Ranma 1/2 is an action/comedy anime series that is what I think an ideal anime (at least, for me) should be.  The story and characters are so original and the Rumiko Takahashi's humor in this series is just so clever and so very often I find myself cracking up hysterically watching Ranma 1/2. 

I love the personality and specialty of each character in this story, including Happosai's lust after girls' lingerie.  Ranma's male personality is so attractive and the female personality so adorable, I often find that he's too good for Akane.  :P  I adore Shampoo's sneakiness and her broken English, and I think she's the prettiest girl in the series. 

I HIGHLY recommend this series.  It's one of the best anime out there.

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3. Ed. 2 - Dancing with Death
4. Ed. 2 - Fighting Phobia
5. Ed. 2 - Survivor Type
23. Ed. 2
24. Ed. 2 - Persistence of Memory
25. Ed. 2 Alter Egos
27. Ed. 2 - One Flew East, One Flew West
29. Ed. 2 - Another Volume of Miscellaenous Mayhem
30. Ed. 2 - It Slices!  It Dices!

Ranma Saotome - Martial artist with far too many fiancees and an ego that won't let him take defeat.  Changes into a girl when splashed with water.
Genma Saotome - Ranma's lazy father, who left his wife and home years ago with his young son (Ranma) to train in the martial arts.  Changes into a panda.
Akane Tendo- Martial artist, tomboy, and Ranma's reluctant fiancee.  Has no clue how much Ryoga likes her, or what relation he might have to her pet black peig, P-chan.
Nabiki Tendo - Alaways ready to "make a buck" off the suffering of others, cold-hearted capitalist Nabiki is the middle Tendo daughter.
Kasumi Tendo - Sweet-natured eldest Tendo daughter and substitute mother figure for the Tendo family.
Soun Tendo - Head of household and owner of the Tendo Dojo.
Happosai - Martial arts master who trained both Genma and Soun.  Also a world-class pervert.
Hikaru Gosunkgui
Shampoo - Chinese Amazon warrior who's gone from wanting to kill Ranma to wanting to marry him.  Changes into a cute kitty-cat when splashed.
Ryoga Hibiki - Melancholy martial artist with no sense of direction, a hopeless crush on Akane, and a stubborn grudge against Ranma.  Changes into a small black pig Akane's named "P-chan".
Mousse - Myopic master of hidden weapons.  Has a hopeless crush on Shampoo and turns into a duck when wet.
Cologne - Shampoo's great grandmother, a martial artist and matchmaker.
Ukyo Kuonji - Childhood friend of Ranma and another of Ranma's fiancee, a martial artist and okonomiayki chef who runs "Okonomiyaki Ucchan's". 
Tatewaki Kuno - Blustering upperclassman with a love of the ancient Japanese arts, Akane Tendo, and the mysterious "pig-tailed girl", who he has no idea is really girl-type Ranma.
Herb, Mint, and Lime - A trio of Chinese martial arts with special powers.
Hinako Ninomiya - A new high school teacher with a reputation for dealing with delinquents.
Nodoka Saotome - Ranma's mother and Genma's wife - only she doesn't know Ranma is sometimes a girl, and her husband sometimes a panda.  Has previously vowed to assist the seppuku of them both should Ranma turn out anything less than "manly."
Akari Unryu - Breeder of championship sumo-wrestling pigs and new love interest for Ryoga.
Principal Kuno - Principal of Furinkan High.  He's just crazy.
Kodachi Kuno - Twisted sister of Tatewaki.  An expert in Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics, she's determined to use her ribbon-whipping skills to tame Ranma.
Pantyhose Taro - Yet another victim of Jusenkyo Plunge, he holds a wicked grudge against both Ranma and Happosai, who he holds responsible for his unfortunate name.

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 4: Fighting Phobia

Kuno recruits Gosunkgui, who has a crush on Akane and is jealous of Ranma, to find out Ranma's weakness, and found out that Ranma is afraid of cats.  Gosunkgui then stages a kidnap and traps Ranma under the stage, which is filled with lots of cats and a tiger!  When Ranma's fear comes to its peak, Ranma yowls and thinks that he's a cat as a defense mechanism.  When this happens, Ranma gets in this mode in which he is uncontrollable and and the only known thing that would snap Ranma out of his condition is an old woman who lived in their neighborhood.  Akane proved to be another person who could calm him down when Ranma hopped on her lap and kissed her!

Shampoo's great grandmother, Cologne, appears and demands that Ranma marries Shampoo, sneakily uses Ranma deadly pressure, which makes him not toerable to hot water anymore.  The nearsighted Mousse appears, also, challenging Ranma because he is in love with Shampoo.  The bet is that if Mousse wins, he gets Akane.  Unable to change back to a guy, Ranma shows up to the challenge as a girl dresed up in guy's clothes with lots of magic tricks.  Ranma turned back to a guy because he couldn't defeat Mousse while he's a girl.  But the pressure point only works only once, and he was soon changed back to a girl again after he won the fight. 

Determined to master "Chestnuts Roasting on Open Fire" so that he can get the Phoenix pill from Cologne to fix his "problem", Ranma worked at the Cat Cafe for Cologne.  At a fair, Ranma used the fish game to practice on his speed and mastered "Chestnuts Roasting on Open Fire".  Continuing on, Ranma tries to win the War of the Melons so he could get the prize (Shampoo with phoenix pill included.).  Near the finishline, Ranma was confronted by Cologne and start a fight.  Akane got in the middle while she tries to save Ranma and Cologne wants to use the chance to get rid of Akane. - Ed. 2   

The battle at the end of Volume 4 finishes with Ranma defeating Cologne using Cat-Fist with Shampoo's help.  Next, Cologne teaches Ryoga the Secret Breaking Point Technique, with which Ranma had difficulty defeating unti he figured to use his fast punches.    

Sentaro of Daimonji Schol of Martial Arts Tea Ceremonies tricks the female Ranma into marrying him so that he could nullify a prearranged marriage with Miss Satsuki, the daughter of the Miyakoji School of Martial Arts Tea Ceremonies, who was also crowned as Miss Tea Ceremony for 1993.  Hearing that Miss Satsuki is a master at martial arts, Ranma can't resist the temptation to beat her at the arts. The tea ceremony martial arts happens to be the ability to glide on the floor while sitting down at a very fast speed.  When Ranma and Akane found out that Sentaro couldn't find himself to like Miss Satsuki because she was a monkey, Ranma backed out of the fight.  Instead of helping Ranma, Senta let Ranma and the monkey wound each other and Plans to marry Akane,  In the midst of the fight, a girl appears and admitted that she was the real Miss Satsuki and that she sent her money in her place at the wedding because she was too embarrassed.    

Whoever delivers hot noodles to Tatewaki Kuno's house and gets him to eat her noodles is the winner at the Miss Martial Arts Takeout.  Needless to say, the real competition is among Ranma, Shampoo, and Akane.   The three girls arrive at Kuno's at the same time and fight to get Kuno to eat their noodles first.  Touched by all the girls' fighting "for" him, Kuno ate Ranma's noodles. -Ed. 2

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 9:

The fight at the Chinese Acrobat continues as Mousse attempts to turn Akane into a duck.  At Mousse's defeat, Akane plans a way to help Mousse to get Shampoo - by having Mousse challenge Ranma again and make Ranma lose.  Shampoo agrees that Mousses wins, she woud date Mousse. As Mousse gets realy beat up by Ranma, Shampoo was touched by Mousses' effort and takes Mousses to her bosom. 

A mailbox-impersonating rival named Tsubasa Kurenai comes after Ranma for Ukyo.  At lunch time Ranma and Ukyo sells Ucchan's okonomiyaki to see who's the cuter girl of the two.  Tsubasa falls in love with Ranma as he comforts her after Ukyo rejected her, even though she was deemed the cuter girl.  Ranma goes on a date with Tsubasa as a boy, wanting to set Tsubasa on the "right path", only to find out that Tsubasa is a boy, himself.

Upon finding out that his dog just had some babies and wanted him to go home, Ryoga decides to go home.  Since Akanes loves puppies, she asked Ryoga is she could go see the puppies at his house.  At Ryoga's house, Ranma changes into a girl and fools Ryogo into thinking that she's his forgotten sister, Yoiko. 

Happosai gets sick of his abuse from the family and threatend with his ultimate technique, The Happo-Fire Burst, only to find out that he has forgotten it.  The three males in the family attempts to get the scroll that sealed away the ultimate technique before Happosai does only to findout that it's right in the center of a women's hot springs.  When they got it, no one, even Happosai himself, can't read his terrible handwriting.  With a little reminder from Ranma, the ultimate technique is really just fireworks.  The volume ended with a beautiful firework blasting Happosai away.  -Ed. 1

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 11:

Shampoo has this waterproof soap that when used, it prevents changes.  Ryoga gets it by mistake without knowing and doesn't get affected by cold water anymore.  Once Ranma realize the effect of the soap, he and Shampoo team up and try to get the soap from Ryoga.  They set Ryoga and Akane on a date to distract Ryoga from the soap, to find out in the end that the soap has a big flaw - it washes right off.

Happosai burns Ranma with the legendary moxibustion which turns Ranma into a weakling.  Happosai spreads the word that Ranma is weak so all Ranma's enemies find out about it and take this opportunity to beat Ranma, except for Ryoga, who actually saves Ranma because he hate picking on the weak.  Ranma, Genma, Ukyo, and Cologne set out to find the cure for moxibustion and Cologne decides that the Heaven Blast of the Dragon might help Ranma in this case.  The stronger the opponent, the better result the Heaven Blast of the Dragon.  Since everyone would hold back fighting Ranma because they care for Ranma, Ryoga is nominated to play the role to help Ranma's training.  - Ed. 1

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 15:

At the school cafeteria, Picolet Chardin II of the Law Belle France School of Martial Arts, uses his martial arts eating skill to eat everyone's food without their notice until it's too late.  It happens that Soun Tendo had traded on of his future daughters to the Chardin family for a meal a long time ago, and Picolet now wants to collect one of Tendo's daughters for marriage.  Wanting to master martial arts eating, Ranma volunteers himself as Picolet's fiancee to learn the secrets of the art.  Starved from not being fast enough to eat, Ranma discovers that the only way to defeat martial art eating is the long lost Parlay du Foie Gras.  This volume was an eye candy because Ranma got to wear an iron corset with many different fashionable ball gowns, which were so pretty!  I also found it hilarious the way Picolet "kisses" Rama!

The second part of the volume starts with a fight between Nabiki and Akane.  When Rama saved Nabiki from a fall, Akane got so jealous that she asked the two why notj just engaged.  Nabiki took what Akane serious and took Ranma in as her fiance.  Various incidents made Akane even more jealous and it became harder and harder for each of them to apologize to each other.  Nabiki, in a jest, told Ranma that she has always been in love with him.  When Ranma found out that Nabiki was just joking, he wanted revenged and asked Nabiki to a date (in hell, of course! without Nabiki's knowing.)  Nabiki cleverly told Akane that Ranma wanted a date with her instead, which leads to some unexpected expectations. (I missed the last couple of pages, DRATS!  Missed some important convos, I think.) - Ed. 1

Ranma receives a challenge letter from Kuno but when he sees Kuno, Kuno indeed has mastered a sword technique, but has lost his memory.  To help Kuno get his memory back, Ranma finds out that Kuno must have had gone to the Watermelon Island for training.  Kuno got his memory back when he hit himself in the head, but the price to pay was that he doesn't remember the special sword techniques anymore.

Ukyo opens up a jar of sauce that was made 10 years ago but the sauce tasted foul.  Ranma remember that 10 years ago he spilled Ukyo's sauce and remade the sauce, that's why the sauce was a failure.  Feeling guilty, Ranma becomes really nice to Ukyo and even complimented the sauce.  Ukyo misinterpretes Ranma's action thinking back the promise that Ranma made 10 years ago when he said that he would take care of Ukyo for the rest of his life if the sauce turns out good.  Touched by Ranma, Ukyo vows to be just a woman and moves into Ranma's room to be a good wife.  Wanting Ukyo to move out, Akane and Ranma pretends to be married already and put on a show.  Proven the scheme useless, Ranma then tries to be a bad guy, hoping Ukyo would hate him.  In the end, Ukyo proves that she can't be just a woman and leaves to train as both a woman and okonomiyaki chef.

The town is terrorized by an octopus trap which steals food from restaurants.  Soun and Genma find out that it's Happosai in the trap and avoid to catch it.  Happosai, feeling lonely, cries to Ranma and once the town realize that dojo people have something to do with the octopus trap, they are outcasted.

Hikaru Gosukugi buys some paper dolls that when stick to a person's back, he would do whatever what's written on the paper doll.  Meaning to use them to get Akane to date him, Gosukugi ends up wasting them in various funny ways.

Happosai feeds Ranma and himself an "obedience pill" intending to have Ranma do what he says.  However, the pills have very strong magnetic attraction when swallowed, so Happosai is stuck on Ranma.  The only way to separate the two is to have the disciple defeat his master in battle and Ranma defeats him by showing him guys changing in the guy's locker room -Ed. 1

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 20:

Ranma helps Akane defeats Mariko at Martial Arts Cheerleading, and everyone thinks that Ranma really loves Akane when he said that many times to Akane when she was disguised as a fencer.  Mariko, upon defeat, leaves Kuno, and moves on with her life. 

Everyone at the Tendo Dojo finds out that the reason Genma hasn't took Ranma back to see his mother because Genma made a vow that unless he raises Ranma as a manly man, he and Ranma both will Seppuku, the Japanese suicide ritual.  Since Ranma turns into a girl when cold water hits him, Genma cannot face Ranma's mother, in fear of having to commit suicide.  When Nadoka Saotome, Ranma's mother, announces that she's coming to see Genma and her son, Genma and Ranma ends up having to appear in their alternate form.  Akane wants to help Nadoka see her son, but with various happenings, Ranma managed to save Nadoka from an accident and she saw a glimpse of Ranma in his male form, but when she's conscious, Ranma is back to a girl. 

Shampoo puts on a brooch from Cologne's stash and suddenly hates Ranma.  Determined to get Shampoo to love him again, Ranma gets out to win her heart back.  It turns out that when the pin is worn in the correct way, love will flow, if it's worn in the wrong way, love will turn into hate.  Cologne uses this opportunity to get Ranma to declare his love to Shampoo to trap him into marrying her. 

Happosai steals a lot of girls' lingerie from a building but they would all turn into paper, and it's driving Happosai mad.  It turns out that years ago, there was a girls' dorm and Happosai used to steal the girls' lingerie and leaeves the headmistress' big brief.  The headmistress became bitter and placed a curse that the thief will die, unless someone steals her underwear, too.  In order to save Happosai's life, Ranma tries to trick Happosai into stealing the headmistress' underwear. - Ed. 2

Pantyhose Taro, who was bathed at birth in the springs where a yeti riding an ox while carrying an el and a crane drowned, returns with water from Jusenkyo that is intended to turn Happosai into a pious man.  Armed with a secret weapon, Pantyhose Taro wants Happosai to rename him after his defeat.  Every person in Tendo dojo is happy about this until a phone call from the guide at Jesenkyo springs informs them that the water Pantyhose Taro has really change a person into twins instead of pious.  Knowing this, Ranma has to try to save Happosai from Pantyhose Taro.  The secret weapon Pantyhose Taro has is that when he touches water, he now becomes part octopus, also.

Ranma was found by Yohyo on the beach of an island after falling into the ocean during practice with Genma.  Yohyo is recruiting all females seeking to find his love, a girl who left a footprint on the back of his head.  Ranma's foot turns out to match the footprint on Yohyo's head.  Ranma finds out that there is no hot water on this island because a boulder is blocking the source, so Ranma breaks the boulder and is changed back into a guy, and to show Yohyo that he's a guy.

Nadako Saotome comes to visit Tendo dojo and Genma and Ranma changes to their alternative form because if she found out that Ranma is not a man, they'd be forced to commit suicide.  Kasumi is sick and can't cook, so Nadako decides to teach Akane and female Ranma how to cook. 

Ryoga buys a fishing pole of love wanting to reel in Akane.  By accident, Ryoga reels Ranma in, instead, and Ranma falls in love with Ryoga.  Ranma then views Akane as his rival, and the whole time Akane thinks that Ranma and Ryoga like each other.  This short chapter is really funny; the way Ranma was drawn in love with Ryoga is hilarious. 

Hikaru Gosunkugi, wanting to be as strong as Ranma, buys an One-Punch armor.  The armor is set up in a silly way that unless the wearer punches the person who he really hates, he can't take the armor off.  The wears also needs to make the punch within 5 minutes or the armor would exclode.  Ranma, chained to Hikaru, refuses to be punched and both end up blown up by the armor.

The volume starts with female Ranma and Herb in the middle of a battle for a treasure that looks like a teapot, with Ryoga and Mousse on his side.  Ranma ends up defeating and saving Herb's life by using Dragon's Descending Crashing Wave.  He was also turned back to a guy.  When Ranma returns home with Ryoga and Mousse, Akane hugs Ranma really tight to welcome home.  Isn't that sweet of Akane?

The next story introduces a new character, Hinako Ninomiya, a new teacher that the principal hired trying to teach Ranma a lesson.  Hinako turns out to look like a little girl but she drains battle aura from delinquents to defeat them, and in turn she turns into a sexy adult female.  Finding out that what she uses is from the school of anything goes, Ranma wants to find out more about this arts, and spends lots of time with the teacher.  Meanwhile, Shampoo, Ukyo, Kodachi, and Akane think that Ranma is having an affair with the teacher, and all except Akane want to attack Hinako.  Hipposai tells Ranma that he was the one who taught Hinako the special draining skill and tells Ranma about the pressure points to remove that skill from her.  During gym class, the three girls and Ranma separately stages ways to defeat Hinako.  When Ranma finally did, Hipposai reveals that the procedure needs to be repeated everyday for the next month in order to cure her draining ability.

The next story is one that Akane travels to Higo Forest, on the banks of Ryugenzawa. to handle the strange beast that has been sighted.  Akane remember that she was there when she was little and there, she received a horn pipe from a boy.  Akane left alone and Ranma was sent by Soun to find her.  Once Akane was there, she was saved from a monster by a guy who she remembers as being the same boy that saved her from a monster when she was little.  The boy, Shinnosuke, endured injury because of the incident.  Akane and Shinnosuke to where he lives and learns that Shinnosuke lives there with his grandfather, and the two are the guardians of the forest; it is their dity to battle the weird monsters.  When Ranma arrives in the forest himself, he sees many creatures that are gigantic in size, and wants to find Akane as soon as possible. - Ed. 2

This is the most "romantic" volume of Ranma 1/2 I've read.  The expressions of Akane and Ranma's faces are softer and it's the first time that Ranma shows his feelings for Akane.  Ranma is awesome.  I don't see why so many guys like Akane so much.  I think Ranma deserves better than Akane. :P  

Ranma follows Akane to Ryugenzawa and finds her with Shinnosuke and his grandfather.  Shinnosuke is a boy Akane remembers from childhood.  In Akane's defense, he received wounds and has only short-term memory due to the wounds.  He needs Ryugenzawa's magical water to stay alive.  Akane is determined to stay and help.  Rejected by Akane to go home, Ranma thinks that Akane would rather be with Shinnosuke than him.  Even P-chan thinks that Akane is in love with Shinnosuke.  Not wanting Akane to get hurt, Ranma and Ryoga stays to help defeat Yamata No Orochi, an eight-headed dragon like creature.  Dressed like girls and armed with wines (orochi's favorite), the group teams up and takes on the orochi.  Oh, and of course, once Shinnosuke's saved, Akane returns to Ranma.  - Ed. 2

It is time for home visits and Miss Hinako visits the Tendo residence.  Soun meets the little Hinako and thinks that she's Akane's friend from school.  Seeing Souns is so nice, Miss Hinako falls in love with Soun.  Miss Hinako moves into the Tendo Dojo and acts like a mother to the three sisters, intending to marry Soun. 

Mousse accidentally finds a pair of spectacles from Cologne that when worn, it makes the opponent cry and apologize. Mousses uses it on Ranma and humiliates him in front of everyone.  Cologne informs everyone that the spectacles were really designed for the coward, children, and women.  Not wanting to stoop so low and turn Shampoo off, Mousse uses the spectacles another way during Ranma's challenge to get his pride back.

At the beach, the Tendo Dojo members were warned that there is a demon dog in the ocean, and it only attacks girls.  Ranma changes into his girl form and finds a shrine at the bottom of the ocean.  Before he knew it, he was stuck in an ugly demon swimsuit.  The swimsuit says that unless Natsuhiko compliments the swimsuit by sunset the next day, the suit will drag Ranma back into the ocean.  The swimsuit refuses to recognize the real Natsuhiko because he looks different now (he's aged!) but it turns out that Kuno looks like him.  It's all up to Kuno to save Ranma from being drowned in the ocean.

Ukyo reads about this Cursed Cave of Broken Loves and is determined to get Ranma and Akane to go through it. Once there, Ryoga shows up and Ukyo lets him in on the scheme.  The four of them go in and the Ryoga and Ukyo tries to get Ranma and Akane to go as a couple.  But with their frequent arguing, Akane wants to walk with Ryoga.  

The principal comes up with a plan to expose everyone's bad exam grades by placing the exams in the hot air balloon which will blow up at noon, unless someone can get a square thing from him. -Ed. 2        

Ranma continues to interact with Mrs. Saotome as a girl, Ranko.  One day, a guy appears and saves Mrs. Saotome from a bear that ran lose.  He claims himself as Ranma Saotome.  Mr. Saotome and the fake Ranma then have a reunion.  Neither Genma nor Ranma know what was going on, and it turns out that this guy was looking for something.  Ranma and the fake Ranma engage in combat but are interrupted by Mrs. Saotome.  The fake Ranma follows Ranma to Genma and finds out that he's the real Ranma.  Ranma finds out that the guy, Ryu Kumon, is after the other scroll that completes the one he has.  Ryu has the "1000 Mountains", and Genma has to train Ranma "1000 Seas".  Ryu threatens Ranma that if he goes near Mrs. Saotome, he would reveal his true identitiy to her.  In a letter from Mrs. Saotome to Ranko, Ranma discovers part of the "1000 Seas" scroll.  When the time the two finall had to face each other, Ranma was forced to use the ultimate secret on Ryu.  Mrs. Saotome appears and Genma turns into the panda and distracts her somewhere so the two guys can continue to battle.  It turns out that "1000 Mountains" is a tool for robbers to force his way into a house from the front door, and "1000 Seas" is a tool for burglars ot sneak through the back door.   When Mrs. Saotome came about, she says that she suspected that Ryu wasn't Ranma after all, and Ryu tells her that Ranma may be closer than she thinks.

Happosai is getting sick and he needs  Ranma to brew up potion of youth.  Happosai tries various methods to get Ranma to cry, but fails.  Finally, Happosai manages to touch Ranma's pressure points for tear glands, and Ranma couldn't stop crying.  Happosai becomes sick again and feeling bad, Ranma offers his tear, which had been "contaminated" because it was spilled, to him.  Happosai refuses to drink the tear and Ranma dumped Happosai in the bucketful of tears and Happosai returns to his baby form.

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 27: One Flew East, One Flew West...

Kuno buys an egg and nest of a phoenix which will allow the swordsman who possesses the egg and nest to master the "Magical Sword of Terror", the legendary Phoenix Sword.  He was told that whatever he does, don't put the nest on his head.  Of course, the nest and the egg ends up on Kuno's head, with Ranma's help.  The egg hatches and the phoenix chick imprinted on Ranma has its enemy and would not leave Ranma alone.  With the egg, Kuno is able to defeat Ranma and the only way for the phoenix to leave the nest is when it becomes an adult.  Ranma, armed with Phoenix-Gro, feeds the phoenix and gets the phoenix off Kuno's head, and the phoenix leaves another set of nest and egg behind...

When Shampoo was little, Pink and Link were beat up a lot by Shampoo because the pranksters twins played a trick on Shampoo.  Now that the twins heard from the "Amazons Clan Monthly" that Shampoo and Ranma are married, they come to Tokyo to seek revenge with Shampoo AND Ranma.  The twins use poison to trap Shampoo and lure Ranma to rescue her.  Cologne arms Ranma with Poison-Crushing Shield and Poison-Slicing Sword to face the poisonous twins.  Upon defeat, Cologne gives Akane Flame-Throwing Staff and the Fan of Divine Wind, and Protective Transfer Amulet to rescue Ranma and Shampoo.  With too much pollen in the air, even the twins were trapped.  Even when Shampoo is asleep, she is able to beat the twins up.  It's up to Ranma to rescue all four girls. 

1,000 years ago, A monkey priest battled an evil demon and sealed it in a box.  Before a new magical seal could be placed on the worn seal, the demon escapes and causes people to act wickedly.  The way to make demon leave a person is by punching the inflicted person.  The demon attached itself to Genma, Kuno, Ryoga, and finally landed on Kasumi.  No one is willing to punch Kasumi, until the priest suggested to put a magical seal on Kasumi's forehoead to repel it. 

Nabiki is challenged by Kinnosuke Kasha-o in the "art of living" based on never using one yen of one's own money.  Kinnosuke racked up a lot of debt and rendered Tendo's dojo broke.  Nabiki, not admitting defeat, challenged Kinnosuke on a one-day match that whoever spends the 10 yen of their own money will pay for everything plus the debt that Kinnosuke placed on the Tendo dojo.  -Ed.2

Akari Unryu, a breeder of pigs, falls in love with Ryoga when Ryoga defeats her champion wresting-pig, Katsunishiki, 14th Yokozuna of Pigdom.  Seeing that Akari really likes Ryoga, Ranma determines to make sure Ryoga knows about it.  Cologne gives "Embrace of Passionate Love" incense to Ranma to help Ryoga accept Akari's love - whoever says the word "pig" would be loved by Ryoga.  Thinking that Ryoga hates pigs, pig lover Akari tries to condition herself to hate pigs, also, to please Ryoga.  When Akari finds out that Ryoga turns into a pig, she's even more convinced that Ryoga is the man for her.  Everything seems to work out for the new couple until female Ranma said the word "pig", and Akari leaves, not able to bear that Ryoga loves another girl.

Cologne gives Ranma some experimental herbs that helps hair growth to use on Genma.  Happens that it works only when Genma is angry, but falls right off if he laughs. It becomes dangerous when the panda form of Genma uses the potion - he becomes a giant hair ball.

Miss Hikano finds some fighting fish that supplies her with infinite battle aura so she could stay a grown up not return to a girl.  With her unlimited power, she picks on the class.  Ranma goes to her house and tries to steal the fish bowl from her, but is unable to defeat with her power.  Hikano forces Ranma to study but realizes that even though her physical shape is grown-up, but she has the attention-span of a little girl.  

Kuno carves his name and "pig-tailed girl" on the trunk of his black cherry tree, which merged Kuno into the tree as "asking out demon".  The curse is that unless the maiden whose name is on the tree is sacrified, the person who's trapped in the tree would be in it forever.  The maiden is also trapped under the barrier of the tree and can't be far from the tree.  Ranma has to think of ways to get Kuno out without her being sacrificed...with an axe..

Happosai transfers a very strong cold to Ranma which made his body temperature so hot that he doesn't turn into to girl even when splashed with cold water.  Ranma's mother shows up and Ranma wants to finally show his face to his mother while he can't change into a girl.  Genma, however, is very jealous and wants Ranma's cold, but it ends up lowering Ranma's cold and he loses his ability to not change.  When Ranma's fever returns to high temprature, he wants to reunite with his mom but Happosai and Genma intervene.  Ranma transfers his cold to his mother in the end and takes care of her, but the chance to reunite is gone, again.

Ukyo received a phone call about the cursed spatula from her friend and goes to help her friend.  Once you have the cursed spatula in your hand, it would not leave your hand unless you master it.  Without knowing the curse, Ranma hold it in his hand, and has to learn to master the spatula.  But even when Ranma made a perfect okonomiyaki, he's still stuck with the spatula.  Turns out that he needed starch and use the spatula as an iron... -Ed. 2

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 29: Another Volume of Miscellaneous Mayhem

A little new diciple, sent by an old friend of Happosai, arrives at the Tendo Dojo.  Ranma thinks that he's no ordinary little kid and confirmed his supicions when it turns out that the kid IS Happosai's old friend, who really just want to get his "Brocade Butterfly" back.  Turns out that the secret of Brocade Butterfly is that it makes breast prints...

Akari and Akane both turns up at Ryoga's house at the same time.  Ryoga doesn't know what to do except to keep the two girls in separate rooms as he goes back and forth to each.  Ranma impoersonates a maid and meddles with Ryoga's two-timing...

Whichever two people get under the Umbrella of Love will become lovers.  Kuno and Ukyo both want to use it to get Akane and/or Ranma.  In a fight to get to the umbrellas, Ranma and Akane end up being under the umbrella... but by then the umbrella is broken.

Akane and Miss Hinako are in a race to see who learns to swim first.  With their own techniques to learn, the swimming pool becomes destroyed.

Cologne ordered too much of this new noodles that taste awful.  In a scheme to get customers to eat them, she says there is a noodle of power, which gives a man power of 100 men, in one of the bowls of noodles.  A swarm of people come to eat and are gagged by the awful taste.  Determined not to let Ryogo or Tendo get to the noodle, Ranma swallows down a lot of noodles, and ends up having a digestive power of 100 men.

When Ranma knocked a doll over at a spa resort, the doll of vengeance vows to seek revenget on Ranma.  The doll takes over Akane's body and traps Akane's soul inside the doll.  In Akane's body, the doll seeks opportunity to hurt Ranma, while Akane, in the body of the doll, tries to warn Ranma.  In a struggle, all three falls into water and Akane resumes her body. 

Twenty guys and three girls (including Ranma) become trapped on a what thought to be a deserted island.  Whoever eats the food on the island will be infected with the "Aloha Virus", which means that they'll become Hawaiian Honeymooners.  With 20 guys and 3 girls (and one little Miss Hinako), the girls have to fight off the guys.  The principal has vaccine for the virus, but he drank the whole bottle of it... -Ed.2

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 30: It Slices! It Dices!

Pantyhose Taro shows up at the Tendo's injured.  He was involved in a fight with a big ball of light, which turns out to be a girl, Rouge, who's from Qinghai.  When splashed with water, Rouge turns into Asura, a three-headed, six-armed ancient Indian demon who's enemy of Gods.  The Asura claims that Pantyhose Taro stole her source of power while she was bathing, but Pantyhose Taro denies it.  Teams up with Pantyhose Taro, Ranma got a hold of Asura's source of power.  The battle ends with a tie, and Ranma was able to help Rouge get more source of power, which turns out to be "stick-on magnets", for someone like Asura who has so many arms, her shoulder gets tired easily...

Asuka Saginomiya, nick-named, White Lillies, came to challenge Kodachi, the Black Rose.  Ten years ago, they vowed to show each other their boyfriend to see which one is better.  Kodachi wants Ranma to be the boy that she will show off, and when Akane doesn't want White Lillies to look down upon Ranma, gives consent to be Kodachi's boyfriend for one day.  When revealed, White Lillies's boyfriend indeed is more handsome and both Kodachi and Akane admits defeat.. but it turns out that the guy was snatched away by White Lillies and is not her boyfriend. 

A monk is eager to give Genma, Soun, and Ranma a legendary martial arts outfit said to endow its wearer with ultimate power.  The monk offers them other gifts if they'd take the oufit from him.  The truth comes out that the outfit chooses its wearer, and it chooses Akane!  With Akane in the outfit, Akane can easily defeat Ranma.  Ranma wants to somehow trick Akane into abandoning the suit, which is the only way to get the outfit to reject Akane, but he might have to tell her his true feeilngs toward her... -Ed. 2

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 31: Of Mushrooms and Boys

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 32: Battle of the...Boobies?!

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 33: Ranma, Ranma, on the Wall...

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 34: The Surprise Swimming Lesson

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 35: Attack of the Birdmen!

Ranma 1/2 - Volume 36: The Final Volume