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Personality
Shampoo is a typical example of a as she is initially hostile towards Ranma Saotome before slowly becoming more attracted to him until she finally stops her plans for revenge in favor of ensuring her marriage to Ranma.

She has repeatedly shown as devious and strategic as well as not being above scheming, play-acting or completely ruthless behavior to advance her position towards the object of her attention. However, Shampoo does seem to enjoy having fun from the trouble she causes, particularly if it means she can get close to Ranma as a result.

She has stated variations on 'obstacle is for killing' as a personal philosophy of expediency, and has enthusiastically attempted to hold true to this towards Akane Tendo, Ukyo Kuonji, Hinako Ninomiya, Nabiki Tendo, and presumably anyone else she'd suspect of getting too close to her declared airen. However, even before the 'engagement', during the initial hunt, she was willing to casually kill Akane simply for suspecting that she might hide Ranma, so it seems more generally applicable. That said, shortly following this, after Akane prevented Shampoo from serving her pet pig as dinner, and the latter responded by choosing to apply the kiss of death. During the subsequent fight, Shampoo simply opted to erase Akane’s memories of Ranma. Once these returned Shampoo made another attempt to kill her rival, so she does not strictly limit herself to fatal methods if alternative means can serve her better.

She is extremely vengeful. After the psychotic Pink poisoned her as a young child, and the righteous, identical, Link saved her life, Shampoo regardless continuously struck both of them a hundred times every time she visited their village, during a span of over 10 years. When they later attacked her with lethal Mandragora poison gas, she casually reflected it on her Nekohanten customers, afflicting them instead.

She is unafraid to occasionally use mind control techniques to try and make her 'groom' love her or to achieve other goals unrelated to Ranma. This includes attempting to enslave him for life through a permanent love-inducing pill, while Mousse made a conscious choice to free her from Kiima's mind-control when given the same opportunity. Even if Shampoo can tolerate or even get along with Akane at times, she's occasionally attempted to assassinate the latter, even when she was tied up, gagged and completely defenseless, since it presented an opportunity to blame Pantyhose Taro for the incident. At the time of her servitude to Kiima she also independently tried to force Ranma into becoming her permanent slave, in an attempt to spare his life, by offering to cure the helpless, doll-sized Akane in return, and otherwise kill her.

When she came back to Japan with Cologne, her great-grandmother opened a Chinese restaurant in Furinkan called the Cat Cafe. In addition to her pursuit of Ranma, Shampoo works as a waitress and cook at the restaurant. She also has a bicycle that she uses to make deliveries and occasionally enters scenes while riding it en route to a customer's house with their order. If she spots Ranma in the midst of one of these excursions, she sometimes uses it to slam down on top of him with an energetic "Ni hao!" Otherwise, she often enters a room by punching or kicking a hole in the wall.

Of all the fiancées, Shampoo is the most sexually uninhibited and the most sensual, possibly due to her upbringing in a society including extensive warrior training for both males and females. Nudity is also not a problem for her, as she rather enjoys being naked and has attempted to seduce Ranma many times, even in dangerous places like under a giant bell. Early in the series, Kasumi Tendo had a talk with her about modesty. Although she did cease her faint-inducing habit of popping out of the tub naked anytime Ranma tried to take a bath, the conversation has apparently had little effect on her behavior other than that.

In "The Art of Ranma ½", Shampoo is described as 'innocent and aggressive,' which is an accurate summation of the dichotomy of her simultaneously cheerful, open, affectionate, hard-working, spiteful, sadistic, murderous, and manipulative personality. Despite her frequently harsh treatment of other people, and recurrently even towards Ranma himself, her love for him seems genuine.

In the anime continuity Shampoo is occasionally shown with strongly manga-contradicting characteristics. An early example of this is the plot line surrounding the appearance of the Dojo Destroyer. In the manga Shampoo gleefully torments and outsmarts Ranma on a date in return for a fake cure, and tries to prevent him from assisting Akane in a hopeless fight, while in the anime she does relent in the end and willingly allows him to return to help Akane. She was also completely removed, along with Ukyo and Kodachi, from the introductory story of Miss Hinako in the anime. Most notably, she was included to save Akane from harm in the Phoenix egg storyline, which is in direct opposition to her manga willingness to dispose of Akane at first opportunity she can get away with it. The combined result of these changes seems to be to make her seem more sympathetic.

Shampoo is comfortable with her cursed form and has not displayed as much anxiety to return to Jusenkyo to cure herself of it, possibly because of its proximity to the village. She has, the fear of frogs and toads, which was used once against her.