Genma Saotome (早乙女 玄馬, Saotome Genma) is a fictional character in Rumiko Takahashi's anime and manga series Ranma ½. He is the father of the title character, Ranma Saotome.
Genma can translate into "dark or mysterious horse". Saotome means "rice-planting girl", which applies more to Ranma's cursed condition.
Genma Saotome is Ranma Saotome's father and the sensei of the Saotome Dojo of Musabetsu Kakutō Ryū karate ("School of Indiscriminate Grappli...
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Genma Saotome (早乙女 玄馬, Saotome Genma) is a fictional character in Rumiko Takahashi's anime and manga series Ranma ½. He is the father of the title character, Ranma Saotome.
Genma can translate into "dark or mysterious horse". Saotome means "rice-planting girl", which applies more to Ranma's cursed condition.
Genma Saotome is Ranma Saotome's father and the sensei of the Saotome Dojo of Musabetsu Kakutō Ryū karate ("School of Indiscriminate Grappling", more commonly known in the West as "Anything Goes Martial Arts"). He and Soun Tendo were disciples of Happosai, whose training included treating the pair like slaves, starving them without food, forcing them to assist in his thievery, and letting them take all damage for his own misdeeds. Genma and Soun eventually managed to get rid of their master by sealing him within a cave in the Heida Mountains, presumably some time after the birth of their children, as Happosai knew of Akane when he eventually escaped. In the anime Genma claims to...
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