Category:Ranma Saotome

Ranma Saotome is the main protagonist of Ranma ½.

Bathing Accessibility

Ranma lives in the Tendo Residence throughout the series and bathes in their Ofuro.

Bathing Habits

Due to falling in the Spring of Drowned Girl while training, Ranma has a curse which turns his body into a female body if touched by cold water and the only way to return to being a male is by touching hot water.

Bathing Scenes

August 5th, 1987	"Ranma ½/Chapter 001"
	He has a Furo session in his female form after Kasumi Tendo told him to bathe after being sweaty from sparring with Akane Tendo. He sits on a Bath Stool and pours cold water over himself with a Bath Bucket and then soaks into the hot water in the undermount bathtub. As Ranma is Getting Out of the tub now in his male form, Akane walks in naked holding a towel and both of them meet eyes seeing each other fully nude. Akane quietly puts on the top of her karate gi and leaves the bathroom and then lets out of huge scream making a scene among the household revealing Ranma's secret to everyone there.
August 12th, 1987	"Ranma ½/Chapter 002"
	He takes a hot Bath in the Tendo residence's Undermount Bathtub with Genma Saotome to return to their original forms. Later on, while Ranma is in female form decides to go bathe for the night to return to normal and after completely Stripping and going to the Ofuro's door, Akane Tendo opens the door to leave the bath where they both have another fully nude encounter which Akane gives Ranma a big slap in the face thinking that he is Peeping.
August 19th, 1987	"Ranma ½/Chapter 003"
	After getting wet and turning into his girl form, he attempts to go back to the Tendo house to take a hot Bath to return to normal but Akane Tendo stops him and takes him to Dr. Tofu's clinic for a kettle of hot water instead.
September 9th, 1987	"Ranma ½/Chapter 006"
	He has a nightmare where he is taking a Bath in a Hot Spring and a giant version of Tatewaki Kuno appears and tells Ranma that he loves him. When Ranma tries to tell Kuno that he is a boy, he realizes that now he is permenantly stuck in female form even though he's in hot water. Ranma tries to swim away from Kuno but gets captured and then the nightmare ends and Ranma wakes up.
September 23rd, 1987	"Ranma ½/Chapter 008"
	While he is topless in female form, he gets a kettle of hot water poured on him by Akane Tendo to return him to his normal form, criticizing Ranma for not having any feminine modesty.
October 7th, 1987	"Ranma ½/Chapter 010"
	Kasumi Tendo goes to fill a hot Bath for him to revert him back to his male form but during the meantime while waiting, Nabiki Tendo dresses him in his female form with Akane Tendo's old clothes. Ranma takes the bath Off Screen.
October 14th, 1987	"Ranma ½/Chapter 011"
	While he is topless in female form, he gets a kettle of hot water poured on him by Kasumi Tendo to return him to his normal form.
November 11th, 1987	"Ranma ½/Chapter 015"
	He has a Furo scene.
November 18th, 1987	"Ranma ½/Chapter 016"
	His Furo scene from last chapter continues.
January 29th, 1988	"Ranma ½/Chapter 024"
	After being kissed against his will in female form, Ranma runs into the males side of a Public Bath at an ice skating rink and jumps right into the Bath and after staying Underwater for a bit, rises out of the bath back in his male form.
April 20th, 1988	"Ranma ½/Chapter 036"
	The cover features Ranma in female form naked and wet while stripping implying that they either got out of an Accidental Bathing situation in cold water which lead to this, or are Stripping to take an Off Screen Bath in hot water to revert back.
May 25th, 1988	"Ranma ½/Chapter 041"
	He takes a Bath in the Tendo residence's Undermount Bathtub and is surprised when he finds that Shampoo is in the bath as well. Akane Tendo walks in and finds the two in the tub together.
June 8th, 1988	"Ranma ½/Chapter 043"
	He has a Furo session and finds out that hot water no longer turns him back into his male form and that he is stuck in female form.
June 15th, 1988	"Ranma ½/Chapter 044"
	While preparing to fight against mousse, Ranma has a Furo session to attempt to return to his male form but fails.
July 27th, 1988	"Ranma ½/Chapter 050"
300px	He takes a Bath in a Public Bath to finally return back to his male form after getting the pheonix pill. Shampoo pops out of the bathwater and hugs Ranma to celebrate and causes him to pass out in the bath.
October 19th, 1988	"Ranma ½/Chapter 062"
	During a delivery race to feed Tatewaki Kuno their food first, Shampoo gets turned to a cat from being sprayed with a hose while still holding onto Ranma. Ranma who has a fear of cats, runs in a panic through Kuno's mansion until finding the Bath and jumping into it to return Shampoo to normal. Shampoo who rises out of the bath naked is given Ranma's shirt to cover up but Kuno and Akane misinterpret the situation and Kuno starts attacking Ranma in the bath. Refusing to eat the Ramen Ranma had to feed Kuno now that it's his male form, Kuno activates a button in the bath that turns summons a monster out of it which launches both of them through the roof and they both fall into a pond outside. Ranma is now topless and Skinny Dipping in the pond and wins the contest as Kuno gladly eats the noodles since it's offered to him by Ranma's female form.
January 25th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Chapter 065"
	The Tendo Residence's Ofuro is out of order and the cast has to go to a Public Bath. Ranma ends up fighting Happosai who is trying to peep on the women.
February 1st, 1989	"Ranma ½/Chapter 066"
	Ranma and Ryouga Hibiki both share a Bath in the Tendo Residence's Undermount Bathtub.
April 15th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 001"
	He has a Furo session in his female form after Kasumi Tendo told her to bathe from being sweaty from sparring with Akane Tendo. He sits on a Bath Stool and pours cold water over him with a Bath Bucket and then soaks into the hot water in the undermount bathtub. As Ranma is Getting Out of the tub now in his male form, Akane walks in naked holding a pink towel and both of them meet eyes seeing each other fully nude. Akane quietly puts on the top of her karate gi and leaves the bathroom and then lets out of huge scream making a scene among the household revealing Ranma's secret to everyone there. At the end of the episode, Ranma who is in female form decides to go bathe for the night to return to normal and after completely stripping and going to the Ofuro's door, Akane opens the door to leave the bath where they both have another fully nude encounter which Akane gives Ranma a big slap in the face thinking that he is Peeping.
April 22nd, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 002"
	After fighting each other and both falling into the house's pond, He taked a Bath with Genma Saotome in the morning while they are both in their cursed forms to warm up just before Ranma starts his first day of school.
April 26th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Chapter 078"
	He shares a Bath in the Tendo Residence's Undermount Bathtub with Ryouga Hibiki.
May 6th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 004"
	He has a Nightmare where he falls into the Tendo Dojo's Undermount Bathtub clothed and then appears naked where Tatewaki Kuno is in the tub with him and trying to romance him. Ranma submerges himself and kicks Kuno but then re emerges from the water in his female form Skinny Dipping in the school Swimming Pool. She sinks back under and sits on a rock at the bottom where several naked Kuno's join hands and circle Ranma asking her to date him. After waking him from the nightmare, Ranma goes to bathe that morning but then finds that Genma is occupying the Ofuro and Shampooing his bald head. Ranma splashes a bucket of cold water on his turning him into a Panda and gets annoyed and decides to just climb over him and grab the Shower Head and gets hit by Genma and splashed with cold water turning into a girl and they both end up fighting each other.
May 27th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 007"
	Kasumi Tendo draws a hot Bath for Ranma which his female form takes Off Screen to turn back to normal. Nabiki Tendo tells Ranma that the water usage has been a lot higher lately because of the hot baths he's been taking which Nabiki uses that fact to make him obey her and let her dress up Ranma's female form in Akane's older clothes for fun.
June 3rd, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 008"
	While he is topless in female form, he gets a kettle of hot water poured on him by Kasumi Tendo to return him to his normal form.
June 17th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 009"
	He has a Furo scene with P-chan who is revealed to actually be Ryouga Hibiki.
July 1st, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 010"
	The bathing scene between him and Ryouga Hibiki continues from the previous episode.
July 29th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 013"
	Ranma and Ryouga Hibiki both share a Bath in the Tendo Residence's Undermount Bathtub.
August 19th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 014"
	He takes a Bath in the Tendo's Undermount Bathtub and is joined by Genma Saotome who needs to discuss something with him.
December 8th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Opening Credits 2"
	A colorized manga panel of Ranma at a Public Bath is shown as well as Ranma in his female form taking a Bubble Bath and Leg Stretching.
November 10th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 021"
	He takes a Bath in the Tendo residence's Undermount Bathtub and is surprised when he finds that Shampoo is in the bath as well. Akane Tendo walks in and finds the two in the tub together. At the end of the episode, Ranma has a furo session again finding out that hot water no longer turns him back into his male form and that he is stuck in female form.
November 17th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 022"
	Ranma who is angry that he is stuck in female form from his fight with Cologne in the previous episode, jumps into a hot Bath in the Tendo residence's Unit Bathtub only to get scalded by it's heat and still not change back. Ranma challenges Cologne again to try to steal the pheonix pill and to return to normal but most avoid falling into a Scalding Hot Bath in a Bathing Pool. After succeeding and finding out the pill he got was switched with a fake, he ends up falling in and remains stuck in female form some more.
November 24th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 023"
	After Ranma gets restored to his male form from the Old Man Tokyo Pressure Point, he accidentally getting hit by cold water again where he returned back to his female form and remained in it again since the Old Man Tokyo pressure point on works once and Ranma desperately tries to return back by taking a really hot Shower and Slipping into the Bath.
December 1st, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 024"
	At the end of the episode, He jumps into an Onsen at the resort after taking the pheonix pill and has his female form finally change back into his male form. Happy and relived, he then notices he is in the women's bath and many unnamed women then attack Ranma and throw him through the fence.
December 8th, 1989	"Ranma ½/Episode 025"
	After being kissed against his will in female form, Ranma runs into the males side of a Public Bath at an ice skating rink and jumps right into the Bath and after staying Underwater for a bit, rises out of the bath back in his male form.
February 9th, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 032"
	Ranma assumes Akane Tendo was turned into a duck from the aftermath oh his fight against Mousse and grabs the duck and places it in the Bath at the Tendo residence thinking she will change back but desperately tries splashing the bathwater water onto the duck with his hands.
February 23rd, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 034"
	He share a Bath in the Tendo Residence's Undermount Bathtub with Ryouga Hibiki.
March 2nd, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 035"
	After a series of obstacles in Tatewaki Kuno's mansion, He ends up clothed in the mansion's Hot Spring with Akane Tendo, Shampoo, Kodachi Kuno, Mousse, Ryouga Hibiki and Tatewaki Kuno.
March 16th, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 037"
	He ends up Clothed Bathing in Tatewaki Kuno Uchiyu to transform back into male form.
April 13th, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 040"
	He visits a Public Bath since the Tendo Residence's Ofuro is out of order. He ends up fighting Happosai who is trying to peep on the women.
May 11th, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 044"
	He visits an Onsen in disguise as his female form.
May 18th, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 045"
	He is thrown into Soun Tendo's Bath while in female form by Tsubasa Kurenai after asking to Tsubasa for a hot bath and Tsubasa learns of Ranma's male form.
June 8th, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 048"
	Recap Footage of Ranma and Happosai's fight in the Public Bath from episode 40 is shown as the Jusenkyo staff are discussing the evil deeds of the cursed victims that have fallen into the drowned springs.
June 15th, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 049"
	After getting hit in the head, Ranma fully identifies as a woman in this episode and gets a tea kettle of hot water poured on her by Soun Tendo on her way to the Ofuro believing that turning Ranma's body back to male will return his normal personality but this fails and Ranma gets distressed from gender dysphoria now being having a male body while still having the personality of a woman. Ranma goes into the Ofuro and bathes Off Screen and screams really loud at the sight of her naked male body.
September 7th, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 061"
	Ranma has a Public Bath scene.
October unknown date, 1990	"Anime Shower Special/Issue 1"
	He is seen in screenshots from the Ranma ½ manga that are featured in this magazine from chapters 1, 2, 15 and 16.
October 26th, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 067"
	While sparring against Ryoga Hibiki on a rock in the middle of a Hot Spring. Ranma falls into the spring clothed while Ryoga jumps in to rescue him since he was wearing weights and couldn't swim up by himself.
November 23rd, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 071"
	The scene where Ranma Saotome chases Ryoga out of the Ofuro while in pig form from episode 10 is also shown.
December 14th, 1990	"Ranma ½/Episode 074"
	At the beginning of the episode, Ranma chases Happosai around the house getting mad at him for throwing cold water on him while he was taking a Bath Off Screen.
Before July 18, 1991	"Ranma ½/Chapter 161"
	He bathes in a Hot Spring with Ryouga Hibiki, Mousse, Shampoo, Akane Tendo and Ukyo Kuonji.
Before March 18, 1992	"Ranma ½/Chapter 199"
	He has a Furo session.
August 30th, 1992	"Ranma ½: Tendou-ke no Oyobidenai Yatsura!"
	He along with the rest of the cast, end up breaking into the side of the Tendo Residence's Ofuro and ending up in the Undermount Bathtub clothed while Nabiki Tendo was having a Bath. This special has shows flashbacks to many other bathing scenes in the series.
December unknown date, 1992	"Anime Shower Special/Issue 2"
	There is an original piece of artwork of Ranma Saotome in his female form Skinny Dipping.
January 19th, 1996	"Ranma ½ OVA/Episode 11"
	He falls into a cold spring while fighting Genma Saotome at an Onsen.
October 6th, 2024	"Ranma ½ (2024)/Episode 1"
	He has a Furo session in his female form after Kasumi Tendo told him to bathe after being sweaty from sparring with Akane Tendo. He sits on a Bath Stool and pours cold water over himself with a Bath Bucket and then soaks into the hot water in the undermount bathtub. As Ranma is Getting Out of the tub now in his male form, Akane walks in naked holding a towel and both of them meet eyes seeing each other fully nude. Akane quietly puts on the top of her karate gi and leaves the bathroom and then lets out of huge scream making a scene among the household revealing Ranma's secret to everyone there. Later on, Genma and Ranma take a hot bath again to return to their original forms after demonstrating their transformations. Later that night, Ranma who is in female form decides to go bathe for the night to return to normal and after completely Stripping and going to the ofuro's door, Akane opens the door to leave the bath where they both have another fully nude encounter which Akane gives Ranma a big slap in the face thinking that he is Peeping.
October 13th, 2024	"Ranma ½ (2024)/Episode 2"
	After getting wet and turning into his girl form, he attempts to go back to the Tendo house to take a hot Bath to return to normal but Akane Tendo stops him and takes him to Dr. Tofu's clinic for a kettle of hot water instead.

Ranma ½ Artbook

Ranma Saotome cleaning a bath house
female Ranma Saotome in a bubble bath with Ryoga (P-chan), Shampoo (cat) and Mousse (duck)

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