Season
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Season six was known as "Random Rhapsody" in the United States. Koji Sawai departs as the series director and is replaced by the supremely talented Junji Nishimura, who's work includes You're Under Arrest and Soul Hunter. Nishimura stays on to do the OVAs as well, and the final two seasons rival the OVAs in terms of quality and directorial influence. He brings the focus back to the subtle relationship between Ranma and Akane and uses manga stories much more frequently than Sawai did. Nishimura introduces Hikaru Gosunkugi finally as well as Pantyhose Taro and the Panda Doodle. Ukyo gets some break out episodes, and the winter episodes are extremely well done.
Episode 95: 小太刀のマイラブリーパパ
Kodachi no mai raburii papa (Dear Daddy... Love, Kodachi)
Kodachi visits the Tendo home to ask Genma to come to her Parents Day event at St. Hebereke, as she is seemingly unaware the the Principal of Furinkan High is her father. When Ranma and Soun mention to Kodachi who her father is she immediately goes to confront her brother about the fact. Tatewaki is busy preparing a garish tuxedo to wear to St. Hebereke as he plans on stepping in as Kodachi's surrogate father in lieu of their own father's long absence. When Kodachi asks why he did not tell her about their father being the Principal, Kuno says he does not accept that he is truly their parent. The Principal and Kodachi have a tearful reunion, but Tatewaki refuses to accept this. As Kodachi (or "Kocchi" as the Principal calls her) warms up quickly to her father who tamps down his more outrageous behaviors, Tatewaki wonders if Kodachi truly might need the Principal in her life.
The Principal tells Kodachi that he has been away teaching at a college in Hawaii nad was not allowed to leave. He explains that he attempted escape 3,000 times but was attacked and brought back due to a teacher shortage. Kodachi unquestionably accepts her father's nonsense but Tatewaki bristles at seeing the Principal take his seat at the head of the table an insist that he is the head of the family now that he has returned. Sasuke hopes that Tatewaki can tolerate the Principal insisting that he is the head of the house, but Tatewaki storms off believing that all of this is a ruse simply to take the Kuno household for himself.
Sasuke seeks out the Tendos and Saotomes for help, however Genma is more concerned with the Principal taking the French dinner Kodachi promised him for acting as her father at Parents Day. Sasuke weeps as he talks about how Tatewaki and Kodachi raised themselves during the 20 years he has worked for the family, but Ranma points out that the Principal allegedly only disappeared three years ago. Sasuke convinces Ranma and Akane to come to the Kuno estate to try and stop Kodachi and Tatewaki from fighting, however Ranma balks at the entire scheme. Inside Kodachi massages the Principal by pounding his back with her gymnastics clubs. She orders a new tuxedo for him, further angering Kuno who's garish tuxedo was ruined by Kodachi earlier. Tatewaki decides to move out, but the arrival of Ranma and Akane convince him to stay until the Principal arrives and cuts his hair after trying to slice off Ranma's pigtail. As a result, Tatewaki and the Principal agree to fight to see who will be the head of the household.
The Principal and Tatewaki battle late into the evening until the Hawaiian headmaster reveals that he has only been hard on his son to ensure he became strong, comparing his parenting style to a lioness shoving her cubs off a cliff. No sooner does he do this than he shoves Tatewaki off the roof and tearfully tells Kodachi that she is the only thing Tatewaki has in his life, while the Principal has his students to discipline. Kodachi tearfully asks Tatewaki to take her to Parents Day at St. Hebereke, though she has him carry her school bag and gymnastics equipment.
A literal translation of this episode's title would be "Kodachi's My Lovely Papa".
"Camp-town ladies sing this song..." - In the original Japanese, Soun and Genma get distracted giving each other lyrics to a traditional folk song ending with "choi na choi na" (ちょいなちょいな). The song is likely the folk song about the hot springs at Kusatsu entitled "Kusatsu Bushi" (草津節).
"I had this tuxedo made by Pierre Gardin." - This is a reference to the fashion designer Pierre Cardin.
There is an impact frame when Kuno strikes Sasuke after Kodachi leaves to meet her father. This exact same mystery character appeared in an impact frame in Nettohenepisode 67.
The onomatopoeia that appears says "boko" (ボコ). This would translate to "crash".
The book Kodachi is reading is Gedichte (ハイネ 詩集/Haine Shishu) a poetry collection by Heinrich Heine, the Romantic era German writer.
The guest voices for this episode are Mitsuaki Madono (真殿光昭), Rin Mizuhara (水原リン) and Momoko Ishi (石桃子) who all played unnamed characters. As in the previous episode Megumi Hayashibara, the voice of female Ranma, did not appear in this episode at all.
Episode 96: 強敵? 五寸釘くん登場
Kyouteki? Gosunkugi-kun toujou (Enter Gosunkugi, The New Rival!?)
Akane has been insisting on fixing her family bento lunch boxes for the past three days before heading off to school. Nabiki leaves early to avoid it, but everyone else has to politely pretend to be excited about Akane's lousy cooking. As Ranma rushes away he bumps into Hikaru Gosunkugi, a lonely, eccentric transfer student who is plucking a flower petal by petal hoping it will reveal if he will make friends at school. Akane picks up Gosunkugi and walks with him to school, but when he offers her one of his straw dolls for placing curses on people she nervously refuses, however Yuka and Sayuri happily take a handful. In class, none of the boys seem happy to see such a gloomy student joining their class and immediately mock him. When lunchtime arrives, Akane puts her homemade bento down for Ranma to eat, but he angrily refuses, prompting Akane to give it to a thankful Gosunkugi instead.
Ranma, believing he is being helpful, boorishly tries to take away the bento from Gosunkugi leading he and Akane to struggle over it before dumping it on Gosunkugi's head. Outraged, Gosunkugi decides to curse Ranma after hearing from Daisuke and Hiroshi that Ranma is Akane's fiance. Unfortunately, Gosunkugi smashes his finger when trying to nail an effigy of Ranma to a tree, though he is cheered on by Yuka and Sayuri who wish him luck. When he digs a pitfall for Ranma, Yuka and Sayuri find him, cheer him on and toss his ladder down into the hole to help obscure his trap, accidentally leaving him stranded in the hole as well. Ranma is able to catch Akane before she falls in, but Kuno is not so lucky and plummets into the hole.
Akane returns home to find that Genma and Soun have ordered out, hurting her feelings that they did not like the lunch she left for them. The next morning Akane leave without fixing lunch for anyone and Ranma finds her looking at cooking magazines on the way to school. Gosunkugi continues to attempt to lure Ranma into his traps, but Ranma easily eludes them, causing Gosunkugi to get mauled by an angry dog. At school Ranma is told to meet Gosunkugi in the gym. When Ranma goes he tries to explain that Akane's cooking is terrible and that Gosunkugi should not be upset about missing out on her bento. Kuno interrupts and falls into three sequential traps of Gosunkugi's. After school Ranma decides to buy Akane a cookbook to make up for being hard on her cooking and tells her not to give up when it looks like she might throw away the other books she has been gathering on cooking. At school, Ranma and Kuno are invited by Akane to the roof, but when they arrive they find Gosunkugi dressed as Akane telling them to fight each other to prove who loves "her" the most. Both Kuno and Ranma see through Gosunkugi's disguise and insist that the other can have "her". Gosunkugi's wig flutters onto Kuno's face causing him to trip into the fence and get caught, making Gosunkugi believe he has special powers. He climbs higher on the roof and plans to curse Ranma but his hammer is struck by lightning instead. In the school nurse's office, Akane gives Gosunkugi another bento and Ranma gives him some digistive pills. The next day Gosunkugi is too sick to come to school thanks to Akane's cooking.
Gosunkugi's extreme delay in being added to the anime has always been a curious topic. It is clear based on the initial soundtrack, Music Dojo which was released July 21, 1989, two years prior to this episode that Gosunkugi was planned to be included in the original running order of the early episodes. The 14th track on that release is entitled "Darkness is Life! Hikaru Gosunkugi" (暗さこそ命!五寸釘光/Kura-sa koso inochi! Gosunkugi Hikaru). However, the reorganization of the early episodes due to the murders committed by Tsutomu Miyazaki (as detailed on our FAQ) are thought to have resulted in Gosunkugi's long delay in being included in the anime). His portrayal by Issei Futamata who had played the nebbish Chibi in Urusei Yatsura might not come as a surprise, however Futamata had come into his own playing leading man Yusaku Godai in Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku in the intervening years, thus being cast as Gosunkugi may seem somewhat odd. Perhaps the association between Godai and Gosunkugi's "number five" kanji (五) in their names is possibly an inside joke that connects the two characters in the eyes of the anime producers.
The song playing when Gosunkugi first appears is not found on any soundtrack. Nearly all of the new musical pieces in this episode are not collected.
There is a fleeting onomatopoeia that flashes behind Gosunkugi when Ranma drops him that says "bonk" (ゴン/gon).
"Would this be a straw voodoo doll?" - Though Gosunkugi's "voodoo dolls" make for an easy to understand translation, as they essentially work the same as the dolls found in the Carribbean religion, the straw curse dolls of Gosunkugi's are called "wara ningyo" (藁人形) and have nothing to do with the religion of voodoo.
The text behind Gosunkugi when Akane gives him her bento is a phrase typically used in sumo halls when there is a sell out crowd. It could be translated as "full house" (満員御礼/maninonrei).
The candles Gosunkugi wears on his head while nailing the straw doll to a tree are part of a ritual known as "ushi no koku mairi" (丑の刻参り).
There is a brief impact frame when Akane hits Ranma in the gymnasium.
After Ranma buys the cookbook for Akane, the store next door that he visits is called "Higuma Pharmacy" (ひぐま薬局/Higuma yakkyoku).
The Ranma's homeroom teacher that appears in the anime infrequently appears in this episode.
The guest voices in this episode are Sayuri Haneda (羽田小百合) as "Yuka", Yoshiko Kamei (亀井芳子) as "Sayuri", Koji Tsujitani (辻󠄀谷耕史) as "Hiroshi", Takehito Koyasu (子安武人) as "Daisuke", Issei Futamata (二又一成) as "Gosunkugi" with Takeshi Matsuo (松尾貴司), Toshihiko Nakajima (中嶋聡彦), Mitsuaki Madono (真殿光昭), Akira Ishida (石田彰) and Akio Suyama (陶山章央) as unnamed background characters.
Episode 97: 乱馬はヘタクソ? 格闘書道
Ranma ha hetakuso? Kakutou shodou (Ranma's Calligraphy Challenge)
Sotatsu Jikeiin, a practitioner of Martial Arts Calligraphy has been going on a dojo destroying rampage and opening schools in the wake of each traditional dojo he defeats. When Ranma finds a love letter written by Kuno at a tree in school, Sotatsu reads it aloud, infuriating Kuno. When Sotatsu challenges him to write the characte for "eternity" Kuno makes a mistake, and Sotatsu smashes him with his huge brush, correctly making the kanji on the side of the high school and using Kuno's body in the giant kanji as added humilitation. When Ranma tries to challenges Sotatsu but fails in being able to write his letter of challenge, Sotatsu walks away.
At dinner Soun explains that the kanji character "eternity" is comprised of the eight basic strokes in calligraphy, making it a good kanji for such trials. Akane adds that Soun handmand their dojo's sign and that Kasumi and Nabiki both have excellent penmanship. Sotatsu arrives after seeing the Tendo Dojo sign and challenges Soun, the man who wrote it, however when he sees panda Genma and his signs he burst out laughing and flees. Ranma seeks out Cologne, Shampoo and Ukyo, asking them about their penmanship and taking advice on how to improve his own calligraphic techniques. When Ranma challenges Sotatsu again after watching him defeat another martial artist in a street fight, Sotatsu refuses, even letting Ranma throw a punch at him without flinching. As he promotes his school, more and more young women seem infatuated him, only annoying Ranma more.
As Happosai drunkenly wanders home, Ranma is being drilled by Akane in his calligraphy, writing awful looking challenge letter after challenge letter. Ryoga arrives, having been beaten by Sotatsu, but Ranma is stunned by the lovely quality of Ryoga's penmanship nonetheless. Finally Ranma writes another letter. It is pitiful childish looking in terms of its scrawling quality, but Sotatsu decides to accept Ranma's challenge as he struggles not to laugh at how pathetic Ranma's writing style looks. On the day of the match Ranma and Sotatsu get into a battle while one of Sotatsu's thown paperweights hits a hungover Happosai who wakes up and coaches both Sotatsu and Ranma with writing by waving his butt in the air. Sotatsu, ever serious, bursts out laughing and all of his female students see his mask of professionalism slip revealing him to be a goof. Ultimately, Kuno as the referee rules the match a draw.
A more literal translation of the Japanese episode title would be "Is Ranma Bad? Martial Arts Calligraphy".
"Who could have written this? It's in cursive style." - Literally meaning "grass style", the term Akane uses for the cursive style of writing kanji is called "soushoutai" (草書体).
The kanji that Sotatsu challenges Kuno to write, "永" (ei) means "eternity".
"Wrong stroke order!" - Japanese kanji have a proper order of making each stroke to form the kanji.
We see this sign in the Tendo home a number of times throughout the series, sometimes more clearly than others. There are a number of things that make this challenging to read, that it is kanji written in calligraphic handwriting, that it is written in migi yokogaki and that it flashes on the screen only for a few seconds. Rewritten the way modern readers of Japanese would read it would render the phrase as 敬天愛人 (Keiten Aijin). This means "fear and resepect the heavens, love people". This is a famous quote attributed to Saigo Takamori who lead the Satsuma Rebellion against the Meiji Government (depicted in the Hollywood film The Last Samurai).
"Every since Miyamoto Musashi great martial artists have left writings or paintings, right?" - Miyamoto Musashi (宮本武蔵) is a Japanese historical ronin and sword master who has passed into folk tradition as one of the greatest swordsmen that ever lived. He is said to have won 62 duels and was never defeated.
Kuno is dressed in the traditional garb of a gyoji (行司), sumo referee, when officiating the match between Ranma and Sotatsu. This includes the gunbai (軍配) wooden ceremonial fan he carries.
During their match, Kuno tasks Sotatsu and Ranma with writing "いろは" (iroha), which is the beginning order of the Japanese syllabary- essentially "ABC".
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The guest voices in this episode are Koji Tsujitani (辻谷耕史), Takashi Matsuo (松尾貴司), Akira Ishida (石田彰), Mitsuaki Madono (真殿光昭), Rin Mizuhara (水原リン), Akio Suyama (陶山章央) and Momoko Ishi (石桃子) all as unnamed background voices. Though Tsujitani is not expressly credited as Sotatsu Jikeiin, that is who he played in this episode.
Episode 98: 風林館高校、影のドン登場
Furinkan Koukou kageno don toujou (The Secret Don of Furinkan High!?)
The owner of the school store angers Ranma, but winds up requiring his, Akane, and Kuno's help against the principal who is trying to get rid of the store. The old man reveals to the entire school the principal's old report card which had incredibly poor grades in everything except gym.
Episode 99: 悲願! 普通の男に戻りたい
Higan! Futsuuno otokoni modoritai (Back to the Way We Were... Please!)
A Chinese salesman sales Ryoga, Mousse and Ranma three Instant Spring powders, but unfortunately the labels have come off. He tells them that one is definetly a "Spring of Drowned Man," so they begin fighting over which one they actually believe will cure them. Each is apprehensive about trying out their powder because they are afraid of what they will become if it is not the correct one. Finally the true powder is revealed, but just a bit too late.
The second and last episode directed by the pseudonymous "Azusa Shiratori". The other episode was episode 59.
Episode 100: 早乙女流の跡継ぎは良牙?
Saotome ryuuno atotsugiha Ryoga? (Ryoga Inherits the Saotome School!?)
Genma decides that Ryoga will make a much better student than Ranma, who had just eaten some food Genma had been saving, and announces that Ryoga is now Akane's fiancée. Genma moves out with Ryoga to begin their training. When Ranma fights Ryoga the match is even, until Genma throws a cat on Ranma. At that moment Genma instructs Ryoga to take revenge against Ranma for eating his food, causing Ryoga and Ranma to team-up against him.
No episode of Ranma 1/2 Nettohen aired the following week.
Episode 101: 天道家、遊園地へ行く
Tendoke, yuuenchihe iku (Tendo Family Goes to the Amusement Park)
Dr. Tofu and Kasumi win tickets to an amusement park, but Dr. Tofu forgets his wallet. When everyone gets to the park and realizes that Happosai has eaten the lunch they packed, they realize that the only way to get anything to eat is by winning first place in a go cart race. Unfortunately they have to compete against the course champion to win.
An excellent article by Matteo Watzky about the key animator on this episode, Tokuyuki Matsutake (松竹徳幸) and his work on Ranma 1/2, can be found here.
No episode of Ranma 1/2 Nettohen aired the following week.
Episode 102: 風林館高校・通り魔事件
Furinkan koukou ・ Toorima jiken (Case of the Furinkan Stalker)
A mysterious man begins terrorizing the girls of Furinkan High School. The girls suspect Ranma because of the attacker's ponytail. Ranma lures the stalker out and reveals that it is Gosunkugi in a pathetic looking Ranma disguise.
Episode 103: 呪泉郷から来た悪魔 前編
Jusenkyo kara kita akuma zenpen (The Demon From Jusenkyo Part 1)
Pantyhose Taro arrives and kidnaps Akane in order to lure Happosai out. When Ranma decides to go rescue Akane, Ryoga, Mousse, and Shampoo come to help out as well. Pantyhose Taro tells Akane about what Happosai did to him as a child, but explains that his curse is not the reason he is seeking revenge. Ranma and the others then prepare to attack Pantyhose Taro.
Episode 104: 呪泉郷から来た悪魔 後編
Jusenkyo kara kita akuma kouhen (The Demon From Jusenkyo Part 2)
Ranma fights with Pantyhose Taro, while Mousse and Ryoga try to find their way back to the fight. Happosai arrives just in time to save Akane from getting knocked off a cliff by Pantyhose Taro. Pantyhose Taro explains to everyone the reason why he hates Happosai is because of his name. Everyone tries to force Happosai to give Pantyhose Taro a new name.
Episode 105: 乱馬がいないXmas
Ranma ga inai Xmas (A Xmas Without Ranma)
Ranma and Akane are Christmas shopping together when Ranma suddenly tells Akane to head home without him. After a few hours, Akane begins to worry and starts looking for Ranma. As she goes around town, she encounters most of her friends who tell her they had just recently seen Ranma. When Akane finally finds Ranma, she learns that he had been shopping for gifts for her, which makes her very happy. When they get home Shampoo, Kuno, Mousse, P-chan, Kodachi and Ukyo all enjoy a Christmas Eve dinner at the Tendo home.
No episode of Ranma 1/2 Nettohen aired the following two weeks.
This episode marks one of the highest audience viewership rating of the entire series. For more information please see our article "Ranma 1/2 Top 10 Highest Rated Episodes".
Episode 106: 雪ん子冬物語
Yukinko fuyu monogatari (A Cold Day in Furinkan)
A blizzard comes to Tokyo and Ryoga happens to find a flute that had blown into his tent. Ryoga manages to make his way to the Tendo home and tells Ranma and Akane about a large snow monster that had attacked him. Ranma and Akane decide to investigate, and while searching for the creature they discover a small girl. It is revealed that the girl controls the snow creature and is actually a snow woman searching for her flute.
Episode 107: らくがきパンダの呪い
Rakugaki panda no noroi (Curse of the Scribbled Panda)
At a festival, cursed drawings come to life and begin to wreck havoc. Two of the drawings are of large monsters, while the third is of a small female panda. The panda asks to go on a date with Ranma, and Ranma agrees (in order to get the drawing to return to the paper). After battling the other two drawings the Panda is able to convince the demonic drawings to return to the paper they escaped from.
Episode 108: スイカ島の交際鬼
Suikatou no kousaiki (The Date-Monster of Watermelon Island)
Ranma and Akane discover Kuno off the coast of Watermelon Island. Unfortunately for Kuno, he has amnesia, but has greatly improved his swordsmanship. Ranma is unable to defeat Kuno, and decides to take him to Watermelon Island to see how he has gained this new talent that seems to be connected to watermelons.
Episode 109: 幸せのパンダ伝説
Shiawase no panda densetsu (Legend of the Lucky Panda)
Genma stumbles into a village filled with people that look exactly like Ranma and his friends from Nerima. When the village elder (who looks like Soun) gets sick, the villagers believe the only thing that can cure him is the heart of a living panda which Genma happens to be at the moment.
Episode 110: 乱馬と右京がソース相愛?
Ranma to Ukyo ga sauce souai? (Ukyo's Secret Sauce, Part 1)
Ukyo attempts to make a special okonomiyaki sauce that was her father's specialty. After letting the sauce age for ten years, Ukyo opens it and finds that it tastes horrible. Ukyo becomes very depressed and decides to move into the Tendo home until she can regain her confidance. Ranma realizes that this is the same sauce he had accidentally ruined ten years ago and never bothered to tell Ukyo.
This episode marks one of the highest audience viewership rating of the entire series. For more information please see our article "Ranma 1/2 Top 10 Highest Rated Episodes".
Episode 111: 偽り夫婦よ永遠に…
Itsuwari fuufuyo eien ni... (Ukyo's Secret Sauce, Part 2)
Ukyo is still depressed about her sauce, and really starts to feel bad when Ranma and Akane begin joking about being married. When she thinks Ranma and Akane have slept together, Ranma realizes he should do something to prove, or at least let Ukyo believe, that he likes her more than Akane.
Ranma's outfit resembles Mr. Fujinami's from Urusei Yatsura. Ranma's belly wrap is known as a harumaki (腹巻) By the 1970s and 1980s it was considered an out of date style of fashion worn by middle-aged men, such as Bakabon's Father in Tensai Bakabon (天才バカボン) and Tora-san from Otoko wa Tsurai yo (男はつらいよ, "It's Tough Being a Man"). The amulet (お守り/omamori) hanging around his neck is also borrowed from the typical outfit that Tora-san wears in Otoko wa Tsurai yo.
Ranma holds up his pinky finger to indicate that he has a mistress or girlfriend. This gesture is widely known in Japan and connects with the concept of "fate" (縁/en), that two people are fated to be together. A folk belief is that an invisible red thread of fate (運命の赤い糸/unmei no akaii ito) is tied to your heart and comes out of you at your pinky finger and is then connected over miles and miles to the person you are destined to be partnered with.
Ranma's outfit
Episode 112: 格闘茶道! さらわれた家元
Kakutou sadou! Sarawareta Iemoto (The Missing Matriarch of Martial Arts Tea)
Sentaro's grandmother is kidnapped by the Miyakoji family. The Miyakojis and Daimonjis have a long rivalry, and some of the old women from the Daimonji family tell Sentaro that only he can save his grandmother. When Sentaro tries to fight the heir of the Miyakojis he immediately falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage.
Episode 113: 大変! あかねが入院した
Taihen! Akane ga nyuuin shita (Akane Goes to the Hospital)
Ranma gets angry about Gosunkugi taking pictures of Akane during gym class. When Akane notices them fighting she loses her balance and breaks her leg. After a few days in the hospital Akane begins to get very angry because Ranma has yet to come and visit her. It seems he has been keeping away because he does not know the right thing to say to make her feel better.
Episode 114: 謎の暴れタコツボ現る?!
Nazono abare takotsubo arawareru?! (Mystery of the Marauding Octopus Pot!)
Happosai disguises himself as a octopus trap and raids a village stealing panties and food and beating up all the men. When Soun, Genma, and Ranma arrive they try to keep everyone from learning that they know Happosai. Happosai tells them that the reason he is stealing the food is to help a sickly little girl that lived on the beach.
The jar that Happosai is hiding in is an octopus pot (蛸壷/takotsubo) a jar used to lure octopi into so they can be reeled in.
Episode 115: 五寸釘! あぁ恋の紙人形
Gosunkugi! Ah koino kaminingyou (Gosunkugi and the Magic Paper Dolls)
Gosunkugi buys twelve magical paper dolls from a salesman. Whenever something is written on the doll and then placed on someone's back, the victim must do whatever the doll says. Gosunkugi uses the dolls to make Ranma get into a few accidents and then uses another to try to get Akane to go out with him.
Episode 116: あかねの心がわからない
Akane no kokoroga wakaranai (Akane's Unfathomable Heart)
A young man named Satori arrives at the Tendo Dojo and is able to read minds. Satori cannot read Akane's mind though, and begins to have a crush on her. He quickly angers Ranma by shouting out everything Ranma is thinking. He challenges Ranma to a match, and because he can read what Ranma is going to do before he does it, they seem to be evenly matched. After Ranma, Akane, and Satori almost fall off the roof, Satori finally reads Akane's mind and realizes that she likes Ranma. Upset by this, he runs away.
Episode 117: 追跡! 手まり唄の謎
Tsuiseki! Temariutano nazo (A Teenage Ghost Story)
An old man at the school store was telling Ranma and Kuno stories when Akane arrives with an old notebook. Ranma accidently spills tea on it, and a ghost girl appears and sings a song. The ghost follows Ranma and Akane home and spends the night. While there, she mentions that she has lost something, but cannot remember what it is. Kasumi mentions that the song the ghost is singing may have something to do with her forgotten loss. The old man at the school store remembers that the girl had forgotten a stuffed toy raccoon once, and he replaced her old one. The ghost says her name is Kogane Musashi and then leaves.
Episode 118: もうあなたから離れない
Mou anatakara hanarenai (Master and Student...Forever!?)
Happosai uses a magical Chinese medicine on Ranma. The medicine is is supposed to make a student respect their teacher, but one of the side effects is that Happosai becomes stuck to Ranma. Ranma uncontrollably switches from having deep respect for Happosai, to his normal loathing of him, while Akane, Ukyo, Soun and Genma all try to seperate the two before the effects become permanent.
