It's not easy being a teenage martial artist named Ranma Saotome, but it's even worse when your martial artist father Genma takes you from home at an early age to go on a decade-long training mission. He doesn't speak a word of Chinese, and yet he insists on bringing you to the cursed training ground known as Jusekyo, where falling into one of many springs instantly turns you into whoever (or whatever) drowned there last. And then, the two of you have this accident...

It seems that Ranma's life only gets more and more complicated as time goes by. Not only is he engaged to Akane Tendo, tomboy heir to the Tendo Anything-Goes School of Martial Arts, but he's also saddled with a bevy of beautiful, far-too persistent girls who want Ranma all to themselves! You'd think he could solve his own problem by just picking the one girl he wants to be his fiancee, but nothing is ever that simple...