<P> Ranma 1⁄2 has a comedic formula and a sex - changing main character, who often willfully transforms into a girl to advance his goals . The series also contains many other characters, whose intricate relationships with each other, unusual characteristics, and eccentric personalities drive most of the stories . Although the characters and their relationships are complicated, they rarely change once they are firmly introduced and settled into the series . </P> <P> The manga has been adapted into two anime series created by Studio Deen: Ranma 1⁄2 and Ranma 1⁄2 Nettōhen (らんま 1⁄2 熱闘 編), which together were broadcast on Fuji Television from 1989 to 1992 . In addition, they developed 12 original video animations and three films . In 2011, a live - action television special was produced and aired on Nippon Television . The manga and anime series were licensed by Viz Media for English - language releases in North America . Madman Entertainment released the manga, part of the anime series and the first two movies in Australasia, while MVM Films released the first two movies in the United Kingdom . The Ranma 1⁄2 manga has over 53 million copies in print in Japan . Both the manga and anime are cited as some of the first of their mediums to have become popular in the United States . </P> <P> On a training journey in the Bayankala Mountain Range in the Qinghai Province of China, Ranma Saotome and his father Genma fall into the cursed springs at Jusenkyo (呪 泉郷). When someone falls into a cursed spring, they take the physical form of whatever drowned there hundreds or thousands of years ago whenever they come into contact with cold water . The curse will revert when exposed to hot water until their next cold water exposure . Genma fell into the spring of a drowned panda while Ranma fell into the spring of a drowned girl . </P> <P> Soun Tendo is a fellow practitioner of Musabetsu Kakutō Ryū (無 差別 格闘 流) or "Anything - Goes School" of martial arts and owner of a dojo . Genma and Soun agreed years ago that their children would marry and carry on the Tendo Dojo . Soun has three teenaged daughters: the polite and easygoing Kasumi, the greedy and indifferent Nabiki and the short - tempered, martial arts practicing Akane . Akane, who is Ranma's age, is appointed for bridal duty by her sisters with the reasoning that they are the older sisters and can dump the duty on her, and that they all dislike the arranged engagement and think Akane's dislike of men is the right way to express it to the fathers . At the appointed time they are surprised when a panda comes in and puts a girl in front of their father . The Tendo girls all laugh . It takes several more pages for the situation to be explained to Soun Tendo and his daughters . Both Ranma and Akane refuse the engagement initially, having not been consulted on the decision, but the fathers are insistent and they are generally treated as betrothed and end up helping or saving each other on some occasions . They are frequently found in each other's company and are constantly arguing in their trademark awkward love - hate manner that is a franchise focus . </P>

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