Shampoo
Shampoo (シャンプー, Shanpū?) is a Chinese Amazon from Joketsuzoku from Ranma 1/2.
Character Info[edit | edit source]
Shampoo is an amazon from China. When Ranma and his father Genma (in their cursed form) attended a martial art battle, Shampoo challenge Ranma to a battle (due to him/her eating the prize, which was a buffet of food) only to lost. This caused Shampoo to kiss Ranma on the check as it was stated that when an Amazon lose a battle, they give their opponent the kiss of death, which involved them hunting the person who beat them and vowing to never stop until that person is dead. Later she arrived in Japan where she encountered male ranma (which she is unaware that both Ranmas are the same person) and after accidentally defeating Shampoo once again, Ranma now believed that he will receive the kiss of death, however instead he got a normal one as it turns out that according to Amazonian Law (read in Chinese but translated by Nabiki) that if an Amazon is defeated by a woman, she must kill them in order to regain their honor, but if they lose to a man, she must marry that man. Over her time in the first season, Shampoo was unaware that the Ranma she needs to kill and the Ranma she wants to marry are the same until she learned the true and ran away heart broken, only to return and accepted the ordeal. She and her great-grandmother (who is the lead of the Chinese amazons) are currently running a restaurant in japan. In the shows, Shampoo (like some of the characters) fell into a cursed spring and when she is hit by cold water, she transforms into a cat, which is difficult for Ranma as he is afraid of cats.
Shampoo is one of the few female characters to be barefoot as she is mostly seen with red flats that expose the top of her feet.
Anime[edit | edit source]
Ranma 1/2 (1989 TV Series)[edit | edit source]
Episode 15[edit | edit source]
"Enter Shampoo, the Gung-Ho Girl! I Put My Life in Your Hands."