Akane Tendou (Ranma ½)

**Akane Tendou**, also known as **Alley Cat**, **Beautiful Blue**, **Bucket Waist**, **Idiot**, **Lame Gross Girl**, **Macho Chick**, **Macho Jock**, **Overweight**, **Pervert Girl**, **Sis**, **Uncute**, **Violent Girl** and **Violent Tomboy**, is one of the main characters from the *Ranma ½* series.

## **Charactah Account**

Akane is a sixteen-year-old ordinary high-school student (or at least the closest you'll get in this series), Akane is a generally pleasant, friendly girl who can be helpful and self-sacrificing even to her rivals. However, she's also hot-tempered, very insecure, finds the arranged marriage situation very awkward and is notoriously stubborn, which means there are times she's come off as having a hair-trigger temper toward Ranma Saotome. In general, though, they do get on well enough (although Ranma recurrently mocks her most sensitive spots, and Akane sometimes gives as good as she gets), she frequently helps him out or cheers for him, and is just as willing to make heroic sacrifices for him as he is for her. She is extremely possessive and jealous when it comes to Ranma and easily angers when she finds him in the arms of his other fiancés.

The youngest of the Tendou sisters, and a huge tomboy, Akane is prospectively one of the heiresses to her father's dojo. Promised to marry Ranma alongside her sisters as per their parents' agreement from an early age, Akane is ultimately chosen as his betrothed ahead of her sisters, albeit very reluctantly. This effectively makes her Ranma's original and foremost fiancée, unbeknownst to the fact that more girls would come after him for various convoluted reasons.

Albeit lagging behind Ranma's other fiancées in this aspect, Akane is also a martial artist, and although she's not as good a fighter as they are, she's dauntingly strong and she's nigh unstoppable if she's angry and/or out of control. She's also quite popular with boys, as she's considered the most beautiful girl at school, though this is an aspect that she pays little attention to; this also happens to make her the very reluctant object of an unwanted harem herself which mirrors Ranma's own.

## **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 1/2: Hot Song Contest
* Ranma ½: Nightmare! Incense of Spring Sleep
* Ranma ½: Yomigaeru Kioku

### **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

## **Trivia**

* Despite popularity with many of the male characters in the series, Akane initially claims to hate boys, possibly due to her initial views on them as being chauvinistic, arrogant, genderist, egotistical, perverted, deceiving etc. Some of these regards to Ranma Saotome, Tatewaki Kuno and Happosai and a few possible exceptions to these are Ryouga and Dr. Tofu.
* The Spring of Drowned Akane at Jusenkyo was not a pre-existing cursed spring, but was created by Kiima in order to impersonate Akane to seduce Ranma and recover the Kinjakan. As such, it does not have a Chinese name. It is unknown if the spring was sealed/destroyed afterwards, or if anyone could potentially use it.
* In the English dubbed version of the anime, Kasumi Tendou's "violent maniac" quote in reference to Akane's nature is replaced with "she's a very sweet girl, she's just a little high-spirited".
* Noriko Hidaka (Akane's Japanese voice actress) would voice Kikyou in Rumiko Takahashi's subsequent series *Inuyasha*.
	+ In Takahashi's subsequent manga series *Inuyasha*, one of Kagome Higurashi's best friends at school is also named Yuka in the anime.
	+ Akane shares similar traits with Kagome Higurashi from Takahashi's subsequent series *Inuyasha* such as their violent tendencies towards the main protagonists as well as punishing said protagonists in one way or another should they anger them.
* In one of Akane's dreams in Nightmare! Incense of Spring Sleep, it is revealed that she has a slight fear of Kodachi, Ukyo, and Shampoo, but this might be because of the side effects of the incense.
* Akane's hair has gotten shorter in The Ova's.
* Akane makes a cameo in episode 4 of Kyokai no Rinne, another work of Takahashi, as a doll in a claw machine, along with Ranma, P-chan, Genma's panda form and Lum from Urusei Yatsura.