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Ranma ½
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Kappei Yamaguchi
Ranma Saotome ♂ (voice)
161 eps
Megumi Hayashibara
Ranma Saotome ♀ (voice)
161 eps
Kikuko Inoue
Kasumi Tendo (voice)
70 eps
Minami Takayama
Nabiki Tendo (voice)
67 eps
Ryusuke Ohbayashi
Soun Tendo (voice)
55 eps
Noriko Hidaka
Akane Tendo (voice)
72 eps
Yuji Mitsuya
Dr. Tofu Ono (voice)
10 eps
Hirotaka Suzuoki
Tatewaki Kuno (voice)
29 eps
Koichi Yamadera
Ryoga Hibiki (voice)
39 eps
Reiko Suzuki
Auntie (voice)
2 eps
Hiroko Maruyama
Old woman (voice)
1 eps
Toshiko Sawada
Mrs. Ogane (voice)
1 eps
Saeko Shimazu
Kodachi Kuno (voice)
12 eps
Satoko Yasunaga
Referee (voice)
2 eps
Reizō Nomoto
Master (voice)
1 eps
Yo Inoue
Live Announcer (voice)
3 eps
Kenichi Ogata
Genma Saotome (voice)
72 eps
Shigeru Chiba
Sasuke Sarugakure (voice)
12 eps
Masashi Hirose
Man (voice)
1 eps
Rei Sakuma
Shampoo (voice)
30 eps
Yoshiko Kamei
Player A (voice)
1 eps
Tadashi Nakamura
Narrator (voice)
45 eps
Midori Nakazawa
Player B (voice)
1 eps
Shigeru Shibuya
Student C (voice)
1 eps
Miyoko Aso
Cologne (voice)
21 eps
Ryuzou Ishino
Customer B (voice)
1 eps
Toshihiko Nakajima
Customer A (voice)
1 eps
Hiromi Tsuru
Ukyo Kuonji (voice)
11 eps
Tomohiro Nishimura
Big brother (voice)
1 eps
Toshihiko Seki
Mousse (voice)
13 eps
Kazuhiko Inoue
Mikado Sanzenin (voice)
3 eps
Yuko Kobayashi
Lang-Lang (voice)
3 eps
Fumihiko Tachiki
Musume (voice)
6 eps
Naoko Matsui
Azusa Shiratori (voice)
3 eps
Akira Murayama
Announcer (voice)
2 eps
Takuzō Kamiyama
Escaping dojo man (voice)
1 eps
Kozo Shioya
Chairman (voice)
2 eps
Ichiro Nagai
Happosai (voice)
35 eps
Sukekiyo Kameyama
Stupid person (voice)
1 eps
Koji Tsujitani
Hiroshi (voice)
3 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Ranma ½ actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Ranma ½ reads strongest on Spectacle, World Building and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The story
What it's about
Ranma Saotome, a teenage martial artist, and his father Genma travel to the 'cursed training ground' of Jusenkyo in China. There, despite the warnings of the Chinese guard, they fall into the cursed springs. From now on, whenever Ranma is doused in cold water, he turns into a girl and a cute, well-built redhead at that. Hot water changes him back into a man again, but only until the next time. To make matters worse, his father engages him to Akane Tendo, a girl who hates boys.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Here's Ranma
Soun Tendo gets quite a surprise when the son of his friend Genma Saotome that he's arranged for one of his daughters to marry turns out to be a girl...
- Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki
- Written by Yoshio Urasawa
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E16
Nightmare! The Incense of Spring Sleep
S00E15
The Two Akanes! "Ranma, Look at Me!"
S00E14
The Evil Ogre! Hell Hath No Fury Like Kasumi Scorned
S00E13
Oh, Cursed Tunnel of Lost Love! Let My Love Be Forever
S00E12
Huge Battle! 29 Unteachable Fools
S00E11
Reawakening Memories (2)
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Aya Matsui
Writer
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Hiroyuki Kawasaki
Writer
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Naoto Kimura
Writer
Katsuyuki Sumisawa
Writer
Yoshio Urasawa
Writer
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Michiko Yokote
Writer
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Taku Nomoto
Writer
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Hiroshi Toda
Writer
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Hiroko Naka
Writer
Toshiki Inoue
Writer
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Yoshiyuki Suga
Writer
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Hiroshi Hashimoto
Writer
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Hideo Takayashiki
Writer
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Kazuhito Kushima
Writer
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Shigeru Yanagawa
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Koji KanedaProducer
Writing
- Aya MatsuiWriter
- Hiroyuki KawasakiWriter
- Naoto KimuraWriter
- Katsuyuki SumisawaWriter
- Yoshio UrasawaWriter
- Michiko YokoteWriter
Direction
- Shigeyasu YamauchiDirector
- Shinji TakagiDirector
- Saeko OchayaDirector
- Nodoka YodashiDirector
- Kazuhiro FuruhashiDirector
- Tsuyoshi KabumotoDirector
Cinematography
- Mitsunobu YoshidaDirector of Photography
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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