Hard Battle: Captain Chaotica!!'s Season Three Ranma 1/2 Pics!





The Melon-Carrying Race! Here is, oddly enough, a colour shot of what the Snowman Race back in Season 2 SHOULD have been...in the theme song for Season 3! Whatever...

Episode 1: Ranma Gains Yet Another Suitor

"Meet the new exchange student!" The new "boy", Ukyo, prepares to dazzle the class with "his" okonomiyaki cooking skills.
Ukyo and Father In this flashback shot, we get a nice look at Chibi-Ukyo, her dad, and their okonomiyaki cart.
"Get back!" Ukyo, with her "delicate touch", politely dissuades a too-curious bystander from getting into the ring where her and "Ran-chan" will be fighting soon.
This is embarrassing! A subdued Ukyo--probably because she's feeling embarrassed!--after Ranma accidentally looked at her chest and found out her true gender.
Ranma takes out his frustrations on Genma. Naturally, Ranma is NOT AT ALL happy about the fact that Genma never told him the whole truth...or that HE is now being punished for his father's crimes!
"Ranma Saotome, prepare to DIE!" Geez, not again...Anyway, a nice dramatic battle-shot of Ukyo with her handy-dandy butt-kicking spatula out and ready.
"Such a shame, a cute girl like you." Ranma totally makes Ukyo's whole year (if not her decade) by saying just once nice little compliment. Ukyo is bewildered.
"Cute fiancee, meet uncute fiancee!" Battle of the betrotheds! Akane is NOT happy about how friendly "Ran-chan" and "Ucchan" seem to be acting now...

Episode 2: Ryoga and Akane: 2-Gether 4-Ever!

Hello...you are...? Ryoga meets Ukyo face-to-face for the first time and just BARELY averts getting into a major battle with her.
What do you want on YOUR okonomiyaki? Our first look inside the new restaurant--Ucchan's!
Get a room, you two! No, just kidding, Ukyo and Ryoga are arguing about whether or not Ryoga actually wants this date with Akane, and what he should say to her/do about it. Akane overhears the argument and steps out to tell them that it's all right if Ryoga doesn't want to date her. But it KINDA looks like he's trying to rip Ukyo's clothes off, and that Akane is embarrassed while accidentally bursting in on them...another one for the Blackmail Files! Yeah, I'm a hentai. And?
"How could you forget me?!" Ryoga's "jilted fiancee" shows back up for revenge! Um...kinda.
"You really love me?" Ranma's little plan backfires when Ryoga decides that maybe he COULD love this strange new girl, after all...if she really does know about his curse...and really doesn't care...
"It's NOT what you think!" Akane, furious, turns Ranma back into a boy while he's STILL wearing his disguise and then boots him several miles away, to have him land in a trash can. Here he climbs out, still wearing his pink dress, in front of a crowd of angry, disgusted young women...
"I don't wanna talk about it right now." An underwear-clad, beat-up and severely battered Ranma staggers past a confused Ukyo, carrying a dress. It's too long of a story for him to go into right now...
"Stupid pig!" Ranma and P-Chan GLARE at each other at the end of the episode.

Episode 3: Sneeze, Squeeze Me, Please Me: Shampoo's Recipe for Disaster!

"The first one's free!" Shampoo grins maliciously while waiting for her "darling husband" to eat the magical treat...
"I love you! GET OFF ME! Ranma is now, due to a fluke of fate, forced to hug somebody every time he hears a SNEEZE, not a snap--and the cat was the first one to sneeze! Shampoo looks on in a mixture of bewilderment and horror.
Mommy! The weird boy's hugging me! Poor ensorcelled Ranma goes on a random hugging spree!
Kasumi goes out A nice shot of Kasumi wearing an outfit slightly more mature and modern than her usual look; I rather liked it. Of course it's still pink and frilly, but, it's Kasumi--what are ya gonna do?
"A-choo!" Ranma stays up late to keep a sick Akane company, even though he KNOWS that every time she sneezes he'll be in trouble...
"Eat THIS!" Ranma forces Shampoo to take a taste of her own medicine! Or should I say, her own dim sum? Anyway, the white thing in her mouth is one of the magically drugged treats, and I am NOT apologising for the quality this time as this picture went by super-fast and was INCREDIBLY hard to grab at all!
"Yes, sir, Captain Ranma!" Shampoo happily accepts Ranma's order to leave, now that she's hypnotized too, and quietly leaps away across the rooftops. Phew!

Episode 5: I Love You! My Dear, Dear Ukyo!

"Charge! Charge...I....say..." The vengeful mailbox out for Ranma's life turns out to be a young girl! Welll.....sorta....
"I may be butt ugly...but look who LOST OUT to butt-ugly!" Ranma leaps into "her darling Ucchan's arms" in order to piss Tsubasa off.
"And by the way...you're butt ugly. Tsubasa can't resist one more parting shot at Ranma.
"Hey, boys! Come get your okonomiyaki!" Ranma humiliates himself beyond ALL BELIEF to win a beauty contest...even though he normally goes out of his way to be thought of as _masculine_! Talk about ridiculous amounts of pride...
Nerima--where not only do the walls have ears...but so do the TREES! Eek, a dryad! What are we, in Xanth all of a sudden? No, no shape-changers, just Tsubasa again, in her role as "Master of Disguise", scaring Ranma and Akane out of about a year's growth each.
"I'm falling in love...ALL OVER AGAIN!!" Seems like Tsubasa is not only a lesbian, but about the horniest and most fickle one I've ever seen to boot...gives Kuno a run for his money, when it comes to drooling over girls! Here our dear young mailbox decides that Ranma isn't so butt-ugly after all...
"I'm your true love, honey. Your knight in shining armour. The man of your dreams." Ranma lays it on DISGUSTINGLY thick to Tsubasa, trying to get her to fall in love with his male side instead. Which is...not exactly the most PERFECT of plans, as he admits to Akane later on...
"I have never in my LIFE wanted to be touched by a BOY!" Tsbuasa reacts to Ranma's super-corny obnoxious advances the way _I_ would have--by punting him 20 feet into the air and backwards into the nearest fountain! (That splash of water? That's Ranma. I TRIED to get a picture of him actually flying through the air but it went by too fast.)
"Oh, my dearest Ranma! Whoever did this to you?" Horny and clueless. Assuming that the male and female forms are two different people, Tsubasa comes to Ranma's rescue right after SHE was the one to HURT him in the first place!
"I did all that to be prettier than a GUY?!" Ranma is not all that thrilled to find out what he's been competing with all this time. (And if Tsubasa was just a BIT more masculine-looking, out of costume, I might be drooling but as it is, no. Another guy with long flowing hair, yeah! The world could use a few more of those.) Still so dang pretty that it'd be easy to be confused, though...but hey! As I always say...if the dress fits..WEAR it!

Episode 7: Transform! Akane, the Super-Duper Girl!


Ping-pong, anyone? Akane competes against Shampoo in a tournament.
"I TOLD you not to go there!" Ranma unwillingly suffers a vision of his bride having "a bigger moustache than his own"...
"Where did he go?" Akane's super-strength is such that not only can she wield a GIANT ping-pong paddle now, but doesn't even NOTICE the weight of an entire human being hanging on it...
Akane grows whiskers! In this picture, Akane suffers from the side-effects of the Super Soba Noodles. Actually, they're really cute, I think. She looks like a kitty-cat! Awww...Except that now she'll probably send Ranma into Cat-Fist whenever she goes near him...hmmm...

Episode 8: The Killer from Jusenkyo!

Meow! Quack! Poor Shampoo and "Mu-Mu the Duck" are netted at the same time by an evil cult out to track down and kill all Jusenkyo-cursed people who don't follow THEIR super-strict code of behaviour...
"Let us out!" Ranma and the smaller cursed animals struggle to get out of a cave trap as the exit crashes down in front of them.

Episode 9: Am I Pretty? Ranma's Declaration of Womanhood!

Ranma in the shadows as Genma ambushes him in a "training excercise" before dawn.
Ranma is GLAD to do housework now that he's convinced he really IS a girl!
Oh, no! Akane's cooking! Determined to prove that she can be just as feminine as her own fiancee, Akane ATTACKS some food in the kitchen while Kasumi looks on in worry...
"Ooh! Akane! How do you think THIS would look on me?" Akane learns that taking Ranma in male body to the mall in THIS state is not the best idea. "I DON'T KNOW THIS PERSON! I'VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE!" To Wong Foo, thanks for everything...
"Does my butt look fat in this?" Ranma models HER new dress at the mall.

Episode 11: Les Miserables of the Kuno Estate!

"Touch my cookies and DIE, brother-dear!" Kodachi takes out her anger in her usual way...
"Do you feel lucky, punk?" The argument over cookies escalates to a ridiculous degree...
EAT LEAD! When Martha Stewart's drugs wear off...
"Okay, now who's gonna clean THIS up?" After their fight, the Kuno mansion is totally trashed. No wonder Sasuke ran out!

Episode 12: Ghost Story! Ranma and the Magic Sword!

Ukyo, Ranma, and Akane skulk around through the darkened halls of Furinken High, trying to track down their "ghost".
The Nerima X-Files! The truth is REALLY out there... Despite Ranma's sarcastic comment earlier to the contrary, this shot here makes he and Ukyo look like a FBI-monster-fighting couple. Although Ranma would have to play the Scully part, being a redheaded woman and all...but HEY! Ukyo's already used to playing a guy, so, no problem!

Episode 13: All It Takes Is One! The Kiss of Love is the Kiss of Death!

Spring break in Nerima! Ranma, Akane, and the gang hang out and enjoy a peaceful day at the beach...for a few MINUTES, anyway...
"You little PERVERT!" Ranma huffs and puffs in exhaustion (and anger) after failing to capture the ever-hyper Happosai.
Walk like a woman, talk like a man? I just had to get a good close-up of this bathing suit. Only Ranma is weird enough to go to the beach as a woman, in a slinky cut-for-a-female-body swimsuit....that has the word BOY across the chest. Okay, WHATever...
The magic bracelet! Here's a picture of the ancient Amazon treasure that starts all the chaos...
"Say ah!" Shampoo attempts to pop a love-pill into Ranma's mouth. (You can't see it too well, but there's a little round thing between her fingers; that's the pill.)
"How could I never have realised...how beautiful a woman in full bloom could BE?!" Ranma looks at EXACTLY the wrong person after taking the pill. Cologne isn't too unhappy about it, though. Well, coo-coo-ca-choo Mrs. Robinson! Talk about your December/January romances...
"Buuuhh....geeehhhh..." Ranma's reaction to what he ALMOST did, once the pill wears off..."I don't think he can hear us."
"I make him take this while he sleep!" Shampoo "sneaks" in through the WINDOW, this time, instead of the door. Well, she's improving I guess. At least the window was already open and she didn't BREAK it to come in...
"Missed!" Akane laughs at EXACTLY the wrong moment--and the magic love pill pops right into her mouth! Oooohh...! (Yes, this was another one of those super-hard-to-grab shots...)
Young lovers... A really pretty shot of Ranma and Akane together on the cliff, overlooking the beach, at sunset, from the end of the episode. Such gorgeous scenery, I just HAD to snap it.

Episode 14: The Ultimate Team-Up? The Ryoga-Mousse Alliance!

"You may call me the man from Ganymede!" Mousse fights Ryoga wearing a strange mask and an even STRANGER alias...(the man from GANYMEDE?! The hell? What is he, a Sailor Senshi all of a sudden?)
Akane Saotome From Ryoga's flash-forward vision; an older, more mature, married Akane, done up with long hair kinda like Kasumi or something...weird. But interesting.
"With my superior strategy and your superior strength, we're unbeatable!" Mousse gloats over a prone Ranma with his new partner-in-crime, Ryoga.
"Hey! No fair usin' my own weapons against me!" Of course, he wouldn't be Ranma if he didn't figure a way out of this. Here's an adorable shot of two of the very cutest guys in all of Ranma-dom tied up together in chains. Heh heh. Have fun, fangirls! (And why am I thinking that the yaoi people LOVE this episode for some reason...?)

Episode 15: Back to the Happosai!

"Pull the other one!" Happosai's claim that he was a beautiful prince when he was young is rather unrealistic...(In the manga version, this picture would have been part of the magic bracelet storyline. They did an entire seperate spin-off story for it involving time-travel and a magic MIRROR, instead. However, in this version, you get to actually MEET young Cologne, so that's cool.)
"Good god! If I was this much of a pervert when I was 18, what does that make me NOW?!" Happosai is shocked and disgusted by the debauchery of his younger self.
Once Upon a Time in China... Meet bishoujo Cologne...about 300 years ago! And Great-Grandmother no talk Japanese good back then too, aiyaa!
"Get out of here!" Cologne orders young Happosai out of her cottage. Shampoo's efforts to get her to admit that she loved him are a little weird, if you ask me. What does she want to do, wipe herself out of existence or make it so that HAPPOSAI is one of her ancestors? Eew, ick...

Episode 16: Kodachi the Black Rose! The Beeline to Ranma's Heart!

"My darling husband!" To show how domestic she can be, "loving wife" Kodachi offers to do the Tendo family laundry. This picture is just SO out of character for her, I HAD to grab it...

Episode 17: The Last Days of Happosai!

"Hey, Michiru, I didn't know you could read tarot cards!" No, just kidding, this is Miyo (I THINK that's how you spell it), a weird fortune-teller girl from Akane's class. But if she had aqua-green hair, wouldn't she be absolutely a DEAD RINGER for Sailor Neptune?!
(thinks to self: DEEP SUBMERGE! unleashed in a world where lots of the main characters change into other things when splashed with COLD WATER, oh, yeah, that'd be....interesting...)
Ding-dong, the witch is (almost) dead? Happosai suffers from some strange illness and bad omens are everywhere.
Christmas in July? Why's the Tendo household lookin' so festive all of a sudden? Why, for Ranma and Akane's wedding, that's why! It's thought to be the only thing that could cheer up Happosai (that he knows that his school of martial arts will have an heir, before he dies.)
P-Chan! Where have you been? Take a rainy night, a lonely, pathetic figure, and a cheery yellow light in a window and you've got a nice picture. I took this one just because it was artsy, and for no other reason. So ha. Get used to it.
"I love a rainy night...NOT!" Ranma-chan is almost swept away in a dramatic torrent of water. Another artsy shot. Don't mind me, I'm just bein' creative...la la la...
"THAT'S not supposed to happen!" Sailor Neptune--I mean, um...Miyo looks on in shock as her crystal ball starts to develop cracks and shatter--because of the EXTREME unlikeliness of Happosai suddenly springing back to healthy, perverted life!

Episode 18: Two, Too Violent Girls! Ling-Ling and Lung-Lung!"

The sisters, reunited! Meet Shampoo's twin "sisters", Ling-Ling and Lung-Lung. (Ling is the plum-haired one; Lung is greenie.) They're not actually her BLOOD sisters, you see. They're just fellow Amazon warrior-women who are CALLED sisters as a mark of camaraderie. You know, like "Sisterhood is powerful!" And of course you can hardly GET more feministic than Amazons...Anyway, they're here to find out why "big sister Shampoo no say she kill Ranma!" WHOOPSIE...um...uh....erm...
"Any strong men around here?" The twins prepare to fight Kuno and basically the entirety of the male segment of Furinken High while they're at it...
Sister against sister? Ling-Ling and Lung-Lung want the outsider woman Ranma DEAD and won't take no for an answer. But Shampoo loves him so much, that instead of hurt him, she gives the KISS OF DEATH to her own sisters!! Both of them. YIKES! This is getting serious...
The deadly Dance of the Fire-Dragon! The twins prepare to unleash their ultimate attack on "big-sister Shampoo". I mean, now that she's sworn to track them down to the ends of the earth and kill them, that's sorta put a damper on their relationship...
"Ranma, you run away now." Ranma arrives too late to save Shampoo from the dreaded Fire Dragon attack...
THIS is the dragon? Like, it seems, many attacks with cool names in this series, the actual reality is rather dorky. (Think "Fist of the White Swan" for the best example...) The "dance of the fire-dragon" consists of a FAKE mechanical dragon that is carried around with a boombox that plays catchy music inside it. Anybody who hears it dances like an idiot and can't stop until the music stops, and then the dragon's built-in flamethrower can finish 'em off easily.
Walk like an Amazon?! Akane and Ranma fall slave to the rhythm and start dancing like total IDIOTS! Incidentally, the music playing is the "Yappa-pa, yappa-pa..." theme song of Season ONE...
"Ooh, strong man! You marry us!" The twins naturally switch from murderous anger to lustful joy when they discover that the person who defeated them in battle is a man, not a woman--same as Shampoo did when SHE first found out.
"MINE!!!" Shampoo is NOT HAPPY about this result! (Fortunately, it turns out that by Shampoo law, it's "first-come, first-serve" and so therefore only HER claim on Ranma is valid. Oh, gee, that takes the number of fiancees back down to...what..."only" five or six...?)

Episode 19: Ranma and the Evil Within

Talk about a split-personality! Ranma's female side comes to life as an evil wraith while the male side stays asleep. You know, I sometimes wish _I_ could be awake and asleep at the same time...it'd come in handy for work, for one thing...
Follow me... Wraith-girl walks straight through the wall! Hey, no fair rippin' off Shampoo's schtick!
Akane prepares to fend off prowlers with her handy-dandy butt-kicking bat.
Ranma's Girl Side Has a Bad Hair Day YEEEOWW! Split her off from her boy side and GOD, does she ever get PISSED! Seriously, though, this is actually an evil spirit in the form of Ranma's girl side. Don't her eyes look like she's been exposed to massive amounts of Mako radiation or something? Creepy-lookin' #####.
Ranma has a hangover...no, just kidding, he's actually being drained by his evil spirit female self, as she does...I do not want to KNOW what...with him every night and completely wears out his energy. GAH! Poor baby...
Ranma and Ranma, Sittin' in a Tree, Hopefully NOT K-I-S-S-I-N-G! Here his evil female side works her enslaving evil spirit doohickey whiles on him, while they are--LITERALLY--up in a tree, hence the name. They'd make a nice-looking couple if you could only ignore the fact that they're THE SAME PERSON! I'd make a really bad joke about "self-love" here, but I don't want to go there...
I DON'T think so. Genma has the sickest imagination sometimes, I swear...Ranma MARRYING himself?! Eeeewww...
Akane Tendo...I vant to drink your blood! YIKES! Wraith-Ranko's evil influence has turned Ranma into some kind of DEMON! This is easily the scariest and darkest Ranma episode I've ever seen.
What ARE ghosts scared of, anyway? Shampoo saves the day by turning herself into a cat and scaring off the evil wraith! Looks like she's a bit TOO close of a copy of Ranma for comfort!
"Save me, my LOVE!" The wraith screams and writhes in pain and torment after Akane sticks a spirit-ward onto its forehead.
"NO! Stay right where you are!" Even after seeing how evil she is, the wraith-copy still has enough of a hold over Ranma to make him want to save her life! Brrr....creepy....This is one heavy-duty scene.

Episode 20: Enter Ken and His Copycat Kerchief!

Meet Copycat Ken! He can magically shape-shift himself into the form of anybody, including their voice, and use their best martial-arts techniques against them! Kinda like a "Mimic" character from Final Fantasy, eh? Gogo, move over!
"Hey! I just kicked me!" Ranma suffers not only from a severe case of double-vision, but also a good dose of BOOT TO THE HEAD!
Team-up? Angry that Ken has been copying THEM as well, Ryoga, Mousse, and Kuno wanna join forces with Ranma. Actually, the truce was Kuno's idea, of all people! I guess I'll give idiot-boy credit for THAT. All that snooty breeding has at least made him able to talk like a diplomat or politician...
Well, THAT didn't work out. This picture of Mousse slamming the hell out of Kuno oughta give you an idea of how long the truce lasted...
"A wooden sword, a glass of wine, and thee." Sasuke brings out a fancy gourmet French meal to Kuno at the end of a long hard day of training. The others are so incredibly STARVED that it doesn't take long...
before total chaos breaks out. With friends like these...

Episode 21: Ryoga's Miracle Cure--Hand Over that Soap!

"I WILL tell Akane that I love her!" Ryoga makes one of his many vows that he can never quite follow up on...
"Shampoo no be cat again!" Amazon-girl holds up the magical soap to show it off. If you use this stuff, supposedly you will never change into your cursed form again. Whoah...
"WHAT?!" Ryoga's chest-deep in icy cold water...AND HE'S NOT A PIG!! Oh, happy day! Calooh, calay! But you just KNOW somethin's gonna mess it up somehow...
Why, Shampoo, you naughty girl! Shampoo sneaks up behind Ryoga in the haunted house and tries to frisk him for the soap. Of course, he thinks it's Akane instead and takes it entirely the wrong way...Another good photo for the blackmail files!
"Ryoga...this is all so...sudden!" Ryoga finally gets up the courage to snatch Akane into his arms! She doesn't look too happy about it, though...
What's wrong with this picture? That's right--Akane is wearing Ranma's usual outfit! Why? Because female-Ranma is posing as Akane in order to get the soap, that's why.

Episode 22: Fight! The Anything-Goes Obstacle Course Race!

"Don't leave me behind, Shampoo!" Mousse proves here that his various chain-style weapons can be used for purposes other than attacking...useful guy!
"Let's try mine." Ryoga finds his OWN way out of the Tic-Tac-To maze, in his own inimitable fashion...
Hang out here often? Shampoo and Mousse are handcuffed together and forced to swing on the same vine through a deadly jungle. Aiyaa!

Episode 23: Ukyo's Skirt! The Great Girly-Girl Gambit!

"He doesn't even know I'm alive!" Ukyo is downcast after she dons a school-uniform dress and makes every OTHER guy in the school suddenly lust after her....but Ranma still doesn't even seem to notice anything's different. Poor girl.
"Oh, YOU!" Ukyo gives Ranma a loving whack upside the head with her spatula when he compliments her "just the way she is" at the end of the episode. Akane looks on in shock.

Episode 24: Ranma Goes Back to Jusenkyo at Last!

Akane HIBIKI?! In this possible future ten years from now, Akane is married to Ryoga--a rather hunky-lookin' LONG-HAIRED Ryoga (down, girl!) and has three kids. Which are painting on Genma-panda and treating him like dirt, but my question is, if Ranma's family is no longer going to be the in-laws, why the HELL is Genma still there at all? Anyway...
"Great Scott, Marty, you must avoid meeting your other self or it might destroy the universe as we know it!" The HELL? Two Ranmas, and two Genmas...one set cursed, the other not! This is gonna take some time to straighten out...

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