History Characters / RanmaOneHalfOtherRecurringCharacters

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Gentle Girl to Ryoga's Brooding Boy.

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Her personality and appearances in the story are centered around her relationship with Ryoga. She only exists to give Ryoga a happy ending.

* TwiceShy: With Ryoga.

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* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Dr. Tofu's most famous trait is that whenever he sees or hears Kasumi, he's so overwhelmed by his romantic feelings for her that he turns into a bumbling imbecile, prone to babbling like a fool, losing track of where he is or who people are, and doing strange, nonsensical things. Just how bad it is depends on how they interacted; just hearing her on the phone can leave him a little mixed up for a few moments, whilst in face-to-face meetings, he gets extremely mixed up. A compliment or a touch from her can result in him doing things like running through the streets and dancing with his model skeleton.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: When Dr. Tofu goes into love-crazed mode, he's a legitimate danger to himself and everyone around him, to the point that his clients all know to reschedule appointments if Kasumi's been nearby, as he could seriously hurt them. And the there's the infamous moment during the Memory-Sapping Shampoo story where he insists on dropping by with the vital notebook needed to cure Akane's amnesia... and then promptly starts shredding it into pieces when Kasumi speaks to him.
* MayDecemberRomance: Invoked. Dr. Tofu is deeply infatuated with Kasumi, despite the age gap between them - she's only 19, whilst his age is never specified, but reasonably he's somewhere in his late 20s to early 30s.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Normally, he's one of the most normal characters in the series. When Kasumi's around, on the other hand...
** There's also the fact he's named his model skeleton "Betty", and likes to play little pranks on people with her.

* HelloNurse: Her adult form tends to understandably attract this kind of reaction.

* MeaningfulName: His surname translates to “Eight Inch Nail”, a reference to the fact he nails voodoo dolls.

* YamatoNadeshiko: Fixated on honor, wears a kimono, carries a katana, and supported herself during the years her husband and son were in their training journey.

* PoweredArmor: In the manga, buys a "Warsuit" that [[ChainedHeat latches onto Ranma's wrist]] to power up. However, this Ranma-level suit was designed with [[PowerLimiter three major limits]] [[FridgeBrilliance to prevent misuse]]: once assembled and worn, it can't even move unless latched onto the primary target; once engaged, the user MUST land a punch on the target within a time limit, or the suit will self-destruct; if the user successfully lands a punch, the suit will deactivate and fall apart. Since its advertised as a weapon against bullies, it's an intelligent method of self-control.

A giant bareneko (ghostly cat) that Shampoo accidentally brought back to Nerima from a visit to China, Maomolin wants to claim a human wife and will do anything to get one.

* {{Obake}}: He's the ghost of a cat from China, able to steal bodies and lay curses on people, and is most commonly identified as a "bakeneko" (literally "ghost cat").

* InformedAbility: We're told he's a strong and skilled martial artist, but we never see him do anything other than manipulate pressure points, and then for health purposes. Downplayed in the anime, where a seventh season episode seems him subdue a good number of the Frog Hermit's knife-wielding attack frogs]] with a flurry of rapid-fire paralytic pressure point touches... only to then be reduced to a catatonic, mumbling imbecile when presented with a picture of Kasumi.

* Meganeko: He's a cat the size of a grizzly bear.

* UngratefulBastard: Gosunkugi gets cornered and beaten up by delinquents, and Ranma jumps in to save him. How does Gosunkugi thank him? By ordering a special mechsuit to use to beat Ranma. How justified you find this depends on whether you read the original manga (more accurately, the fan translation thereof) or the officially translated version by Viz. In the former, Ranma says something along the lines of "it's the duty of a martial artist to help the weak and downtrodden!", and it's the second part that sets off Gosunkugi's pride. The Viz translation has Ranma go "As if there ''could'' be a thing like you without embarrassment, Gosunkugi!" - he says it with the same blithe, well-meaning look on his face, but worded like that, it's really hard to see Ranma as not deliberately adding insult to (near) injury.

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* HopelessSuitor: It's implied that Kasumi's obliviousness to Tofu's feelings for her is in no small part because his descent into babbling idiocy whenever she's nearby has been going on for so long she's unaware that he doesn't normally act like this. Which is problematic to say the least when she mentions in the very first story of the series that she wants a "mature" partner, whilst Dr. Tofu, to her, is "that silly man".

* {{Expy}}: Inverted. A nearly identical character, a farmer's daughter with SuperStrength called Anna, shows up in the anime. While you'd think the manga was first, the {{filler}} episode with Anna (called; "Ryoga, Run into the Sunset") came first.

->Voiced by: Creator/YujiMitsuya (Japanese), Creator/IanJamesCorlett (English, Seasons 1-5), Creator/KirbyMorrow (English, Seasons 6-7), Jorge Ornelas (Latin American Spanish), Daniel Abundis (Latin American Spanish, episode 14), Rafat Bazoo (Arabic)

For reasons that will never be known, the anime's creative team decided to drop the minor character Hikaru Gosunkugi, Akane and Ranma's creepy classmate who would sometimes become a reluctant ally or flunky to Tatewaki Kuno. Instead, they decided to create a new character to take the role of KUno's dedicated servant, and thus was born Sasuke Sarugakure, whose name means something like "Ninja from the Hidden Monkey Village". This ugly midget {{Ninja}} is most frequently seen at Tatewaki Kuno's side, but he will also serve "Mistress Kodachi" if she needs his assistance as well. Sasuke serves as something of the Jack-of-all-trades manservant to his masters, doing everything from spying on their enemies/love interests, to cooking their food, to cleaning their house, to making shadow puppets to help them sleep, to helping them train or fighting at their side -- it's implied he may have actually been their primary caretaker when they were children. In return, he is [[SarcasmMode rewarded]] with horrific mistreatment. He is forced to sleep outside in all weathers like an animal, fed only leftover scraps (and that infrequently; he once had to live for ten days on a single bowl of brine, and he's forgotten what milk and watermelons taste like), forced to drink the water from the storm gutters, and frequently beaten and berated by his charges.

* ObliviousToLove: He never does realize Akane's crush on him, which is ironic, given the implications that Kasumi is likewise completely oblivious to his crush on her.

* ParentsAsPeople: What saves her from being a downright abuser is that the poor woman ''does'' love Ranma as much as her seriously warped nature allows, as seen in MamaBear. She also spent some time sewing a customized winter coat for Ranma when he was still a baby in expectation that he'd wear it some day. Before she found out the truth, she doted on, cared for, and worried about "Ranko" just as much as a mother would, becoming seriously distressed when she thought the girl was in trouble.
* PerpetualPoverty: Her prior, "'''poor'''" house was demolished and she had to move to another one, and has to recycle martial arts scrolls just to have paper to make envelopes. Ranma says she's the model wife of a '''poor''' martial artist. Even more so after the Fiancee Brigade (Shampoo, Kodachi, and Ukyo) destroyed her house due to a misunderstanding.
* ThePollyanna: Even though her situation would give anyone soul-crushing despair, she's always cheerful and optimistic.

* EnergyAbsorption: One of her two modes of attack, Hinako's "Happo Go-en Satsu" lets her siphon away the ki from other people, an act that temporarily renders the victim too weak to stand. It also makes her immune to even the fiercest of KiAttacks, as the Go-en Satsu lets her simply drink them up. [[KamehameHadoken As a bonus, she can release that energy as a blast that will hit like a speeding truck.]]

* UnskilledButStrong: Hinako has absolutely ''no'' fighting skills, having never trained a day in her life. But, her potent ki-drain and ki-blast combo techniques allow her to flatten virtually everybody that goes up against her.

For reasons that will never be known, the anime's creative team decided to drop the minor character Hikaru Gosunkugi, Akane & Ranma's creepy classmate who would sometimes become a reluctant ally or flunky to Tatewaki Kuno. Instead, they decided to create a new character to take the role of KUno's dedicated servant, and thus was born Sasuke Sarugakure, whose name means something like "Ninja from the Hidden Monkey Village". This ugly midget {{Ninja}} is most frequently seen at Tatewaki Kuno's side, but he will also serve "Mistress Kodachi" if she needs his assistance as well. Sasuke serves as something of the Jack-of-all-trades manservant to his masters, doing everything from spying on their enemies/love interests, to cooking their food, to cleaning their house, to making shadow puppets to help them sleep, to helping them train or fighting at their side -- it's implied he may have actually been their primary caretaker when they were children. In return, he is [[SarcasmMode rewarded]] with horrific mistreatment. He is forced to sleep outside in all weathers like an animal, fed only leftover scraps (and that infrequently; he once had to live for ten days on a single bowl of brine, and he's forgotten what milk and watermelons taste like), forced to drink the water from the storm gutters, and frequently beaten and berated by his charges.

* PaperThinDisguise: In a episode, Gosunkugi ressed himself up as Ranma and began committing lame crimes against schoolgirls at night in order to ruin his reputation. Somehow, he managed to fool the entire school. Obviously, he didn't fool the REAL Ranma, who encountered him in his girl form.

* {{Expy}}: A nearly identical (but explicitly shown as having high levels of SuperStrength) character called Anna shows up in the anime. While you'd think the manga was first, the episode with Anna (called; "Ryoga, Run into the Sunset") came first.

* MistakenForGay: At first, Ranma and Akane assume that "she" is a lesbian when they discover Konatsu loves Ukyo. When Konatsu turns out to be a guy, it's suddenly okay.

* PerpetualPoverty: His stepfamily kept him in the most appalling conditions, never giving him the slightest amount of money. He, consequently, has almost no grasp of how money works.

* LooksLikeCesare: The pallor, tightly drawn skin and circles under his eyes are hereditary; both of his parents are the same.

* InformedAbility: We're told he's a strong and skilled martial artist, but we never see him do anything other than manipulate pressure points, and then for health purposes.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy / LoveMakesYouDumb: Both. Even beyond the fact he routinely hurts himself around Kasumi, he does stuff like insist on bringing the vital notebook needed to cure Akane's amnesia around to the Tendo Dojo, even though he knows Kasumi will be there and he'll destroy it if he sees her. Which is ''exactly'' what happens.

* ObliviousToLove: He never came to realize Akane's crush on him.

* PrinciplesZealot: She is so fixated on ''the concept'' of a "Man among men" that she lets Genma take a toddler Ranma away, despite ''literally'' fighting against it tooth and nail just moments before, all because Genma provided a two-part promise. Verbal: "I will make Ranma a man among men." Written: "I will commmit seppuku." While it's all fine and dandy, both ethically and legally, for Genma to sign such a contract, then make an infant who can't read or write "sign" by inking his hand and slapping it on the paper, goes beyond the pale, even in the most "conservative" of Japanese homes. Thus, by Nodoka's understanding, if Genma was so utterly ''dedicated'' to this goal as to go ''that far'', she had no choice but follow both sides of the contract to the letter. Fortunately, she decided that, curse or no curse, Ranma was a man through and through no matter what body he's in --it's "only" if his personal behavior proves otherwise that she starts pulling out her sword.

* UglyGuyHotWife: It's a mystery how a beautiful woman like her ended up married to a man like Genma. At least we now know where female Ranma got her good looks from.

Early in the anime, the animators either couldn't find a voice actor for Gosunkugi, wanted a role for Creator/ShigeruChiba, or decided that the spooky boy was a rather shallow character and/or didn't make much sense as the Kunos lapdog and servant. Instead, they decided to create a new character to take that role, and thus was born Sasuke Sarugakure, whose name means something like "Ninja from the Hidden Monkey Village". This ugly midget {{Ninja}} is most frequently seen at Tatewaki Kuno's side, but he will also serve "Mistress Kodachi" if she needs his assistance as well. Sasuke serves as something of the Jack-of-all-trades manservant to his masters, doing everything from spying on their enemies/love interests, to cooking their food, to cleaning their house, to making shadow puppets to help them sleep, to helping them train or fighting at their side -- it's implied he may have actually been their primary caretaker when they were children. In return, he is [[SarcasmMode rewarded]] with horrific mistreatment. He is forced to sleep outside in all weathers like an animal, fed only leftover scraps (and that infrequently; he once had to live for ten days on a single bowl of brine, and he's forgotten what milk and watermelons taste like), forced to drink the water from the storm gutters, and frequently beaten and berated by his charges.

* ButtMonkey: Even more so than Kuno, as he generally doesn't mean any more harm than needing to serve his master and is fairly amiable if not being compelled by that.

* CombatPragmatist: [[JustifiedTrope He's a ninja, what were you expecting?]]
* FragileSpeedster: He's rather fast but sucks at combat.
* HappinessInSlavery: He's happy working for the Kunos despite their poor treatment of him. Though he would like if they treated him better.

* MyMasterRightOrWrong: He's well aware that his masters are insanely abusive and barely capable of feeding themselves without him, yet stays loyal to them and refuses to leave.
* PunchClockVillain: Has no problem with Ranma or his relationship with Akane.

* TheDitz: In child form, or after going too long without changing into it.

* EnergyAbsorption: One of her two modes of attack, it temporarily renders the victim too weak to stand. It also makes her immune to even the fiercest of KiAttacks. As a bonus, she can release that energy as a blast that will hit like a speeding truck.
* GenkiGirl: In kid form, she acts somewhere between this and TheDitz.

* HotTeacher: Her adult (and true) form.
* KamehameHadoken: After she drains ki, she can launch it as a massive blast of ball lightning, which shrinks her back to a child but usually instantly defeats her opponent.

* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Under normal circumstances, her personality definitely changes whether she's an adult or a child. However, being stuck as a little girl has affected her so much that, if she stays too long in her "real" adult mode, though, her mind will wander and she'll start acting like a kid again.

* PunnyName: Her ki-draining attacks are called the "Happo Go-en Satsu" and "Gojuu-en Satsu", for the five- and fifty-yen coins she uses as a medium. When she ''gives back'' the collected ki as a projectile? "Happo Tsurisen-Gaeshi", or "''Change-Return''".

* WhoWillBellTheCat: If her pressure points were to be hit every day consecutively for a month, she'd permanently lose her ability to drain battle aura. However, Ranma is the only one capable of doing so(Happosai's more than skilled enough, but his armspan is too short to hit all five at once), and the first time he pulled it off required a drawn-out battle he spent several days recovering from. Nuts to that.

* GrandTheftMe: Possessing people is his primary spiritual power. It never does any good.

* Meganeko
* {{Obake}}: He's the ghost of a cat from China, able to steal bodies and lay curses on people, most commonly identified as a "bakeneko" (literally "ghost cat").

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He becomes slavishly devoted to Ukyo because she treats him better than the abusive family that raised him.

* AchillesHeel: A simple set of five pressure points hit simultaneously will knock out her powers for an entire day - the two on her back aren't much of a problem, but the three in front are right over her ''breast'' - the resulting attack looks a lot like someone's wrestling her into submission and groping the hell out of her.

* StepfordSmiler: As cheerful as she is whenever she visits the Tendo home, especially when she gets to spend time with "Ranko", she turns sad and lonely as soon as she's out of sight from them, and she tends to be disappointed to find out she "just missed" Ranma and Genma yet again. In a particularly heartbreaking scene, she confesses to [[RanmaOneHalf/MajorStoryArcCharacters Ryu Kumon]] that she had already figured out he wasn't her real son, but that she enjoyed the deception for a while. However, it's made clear to the reader that, despite her words, losing her son a second time hit her very hard.