Question: where does ranma 1/2 anime end in manga

title: Ranma ½
text: Soun Tendo is a fellow practitioner of Musabetsu Kakutō Ryū ( 無 差別 格闘 流 ) or `` Anything - Goes School '' of martial arts and owner of a dojo . Genma and Soun agreed years ago that their children would marry and carry on the Tendo Dojo . Soun has three teenaged daughters : the polite and easygoing Kasumi , the greedy and indifferent Nabiki and the short - tempered , martial arts practicing Akane . Akane , who is Ranma 's age , is appointed for bridal duty by her sisters with the reasoning that they are the older sisters and can dump the duty on her , and that they all dislike the arranged engagement and think Akane 's dislike of men is the right way to express it to the fathers . At the appointed time they are surprised when a panda comes in and puts a girl in front of their father . The Tendo girls all laugh . It takes several more pages for the situation to be explained to Soun Tendo and his daughters . Both Ranma and Akane refuse the engagement initially , having not been consulted on the decision , but the fathers are insistent and they are generally treated as betrothed and end up helping or saving each other on some 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 .