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== Ukyo Kuonji ==

The last of Ranma's fiancées to appear, Ukyo is the victim of a childhood crush gone horribly wrong. First, she made a [[Childhood Marriage Promise]] to Ranma that he would end up forgetting about (not that he knew what he was promising at the time... and then he ended up accidentally sabotaging the promise in the first place), and then, when her father and Genma apparently made an [[Arranged Marriage]]... but then Genma stole her dowry and ran off with it, leaving her behind. Believing Ranma had been in on it, Ukyo swore revenge and began crossdressing as part of an elaborate vow, tracking Ranma down with the intent of making him pay for deceiving her... only to discover it had all been Genma's fault, and Ranma was never even told about the engagement. Between this, the fact she was still in love with him, the fact Ranma evidently found her attractive despite the crossdressing, Ukyo believes she has a legitimate chance at winning Ranma's heart, and calls off her revenge to instead try and woo him to her. Generally the nicest of Ranma's fiancées, but she has her ugly side too and can use threats, destructive ambush-beatings or manipulation when she feels it's called for. It's worth noting that she is the only fiancée who always regrets manipulating the others.

 

 

== Hikaru Gosunkugi ==

A creepy, reclusive, unpopular, nerdy sort of boy who has a deep crush on Akane, which she is unaware of, evidently because she was nice to him. Fixated on black magic, but totally inept at it; far more likely to hit his thumb when trying to perform Ushi no Koku Mairi (a Japanese cursing ritual) then make it actually work. He even got himself struck by lightning once in the anime after apparently managing to call a storm to school successfully. In the manga, he's a pathetic member of Akane's class, ignored by just about everyone, while in the anime, he's an equally pathetic transfer student introduced in the sixth season.

 

 

== Dr. Tofu Ono ==

A minor character introduced as the local chiropractor and acupuncturist, who has tended to Akane's injuries since she was a little girl, which caused her to develop a [[Precocious Crush]] on him. Fixated on Kasumi, turning into a bumbling idiot whenever he hears her voice or even sees a photo of her, never mind actually seeing her. Dropped from the manga by the end of the [[Mode Lock|Full Body Cat's Tongue]] [[Pressure Point]]s story, but remains a minor fixture of the anime.

 

* [[Love Makes You Dumb]]: Yeah, he's this too. Even beyond the fact he routinely hurts himself around Kasumi, he does stuff like insist on bringing the vital notebook needed to cure Akane's amnesia around to the Tendō Dojo, even though he knows Kasumi will be there, and he'll destroy it if he sees her. Which is ''exactly'' what happens.

* [[Informed Ability]]: We're told he's a strong and skilled martial artist, but we never see him do anything other than manipulate pressure points, and then for health purposes. Downplayed in the anime, where a seventh season episode seems him subdue a good number of the Frog Hermit's knife-wielding attack frogs with a flurry of rapid-fire paralytic pressure point touches... only to then be reduced to a catatonic, mumbling imbecile when presented with a picture of Kasumi.

 

== Akari Unryu ==

A sweet, gentle girl who shows up very late into the manga. Heir to the Unryu farm of Sumo Wrestling Pigs, she rides around on her hand-reared Yokozuna Pig, Katsunishiki, seeking a man strong enough to defeat him, the only man she will be allowed to marry. When Ryōga succeeds, she instantly falls in love with him, and he quickly becomes attracted to her in return. A ''very'' minor character, her subsequent appearances pretty much amount to cameos, as she says and does almost nothing that has any major impact on the plot.

 

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: She usually [[Walking the Earth|traipses around Japan]] riding an [[Foe-Tossing Charge|ENORMOUS]] yokozuna pig. Yes, a champion sumo pig. And it's pretty strong too.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: A perfectly straight example, which makes her kind of stick out in this cast of [[Comedic Sociopathy|hilarious psychos]].

 

== Konatsu the Kunoichi ==

The son of a loving couple, his mother died at a young age and his father, for reasons unknown, married a grotesquely hideous woman who already had two disgusting daughters, then died himself. Jealous of Konatsu's appearance, his stepmother both raised him as a girl and treated him hideously; despite Konatsu being a prodigy in the arts of ninjitsu, he never managed to kill off his stepfamily (not through lack of trying) and was resolved to being their slave. Until the day Happōsai, Soun and Genma wandered into the "Sexy Ninja Teashop" and, horrified by the fact the "sexy ninjas" were his stepfamily, destroyed it, whereupon they sent him for revenge upon Ranma. Konatsu decided he'd rather stay in Nerima, particularly after Ukyo treated him kindly and unintentionally caused him to fall in love with her, and began working at Ucchan's Okonomiyaki after his stepfamily was driven away with the help of Ukyo, Ranma and Akane. Though Ukyo still treats him in a way anyone else would consider ridiculously shabby, it's much more then he had at home and so he's content with it.

 

 

== Nodoka Saotome ==

Ranma's long-absent mother is a late-comer to the series. Back when Ranma was just a little boy, his father took him away from home, assuaging Nodoka's complaints by vowing he and Ranma would commit [[Seppuku]] if he failed to make Ranma a "man among men". After Ranma's little accident at Jusenkyo, Genma decided it would be best to avoid Nodoka, though she eventually did find out—fortunately for her son and husband, the precise event had Ranma at some of his best behavior, and she decided that the curse wasn't grounds to make Ranma kill himself. Generally a very sweet and motherly sort, but she is just as fixated on honor as her son and husband are (perhaps more so), and she's ''still'' carrying that sword around by the series' end, watching and judging Ranma's behavior...

 

 

== Sasuke Sarugakure ==

Early in the anime, the animators either couldn't find a voice actor for Gosunkugi, wanted a role for [[Shigeru Chiba]], or decided that the spooky boy was a rather shallow character and/or didn't make much sense as the Kunos' lapdog and servant. Instead, they decided to create a new character to take that role, and thus was born Sasuke Sarugakure, whose name means something like "Ninja from the Hidden Monkey Village". This ugly midget [[Ninja]] is most frequently seen at Tatewaki Kuno's side, but he will also serve "Mistress Kodachi" if she needs his assistance as well. Sasuke serves as something of the Jack-of-all-trades manservant to his masters, doing everything from spying on their enemies/love interests, to cooking their food, to cleaning their house, to making shadow puppets to help them sleep, to helping them train or fighting at their side: it's implied he may have actually been their primary caretaker when they were children. In return, he is [[Sarcasm Mode|rewarded]] with horrific mistreatment. He is forced to sleep outside in all weathers like an animal, fed only leftover scraps (and that infrequently: he once had to live for ten days on a single bowl of brine, and he's forgotten what milk and watermelons taste like), forced to drink the water from the storm gutters, and frequently beaten and berated by his charges.

 

 

== Hinako Ninomiya ==

The last of the major characters to be introduced (in the manga; the anime was cancelled before she was created, so in that canon she was merely the subject of an OAV and appears in a second one, "Nightmare! Incense of Deep Sleep"), Hinako was hired by Principal Kuno ostensibly as a new Homeroom/English teacher for Ranma's classroom, but more likely as yet another of the principal's "attacks" on Ranma for his own amusement. Hinako's story begins many years before the series, when she was a little girl in the hospital for an unidentified ailment. Happōsai, wandering by, dropped in and either took pity on her, saw someone he could use to help him steal underwear from the nurses, or both. He subjected her to a regime of [[Pressure Point]] manipulation that would endow her with the ability to drain the [[Battle Aura]] from other people, which he insisted would help her get better. Flash forward to the present day, and she's all better... but now she's [[Dual Age Modes|stuck looking like a kid]] unless she [[Energy Absorption|drains]] somebody's [[Battle Aura]], and she'll only remain in her adult form until she uses up the [[Life Energy|ki]] she stole. Obsessed with stomping out "delinquency", she frequently clashes with Ranma, particularly after she falls in love with Soun Tendō.

 

 

== Maomolin, the Bakeneko ==

A giant ghostly cat that Shampoo accidentally brought back to Nerima from a visit to China, Maomolin wants to claim a human wife and will do anything to get one.

 

* [[Mega Neko]]: He's a cat the size of a grizzly bear.

* [[Obake]]: He's the ghost of a cat from China, able to steal bodies and lay curses on people. Most commonly identified as a "bakeneko" (literally "ghost cat").

 

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