Panda Doodle

The  is a badly drawn painting of a female panda that was released by Ranma and Genma during one of their arguments.

History
The Panda Doodle is the creation of an unnamed Chinese artist whose family has traditionally worked to produce cursed wall-scrolls, ritually using cursed brushes and cursed scrolls and painting only on cursed days whilst concentrating on cursed thoughts. The result was that each wall-scroll contained a living spirit that could physically manifest itself from the scroll, unless held within by a binding seal. The Panda Doodle's creator was the latest in his family's line, and created her as part of his family tradition. Unfortunately, he was not the artist that his ancestors were, and she was the best he could do. He made a living traveling with a carnival and displaying his family's works to visitors for cash, but one day, his carnival came to Nerima. As he was showing off his work, Ranma Saotome and Genma Saotome came bursting into his tent, fighting each other over takoyaki. In the brawl, the seal was knocked from the Panda Doodle's scroll and she was released into the world.

Plot
There are some minor technical differences between the manga and anime depictions of her storyline, but the broad details are the same. Upon being freed, the Panda Doodle was revealed to have no interest in rampaging, but merely wished to find a boyfriend. And she happened to be smitten with Ranma Saotome on first sight. Feeling guilty that he was being called upon to force her back into a scroll when she seemed so clearly harmless, Ranma ultimately agreed to give her a pleasant night out. She reveled in their date, though Ranma personally found it humiliating and Akane Tendo was silently jealous over the whole affair. Finally, pressured to get her back in the scroll before the Hour of The Ox (about 2 in the morning) occurred and she was granted permanent residency in the real world, Ranma was forced to give her a kiss... which turned out to be an innocent kiss on the forehead. She then returned to her scroll, and in act of kindness, her creator used his family's techniques to add a Ranma Scribble to the scroll, so that she would have a happy life with him.

The anime version differs in that there is a genuine reason to get the Panda Doodle to return to her scroll; when she emerges, she also releases the oni and the spider-demon depicted on the other two wall-scrolls, and as such they can only be banished if she is banished as well.

Appearance
The Panda Doodle is a crude, almost scribble-like drawing of a bipedal female panda, with her feminity being showcased by a shapeless dress around her upper torso, a misshapen necklace, and a small flower on her left ear. Even when released into the physical world, she still looks "off" compared to the humans around her.

In the anime, she reveals that she has the ability to transform into a beautiful human girl, with long flowing brown hair in an odango style similar to that worn by Shampoo, blue eyes, and an elegant, long-sleeved, ruffled Chinese dress colored in blue and red.

Personality
The Panda Doodle is a romantic soul, yearning for the company of a handsome and kind boy to ease her loneliness. She has a melodramatic streak, and can get quite flamboyant in expressing her dismay, but underneath it she is quite innocent; her idea of a goodnight kiss involves a kiss on the forehead, when even Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo immediately presumed she meant one on the lips. She is capable of getting jealous, but is not as suspicious or violent as many of the other girls whom Ranma has romantically interacted with in the series. The anime adds a further suggestion of her fundamentally decent character, in that she decides to forgo life in the human world when she sees Ranma endangering himself to save Akane from the wall-scroll demons.

Abilities
Despite being a magical creature, the Panda Doodle demonstrates no particularly noteworthy supernatural abilities in the manga. In the anime, she is shown to possess shapeshifting powers that allow her to assume a human form, and she also has authority over her fellow wall-scroll demons, who are shown to cease their rampage when she orders them to return home.

Relationships
In her brief time in the physical world, the Panda Doodle only interacts with a few characters.

She is shown to have an almost familial relationship with the Panda Artist and the Wall-Scroll Demons; the former is shown talking to her almost in a fatherly manner after she agrees to return to her scroll, whilst in the anime, the latter are shown to listen to her commands.

She is smitten with Ranma, whom she recognizes as the individual who freed her, and desperately wants their night together to be fun. In the anime, she initially takes it very badly when Ranma points out that a human and a panda cannot be together, only to promptly realize she can fix that and change shape. Despite her feelings for him, she is not possessive enough to force herself into his life, though she does plead for a goodnight kiss before they part ways. After she returns to the wall-scroll, her creator adds a Ranma Scribble to it in order to keep her company as her boyfriend.

She is revolted when initially presented with Genma Saotome in panda form as a potential date partner, deriding him as old, fat and ugly.

She is shown to briefly get jealous of Akane when she spots the latter talking to Ranma behind her back during the Doodle's date with Ranma.

Quotes
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Trivia

 * Her English voice actress also voices Satsuki Miyakoji and Mariko Konjo.