Ranma Saotome

Ranma Saotome, also known as Ran-chan, Ranko and Osage no Onna, is the main protagonist from the Ranma ½ series.
== Charactah Account ==
Ranma is a teenage master of supernatural martial arts, generally assumed to be sixteen years old. Like most of the other cast members, a very contradictory character, possessing both positive and negative attributes — he can be sensitive and thoughtful one moment, and brash and insulting the next. Cursed to become a gender bender because of his father's stupidity, then bound in an arranged marriage he never even knew about until he was practically at the girl's doorstep. Needless to say, he doesn't get on too well with his father.
When it comes to Akane, Ranma's general attitude and Akane's mild dislike of men initially drives them to clash more often than not. But, as the story goes on, he gets to know her better and ends up genuinely caring for her as a person.
Trained from the time he was about two years old (when their training trip began) by his father in the ways of the Saotome style of Anything Goes Martial Arts, Ranma is a master of several styles of martial arts, utilizing a blend of Chinese and Japanese techniques. The other branch, the Tendo School, is practiced by Soun and Akane. Ranma is seen as the school's primary heir. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* It's a Rumic World: 50th Anniversary Weekly★Shonen Sunday
* 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 1/2: Hot Song Contest
* Ranma ½: Nightmare! Incense of Spring Sleep
* Ranma ½: Yomigaeru Kioku
* Urusei Yatsura: The Obstacle Course Swim Meet
=== Manga ===
* Ranma ½
=== Video Games ===
* Ranma ½
* Ranma ½ Battle Renaissance
* Ranma ½ Byakuran Aika
* Ranma ½ Datou, Ganso Musabetsu Kakutou-Ryuu!
* Ranma ½ Hiryuu Densetsu
* 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
* Street Combat
* Sunday & Magazine: White Comic
* Sunday x Magazine: Nettou! Dream Nine
== Trivia ==
* In most of Ranma's official artwork he is shown in both forms as if they are separate beings.
** In the anime crossover special called "It's a Rumic World!" which most of the characters from different manga series created by Rumiko Takahashi appear during the 50th Anniversary Weekly Shonen Sunday, it was the first time Ranma meets Inuyasha and he thought Inuyasha had fell into the Jusenkyo cursed hot springs like they were and it was his first time to see a man with animal ears much to Inuyasha's confusion when he referred to him as being half-cursed.
* In the English and Japanese versions, Ranma is voiced by Richard Ian Cox and Kappei Yamaguchi who are also known for voicing Inuyasha from Inuyasha, Takahashi's next manga series after Ranma ½. The two characters are similar in terms of personality and behavior.
** Also, Inuyasha remarks at Ranma that his voice are identical to his ("Hey, your voice sounds a lot like mine."), referencing both being voiced by their Japanese voice actor, Kappei Yamaguchi.
* Both Ranma's Seiyuus (Kappei Yamaguchi and Megumi Hayashibara) would provide their voices together on another work of Rumiko Takahashi: the parents of Kyōkai no Rinne's protagonist (Sabato Rokudō and Otome Rokudou). Interestingly, the protagonist Rinne Rokudou and Ranma share some similar traits:
** They don't appreciate their father.
** They were separated from their mother when they were babies and got to meet them around 15 years later.
** They are unable to skate.
* Ranma makes a cameo in episode 4 of Kyoukai no Rinne as a doll in a claw machine, along with Akane, P-chan, Genma's panda form, and Lum from Urusei Yatsura. However, his hair is brown instead of black.
* Ranma's female form in the anime bears a strong resemblance to Suzuki Linn/Kotetsu from the anime and manga, Adventures of Kotetsu.
* Ranma's male form bears a slight resemblance to Kensei Ma in his teenaged years from the anime and manga, History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi.
** Ranma appearance in the first season also bears a resemblance to Kyosuke Kasuga from Kimagure Orange Road. This is because Masako Goto, the character designer for KOR, was the art director for the first season.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Ranma Saotome at Ranma ½ Wiki
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