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Shampoo-chan has a minion!

Kirara the Meeris

Shampoo-chan
Legacy Name: Shampoo-chan

The

Lilac Feli
Owner:

KaibaSeto_734

Age: 13 years, 1 month, 2 days

Born: March 30th, 2011

Adopted: 13 years, 1 month, 2 days ago

Adopted: March 30th, 2011

Statistics

Level: 25
Strength: 25
Defense: 25
Speed: 25
Health: 25
HP: 25/25
Intelligence: 1
Books Read: 1
Food Eaten: 0
Job: Unemployed

Shampoo is a fictional character in Rumiko Takahashi's anime and manga series Ranma Â½. She is one of the main three fiancÃ©es of Ranma Saotome, and a rival of both Akane Tendo and Ukyo Kuonji.The kanji in her name are shān "coral" and pÃº "uncut/unpolished gem". The real pun in Shampoo's name though, is that many of the Chinese characters from her village are named after beauty products, such as Mousse and Cologne. At first glance, Shampoo might seem like a bimbo, due to her pidgin or simplified mode of speech, most notably rapidly switching between ignoring and using personal pronouns, but she also had a limited amount of time to learn the Japanese language, after pursuing Ranma to his home country (as shown that she speaks in third-person and in incomplete sentences). This tendency may be exaggerated in western translations, although her vocabulary is shown to improve late in the series, and she was presented as speaking fluent Chinese during a rooftop talk with Mousse, when attempting to persuade him to stop using cowardly magic 'apology-glasses'. She has repeatedly shown a devious, strategic, quite intelligent mindset, and isn't above scheming, play-acting, misdirecting or completely ruthless behavior to advance her position towards the object of her affection. That said, she doesn't mind having fun by making severe trouble for him in the meantime. This includes sadistically extensively tormenting him during a forced date by tricking him that she possessed a cure for his curse. She also casually set up the attack from Pink & Link by writing about Ranma in her village newspaper, despite initially stating that she was aware that they'd attack, and was wholly unconcerned/unrepentant about intentionally putting him through severe troubles, since it gave her an opportunity to pretend to have been 'captured', so he'd come and 'romantically rescue' her. When she came back to Japan with Cologne, her great-grandmother opened a Chinese restaurant in Furinkan called the Cat Cafe. In addition to her pursuit of Ranma, Shampoo works as a waitress and cook at the restaurant. She also has a bicycle that she uses to make deliveries and occasionally enters scenes while riding it en route to a customer's house with their order. If she spots Ranma in the midst of one of these excursions, she sometimes uses it to slam down on top of him with an energetic "Ni hao!" Otherwise, she often enters a room by punching or kicking a hole in the wall.Of all the fiancÃ©es, Shampoo is the most sexually uninhibited and the most sensual, possibly due to her upbringing in a society including extensive warrior training for both males and females. Nudity is also not a problem for her, as she rather enjoys being naked and has attempted to seduce Ranma many times, even in dangerous places like under a giant bell. Early in the series, Kasumi Tendo had a talk with her about modesty. Although she did cease her faint-inducing habit of popping out of the tub naked anytime Ranma tried to take a bath, the conversation has apparently had little effect on her behavior other than that.In "The Art of RanmaÂ½", Shampoo is described as 'innocent and aggressive,' which is an accurate summation of the dichotomy of her simultaneously cheerful, open, affectionate, hard-working, spiteful, sadistic, murderous, and manipulative personality. Despite her frequently harsh treatment of other people, and recurrently even towards Ranma himself, her love for him seems genuine.In the anime continuity Shampoo is occasionally shown with strongly manga-contradicting characteristics. An early example of this is the plot line surrounding the appearance of the Dojo Destroyer. In the manga Shampoo gleefully torments and outsmarts Ranma on a date in return for a fake cure, and tries to prevent him from assisting Akane in a hopeless fight, while in the anime she does relent in the end and willingly allows him to return to help Akane. She was also completely removed, along with Ukyo and Kodachi, from the introductory story of Miss Hinako in the anime. Most notably, she was included to save Akane from harm in the Phoenix egg storyline, which is in direct opposition to her manga willingness to dispose of Akane at first opportunity she can get away with it. The combined result of these changes seems to be to make her seem more sympathetic.