain (inglés; doblaje de Viz Media), Saffron Henderson (inglés, cantando; doblaje de Viz Media), Elaine Wotten Costain (inglés, doblaje de Viz Media; relleno), Candice Moore (inglés; doblaje de Animax Asia); Emanuela D'Amico (italiana); Ana María Gray (español) [1]
Interpretado por: Maki Nishiyama
Nabiki Tendo (天道 な び き, Tendō Nabiki ) es la hija mediana de Soun, de 17 años, y un marcado contraste con su hermana mayor. Es una mujer de negocios completamente amoral que ama el dinero por encima de todo y está dispuesta a sacrificar a cualquiera para ganar más. Regularmente se vuelve muy despiadada y manipuladora con fines de lucro o entretenimiento. Ella está dispuesta a rebajarse a niveles considerables y está completamente en paz con ser así, siendo comparativamente cuerda y equilibrada. Se la utiliza de forma recurrente como una parodia del materialismo excesivo, con su extrema codicia resaltada por el efecto cómico.
Nabiki tiende a vender artículos útiles o que no funcionan que otros necesitan, y envía imágenes de la forma de niña de Ranma a sus admiradores. Aunque es una hedonista que generalmente adopta un enfoque relajado y divertido del caos habitual, tiene una gran capacidad de observación y un sentido del humor mezquino. Es una estratega flexible, una actriz experta, capaz de mentir o fingir sentimientos sin la menor culpa, y en general imperturbable. Ella, sin embargo, alberga una vaga simpatía por Kuno (su compañero de clase) ya que lo llama cariñosamente "Kuno Baby".
Se ha dicho que no posee ningún sentimiento de doncella, pero no está por encima de usar su apariencia atractiva como señuelo. En la historia de "Bean-Gun Plant", Nabiki invirtió parte de sus ganancias en acciones, pero no está dispuesta a gastar su propio dinero. Preferiría robar el guardarropa de Akane, ser mimada por un admirador o vaciar los ahorros de Soun para comprar artículos caros. Ella estuvo brevemente comprometida con Ranma después de que Akane se frustrara con él y lo alquilara como mano de obra esclava, pero también reunió a los dos después de que Ranma parecía exigir demasiado esfuerzo.
Algunos de sus actos más extremos incluyen arruinar a su familia para ganar una apuesta, chantajear a cualquiera que esté enamorado de ella por todo lo que pueda conseguir, destruir la casa de Nodoka para entretenerse, la boda de su hermana por la oportunidad de obsequios, diseñar la herida de un estafador rival. mientras fingía afecto, incriminaba al propio Ranma por intento de violación, a pesar de que él le salvó la vida, o incluso vendiendo casualmente a la mujer Ranma a un casino criminal. Los únicos personajes dentro del Dojo que no parecen tener ninguna deuda con ella son Akane y Kasumi, aunque ella ve sus propios esfuerzos para unir a Ranma y Akane como una cuenta que Ranma finalmente tiene que pagar.
En el anime se muestra a Nabiki practicando tenis, como lo demuestra su carga de una bolsa de deporte con una raqueta adjunta en una escena con Cologne, Ranma y Happosai donde interrumpe su pelea por un espejo mágico al pisar dicho espejo.
Kasumi Tendo
Expresado por: Kikuko Inoue (japonés); Willow Johnson (inglés, doblaje de Viz Media), Andrea Kwan (doblaje en inglés, Animax Asia); Christine Stichler (alemán) [1]
Interpretado por: Kyoko Hasegawa
Kasumi Tendo (天道 か す み, Tendō Kasumi ) es la hija mayor de la familia Tendo a los 19 años, y la más tradicional en el sentido japonés, destacándose como genial y agradable en comparación con todos los demás. Se graduó de la escuela secundaria y pasa la mayor parte del día cuidando de la casa Tendo, actuando como la "matriarca" sustituta de la familia cocinando, limpiando y ayudando a su familia desde la prematura muerte de su madre. No le interesan los hombres más jóvenes y el Dr. Tofu Ono, el médico de familia, está profundamente enamorado de ella, aunque no tiene ni idea de ello. Ella simplemente lo considera un buen amigo y encuentra divertidas sus payasadas. Kasumi, que aparentemente no se ve afectada por la locura que la rodea, es uno de los pocos personajes que nunca se lastima en ningún momento de la serie, a pesar de su posesión temporal por un oni travieso. También se muestra ocasionalmente como más sabia y más perspicaz de lo que parece, y puede ver a través de los planes de Nabiki. Más allá de cuidar de la casa, se ha demostrado que sale a encontrarse con amigos y ha pedido prestado un libro de puntos de presión al Dr. Tofu. También es uno de los únicos personajes femeninos que Happosai nunca ha manoseado, aunque ha coqueteado con ella.
Tiene la voz de Kikuko Inoue en el anime japonés y de Willow Johnson en inglés. [3] En el Live Action Special, es interpretada por Kyōko Hasegawa .
Amazonas chinas
Las amazonas chinas son conocidas en japonés como Joketsuzoku (Rǔjiézú, 女傑 族): el nombre se traduce con mayor precisión como Pueblo chino de mujeres heroínas (中国 ・ 女傑 族 (ニ ィ チ ェ ズ ゥ) , Chūgoku Nyichezwu , pinyin : Nǚjiézú ) .
Champú
Expresado por: Rei Sakuma (japonés); Cathy Weseluck (inglés, doblaje de Viz Media), Candice Moore (doblaje de Animax Asia en inglés); Ilaria Stagni (italiano); Mi-Sook Jeong (coreano) [1]
Shampoo (シ ャ ン プ ー, Shanpū , chino :珊 璞; pinyin : Shānpú ) es el campeón de la aldea Nyucheizu. Ella vino a Japón para matar a la hembra Ranma, después de que él la derrotara en un concurso anual de artes marciales ya que él y Genma habían devorado con avidez el premio, una mesa de banquete bien surtida, mientras se acercaban y veían el concurso. Shampoo le dio a Ranma el "Beso de la Muerte", una promesa de rastrearla y eventualmente matarla. Más tarde, después de que el macho Ranma la derrotara accidentalmente, ella le dio el "Beso del matrimonio", ya que las leyes de su aldea la obligan a matar a las mujeres que las derrotan y casarse con hombres. Una vez que se enteró de su maldición, regresó a casa con el corazón roto.
Como castigo por no haber matado a la mujer Ranma o haberse casado con el hombre Ranma, su bisabuela Cologne la llevó a Jusenkyo para volver a entrenarla. Durante este entrenamiento, ella cayó en el "manantial del gato ahogado", lo que la hizo maldecir a convertirse en un gato, lo único que Ranma más teme, y ella lo culpa por este estado. A pesar de esto, Shampoo ya no está obsesionada con querer matar a Ranma, y ahora solo quiere casarse con él. Habiendo regresado a Nerima , Tokio , Japón , sirve mesas en el Cat Cafe (Nekō Hanten), el restaurante de su bisabuela. A veces también reparte ramen en bicicleta, de vez en cuando atropellando a la gente, especialmente a Ranma, en las calles y los tejados. Mousse la persigue activamente, una amiga de la infancia por la que generalmente no muestra más que desdén.
Shampoo habla con un modo simplificado de hablar, sobre todo cambiando rápidamente entre ignorar y usar pronombres personales, debido a que tiene una cantidad limitada de tiempo para aprender el idioma japonés . Se la describe como "inocente y agresiva", siendo muy cariñosa y alegre, al mismo tiempo que es taimada y contundente. Su lema personal es "el obstáculo es para matar", y está más que dispuesta a asesinar cualquier "obstáculo" en el camino de una meta o simplemente por conveniencia. Por ejemplo, ha intentado lavarle el cerebro a Ranma para que la ame. También intimidará implacablemente a la gente, o pondrá a otros, incluido su "novio", a través de juegos sádicos y, a veces, dolorosos para su propia diversión. Ella tiene muy poca modestia e intenta usar la desnudez para seducir a Ranma en lugares públicos. A veces se la compara con Lum Invader del anterior Urusei Yatsura de Takahashi debido a las similitudes en sus diseños de personajes y personalidades abiertamente pegajosas.
Ella ha demostrado que no ha dejado de lastimar a las otras prometidas de Ranma. Ella es considerablemente más insistente que cualquiera de ellos, aunque sus planes para cortejar a Ranma son generalmente más violentos y tortuosos que sus otros pretendientes con la posible excepción de Kodachi. Ella tampoco está por encima de lastimar a Ranma, y se muestra que en su mayoría no está interesada en ganarse su afecto jugando limpio, aunque no es completamente desalmada.
Ella es muy hábil en el combate sin armas, posee una velocidad y agilidad considerables. El champú es lo suficientemente fuerte como para caminar casualmente a través de paredes de piedra reforzadas de forma regular; en el anime dice que hace esto porque la puerta tarda demasiado. También puede usar de manera eficiente ciertas técnicas de acupresión sobrenatural para la inconsciencia instantánea, el control mental temporal o incluso la eliminación selectiva de la memoria. (En el manga, parece lavar agresivamente el cabello de sus adversarios para estos efectos, de ahí su nombre.) Su debilidad es su falta de durabilidad, ya que es derrotada de forma recurrente por ataques contundentes. Ella usa un par de " chúi " como sus armas principales.
Shampoo es constantemente comido con los ojos por Mousse, su amiga de la infancia y pretendiente, ya que Mousse es tan apegada a Shampoo como Shampoo lo es a Ranma. Ella generalmente no se inmuta y es violenta con sus afectos porque ha hecho de Ranma su principal prioridad; Se muestra que Shampoo le dio a Mousse varias oportunidades para cortejarla, aunque su torpeza siempre lo supera. Generalmente se muestra que Mousse tiene algo de malicia con todos excepto con Shampoo (irónicamente, esto se debe a Shampoo), aunque en realidad es muy educado, amigable y respetuoso.
Su padre calvo, con gafas y bigote, "estereotípicamente chino" solo ha aparecido ocasionalmente como personaje de fondo en el manga o anime, cuando veía su supuesto entrenamiento / castigo contra Cologne en Jusenkyo, o trabajaba como cocinera en el restaurante. Sin embargo, apareció como el oponente final de un videojuego de 1990, en el que desafió a Ranma debido al maltrato percibido de su hija.
Colonia
Expresado por: Miyoko Aso (japonés); Elan Ross Gibson (inglés, doblaje de Viz Media; primera voz), Kathleen Barr (inglés, doblaje de Viz Media; segunda voz), Claudia Thomas (inglés, doblaje de Animax Asia); Magda Giner (español) [1]
Cologne (コ ロ ン, Koron , chino :可 崘; pinyin : Kě Lún ) es la bisabuela de Shampoo . Ella acompaña a Shampoo en su regreso a Japón para ver de qué estaba hecho este "futuro yerno", pero terminó quedándose para poder ayudar a Shampoo a ganarse el corazón de Ranma. También abre el Cat Café en Nerima, donde trabajan Shampoo y Mousse. Es contemporánea de Happosai y tiene más de trescientos años, según el anime. Ella llama a Ranma "novio" y "yerno" debido a sus intentos de casarlo con Shampoo, solo para verlo enfurecerse. A diferencia del resto del elenco, Cologne parece preferir sentarse en un segundo plano y ver cómo se desarrolla la locura. Si tiene un motivo, ya sea para ayudar a Shampoo en sus esfuerzos o para ayudar a Ranma en sus batallas, solo entonces entrará en la refriega. Se mueve empujando un bastón de madera nudoso que a veces usa como arma. Colonia suele ser la voz de la experiencia y el conocimiento para la mayoría del elenco, en contraste con el tortuoso maestro Happosai (que sirve exclusivamente como un enemigo constante).
Es una gran maestra de las artes marciales amazónicas chinas, y ocasionalmente enseña a Ranma y sus rivales nuevas técnicas, como el Kachū Tenshin Amaguriken, Hiryū Shōten Ha y Bakusai Tenketsu. Ella es la única artista marcial de la serie cuya habilidad rivaliza con la de Happosai, lo que le permite, por ejemplo, derrotar casualmente a Ranma o la forma de quimera de Taro. Además de la inmensa habilidad de Cologne, ella es capaz de manipular agua y hielo, crear torbellinos usando el aura de un oponente contra ellos, romper objetos inanimados con un simple toque, disparar explosiones de chi y tocar puntos de presión para hacer que una persona se sienta como si estuviera arden incluso con la más mínima cantidad de calor. También tiene conocimientos en varias otras disciplinas, como la tradición arcana, la cocina, la mitología china y los artefactos mágicos.
Mousse
Expresado por: Toshihiko Seki (japonés); Brad Swaile (inglés, doblaje de Viz Media); Francesco Bulckaen (italiano); Jose Antonio Macias (español) [1]
Mousse (ム ー ス, Mūsu , chino :沐 絲; pinyin : Mùsī ) es un luchador chino de la tribu guerrera, cuyo amor por su amiga de la infancia Shampoo no ha sido correspondido. Ha estado enamorado de ella durante la mayor parte de su vida, pero ella lo encuentra molesto en el mejor de los casos, reprendiendo sus avances desde que eran niños. Viene a Nerima en busca de este "nuevo prometido" que tiene Shampoo, y se queda para intentar cortejar a su amada. Está extremadamente celoso de Ranma, que es el objetivo del afecto de Shampoo, y cree que necesita derrotar o matar a Ranma para que ella lo cuide. Ella afirma que lo rechazará incluso en tal caso, y a menudo lo ataca debido a su obsesión. A pesar de que se está convirtiendo en un luchador mucho más peligroso que Shampoo, ella casi nunca le brinda ninguna medida de respeto, aunque cuando lo hace, la torpeza de Mousse lo supera. Trabaja en el Cat Cafè (Nekō Hanten) con Shampoo y Cologne. Shampoo es muy consciente del amor de Mousse por ella, por lo que nunca lo envía lejos o usa esto para aprovecharse de él en sus esfuerzos por cortejar a Ranma; esto, sin embargo, no evita que Mousse se involucre en combate con Ranma por su bien.
Mousse tiene una vista extremadamente mala, lo que requiere que use anteojos gruesos, pero generalmente los tiene escondidos dentro de su túnica o apoyados en su frente, lo que lo lleva a veces a confundir personas y objetos inanimados con otras personas. Debido a su mala vista, entró en un manantial maldito, que lo convierte en un pato. Aunque la vista de Mousse es borrosa sin sus lentes y por debajo del promedio incluso con ellos, aparentemente ha aprendido a compensarlo en combate, ya que esto no le ha impedido mantener una alta precisión por completo sin ayuda.
Mousse es un artista marcial increíblemente hábil, rápido, fuerte y peligroso, que lucha usando armas ocultas. Su arsenal incluye cadenas, espadas, dardos, bolas de hierro, cuchillos ocultos, bombas, gases lacrimógenos e incluso yoyos y varios electrodomésticos tontos, que manifiestan cantidades mucho más allá de lo que es capaz de llevar en sus mangas largas y su túnica. Él llama a esta habilidad "magia oscura" simplemente porque está escondiendo objetos en un lugar oscuro. También puede esconder armas en las plumas de su forma de pato y puede usarlas con soltura mientras vuela. También es extremadamente hábil en el estilo Joketsuzoku desarmado utilizado por otras Amazonas. Técnicamente está casi, pero no en la misma liga que Ranma y Ryoga, aparentemente al menos tan fuerte como el primero, y probablemente más letal que cualquiera de los dos, aunque nunca ha logrado salir victorioso en ningún enfrentamiento con ellos, a pesar de pelear. combatientes desarmados.
Rosa y enlace
Pink y Link son un par de amazonas herbolarias gemelas idénticas de la aldea herbolaria vecina a la de Shampoo, quien una vez le hizo una broma cruel , con la ayuda de semillas de Mandragora . Se muestra que Pink usa venenos para atacar a las personas, que Link cura a su vez; esto hace que la gente los confunda. En su arco, Shampoo advierte a Ranma que ella lo presentó a las noticias locales en su aldea como marido y mujer; esto aparentemente haría que los antiguos rivales de Shampoo intentaran atacar a Ranma. Ranma es atacado mientras estaba en la calle por Pink, pero Link lo cura; sin saber que son gemelos, Ranma arremete contra Link, lo que hace que ella huya de él. Más tarde, atacan el restaurante de Shampoo alegando que Shampoo los atacó en las mismas circunstancias, ganándose su enemistad. Shampoo las echa rápidamente y revela que por lo general intimidaba violentamente a las chicas cada vez que regresaba a China, como venganza y venganza por la broma inicial , mientras afirmaba haber sido víctima de una inocencia total. Más tarde, atacan a Ranma en el Tendo Dojo y terminan secuestrando a Shampoo.
Ranma le informa a Cologne de la situación y ella le ofrece la espada con la boca Zhandudao y el escudo Poduduan para defenderse de los ataques de los gemelos. Los gemelos cultivan una flor enorme en la parte delantera del restaurante y atan a Shampoo de sus manos. Ranma trepa a la flor y ataca a los gemelos con un Poduduan reacio, que resulta ser un arma de un solo uso. Link derrite a Zhandudao con sus hierbas medicinales. Shampoo se despierta y comienza a manipular a los gemelos para que continúen con su plan como una treta para atraer a Ranma. Los gemelos logran paralizar a Ranma y Shampoo y volar juntos sobre los pétalos desprendidos de la flor. Aterrizan en la escuela de Ranma y Akane, donde crece un espeso jardín en la entrada. Encarcelan a Ranma y Shampoo dentro de una jaula de vid venenosa.
Akane recibe de Colonia un poderoso admirador llamado Fuo-Shenshan, el cetro de fuego Fuo-Yanshan y una muñeca de papel que puede causar daño en el lugar de cualquiera, pero que puede usarse solo una vez. Ella irrumpe en el jardín y se enfrenta a los gemelos, liberando a Shampoo y Ranma. Como Shampoo todavía estaba tratando de atraer a Ranma, se vuelve contra ellos y los persigue con los gemelos. Ranma, Akane y Shampoo quedan atrapados por unas semillas de vid plantadas por Link y derribados. Los gemelos aprovechan la oportunidad para golpear a Shampoo a través de su parálisis. Akane le ofrece la muñeca de papel a Ranma para salvarlo, dejándose pasar por la parálisis. Shampoo comienza a golpear a los gemelos mientras aún duerme. Ranma los encuentra y tratan de escapar del jardín, que arroja gases venenosos; Ranma intenta usar el abanico y el cetro, pero fracasan. Envenenado, los gemelos son capaces de inventar un antídoto que le dan a Ranma, quemando severamente sus labios. Con las cuatro niñas inconscientes, Ranma alimenta el cetro con la medicina hirviendo que hace que arroje fuego y él es capaz de ganar suficiente impulso para escapar del jardín mientras carga a las cuatro niñas. Ranma puede aterrizar de forma segura con las chicas inconscientes, pero como resultado de la caída se rompe las piernas. Mientras se recupera de sus heridas, Ranma recibe la visita de Shampoo, quien le informa que el periódico del pueblo está publicando una historia de los gemelos que lo retrata como un cobarde. Sin embargo, Ranma se niega airadamente a volver a involucrarse con los gemelos.
Familia kuno
Tatewaki Kuno
Voiced by: Hirotaka Suzuoki (Japanese), Koji Tsujitani (Japanese, fill in for episodes 65, 66, 68 & OVA 13); Ted Cole (English, Viz Media dub), Russell Wait (English, Animax Asia dub); Manuel Straube (German); Christian Iansante (Italian); Hwan-Jin Kim (Korean); Gabriel Gama (Spanish), Luis Daniel Ramirez (Spanish)[1]
Played by: Kento Nagayama
Tatewaki Kuno (九能 帯刀, Kunō Tatewaki) is an upperclassman at Furinkan High School and the older brother of Kodachi Kuno. Hailing from a very wealthy family, he wields both his fortune and his bokken with equal ease. He has a large ego, creating the nickname "The Blue Thunder of Furinkan High", a moniker used by no one else, for himself. His ego is further apparent in that he is unable to conceive of Akane or female-form Ranma NOT being in love with him, and frequently assumes their actions are geared toward winning his affections. When speaking, he uses a regal tone (or Shakespearesque in the English version).
At the show's start, he has been madly in love with Akane for some time. After being defeated by Ranma in his female form, he also falls for the "Pigtailed Girl" as he calls "her". After briefly wrestling with his competing desires, Tatewaki decides he wants to be with them both and, in keeping with his ego, assumes that they are so in love with him that they will accept this. Tatewaki never realizes that the Pigtailed Girl is really his mortal enemy in a female body, despite witnessing Ranma's transformation several times—he merely believes that Ranma has switched places with her in some manner. He once hears her called by Ranma's name, and attempts to write it down for future reference. Despite this, he never makes a connection and continues to refer to "her" as his "goddess in pigtails", or "the pigtailed girl" for the entire series. Akane's sister Nabiki often sells him photographs of "the pigtailed girl" in various states of undress. He also has a strong rivalry with Kodachi, who similarly has a crush on male Ranma (and much like her brother refuses to believe that Ranma and the pigtailed girl are the same person), often leading to confrontations between the siblings. Unlike Kodachi, Kuno doesn't actually behave in any malicious way, and although he's a buffoon and extremely forward with the girls he likes, he is shown to be traditionally courteous.
As captain of the kendo team, Tatewaki was the school's most powerful warrior before Ranma's arrival. Despite constant defeats at Ranma's hands, he is always confident in his abilities, believing himself to be incapable of losing. Though he is initially no match for Ranma, after losing his memory for a time, he shows the potential to become far stronger. With his sword, he is very powerful, able to create "air pressure strikes" easily capable of destroying a stone pillar, and he later becomes able to spin rapidly, which creates a constant barrage of the strikes and makes his defense nearly impenetrable. The cheerleader Mariko Konjo has a rather large crush on him, and calls Kuno her "first love".
Kodachi Kuno
Voiced by: Saeko Shimazu (Japanese); Teryl Rothery (English, Viz Media dub; seasons 1-4), Erin Fitzgerald (English, Viz Media dub; season 5), Sylvia Zaradic (English, Viz Media dub; seasons 6-7), Candice Moore (English; Animax Asia dub); Julia Haacke (German); Rocio Prado (Spanish)[1]
Kodachi Kuno (九能 小太刀, Kunō Kodachi) is the captain of the gymnastics team of the St. Hebereke School for Girls, who is referred to as "The Black Rose" (in Japanese, Kurobara no Kodachi), apparently due to her signature theatrical style of exiting a scene by leaving behind a swirling trail of black roses accompanied by high-octave laughter. She is an expert in Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics, making her skilled in acrobatics and the use of balls, clubs, hoops, ribbons, and ropes as weapons. She is very agile, and she is not averse to using unorthodox methods in combat such as rigged weapons, explosives and various poisons. She attacks other people prior to competitions in order to win by default, which she calls "fighting in all fairness before the match." She becomes enamored with Ranma after he saved her from a fall, and attempts to make him hers at any cost. She also hates Ranma's female form, believing "her" to be a rival for Ranma, while her brother Tatewaki hates the male form, which is a frequent source of conflict between them. She is a good cook who prepares elaborate meals, and she often uses culinary expertise to her advantage by placing poisons, toxins, serums, and other strange substances in her victims' food to attain something she wants from them.
Kodachi is considered the most malicious of Ranma's fiancees and although she is shown in less occasions than Akane, Shampoo and Ukyo, her personality and methods make her the most dangerous of the four. She is shown to have a skewed version of what would make Ranma happy; she is considered to be pursuing Ranma mostly out of personal vanity, as she does not show to be particularly interested in his happiness or well being.
Principal Kuno
Voiced by: Tatsuyuki Jinnai (Japanese); Scott McNeil (English; Viz Media dub); Carlos Del Campo (Spanish)[1]
Principal Kuno (九能 校長, Kunō-kōchō) is the Kuno siblings' long lost father and the principal at Akane and Ranma's school. He is obsessed with Hawaiian culture, generally wears a lei and an aloha shirt, and speaks with a Hawaiian accent. His disappearance and subsequent return is explained in the manga as being part of a study trip to learn the teaching methods used in America. On his return from Hawaii, his first action is to attempt to force standard haircuts on all students (buzz cuts for boys, bowl cuts for girls), which begins a rivalry between the Principal and Ranma Saotome. Principal Kuno is the only person to ever appear in Ranma 1/2 wearing a baseball uniform. He is gleefully devoted to making the lives of all the students at his school as miserable as possible and seems to enjoy their derision, though he likes to pick on Ranma in particular.
Sasuke Sarugakure
Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba (Japanese); Robert O Smith (English; Viz Media dub); Patrick Borg (French); Herman Lopez (Spanish)[1]
Sasuke Sarugakure (猿隠 佐助, Sarugakure Sasuke) is the Kuno family's house ninja. Sasuke is a loyal servant and often tries to help Tatewaki defeat Ranma and steal Akane away from him. Despite his loyalty, Sasuke sometimes receives harsh treatment by Tatewaki. He has to live in poor conditions with minimal food and very little shelter or comforts.
Sasuke is exclusive to the anime, and takes over many of Hikaru Gosunkugi's parts before that character is introduced later in the anime.
Otros personajes japoneses
Ryoga Hibiki
Voiced by: Koichi Yamadera (Japanese); Michael Donovan (English; Viz Media dub), Dave Bridges (English; Animax Asia dub); Patrick Borg (French); Daniel Schlauch (German); Riccardo Rossi (Italian); Wendel Bezerra (Portuguese)[1]
Ryoga Hibiki (響 良牙, Hibiki Ryōga) is Ranma's long-time primary rival, and the only one the latter has stated to truly consider as such. He has no sense of direction and is always lost on long strenuous journeys - traits he inherited from his parents. This caused him to be four days late for a duel he and Ranma had planned to fight, and Ranma left on the third day. After spending months looking for male Ranma to have the belated duel, Ryoga finally ends up at Jusenkyo in China, but is pushed into a cursed spring by female Ranma (while chasing Genma and not looking where she was going). Ever since then Ryoga turns into a black piglet when doused with cold water, which makes his constant wanderings much more dangerous from hungry hunters and predators, and he initially carries a large grudge at Ranma for that once he learned the truth.
Ryoga is the first major challenge to Ranma in Nerima. Their first fight showcases their strengths, and it is a close match. Akane accidentally discovers Ryoga in cursed form, and not knowing the pig's true identity, adopts him as her pet and names him P-chan (Pちゃん). She is the first person to show him real kindness, and Ryoga falls head-over-heels in love with her, and consistently acts as a fierce protector from both real and imagined threats, whether in normal or cursed form. She even takes him to bed with her, and generally beats him severely with her sleep-movements.
Ryoga accepts training from Cologne because he feels that he can use it to best Ranma, and win Akane's interest. Cologne is equally using Ryoga, hoping to remove Akane from the picture, which would in turn free Ranma to wed Shampoo. His training under Cologne makes Ryoga's body tremendously durable. He toughens even to the point that great impacts, such as being buried in a rockslide, or being repeatedly struck with large boulders, cause no visible damage. Engaging Ranma for a second time, he forces Ranma to also rely on training from Cologne, used in an inventive manner, to counter his newly toughened constitution.
When not upset Ryoga is usually shy, humble, helpful, and polite, especially around women. He tends to stock up on an assortments of gifts and local food specialties from the highly diverse locations where he ends up during his travels. Ryoga is also shown to have a chivalrous streak, and consistently protects any maidens in distress, or victims of bullies, monsters, or bandits that he comes across, and is sometimes emotional enough to be brought to tears from compassion, including for Ranma. However, he also recurrently tends to be led more by impulse and emotions than common sense, is prone to anger and misunderstandings, and although he is generally more considerate and naive than Ranma, and needs considerably stronger reasons to turn petty and spiteful, when sufficiently pressed he has displayed a few more ruthless moments than his rival seems capable of. Ryoga is largely clumsy with his own strength when he is not engaging in combat, often going through walls and destroying property whenever he feels embarrassed. Ranma often takes advantage of Ryoga's good nature: Ryoga is utterly incapable of seeing through a lady in disguise (mostly Ranma), though this is not a unique trait in him, as Shampoo and Ukyo have also used (blatantly obvious) disguises on other people with success.
Ryoga's grudge towards Ranma for causing his second curse eventually disappears, and is replaced with a professional rivalry. This morphs into something of a mutual respect in the later story arcs, and Ryoga comes to save Ranma's and/or Akane's lives more times than the reverse. However, he remains annoyed with Ranma for recurrently arguing with Akane or manipulating him, and their mutual battle prowess competition will likely persist forever. In the late part of the manga series Ryoga's affection for Akane starts to shift towards the sumo-pig breeder Akari, who becomes his girlfriend.
Ryoga is one of the first characters to use Ki-projection as a means to combat Ranma. His ki attack is named the "Shi Shi Hokodan", or "Lion's Roar Shot", which in the anime is inconsistently displayed as either a green or red globe, alternately a beam, of energy. He taps into his reservoirs through the weight of feelings of depression, loneliness, frustration, pain, anger, hopelessness, and likely determination, to blasts an opponent with a vertical ray of pent up personal energy. Although Ranma does learn the same technique, his personality is much more suited to using emotions of confidence and arrogance, naming his own technique "Moko Takabisha". Ryoga further refines the technique, but the "Shin Shi Shi Hokodan" or complete form of the attack requires extreme levels of despair and projects Ki in a towering pillar, which then crashes down, pulverizing his opponent. Ryoga uses the final version of this technique while being strangled by Lime. His sorrow at the prospect of dying without being loved by Akane causes him to produce a powerful chi-attack that defeats Lime in a single strike, and causes the Musk dragon-prince Herb to wake up (due to the energy output) and feel awed by the display.
By the end of the manga series Ryoga spends his time wandering through the wilderness, attempting to find, and go on innocent dates with, his pig-breeding girlfriend, while striving to get over his old crush on Akane, and as usual, likely training and amassing new techniques to exceed Ranma — if he can ever find his friend and nemesis.
Ukyo Kuonji
Voiced by: Hiromi Tsuru (Japanese); Kelly Sheridan (English; Viz Media dub), Candice Moore (English; Animax Asia dub); Anna Carlsson (German); Francesca Fiorentini (Italian); Gaby Willer (Spanish)[1]
Ukyo Kuonji (久遠寺 右京, Kuonji Ukyō) an okonomiyaki chef and a childhood friend of Ranma. Ten years prior to the manga's beginning, she met Ranma during a training voyage to the country with Genma. Her father proposed an arranged marriage to Ranma, who was unaware that she was a girl, with his okonomiyaki cart acting as the dowry, to which Genma agreed. But when an oblivious Ranma said he liked okonomiyaki more than Ukyo, Genma stole the cart, breaking the engagement and leaving her behind. Shamed and ridiculed by her peers for not being feminine enough to keep her fiancé, she gave up her femininity and decided she wouldn't like boys. She dressed and lived as one, even attending an all-boys school at one point. During this time, she devoted herself to okonomiyaki-style martial arts to prepare to exact revenge on the Saotomes.
She later resurfaces at Ranma's school, and after a heated battle, he discovers her true gender. He calls her "cute", and she learns that he does not seem to get along with his "uncute" fiancée Akane. As a result, she reconciles with Ranma and attempts to reestablish their engagement. She calls him "Ran-chan" (occasionally dubbed as "Ranma-honey" in the English version), while he calls her "Ucchan". Ranma still treats her only as an old friend, but unlike those of his other suitors, her plots to win him over have been mostly non-violent and considerably more effective. Despite this, she can turn underhanded and occasionally ambushes those she believes to be her romantic rivals. In addition, she has been willing to give up her house and restaurant, or rescind her craft for Ranma's sake, if it would mean that they could be together.
Ukyo and Shampoo are shown as more bitter rivals than any of the two towards Akane, and are constantly at each other's throats. Though she is not above hurting Ranma either, she usually does it justifiably but not measuring her own strength. Unlike the other suitors, Ukyo is at better odds regarding Akane, as they are rivals but cautious friends; she has even lived at the Tendo Dojo for a while and is considered worthy of help from both Ranma and Akane at her okonomiyaki restaurant. Apart from Akane, Ukyo is the only alternative suitor to Ranma that goes to his same school and is also his classmate.
Ukyo's style of fighting is a legacy style from her father based on their food preparation, and reminiscent of ninja patterns. She uses food-based techniques to stun, restrain or confuse opponents, as well as a chi-infused "batter dragon", which fuses her techniques into one. She also uses a large spatula as a two handed weapon and has a bandolier of smaller spatulas she uses as projectiles. She is strong, swift, skilled, agile, and has a versatile range of attacks.
Happosai
Voiced by: Ichiro Nagai (Japanese); Paul Dobson (English; Viz Media dub), Victor Lee (English; Animax Asia dub); Serge Bourrier (French); Hwan-Jin Kim (Korean); Osman Ragheb (Spanish)[1]
Happosai (八宝斎, Happōsai) is the founder and grandmaster of Musabetsu Kakutō Ryū (無差別格闘流, School of Indiscriminate Grappling). He often alternates between his role as a villainous grandmaster to one as a lighthearted pervert. As a hedonistic short, old man, he openly makes perverse activities his proud hobbies (much to the shame of his own disciples), committing indecencies willfully such as groping women, peeping at women bathing or undressing, and stealing lingerie (he is often found carrying a big sack of lingerie leaping from house to house). He goes into withdrawals if he is unable to participate in such activities, which causes him to almost die at one point. He attempts to model himself as a former ladykiller, but in reality, he was turned down by every woman in the Amazon village, including Cologne, during his youth. He is also sadistic and vengeful, with instances that include using his two students, Genma and Soun, as slaves and attempting to cripple Ranma for life by taking away his strength. Nevertheless, considering that both Soun and Genma have shown themselves to be powerful Martial Artists, have displayed abilities similar to Happosai, coupled with that their master returned to the Tendo Dojo to train either of them as an official heir to his school, this implies that Happosai did afford Soun and Genma at least some advanced training (though evidently nowhere near enough to outweigh all the injustices he dealt them).
Despite his small stature and age, Happosai is arguably, by far, the most powerful known martial artist in the entire series. Even without employing special techniques, he is able to effortlessly defeat Ranma, Ryoga, Genma and Soun combined within seconds, or overpower Taro's monster form with a single finger. His defining and most often employed weapons are cannonball-like fuse bombs, ranging from regular to small house-sized, which he can seemingly instantly conjure out of nowhere when needed. He possesses knowledge in ancient martial arts techniques, near-forgotten pressure points on a human body, recipes for alchemical concoctions with various effects, and knowledge of many Chinese and Japanese magical artifacts. Other techniques include turning his body substance similar to air for invisibility, chi-blasts, momentum negation or redirection, and crippling fear generation. He has an enormously powerful large skyscraper-sized battle-aura (looking like a giant version of himself), which allows him to increase the scale of his fighting to great kaiju proportions for prolonged periods of time, and pushes him far out of the league of virtually any other character. Ranma and his fellow fighters have wisely optioned to simply stay out of sight and run for their lives on the rare occasion when the grandmaster has been in this mode. His main weaknesses are that he is seldom remotely serious and he is susceptible to sucker-attacks while he is distracted by lingerie and women.
Happosai is shown to be a frequent foe to most of the cast, though he mostly plots against them if he feels that they have been disrespectful toward him (especially if they don't indulge him in his twisted needs). Even when he is shown to be not behaving maliciously, his actions and intervention always result in grave consequences. One example of this is Hinako Ninomiya (Ranma's teacher), whose life was saved by Happosai by teaching her a technique that allows her to absorb battle auras. She briefly became a foe to Ranma and his classmates as she was considered extremely dangerous before the two of them came to terms.
Hinako Ninomiya
Voiced by: Yumi Toma (Japanese); Janyse Jaud (English; Viz Media dub)[1]
Hinako Ninomiya (二ノ宮 ひな子, Ninomiya Hinako) is a teacher hired by Principal Kuno for the purpose of disciplining Furinkan High's many delinquent students, particularly Ranma. She has a reputation for being a very successful reformer, though her childlike body causes surprise. She was very sickly as a child. While she was in the hospital, Happosai rearranged her metabolism to allow her to absorb the auras of others to increase her health, though his reason for doing so was to allow him to escape enraged nurses, whose panties he had stolen, by having her absorb their auras. Her body ages much more slowly than other people due to the altered metabolism, so she still has the body of a child despite being an adult.
After absorbing a person's aura, her body becomes that of an adult, and she can then fire the energy back at her opponent, though she also returns to her actual form. The ability can be countered by pressing five specific pressure points, and it can be removed by doing so every day for a month, though the action makes the attacker look like a molester, as it forces them to grab her left breast, so Ranma gives up on the idea. While in her child form, she generally acts immature, and in her adult form, she acts as an elegant, somewhat vain adult woman, though either form always enjoys sweets, attractions, and video games, eats like a slob, and does not take care of her apartment.
Hinako is obsessed with enforcing discipline at Furinkan High, and she will do so at any moment if she feels someone is being a delinquent. Her primary target in this endeavor has been Ranma, whom she wishes to take care of so that everyone else will fall in line. Even so, her dedication to teaching also means she wants him to succeed in her classes, and has made an effort to help him with his studies. She is in love with Soun Tendo, and, despite his rejection, is always in pursuit to marry him.
Hinako's only anime appearances have been in one episode of the 1990s OVA series and in the 2008 Nightmare! Incense of Spring Sleep OVA.
Hikaru Gosunkugi
Voiced by: Issei Futamata (Japanese); Michael Benyaer (English; Viz Media dub), Dave Bridges (English; Animax Asia dub); Marco Vivio (Italian); Carlos Íñigo (Spanish)[1]
Portrayed by: Yuta Kanai
Hikaru Gosunkugi (五寸釘 光, Gosunkugi Hikaru) is an unpopular student in Akane and Ranma's class. He is desperately in love with Akane, and tries to get rid of Ranma by using extraordinary items, or his non-existent voodoo abilities. Due to the large strength gap between them, Ranma is largely oblivious of Gosunkugi's enmity towards him. Hikaru has a much larger part in the manga than in the anime, where he does not appear until the sixth season. The character of Sasuke Sarugakure, the Kuno family ninja, was invented to take most of the parts that Hikaru originally performed.
Tofu Ono
Voiced by: Yuji Mitsuya (Japanese); Ian James Corlett (English, Viz Media dub; seasons 1-5), Kirby Morrow (English, Viz Media dub; seasons 6-7); Patrick Borg (French); Hubertus Von Lerchenfeld (German); Jorge Ornelas (Spanish)[1]
Portrayed by: Shosuke Tanihara
Dr. Tofu Ono (小乃 東風, Ono Tōfū) is a chiropractor who runs a moxibustion and acupuncture clinic in Nerima. His office is located near the Tendo dojo. He has known their family for a long time. In addition to his medical skills, he is very knowledgeable about martial arts techniques. He uses his knowledge of pressure points and other medicine to help Ranma and the others. He is hopelessly in love with Kasumi. Whenever he sees her, his glasses fog up and he becomes nervous, losing the ability to focus on what he is doing, which can prove dangerous for any patient he may be treating at the moment. Kasumi is completely oblivious to the effect she has on him, dismissing any of his unusual actions, presumably because she has never seen him act differently. In a similar manner, Dr. Tofu was unaware of the crush Akane had on him at the series' beginning; he was the reason she grew her hair long. She gave up on him after her hair was cut short in a freak accident. For a time, he employed both Genma and Shampoo as assistants. He all but disappeared from the cast after the moxibustion manga arc.
Konatsu
Konatsu (小夏) is a male ninja raised as a female kunoichi, and in this respect is described as a genius that is born only once every one hundred years. He was raised by his cruel stepmother and stepsisters, who treated him like a slave after the death of his father. Like Ukyo's other suitor Tsubasa Kurenai, his face and body appear feminine when fully clothed. He generally wears female battle attire and casual clothing, speaks and acts like humble and subservient Japanese woman, and is generally quite shy. He has feelings for Ukyo Kuonji, though they go unanswered. He is happy to dress in male clothing to help attract customers to her restaurant, though the outfits are generally overly decorated.
He uses trickery and traps in battle, and often utilizes shuriken, smoke bombs, in his hands lethal (cheap) paper swords, a whirlwind of paper bills, and the "Duplicating Body Technique", which allows him to create up to four doubles, though he has not used it in battle. When Konatsu is fighting full force he is more than Ranma can handle while holding back in the no-damage manner used to incapacitate most female fighters, but he does not appear to be as formidable as Ranma, Ryoga, Ryu, or Mousse when they are trying hard. Konatsu does not appear in the anime version.
Akari Unryu
Akari Unryu (雲竜 あかり, Unryū Akari) comes from a long line of trainers who raise and train pigs for sumo-type fighting. Akari loves pigs, and their potential strength as warriors. Her favorite, Katsunishiki, is one of the best in the country and her grandfather states that only someone who can defeat it in battle is worthy to marry Akari. Ryoga defeats it, which causes Akari to fall in love with him, and she falls for him even more after finding out that his curse transforms him into a small pig. Due to a misunderstanding, she once attempts to learn to hate pigs to appease him, but she is unable to do so. She understands his poor sense of direction and provides him with a map to his destination before their dates. She does not appear in the anime version.
Tsubasa Kurenai
Voiced by: Eiko Yamada (Japanese); Saffron Henderson (English; Viz Media dub); Gabriel Chavez (Spanish)[1]
Tsubasa Kurenai (紅 つばさ, Kurenai Tsubasa) is a minor antagonist who serves as master of disguise, often dressing up as various inanimate objects or plants. He also constantly dresses up like a girl and has a girlish (but obnoxious) personality to match, which causes confusion to anyone he meets. He has been in love with Ukyo Kuonji since they went to school together, and is thus jealous of Ranma, who he believes to have stolen Ukyo. He later attempts to date Ranma's female form, but Ranma, thinking Tsubasa to be female, attempts to set him up with his male form because he feels sorry for Tsubasa. Ranma eventually learns that Tsubasa is a male, which leads to violence. Tsubasa is not a trained martial artist, but he has proven to possess strength ample enough to roughhouse Ranma, and he can still cause trouble with his ridiculous tactics and unpredictability. He most commonly disguises himself as a mailbox, but also often poses as Ucchan's Okonomiyaki sign (in order to watch Ukyo), a tree, a trash can, a barrel, and various other objects.
The Golden Pair
Azusa Shiratori voiced by: Naoko Matsui (Japanese); Cathy Weseluck (English; Viz Media dub)[1]
Mikado Sanzenin voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue (Japanese); Ian James Corlett (English; Viz Media dub); Francesco Bucklaen (Italian); Gerardo Reyero (Spanish)[1]
Azusa Shiratori (白鳥 あずさ, Shiratori Azusa) and Mikado Sanzenin (三千院 帝, Sanzenin Mikado) are a pair of martial-arts-ice-skaters known as The Golden Pair. Azusa is bratty and compulsively kleptomaniac. Often, when she finds cute things, she gives them equally cute names and takes them home, even if they clearly do not belong to her. She meets any person attempting to stop her from doing so with violence. Mikado, her partner and classic playboy, in particular is often the target of her assaults with blunt objects.
Azusa comes into conflict with Akane by apprehending the latter's pet piglet P-chan, and renaming it to "Charlotte". When Akane wants it back, Azusa challenges her to a match to determine the rightful owner. Mikado earns a corresponding challenge from Ranma by trying to steal a kiss from Akane's lips, and later earns his full fury, by kissing Ranma's female form. Despite Ranma's lack of skating skill, Mikado is narrowly bested in personal combat during a fight on skates. The official showdown, called the Charlotte Cup, turns into a long, hard, three-way battle between The Golden Pair and their frequently distracted and shifting opponents Ranma, Akane and Ryoga.
In the manga, they only appear once, but they have a cameo appearance in the first movie. And Azusa has an additional appearance in an episode of the TV series. There she takes Tatewaki and Sasuke as two of her cute playthings.
Ryu Kumon
Voiced by: Misturu Miyamoto (Japanese)
Ryu Kumon (公紋 竜, Kumon Ryu) is a wandering martial artist and master of the Yamasenken. When he was 6 years old, he and his father were a very poor family that owned the shoddy Kumon Dojo. One day Ryu's father had an encounter with Genma Saotome. After Genma found out about the Kumons' financial problems, he gave Ryu's father a scroll containing the techniques of the deadly secret art of Yamasenken, a.k.a. Fist of One Thousand Mountains. This led Ryu's father to believe he could use the Yamasenken to restore his dojo, but when he practiced its attacks indoors he ended up destroying the building, causing it to fall on top of him which led to his death. With his last moments of life, he gave Ryu the scroll and told him to find the scroll containing the companion Umisenken. Since then Ryu has traveled alone without any family or friends part of which has led to his harsh and unscrupulous nature.
Ten years later, he comes across Genma's wife Nodoka, when saving her from a rampaging bear, she tells him that he is her long lost son, Ranma, since the scroll he is carrying has Ranma's name written on it. While somewhat surprised by his coincidental good fortune in encountering the wife of Genma, Ryu immediately takes the opportunity to play along, in order to find the Umisenken scroll, and takes up residence within her house. Ranma discovers that Ryu is misleading his mother, and after being beaten and threatened to be exposed if he interfered, decides to learn the stealthy Umisenken technique from his father, which is developed as a direct counter to the brutal and powerful Yamasenken. Once Ranma mastered the Umisenken, he finally managed to defeat Ryu after a harsh and difficult battle.
Shinnosuke
Voiced by: Takeshi Kusao (Japanese); Jason Gray-Stanford (English; Viz Media dub); Marco Baroni (Italian)[1]
Shinnosuke (真之介, Shinnosuke) and his grandfather both live in the forest of Ryugenzawa, where they protect the local villagers from the giant animals that they once kept as pets. Years ago when Akane was vacationing with her family in Ryugenzawa, she got lost in the forest and was attacked by a giant platypus. However she was saved by Shinnosuke. Some time later, when Shinnosuke was near death after being scratched by the platypus's venomous claws, his grandfather took some of the Water of Life and fed it to Shinnosuke. Shinnosuke survived, but developed a dependency on the Water of Life.
Years later, in the present, Akane once again hears about the forest of Ryugenzawa in a television advertisement asking for help in combating the increasing numbers of monsters and remembers Shinnosuke saving her. In an attempt to pay back Shinnosuke, Akane travels to Ryugenzawa to find him. In the process, Akane is attacked by a giant creature, and is saved, just like when she was young, by Shinnosuke, who still bears the marks on his back. Although he is now very forgetful, Shinnosuke invites Akane to stay with him and his grandfather. Akane later cures Shinnosuke of his dependency on the water of life by applying a special moss to his back. Shinnosuke is voiced by Takeshi Kusao in the Japanese anime and Jason Gray-Stanford in English. He later develops a crush on Akane.
Mariko Konjo
Voiced by: Yuko Kobayashi (Japanese); Jocelyn Loewen (English; Viz Media dub)[1]
Mariko Konjo (今条 マリ子, Konjō Mariko) is a minor antagonist who serves as the captain of the Seisyun High School cheerleading team. They assault opposing teams by throwing their cheerleading materials. She instantly develops feelings for Kuno after he lands on her, and she believes that female Ranma is trying to steal him away. She often speaks in rhymes or spells out words in normal conversation. Mariko enthusiastically uses "Martial Arts Cheerleading", an unscrupulous tactic meant to injure other teams, and make her team invincible.
Like several other characters virtually everything Mariko does is a gag or parody, in her case with Valley Girl speak and cheerleading motifs. She creates various extravagant displays with the theme of "love" in the name, such as Love Confession Pom-Pom Fireworks, Love Boomerang, and Innocent Girl Love Letter Blast, but also has surprisingly efficient oddball special attacks and fighting-skills.
She uses her cheerleading tools to attack opponents, such as using batons as bludgeons, or throwing them with incredible stealth and accuracy, to knock out an opposing team without notice, whether directly or through ricochets. She also has a version that can extend to many times its original length. Other attacks include multiple shredding "razor-pom-poms", and strong (miniskirt-wearing) flying kicks. She proved to be a stronger opponent than either Shampoo or Ukyo, and actually managed to momentarily defeat Ranma with an unexpected staff strike to the jugular.
Otros caracteres chinos
Pantyhose Taro
Voiced by: Shinnosuke Furumoto (Japanese); Matt Hill (English; Viz Media dub)[1]
Pantyhose Taro (パンスト太郎, Pansuto-Tarō) is a young martial artist, depicted as an antagonist, who is born in Jusenkyo. Happosai helps his mother with the birth, and accidentally bathes him in the most accursed spring in the area, and because of the customs of the village, Happosai also names him. His cursed form is a chimera resembling either a stereotypical demon or minotaur, with small crane wings which allow him to fly great distances despite his enormous size, and an eel sticking out of his lower back which works as a second set of eyes for Taro during combat. He later integrates an octopus curse to gain a set of tentacles, as well as an ink-blast, which he uses to constrict or confuse his enemies. While others hate their cursed forms, he takes pride in the form's strength and durability in battle, which both considerably exceed that of Ranma himself. However, Taro intensely despises and feels ashamed of his name, wishing to take the name "Awesome Taro", or something similarly impressive-sounding, but the only way to change it by local custom is to have Happosai agree, although he refuses unless it is something other lingerie-related.
Taro is highly ruthless and power-hungry. He's generally dishonorable and often cheats and betrays during confrontations, but will help beautiful women who are in trouble. He's not used to being helped, and generally gives disdainful remarks as thanks for offered aid. Taro is especially intolerant of Ranma, whom he hates because Ranma calls him "Pantyhose-guy", and tends to respond with "cowardly okama", "crossdressing/transgender freak", or similar derogatory epitets. Perhaps to remind himself of the shame his moniker brings, he wears a pair of pantyhose around his waist like a belt. He has also stated a goal to "take over the world", but seems very clueless in this endeavor.
In human form Taro had a certain disadvantage to Ranma during their first confrontation, but his similar tendency to provoke and fight dirty enabled him to gain an edge during their second fight. However, he has not displayed any repertoire of special techniques, has recently been more interested in finding ways to enhance his cursed form than training to increase his skill, and does not appear to be as cunning as a chimera.
Jusenkyo Guide
Voiced by: Koichi Yamadera (Japanese); Ian James Corlett (English, Viz Media dub; seasons 1-5), Michael Donovan (English, Viz Media dub; seasons 6-7); Kai Taschner (German); Martin Soto (Spanish), Javier Roldan (Spanish)[1]
The Jusenkyo Guide is a tourist guide at the training ground of cursed springs at Jusenkyo. He usually warns anyone that comes there that they should not train there or they will fall under a grave curse but never actually interferes with their decisions. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of the hundreds of pools throughout the area, knowing their names, when they became cursed, and the "tragic story" behind each of them. He is also in charge of the guest registry that Pantyhose Taro later uses to track down all the victims of the Jusenkyo curses. He is often helpful to anyone who visits and tries to offer whatever help he can. Unfortunately, he is not very efficacious, and usually informs the unfortunate cursed victim too late about the curse that has fallen on them. Despite his efforts, nearly every character who comes to the springs ends up cursed. The Guide is also an expert on the local area, being knowledgeable about the Chinese Amazons and their customs. The Guide has a young daughter named Plum. He also mentioned having a wife, but she is never seen.
Plum
Plum is the daughter of the Jusenkyo Guide, who appears in the final arc of the manga. When Saffron's people capture her father and start strangling the flow of the Jusenkyo springs, she travels to Japan to warn Ranma, Ryoga, Genma, Shampoo, Mousse and Cologne, and later guides them in the trip to Jusenkyo. Even though Plum is only a little girl, she is fairly intelligent, reasonable and brave, providing Ranma and his friends with useful information about the springs and following them even in dangerous situations.
Rouge
Rouge is a girl from Shanghai, China, who holds a grudge against Pantyhose Taro for stealing the "source of her power." She is presented as generally "overfeminine", being vain, shy, melodramatic, sensitive to the point of easily fainting when mentally exhausted, and fond of superstitions, such as astrology and blood groups. However, she is also violently vengeful when upset, and mostly disregards any damage she causes as a "bad omen".
She is able to transform into an Asura, which grants her six arms, three faces with independent minds, and great strength. In this state her personality is rather turned "overmasculine", loving to eat, fight, blow things up, and apparently possessing few other interests.
The "Asura" form can create lightning storms, or small flaming rocks from her hands, sheathe her body in protective fire, and manifest a turbulent revolving inferno (literal "fire storm"), as well as emit a blinding flash of light. She is susceptible to physical attacks, and her mind is split in three parts that recurrently have different ideas of what to do, but her tendency to hover far away and attack from a distance makes her a difficult opponent. She later learns that her "power sources" are actually magnetic disks used to prevent stiffening in one's back, which is a problem for her cursed form. Rouge does not appear in the anime.
Herb
Herb (ハーブ, Hābu) is a member of the Musk Dynasty, an ancient community of Chinese martial arts devoted to transforming animals into humans using a cursed spring and breeding with them in order to produce heirs with bolstered genetic fighting potential. Herb is part of the royal line, which is descended from dragons, granting him chi-mastery. He is raised without female contact, as is every other male, and before being married, he attempts to use a spring to familiarize himself with women by transforming a monkey. Distracted by breasts, he accidentally falls into the spring and becomes trapped in a female form. He and his two servants, Mint and Lime, attempt to find an artifact to reverse the effect. Herb is ruthless and irate, showing little respect for the worth of anyone beyond himself. Due to his experience with the monkey that cursed him, Herb possesses an irrational hatred towards female breasts, and he is easily distracted and enraged by the sight of them.
Herb is an immensely skilled martial artist, who has consistently outmatched Ranma in direct combat. He believes himself to be a complete master of manipulating chi, though he is easily surprised by unknown attacks. He has the ability to fly, use supersonic strikes, multiple flexible chi blasts, a sword made from chi, and flying blades of chi, as well as the Amazon Hiryu Shoten Ha technique, which uses the power of an opponent to fuel a tornado. He is voiced by Katsuaki Arima.
Herb's two main, fearsome and ruthless, but naive and inexperienced, bodyguards are named Lime (Rimu) and Mint (Minte). Lime is of the tiger-clan, a massive master warrior dressed in animal skins, and the physically strongest and most durable character in the series, dwarfing even Ryoga in these areas, with an upper maximum of over 100,000 tonnes. Mint looks like a short young man, but is part wolf, wears the skin of one over his head, is a master swordsman, and the swiftest character in the series, more than a match for Mousse even when the latter goes all out, and utilises a limited number of throwing knives, but is easily distracted. However, although physically superior to Herb they have not displayed any special techniques.
Saffron
Saffron is a humanoid phoenix, ruling over a tribe of bird-human hybrids transformed from the waters of the cursed springs. He is the main foe of the final arc of the manga. He attempts to use the waters to become an adult and provide heat and light for his people, but the process strangles the flow of the springs, which means that others cursed by the springs have no means to cure themselves. He is selfish and territorial, and only cares for his own people. He tends to be cold and condescending even towards those who treat him with kindness and loyalty.
Saffron has mastery over fire, allowing him to use a number of attacks related to it, up to a gigantic fireball capable of vaporising several mountaintops in its path, making it the most powerful attack in the series. Saffron is able to fly, and is skilled with the Kinjakan, an ancient weapon of his people. He can rapidly heal missing limbs, and he is reborn as an infant after violent deaths, but can be beaten unconscious by severe blunt impacts, and his physical defenses are very low due to being pampered since birth.
This character is the second on the manga that bears the Saffron name; on a previous arc of the manga, there is a Chinese girl named Saffron who is saved by Pantyhose Taro on a very brief encounter.
Saffron's main servants, beyond his chamberlain, are Kiima, Koruma, and Masala (like himself given pun names sounding identical to spices or spicy dishes, similar to the Musk being named after herbs, and other rural Chinese from female beauty accessories).
Kiima is part seabird, the loyal, crafty, proud, haughty, and petty captain of his guard, as well as an expert swordswoman, spy, and seductress. She is capable of flight; using an extremely lethal, mystically enforced metal-slicing, multiple "razor-feather" discharge; communicating with birds or commanding large throngs to perform complex tasks across continents, such as information-gathering, retrievals, or abductions; using surikomi/imprinting eggs to ambush, brainwash, and enslave opponents to turn on their own; or various Jusenkyo water to transform into female human disguises (her latest being a copy of Akane Tendo). Her weaknesses are that she has limited unarmed combat skills, turns human from cold water, and cannot fly in times of rain. Shampoo intensely hates her due to the humiliation of enslavement, and is shown subduing Kiima in combat while Ranma fights Saffron.
Koruma and Masala are Kiima's loyal, dedicated, and easily impressed part crow young bodyguards and handymen. They are stronger and apparently much more dangerous hand-to-hand fighters than herself, are similarly capable of flight as long as they avoid cold water, and can use weaker versions of her feather attack, but are easily confused and dependent on her guidance. Kiima enjoys keeping them around for flattery.
Maomolin
Maomolin (マオモーリン, Maomōrin) is a 3000 year old ghost cat who always searches for a wife.
Recepción
Writing for Anime News Network (ANN), Bamboo Dong compliments Takahashi's character designs as being "easily recognizable", but laments that "everyone looks largely the same", with polar facial expressions and eyebrows, which "seem to always be in a state of unnatural anguish", while "the different age groups are lumped under the same stature and facial types."[4] Also writing for ANN, Carlo Santos disagrees, praising the series' "iconic character designs" for their "great facial expressions" and "distinctive features", which "always make it easy to tell who's who".[5] In an interview with Justin Sevakis for ANN, Anna Exter, a professional anime translator, said that, when she was first introduced to anime, she found the series' characters were "absolutely the cutest things" that she "had ever seen".[6] Writing for THEM Anime Reviews, Raphael See praises the cast of the anime series' first season, saying that they are both "hilarious" and "cute" and that they "help make the series more than just another teenage sitcom".[7]
Ver también
- Anime and manga portal
Referencias
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "Ranma 1/2". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
- ^ "Nodoka Saotome- Ranma ½ Perfect Edition:". Furinkan.com. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "Kasumi Tendo - Ranma ½ Perfect Edition:". Furinkan.com. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ Dong, Bamboo (August 3, 2003). "Ranma ½: DVD: [Season 5 Box Set] Martial Mayhem". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 1, 2009.
- ^ Santos, Carlo (February 6, 2007). "Ranma 1/2: GN 36". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 1, 2009.
- ^ Sevakis, Justin (April 15, 1999). "Interview: Anna Exter". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 1, 2009.
- ^ See, Raphael. "Ranma 1/2 (Season 1)". THEM Anime Reviews. Retrieved September 1, 2009.
Otras lecturas
- Lawerence, Briana (6 October 2009). "10 Male Headaches of Anime". Mania. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014.
- Manry, Gia (3 September 2011). "Gia's List: 8 Awesome Americans in Anime". Anime News Network.
Akane Tendo was the undeniable 'winner' of last week's poll, which determined whose cooking ANN readers would least like to eat.
- Manry, Gia (29 October 2011). "Gia's List: Anime's 7 Best Frenemies". Anime News Network.
- Manry, Gia (19 November 2011). "Gia's List: Anime's 7 Most Awkward Proposals". Anime News Network.
enlaces externos
- Cast of Characters at Ranma ½ Perfect Edition