Ranma ½

Ranma ½

Ranma Saotome Male

Ranma Saotome Female

Akane Tendo

Ranma Saotome Male

Akane Tendo

Ranma Saotome (Female) (Animax Asia dub)

Kodachi Kuno (English version)

Ranma Saotome Female

Jusenkyo Guide

Ryoga Hibiki

Manga creator Rumiko Takahashi derived Ranma's name from the Japanese expression "kaitô ranma" which means "solving a problem swiftly and skillfully". She based it from that phrase because she was having difficulty thinking up a name for him.

Due to the negative backlash towards the English dub, Brigitta Dau was fired after playing the voice of female Ranma for the first six episodes of the TV series and the first two episodes of the OAV series. Since then, Venus Terzo has taken that role, resulting in a much improved English dub.

Rumiko Takahashi was originally going to have the characters "change" whenever they were hit or punched, but changed it to hot/cold water when she realized the characters would change every few seconds during a fight scene.

Ryoga Hibiki: I heard about the fortune telling, and the rice cakes.

Ranma Saotome: [after Akane ridicules him, AGAIN] You're so... SO... cute...

Ranma Saotome: [Talking about Happosai, who is stuck on him by magic] From now on, we'll live together, like conjoined twins!