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Ranma ½ (らんま½, Ranma Nibun no Ichi,
pronounced Ranma one-half) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi
with an anime adaptation. The story revolves around a 16-year old boy named
Ranma Saotome who was trained from early childhood in martial arts. As
a result of an accident during a training journey, he is cursed to become
a girl when splashed with cold water, but hot water will change him back
into a boy.
On a training journey in the Bayankala Mountain Range in the Qinghai Province
of China, Ranma Saotome and his father Genma fall into the cursed springs
at Jusenkyo. When someone falls into a cursed spring, they take the physical
form of whatever drowned there hundreds or thousands of years ago whenever
they come into contact with cold water. The curse will revert when exposed
to hot water until their next cold water exposure. Genma fell into the
Spring of the Drowned Panda while Ranma fell into the Spring of the Drowned
Girl.
Upon returning to Japan, the pair settle in the dojo of Genma's old friend
Soun Tendo, a fellow practitioner of Musabetsu Kakutō Ryū or "Anything-Goes"
martial arts which Genma passed on to Ranma. Genma and Soun agreed years
ago that their children would marry and carry on the Tendo Dojo. Soun has
three teenaged daughters: Kasumi, Nabiki and the hot-tempered, but helpful,
martial arts practicing Akane. As Akane is Ranma's age she is appointed
for bridal duty by her sisters. Their reasoning is that Akane dislikes
men, and that Ranma is only a man half of the time; therefore, they are
perfect together. Although both initially refuse the engagement having
not been consulted on the decision, they are generally treated as betrothed
and end up helping or saving each other on numerous occasions. They are
frequently found in each other's company and are constantly arguing in
their trademark awkward love-hate manner that is a franchise focus.
Ranma goes to school with Akane at Furinkan High, where he meets his recurring
opponent Tatewaki Kuno, the kendo team captain who is aggressively pursuing
Akane, but who also falls in love with Ranma's female form without discovering
his curse. Furinkan serves as a backdrop for more martial arts mayhem with
the introduction of Ranma's regular rivals, the eternally lost Ryoga Hibiki,
the nearsighted Mousse, and Ranma's perverted grandmaster Happosai. His
prospective paramours include the martial arts rhythmic gymnastics champion
Kodachi Kuno, and his second fiancée and childhood friend Ukyo Kuonji the
okonomiyaki vendor , along with the Chinese Amazon Shampoo, supported by
her great-grandmother Cologne. As the series progresses, the school becomes
more eccentric with the return of the Hawaii-obsessed Principal Kuno and
the placement of the power-leeching alternating child/adult Hinako Ninomiya
as Ranma's English teacher.
【Quotation from Wikipedia 2009.02.08】
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