Mousse (Ranma ½)

Mousse, also known as Insect, Mister Part-Time, Moron, Mu Mu-chan the Duck, Mu-Tsu and Stupid Duck-Boy, is a character from the Ranma ½ series.
== Charactah Account ==
Shampoo's "stupid friend from childhood" and next-door neighbor at their village, Mousse is head-over-heels for her and chases after her madly in a desperate attempt to win her love, either by kissing her feet or by proving his prowess by defeating the man she wants to marry. Though his relationship with Ranma is much more bitter and hostile than, say, Ryōga's, Mousse does eventually come to something of an understanding with him, and stops actually attempting to kill him — though not enough to make him stop blaming Ranma for "keeping Shampoo from him". While she doesn't seem to outright hate him, she certainly doesn't seem to have any romantic interest in him, to the extent that even saving her from mind control (giving up a chance to make her his literal love slave in the process) didn't earn him so much as a "thank you," and she had to be tricked into helping save his life.
Mousse is a great trickster who uses a vast array of hidden weapons he hides on his clothes, and is very partial to using underhanded tactics in order to defeat Ranma. Shampoo dislikes his dishonorable tactics and his dumbness in general, so she rejects his advances by arguing that she already defeated him when they were 3. Mousse eventually became another victim of the Jusenkyo springs, turning into a duck when doused with cold water.
Mousse is extremely near-sighted, an ailment that brings him into many unflattering misunderstandings whenever he's not wearing his glasses.
== 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: Nightmare! Incense of Spring Sleep
* Ranma ½: Yomigaeru Kioku
=== Manga ===
* Ranma ½
=== Video Games ===
* Ranma ½ Byakuran Aika
* Ranma ½ Datou, Ganso Musabetsu Kakutou-Ryuu!
* Ranma ½ Kakugeki Mundou!!
* Ranma ½ Ougi Jaanken
* Ranma ½ Toraware no Hanayome
* Ranma ½: Akanekodan-teki Hihou
* Ranma ½: Chougi Ranbu Hen
* Ranma ½: Hard Battle
== Trivia ==
* As with his fellow Joketsuzoku, Shampoo and Cologne, the gag in Mousse's name is that the characters sounds like a beauty product in English.
* Despite the fact that Mousse's parents are never mentioned in the manga, in the anime his mother once sent him a letter asking how his progress with Shampoo was going.
* Mousse speaks with a Touhoku accent in Japanese.
* Mousse is called "Muso" in some foreign language dubs.
* Mousse is the only one of the main teenage male leads not to be in love with Akane Tendou.
* Mousse's seiyuu provided the voice of Garamaru from Takahashi's subsequent series Inuyasha.
* Mousse's English voice actor provide the voices of Yuusaku Godai of the Maison Ikkoku and Nobunaga of the Inuyasha.
** Brad Swaile also voices Sentaro Daimonji.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Mousse at Ranma ½ Wiki
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