Saotome Ranma, son of Saotome Genma, is dragged off by his father on a martial arts training expedition to China, where they both become the unfortunate victims of a certain set of magical hot springs (Jyusenkyo). There are over a hundred springs at this site, each of which is cursed. The curse is that anyone that falls into a spring takes on the body of the first creature to drown in that spring, but only whenever s/he is splashed with cold water.
Thus, Ranma, who fell into the Spring of the Young Girl (where a young girl drowned long ago), turns into a girl when splashed with cold water. His father turns into a panda. The only way to undo the transformation is to get splashed with hot water. Of course, Ranma and his father aren't the only victims of these cursed springs...
his father Genma had promised Ranma in marriage to one of the three daughters of his best friend, Tendou Soun. This had happened many years ago, and in the intervening time, the two families had separated. Now, after those many years, Soun gathers up his daughters Kasumi, Nabiki, and Akane to inform them that now, the Saotomes were returning, and that one of them was to marry Ranma.
So, the day comes, the Saotomes arrive, and Ranma...is a girl.
Shortly before going to the Tendou Dojo School of Anything Goes Martial Arts, Genma brought Ranma to Jusenkyo, a martial arts training ground in China with these very interesting springs. Ranma had knocked his father into a pool, and instead of Genma emerging, an angry panda bear charged out and knocked Ranma into another spring.
He didn't emerge, either. Rather, she did--a very well-built, female version of Ranma. These springs were cursed--hundreds of years ago, various creatures and people had drowned in them, and anyone who fell into a spring would be cursed. Genma fell into the Spring of the Drowned Panda, and Ranma fell into the Spring of the Drowned Young Girl. Whee.... In the course of the series, others get cursed here as well....
The series takes place mostly in the Nerima district of Tokyo, but often goes to China and other assorted locations.
Technorati: Ranma and Akane, Ranma 1/2, Ranma Anime
Season 01 - TV Series
- Episode 01 - Here's Ranma
- Episode 02 - School is No Place For Horsing Around
- Episode 03. - A Sudden Storm of Love
- Episode 04 - Ranma and... Ranma? If It's Not One Thing, It's Another
- Episode 05 - Love Me to the Bone! The Compound Fracture of Akane's Heart
- Episode 06 - Akane's Lost Love... These Things Happen You Know
- Episode 07 - Enter Ryoga! The Eternal 'Lost Boy'
- Episode 08 - "School is a Battlefield!" Ranma vs. Ryoga
- Episode 09 - "True Confessions! A Girl's Hair is Her Life!"
- Episode 10 - "P-P-P-chan! He's Good For Nothin'"
- Episode 11 - "Ranma Meets Love Head-On! Enter the Delinquent Juvenile Gymnast!"
- Episode 12 - "A Woman's Love is War! The Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics Challenge!"
- Episode 13 - "A Tear in a Girl Delinquent's Eye? The End of the Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics Challenge"
- Episode 14 - "Pelvic Fortune-Telling? Ranma is the Number One Bride in Japan"
- Episode 15 - "Enter Shampoo, the Gung-Ho Girl! I Put My Life in Your Hands"
- Episode 16 - "Shampoo's Revenge! The Shiatsu Technique That Steals Heart and Soul"
- Episode 17 - "I Love You, Ranma! Please Don't Say Goodbye"
- Episode 18 -"I Am a Man! Ranma's Going Back to China!?"
Season 02 - Anything-Goes Martial Arts
- Episode 01 - "The Abduction of P-Chan"
- Episode 02 - "Close Call! The Dance of Death... On Ice!"
- Episode 03 - "P-chan Explodes! The Icy Fountain of Love!"
- Episode 04 - "Clash of the Delivery Girls! The Martial Arts Takeout Race"
- Episode 05 - "You Really Do Hate Cats!"
- Episode 06 - "This Ol' Gal's the Leader of the Amazon Tribe!"
- Episode 07 - "Behold! The "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" Technique"
- Episode 08 - "Enter Mousse! The Fist of the White Swan"
- Episode 09 - "Cool Runnings! The Race of the Snowmen"
- Episode 10 - "Danger at the Tendo Dojo!"
- Episode 11 - "Ranma Trains on Mt. Terror"
- Episode 12 - "The Breaking Point!? Ryoga's Great Revenge"
- Episode 13 - "The Abduction of Akane!"
- Episode 14 - "Ranma vs. Mousse! To Lose is to Win"
- Episode 15 - "Enter Happosai, the Lustful Lecher!"
- Episode 16 - "Assault on the Girl's Locker Room"
- Episode 17 - "Kuno's House of Gadgets! Guests Check in, But They Don't Check Out"
- Episode 18 - "Goodbye Girl-Type"
- Episode 19 - "It's a Fine Line Between Pleasure and Pain"
- Episode 20 - "S.O.S.! The Wrath of Happosai"
- Episode 21 - "Kissing is Such Sweet Sorrow! The Taking of Akane's Lips"
- Episode 22 - "Bathhouse Battle! We're in Some Hot Water Now"
Season 03 - Hard Battle
- Episode 01 - "Ranma Gains Yet Another Suitor"
- Episode 02 - Ryoga & Akane: 2-Gether, 4-Ever"
- Episode 03 - "Sneeze Me, Squeeze Me, Please Me! Shampoo's Recipe for Disaster"
- Episode 04 - "Rub-A-Dub-Dub! There's a Pervert in the Tub"
- Episode 05 - "I Love You! My Dear, Dear Ukyo"
- Episode 06 - "The Witch Who Loved Me: A Japanese Ghost Story"
- Episode 07 - "Transform! Akane the Super-Duper Girl"
- Episode 08 - "The Killer from Jusenkyo"
- Episode 09 - "Am I... Pretty? Ranma's Declaration of Womanhood"
- Episode 10 - "Final Facedown! Happosai vs. the Invisible Man"
- Episode 11 - "Les Miserables of the Kuno Estate"
- Episode 12 - "Ghost Story! Ranma and the Magic Sword"
- Episode 13 - "All it Takes is One!" The Kiss of Love is the Kiss of Death
- Episode 14 - "The Ultimate Team-Up!? The Ryoga/Mousse Alliance"
- Episode 15 - "Back to the Happosai!"
- Episode 16 - "Kodachi, the Black Rose! The Beeline of True Love"
- Episode 17 - "The Last Days of Happosai"
- Episode 18 - "Two, Too Violent Girls: Ling-Ling & Lung-Lung"
- Episode 19 - "Ranma and the Evil Within"
- Episode 20 - "Enter Ken and His Copycat Kerchief"
- Episode 21 - "Ryoga's Miracle Cure! Hand Over That Soap"
- Episode 22 - "Fight! The Anything-Goes Obstacle Course Race"
- Episode 23 - "Ukyo's Skirt! The Great Girly-Girl Gambit"
- Episode 24 - "Ranma Goes Back to Jusenkyo At Last"
Season 04 - Outta Control
- Episode 01 - "The Return of the Hawai'ian Headmaster From Hell"
- Episode 02 - "Enter Kuno, the Night-Prowling Knight"
- Episode 03 - "Ranma Gets Weak!"
- Episode 04 - "Eureka! The Desperate Move of Desperation"
- Episode 05 - "Showdown! Can Ranma Make A Comeback?"
- Episode 06 - "Here Comes Ranma's Mom"
- Episode 07 - "From Ryoga with Love"
- Episode 08 - "My Fiancé, the Cat"
- Episode 09 - "Blow, Wind! To Be Young is to Go Gung-Ho"
- Episode 10 - "A Formidable New Disciple"
- Episode 11 - "Step Outside!"
- Episode 12 - "Ryoga's "Tendo Dojo Houseguest" Diary"
- Episode 13 - "Happosai's Happy Heart"
- Episode 14 - "Extra, Extra! Kuno & Nabiki: Read All About It!"
- Episode 15 - "Ryoga the Strong... Too Strong"
- Episode 16 - "Close Call! P-chan's Secret"
- Episode 17 - "The Egg-Catcher Man"
- Episode 18 - "Ranma & Kuno's... First Kiss"
- Episode 19 - "Shampoo's Red Thread of Dread"
- Episode 20 - "Mousse Goes Home to the Country!"
- Episode 21 - "The Dumbest Bet In History"
- Episode 22 - "Kuno Becomes A Marianne!"
- Episode 23 - "Ranma, You're Such A Jerk"
- Episode 24 - "Ling-Ling and Lung-Lung Strike Back!"
Season 5 - Martial Mayhem
- Episode 01 - "Gimme That Pigtail"
- Episode 02 - "When a Guy's Pride and Joy Is Gone"
- Episode 03 - "Ryoga's Proposal"
- Episode 04 - "Genma Takes a Walk"
- Episode 05 - "The Gentle Art of Martial Tea Ceremony"
- Episode 06 - "And the Challenger is... A Girl?!"
- Episode 07 - "Hot Springs Battle Royale"
- Episode 08 - "Me Is Kuno's Daddy, Me Is"
- Episode 09 - "The Matriarch Takes a Stand"
- Episode 10 - "A Leotard is a Girls' Burden"
- Episode 11 - "The Mixed Bath Horror"
- Episode 12 - "The Frogman's Curse"