User:David A/Nodoka Characterisation Reference

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22.2: Tries to help Ranma-chan up from a water basin. She’s unbothered about accidentally falling in herself. Friendly and amused by Ranma-chan’s frantic behaviour but thinks she’s too tomboyish.

22.3: Regrets having been alone to grieve for all the years Genma has been training Ranma. Shown to have been accepting about Ranma continuing the school legacy, but incredibly disinclined to let Genma take a roughly 1-2 years old Ranma away from her, and attempted to stop Genma by beating him unconscious with blunt objects, but was eventually talked into through appealing to self-sacrifice in concern for Ranma’s future, and being overwhelmed by the strength of his declaration to make Ranma the greatest martial artist of his generation and ‘a man among men’ or commit seppuku. She seems to have lived under modest circumstances at the time. Thinks Genma was a honourable man. She appears unskilled with swords, but given her traditional mindset as the wife of a martial artist, she takes matters of honour very seriously and will, if worst comes to worst, extremely sorrowfully fulfil her obligation and take the role of kaishaku to behead Genma & Ranma herself. Worried about the possibility but trusts Genma. Asks if she can stay for a few days.

22.4: Doesn’t recognise and thinks Genma is a strange old man, when fleetingly seeing him. Glad to help Kasumi in the kitchen. She’s impressed by ‘Ranko’s’ reflexes and balancing skill. Curious about what Akane thinks of her fiancée, and what he does in his spare time. Uneasily dreams about Ranma being unmanly and swings wildly with her sword.

22.5: Regretfully leaves without seeing Ranma & Genma. Overjoyed about seeing him again when Akane sets up a reunion, but has no idea what he would look like.

22.6: Wonders if Ranma doesn’t want to see her, and nervous at the possibility that it’s because he isn’t very manly, but decides that she’s being too melodramatic. Very sad after not being able to see Ranma and preoccupied enough to not notice that she’s sitting down on an unstable hot spring water main. Overjoyed at being rescued by her son, but then dismisses it as a dream when she concludes that ‘Ranko’ was responsible.

23.7: Visits the Tendos to see if her family is around. She’s happy to see the daughters, ‘Ranko’ and her pet panda. Worried about Kasumi when she hears about the illness, and gladly volunteers to take care of a family again in the meantime. Invites Akane to help out, and to teach her to cook well, and expresses faith in her. Tries to teach Akane and encourage her when she fails. She even tries to hide feeling poisoned by Akane’s attempt and feeds all spoilt food to the panda. She thinks ‘Ranko’ is a good cook and will ‘make a good wife some day’. Cheers up a crying Akane and tells her that she’ll make a good cook for Ranma some day. Eventually teaches her to cook instant ramen.

28.1: Tries to make ‘Ranko’ more feminine by having her try out dresses. Wants to see her only son again and has faith that he’s a ‘man among men’. Thinks Ryu Kumon was very manly after he saves her by ripping out the throat of a rampaging bear in a single strike. Overjoyed after he drops a Saotome family scroll and claims to be her son. Wholly unconcerned when told that her husband is ‘dead’.

28.2: Oblivious to Ryu’s noisy attempts to search for the Umisen-ken scroll.

28.3: Shows compassion and offers to care for ‘Ranko’ after finding her hurt on the street.

28.4: Absolutely trusting of the violent and deceitful Ryu, which makes him reconsider torturing her for information.

28.5: Happy about Akane visiting and to see her and ‘Ranma’ together. Gives Akane a letter to bring to ‘Ranko’, since Nodoka ‘somehow always seems to worry about the girl’. Happily welcomes Ryu back for dinner.

28.6: Notices the signs of a martial artist determined to fulfil an objective and encourages Ryu before his fight, unaware that he’s intending to beat up her son.

28.7: Has a bad premonition when Ranma is in danger of being killed.

28.9: Unconsciously wanders towards the fight led by a constant apprehension. Glad to see ‘Mr. Panda’ and led away, but tells him that she has to go and clarify this uncertainty/premonition. Knocked out, tied up and put in a sack by Genma.

28.10: Not particularly surprised when Ryu tells her that he isn’t Ranma, and reveals that she became suspicious after seeing him with Akane, but thanks him for giving her the semblance that Ranma had finally come home again and asks him to take care. Reveals that she only used the scroll as an envelope for recycling purposes due to being quite poor.

30.9: Horrified about having to make Ranma commit ritual suicide if he was the man she glimpsed wearing pigtail and a bra, but thinks she must have imagined it. Very suspicious that Akane is hiding something from her.

30.10: Overjoyed at the prospect of seeing Ranma again, and later happy about ‘having a dream about’ being cared for by her ‘strong manly son’ while she had a fewer.

33.9: She’s shown as considerate towards Genma back when he was still living together with her and knit a sweater each for him and Genma. She visits the hot springs area from her and Genma’s honeymoon and is sad when wondering where they could be. She’s suspicious when she sees ‘Ranko and her panda’ wearing the sweater she knit. She thinks Ranko must have met him. She states outright that she’s uninterested in Genma, but is determined to find Ranma, despite the harsh weather. She’s concerned about ‘Ranko-chan’ being attacked, when a ‘peeping-tom’ makes a ruckus in the hot springs. When she sees a man running away with her sweater she concludes that Ranma may have been the pervert, but is confused when it contains a monkey.