Akane Tendo
AGE: 16
OCCUPATION: student
LIKES: Playing with her pet pig, P-chan, martial arts.
DISLIKES: Being stuck with that pervert Ranma! (her fiance) Actually Akane
would never admit how much Ranma means to her. . .if only he'd stop singing
those stupid songs! "You're built like a brick/you're thighs are too
thick. . .big hip blues"
NAME 'AKANE' MEANS- scarlet (cloud)
NAME 'TENDO' MEANS- destiny, way of heaven
AGE: 16
OCCUPATION: Student/Martial Artist - Sometimes has part-time work at the Nekohaten
and Ucchan's
LIKES: Martial Arts anything, eating, being a girl and scoring free eats
DISLIKES/FEAR: CATS, Akane's cooking
Ranma Saotome goes to China to train with his father, Genma, at the Cursed
Springs in Jusenkyo, China. Ranma gets knocked into Nyanniichuan, spring of
drowned girl. Legend has it that anyone who falls into the cursed springs
takes the appearance of whatever drowned there. Everytime he's splashed with
cold water, he becomes a girl.
NAME 'RANMA' MEANS- disorderly horse
Ran - chaotic, wild and Ma - horse
NAME 'SAOTOME' MEANS- planter (a common Japanese surname) Ranma is both a
girl's name and a boy's name (like Chris in English).
And Just
What IS Ranma 1/2 anyway?
The celebrated martial-arts sex comedy by Rumiko
Takahashi
of course!
