Ryoga Hibiki

Ryoga Hibiki is Ranma Saotome's main rival and one of the strongest characters in Ranma ½. He is a self taught martial artist with absolutely no sense of direction who seeks revenge on Ranma, he also acts as Akane Tendo's pet pig P-chan.

Personality
As a martial artist Ryoga prides himself on defending the weak, such as when he helped Ranma when he was rendered powerless by the moxibustion. He can also act civil with Ranma from time to time, alhough he still treats him with a degree of dislike even then. Mostly however he seems to use Ranma as a scapegoat for his own shortcomings, Blaming him for not waiting the unreasonable amount of time for the challange behind his house, or blaming him for his curse even though Ryoga didn't need to follow Ranma to China.

He is also hopeless around girl's, he is completly enamoured with Akane and is both at his happiest and saddest when it comes to good and bad interaction with her.

Meeting Ranma
A few years ago Ryoga and Ranma attended the same Junior High School and it was during this time that their rivalry began; lunch hours at their school were described as a raging battlefield were one had to fight for the delicious bread snacks and each day the battle would come down to only Ryoga and Ranma and the latter always came out victorious, when Ryoga finally had enough he challenged Ranma to a real match in the vacant lot near his house however Ryoga never showed up as his horrible sense of direction led him astray and he became lost for three days, when he finally managed to locate said lot on the fourth day Ranma had left for a training trip to China with his father and Ryoga, believing Ranma had run away from their fight swore revenge on Ranma and went to search for him to finish their match.

Curse and Revenge

 * As we all know Ryouga turns into P-chan, a small, black piglet, His real reason why he is in the series is because of Ranma. A long time ago when Ranma was not cursed he went to a private school for boys, that was when he and Ryoga met, during lunch time the boys would usually fight for the last bun of the day, basically Ranma kept blocking Ryouga and eat the buns right away. Out of anger Ryoga challeged Ranma because of the humilty and/or starvation Ranma has given him. On the day of the challenge Ranma has waited for him for 3-4 days because Ryoga has bad sense of direction, the lot for the fight was only a few blocks for his own house. After finding out that Ranma had fled to China he follwed him to Junsenkyo. After Ranma and Genma became what they are today Ryoga finally arrived to Jusenkyo. During training Genma ran towards Ryoga but manage to dodge however Ranma had kicked Ryoga making him fall into Heutuennichuan (spring of drowed black piglet). Skipping all the great disadvantages P-chan is still fast and adorable.
 * Akane is the only person that does not know what the secret is but it does not matter because Ranma is always glad to keep her from knowing.
 * "P-chan" for Akane means "pig-cute" with using "P" for pig and "chan" for cute a very cute but humiliating name for Ryoga's pig form.

Powers &amp; Abilities
Ryoga is considered one of the strongest characters in the series second only to Lime of the Musk Dynasty.

Trivia

 * On Tvtropes.org Ryoga is considered the undisputed "king of lost-getting" and with good reason, another interesting fact is that since his debut numerous other mangas and animes have featured characters with an almost identical sense of direction as Ryoga, also of note is that these characters also share similar attributes to Ryoga such as monstrous super-human strength and endurance, examples of such characters are Roronoa Zoro from the manga One Piece and Kenpachi Zaraki from Bleach.