The Ancient Cologne Ranma: How Old Is This Art?

Cologne is a character in the manga and anime series Ranma ½. She is the great-grandmother of Shampoo, who is one of the main characters' love interests. Cologne is a grandmaster of the Chinese Amazon martial arts and is knowledgeable in several other disciplines, including arcane lore, cooking, Chinese mythology, and magic artifacts. She is also the leader of the Chinese Amazon tribe.

Cologne's age varies depending on the source material. In the manga, she is said to be between 118 and 220 years old, while in the anime, she is said to be around 300 years old.

Cologne's age in the manga vs the anime

Cologne is a character in the manga and anime *Ranma ½* by Rumiko Takahashi. She is the great-grandmother of Shampoo, who is one of the main characters' love interests. Cologne is the leader of the Chinese Amazons and is a grandmaster of Chinese Amazon martial arts. She is also knowledgeable in several other disciplines, including arcane lore, cooking, Chinese mythology, and magic artifacts.

Cologne's age is never explicitly stated in the manga, but it is implied that she is over 100 years old. In the anime, her age is given as approximately 300 years. This is due to the fact that, in the anime, her relationship with Happosai, another character in the series, is expanded on. In one episode, it is revealed that, when she was 18 years old, she had feelings for him despite his lechery and short stature. However, Happosai's relentless lechery ended up breaking off the romance, and he left her village with a pack of stolen valuables.

Cologne's relationship with Happosai

Cologne is the leader of the Chinese Amazons and is known to be Shampoo's great-grandmother. She is a grand master of martial arts and is considered a force to be reckoned with. She is also knowledgeable in several other disciplines such as arcane lore, cooking, Chinese mythology, and magic artifacts.

Cologne is very elderly, with her age ranging from 118+ years old in the manga to around 300 in the anime. In her youth, she was quite beautiful and normal-sized, in contrast to Happosai, who was basically the same, only younger.

Cologne and Happosai's relationship is explored in the episode "Back to the Happosai!". At 18 years old, Cologne secretly loved Happosai despite his short stature, thievery, and unpopularity among the Amazons. Happosai also tried to force her to marry him, but she ignored him to learn martial arts. Happosai's two-timing ways ended up breaking Cologne's heart, and he left the village with her stolen family heirloom—the Nanban mirror.

In the present, Cologne does not seem to hate Happosai, but their relationship is mostly antagonistic. Happosai is often a frequent foe to most of the cast, including Cologne, and his actions always result in grave consequences. Despite this, Cologne does not always take an active role in the conflict unless she has a motive, such as helping Shampoo win Ranma's heart.

In the episode "Showdown! Can Ranma Make a Comeback?", Cologne and Happosai's past is further explored. It is revealed that Happosai was turned down by every woman in the Amazon village during his youth, including Cologne. Happosai is also revealed to be a thief who stole valuables from the village before fleeing.

Cologne's skill in martial arts is said to rival that of Happosai, and she is the only martial artist in the series with similar skill. However, Happosai is considered the most powerful known martial artist in the series, able to effortlessly defeat even the strongest of fighters.

Cologne's relationship with Shampoo

Cologne is the great-grandmother of Shampoo and the leader of the Chinese Amazon tribe. She is a grand master of martial arts and is highly knowledgeable in several other disciplines, including arcane lore, cooking, Chinese mythology, and magic artifacts. She is also a contemporary of Happosai, with whom she had a relationship when she was 18 years old.

Cologne accompanied Shampoo when she returned to Japan and opened the Cat Café in Furinkan. She often refers to Ranma Saotome as her "future son-in-law" and initially tried to trick and scheme to get him to marry Shampoo. However, most of the time, she is content to sit on the sidelines and watch the madness unfold. She occasionally teaches Ranma new techniques and sometimes does the same for his rivals.

Shampoo is one of the main three fiancées of Ranma and a rival of both Akane Tendo and Ukyo Kuonji. She is a Chinese Amazon from Joketsuzoku, the "tribe of women heroes" or "Chinese Amazons" in English. She is manipulative, devious, and strategic, and is not above scheming or play-acting to advance her position towards the object of her attention. She is also quite ruthless in her pursuit of Ranma and is convinced that he loves her back but is forced to keep away due to his duty to the Tendo family and Ukyo. She is willing to try and take advantage of magical items and eliminate her rivals to secure Ranma as her own.

Shampoo is usually very affectionate towards Ranma and has little inhibition around him. She is quite willing to hold him and is perfectly at ease with him seeing her naked. While Ranma is too shy to take advantage of this, she makes it clear that she would be happy to let him have everything he wants of her. She also tries to see the best in him and grows excited when it appears that he is going to do something romantic for her.

Ranma seems to care more for Shampoo in the anime than in the manga, though in both cases, he has tried to avoid giving her any indication that he returns her feelings. He does clearly worry for her on occasion and is quite willing to team up with her or ask her for advice. He finds her physically attractive, but her overly enthusiastic approach to physical intimacy unnerves him, and her fondness for trickery and willingness to resort to violence makes him wary of her.

Cologne's martial arts skills

Cologne is a grand master of martial arts and the leader of the Chinese Amazon tribe. She is also Shampoo's great-grandmother and is referred to as "Obaba", meaning "old lady" or "honourable hag". She is over 300 years old and is a contemporary of Happosai, the founder and grandmaster of the Musabetsu Kakutō Ryū (School of Indiscriminate Grappling).

Cologne is highly skilled in unarmed combat and is knowledgeable in several other disciplines such as arcane lore, cooking, Chinese mythology, and magic artifacts. She is also capable of trickery in combat, such as holding back her true martial arts abilities in order to lull her opponents into a false sense of confidence. She is also able to manipulate water and ice, create whirlwinds by using an opponent's aura against them, shatter inanimate objects with a simple touch, fire chi-blasts, and touch pressure points to make a person feel like they are burning with even the slightest amount of heat.

Cologne occasionally teaches Ranma and his rivals new techniques, such as the Kachū Tenshin Amaguriken, Hiryū Shōten Ha and Bakusai Tenketsu. She is the only martial artist in the series whose skill rivals that of Happosai, enabling her, for example, to casually defeat either Ranma or Taro's chimera form.

Cologne's appearance

Cologne is a grandmaster of the Chinese Amazon martial arts and is knowledgeable in several other disciplines such as arcane lore, cooking, Chinese mythology, and magic artifacts. She is the leader of the Chinese Amazons and the great-grandmother of Shampoo. She is also the owner of the Cat Café in Nerima, where Shampoo and Mousse work. She is a contemporary of Happosai and is over 300 years old, according to the anime.

Cologne is a tiny, shrivelled-up old lady with long white hair. She gets around by pogoing on a gnarled wooden staff that she sometimes uses as a weapon. She is often seen wearing a long purple robe with a high collar and a pair of dark purple trousers. She has a wrinkled face with a small nose and thin lips. Her eyes are usually depicted as small and beady, and she has a long, thin white beard.

In her youth, Cologne was quite beautiful and of normal height. She had long dark blue hair and green eyes, and she bore a striking resemblance to her great-granddaughter Shampoo.

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