Niku-men

The Niku-men are four balding men that are looking for the legendary "Dragon's Whisker" a product that will allow anyone to grow a full head of hair.

When they finally find the Dragon's Whisker, Ranma is using it as his pigtail tie. This is because he accidently ate soup that was made from another whisker and the only way to stop his hair from growing incredibly fast was to use the Whisker as a hair tie.

As you can imagine, the Niku-men, Happosai, and Genma would all love to get their hands on the whisker and restore each of their bald heads to its previous glory.

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The Meaning Behind the Name - 肉まん・あんまん・カレーまん・ピザまん

The Niku-Men, more specificly, Niku-man, An-man, Pizza-man, and Curry-man all have names which match what type of food they resemble. Niku-man looks like the food niku-man, An-man looks like the food an-man, etc.

Voices:
Isamu Tanonaka & Alec Willows

The Niku-man is voiced by Isamu Tanonaka who has played Bibidi in Dragonball Z, Medama Oyaji in Gegege no Kitaro, Akira Toriyama in Dr. Slump and Honkan in Tensai Bakabon.

Alec Willows is known for playing Oolong in Dragonball, Dake in Hikaru no Go, and Bao in Black Lagoon.

Voices:
Shigeru Chiba & Sam Vincent

Shigeru Chiba plays Curry-man. He has appeared in many, many Takahashi adaptations and has played Sasuke in Ranma 1/2, Megane in Urusei Yatsura, and Yotsuya in Maison Ikkoku.

Samuel Vincent's roles include Tokajin and Bun in Inuyasha, Mitsurugi Hanagata in Saber Marionette J, Takashi Niimai in Video Girl Ai, Athrun Zala in Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, Hikaru Shindo in Hikaru no Go and Brad Hunter in ZOIDS.

Voices:
Bin Shimada & Don Brown

The An-man is voiced by Bin Shimada, who also voices Sentaro Daimonji. He is possibly best known as Youji Matsuura in Maramalade Boy. His other characters include Yuuichirou Kumada in Sailor Moon and Broly in Dragonball Z. He also plays Zack in the Dead or Alive video games.

Don Brown is best known for playing Jaken in Inuyasha, Noah Bridge in Brain Powered, King Kai in Dragonball Z and Prince Snake Eye in Key the Metal Idol.

Voices:
Arihiro Hase & Nick Misura

Arihiro Hase played Pizza-man, he was known as the legendary hero Hikaru Ichijo in Super Dimensional Fortress Macross and Bowie Emerson in Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross .

Nick Misura (Ebitan from the first Ranma 1/2 film) is Pizza-man.