Let's Go to the Hot

Onsen e iko (温泉へ行こう) is the 158th chapter of the manga and the first chapter of the Hot Springs Obstacle Course Race Arc.

Akane once again comes up lucky in the lotto game and this time wins a trip for two to a hot springs race. The winner of the race gets to go to any hot or cold spring in the world. Akane knows that this means Jusenkyo and she plans on asking Ranma to go with her. Mousse wins a ticket as well and asks Shampoo, but she steals the ticket and asks Ranma to be her partner before Akane gets the chance.

The Lucky Ticket
Whilst helping Kasumi do some grocery shopping, Akane manages to win a local lottery. One the way back home, Akane reads the ticket she won and sees it allows two people to participate in the "Zekkyo Hot Spring Obstacle Race". Akane then continues and learns that the winner get to visit any spring, hot or cold, in the world, leading Kasumi to note that this would allow someone to visit Jusenkyo.

Once the pair return to the Tendo Dojo Kasumi tells her father about the ticket and how Akane was going to ask Ranma to go with her. Meanwhile, Akane tells Ranma about the race, but before she can explain about the prize, Soun and Genma rush up and give their parental blessing to go to the springs together (believing it will move Ranma and Akane's relationship forward).

Hearing this Akane angrily informs her father that they aren't going for privacy; as Ranma adds that he wouldn't want to go to a hot spring with a macho chick like Akane anyway. Infuriated, Akane hits Ranma with a bird feeding table and stops off as Soun sorrowfully asks what went wrong.

Cast in Order of Appearance

 * Akane Tendo
 * Kasumi Tendo
 * Soun Tendo
 * Genma Saotome (panda)
 * Ranma Saotome (male)
 * Shampoo (human)
 * Mousse (human)
 * Mousse (duck)
 * Ryoga Hibiki (human)
 * Shampoo (cat)
 * Ranma Saotome (female)
 * Ukyo Kuonji
 * Cologne

Quotes

 * (Soun) "What went wrong?! It was going so well, too!!"
 * (Kasumi) "I think you went wrong, father..."

Trivia

 * Kasumi's comment noting Akane's luck at winning lotteries is a reference to when Akane won a toy pig in the Mousse Returns Arc.