History Characters / RanmaOneHalfOtherRecurringCharacters

* AbusiveParents: Implied. Her father and Genma agreed have her be engaged to Ranma, along with the Okonomiyaki cart as dowry. Once Genma abandon her, she lives on her own and never mentions her father again. Once she transfers to Furinkan, Genma is the closest thing to a father figure (in name only).

* DecompositeCharacter: Her and Ranma are both based off of the character Ryuunosuke Fujinami from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', Takahashi's previous work, but they split the character's elements between them. Ukyō got Ryuunosuke's aesthetic as a {{bifauxnen}} martial artist who, nonetheless, [[SheCleansUpNicely is very attractive-looking when she stops dressing so boyishly]], but Ranma is the one who got the gender-related insecurities and desperate drive to prove himself as the proper gender.

* WeaponOfChoice: He tends to fight with a small hammer and a voodoo doll that has a nail driven through it.

* ShesGotLegs: Attention is often drawn to her legs because the stockings she wears, which accentuates their curvature. But the beach scene near the beginning of ''"Nihao My Concubine"'' and the ''"Battle for Ms. Beachside"'' episode gave us an ''[[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131225013144/ranma/images/8/82/Ukyō_swimsuit.jpg even better]]'' look at them.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The anime notably toned down her nastier aspects from the manga and left out some of her most antagonistic moments. Whilst she does get involve in some more "typical romantic rival" hijinks, like trying to abuse Ranma being under the effects of a LovePotion-laced bandaid, she doesn't go to any of the same extents of viciousness that her manga counterpart reached.

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[[folder:Ukyo Kuonji]]
!!Ukyo Kuonji (久遠寺 右京, ''Kuonji Ukyō'')
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* ArrangedMarriage: When they were kids playing together, her dad brought up the idea of Ukyo marrying Ranma to Genma Saotome, seeing as how the two were so fond of him. In Genma's favor, he did initially decline the suggestion, telling Mr. Kuonji that Ranma was already engaged. In Genma's condemnation, he ''immediately'' changed his tune when Mr. Kuonji mentioned that the family yattai[[note]]food-vendor's cart[[/note]] was Ukyo's dowry, agreeing to break off the Tendo engagement for the Kuonji engagement... and then stole the dowry and ran away with it.

* BeautyInversion: In spite of being curvier and more showy in the anime, Ukyo's face is more plain compared to the manga, where she's more expressively girly despite being a {{tomboy}}.

* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: Played with. Ukyo's claim for Ranma's hand in marriage technically hinges from the fact that a dowry was paid to Genma in the form of her father's okonomiyaki cart. However, since Genma had already promised Ranma to one of the Tendō sisters, he chose not to honor the betrothal, fleeing, abandoning Ukyo and stealing the cart. Hence, her prospective marriage to Ranma is effectively owed to her. However, knowing that Akane's betrothal with Ranma came before her own, she approaches Ranma vying to make him see her as a better prospect than Akane, with rather mixed results.

* DecompositeCharacter: Her and Ranma are both based off of the character Ryuunosuke Fujinami from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', Takahashi's previous work, but they split the character's elements between them. Ukyo got Ryuunosuke's aesthetic as a {{bifauxnen}} martial artist who, nonetheless, [[SheCleansUpNicely is very attractive-looking when she stops dressing so boyishly]], but Ranma is the one who got the gender-related insecurities and desperate drive to prove himself as the proper gender.

** Both came to Nerima seeking revenge on Ranma for a childhood offense, holding him responsible for the loss their dignity (Ryōga, due to being knocked into the Spring of Drowned Piglet) and femininity (Ukyo, after being ditched by Genma). And, when each finally caught up to him, their exact words were: "Because of you, I've seen hell!".
** Ryōga wanders around with a weighted bamboo parasol strapped to his back, while Ukyo does the same with her spatula, which is the size of a baker's peel. Likewise, both are capable of [[FlechetteStorm spamming projectiles]]: Ryōga with his seemingly never-ending supply of bandannas[[note]]even though it appears to be a single bandanna, [[HammerSpace regardless how many he pulls from it]][[/note]], whereas Ukyo's bandoleer never runs out of mini-spatula.

** Each is also the only one of the competing suitors/fiancees that Akane and Ranma like enough to actually get along with. Akane fails to realize Ryōga is in love with her, because she only [[HopelessSuitor thinks of him as a good friend]], unlike Kuno and her other would-be suitors, who annoy her. Just as Ranma doesn't mind Ukyo hanging around, since they're childhood friends, but tries to avoid Shampoo and Kodachi like the plague.

** One more important thing is that both she and Ryōga are the only suitors to get along with their main love-rivals. Akane and Ukyo can actually have peaceful times together even without Ranma around, while Ranma and Ryōga are both the closest thing to a best friend the other has, so much that sometimes they actually borderline on HoYay.
* DoggedNiceGirl: While she doesn't hide her crush on Ranma, she never gets pushy enough to drive him away from her, unlike those like Shampoo and Kodachi. She's the only one of Ranma's suitors who can hang out with him as friends and he does enjoy her company often, but he just doesn't like her in a romantic way. However, unlike Akane, Ukyo's not above conspiring against both Ranma and Akane if the need comes.
* DowryDilemma: Her main claim for Ranma's hand. Her father had arranged for her to marry Ranma in exchange for his okonomiyaki cart, but Genma ended up stealing the cart and abandoning Ukyo, as Ranma had already been promised to one of the Tendō sisters. As such, the dowry was appropriated and eventually spent, but the wedding never took place. Ukyo grew up thinking that this was Ranma's fault, and gave up her femininity to exact revenge from him, eventually finding out that it wasn't Ranma who wronged her.
* EnemyMine: Ukyo is very given to ally herself with other people to foil Ranma and Akane, particularly Ryōga and Shampoo.

* FirstGirlWins: Subverted. Ukyo is the first girl Ranma met that would become one of his fiancées, as they're ChildhoodFriends. However, she became technically the second fiancée, since Ranma was already set to marry one of the Tendō sisters, but their betrothal wouldn't be brought up in the story until the previous three were introduced (Akane, Kodachi and Shampoo). As such, she's the last fiancée introduced in the story.
* {{Flanderization}}: When Ukyo is introduced, she's depicted as "the nice girl with a temper"; she can fly off the handle when she feels pushed, but overall she's the reasonable one out of Ranma's extraneous fiancees. In the manga, she ends up becoming vastly more negative and abusive as the series progresses, joining in on Kodachi and Shampoo's more extreme actions and shamelessly exploiting Konatsu.

** Shampoo is Ukyo's polar opposite in some very meaningful ways. Ukyo is Ranma's old friend, whereas Shampoo was a random crazy girl that he bumped into in China. Ukyo has an ArrangedMarriage with Ranma, meaning his father technically supports her engagement to him and it has legal support[[note]]ignoring the whole stealing the dowry and bigamy problems[[/note]], whilst Shampoo has an AccidentalMarriage based on laws that Ranma doesn't respect or acknowledge at all. Ukyo is quite shy about expressing intimacy with Ranma, even though she [[CovertPervert has strong amorous desires for him]], but Shampoo is utterly shameless in that department. Both are involved in the restaurant business, but Ukyo is a chef whilst Shampoo, despite being a capable cook, is officially a delivery girl. Finally, Ukyo [[{{Bifauxnen}} dresses in a very masculine fashion]], complete with binding her breasts, making her look very androgynous, whilst Shampoo aggressively flaunts her womanhood, between very form-flattering clothing and a complete indifference to being nude.[[note]]It's unclear in canon how much of a difference there is in their figures, if any, but their "presentation" of their womanhood is still very much the opposite.[[/note]]
** Overlapping with OxymoronicBeing, Ukyo is considerably more tomboyish than Akane while having more "wife-material" qualities than her, being more affectionate, a better cook and being a better house-rearing girl than Akane.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: When she's introduced, Ranma is at first happy to see his childhood friend again until Ukyo makes clear she's there to fight him as revenge for his father Genma stealing her family's okonomiyaki cart. After Ranma calls her cute, she instantly changes her mind and comes to like Ranma again.
* FreakyIsCool: When Ukyo found out about Ranma's curse, her reaction was to literally keep switching him/her back and forth with hot and cold water, remarking, "This is so fun/cool!"
* FriendlyRivalry: Despite being rivals for Ranma's hand, Ukyo and Akane do often act quite friendly, a stark contrast to Akane's relationships with Shampoo or Kodachi. In the anime, during the love-potion bandaid episode, Ukyo even stops from chasing after Shampoo and the abducted Ranma to tell Akane that "she has a shot in this too" (meaning a chance to get Ranma to be hers at last), if she has the courage to pursue it.

* GirlinessUpgrade: When she was a kid, Ukyo was such a tomboy that Ranma never realized she was a girl. In her first appearance, she was dressed as a guy because she renounced living as a woman after Genma had shamed her by reneging on her engagement to Ranma, by abandoning her. After Ranma finally discovers Ukyo is actually a woman and calls her cute, Ukyo fully embraces her femininity once more. Though she continues to dress in a rather masculine fashion after joining the regular cast, she does enjoy wearing feminine clothes when she has the opportunity.
* GoodIsNotNice: {{Downplayed}}, as she ''is'' a nice person overall. Ukyo is initially introduced as the "good girl" of Akane's three romantic rivals, which mostly manifests as her taking the most sane and sensible ways to earn Ranma's affection (until she gets a case of TookALevelInJerkass, at least). Despite this, she's also plain-spoken and strongly opinionated, which means she does ''not'' hold back from criticizing others on their stupidity (most commonly Ryōga, when they team up). Of course, given this is a comedy series, her criticisms can often fall into HypocriticalHumor.

** She was initially mistaken for a male transfer student, until she and Ranma fought. During which, he got [[AccidentalPervert a surprise]] [[ThanksForTheMammaries handful of her melons]], followed by a slap. Ukyo then explained that she began binding her breasts as her way of renouncing her womanhood. It isn't noticeable because of the {{sarashi}} she usually wears underneath her clothes, but when she takes it off, [[BoobsOfSteel she's as stacked as any of her rivals]]. Best seen in ''"The Tunnel of Lost Love"'' OVA and ''"Nihao My Concubine"''.
** Subverted. Ukyo is considerably less buxom in the manga, as her femininity doesn't quite rely on fanservice as it does in the anime.

** Albeit Ukyo is friendly with Akane on occasion, she may antagonize her because unlike Shampoo and Kodachi, Ukyo knows that Ranma and Akane like each other more than they care to admit.

* HopelessSuitor: Unfortunately for Ukyo, Ranma will likely never see her as more than his boyhood friend.

* {{Irony}}: In spite of having a legitimate claim as one of Ranma's engagements, due to her unambitious nature and Ranma not seeing her as girlfriend material, Ukyo is one of the least likely candidates to ultimately marry Ranma.
* ItsPersonal: Ukyo considers it a personal affront to see Akane get close to Ranma, and she'll attack Akane if there's even a hint of that happening. She'll behave as if Akane is actively trying to offend her.

* JustFriends: She's possibly the only one of Ranma's forced fiancées who he sincerely considers his friend and he normally can get along with Ukyo better than even Akane. Despite this, he never even considers Ukyo as girlfriend material, which depresses Ukyo, knowing she's stuck just being friends with him.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: In the last parts of the manga, Ukyo takes in the feminine crossdressing ninja Konatsu. While Ukyo has become more open about her femininity compared to her introduction, Konatsu is much more ladylike than she could ever be.
* MeanBoss: Konatsu idealizes her as a BenevolentBoss, but the reality is he's so screwed up that being paid 10 yen an hour and given free room and board without regular beatings is heaven to him, not having any idea that Ukyo is exploiting him.

* MinorLivingAlone: Ukyo not only lives by herself, she also runs her own business, all while still being in high school.

* RomanticRunnerUp: Ranma actually ''likes'' Ukyo, whereas he either actively dislikes his other paramours or finds them annoying ([[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he will still help them out though]])... but he only likes her in the same non-romantic way as he likes Kasumi, of course.

* ShesGotLegs: Attention is often drawn to her legs because the stockings she wears, which accentuates their curvature. But the beach scene near the beginning of ''"Nihao My Concubine"'' and the ''"Battle for Ms. Beachside"'' episode gave us an ''[[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131225013144/ranma/images/8/82/Ukyo_swimsuit.jpg even better]]'' look at them.

* ShipTease: This was the main reason behind the popularity of the Ryōga/Ukyo pairing, as they were given many more scenes together and [[WillTheyOrWontThey seemed to be shaping up to be a couple]] in the anime. The ''"Tunnel of Lost Love"'' story was intended to sink the pairing, but the anime version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4VTmtTtkE4 appeared to be promoting it instead.]] They defend each other from the spirits (which didn't happen in the manga), complete with a BackToBackBadasses moment, and the OAV version ends with them collapsing in exhaustion while being teased as "lovebirds" by Ranma and the others, in contrast to the manga ending on them arguing over who was the bigger mess up. ''"Nihao My Concubine"'', added fuel to the fire by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GApD5uG5IlE having Ryōga rescue her]] and, during the end credits, he's seen manning the grill for her.
* SituationalSociability: Ukyo is okay with Akane, just as long as Akane doesn't get close to Ranma. This is as close to friendship as it can get from any of Ranma's pursuers, though the moment she sees Akane getting too touchy, she'll try to put a stop to that nonsense.
* TheSmartGuy: Ukyo makes some of the most complex, well-thought-out schemes of canon, and is very good at making and then sticking to a plan. She's also hard to fool and tends to observe what's going on before flying off of the hilt, which can make her harder to manipulate or fool compared to others in the series. Magazine/ShonenSunday reflects this trait in her [[PowerLevels "ability scores"]] chart, in which she has a whopping Intelligence score of 4 -- the highest level in that stat of all the girls, and actually equal to Ranma's own score!

* TokenGoodTeammate: While they're not really a "team", Ukyo is easily the nicest of the three main "runner-up fiancees" compared to Shampoo and Kodachi. She can be nasty when she needs to, but she's really a rather sweet girl at heart.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: PlayedForLaughs and inverted. When it's first revealed that she's a girl, Ranma deflates her anger by calling her "cute". Henceforth, she considers herself Ranma's "cute fiancee" as opposed to Akane, who is Ranma's "un-cute fiancee"; this, completely ignoring the fact that Ukyo at that point is a '''massive''' {{tomboy}}, considerably more than Akane.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Ukyo is, initially, the ''nice one'' of the three girls trying to displace Akane from Ranma's heart, mostly trying to push Akane aside with Ryōga than through violence. By the later parts of the manga, though, she has devolved to becoming as violent and crazy as Shampoo and Kodachi, where she does things like join them in trying to bump off Nabiki when she takes up the Tendo engagement, levels the Saotome house alongside them, shamelessly exploits Konatsu's ignorance and feelings for her to use him as cheap labor, and joins Shampoo in slinging bombs around at Ranma and Akane's abortive wedding.
* TransferStudentUniforms: Ukyo's winter male uniform is decidedly different from the typical Furinkan winter uniform, probably belonging to her previous (boys-only) school (sky/navy blue against Furinkan's midnight blue in the anime; in the manga the latter are solid black with buttons and loose collars while hers is screentoned, tightly-collared, and has no visible buttons.) She does wear the same shirt and slacks as everyone else during spring and summer, though.

* PerpetualPoverty: Her prior, "'''poor'''" house was demolished and she had to move to another one, and has to recycle martial arts scrolls just to have paper to make envelopes. Ranma says she's the model wife of a '''[[InsistentTerminology poor]]''' martial artist. Even more so after the Fiancee Brigade (Shampoo, Kodachi, and Ukyo) destroyed her house due to a misunderstanding.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Since her ki-draining techniques need a coin (specifically a 5 or 50 yen coin, which have holes in them) to funnel the ki into her body, and she can't use her ki blasts without having absorbed energy first, the one sure-fire way to defeat her is to knock said coins out of her hands. However, she's well aware of this, so she tends to carry plenty of change at all times, and, if pressed, she can easily turn ''any'' circular object in her vicinity as an intake, such as using a basketball hoop to completely drain Kodachi, Shampoo, and Ukyou when they deprived her of all her pocket change.

A male ninja raised as a kunoichi (female ninja) by his cruel and hideously ugly stepmother and stepsisters. Despite Konatsu being a prodigy in the arts of ninjitsu, he never managed to kill off his stepfamily (not through lack of trying) and was resolved to being their slave. Until the day Happosai, Soun and Genma wandered into the "Sexy Ninja/Red Hot Kunoichi Teashop" and, horrified by the fact the "sexy ninjas" were his stepfamily, destroyed it, whereupon they sent him for revenge upon Ranma. Konatsu decided he'd rather stay in Nerima, particularly after Ukyo treated him kindly and unintentionally caused him to fall in love with her, and began working at Ucchan's Okonomiyaki after his stepfamily was driven away with the help of Ukyo, Ranma and Akane. Though Ukyo still treats him in a way anyone else would consider ridiculously shabby, it's much more than he had at home and so he's content with it. The last main cast member to be introduced to the series, and the only one to appear less than Akari.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He becomes slavishly devoted to Ukyo because she treats him better than the abusive family that raised him. Not very much better, admittedly, but still better.

* CampStraight: He's a girly crossdresser and is in love with Ukyo.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Loves Ukyo, but, unlike the rest of the cast, doesn't really act on it... at least not beyond trying hard to be of use to her, rescuing her if anything dangerous happens, and writing "I LOVE UKYO" all over his diary.

* LastMinuteHookup: Subverted. Konatsu has all the right traits to fit this trope, being a LoveInterest for Ukyo who is introduced in the last four volumes of the manga, and has only ''one'' story featuring him in a major role that isn't his introduction. The subversion is that Ukyo never shows any signs of reciprocating his feelings, and of course the manga concludes on its infamous NoEnding, so nobody ever really hooks up conclusively.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to Ukyo's Masculine Girl.

* MistakenForGay: At first, Ranma and Akane assume that "she" is a lesbian when they discover Konatsu loves Ukyo, as they're convinced both that Konatsu is female and that "she" is aware of Ukyo's true gender.

* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: Biologically, Konatsu is male and he never denies it, but he's been brutalized and forced into the female role by his evil stepfamily for so long that he dresses, speaks and even instinctively reacts like a girl [[note]]for example, trying to cover his non-existent bust and genitals if peeked upon whilst naked[[/note]]. He also considers his love for Ukyo "forbidden" because of his instinctual identity.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Dresses and acts like a girl because he was brought up to do so, but seems to avoid male garb only because he's too used to dressing as a girl and/or Ukyo likes his ability to attract hungry guys to her shop.

* {{Expy}}: A nearly identical character, a farmer's daughter with SuperStrength called Anna, shows up in the anime. While you'd think the manga was first, the {{filler}} episode with Anna (called; "Ryōga, Run into the Sunset") came first.

->Voiced by: Creator/ShigeruChiba (Japanese), Robert O. Smith (English), Herman López (Latin American Spanish), Rafat Bazoo (Arabic)

* ShipTease: This was [[RelationshipWritingFumble the main reason]] behind the popularity of the Ryōga/Ukyo pairing, as they were given many more scenes together and [[WillTheyOrWontThey seemed to be shaping up to be a couple]] in the anime. The ''"Tunnel of Lost Love"'' story was intended to sink the pairing, but the anime version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4VTmtTtkE4 appeared to be promoting it instead.]] They defend each other from the spirits (which didn't happen in the manga), complete with a BackToBackBadasses moment, and the OAV version ends with them collapsing in exhaustion while being teased as "lovebirds" by Ranma and the others, in contrast to the manga ending on them arguing over who was the bigger mess up. ''"Nihao My Concubine"'', added fuel to the fire by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GApD5uG5IlE having Ryōga rescue her]] and, during the end credits, he's seen manning the grill for her.

* RapunzelHair: In the manga, her hair was only shoulder-length and usually worn in a short ponytail. The anime makes it much longer, by having her [[LettingHerHairDown leave it down]] to show it extends past her buttocks.

* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches down to her hips.

* SkunkStripe: She has a lock of lighter hair in both sides of her otherwise dark hair.

* MulticoloredHair: Takahashi's watercolors consistently depict her with forest-green hair and a pink SkunkStripe.

* HonorBeforeReason: She will hold Ranma to the contract Genma wrote up come hell or high water, despite the fact it is so vague it is impossible to truly determine what would actually fulfill it successfully. Furthermore, she ''will'' commit [[SlashedThroat ritual suicide herself]] after fulfilling that task, according to family honor. She does partially avert the trope when [[spoiler: she declares that Ranma's Nyannniichuan curse does not merit an automatic failure to live up to the contract, due to the sheer heroism of the way he saved her despite exposing it to her in the process]].

* HollywoodVoodoo: Actually, averted. While the various rituals and spells he performs look a lot like HollywoodVoodoo to Westerners, to the extent that it's the source of his FanNickname, they are actually all 100% authentic Japanese mysticism. The habit of wandering around with lit candles strapped to his head is from Shinto; they're supposed to help him see ghosts and into the spirit world. The little straw fetishes he's always driving nails into are from a cursing ritual called "Ushi no Koku Mairi", which is actually illegal in Japan.

* BackToBackBadasses: Done twice with Ryoga. They're seen posing back-to-back with each other in the main page image, and near the end of the ''"Tunnel of Lost Love"'' episode, when they're defending each other from the ghosts.

* CharacterDevelopment: In the manga, she ends up with a ''negative'' example of character growth in that she [[TookALevelInJerkass becomes more malicious, destructive, abusive and scheming as the manga progresses]]. She goes from being the "sane" extra fiancée who would rather try to non-violently pair up Ryoga and Akane so she can peacefully have Ranma for herself to engaging in the same crazy stunts as Shampoo and Kodachi.

* DistaffCounterpart: She's essentially the feminine equivalent of Ryoga:

** Both came to Nerima seeking revenge on Ranma for a childhood offense, holding him responsible for the loss their dignity (Ryoga, due to being knocked into the Spring of Drowned Piglet) and femininity (Ukyo, after being ditched by Genma). And, when each finally caught up to him, their exact words were: "Because of you, I've seen hell!".
** Ryoga wanders around with a weighted bamboo parasol strapped to his back, while Ukyo does the same with her spatula, which is the size of a baker's peel. Likewise, both are capable of [[FlechetteStorm spamming projectiles]]: Ryoga with his seemingly never-ending supply of bandannas[[note]]even though it appears to be a single bandanna, [[HammerSpace regardless how many he pulls from it]][[/note]], whereas Ukyo's bandoleer never runs out of mini-spatula.
** Her hair ribbon is also analogous to Ryoga's bandanna, as both are rarely seen without them.
** Both [[MinorLivingAlone live on their own]] (though Ryoga stays with the Tendos [[IWasJustPassingThrough whenever he's in town]]) and are primarily self-taught martial artists. As opposed to the rest of the main cast, who come from distinguished schools and family owned dojos.
** Each is also the only one of the competing suitors/fiancees that Akane and Ranma like enough to actually get along with. Akane fails to realize Ryoga is in love with her, because she only [[HopelessSuitor thinks of him as a good friend]], unlike Kuno and her other would-be suitors, who annoy her. Just as Ranma doesn't mind Ukyo hanging around, since they're childhood friends, but tries to avoid Shampoo and Kodachi like the plague.

** One more important thing is that both she and Ryoga are the only suitors to get along with their main love-rivals. Akane and Ukyo can actually have peaceful times together even without Ranma around, while Ranma and Ryoga are both the closest thing to a best friend the other has, so much that sometimes they actually borderline on HoYay.

* EnemyMine: Ukyo is very given to ally herself with other people to foil Ranma and Akane, particularly Ryoga and Shampoo.

* GoodIsNotNice: {{Downplayed}}, as she ''is'' a nice person overall. Ukyo is initially introduced as the "good girl" of Akane's three romantic rivals, which mostly manifests as her taking the most sane and sensible ways to earn Ranma's affection (until she gets a case of TookALevelInJerkass, at least). Despite this, she's also plain-spoken and strongly opinionated, which means she does ''not'' hold back from criticizing others on their stupidity (most commonly Ryoga, when they team up). Of course, given this is a comedy series, her criticisms can often fall into HypocriticalHumor.

* ShipperWithAnAgenda: Actively tries to get Ryoga and Akane together, though more for ulterior motives than actually finding them a cute couple; she's in love with Ranma and wants him for herself, but because she's also friends with Akane, she doesn't want her ending up alone.
* ShipSinking: With Ryoga in the {{Kimodameshi}} story, though the anime version differed from the original, causing fans to see it as actually ''promoting'' the couple (see directly below).
* ShipTease: This was [[RelationshipWritingFumble the main reason]] behind the popularity of the Ryoga/Ukyo pairing, as they were given many more scenes together and [[WillTheyOrWontThey seemed to be shaping up to be a couple]] in the anime. The ''"Tunnel of Lost Love"'' story was intended to sink the pairing, but the anime version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4VTmtTtkE4 appeared to be promoting it instead.]] They defend each other from the spirits (which didn't happen in the manga), complete with a BackToBackBadasses moment, and the OAV version ends with them collapsing in exhaustion while being teased as "lovebirds" by Ranma and the others, in contrast to the manga ending on them arguing over who was the bigger mess up. ''"Nihao My Concubine"'', added fuel to the fire by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GApD5uG5IlE having Ryoga rescue her]] and, during the end credits, he's seen manning the grill for her.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Ukyo is, initially, the ''nice one'' of the three girls trying to displace Akane from Ranma's heart, mostly trying to push Akane aside with Ryoga than through violence. By the later parts of the manga, though, she has devolved to becoming as violent and crazy as Shampoo and Kodachi, where she does things like join them in trying to bump off Nabiki when she takes up the Tendo engagement, levels the Saotome house alongside them, shamelessly exploits Konatsu's ignorance and feelings for her to use him as cheap labor, and joins Shampoo in slinging bombs around at Ranma and Akane's abortive wedding.

* StalkerWithACrush: Takes photographs of Akane working out during gym class, but in both canons she doesn't really notice him given he's so low-key and subtle compared to the flamboyant and much more vivid Kuno and (somewhat) Ryoga. Sneaking around in her backyard taking photos of her or staking out her jogging route kind of fall into second place compared to attacking her with a sword in front of school every morning while bellowing declarations of love.

* IOweYouMyLife: In the anime, Ryoga saves him from a pack of dogs, so Maomolin offers to grant Ryoga a wish, declaring he is also a guy and must repay such a debt. Upon hearing about his shyness and how this interferes with his desire to court Akane, he possesses Ryoga and proposes for him.

A sweet, gentle girl who shows up very late into the manga. Heir to the Unryu farm of Sumo Wrestling Pigs, she rides around on her hand-reared Yokozuna Pig, Katsunishiki, seeking a man strong enough to defeat him. This is the only man she will be allowed to marry. When Ryoga succeeds, she instantly falls in love with him, and he quickly becomes attracted to her in return. After her introduction she featured in one more arc before the end of the manga and did not appear at all in the anime.

* BetaCouple: With Ryoga. They are the only couple in the series with a functional relationship and the only one to get a nearly definite happy ending.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Gentle Girl to Ryoga's Brooding Boy. Considering how utterly unlucky and miserable the poor Ryoga usually is, having a sweet-natured and understanding girl like Akari fall for him is the best thing that has ever happened to him.
* ChangingYourselfForLove: In her debut story, Akari does everything she can to force herself to hate pigs (refusing to even ''say'' the word "pig") after a standard-issue comical misunderstanding causes her to think Ryoga hates pigs, not knowing he actually hates turning into a pig because of his curse. It doesn't really work, but the effort alone probably makes her the single most considerate human being in the DysfunctionJunction that is Nerima.
* ComplimentBackfire: Akari loves pigs and complimented Ryoga repeatedly by comparing him to a pig. He did not see this as a compliment, in part because he turns into a pig.
* {{Expy}}: A nearly identical character, a farmer's daughter with SuperStrength called Anna, shows up in the anime. While you'd think the manga was first, the {{filler}} episode with Anna (called; "Ryoga, Run into the Sunset") came first.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She seriously thinks that comparing someone to a pig is a compliment. Ryoga was especially offended because he hates being cursed to transform into a pig, which Akari had no idea about when she "praised" him for being like a pig.

* LoveMartyr: Believing Ryoga hates pigs, Akari decides to make herself hate them too by having Katsunishiki attack her for an entire week. It fails since she can't bring herself to hate pigs.

* SatelliteLoveInterest: She's essentially designed with the specific purpose of being the perfect girl for Ryoga and her appearances in the story are all about her relationship with him. Basically, she only exists to give Ryoga a happy ending.
* SecondLove: For Ryoga, although he still spends some time pining after Akane. By the end of the manga, Ryoga seems to be completely over Akane and is focused on his relationship with Akari.

* TwiceShy: She and Ryoga act very bashful around each other and have a hard time just looking each other in the eye, even during their dates.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Gender-swapped. When she learns her beloved Ryoga is cursed to transform into a pig, Akari is ''thrilled'' because pigs are her favorite thing in the world, so Ryoga's curse makes him even more of her dream man.

* ButtMonkey: The Universe seems to ''hate'' this boy. Forget Akane, forget Mousse's claims, or Ranma's vain melodrama. Only Ryoga has ever been as badly off as Konatsu, and only Ryu Kumon comes close.

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* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: Ukyo's claim for Ranma's hand in marriage technically hinges from the fact that a dowry was paid to Genma in the form of her father's okonomiyaki cart. However, since Genma had already promised Ranma to one of the Tendō sisters, he chose not to honor the betrothal, fleeing, abandoning Ukyo and stealing the cart. Hence, her prospective marriage to Ranma is effectively owed to her. However, knowing that Akane's betrothal with Ranma came before her own, she approaches Ranma vying to see her as a better prospect than Akane, with rather mixed results.

* BrainyBrunette: She's enterprising enough (at 16) to successfully run an okinomiyaki-ya [[MinorLivingAlone on her own]], with one episode having her go out of town to attend business seminar.

* {{Foil}}: Shampoo is Ukyo's polar opposite in some very meaningful ways. Ukyo is Ranma's old friend, whereas Shampoo was a random crazy girl that he bumped into in China. Ukyo has an ArrangedMarriage with Ranma, meaning his father technically supports her engagement to him and it has legal support[[note]]ignoring the whole stealing the dowry and bigamy problems[[/note]], whilst Shampoo has an AccidentalMarriage based on laws that Ranma doesn't respect or acknowledge at all. Ukyo is quite shy about expressing intimacy with Ranma, even though she [[CovertPervert has strong amorous desires for him]], but Shampoo is utterly shameless in that department. Both are involved in the restaurant business, but Ukyo is a chef whilst Shampoo, despite being a capable cook, is officially a delivery girl. Finally, Ukyo [[{{Bifauxnen}} dresses in a very masculine fashion]], complete with binding her breasts, making her look very androgynous, whilst Shampoo aggressively flaunts her womanhood, between very form-flattering clothing and a complete indifference to being nude.[[note]]It's unclear in canon how much of a difference there is in their figures, if any, but their "presentation" of their womanhood is still very much the opposite.[[/note]]

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