Akane

Tendō Akane Characteristics Female Gender Age: 18 years Nationality Japan Japanese Personal information Living State Occupation Student Martial Artist Soun Tendo Family (father) Mrs. Tendo (mother) † Kasumi Tendo (older sister) Nabiki Tendo (older sister) Ranma Saotome (fiancé) Genma Saotome (future father-in-law) Nodoka Saotome (future mother-in-law) Tendo Dojo Residence

Akane is the shortest of the main characters, being shorter than Ranma Saotome in his male form but the same height as him in his female form. She has a slim build and a well-defined body. She has short black hair (a blueish tint in the anime) and large brown eyes. At the beginning of the series, she had long hair, but after having it cut due to a fight with Ryoga Hibiki, she keeps it short for the rest of the series.

She typically wears the girls' uniform for Furinkan High School, but she has a wide variety of outfits throughout the series and the manga, displaying a wide range of styles, from dresses to short outfits to two-piece suits, usually paired with short bottoms, either skirts or shorts. Akane also wears a light yellow karate gi and trains barefoot. She is very popular with boys, who consider her the prettiest girl in the school.

Akane is tender, sweet, empathetic, compassionate, friendly, helpful to anyone in trouble, she is also a stubborn girl with a dangerous character susceptible to easy mood swings that her family fears.

She frequently gets angry and is prone to hitting Ranma for his reckless mouth, since he doesn't usually defend himself against her, but also due to believing situations around him that are wrong or out of context. Since Akane is a very strong girl, she doesn't let herself be manipulated, but she tends to misunderstand and distrust repeatedly.

In retrospect, Akane follows the behavioral pattern of some of the main female characters in Rumiko Takahashi's long-running series, such as Lum Invader or later Shinobu Miyake.

Despite her temper, Akane has a more prominent kind side. She has come to the aid of her rivals, even constantly feeling compassion for people who try to harm her, such as Shampoo, Happosai, or Kuno (or, in the former case, even wanting to kill her).

She has repeatedly expressed extreme disapproval of attacking or injuring someone who cannot defend themselves, and refrained from hitting Ranma when he was turned into a toddler despite being insulted for this in the manga.

Most of her flaws can be attributed to her jealousy and violent tendencies, usually directed at Ranma, since he is homeless and lives in hers. She calls him a "pervert" due to his curse, and is annoyed if other girls approach him, despite him reminding her that she doesn't want to be with him.