Kiema

Kiima's name comes from the Indian dish Keema. Her name is sometimes spelled Kiema.

She is part seabird and referred to as a captain of the Phoenix people's army. Other than Saffron in his adult form, she is their strongest shown warrior, although most of them were shown to be poor fighters by Ranmaverse standards. After Saffron's rebirth, she became his babysitter.

Kiima came to Nerima to retrieve the Jusenkyo map taken there by Plum. Later, in order to recover the map and the Kinjakan from Ranma, she commands an army of birds to capture Akane and dump her into a newly dug spring in Jusenkyo. After bathing in this spring, Kiima can now assume Akane's form when immersed in cold water, and used this disguise to successfully trick, and later attempt to seduce Ranma, in order to steal back the Kinjakan.

It is somewhat uncertain how successful she was in the latter endeavour, but she expertly quickly gained his sympathy and willingness to comfort her, which made him heavily embarrassed, but apparently compliant, when she started to rub her naked body against his own.

Since Kiima lives in such close proximity to the Jusenkyo Springs, and the Phoenix people are experienced in using them for infiltration, she could easily reverse her curse, or replace it with another template. Like all members of her people, the hands and feet of her original form look like hideous bird talons, but she tends to cover them up with elegant gloves and boots. Kiima likely used a corresponding human female form before assuming Akane's, given that this is the case for her lieutenants.

Though she does not appear in the Anime, in the first movie the character Monlon does resemble her in facial appearance.

Special Abilities
Kiima is an experienced strategist, spy, actress, and seductress, is accustomed to using Jusenkyo waters to create various human female transformation disguises for interacting with regular society, or seducing and manipulating men, and her lieutenants seem very loyal to her. Kiima once used Akane Tendo as a template, but considering that Koruma and Masala have human versions of their birth forms as standard transformations, she likely uses this as well for regular interaction. Kiima also has access to surikomi eggs that enable her to brainwash others into her service after they hatch.

Her (therianthrope) hybrid seabird heritage makes her capable of winged flight.

Kiima's wing attack appears to be one of the most lethal techniques in the series, although she is not remotely a match for either Ranma, Ryoga or Mousse in direct hand-to-hand combat, seems dependent on her sword, and even Shampoo apparently managed to defeat her by keeping the combat to close quarters.

Thousand Wings of a Seabird: By flapping her wings very rapidly Kiima can send out huge numbers of razor-sharp feathers, capable of effortlessly slicing through solid steel, and even cutting right through the incredibly magically durable phoenix-tap.

Bird control. She can command great flocks of birds (possibly most efficiently with crows), to aid her in battle/create distraction, perform tasks from a great distance, or gather information.

Koruma, and Masara
Koruma and Masara act as Kiima's two lieutenants, aiding her in battle. Like Kiima, they are themselves part bird (possibly raven) and are capable of flight. They are not very bright and look up to Kiima for guidance. They can either gratify her haughty ego by sincerely heaping praise on her, or anger her by thoughtlessly calling her middle-aged. Both also have Jusenkyo curses to change into normal humans.

They have roughly the same special moves as Kiima, but their feather attacks are considerably less powerful. Regardless, they seem more dangerous in direct hand-to-hand combat, and their teamwork gave Ranma more trouble than Kiima was able to. The main drawback for their curses is that they cannot fly in the rain.

Like Kiima their names are derived from spicy Indian dishes, here korma and masala.