#female saotome ranma

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Ranma 1/2

Sample Size: 1,133 stories

Source: AO3

[ebi-noodle-doodles]

2 tickets for barbie pls

[best-anime-outfits]

Ranma's Boy swimsuit from Episode 53 of Ranma ½

[unstorm4455]

A redraw of one of the shots of the first opening of Ranma 1/2 !!!!!

[unaideno]

[we-dont-talk-about-potato-nonono]

another ranma-chan art !! 🍦 ☀️

[princesscolumbia]

Return to Recipient - A Ranma 1/2 fanfic

Summary:

Ranma hasn't been feeling right for as long as he can remember, and he just figured that's normal. But after Jusenkyo, and especially after Jusendo, the feeling of "wrongness" has been getting more and more noticeable... ...because he doesn't feel it in his cursed form. He continues to just cope, keeping his struggle to himself, until he finds a letter tucked into his old travel pack addressed to him, written by him, from a 48 hour period that he doesn't remember and nobody will talk to him about.

Notes:

During the writing of 🔞 And at This Point I'm Afraid to Ask 🔞, I realized I was speed-running Ranma's egg-to-hatched trans journey and made an author's note of that. In the comments for that work, I got a note bemoaning the fact that I didn't spend more time on Ranma's realization, coming out, and social transition as a woman while understanding my reasoning. I replied stating that I needed a good hook, something that hadn't been hammered to death by other authors, and at the time I didn't have anything. I really got it in my head that I should do something, so I posted to Tumblr and started putting it out to the universe that I was Poly Transwoman Author Seeking Story Inspiration and Motivation, in Open Relationship with current WIPs. I was scrolling through the "Ranma 1/2" tag this morning trying to find something I hadn't read when I bumped into Dear Diary by JaquiK. I've read it, of course, and it's short and, for what it sets out to do, good. "Feels like it needs more," says I, "Wish the author would continue it, make something more of it than they did." The little author that lives in my head rent free and looks remarkably like Ranma-chan ran up behind me and socked me in the back of my head, "Dummy! There's your plot hook!" Then she backed a dump truck up and dropped about 3/4 of a story's worth of ideas on me. With the 2023 holidays in full swing (it's Cyber Monday as I type this) I'm not sure how quickly I'll get to outlining this or getting chapters 2-5 out (my personal metric for whether the author is serious about a work is if they have 5 chapters out. This has been a solid rule of thumb for long-form fiction and hasn't failed me regardless of fandom), but I wanted to get at least chapter 1 out as quickly as possible. Tags will be added as I add more chapters, mostly because my writing process means I'm not sure what tags will apply until I'm writing something that necessitates them. 😋 I hope you enjoy it.

Preview below the cut

He had opened it and read the letter. Halfway through he realized he was shaking and that was when he'd vacated to the roof. He finished reading it fairly quickly, read it again, and then again. He was sure it was a fake of some sort at first, but it was like there was a voice in the back of his head telling him it was the genuine article. Not a 'voice,' per se, but like he could hear it in his girl-form's voice as he read it, like a memory of her reading it to herself after she'd written it to make sure it made sense. After, he'd sat there for nearly half an hour, watching as the sky turned deeper blue in anticipation of the sunset. Sighing for reasons he couldn't articulate yet, he looked at the top of the paper, noting the date again. It'd been written months earlier, on a day that was a big gap in Ranma's memory. This wasn't unusual for him, of course, his memory was notoriously spotty. This particular gap stood out, however, because he hadn't been able to tease the memory out no matter how he worked it, and everyone in the house behaved...weird whenever he asked about it. That more than anything told him that whatever had happened was significant enough the be memorable...about a time he had no memory.

He read the letter again,

Dear Ranma Saotome, I hope quite sincerely that you never find this letter, that you won't ever need to find it because you won't have come back. That sounds awful, but if you're back, then that means that I'm gone. I woke up this morning, and for once in my life I felt right. I didn't realize until it'd been explained to me by Akane that I didn't belong. I'm somehow in your body, awake and alive and able to be just me, and all thanks to Jusenkyo. And, apparently, a smack on the head with a pan. I love Akane, but she has such a temper. And I do feel ALIVE. I have your memories, but they're so...cloudy, so dark and hazy. When I make myself remember them, it's like a layer of shadow and pain is over all of them. It hurt so much to be you that I can understand why you hid away and I came out. Your body makes me feel wrong.  I don't know what it means, how it happened or why I'm here. I think maybe a doctor might be able to help, but then we'd have to explain about the...'curse.' I don't like calling it a curse, that would mean it was bad. For me, it's not. It's wonderful and beautiful and it means I get to exist in a body that doesn't make me feel like I'm wrong. Uncle Tendo splashed me with hot water and turned me into a boy, and it was horrible. I wanted to climb out of my skin to make the wrongness stop. Don't get me wrong, I understand that you're quite handsome, in another world I could probably see you and consider you a fine catch, maybe even try to make you my husband somehow. But to be wearing your body felt like looking down and seeing a

At this point there were several attempts to write a kanji, each attempt being scratched out with the pen. Finally, the writer of the letter managed to put down what they were trying to say;

cat and not being able to get away from it. Being a boy felt horrible and wrong. You're welcome to it, I never could. In case I haven't made it clear, I'm a woman. Well, I suppose I'm still a girl, but I'm growing up to be a woman and I have dreams of being like big sis Kasumi and keeping a nice house and getting flowers, maybe planting a garden. I want to be married, but I guess I haven't grown up enough yet, because I don't think I like boys yet. I keep imagining a future where I'm married and being a housewife, but all I can see as a 'husband' is Akane. Isn't that silly? She's a tomboy, but she's not that much of a boy! ヾ(≧▽≦*)o In case you do read this letter, take care of Akane. She took good care of me today, even though it was very obvious she missed you terribly. I'm writing this in our room as I'm trying to sleep, hoping that it will help with my racing thoughts and the feeling of loneliness; father is refusing to sleep in the room, he considers me disgraceful. I find without someone else around I cannot sleep. I imagine that's because, from what I remember, that's the only life you've ever known, and technically you and I are the same person. If you are reading this, then I'm gone. Please find a way to stop that awful pain you carry with you. I experienced it for only a few hours, you've had it for your entire life. As strong as you are, as much of a martial artist as everyone says, I can only imagine that much pain will break you someday. Love, Ranma Saotome

Pain... thought Ranma. She called it pain.

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[fractalflare]

1,493 RANMA SAOTOME ICONS / RANMA ½

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[venusdeservedbetter]

TransFem!Ranma is my personal headcanon, but I have (just short of) a whole hypothetical essay about how Ranma in canon is most likely Genderfluid, so I’m down with either interpretation.

[d00dl3-b0b]

It’s Bunny Day In Japan Today!! 🐰

[everythingranma]

Ranma 1/2 Japanese voice cast autographs

These were signed by:

- Kappei Yamaguchi: (Male Ranma Saotome)

- Megumi Hayashibara (Female Ranma Saotome)

- Noriko Hidaka (Akane Tendo)

- Minami Takayama (Nabiki Tendo)

- Kikuko Inoue (Kasumi Tendo)

- Kenichi Ogata (Genma Saotome)

- Ryūsuke Ōbayashi (Soun Tendo)

- Koichi Yamadera (Ryoga Hibiki)

- Hirotaka Suzuki (Tatewaki Kuno)

- Rei Sakuma (Shampoo)

- Ichiro Nagai (Happosai)

- Yūji Mitsuya (Dr. Tofu)

- Miyoko Asō (Cologne)

- Hiromi Tsuru (Ukyo Kuonji)

[best-anime-outfits]

Ranma's (or Akane's on Ranma) China overalls from Episode 7 of Ranma ½

[marcosvitor1996]

Shantae, Wakko Warner from Animaniacs, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, female Ranma Saotome from Ranma ½ and Astro Boy on top of a building.

Inspired by one of Kids WB bumpers: https://twitter.com/PreStalnic/status/1747360462088610150

[red-black-aesthetic-bout]

Round 3: Match 15

Vash the Stampede (Trigun 98/Trigun Maximum) vs. Ranma Saotome (Ranma ½)

Vash the Stampede

- VASH THE STAMPEDE MY BESTFRIEND VASH THE STAMPEDE :] If I actually enumerated everything that makes me insane about him we’d be here for hours so I will simply say: extremely strong contender for Most tortured sillyguy I’ve ever laid eyes on and he just means So Much to me♡ Best red/black aesthetics are in trigun maximum imo but all versions of him are wonderful thank you for the consideration mwah - Vash is a weird alien plant thing that helps people vigilante style, but he kinda sucks at it so ended being labeled as a major criminal instead, also he has a twin brother who wants to annihilate the human race and vash tries really hard to stop him because he love humans

Ranma Saotome

- ranma saotome is the OG trans swag anime/manga protagonist. thanks to a cursed spring, cold water turns him into a girl and hot water turns him back to a boy. he starts out hating this change but only makes half hearted attempts to reverse the curse, and eventually becomes quite comfortable with his female half, acknowledging it was always a part of him. he’s a martial artist, he’s a stupid teenager, he’s rude and prideful but he can also be really sweet and thoughtful, literally everyone is either in love with at least one version of him or they want to kill him, sometimes both. his signature red chinese style outfits and his black hair, dark pants and other black accessories already make him a perfect fit for this tournament, but the real kicker is that in the anime, his hair even changes from black to red when he turns into a girl. although a good chunk of the source material didn’t age well, he means a lot to many trans people who watched/read ranma ½ at a young age, including myself. anyway if this was a martial arts tournament he would win <3

mod notes: hello to my mutuals who submitted each of the contestants here. it's come to this...

[genderfluidswagnesscontest]

Grendan Highforge vs. Ranma Saotome (Round 1 -B)

And before you vote, let's learn about our competitors!

Grendan Highforge 

canonically genderfluid and realizes mid season

experiments with different names, is also called Grenda, G-man, Gma, Grandma, and more

canonically uses any pronouns

come on just look at her though

Ranma Saotome

“I decided on the character being half man and half woman” - Rumiko Takahashi (the creator)

born a man, cursed to transform into a woman when splashed with cold water

takes pride in the fact that his female form is attractive

come on just look at him though

[cantheykillmacbeth]

could ranma saotome kill macbeth? he does have a mom and we dont know any details about his birth as far as im aware, but boy that gender question is a tricky one

It is indeed a tricky gender situation. Ranma was originally a boy, but is shown to be able to switch between male and female presentation, and has done so willingly on multiple occasions. From what I can tell, Ranma still identifies with masculine pronouns and terms, even when in female form ((It's kind of like a F1NN5TER situation but where the lever isn't stuck)). Though, I have seen Ranma's pronouns switch suddenly when referring to the female form specifically (i.e. "Ranma has worn a wider variety of outfits in his female form than in his male form. She will dress in women's clothing voluntarily depending on the circumstances, usually in order to get something she wants, but also when she has to," an excerpt from the wiki).

Generally, I tend to say that if someone identifies with the term "man," then they are disqualified from the Gender Clause, regardless of whether or not they also happen to identify with other terms such as "woman." So if I'm reading the situation correctly, then Ranma should be disqualified from the Gender Clause under these terms and thus unable to kill Macbeth.

Thank you for your submission!