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Ranma (OAV, FILM)

Genre: Romantic ComedyRanma.GIF (15504 bytes)

Cast:


  Ranma Saotome (boy) .......................... Kappei Yamaguchi
  Ranma Saotome (girl) ........................... Megumi Hayashibara
  Akane Tendou ...................................... Noriko Hidaka
  Kasumi Tendou ..................................... Kikuko Inouye
  Nabiki Tendou ...................................... Minami Takayama
  Shampoo .............................................. Rei Sakuma
  Ukyou Kuonji ....................................... Hiromi Tsuru
  Ryouga Hibiki ......................................  Kouichi Yamadera
  Happosai .............................................. Ichiroo Nagai
  Tatewaki Kunou ................................... Hirotaka Suzuoki
  Kodachi 'Black Rose' Kunou ................ Saeko Shimazu
  Sasuke ................................................. Shigeru Chiba
  Mikado Sanzenin .................................. Kazuhiko Inouye
  Azusa Shiratori ..................................... Naoko Matsui
  Hikaru Gosunkugi ................................. Issei Futamata
  Daisuke .................................................Takendo Koyasu

Description:

  One day, Soun Tendo calls his 3 daughters in and tells them that one of them is going to be iinazuke (fiancee) to Ranma,  the son  of his best friend.  Soun faints when Ranma arrives and turns  out to be a *girl*.  It soon turns out that Ranma is really a  boy, but has a curse where he will turn into a girl when cold  water is splashed on him.  Hot water returns him to normal.   Nabiki & Kasumi immediately elect Akane as the iinazuke because  "she hates boys and Ranma is only half a boy".  Ranma, for his  part, doesn't like Akane because she's violent and "not cute".  Akane is miffed at Ranma because he beat her in martial arts  (Ranma was a girl then) and shows her feelings by crushing Ranma  with a table.  A wonderful start to a beautiful relationship :-).  A martial arts comedy by Rumiko Takahashi.  Note that the 2nd TV season onward is known as "Ranma 1/2 Nettouhen".