Ryouga Hibiki

Ryouga Hibiki, also known as P-Chan, Charlotte and Pig Boy, is a character from Ranma ½ series.
== Charactah Account ==
Ranma's most persistent rival, a boy with a notoriously bad sense of direction whom he met in junior high school. During that time, they had an ongoing rivalry about who would get bread at lunch; Ryouga never won, and eventually got sick of this and challenged Ranma to a duel in the vacant lot behind Ryouga's house. Unfortunately, it took four days for Ryouga, and Ranma had left after the third day of waiting. For this, Ryouga started to chase Ranma and ended up in China, all the way to Jusenkyo, where he was knocked into the Spring of Drowned Piglet by a crazy girl chasing a panda — which is why he blames his curse on Ranma's "cowardice".
Ironically, Ranma actually was responsible, as it was he and Genma in their cursed forms who had caused Ryouga to fall in. Eventually, Ryouga tracked Ranma down to Nerima, where things got even more complicated when Ryouga fell in love with Akane, who was oblivious to this. Eventually, the two mellowed it out, though they still fought — as much for their mutual respect of each other's skills as because of their irritation, given Ranma's love of manipulating and poking fun at Ryouga.
Ryouga's curse allows him to masquerade as "P-Chan", the adopted pet of Akane Tendou. Ryouga has a noble heart and usually means well, but he is also driven almost entirely by his whims and emotions; he can just as easily beat Ranma up as he can save his life.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Ranma ½
* Ranma ½ Movie 1: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China
* Ranma ½ Movie 2: Nihao My Concubine
* Ranma ½ Movie 3: Team Ranma vs. The Legendary Phoenix
* Ranma ½ OVA
* Ranma ½ Super
* Ranma ½: Hot Song Contest
* Ranma ½: Nightmare! Incense of Spring Sleep
* Ranma ½: Reviving Memories
=== Manga ===
* Ranma ½
=== Video Games ===
* Ranma ½
* Ranma ½ Battle Renaissance
* Ranma ½ Byakuran Aika
* Ranma ½ Kakugeki Mundou!
* Ranma ½ Netsuretsu Kakutouhen
* Ranma ½ Ougi Jaanken
* Ranma ½ Toraware no Hanayome
* Ranma ½: Akanekodan-teki Hihou
* Ranma ½: Chougi Ranbu Hen
* Ranma ½: Hard Battle
* Sunday x Magazine: Nettou! Dream Nine
== Trivia ==
* The name "Ryouga" can be broken down to read as "good fang," which refers to the fact that he possesses rather prominent canines. Hibiki is translated as "to echo" or "to resound."
* The precise level of Ranma's fault for Ryouga falling into the Heitowennīchuan varies between the mediums. In the manga, the art more directly suggests that Ranma knocked Ryouga clean off of the cliff-face and down into the spring. In the anime, Ryouga safely landed back on the cliff-face after being hit by Ranma in mid-air - but lost his balance when the edge where his hand was resting crumbled, causing him to fall to the side and tumble over the edge into the spring.
* A recurring joke throughout the franchise is that Ranma frequently refers to Ryouga's pig form as his actual name Ryouga while referring his human form as P-chan instead of the other way around.
* Ryouga is similar in appearance to Kouga from Inuyasha, who is also romantically interested in the female protagonist and has a similar name that in part means "fang". Given Takahashi's tendency to recycle character archetypes and outlines between series, it's clear that Kouga is the "Ryouga" of the Inuyasha series.
* Ranma, Genma and Soun Tendo are all aware of Ryouga's curse and that he is truly P-chan.
* On Tvtropes.org Ryouga is considered the undisputed "king of getting lost" and with good reason. Another interesting fact is that since his debut numerous other mangas and animes have featured characters with an almost identical sense of direction as Ryouga, also of note is that these characters also share similar attributes to Ryouga such as monstrous super-human strength and endurance, examples of such characters are Roronoa Zoro from One Piece, Sagara Sanosuke from Rurouni Kenshin and Kenpachi Zaraki from Bleach.
* In The Obstacle Course Swim Meet OVA episode of Urusei Yatsura he appears in his cursed form as one of the drown students.
* His P-chan form makes 2 cameo appearances as a tiny doll in episodes 4 and 39 of the anime version of Kyoukai no Rinne, another work of Rumiko Takahashi.
* His seiyuu provided the voice of Yuta of the Mermaid Saga, another work by Rumiko Takahashi.
** His seiyuu also voices the Jusenkyo Guide.
* His English voice actor, Michael Donovan provided the voices of Zenzaburo Mitsukoshi of the Maison Ikkoku and Suikotsu of the InuYasha.
** Michael Donovan also voices Jusenkyo Guide (second voice) and Bess.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Ryoga Hibiki at Ranma ½ Wiki
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