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Miscelleneous Characters
Here are the characters who appered only a few times in the series (and they don't live in a major location) and the characters in the movies...Some are regulars, but suddenly disappear in the middle of the manga/anime series.
The Golden Pair of Martial Arts Skating
Ono Tofu
The local chiropractor, skilled in martial arts medicine, when he's himself. Whenever he sees Kasumi, his glasses steam up and he becomes a babbling fool (and dangerous to his patients), as everyone but Kasumi knows. (To Akane's heartbreak at the beginning of the series, since she had a crush on him since she was a child.) Genma gets a job doing chores at his clinic.
His name means "east wind"
Entrance: Episode 2. Volume 1 part 3.
'Betty-chan'
The skeleton Tofu-sensei manipulates, and dances with in glee after being with Kasumi.Ono Kin
Tofu-sensei's mother, who comes to town for one episode toting a butsuban shrine to her husband and a picture of a musclebound girl, with good hips for bearing grandchildren (her main qualification), that she's arranged for Tofu to marry.
The Washer Woman
She is the little old lady that turns up to splash water on the Jusenkyo-ized guys...in the most INconvenient time and place...Daimonji Sentarou
Sentarou, unconscious on a wild horse charging through the rain, is "saved" by Ranma. Happy to have found a strong girl his grandmother could approve of, he tries to take Ranma for a bride (and Akane after she comes to rescue Ranma). He uses the Kyoto dialect (exaggerated used of "dosu").Sentarou means "boiling first son"
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 75. Volume 6 part 9
('baa-sama')
Sentarou's grandmother, master of tea ceremony style martial arts, who tests Ranma to prove her as strong and as worthy as Sentarou claims.She uses tea ceremony implements as weapons. She talks with the Kyoto dialect (exaggerated used of "dosu"), just like Senatrou. She is sometimes called "the Iemoto."
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 75
Miyako-ooji Satsuki
The 1988 Miss Tea Ceremony, intended bride of Sentarou. In Nettouhen, daughter of the "dark side" martial arts tea ceremony school.Miyako-ooji means "main thoroughfare of the metropolis," while Satsuki means "tea moon"
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 112. Volume 6 part 11
Sanae
Miyako-ooji's monkey, trained in tea ceremony, who improbably takes her place. Entrance: Volume 6 part 10.Sanae means tea sprout.
('dojo yaburi')
Fights the champions of each dojo for their kanban (dojo signs). When he challenges the Tendo dojo to a fight the following day, Soun and Genma want Akane and Ranma to fight him together, but Akane insists she can handle it herself, and Shampoo has offered Ranma her Nanniichuan mix if he goes on a date with her then.Entrance: Nettouhen episode 12. Volume 8 part 1
Kurenai Tsubasa
A beautiful junior high schoolmate of Ukyo's, who gives Ukyo presents and sends Ukyo love letters. Ukyo told Tsubasa she already has a fiancé. Tsubasa challenges Ranma to win Ukyo. Skilled at camouflage, Tsubasa wears bizarre disguises like mailboxes, vending machines, umbrella costumes... It later turns out that Tsubasa is a guy dressed as a girl.Tsubasa means "wings"
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 27. Volume 10 part 9
Shirokuro
In the manga, Ryoga's dog, age 4. The only one in Ryoga's household that can find her way home. Appears on television as a lost dog looking for her master, with a litter of two-tone puppies that Akane adores. In the series, a ninja dog that Ryoga rescues and adopts. He is white on one side, black on the other.Entrance: Nettouhen episode 140. Volume 11 part 1.
Shiro "white" and Kuro "black" are common dog names.
Bake-neko
A huge ghost cat, looking for a wife, inhabiting Maomoorin, a large legendary bell given to Ranma by Shampoo.He frequently replaces "na" with "nya" (Japanese meow) (ex. "gomennyasai"). Uses "nya" as a verb ending.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 54. Volume 14 part 2
Yotarou
A weak little boy who doesn't like to go outside. He loves pandas, and tells his mother he will go outside and play if he gets a panda for Christmas.Entrance: Nettouhen episode 57. Volume 14 part 6
('Maman')
Yutarou's mother, who gratefully serves the panda expensive delicacies.Bakuchi Ou King (Casino King)
The unscrupulous carnival gambler to whom young Ranma, 10 years ago, loses his shirt and the Tendo dojo he would eventually marry into. King returns with Ranma's signed promise in writing, to claim the dojo and turn it into a casino. He looks like and dresses similar to a playing card King. He uses cards as weapons by tbrowing them.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 67. Volume 15 part 4.
His name means "Gambling King 'King'"
Niku, An, Karee, and Piza
In the Tsinghai region of China, four little men come to the Yakusaikan store seeking a 4000 year old secret "dragon's hair" of mysterious power. They coerce the shopkeeper to draw them a picture of the person who has it now, who has a conspicuous pigtail. Finally they find Ranma, who uses it to tie off the end of his pigtail and never removes it because it's his "seal". But remove it they do...Their heads look like niku-man, an-man, curry-man, and pizza-man.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 70. Volume 15 part 8.
Picolette Chardin II
A blond-haired blue-eyed French prince. Able to slip huge amounts of food in his incredibly flexible mouth, too quickly to be seen (according to his family's manners).Twenty years ago, a starving Soun and Genma, after losing in a martial arts dinner contest and being presented with a monstrous bill, promised one of their daughters to marry into the Chardin family.
When he talks, he mixes katakana French words with very formal Japanese (ex. "Bonjour de gozaimasu").
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 87. Volume 16 part 8 His name is a French-sounding name of a Japanese toilet cleanser.
Madame Saint-Paul
Picolette's governess who trains Ranma in martial arts dinner, so she can be a proper bride.She uses a dialect associated with arrogant rich people ("zansu" instead of "desu").
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 87. Volume 16 part 9. Voice: Mita Yuuko
Her name is referenced to floor cleaning spray.
('kage no don'/"shadow don")
Pansuto Tarou
One day, a monster steals the Jusenkyo client register from the guide, and flies to Japan seeking Happosai.Happosai baptized Tarou in Niuhoomanmaorenniichuan, where a yeti riding a bull carrying a crane and an eel drowned 2500 years ago. But it's not turning into a bizarre monster that upsets Tarou... Happosai cursed him with something even worse-- he baptized him with the humiliating name "Pantyhose Tarou", and by his customs, only Happosai can change his name.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 103. Volume 18 part 1. Re-entrance: Volume 23 part 1.
His name means "Pantyhose Tarou"
Harumaki
The ghost of an old man who enters Ranma's dreams. He wishes to relive a date with lost love Gyouko-san, whom Ranma-chan reminds him of.Entrance: Nettouhen episode 126. Volume 20 part 9.
Konjou (M-A-R-I-K-O) Mariko
A martial arts cheerleading expert from Seisyun Gakuen, who strikes down her team's opponents while cheering. She knocks down the entire Furinkan Koukou volleyball team except for Akane. She falls for Kuno Tatewaki and challenges Ranma to a martial arts cheerleading contest for him during their schools' upcoming kendo match..She constantly cheers out words alphabetically. She uses cheerleading implements (batons, pom-poms...) as weapons.
Entrance: Nettouhen episode 136. Volume 21 part 7.
From Movie: Big Touble in Nekonron China
Raichi
Granddaughter of the old woman Happosai sold the scroll to, who after a series of misfortunes, doubts the power of the scroll and seeks Happosai. She tracks him down to the Tendo dojo and throws the scroll at him. It ends up in Akane's hands, just as the "prince", Kirin, arrives. Her name Sounds like "lychee", Chinese nuts.Jasmine
Raichi's ususual elephant.the Shichi Fukudoujin "7 gods of martial arts luck"
When Happosai trained in China, he stole a half scroll containing a secret technique from the Shichi Fukudoujin. The legend of the scroll holds that a prince on a white horse will come for the holder and make her happy, so he sells it to an old woman for food money.Their names are based on the 7 Fukujin, the Seven Deities of Luck, who come to Japan from afar in a treasure ship on New Year's Eve, bringing good luck. They appear in the movie: Chuugoku Nekonron daikessen! Okite yaburi no gekitou hen
Kirin
The leader of the 7 Fukudoujin, who comes and takes Akane away. He holds the other half of the scroll, whose power comes when both halves are used as a pair, so there is a rule that the bearers of the two pieces must marry. He takes Akane away to his castle in China. Ranma and company go to rescue her.His name means phoenix in Japanese mythology.
Bishamonten
Based on Bishamon, the God of War and Defense, whose spear is said to protect people from evil. The first two kanji in the traditional name are replaced with "hisha", a shogi piece name. His weapon is a big polearm.Daikokusei and Daihakusei
The go-playing twins. They were based on Daikoku, the God of Wealth and Harvest, who brings luck to farmers. He carries a huge treasure sack and carries a magical gavel of luck. But Daikokusei doesn't resemble Daikoku at all. His counterpart Daihakusai replaces the kanji for "black" in his name with "white". They look more alike than Fukurokuju and Juroujin and play go (as black and white) instead of karuta.Muu
The Fukudoujin version of Hotei, the potbellied God of Happiness and Prosperity, who carries a huge sack of treasures to ensure a happy and prosperous life like a treasure hammer, a money-producing purse, etc. He is a walking wall. His ultimate weapon is his tremendous belly.Monron
The Fukudoujin version of Benten, the Goddess of Arts and Wisdom, a talented beauty who plays the biwa. Her weapon is a biwa, with sharpened strings.Ebiten
The Fukudoujin version of Ebisu, the smiling God of Fishing and Commerce worshipped by merchants, usually depicted with a fishing rod and a huge red sea bream. Weapon: His fishing pole.From Movie: Nihao my Concubine
Touma
A young martial artist on the magical island Tougenkyou with a spring that turns animals into animal-men. The cast gets shipwrecked there and all the girls are kidnapped to compete to be Touma's bride. Entrance: Movie: Kessen Tougenkyou! Hanayome o torimodose!!Jakou Ouchou no Matsuei "Descendants of the Musk Dynasty"
A 1400-year-old dynasty of animal-stylist martial artists. They threw wild animals into Nyannichuan to turn them into women, and poured water from a magic bucket, the Chiisui- ton, on them to keep them in their cursed form permanently. Their children by these women inherited some of the wild animals' abilities. They are Herb, Mint, and Lime.
Mint
A wolf-boy with superhuman speed, who has never seen a woman before. He throws knives incredibly fast.
He uses the Rou-ga ryuusei-dan meaning "wolf fang meteor shots". It is a super-fast missile-throwing attack.
Entrance: Volume 24 part 1.
Lime
A tiger-boy with superhuman strength, who has never seen a woman before either.
Entrance: Volume 24 part 1.
Herb
Dragon-leader of the Musk Dynasty with the ability to fly. When he threw a monkey in Nyanniichuan, he was so captivated by his first sight of breasts, the monkey girl pushed him into the spring too. Then, captivated by his/her new body, the monkey girl splashed her with Chiisui-ton water. So Herb comes to Japan in search of the long-lost opposite to the Chiisui-ton, the Kaisui-fuu.
His flying technique is the Ryuu-sei hishou or "dragon spirit flight".
He also uses a "ki" blade technique called Hitou ryuu-zan-ha or "flying blade dragon beheading".
Entrance: Volume 24 part 1.
Shinnosuke
An absent-minded boy who lives with his grandfather in the forest setting monster traps, who saved Akane from a giant monster when she was little. Entrance: Volume 25 part 10.Kumon Ryuu
A martial artist who came by Ranma's scroll for the Saotome school technique Yamasen-ken. After saving Ranma's mother from a rampaging bear, Nodoka returns the scroll to him and he gives his name as Saotome Ranma.By infiltrating the Tendo dojo and pretending to be Ranma, he hopes to find the technique the Yamasen-ken pairs with, the Umisen-ken. Entrance: Volume 28 part 1.