 Ranma Saotome is a teen-aged martial artist who turns into a girl when splashed with cold water. His father Genma has engaged him to a girl named Akane Tendo. If you add to this an uninhibited amazon girl after Ranma, an okonomiyaki cook girl after Ranma, a boy after Ranma s female form, a boy out to kill Ranma, a girl who d sell freezers to eskimo s and several other psychopaths living in Nerima, you ve got Ranma ½.