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Subject: Ranma 1/2 Nettouhen episode 142
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Ranma 1/2 Nettouhen episode 142
title: Ranma meets mother
opening song: Love Seeker Can't Stop It (Vision)
ending song: Niji to Taiyou no Oka (Piyo Piyo)
aired: 1992.09.18

[This is the first part of the two-part ending episode of Ranma 1/2.]

Little (kindergarten age) Akane was crying on the street.  She had bought
a carnation for her mother.  But Akane had fallen and broken the stem.
Akane's mother came and comforted Akane.

Kasumi came and woke up Akane.  It had been a dream.

The Tendo family, Ranma, and the panda went to Akane's mother's grave.

Ranma asked Akane if she remembered about her mother.  She said that she
remembered quite a lot.  Akane said that her mother was very nice and
kind to her.  Then Nabiki came and asked about Ranma's mother.  Ranma
said that he didn't know anything about his mother.

Then Ranma asked the panda if he had a mother.  The panda held up a sign
saying that he would tell the secret.  The panda wrote on the sign that
he had born Ranma.  Ranma then said that his wife had probably run away.

Later Ranma was walking on the fence along the river.  He jumped to avoid
a broken fence.  But he landed on another broken one.  So Ranma fell into
the river.  Then a pretty lady in a kimono came and offered to help
Ranma-chan.  She tried to pull Ranma-chan out with a long stick that she
had been carrying.  But Ranma-chan accidently pulled her in.

When Ranma-chan got home, Genma rushed at him with all of his stuff on
his back, and said that they would immediately go on a trip.  But Soun
stopped him by tripping him.  They tied up Genma to hear the story.
Kasumi read a postcard that had just arrived.  "I will come over now.
Nodoka"

Genma begged Soun to just let him go.  He said that she would come if
they don't hurry.  Ranma asked if he had stolen something again.
Kasumi, Nabiki, and Akane also assumed that he had stolen something.
Then Genma said, "It's Ranma's.."

Then someone came to the door.  Genma quickly said, "Forgive me mother."
They all guessed that the person who was coming over was Ranma's mother.
But the lady at the door was the woman from the sushi store who had come
to pick up the empty plates.

Ranma sitting by himself.  Then Akane came and said that it was nice
that his mother was coming.  But Ranma said that he didn't remember her
at all.  Then another woman came.  All of the Tendo's rushed to the door.
But Genma grabbed Ranma, who was still sitting, and jumped into the pond.
The panda said that they would be very unhappy if they met her.  When
Ranma-chan took a peek at the woman who had come, she noticed that it
was the woman that she had met earlier in the river.

The woman said that she was Saotome Nodoka and asked about Genma and
Ranma.  Genma told Soun that it was a matter of life and death, so Soun
told Nodoka that Genma and Ranma were on a training trip.

Ranma-chan asked the panda what was going on.  The panda said that it
was Ranma's mother.  Ranma-chan couldn't believe it, saying such a pretty
woman would not marry Genma.  But the panda took out a very old picture
of the Saotome family and showed Ranma-chan.

Nodoka said that she had been home all by herself while Ranma and Genma
were on the training trip.  She said that it wasn't as hard as when she
parted with Ranma.  Nodoka didn't want Genma to take Ranma, but Genma
said that Ranma didn't need a mother's love on the martial arts training.

Ranma poured hot water on himself and said that there was no reason for
him to be hiding his identity.

Nodoka told the Tendo's that Genma had made a promise before leaving.

When Ranma and the panda started fighting, Nodoka heard a boy's voice
and ran out to them.  She thought that Ranma had come back.  But the
panda splashed cold water on Ranma just in time.  Nodoka recognized
Ranma-chan as the girl she had met earlier.  When Ranma-chan yelled at
the panda, Nodoka told her that a girl shouldn't use such bad words.
Then the panda prevented Ranma-chan from saying that she was Ranma.

Akane came and asked Nodoka what the promise was.  Nodoka said that Genma
had promised to commit suicide with Ranma if he couldn't raise Ranma to
be a great man.  Everyone except the panda was shocked.

Nodoka also said that she had received letters from Genma.  But it had
stopped after they had gone to Jusenkyou.  When Akane asked if Nodoka
was really serious about the suicide, Nodoka took out her sword.  She
said that as a wife of a martial artist, she had accepted Genma and
Ranma's decision.

Nodoka said that she would have liked to have one look at Ranma.  Then
she asked Ranma-chan what her name was.  Ranma-chan said that her name
was Ranko, and was Akane's cousin.

Soun let Nodoka stay over that night.

Later Nabiki said that the lie would eventually be discovered.

Later Ranma and Genma were taking a bath.  Ranma was mad at Genma for
making such a promise.  Genma said that Nodoka was a very honest and
earnest person, so that they had to stay as a panda and a girl.  Then
Nodoka came calling for Ranko.  Just as Nodoka opened the door, Ranma
broke the water faucet to splash cold water on Genma and himself.
Nodoka thought that she had seen a boy and a strange old man, but Ranko
said that it was just her imagination.

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Hitoshi Doi, International Open Systems Engineering        doi@jrd.dec.com
Japan Research and Development Center               decwrl!jrd.dec.com!doi
Digital Equipment Corporation Japan          [from Japan: doi@dec-j.co.jp]
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