How old is akane tendo

That said, Ranma has also been beaten up several times by his other paramours, Akane is simply around him more often. It is also more evident in the anime than in the manga.

As one of the heirs of the Anything Goes Martial Arts School, Akane is in good fighting form, and has excellent physical strength and agility, although she doesn't know enough to use her style as efficiently as Ranma.

Among other feats, she has managed to hold her own against Tatewaki Kuno in an official kendo match while disguised as a boy, deflected Mariko Konjo 's "Airborne Cutter" 'razor-batons', and used a staff to block arrows fired at her by the Phoenix People. She seemingly possesses greater skill in armed than unarmed combat. While sometimes considered weak due to the much more incredible physical feats various other characters have performed, Akane is very clearly a strong and very gifted martial artist in her own right.

She has repeatedly successfully defended herself against ambushes from Kodachi Kuno , even stopping her attacks single handed or without significant effort. She fought, while previously injured, against the Dojo Destroyer and managed to stand her ground for an extended time, but was eventually overcome.

She has held her own against Kiima , avoiding the latter's "Thousand Wings of a Seabird" signature attack, and immediately barraged her foe with several sharp bamboo projectiles, despite waking up disoriented and in Jusenkyo. Akane has also shown great agility when avoiding throngs of projectile attacks, for example from the Dojo Destroyer, Kodachi, Kiima and Mousse , and effortlessly maneuvered between the heads of the Eight Headed Orochi to seek out the moss growing on its main head.

Here Nabiki stated that Akane had begun to mostly use martial arts as a mere exercise. However, after being defeated by Natsume and Kurumi , she trains with Ryoga's help, and later gains an advantage in her 1-on-1 fight with the somewhat unwilling Kurumi, before it is interrupted by the more intense Natsume and she is forced on the defensive again. By collaborating with the timely returning Ranma, she manages to defeat the sisters by allowing Ranma to use a revision of the Hiryu Shoten Ha to nullify the Ring of Dragon Fire while simultaneously propelling her at them as a human projectile.

With this surprise attack and her own strength, she knocks both sisters out. Akane has the potential to be a much more formidable martial artist than she presently is.

While she has most likely received consistent, intense by normal standards , training by her ever-present father, who would like her to become a very powerful martial artist, as he expresses great pride whenever she takes up martial arts challenges on her own- several other characters have seemingly trained more extensively, and she is currently only explicitly seen training alone and devotes a relatively small amount of time to it.

While she does practice quite often, she does so only when not preoccupied with schoolwork, other leisure activities, or her healthy social life, and her shown training is rather formularic and repetitive: breaking cinder blocks, jogging and basic katas against practice dummies.

Ukyo, Ryoga, and possibly Pantyhose Taro , are apparently almost completely self-taught while wandering the country, but the former apparently used to be, and the second is currently shown as, extremely dedicated.

Ranma has been on intense training journeys with his extraordinarily proficient father since he was at most 2 years old, implicitly spending much time away from more normal activities such as school work. Shampoo has been immersed in a warrior culture, while being tutored by the greatest martial arts teacher in the series since she was small.

Mousse lacks that instruction, but is a fellow product of this environment, and has apparently managed to vastly exceed Shampoo in spite of this. Thus, Akane's displayed skills are quite remarkable given the circumstances. Like most other regular cast members Akane possesses considerable superhuman physical strength, enabling her to, even early in the series, shatter thick stone walls with one blow, or punt Ranma out of sight. Her regular level was shown as less than that of Shampoo during the "Super-Soba" story, and far less than that of Ranma in the same story, but she seems to occasionally undergo a great boost when enormously maddened, though given the oft-comedic nature of the serie and the frequent bouts of slapstick violence, it is hard to say whether any given one of these moments should be taken seriously.

During the two times he's angered her most, at the end of the "Reversal Jewel" story, and during the "Battle Dougi" arc here without the dougi , she even managed to knock out, and in the first case seriously injure Ranma by single barehanded attacks, but partially by taking him unprepared.

It is at very least possible she may have the potential to become at least as physically strong as Ranma or Ryoga, but it is unknown if she will ever achieve that potential. Beyond her fighting prowess, she is athletic bu, particularly early in the series, something of a klutz, which is most prominently displayed when she agrees to compete for Furinkan High in a Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics match.

She is also moderately adept at tennis and ice skating. Akane had trouble learning rhythmic gymnastics as preparation for a duel with Kodachi, but this may be more due to the complexity of the sport, the aforementioned clumsiness, and a possible lack of prior training in aerial combat rather than any real deficiency on her part.

She developed a considerable amount of skill after a week of training, enough that she was able to use and juggle clubs proficiently, make graceful leaps, and use the ribbon like a whip, even though she began her training unable to catch the clubs, awkward in the air, and more likely to tangle herself in the ribbon than make it twirl.

However, she has no aptitude whatsoever for swimming due to a number of factors, like erroneous preconceptions of the skill, ill-conceived alternate methods, outrageously unsuitable instructors, and a stated misconception that she was supposed to somehow breathe the water. The net result is that she sinks like a stone if she gets into the water, earning her the nickname "hammer-girl" which may also be a reference to her potent musculature.

In fact, her ineptitude goes beyond mere lack of practice—she cannot even swim with the use of a rubber ring, and when she tried she in fact managed to land in the impossible position of being trapped upside down in it, with her head stuck underwater and her legs thrashing wildly in the air.

Ranma denies his attraction to Akane just as vehemently. But despite their constant fighting and denials, Akane and Ranma do grow to love each other, although they probably will never admit it.

Akane is totally inept at traditional feminine pursuits like cooking, sewing, and tea ceremony. She keeps trying and takes pride in her work, then gets upset when someone usually Ranma criticizes it. On the up side, this makes her highly caring, empathic, generous, loyal, determined and brave. On the down side, it makes her stubborn, hot-tempered and prone to bratty behavior.

The Shonen Sunday special even gives Akane a Heart stat of 4 to reflect this trait. Heir to the Dojo : As the only martial artist among the Tendou sisters, Akane is effectively the heiress to the Tendou Dojo, hence her father's drive for her to be married to Ranma. Hidden Depths : Akane's most fundamental desire is to get along with Ranma.

From there, anything that happens including love is welcome, but the way the story develops gives her little opportunity and drive to even begin with that original goal. Still, Ranma is certainly not blind to this, even as thickheaded as he is.

Akane is the only one of Ranma's fiancees who'd much rather not fight the rest, or anyone for that matter. This is one of the many reasons why she's Ranma's main choice. Akane utterly dislikes the fact that she is helpless against the other fiancees in a great number of aspects, namely fighting, femininity, cooking, affection, you name it.

I Am Not Pretty : Despite her popularity among the opposite sex, Akane doesn't find herself attractive. Ranma's insults enforce this view. This makes her Obliviously Beautiful.

Iconic Outfit : Despite being quite the clotheshorse in the manga, Akane is most often seen, and most often represented in ancillary media, in her standard Fuurinkan High School uniform, a blue jumper with a long-sleeved white blouse traded for a short-sleeved one in the early anime.

It is so representative of her, several of her casual outfits in the anime are simply palette-swapped versions of it. Improbable Aiming Skills : She usually manages to hit Ranma with whatever she throws unless he finds a shield. Whether it's a stone, table, sink, or other thrown object. She once managed to nail Gosunkugi with an apple by throwing it around a corner , and early in the manga she made a perfect shot on an erratic Ranma with a severely-weighted arrow.

He snapped it in half, but the shot was true. And then there's her accuracy at throwing hot water kettles over long distances Innocent Cohabitation : With Ranma; they live together, but they do everything they can to avoid sexual situations. And if something sexual does come up, typically, Ranma is promptly laid out.

It's even subtly justified; their fathers would immediately marry them off if they thought the two were having sex, so of course they avoid it. Insulted Awake : Ranma manages to cure Akane of a Shampoo-induced memory loss technique that made her forget him by insulting her so much she gets mad and goes after him. In the anime, his dad even has it repeating on a large stereo and does some freestyle DJing with it.

I Owe You My Life : Akane's main motivation for staying with Shinnosuke and his grandfather to help them and care for them, at least until they found a way to heal Shinnosuke permanently It's Personal : She's mortified about the fact that she's an awful cook, especially due to the fact that it's one of the ways that she wants to show affection from the most.

She's particularly hurt when Ranma decries her terrible cooking skills, as this is one of the aspects of herself that hurts the most.

There's mutual insults and vitriol with Ranma and the other girls, but she extremely dislikes being called unfeminine, as even considering the fact that the other girls are certainly girlier, Akane is not less a girl in spite of that.

She can't take insults with a stride because, regardless of what she cares to admit, she takes her betrothal with Ranma seriously.

She extremely dislikes the fact that the relationship with the man she's supposed to marry is reduced to counterproductive bickering. Problem is, they're both too stubborn to approach the other with care and affection. Jerkass : Not normally, but Akane can be a total bitch to Ranma for petty reasons such as actually assisting Kuno by giving him a spare bokuto after Ranma broke his first one just because Shampoo was clinging onto him after they fell in a hot spring during the manga Martial Arts Takeout Race.

During Shampoo's introduction, when the Amazon was unaware of Ranma's curse, Akane willfully activated his curse knowing Shampoo will try to murder Girl-Ranma. One of the worst examples was in the anime episode where she gets angry at Ranma for accidentally ruining a dish she made when he was chasing Happosai which he had apologized for since he thought he might've accidentally hurt her.

Akane became incredibly bratty , being a petty bitch to him every chance she got. Then hen she suddenly went "missing" the whole household went into a panic and searched the whole city for her. Turned out Akane had been sitting on the roof the entire time, not even bothering to let the others know where she was or even cared that her family had been worried sick since she was too focused on her slight to notice. She never gets reprimanded for causing them panic.

Jerkass Has a Point : She might have a Hair-Trigger Temper where Ranma is concerned and rarely if ever bothers hearing him out instead of just jumping to conclusions but she isn't wrong in losing her temper with him a lot of the time.

Ranma has his good points but he's also very insensitive towards Akane and has a bad habit of throwing insults at her, especially ones that he knows are going to be a Berserk Button. She has no reason to be particularly happy about her situation. She was engaged with Ranma unbeknownst to her, and on top of that, Ranma brought a huge cadre of problems and problematic people behind him that only multiplied over time. Aside from that, she's the Heir to the Dojo , so she has her whole future planned ahead of her, of which she had no input whatsoever.

As a result, she's not a happy camper. Her "hatred" of men at the beginning of the story is due to the fact that she's hounded daily by boys at high school every morning looking for quarrel with her, as Kuno stated that whoever defeats her has the right to date her. Even Ranma admits that this royally sucks for her. Jerkass to One : Exactly said, to one kind of people. She easily gets annoyed by lecherous guys who want her and run to her every day she goes to school, and always beats them up.

She also gets violent around brash jerks like Ranma. She's actually a really kind and selfless girl, is caring, always ready to help others, and until you make her angry she's very polite and friendly. Also, like Ranma, she's very quick to forgive grievances and treat even constant offenders like Kuno or Happosai, or self-declared enemies like Shampoo and Kodachi, with respect and kindness.

Unlike Ranma, she rarely holds their faults against them unless they're actively making a nuisance of themselves—at worst, she's suspicious of their intentions, but is still willing to help out. Jerk with a Heart of Gold : Normally, she is not a jerk, but when someone pushes her buttons, or she's in a very stressful situation, Akane can be very hostile and vindictive towards Ranma and those who have poked at said buttons.

She can also be very possessive of the powerups she has gotten when other people try to take them away without explanation, to the point of unreasonable obstinacy when they finally do explain. As overly violent as she is, Akane does show a softer, sensitive side, which helps explain further why so many people become lovestruck by her.

Just a Kid : In the beginning of the series, Akane lamented the fact that Dr. Karma Houdini : Akane hardly, if ever, has to pay for her actions and mistakes. When it is proven she is wrong about something, she seldom apologizes, and often acts as if it never happened. However, strangely, despite being shown as a more skilled armed than unarmed fighter, and that this and battle auras in fact is the family fighting specialization of her father, fanon tends to play her as a comparatively untalented karateka.

Possibly because she is, surprisingly, seen training and fighting with her bare hands or improvised weapons more often than using the actual samurai weapons she's trained to use Moreso in the Live-Action Adaptation where she carries a bokken with her wherever she goes.

Know-Nothing Know-It-All : Akane IS aware that her cooking is less than perfect, but still assumes it is much better than it really is and assumes people are just being rude when they justifiably don't like her cooking. She often tries to improve or improvise recipes on the fly, without any kind of prior tasting or advice, assuming that ingredients that work well on their own can only work even better in her concoctions.

Lethal Chef : Has no culinary talent whatsoever, despite or rather, because of how hard she tries. Related to her penchant for trying to " improve " recipes. Slightly better in the manga where she leaned to make edible curry. This may be due to her having only the ingredients she needed on hand in that contest, since she generally tries to put in stuff that's out of place, and often pays no attention to what she's adding.

While her clumsiness at basic kitchen tasks is excusable such as being ridiculously unskilled at peeling, slicing, or measuring , she generally lacks the patience and discipline to take things slow and follow strict instructions before trying to leap ahead to much more complicated dishes.

In fact, they end up engaged partially because of this. Long Hair Is Feminine : Invoked. In the beginning, Akane had long hair so she could look more feminine like Kasumi. Once she loses it, she finds her own kind of femininity that doesn't attempt to emulate her sister, but she's still very sensitive about being seen as unfeminine. What makes it worse was that Azusa managed to piece together that her "darling Charlotte" and Ryoga are one in the same due to seeing her collar on him, and she doesn't even know a thing about Jusenkyo.

Taken Up to Eleven in the anime OAV of the Tunnel of Lost Love; at one point, Ryoga has to carry Akane across a river through a combination of leaping and running on water; he just manages get her to the shore before he falls in himself. When he scrambles up the bank in piglet form, Akane greets "P-chan" with sincere cheerful surprise, leaving Ryoga visibly dumbfounded that she evidently didn't figure it out.

Shampoo, Ukyo and Kodachi are all her superior in some field, and only Kodachi is weaker than her literally: Power 1 and Stamina 1. Misplaced Retribution : She constantly punishes Ranma when another girl provokes her jealousy, such as clinging to him in affection , climbing into his bed, or following him into the bath. Ranma's protests towards the girls, or his explanations to Akane that he never asked for any of those, tend to fall on deaf ears. Mistaken for Lesbian : At times, Akane worries that people will think she and Ranma are lesbians when they have romantic moments while he's in his girl form.

Mariko thought so, and Shampoo outright accuses her of being a lesbian. Never My Fault : She doesn't always take responsibility for what goes wrong, and will recurrently assume that it is Ranma's fault. Such as when breaking the balcony which endangered Nabiki, she is upset that Ranma saved Nabiki instead of herself, which caused a sprained ankle. She also off-on thinks that the people who dislike her cooking are just being rude. She will often admit to herself when she's gone too far and hurt Ranma for thing that weren't his fault, but she won't actually say it out loud.

On occasions when the stubborn Akane does realize that she was wrong about something usually concerning her latest accusations towards Ranma , she quietly treats such incidents as cases of Let Us Never Speak of This Again! For his part, Ranma is usually just glad that the trouble is over and never presses Akane for a well-deserved apology.

One such incident is when Kodachi produces doctored photos of her and Ranma kissing, leading to yet another of Akane's tantrums.

Only when Akane overhears Kodachi's admission to using fake photos does her anger subside, not once listening to Ranma's vehement denials. Nice Girl : Very much so until Ranma or other boys make her angry, that is.

She's normally very kind, selfless, helpful and forgiving, but she's also very touchy, short-tempered and can really be a bratty jerk when others push her Berserk Button.

Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Interfering with Ranma's fight against Hinako because she thought he was trying to molest her when he was actually trying to get her pressure points to seal away Hinako's ki-draining ability. In the manga, he even shows her the chart, but instead she wrongfully assumes he's trying to molest Hinako.

Following Ryoga's instruction to tell him she hates him in order to learn the Ultimate Shishi Hokodan, which he uses on Ranma in the next fight considering from what she had seen and was told about the technique, it's powered on depression, this makes it worse. Then she makes it worse in her attempt to patch it up by saying to Ryoga "Let's be friends forever! Granted, she was sincerely trying to help in that last one, but was completely unaware of how he would take it.

Nice, Mean, and In-Between : Being a normally Nice Girl but with an incredible Hair-Trigger Temper , she qualifies as the in-between if compared to her sisters Ka su mi and Na bi ki , who are extremely nice and extremely mean respectively. In terms of Ranma's three serious suitors, she also falls in between the nice Ukyo and the mean Shampoo.

As the series progresses, she switches places on this scale with Ukyo. The Obstructive Love Interest : She can be this in several occasions, more apparently in the anime. Akane tends to misunderstand Ranma's actions, jump into wrong conclusions and punish him without giving the chance to explain himself. However, Ranma also doesn't give her much of a reason to try and listen to him.

Only Sane by Comparison : Played for Laughs.