Volume Five


Picking up where we left off, Ranma , currently stuck in girl form, and Cologne are fighting. Cologne is the cause of Ranma's situation and has promised him the cure if he can defeat her in battle. Cologne has summoned a shark to help her fight.

Not to worry though, Ranma has a plan. He goes to Shampoo , Cologne's granddaughter and woman in love with Ranma, for help. This involves tying her to himself as he goes back in the water. You see, when splashed with cold water, Shampoo turns in to a cat , and Ranma just so happens to have a fear of cats. This causes him to enter the deadly Cat Fu mode, where he thinks he is a cat. After taking a huge bite in to the shark, Cologne gives him mad props and hands over the Phoenix Pill which will allow Ranma to change back in to a man with hot water.

Ryoga is back in town and of course decides to challenge Ranma to a fight. Turns out, however, that Ranma has gotten a lot stronger thanks to his scuffles with Cologne. Humiliated after Akane Ranma's fiancee and woman Ryoga loves, tells Ranma to stop picking on him, Ryoga accepts Cologne's proposal to train him.

Ranma and his father Genma are off training in the same woods as Ryoga and Cologne. They bring Akane along, who turns out to be the worst cook ever, who defects to Ryoga's camp after he manages to gratefully eat her food to the best of his ability and Ranma only insults it. Ryoga is learning the "Breaking Point" technique, a technique said to destroy anything if he can only touch its breaking point. Cologne then offers up Akane as the prize for the Ranma and Ryoga match. After some intense battling, Ranma and Ryoga fall off a cliff, turning Ryoga in to his pig form of P-chan and wins the fight. Cologne then reveals that the breaking point technique only works on rocks.

After these shenanigans, Ranma, female form is hit by a runaway horse with a strange man named Sentaro on it. Sentaro decides that Ranma should be his bride, drugs him (as a her), and dresses him in a wedding kimono. Ranma, predictably, is not happy. Sentaro explains that he's in an arranged marriage in which he cannot stand the bride and wishes for Ranma to defeat her and take her place. The challenge: Martial Arts Tea Ceremony. With his pride as a martial arts whatever champion, Ranma agrees to fight. Ranma also takes this opportunity to reveal his manhood to a shocked Sentaro, and Akane arrives at the scene. Sentaro quickly proposes to Akane as well, who doesn't want to marry him, but does want to show that she can perform the graceful tea ceremony. She can't.

After some rigorous training, Ranma is ready to challenge Sentaro's supposed fiancee, Miss Satsuki , who turns out to be a monkey. All is well however when during the challenge, the REAL Satsuki arrives on a runaway horse and turns out to be a beautiful woman. Suddenly Sentaro is A-OK with the marriage and the two head off on their honeymoon . After making a quick stop on Ranma's head.

The martial arts hikinks have not yet ended. Kuno has decided that it is time to decide between Akane and "Pig-tailed Girl" (female Ranma), and tells them that whoever arrives at his house first will win his heart. Coincidentally at the same time, Akane, Ranma, and Shampoo all enter a martial-arts delivery girl contest. The goal is to reach a randomly selected house before anyone else. The randomly selected house? Kuno's.

Shampoo makes a bet with Ranma that if she wins, Ranma will date her. She is then hurt when Ranma doesn't lose. They soon arrive at Kuno's house, who thinks they're all there to win his love, and more battling ensues. After losing the race, Akane tries to sabotage them by turning Shampoo in to a cat, and Ranma protects her, not because he loves Shampoo but because of his fear of cats. At one point, Ranma turns back in to a man and tries to feed Kuno his food, thereby winning the race, but Kuno is insulted at the thought, especially since he hates male Ranma. After Ranma turns back in to a girl though, Kuno is more than happy to eat the dirty, soggy food, handing victory to Ranma.

This was a pretty good one. Good stories, lots of funny moments. Not the best, but still very good.