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Just what makes the Ranma we know, well - Ranma? Is it the martial arts, the fiances, or maybe the challenges that make up the heir to the Mutsabeto Kakuto Ryu?

But one day Ranma awakens with the feeling that there is something growing within - telling him what he should do, how he should act, how he should dress.

Who he should love.

The Anything Goes heir won't stand for it - he just wants to be left alone to be himself.

Trouble is - who is he?

Therefore the love which us doth bind,

But Fate so enviously debars,

is the conjunction of the mind,

And opposition of the stars.

 

Andrew Marvell, 1621-1678