As mentioned above, the author has Rumiko Takahashi She was quite active on her relatively new official Twitter account, sharing interesting facts about her activities and about her successful literary franchises. In its latest update, Takahashi shared the origins of one of the returning characters in the franchise from Ranma 1/2: shampoo.
The update wrote: «We present little stories about irregularly shaped Rumiko characters! This time it’s shampoo’s turn! “I wanted to come up with a name like ‘Shan-shan’, but I didn’t want it to repeat itself as they call pandas. I wanted something nice like “shan” and “poo” that sounded Chinese. So I asked someone who knows Chinese well to find out how to write it in Kanji. “».
shampoo She is described as a brave Amazon warrior from China and one of the girls who are interested in the protagonist Ranma Saotome. Fans of the franchise know very well that the name is also derived from an aesthetic product (as one might infer from other names of characters in his city like Mousse and Cologne), although it is now worth knowing that Takahashi wanted to give it a completely different name.
Summary of Ranma 1/2
Soun Tendou heads the Tendou Martial Arts School, accompanied by his three daughters Akane, Nabiki and Kasumi. One day the sisters’ lives are turned upside down when their father announces that he has promised one of them to marry the son of a martial arts partner in order to carry on the family legacy. In addition to their mixed reactions, the Tendou family awaits the arrival of fiancé Ranma Saotome and his father Genma.
Ranma trained with his father in China until an unfortunate accident changed them both. When the water touches her, Ranma turns into a girl and Genma into a giant panda. Ranma ½ follows Ranma as he tries to get along with his new fiancée, the youngest of the Tendou sisters, Akane. When the two start attending the same school, they face friends and rivals who all have something to say about their engagement.
Source: Official Twitter account
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