Ranma ½ Episode Guide
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Note: This Episode Guide is for the Viz English release of Ranma.
The episode order is different from the original air dates. See the Ranma ½ Perfect Edition web
site for more detailed plot summaries and original air dates.
Season 1
- Season 1 Episode 1. "Here's Ranma"
Ranma and his father first arrive at the Tendo home. What's all this about
a fiancé?
- Season 1 Episode 2 - School Is No Place For Horsing Around
Ranma's first day at school. Akane fights the gang at the gates, Ranma
meets and battles Kuno.
- Season 1 Episode 3. "A Sudden Storm of Love"
Almost half of the episode is a slightly different re-relling of of
Episode 2. Ranma's second battle with Kuno.
- Season 1 Episode 4. "Ranma and... Ranma? If It's Not One Thing, It's
Another"
Kuno meets with Nabiki and buys photos of both Akane and Ranma's girl
side. Is he going to two-time Akane?
- Season 1 Episode 5. "Love Me to the Bone! The Compound Fracture of
Akane's Heart"
Tofu disables Ranma to prove a point about Akane. The boys at school give
up trying to defeat Akane because Ranma beat Kuno.
- Season 1 Episode 6. "Akane's Lost Love... These Things Happen You
Know"
Tofu's behavior with Kasumi. Ranma and Akane have a lunch to talk about
guys.
- Season 1 Episode 7. "Enter Ryoga! The Eternal 'Lost Boy'"
Ryoga is introduced, and attacks Ranma. Ranma thinks the fight is about
bread.
- Season 1 Episode 8. "School is a Battlefield!" Ranma vs. Ryoga
Ryoga returns to fight Ranma. The fight escalates and Akane isn't staying
out of the way.
- Season 1 Episode 9. "True Confessions! A Girl's Hair is Her Life!"
Akane gets her hair cut short. Ranma gets challenged in the middle of the
night, and Akane discovers P-Chan.
- Season 1 Episode 10. "P-P-P-chan! He's Good For Nothin'"
Ryoga tells Ranma his story of the Jusenkyo pig curse. P-chan gets lost
and is adopted by a wealthy couple.
- Season 1 Episode 11. "Ranma Meets Love Head-On! Enter the Delinquent
Juvenile Gymnast!"
First part of the three-part martial arts rhythmic gymnastics story. Ranma
stops Kodachi from attacking the Furinkan girls gymnastics team. Akane agrees
to fill in for the injured gymnasts.
- Season 1 Episode 12. "A Woman's Love is War! The Martial Arts Rhythmic
Gymnastics Challenge!"
Akane injures herself while training, and Ranma agrees to fill in. The
match begins.
- Season 1 Episode 13. "A Tear in a Girl Delinquent's Eye? The End of the
Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics Challenge"
Conclusion of the three-part martial arts rhythmic gymnastics story. The
end of Ranma's match with Kodachi.
- Season 1 Episode 14. "Pelvic Fortune-Telling? Ranma is the Number One
Bride in Japan"
Tofu's mother arrives, looking to judge Tofu's fiancée by hip size.
The Tendo girls volunteer to help out Tofu with his mother.
- Season 1 Episode 15. "Enter Shampoo, the Gung-Ho Girl! I Put My Life in
Your Hands"
Shampoo arrives, wanting to kill girl-type Ranma for defeating her in a
tournament. Ranma accidentally defeats Shampoo while in male form.
- Season 1 Episode 16. "Shampoo's Revenge! The Shiatsu Technique That
Steals Heart and Soul"
Akane is attacked by Shampoo and forgets completely about Ranma. Ranma
finds out from Dr. Tofu what happened.
- Season 1 Episode 17. "I Love You, Ranma! Please Don't Say Goodbye"
Shampoo offers to hand over Akane's cure if Ranma 'half-kills'
girl-type-Ranma. Could an alternate cure be found?
- Season 1 Episode 18. "I Am a Man! Ranma's Going Back to China!?"
Ranma wants to leave the Tendos to head back to Jusenkyo. This episode is
mostly clips from earlier season-one episodes.
Season 2
- Season 2 Episode 1. "The Abduction of P-Chan"
First part of the three-part martial arts figure skating story. P-chan is
taken by Azusa. Ranma and Akane accept a challenge to win him back.
- Season 2 Episode 2. "Close Call! The Dance of Death... On Ice!"
The martial arts ice skating match begins and Mikado insists that he will
'steal Akane's lips' that day.
- Season 2 Episode 3. "P-chan Explodes! The Icy Fountain of Love!"
Conclusion of the three-part martial arts figure skating story. Mikado and
Azusa use the Couple Cleaver. Ryoga tries to take Ranma's place.
- Season 2 Episode 4. "Clash of the Delivery Girls! The Martial Arts
Takeout Race"
Kaori arrives, insisting that she's Ranma's fiancée. To resolve the
dispute, Akane and Kaori will compete in the martial arts takeout race, which
has a prize of a year's supply of ramen.
- Season 2 Episode 5. "You Really Do Hate Cats!"
The Tendos discover that Ranma is terrified of cats. Genma explains the
rigorous training of Ranma for the Cat Fist technique. When Ranma becomes a
cat, who can snap him out of it?
- Season 2 Episode 6. "This Ol' Gal's the Leader of the Amazon
Tribe!"
The beginning of the four-part phoenix pill story. Cologne arrives.
Shampoo shows up with a curse of her own. Ranma faces Cologne, and gets poked
with her staff.
- Season 2 Episode 7. "Behold! The "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire"
Technique"
Ranma can't change back to a guy, due to Cologne's pressure-point move.
Cologne shows Ranma a technique which could lead to a cure.
- Season 2 Episode 8. "Enter Mousse! The Fist of the White Swan"
Mousse challenges Ranma over Shampoo, but Cologne says Shampoo is spoken
for and the duel becomes over Akane instead.
- Season 2 Episode 9. "Cool Runnings! The Race of the Snowmen"
Conclusion of the four-part Phoenix Pill story. Ranma enters a snow race
to get the Phoenix Pill. Can Ranma defeat Cologne for the pill?
- Season 2 Episode 10. "Danger at the Tendo Dojo!"
A dojo destroyer challenges the Tendo Dojo. Shampoo offers Ranma a cure if
he'll date her on that same day, leaving Akane to face the Dojo Destroyer
alone.
- Season 2 Episode 11. "Ranma Trains on Mt. Terror"
Part one of the two-part breaking point story. Cologne offers to train
Ryoga so that he can defeat Ranma. Ranma discovers that Ryoga is learning the
'breaking point' technique.
- Season 2 Episode 12. "The Breaking Point!? Ryoga's Great Revenge"
Conclusion of the two-part breaking point story. Ranma trains against
Ryoga's new technque by blocking the stings of bees. Cologne kidnaps Akane to
lure Ranma to a duel with Ryoga.
- Season 2 Episode 13. "The Abduction of Akane!"
Mousse abducts Akane and lets Ranma know that if he doesn't show up for
another fight, he'll splash Akane with that cursed water.
- Season 2 Episode 14. "Ranma vs. Mousse! To Lose is to Win"
Long recap of Episode 13. Ranma shows up to rescue Akane, but it seems she
has been turned into a duck.
- Season 2 Episode 15. "Enter Happosai, the Lustful Lecher!"
Happosai looks for Akane, leaping at all the girls around. Genma hands
Ranma over to Happosai to be trained.
- Season 2 Episode 16. "Assault on the Girl's Locker Room"
First part of the three-part Japanese nannichuan story. Ryoga arrives with
a map that should lead to a spring of drowned man in Japan. It turns out to
be under the girls' locker room.
- Season 2 Episode 17. "Kuno's House of Gadgets! Guests Check in, But They
Don't Check Out"
Cologne tells Ranma he needs two more vases to make the spring return.
Ranma goes to look for the second, on the Kuno estate.
- Season 2 Episode 18. "Goodbye Girl-Type"
Conclusion of the three-part Japanese nannichuan story. Ranma obtains the
second and third vases, then the group sets out for the spring.
- Season 2 Episode 19. "It's a Fine Line Between Pleasure and Pain"
Akane and Kodachi both want Ranma to eat their cookies. Kodachi blackmails
Ranma with a photo of him in her arms.
- Season 2 Episode 20. "S.O.S.! The Wrath of Happosai"
Ranma and Akane team up to put some 'girl away' repellant on Happosai's
clothes, driving girls away, and leaving him helpless.
- Season 2 Episode 21. "Kissing is Such Sweet Sorrow! The Taking of Akane's
Lips"
Akane is Juliet in a school play. Ranma, Kuno and Happosai all show up for
the role of Romeo and there's an ongoing battle onstage.
- Season 2 Episode 22. "Bathhouse Battle! We're in Some Hot Water
Now"
When the Tendo's water heater breaks, Ranma is called upon to keep an eye
on Happosai so the girls can safely visit the public baths.
Season 3
- Season 3 Episode 1. "Ranma Gains Yet Another Suitor"
Akane thinks that the words spoken during a mysterious attack on Genma
mean he has an illegitimate son -- Ranma's half-brother.
- Season 3 Episode 2. "Ryoga & Akane: 2-Gether, 4-Ever"
Ukyo tries to set up Ryoga and Akane, to eliminate her as competition for
Ranma.
- Season 3 Episode 3. "Sneeze Me, Squeeze Me, Please Me! Shampoo's Recipe
for Disaster"
Shampoo makes special dim sum that has a hypnotic effect on whoever eats
it. Ranma ends up hugging anyone that sneezes, and he's alone with Akane...
who is coming down with a cold.
- Season 3 Episode 4. "Rub-A-Dub-Dub! There's a Pervert in the Tub"
Happosai tries to use the Happo-Fire Burst technique but has forgotten it.
The scroll with the technique happens to be at the very same hot springs
resort that Akane is currently visiting.
- Season 3 Episode 5. "I Love You! My Dear, Dear Ukyo"
Ranma receives a challenge letter from Tsubasa Kurenai. Ranma agrees to a
competition selling Ukyo's food at school, over Ukyo.
- Season 3 Episode 6. "The Witch Who Loved Me: A Japanese Ghost
Story"
Soun is asked to guard a haunted bra at an antique shop, but Happosai
wants it.
- Season 3 Episode 7. "Transform! Akane the Super-Duper Girl"
Akane eats Happosai's super-soba that grants amazing strength. She becomes
super-strong, but there are side-effects...
- Season 3 Episode 8. "The Killer from Jusenkyo"
The secret Jusenkyo Preservation Society is outraged at violations of
their 'code of behavior' by spring victims. A big and muscular swordsman,
with a curse himself, is sent to bring them to justice.
- Season 3 Episode 9. "Am I... Pretty? Ranma's Declaration of
Womanhood"
After a fight with Akane, Ranma hits his head on the stone in the pond and
thinks he's really a girl. Girlish Ranma declares that she want to give up
martial arts.
- Season 3 Episode 10. "Final Facedown! Happosai vs. the Invisible
Man"
Soun and Genma recount training under Chingensai, who taught invisibility.
They hope to use the technique against Happosai.
- Season 3 Episode 11. "Les Miserables of the Kuno Estate"
Sasuke is caught in the middle of a feud between Kuno and Kodachi. Akane
takes him in as a guest, and he devotes himself to her service for her
kindness.
- Season 3 Episode 12. "Ghost Story! Ranma and the Magic Sword"
Furinkan H.S. is haunted. While searching the school at night, Ranma and
company are attacked by a mysterious swordsman.
- Season 3 Episode 13. "All it Takes is One!" The Kiss of Love is the Kiss
of Death
On the beach, Happosai turns up with a bracelet that contains three
love-potion pills. One lasts for a minute, one a day and one a lifetime.
Akane swallows one.
- Season 3 Episode 14. "The Ultimate Team-Up!? The Ryoga/Mousse
Alliance"
Mousse talks Ryoga into fighting together against Ranma.
- Season 3 Episode 15. "Back to the Happosai!"
Happosai tries to sell some of his old stuff, which includes a magic
mirror. It can allow travel to any time the user thinks about.
- Season 3 Episode 16. "Kodachi, the Black Rose! The Beeline of True
Love"
The dojo is running low on food. Ranma goes out, trying to bring in
students to the dojo, but Kodachi creates a competing dojo.
- Season 3 Episode 17. "The Last Days of Happosai"
The class fortune-teller, Miyo, foresees that Akane and Ranma will be
married within the week. Happosai falls ill and seems to be dying.
- Season 3 Episode 18. "Two, Too Violent Girls: Ling-Ling &
Lung-Lung"
Two of the girls from Shampoo's tribe come to help kill Ranma, because
Shampoo hasn't managed to yet.
- Season 3 Episode 19. "Ranma and the Evil Within"
Happosai uses a special technique to split Ranma in two. His girl side
turns into a life-draining spirit in love with the boy side.
- Season 3 Episode 20. "Enter Ken and His Copycat Kerchief"
The imposter Ken comes along, impersonating Ranma and the others. Ranma,
Mousse, Ryoga and Kuno team up and train together.
- Season 3 Episode 21. "Ryoga's Miracle Cure! Hand Over That Soap"
Ryoga finds Shampoo's waterproof soap, that keeps Jusenkyo curses from
being activated. Not fearing changing into a pig, he asks Akane for a
date.
- Season 3 Episode 22. "Fight! The Anything-Goes Obstacle Course
Race"
The first prize in an obstacle course race is an all-expense-paid trip to
China. All of the cursed characters enter so they can return to
Jusenkyo.
- Season 3 Episode 23. "Ukyo's Skirt! The Great Girly-Girl Gambit"
When Ukyo comes to school dressed as a girl, Kuno takes an interest. Ukyo
ends up in a cooking contest with Shampoo, Kodachi and Akane.
- Season 3 Episode 24. "Ranma Goes Back to Jusenkyo At Last"
Happosai's magic mirror is used to send Genma, Ranma and Happosai into the
future, and then back to Jusenkyo before falling into the springs.
Season 4
- Season 4 Episode 1. "The Return of the Hawai'ian Headmaster From
Hell"
The school principal arrives at Furinkan and he's intent on a school rule
that all students must have ugly haircuts. But he'll grant one exception to
whoever holds the note hidden in a coconut.
- Season 4 Episode 2. "Enter Kuno, the Night-Prowling Knight"
The principal asks for Kuno's help enforcing school rules, suggesting that
girls love a man with authority. Happosai offers to train Kuno to defeat
Ranma.
- Season 4 Episode 3. "Ranma Gets Weak!"
First part of the three-part "Ranma is weak" story. Happosai uses a
pressure point attack to make Ranma weak. Ranma loses to Kuno and word gets
around, so it's open season on Ranma.
- Season 4 Episode 4. "Eureka! The Desperate Move of Desperation"
Cologne offers to teach the Hiryu Shoten Ha, or Heaven Blast of the
Dragon. Genma wonders if it's anything like the Crouch of the Wild Tiger,
which involves groveling for forgiveness.
- Season 4 Episode 5. "Showdown! Can Ranma Make A Comeback?"
Conclusion of the three-part "Ranma is weak" story. Armed with a new
technique, which combines cold air with the heat of anger, Ranma confronts
Happosai.
- Season 4 Episode 6. "Here Comes Ranma's Mom"
Genma speaks with a strange woman who wants to see Ranma. Happosai tells
of Genma and a woman he loved. Ranma goes to see her, thinking she's his
mom.
- Season 4 Episode 7. "From Ryoga with Love"
A runaway pink pig finds sanctuary with Ryoga and falls in love with
P-chan. This is mostly a clip show where Ryoga recaps the events of the
series.
- Season 4 Episode 8. "My Fiancé, the Cat"
Shampoo brings Ranma a pair of magic bells. The big bell is haunted by the
ghost of a cat who seeks its bride.
- Season 4 Episode 9. "Blow, Wind! To Be Young is to Go Gung-Ho"
The principal calls in a new teacher who wants all students to be
energetic and excited about their youth.
- Season 4 Episode 10. "A Formidable New Disciple"
The dojo receives a student. The well-meaning young man brings food to pay
for his training, which casts Genma and Ranma in a less favorable
light.
- Season 4 Episode 11. "Step Outside!"
Ranma gets worried when Genma disappears. Akane decides to help Ranma
search, and Genma is found living a life of luxury with a sick little boy.
Can they get Genma to come home?
- Season 4 Episode 12. "Ryoga's "Tendo Dojo Houseguest" Diary"
Akane tutors Ranma. Ryoga goes to Furinkan and is asked by the girls to
enter the school. Ryoga asks Akane to tutor him and she agrees.
- Season 4 Episode 13. "Happosai's Happy Heart"
Happosai falls for a kindegarten teacher who really hates panty thieves.
He tries to play innocent so that he can be with her.
- Season 4 Episode 14. "Extra, Extra! Kuno & Nabiki: Read All About
It!"
A friend of Sasuke arrives at the Kuno estate and tells Kuno's fortune. He
is told that his destiny is Nabiki, and exchanges diaries with her.
- Season 4 Episode 15. "Ryoga the Strong... Too Strong"
Part one of the two-part invincibility tattoo story. Ryoga is given a
tattoo that makes him invincible, but looks silly. The tattoo will only go
away if he is defeated, so Ranma helps out.
- Season 4 Episode 16. "Close Call! P-chan's Secret"
Conclusion of the two-part invincibility tattoo story. Ryoga's tattoo
doesn't work when it is twisted out of shape, so Ranma tries contortions to
help be rid of it.
- Season 4 Episode 17. "The Egg-Catcher Man"
A man comes to town and bumps into Kasumi. He's a childhood friend of
Kasumi, barely remembered. He sees that Tofu loves Kasumi and tries to set
the two up.
- Season 4 Episode 18. "Ranma & Kuno's... First Kiss"
Kuno pulls a wish-granting sword from a stone. Ranma goes out as a girl
with Kuno in hopes of getting use of Kuno's last wish as a cure for his
curse.
- Season 4 Episode 19. "Shampoo's Red Thread of Dread"
Shampoo buys a red string of fate. If two people are tied together for
several hours, the string will bind them forever.
- Season 4 Episode 20. "Mousse Goes Home to the Country!"
Mousse reads the letter from his mother indicating that she wants to know
his future with Shampoo is set. Mousse makes a deal that if he defeats Ranma,
Shampoo will marry him, but loses and leaves.
- Season 4 Episode 21. "The Dumbest Bet In History"
The Gambling King arrives to claim the Tendo Dojo, apparently gambled away
by Ranma some ten years ago.
- Season 4 Episode 22. "Kuno Becomes A Marianne!"
Azusa chases after more cute objects, following Kuno's carriage and naming
it and Sasuke. Kodachi can't put up with Azusa and moves out.
- Season 4 Episode 23. "Ranma, You're Such A Jerk"
Akane's anniversary cake for Ranma is ruined accidentally, by Ranma.
Everyone thinks Akane runs away because Ranma didn't appreciate her
work.
- Season 4 Episode 24. "Ling-Ling and Lung-Lung Strike Back!"
Shampoo's little sisters return to get rid of the other fiancées.
Their phoenix attack takes out Ryoga, and then Akane is challenged.
Season 5
- Season 5 Episode 1. "Gimme That Pigtail"
Part one of the two-part dragon's whisker story. Four mysterious men who
look like steamed buns are attacking people with pigtails.
- Season 5 Episode 2. "When a Guy's Pride and Joy Is Gone"
Conclusion of the two-part dragon's whisker story. Ranma has the Dragon's
Whisker! The four mysterious men, and both Genma and Happosai, are after
it.
- Season 5 Episode 3. "Ryoga's Proposal"
Ryoga helps out the Ghost Cat, and in return the cat decides to help Ryoga
get his girl... Akane.
- Season 5 Episode 4. "Genma Takes a Walk"
Soun and Genma get into an argument over a game, and Genma walks out. Can
Ranma and Akane get them back together?
- Season 5 Episode 5. "The Gentle Art of Martial Tea Ceremony"
Ranma's kidnapped by Sentaro Daimonji. Ranma agrees to help Sentaro defeat
his grandmother so that he can marry whoever he wishes.
- Season 5 Episode 6. "And the Challenger is... A Girl?!"
Tamari, a member of the "Good 'ol Days Martial Arts" school, challenges
Akane and wins, taking the Tendo dojo sign. Ranma and Ryoga look into getting
it back.
- Season 5 Episode 7. "Hot Springs Battle Royale"
The whole gang gets tickets to a race, the winner of which gets to go to
any spring in the world.
- Season 5 Episode 8. "Me Is Kuno's Daddy, Me Is"
Principal Kuno pines for his long-lost son.
- Season 5 Episode 9. "The Matriarch Takes a Stand"
The Diamonji matriarch decides to take a stand, and it appears Ranma's
going to be sacrificed.
- Season 5 Episode 10. "A Leotard is a Girls' Burden"
Kodachi and the girls' Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics team are
challenged by a mens' team that wants to capture their magical
artifact.
- Season 5 Episode 11. "The Mixed Bath Horror"
The Tendos, Ranma, Ryoga, and Happousai travel to a "mixed bath" hot
spring resort. Scary things start to happen.
- Season 5 Episode 12. "The Frogman's Curse"
Ranma's friends disappear and it seems they're being turned into
frogs.
- Season 5 Episode 13. "Revenge! Raging Okonomiyaki"
Ukyo is losing business to a crepe dealer who sets up shop nearby. She
seems to be lacking ambition.
- Season 5 Episode 14. "Ranma the Lady-Killer"
Ranma is really playing Cassanova, due to an enchanted bandage.
- Season 5 Episode 15. "Shogi Showdown"
Genma upsets a master of Shogi (Japanese chess) and gets challenged to a
Shogi martial arts battle with life-sized pieces.
- Season 5 Episode 16. "Sasuke's 'Mission: Improbable'"
Kuno hires new Ninja servants, but gives Sasuke one chance to redeem
himself -- tasking him with tracking his 'pigtailed girl.'
- Season 5 Episode 17. "Bonjour, Furinkan"
Part one of the two-part Parlay du Foie Gras story. Picolette Chardin II
collects on an old promise, to take one of the Tendo girls for a
wife.
- Season 5 Episode 18. "Dinner at Ringside"
Conclusion of the two-part Parlay du Foie Gras story. Ranma learns the
"parlay du foie gras" in attempt to get released from his
engagement.
- Season 5 Episode 19. "Swimming with Psychos"
Akane ends up on the swim team, and gets help from Principal Kuno in
learning to swim.
- Season 5 Episode 20. "Ryoga, Run into the Sunset"
Ryoga ends up in a "western" setting, defending a family farm from a band
of desperadoes.
- Season 5 Episode 21. "Into the Darkness"
The whole gang ends up trapped in one of Happosai's dreams, and can't
escape until he wakes up.
- Season 5 Episode 22. "Nabiki, Ranma's New Fiancée!"
After a tiff with Ranma, Akane hands him over to Nabiki, who makes his
life miserable.
- Season 5 Episode 23. "Case of the Missing Takoyaki!"
A mystery-style whodunit, about who ate a box of takoyaki (octopus puffs)
left out in the kitchen. Everyone in the Tendo home is a suspect.
- Season 5 Episode 24. "Ranma Versus Shadow Ranma"
Ranma gets incense that turns his shadow into human form, so that he can
train. But his shadow gets him into lots of trouble.
Season 6
- Season 6 Episode 1. "Dear Daddy... Love, Kodachi"
Tatewaki Kuno is trying to kick his father out of the house, but Kodachi
invites him to her school's "Parent Day."
- Season 6 Episode 2. "Enter Gosunkugi, the New Rival?"
Gosunkugi falls for Akane when she offers him a bento she made (which
Ranma refused).
- Season 6 Episode 3. "Ranma's Calligraphy Challenge!"
A martial arts calligrapher shows up, but refuses to fight Ranma because
his handwriting is so poor.
- Season 6 Episode 4. "The Secret Don of Furinkan High!?"
Ranma discovers a secret school store hidden deep within Furinkan High.
Ranma, Akane, and Tatewaki Kuno intervene when the principal tries to get rid
of the proprietor.
- Season 6 Episode 5. "Back to the Way We Were ... Please!"
Ranma, Ryoga, and Mousse are sold three packets of instant Jusenkyo
powder, one of which is guaranteed to be spring of drowned man... but the
labels have fallen off.
- Season 6 Episode 6. "Ryoga Inherits the Saotome School!?"
A fight between Genma and Ranma escalates to the point where Genma
declares Ryoga his new heir... and Akane's new fiancé.
- Season 6 Episode 7. "Tendo Family Goes to the Amusement Park"
Dr. Tofu and Kasumi win tickets to an amusement park, and everyone goes
along. Without money or food, their only hope to eat is to win a go-cart
race.
- Season 6 Episode 8. "Case of the Furinkan Stalker"
A mysterious man, who looks like Ranma, is terrorizing the girls of
Furinkan. Ranma must clear his name.
- Season 6 Episode 9. "The Date-Monster of Watermelon Island"
Ranma and Akane discover Kuno off the coast of Watermelon Island. He has
lost his memory, but greatly improved his swordsmanship.
- Season 6 Episode 10. "The Demon from Jusenkyo, Part 1"
Pantyhose Taro arrives and kidnaps Akane in order to lure Happosai. Ranma
heads off to the rescue, and Ryoga, Mousse, and Shampoo follow.
- Season 6 Episode 11. "The Demon from Jusenkyo, Part 2"
Ranma fights Taro. Pantyhose explains why he hates Happosai, and everyone
tries to force Happosai to give Taro a new name.
- Season 6 Episode 12. "The Missing Matriarch of Martial Arts Tea"
Sentaro's grandmother is kidnapped by a rival family, and Sentaro must
fight their heir in order to save his grandmother.
- Season 6 Episode 13. "A Xmas Without Ranma"
Ranma and Akane are Christmas shopping when Ranma suddenly leaves. When he
doesn't return home shortly, a worried Akane goes searching for him.
- Season 6 Episode 14. "A Cold Day in Furinkan"
Unnaturally cold weather and much snowfall comes to town. A mysterious
girl and a snow monster might have something to do with that.
- Season 6 Episode 15. "Akane Goes to the Hospital"
Ranma gets angry about Gosunkugi taking Akane's picture during gym class,
the result of the scuffle is an accident which lands Akane in the
hospital.
- Season 6 Episode 16. "Curse of the Scribbled Panda"
At a festival, cursed drawings come to life and cause trouble. A badly
drawn panda will go quietly if she gets a date with Ranma.
- Season 6 Episode 17. "Legend of the Lucky Panda"
Genma finds his way into a remote village of people who look exactly like
the residents of Nerima: Ranma, Akane, and others.
- Season 6 Episode 18. "Mystery of the Marauding Octopus Pot"
Soun and Genma get all expenses paid when they promise to stop a
mysterious octopus pot that is raiding food. Could it be someone they
know?
- Season 6 Episode 19. "Ukyo's Secret Sauce, Part 1"
Ukyo's attempt to make a special okonomiyaki sauce is a dismal failure
(because, unknown to her, Ranma ruined it). She moves in at the Tendo home
until she can recover from the failure.
- Season 6 Episode 20. "Ukyo's Secret Sauce, Part 2"
Ukyo tries to collect on a promise (that Ranma doesn't remember) to take
care of her forever. Ranma and Akane pretend to be married, in attempt to get
Ukyo to move on.
- Season 6 Episode 21. "A Teenage Ghost Story"
A ghost girl appears in the secret school store. Ranma and Akane try to
help her find what she has left behind, so that she can rest in
peace.
- Season 6 Episode 22. "Gosunkugi's Paper Dolls of Love"
Gosunkugi obtains a dozen magical paper dolls. Writing a command on one
and sticking it to a person's back compels the person to follow the command.
He tries to get Akane to date with him.
- Season 6 Episode 23. "Akane's Unfathomable Heart"
A boy named Satori who can read minds visits the Tendo Dojo. His abilities
cause a lot of trouble, and he develops a crush on Akane.
- Season 6 Episode 24. "Master and Student... Forever!?"
Happosai unleashes a 'bonding' magic on Ranma that at first glues the two
together magnetically, and eventually makes Ranma eager to do his
bidding.
Season 7
- Season 7 Episode 1. "Tatewaki Kuno, Acting Principal"
Principal Kuno leaves Tatewaki in charge of enforcing school rules while
he's away for a week.
- Season 7 Episode 2. "Ranma's Greatest Challenge"
Ranma agrees to a serious martial arts challenge from Happosai: he must
protect an old can for a whole evening, though it sounds like a kids'
game.
- Season 7 Episode 3. "Nihao! Jusenkyo Guide"
The Jusenkyo guide shows up in town, and he appears to be digging around
for something. But he won't say what.
- Season 7 Episode 4. "Pick-a-Peck o' Happosai"
Happosai finds a pack of magical cards, and suddenly there are six of him
to deal with.
- Season 7 Episode 5. "From the Depths of Despair, Part 1"
Ryoga learns a powerful attack, the Shishi Hoko-Dan. Can Ranma
compete?
- Season 7 Episode 6. "From the Depths of Despair, Part 2"
Ryoga perfects the Shishi Hoko-Dan and challenges Ranma. Can Ranma come up
with a counter before the battle?
- Season 7 Episode 7. "Shampoo's Cursed Kiss"
The Bakeneko (ghost cat) has captured Shampoo and will force her to marry
him. Can Ranma, Akane, and Mousse rescue her?
- Season 7 Episode 8. "Run Away With Me, Ranma!"
Ranma suffers from a recurring nightmare. To be rid of it, he must date a
ghost so that an old man can die happy.
- Season 7 Episode 9. "Let's Go to the Mushroom Temple"
The group travels to a temple. Ranma and Akane unknowingly eat mushrooms
that cause them to fall in love.
- Season 7 Episode 10. "The Cradle From Hell"
Ranma beats Genma to a cup of ramen. Does this mean the son has finally
surpassed the father?
- Season 7 Episode 11. "Madame St. Paul's Cry for Help"
There are strange goings-on at castle Chardin (see season 5 episode 17).
Ranma and Akane are asked to help.
- Season 7 Episode 12. "Meet You in the Milky Way"
During preparations for the Weaver Festival, the stars representing the
two lovers come to Earth. Does anyone notice a certain parallel between the
two and another familiar couple?
- Season 7 Episode 13. "Wretched Rice Cakes of Love"
Akane is given a recipe for rice cakes that will identify her destined
love. It turns out to be Ryoga?
- Season 7 Episode 14. "The Dreaded Happo Mold-Burst"
Happosai's Happo-Dai-Karin (Happo-Fire-Burst) sputters in wet weather, so
he invents the Happo-Dai-Kabin (Happo-Mold-Burst).
- Season 7 Episode 15. "The Kuno Sibling Scandal"
Kodachi and Tatewaki have a falling out. In their escalating revenge-fest,
Ranma's reputation is getting caught in the cross-fire.
- Season 7 Episode 16. "Battle for the Golden Tea Set"
The two families of Martial Arts Tea Ceremony ask Ranma for help, against
a threat to steal a treasured tea set.
- Season 7 Episode 17. "Gosunkugi's Summer Affair"
Kogane the ghost (see season 6 episode 21) returns, and Gosunkugi falls
for her.
- Season 7 Episode 18. "Battle for Miss Beachside"
The Tendos go to the beach, and all of the girls enter a swimsuit contest
to determine who gets to make Ranma's lunch.
- Season 7 Episode 19. "Bring It On! Love's Cheerleader, Part I"
Mariko Konjo, a practitioner of Martial-Arts Cheerleading, injures most of
the Furinkan volleyball team while helping her school defeat them. Ranma vows
revenge.
- Season 7 Episode 20. "Bring It On! Love's Cheerleader, Part II
In challenging Mariko, Ranma is forced to cheer for Kuno. But if he
doesn't love Kuno as much as Mariko does, how can he win?
- Season 7 Episode 21. "The Musical Instruments of Destruction"
Tatewaki Kuno and his father end up with an ancient drum and lute that
cause devastation when played. Will Ranma survive the battle between the
two?
- Season 7 Episode 22. "A Ninja's Dog is Black and White"
Ryoga tries to save a hunted black-and-white dog, and the dog returns a
favor by delivering his love letter -- which he never intended to send -- to
Akane.
- Season 7 Episode 23. "The Tendo Dragon Legend"
During a typhoon, someone breaks into the Tendo Dojo, apparently after an
odd seahorse-like creature that Ranma found, which Dr. Tofu believes is a
dragon.
- Season 7 Episode 24. "Boy Meets Mom, Part 1"
Ranma's mother is coming to visit, but a terrified Genma insists that he
and Ranma leave before she arrives.
- Season 7 Episode 25. "Boy Meets Mom, Part 2"
Akane tries to arrange for Ranma to meet Nodoka, but fate (and Genma) have
other ideas.
OAV and Theatrical Movies
- OAV Episode 1. "Curse of the Contrary Jewel"
Shampoo wears a jewel that turns her love for Ranma into hate. Ranma,
confused by her sudden change of heart, starts chasing her.
- OAV Episode 2. "Tendo Family Christmas Scramble"
Kasumi holds a Christmas party at the dojo. Will all of Ranma's (and
Akane's) various suitors be able to get along for just one evening?
- OAV Episode 3. "Akane vs. Ranma! I'll Be the One to Inherit Mother's
Recipes!"
Akane discovers her mother's recipe book, Kasumi gets ill. Nodoka helps
Ranma and Akane prepare food for the family, trying to teach Akane to cook in
the process.
- OAV Episode 4. "Stormy Weather Comes to School! Growing Up With Miss
Hinako"
Miss Hinako, the aura-draining teacher, causes trouble for Ranma and
company.
- OAV Episode 5. "The One to Carry On, Part 1"
Two girls show up claiming to be Soun Tendo's daughters. They win the
right to the dojo from Ranma and Akane.
- OAV Episode 6. "The One to Carry On, Part 2"
Ranma and Akane train to recover their right to carry on the Anything-Goes
school.
- OAV Episode 7. "Reawakening Memories, Part 1"
Akane remembers being rescued from giant animals in a mysterious forest,
and goes to return the favor.
- OAV Episode 8. "Reawakening Memories, Part 2"
Ranma and Ryoga follow Akane and try to rescue her from the
forest.
- OAV Episode 9. "Team Ranma vs. the Legendary Phoenix"
Kuno gets a Phoenix egg from a cursed antique dealer. It hatches and
renders him invincible.
- OAV Episode 10. "Oh Cursed Tunnel of Lost Love! Let My Love Be
Forever"
Ukyo and Shampoo set up Ranma and Akane at the Tunnel of Lost Love, which
is supposed to break up all couples that enter.
- OAV Episode 11. "Hell Hath No Fury Like Kasumi Scorned!"
An evil ogre gets loose and possesses various folks, including
Kasumi.
- OAV Episode 12. "The Two Akanes, 'Ranma, Look At Me!'"
A spirit doll possesses Akane, in order to punish Ranma for treating the
doll disrespectfully.
- Move 1. "Big Trouble In Nekonron, China"
Akane is kidnapped by the Seven Lucky Gods martial artists and taken to
China to be the bride of their leader.
- Movie 2. "Nihao My Concubine"
All the girls are kidnapped by Prince Toma and his henchmen, one of them
will be his bride.
- Movie 3 - Team Ranma vs the Legendary Phoenix (OAV 9 in
America)
The third Ranma movie in Japan was a short film that was part of a double
feature. In North America, Viz placed it with the OAVs.
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