Ranma Saotome Ranma Wiki. Ranma Saotome. Hair color. Black maleRed femaleOccupation. Martial Artist. High School Student. Ranma Saotome ,Saotome Ranma is the main protagonist and title character of Ranma. Ranma can mean chaotic or reckless horse or a tangled thread. Saotome means rice planting girl. When asked about the characters origins, Rumiko Takahashi said With Ranma, I had thought a lot of doing a series with a malefemale like protagonist, and since in the greater part of my previous stories the main character had been a woman, I planned to use a man this time. I was worried about writing a male main character because of the hundreds and hundreds of male readers, therefore I decided on the character being half man and half woman. Appearance. Ranma can be considered of about average height compared to his fellow characters who are of the same age, as most of them are also around the same height, although Akane Tendo and several of the other females are slightly shorter than him, while Tatewaki Kuno is taller. His female form is shorter than his male form and half a head shorter than Akane. It has been revealed more than once that the female form has a larger bust size and smaller hip size than Akane, which has infuriated the latter whenever Ranma has pointed it out2. Later in the manga it is revealed that both their bust sizes increased, with female Ranmas breasts still staying larger. Ranmas most recognizable physical trait is his trademark pigtail, although before he was cursed he wore it instead as a ponytail4. In the anime, male Ranma has black hair while his female form has red hair. In order to help distinguish between Ranmas forms in the manga, Takahashi always drew Ranmas female form with a shiny spot in her hair. However when the first chapter of the manga when published in Shonen Sunday was printed in color, it portrayed Ranmas female form as having the same black hair as her male form. Lyberty. coms weeklymonthly splash page. Yes, a splash page is old fashioned, but its been a tradition here since 1999. KOR3_CDcoll.JPG' alt='Kimagure Orange Road Ost' title='Kimagure Orange Road Ost' />Ranma favors Chinese style clothing in the form of long sleeved, short sleeved, or sleeveless shirts of various colors, black pants also dark blue or blue green in the anime, and slip on shoes. This has served him well when changing into his cursed form or back. Ranma has his own gi which he will occasionally don specifically for learning a new technique. He wore a gakuran at his former school that he attended with Ryoga Hibiki, but is able to get away with not wearing the one required for boys at Furinkan High School. He also wears a tank top, either as a undershirt or not, and when he dresses up, will usually put on a Mao suit, including the signature cap with a star in front. However he has also dressed in Western formal wear on a few occasions5. Ranma has worn a wider variety of outfits in his female form than in his male form. She will dress in womens clothing voluntarily depending on the circumstances, usually in order to get something she wants, but also when she has to. In several instances however Ranma has involuntarily transformed back into a male while dressed as a woman6. History. The only son of Genma and Nodoka Saotome, Ranma was taken from his home by his father when approximately 2 years old to begin a 1. Resume For Car Driver Post. Genma was only able to convince his wife to let them go by promising him to raise his son as a man among men upon pain of death for both of them. He signed a pledge and had his infant son sign it via hand print. However Ranma remained ignorant of his pledge for years and did not learn of it until his mother resurfaced in his life and Genma prevented them from meeting face to face due to his curse7. While he was still a child, he befriended Ukyo Kuonji, the daughter of a traveling okonomiyaki chef and martial artist, although he was unaware that she was a girl. Genma engaged Ranma to Ukyo in exchange for her fathers food cart, but he abandoned Ukyo and ran off with the cart without ever telling Ranma about the engagement or correcting him about Ukyos real gender8. Genma with a young Ranma just before they began their training trip. Tous les documents publis sur ce site sont la proprit de leurs auteurs respectifs. AnimeKaillou Tous droits rservs. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Later, near the end of the trip, Genma took Ranma to a training ground in China named Jusenkyo that few people used due to the springs being cursed. Falling into them would transform a person into whatever first fell into it and drowned. Not knowing this, and not having the patience to listen to a warning from the local guide, Genma attempted to train with Ranma atop the bamboo poles which jutted up out of the pools. When Ranma knocked Genma into ShonmaoniichuanSpring of Drowned Panda, he was surprised to watch a panda emerge from the pond and leap onto one of the poles. FKdwCXlc/0.jpg' alt='Kimagure Orange Road Ost' title='Kimagure Orange Road Ost' />Genma, now cursed, was able to hit Ranma into Nyannichuan Ningnqun, or the Spring of Drowned Girl. Thus he turns into a female version of his original form when splashed with cold water, which is only temporarily reversible through contact with hot water. Directly after this, Ranma and Genma, still in their cursed forms, the two were looking for food and found the Chinese Amazon Tribe and accidentally ate the the first prize food causing Shampoo to challenge Ranma to a fight. Ranma wins, but Shampoo gives her the Kiss of Death and had since hunted her and Genma down all over China. Sometime after that he had eaten a large bowl of porridge made from Dragons Whisker which would make his hair grow at ridiculous rates when he was a man. The cook of the porridge then gave him a sliver of Dragons Whisker to seal the effect until it wears off which leads to Ranma constantly keeping his hair as a braided pigtail even after the effects wore off before the incident he tied his hair back in a simple, loose ponytail. Before this incident, Genma had made an arrangement with his best friend Soun Tendo that Ranma would marry one of the latters daughters and carry on the Tendo Dojo. Dual Boot Windows Vista And Win7. After learning of Ranmas condition, Souns daughters Kasumi and Nabiki began to insist that Ranma choose their younger sister Akane, and rationalized that a tomboy would be a more appropriate fiancee for a man who transforms into a woman. Although Akane and Ranma were initially unwilling to be engaged, they develop feelings for each other which they generally struggling to deny or otherwise avoid openly expressing throughout the entire series. Ranma and Genma moved in as house guests of the Tendos. Since then, Ranma has endured a series of challenges from his various rivals, new adversaries, and picking up two new suitors and renewing his relationship with a former one. Female Ranma has also received a few male suitors, the most persistent of which is Tatewaki Kuno. After receiving a letter from his wife, Genma revealed that he had promised that Ranma would return a man among men, and that if she were to discover the truth about Ranmas transformation into a girl, they would be forced to commit seppuku. Therefore, to visit with his mother, Ranma would change into a girl during her visit, and presented himself as Akanes cousin Ranko, accompanied by her pet, Mr. Panda. Ranma made several attempts to talk to his mother without revealing his curse to prove his manliness, but was generally thwarted by Genma or circumstances from doing so. However he eventually had enough of hiding from her and was able to save her from falling into the sea, proving his manhood. Nodoka soon after discovered that he and Ranko were the same person, but accepted his curse.