Instead of enrolling in Ishigami High, the best school for sumo in Japan, he enrolls in Odachi High and must build a sumo club from the ground up with the one devout member Shinya Ozeki. If he can’t show off his skills in the high school tournaments, he may lose his chance to go pro permanently, and the odds are stacked against him. Ushio is under a lot of pressure, as well as a time limit. The only way he could possibly go pro is if he becomes the High School Yokozuna, a title given to the strongest wrestler in high school tournaments. This small boy has big dreams of reaching the highest class of sumo, Hinoshita Kaisan. There is, however, a minimum size requirement to be a pro sumo wrestler, and young Hinomaru Ushio, incredibly talented and hardworking though he may be, does not meet that requirement. It’s a savage sport where the strongest survive, and anyone willing to test their mettle can step into the ring. In professional sumo, there are no weight classes. Ranma ½ follows the hilarious adventures of Ranma and Akane as they encounter various opponents, meet new love interests, and find different ways to make each other angry, all while their engagement hangs over their head. Though Soun learns of Ranma’s predicament, he is still determined to go ahead with the engagement, and chooses his youngest daughter Akane, who happens to be a skilled martial artist herself and is notorious for hating men. Things are only complicated further when Ranma discovers that his father has arranged for him to marry one of Soun Tendo’s three daughters in order to secure the future of the Tendo dojo. Now, Ranma is cursed to turn into a girl when splashed with cold water, and only hot water can turn him back into a boy. While training in China, he and his father meet a terrible fate when they accidentally fall into a cursed spring. Ranma Saotome is a top-class martial artist and prodigy at the Saotome “Anything-Goes” school of martial arts.
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