Azusa Shiratori



Azusa Shiratori is a character in the Ranma ½ universe.

Azusa is presumably of about 15 to 16 years old, but deliberately acts younger in a sickeningly-sweet display intended to make her appear cute. It evidently works, as she has a very large fanclub of teenage boys who call themselves "Lovely Azusa's Squad". As part of her act, which may not be entirely faked, Azusa persistently refers to herself in the third person as "Azusa-chan" (Cute Azusa, when translated) and makes a hobby of collecting anything that looks "cute" (which can vary from a charming octopus balloon or a pink blanket with a picture of a cute little balloon-carrying ducky on it to a stop sign or a tanuki statue), by force if need be. Once she claims these items, she keeps them as her own, giving them silly names in French.

Azusa is a skilled fighter and shouldn't be underestimated, but she is not the brains of the pair. She is ditzy and bubbly, prone to forgetting about or simply ignoring anything that doesn't directly interest her or which interferes in her plans. She is partnered with Mikado Sanzenin and forms the other half of Kolhotz High School's famous Golden Pair, but she has no respect for him and is in fact prone to physically abusing him, sometimes to make him get his mind back on the fight, more often because he is interfering in her own petty amusements.

In the manga, Azusa Shiratori only appears in the Martial Arts Figure Skating arc, but in the anime, she reappears in the season four episode "Kuno Becomes a Marianne!", in which she believes Tatewaki Kuno is a tanuki and claims him as one of her pets, Kuno humoring her because of her attractiveness.