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PRINCIPAL KUNO

The father of Tatewaki and Kodachi, and the antagonistic authoritarian principal of Furinkan High School. When he returns from America with extreme Hawaiimania, he announces he has a big present for his students: a new rule that all boys must have marabouzu-style shaved heads and all girls have very short okappa haircuts... unless the students get a coconut containing an exemption slip within three days. He goes to extreme lengths in his attempts to cut Saotome Ranma's pigtail and make an example of him, but gets only several poundings. In the manga, the students force him to reveal that although he doesn't remember where that coconut with the exemption slip is, he tattooed directions to it on the shaved head of his long lost son Tatewaki, who he left behind 3 years ago. He makes crazy rules to inconvenience his students, especially Ranma, who thwarts his discipline.

He is very easy to see and recognize. He has a bonsai palm tree growing on top of his head, a deep tan, wears Hawaiian clothes (complete with sunglasses, a lei, an aloha shirt). Sometimes he even rides a skateboard. Once you hear someone using katakana American in his sentences (ex. "MII [me] no" instead of "watashi no"), and draws out his "desu's"("GIBU APPU [Give up] de---su!"), it's him. His weapons are a pair of barikan (hair clippers) or large shears. He also hands or throws exploding pineapples to unsuspecting students. He has also used silly tricks like remote-control planes with sharpened propellers and trained hair-clipping lobsters.

Notes about the name

I don't really know his name... In this site, sometimes I call him kouchou, meaning principal or Principal...

Technique Used:
Kuno-ryuu bokutou sasara kuzushi "Kuno school bokutou whisk destruction"
The principal's technique of using a pair of barikan in a circular motion to reduce a bokutou (wooden sword) to a whisk, then, as the barikan comes up and around, simultaneously shave his opponent's head. Appearance: Nettouhen episode 46. Volume 12 part 3.