Pantyhose Taro (パンスト太郎 ,Pansuto-Tarō) is a fictional villain in Rumiko Takahashi's anime and manga series Ranma ½.
"Taro" is a common ending for male given names in Japanese, or even a common name by itself. The actual pun in the Pantyhose part of his name is that all of the Chinese characters are named after beauty products, musk fragrances or lingerie.
Pantyhose Taro is a young martial artist who was born in Jusenkyo. Unfortunately for him, Hap...
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Pantyhose Taro (パンスト太郎 ,Pansuto-Tarō) is a fictional villain in Rumiko Takahashi's anime and manga series Ranma ½.
"Taro" is a common ending for male given names in Japanese, or even a common name by itself. The actual pun in the Pantyhose part of his name is that all of the Chinese characters are named after beauty products, musk fragrances or lingerie.
Pantyhose Taro is a young martial artist who was born in Jusenkyo. Unfortunately for him, Happosai was visiting the cursed springs that day and decided, in a rare moment of altruism, to help the mother out with her birthing. Once he had the newborn baby in his hands, Happosai decided to bathe him and accidentally chose to use water from the most accursed spring in Jusenkyo: The Niuhōmanmaorennīchuan (牛鶴鰻毛人溺泉 Níuhèmànmáorénnìquán) or spring of drowned "yeti holding an eel and crane while riding an ox" (literally, "ox-crane-eel-hairy-man-drowned-spring"). Because of this, he transforms into a giant, winged minotaur-like creature when...
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