Genma Saotome

is a major character in Ranma ½. He is the father of Ranma Saotome and one of Happosai's students along his close friend Soun Tendo. He is also one of the many people cursed in Jusenkyo, in his case, from human to panda.
He was voiced by in the 1989 original series and (who also voiced Jaken) in the 2024 remake in the Japanese version and late in English.
==Biography==
During his youth, Genma was one of Happosai students along Soun Tendo, with whom he learned martial arts and was forced to help his master with his pervert affairs. When Ranma was born, Genma made the promise to his wife Nodoka to turn Ranma into a man or both will have to commit suicide with a Japanese technique named senpukku. Genma trained his son around the world with all kinds of training, some of them unethical, like when he forced Ranma to realize a forbidden training with cats wich caused him a trauma with them. Also, when Ranma was still a child, Genma engaged him with Ukyo Kuonji and (only in the anime) Kaori Daikoku even despite his decision of engaging him with one of Soun's daughters. Genma and Ranma's lifes changed forever the day when he decided to train his son in Jusenkyo. There both felt to cursed springs, causing Genma to turn into a panda when he gets wet with cold wated and turning back to human with hot water, and Ranma to turn into a girl. Since this day Ranma and Genma's relation got worse and things wouldn't go much better when Ranma found out about his engagement to one of Soun's daughters. 
In the first episode of the series Genma takes Ranma to the Tendo Dojo and then he was engaged with Akane Tendo. Genma and his son where established there and continued his training there. Genma was forced to help Ranma in all the trouble where he got in Furinkan. Genma also had to conront the return of Happosai with Soun, which caused constant confrontations but no one with sucess. When Nodoka came to Furinkan, he initially tried to hide Ranma from her since he didn't want he about knowing about his curse, but then Nodoka didn't cared about that, since Ranma became into a true man, no mattering the appearance. At the end, Ranma and Akane's marriage succeed, fulfilling all of Genma's goals.
==Gallery==
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==External Links==
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*Genma Saotome at the Ranma ½ Perfect Edition
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