History Characters / RanmaOneHalfOtherRecurringCharacters

Believing Ranma had been in on this humiliation, Ukyō swore revenge and began crossdressing as part of an elaborate vow, tracking Ranma down with the intent of making him pay for deceiving her... only to discover it had all been Genma's fault, and Ranma was never even told about the engagement. Between this, the fact she was still in love with him, and the fact Ranma evidently found her attractive despite the crossdressing, Ukyō believes she has a legitimate chance at winning Ranma's heart, and calls off her revenge to instead try and woo him to her. Generally the nicest of Ranma's fiancées, but she has her ugly side too and can use threats, destructive ambush-beatings, or manipulation when she feels it's called for. It's worth noting that she is the only fiancée who always regrets manipulating the others.

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

* NewTransferStudent: She transferred into Furinkan explicitly to track down Ranma.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Ukyō 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 Tendō engagement, levels the Saotome house alongside them, and joins Shampoo in slinging bombs around at Ranma and Akane's abortive wedding. Her business acumen also twists into greed, shamelessly exploiting Konatsu's ignorance and feelings for her to use him as cheap labor.
* TransferStudentUniforms: Ukyō'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.

* TheDreaded: She has built up such a reputation as a disciplinarian that, when the Fuurinkan students catch wind of the "new teacher" coming to their school, they're already aghast that she has supposedly conquered three delinquent high-schools, and the Principal himself hired her specifically for this reason (so she would take down Ranma). They're all... less than impressed when they see a little girl making that claim.

[[Characters/RanmaOneHalfRanmaSaotome Ranma Saotome]] | [[Characters/RanmaOneHalfAkaneTendo Akane Tendō]] | [[Characters/RanmaOneHalfRyogaHibiki Ryōga Hibiki/P-Chan]] | [[Characters/RanmaOneHalfTendoHouseholdResidents Tendō Household Residents]] | [[Characters/RanmaOneHalfTheChinese The Chinese]] | [[Characters/RanmaOneHalfTheKunos The Kunos]] | '''Other Recurring Characters''' | [[Characters/RanmaOneHalfMajorStoryArcCharacters Major Story Arc Characters]]]]-]]]

* AdaptationalSkimpiness: Ukyō's legs were never shown in the manga because of the baggy ninja-to leggings she wore with her chef's attire. In the anime, she wears form-fitting stockings with her chef's uniform and the shapeliness of her bare legs [[MaleGaze is emphasized]] several times[[note]]during the ''Battle for "Ms. Beachside"'' episode and ''Nihao My Concubine''[[/note]].

* ArrangedMarriage: When they were kids playing together, her dad brought up the idea of Ukyō 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 Ukyō's dowry, agreeing to break off the Tendo engagement for the Kuonji engagement... and then stole the dowry and ran away with it.

** Both [[MinorLivingAlone live on their own]] (though Ryōga 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 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 Ukyō hanging around, since they're childhood friends, but tries to avoid Shampoo and Kodachi like the plague.

** She's the only fiancee who may come to the Tendo household uninvited without much fuss. Shampoo and Kodachi usually have to barge in.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Mainly in the manga. For example, in one chapter, she joins Kodachi and Shampoo in assaulting Nabiki Tendo after she tries to auction Ranma off to them.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Ukyō 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, and joins Shampoo in slinging bombs around at Ranma and Akane's abortive wedding. Her business acumen also twists into greed, shamelessly exploiting Konatsu's ignorance and feelings for her to use him as cheap labor.

* DoggedNiceGuy: He desperately wants to become Akane's boyfriend, even though Akane is engaged to Ranma and pursued by Tatewaki Kuno and Ryōga. Having no martial arts training or SuperStrength, he instead tries to win her affections by being polite, well-spoken and romantic with her. Zigzagged in that he also does a lot of really creepy things that a ''real'' NiceGuy wouldn't consider doing, like lurking in shadowy places to spy on Akane, taking pictures of her when she isn't looking, drugging her in hopes of kissing her whilst she's unconscious, or trying to push Ranma out of the way with magic or dirty tricks. Even when he ''does'' try to do something romantic, he's so shy and wishy-washy he usually can't actually talk to her.

* 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) Ryōga. 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.

[[folder:Dr. Tofu Ono]]
!!Tofu Ono (小乃 東風, ''Ono Tōfū'')

* AgeGapRomance: Invoked. Dr. Tofu is deeply infatuated with Kasumi, despite the age gap between them - she's only 19, whilst his age is never specified, but reasonably he's somewhere in his late 20s to early 30s.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: In the anime version exclusively. Tofu's mother is his only living parent, but she's crazy enough to make up for his deceased father. She never goes anywhere without a family shrine strapped to her back to honor Tofu's deceased father, and that's the ''least'' weird thing about her. She's [[IWantGrandkids absolutely obsessed with grandchildren]], and because of that she's obsessed with big-hipped women, as she believes big hips on a woman will naturally result in lots of healthy children -- she even announces her wish for her son to marry a huge-hipped, ''incredibly'' {{gonk}}y female wrestler because of the woman's mighty hips (that the woman had released a country music song called "The Big Hips Blues" didn't hurt), and will spontaneously grab women's hips and fondle them in order to see if they might be a good match for her son. And if he says something that disagrees with her even the slightest, no matter how gently he puts it, she will attempt to guilt him into compliance by dramatically threatening to ''commit suicide''.

* ButtMonkey: Downplayed, but the anime's version of the character is often used for comedy in how things tend to go wrong for him. The anime's very first {{filler}} episode revolves around him being visited and humiliated by his crazy mother, including being robbed of a good amount of money by Nabiki Tendo. Then there's the episode where he tries to take Kasumi on a date at an amusement park... only for the rest of the Tendo Household and all of Ranma's fiancees and rivals to tag along with them, so he never gets the chance to do anything romantic with her.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Tofu is never anything other but sweet and chastely affectionate for Kasumi, but she never returns his feelings. In fact, it's subtly implied by canon that she's not even aware that he ''is'' in love with her!

* InTheBlood: In the anime's first season, a {{filler}} episode states that Dr. Tofu's father, Mr. Ono, used to get just as love-drunk around Mrs. Ono as Dr. Tofu gets around Kasumi.
* {{Irony}}: We don't know ''why'' Kasumi wants an older man, but given her characterization as the "traditionalist" of the Tendo siblings, she likely wants an older man because she believes such a spouse would be more level-headed, thoughtful and mature than a man around her own age. Tofu, on the other hand, turns into a blithering, bumbling buffoon when he so much as ''talks'' to Kasumi on the phone, making him the very opposite of what Kasumi would want.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: When Dr. Tofu goes into love-crazed mode, he's a legitimate danger to himself and everyone around him, to the point that his clients all know to reschedule appointments if Kasumi's been nearby, as he could seriously hurt them. And the there's the infamous moment during the Memory-Sapping Shampoo story where he insists on dropping by with the vital notebook needed to cure Akane's amnesia... and then promptly starts shredding it into pieces when Kasumi speaks to him.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Dr. Tofu's most famous trait is that whenever he sees or hears Kasumi, he's so overwhelmed by his romantic feelings for her that he turns into a bumbling imbecile, prone to babbling like a fool, losing track of where he is or who people are, and doing strange, nonsensical things. Just how bad it is depends on how they interacted; just hearing her on the phone can leave him a little mixed up for a few moments, whilst in face-to-face meetings, he gets extremely mixed up. A compliment or a touch from her can result in him doing things like running through the streets and dancing with his model skeleton.

* QuirkyDoctor: He is good at his job; the "quirky" part comes out whenever Kasumi is around. Tofu goes so crazy over her, that he does crazy things like dance around with his model skeleton "Betty." In this state, he can even hurt his patient, like when he broke Ranma's neck or shredded a notebook needed to cure Akane's amnesia.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: According to the anime, Dr. Tofu's deceased father looked ''exactly'' like him when he was younger, and his portrait in the family shrine that his wife still carts around from place to place is literally "Dr. Tofu with a triangular mustache".
* WillTheyOrWontThey: There's a fair bit of ShipTease between the two in both anime and manga, but Tofu CanNotSpitItOut and Kasumi remains ObliviousToLove.

* AbusiveMom: While PlayedForLaughs almost as much as her husband is, she's just as bad, if not worse. Despite the fact that the contract consists of a verbal vow ("I will make Ranma a man among men") and a written seal ("I will commit {{Seppuku}}: Genma, Ranma"), both of which are incredibly vague, she is totally willing to call it in if she ever judges Ranma to somehow be unmanly. Nodoka is so fixated on the idea that whenever she visits looking for Ranma, she keeps a sword in constant reach, in preparation for the decapitating strike she will be called on to use in the ceremony. In fact, she seems to have the swordswoman's equivalent of an itchy trigger finger, being quite willing to draw it at the slightest hint that her son is being unmanly (both before and after finally meeting him,) and going all the way to donning the requisite regalia if he does something ''very'' unmanly. She doesn't get many appearances in the series once she moves into the Tendo Dojo, though, so this aspect is somewhat glossed over.

* TheFettered: She holds fast to, and takes pride in, her honor as "a warrior's wife". Thus, she's frequently believed to cling so tightly to the contract in order to draw the emotional strength from it she needs to survive being separated from her son and husband for so many years. And then there's the ''secondary'' task she's meant to perform if forced to fulfill the seppuku promise.
** Additionally, the infamous "seppuku promise" doesn't involve just her honor, but ''Genma and Ranma's'' honor too. While they themselves may have little use for it at present time, and in fact stomp all over it more often than not, Nodoka is bound to uphold her husband and son's honor, and hold ''them'' up to it, whether she likes it or not. So her insistence on carrying a sword "just in case" is less a case of her being abusive and more being put on the spot by Genma's ill-conceived conditions.
* HonorRelatedAbuse: 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. [[spoiler:She does 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. But after that, Nodoka starts actively ''threatening'' to invoke the contract whenever Ranma comes off as even slightly unmanly to her.]]

* ParentsAsPeople: What saves her from being a downright abuser is that the poor woman ''does'' love Ranma as much as her seriously warped nature allows, as seen in MamaBear. She also spent some time sewing a customized winter coat for Ranma when he was still a baby in expectation that he'd wear it some day. Before she found out the truth, she doted on, cared for, and worried about "Ranko" just as much as a mother would, becoming seriously distressed when she thought the girl was in trouble. And as stated in MamaBear above, she's absolutely devoted to Akane as well--when under the impression that a "molester" was stalking Ranko and Akane, Nodoka hid herself in the Tendo home without telling anyone, just so she could keep an eye on them and spring on the stalker at a moment's notice (the fact that even she couldn't pull so many all-nighters without falling asleep from exhaustion, but ''still' appeared immediately when needed, only humanizes her further.)
* 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 Ukyō) destroyed her house due to a misunderstanding.

* StepfordSmiler: As cheerful as she is whenever she visits the Tendo home, especially when she gets to spend time with "Ranko", she turns sad and lonely as soon as she's out of sight from them, and she tends to be disappointed to find out she "just missed" Ranma and Genma yet again. In a particularly heartbreaking scene, she confesses to [[Characters/RanmaOneHalfMajorStoryArcCharacters Ryu Kumon]] that she had already figured out he wasn't her real son, but that she enjoyed the deception for a while. However, it's made clear to the reader that, despite her words, losing her son a second time hit her very hard.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Allowing for age and height, the only difference between female Ranma and Nodoka in the anime is hair and eye color. In the manga, there's not even that.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: As shown in the anime, Girl!Ranma has [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiqxfHiXkAY62VQ?format=jpg&name=large her exact same face]].

For reasons that will never be known, the anime's creative team decided to drop the minor character Hikaru Gosunkugi, Akane and Ranma's creepy classmate who would sometimes become a reluctant ally or flunky to Tatewaki Kuno. Instead, they decided to create a new character to take the role of Kuno's dedicated servant, and thus was born Sasuke Sarugakure, whose name means something like "Ninja from the Hidden Monkey Village". This ugly midget {{Ninja}} is most frequently seen at Tatewaki Kuno's side, but he will also serve "Mistress Kodachi" if she needs his assistance as well. Sasuke serves as something of the Jack-of-all-trades manservant to his masters, doing everything from spying on their enemies/love interests, to cooking their food, to cleaning their house, to making shadow puppets to help them sleep, to helping them train or fighting at their side -- it's implied he may have actually been their primary caretaker when they were children. In return, he is [[SarcasmMode rewarded]] with horrific mistreatment. He is forced to sleep outside in all weathers like an animal, fed only leftover scraps (and that infrequently; he once had to live for ten days on a single bowl of brine, and he's forgotten what milk and watermelons taste like), forced to drink the water from the storm gutters, and frequently beaten and berated by his charges.

* ButtMonkey: Even more so than Kuno, as he generally doesn't mean any more harm than needing to serve his master and is fairly amiable if not being compelled by that, but he still gets physically abused a lot.

* HappinessInSlavery: Downplayed. Sasuke makes it quite clear that he would like if the Kunos treated him better, but he's a strong believer in the duties of a servant, so he tolerates the abuse and does his best to fulfill their every command.

* MyMasterRightOrWrong: He's well aware that his masters are insanely abusive and barely capable of feeding themselves without him, yet stays loyal to them and refuses to leave. In the episode "Les Miserables of the Kuno Estate", he even leaves Akane, whom he had been planning to transfer his loyalty to after being fired by the Kunos, because Tatewaki promised to start treating him better.
* PunchClockVillain: Has no problem with Ranma or his relationship with Akane personally, he just becomes antagonistic to them when one of the Kunos orders it.

* OldRetainer: Not that old, but he has worked for Kuno since he was a child.

-->'''Kuno:''' I meant through the door, you blithering idiot!

The last of the major characters to be introduced (in the manga -- the anime was cancelled before she was created, so in that canon she was merely the subject of an OAV and appears in a second one, Nightmare Incense of Spring Sleep). Miss Hinako was hired by Principal Kuno ostensibly as a new Homeroom/English teacher for Ranma's classroom, but, aware of her fame dealing with troublesome students, with the express purpose of having her pacify and discipline his unruly students. Hinako's story begins many years before the series, when she was a little girl in the hospital for an unidentified ailment. Happosai, wandering by, dropped in and either took pity on her, saw someone he could use to help him steal underwear from the nurses, or both. He subjected her to a regime of PressurePoint manipulation that would endow her with the ability to drain the BattleAura from other people, which he insisted would help her get better. Flash forward to the present day, and she's all better... but now she's [[DualAgeModes stuck looking like a kid]] unless she [[EnergyAbsorption drains]] somebody's BattleAura, and she'll only remain in her adult form until she uses up the [[LifeEnergy ki]] she stole. Obsessed with stomping out "delinquency", she frequently clashes with Ranma, particularly after she falls in love with Soun Tendo.

* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Almost literally. Principal Kuno hired her based on her reputation without even bothering to know what she looked like. To say that he was disappointed to find out the truth is an understatement.

* HopelessSuitor: Though she falls head-over-heels for Soun Tendo, his daughters and future son-in-law object to the idea and he himself doesn't seem to reciprocate, partially because he's still mourning his first wife.

* LikesOlderMen: While vague, her true age is somewhere in her early twenties, yet she falls in love with Soun, who is anywhere between ''very'' late 30s or mid-40s. This is naturally much more pronounced when she regresses to her "little girl" form. Unfortunately for her, Soun only acknowledges her strictly as a teacher when adult, and as nothing more than a child and friend of Akane's otherwise.
* LittlestCancerPatient: She was one of these until Happosai "cured" her.
* MagicPants: Her favored one-piece yellow dress was specifically chosen to fit both her child and adult forms. It's just {{Stripperiffic}}ally short-skirted and low-necked on her adult form.[[note]]For mainstream Japanese society and practically any school environment, anyways[[/note]]

* OlderAlterEgo: Inverted. She's OlderThanSheLooks - in her twenties - but can only appear thus after draining battle aura. Most of the time she's pre-teen.
* PhlebotinumOverload: Absorbing ''too much'' energy, whether accidentally or as a controlled, deliberate action, will lead to this. If controlled, she uses a source of endless battle ki to remain in adult form as long as she can, allowing her to fire off ki blasts as often as she pleases without reverting to child mode... but her mind will eventually drift back to a childish personality and break down even further to a point she absolutely cannot maintain focus at all (where she's otherwise implied to be a competent teacher even in child mode.) But when she accidentally drained the angry, vindictive energy of all the students previously humiliated by the Principal, she became an engine of destruction bent on exacting revenge on him come hell or high water, and it took ''several'', extraordinarily powerful ki blasts (and actually hitting him with the last one) for her to vent all that burning rage and change back to normal.

* SoapOperaDisease: She had a "weak constitution" as a child, complete with IV and adorable cough. She got better thanks to Happosai's treatments, which also turned her into a chi-vampire.

* WhoWillBellTheCat: If her pressure points were to be hit every day consecutively for a month, she'd permanently lose her ability to drain battle aura. However, Ranma is the only one capable of doing so (Happosai's more than skilled enough, but his armspan is too short to hit all five at once), and the first time he pulled it off required a drawn-out battle he spent several days recovering from and which practically destroyed his reputation, as everybody thought he was trying to molest her (''three'' of those five points are located around her left breast, for starters). Understandably, Ranma promptly said "nuts to that" and contented himself with just living with her and exploiting her mental weaknesses to keep her out of his hair.

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 Ukyō 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 Ukyō, Ranma and Akane. Though Ukyō 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.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Yes, he's very goofy. But ''[[OldMaster Happosai]]'' called him a "Genius Kunoichi" for a reason... even if he was wrong about the gender.

* OreOnna: She's a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak who uses the pronoun ''ore''.

* BeadyEyedLoser: Just another part of his unfortunate appearance.

* DoggedNiceGuy: To Akane, for a while.
* HopelessSuitor: One of the many boys who wants to win over Akane’s heart, but unlike all the others he knows he doesn’t have even the remotest chance, so he’s content with merely getting a chance to talk to Akane. Though there are a few instances he tries something a little more shady such as the [[BrainwashedAndCrazy paper dolls of love]] that can make people do something.

* MeaningfulName: His surname translates to “Five Inch Nail”, a reference to the fact he nails voodoo dolls.

* PaperThinDisguise: In a episode, Gosunkugi dressed himself up as Ranma and began committing lame crimes against schoolgirls at night in order to ruin his reputation. Somehow, he managed to fool the entire school. Obviously, he didn't fool the REAL Ranma, who encountered him in his girl form.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Jackass" in the English dub.

* {{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, Ukyō is one of the least likely candidates to ultimately marry Ranma.

** 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. Ukyō 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"''.

* {{Bishonen}}: Actually something of a spoof of the concept; he's a boy who looks so much like a girl that he thinks of himself ''as'' a girl.

%%* ShipSinking: With Ryōga 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).

* GoodIsNotNice: {{Downplayed}}, as she ''is'' a nice person overall. Ukyō 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.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Ukyō 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.

** Overlapping with OxymoronicBeing, Ukyō 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.

* CovertPervert: Like Akane, she tends to freak out when Ranma, intentionally or otherwise, makes what can be seen as a direct romantic gesture towards her, typically blushing, smacking him and then running off. On the other hand, given the chance to take the initiative, she's clearly not all the "blushing maiden". One particularly prominent example is during the manga version of the Hiryu Shoten Ha arc; she pleads with Genma to move his thumb and expose the full-frontal nudity in a photo of Ranma he's showing off, in comparison to the blushing Akane, who can't stand to look at it [[note]]in the anime, perhaps due to censorship, the pose is changed and she just laughs with Akane at how silly Ranma is acting in it[[/note]]. In both continuities, when she thinks Ranma is trying to take her engagement seriously in the Spoiled Sauce story, she eagerly tries to initiate "wifely duties" like joining him in the bath or the bed. This, and the constant romantic fantasies, is the reason why almost nobody doubts her raging heterosexuality, despite the cross-dressing.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: Complete with [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns "uchi"]]. Oddly doesn't show up in the dub much.

* ShipSinking: With Ryōga 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).

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: In the last parts of the manga, Ukyō takes in the feminine crossdressing ninja Konatsu. While Ukyō has become more open about her femininity compared to her introduction, Konatsu is much more ladylike than she could ever be.

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

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 Ukyō 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 Ukyō, Ranma and Akane. Though Ukyō 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.

* AttractiveBentGender: Whichever gender Konatsu deigns to dress up, he's absolutely ''gorgeous'', to the point it's even a minor plot point in his only post-introduction focus story.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He becomes slavishly devoted to Ukyō because she treats him better than the abusive family that raised him. Not very much better, admittedly, but still better.
* {{Bishonen}}: Actually something of a spoof of the concept; he's a boy who looks so much like a girl that he thinks of himself ''as'' a girl.
* ButtMonkey: The Universe seems to ''hate'' this boy. Forget Akane, forget Mousse's claims, or Ranma's vain melodrama. Only Ryōga has ever been as badly off as Konatsu, and only Ryu Kumon comes close.
* CampStraight: He's a girly crossdresser and is in love with Ukyō.
* CinderellaPlot: Konatsu's mother died at a young age and his father, for reasons unknown, married a grotesquely hideous woman who already had two disgusting daughters, then died himself. Jealous of Konatsu's appearance, his stepmother and stepsisters treated him hideously and forced him to become their slave. Konatsu is pretty much Cinderella, except that here "she" turns out to be a man.
* CombatPragmatist: He's a ''ninja'' and has very much assimilated this aspect of their fighting style.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Yes, he's very goofy. But ''[[OldMaster Happosai]]'' called him a "Genius Kunoichi" for a reason... even if he was wrong about the gender.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[ExaggeratedTrope Up To Eleven]]. He was horribly and ridiculously abused by his step-family since childhood, to the point that he considers living like a starving vagrant to be "heaven". As a result, Konatsu has no common sense about everything about life in general.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Loves Ukyō, 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 Ukyō" all over his diary.
* ExtremeDoormat: All capacity for active resistance has been beaten out of him (literally) over the years.
* GenderBlenderName: Konatsu is a feminine Japanese name, which makes his gender reveal even more surprising.
* LastMinuteHookup: Subverted. Konatsu has all the right traits to fit this trope, being a LoveInterest for Ukyō 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 Ukyō 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.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: He can hide behind ''speech balloons''.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has long hair that he wears tied back in a ponytail, which only contributes to his feminine looks.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to Ukyō's Masculine Girl.
* MesACrowd: Knows a legendary technique that allows him to do this.
* MistakenForGay: At first, Ranma and Akane assume that "she" is a lesbian when they discover Konatsu loves Ukyō, as they're convinced both that Konatsu is female and that "she" is aware of Ukyō's true gender.

* PerpetualPoverty: His stepfamily kept him in the most appalling conditions, never giving him the slightest amount of money. He, consequently, has almost no grasp of how money works; this is even central to his only post-intro focus story.
* 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 Ukyō "forbidden" because of his instinctual identity.
* SkewedPriorities: A financial version. Due to being brought up under hideously AbusiveParents, Konatsu has absolutely ''no'' understanding of the real value of money whatsoever. Played simultaneously for laughs and drama (it's [[DysfunctionJunction that sort of]] [[ComedicSociopathy series]]) in his only post-intro focus story, where he almost bankrupts Ucchan's due to his incomprehension of how normal people define "average", "poor", and "extravagant" by, amongst other things, selling his okonomiyaki for only 2 yen apiece because he thinks that's a fair price.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks very much like his deceased mother.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Does this to everyone in the cast at the end of his introductory story when his clothes get torn off and reveal the cute Konatsu as a guy.
* 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 Ukyō likes his ability to attract hungry guys to her shop.
* WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter: Zigzagged. Konatsu wields a wooden sword only because he's so poor that he pawned his steel blades to buy food. However, he's still devastating with his wooden swords because he's just that badass.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: She takes her role as an educator and disciplinarian VERY seriously, but she's JUST as easily distracted by toys, games, manga, snacks, and generally anything that would capture the attention of a little kid.

* AmbiguouslyBi: If her reaction upon learning about Ranma's curse is any indication, that is (she keeps switching between Ranma's forms, alternating bewteen hot and cold water, finding it "cool").

* AmbiguouslyBi: If her reaction upon learning about Ranma's curse is any indication, that is (she keeps switching between Ranma's forms, alternating bewteen hot and cold water, finding it "cool"). She even ends up with an extremely androgynous man (Konatsu).

* AmbiguouslyBi: If her reaction upon learning about Ranma's curse is any indication, that is (she keeps switching between Ranma's forms, finding it "cool"). She even ends up with an extremely androgynous man (Konatsu).