why people love Shampoo?

When I just started the series (remake, I don't know much about the og), I couldn't wait for her to appear. I only saw her face and was blown up by how badass and beautiful she is.
Now that she is here, I just want her to leave so Ranma and Akane can confess their feelings in peace T_T

She's very cute whenever she clings to Ranma. In fact, of all Ranma's suitors she's the only one who's unabashed with showing her affection towards Ranma like a normal girl. Akane always punched him, Kodachi always tried to drug him, Ukyo isn't very feminine and still quite reserved with Ranma.

She's very cute whenever she clings to Ranma. In fact, of all Ranma's suitors she's the only one who's unabashed with showing her affection towards Ranma like a normal girl. Akane always punched him, Kodachi always tried to drug him, Ukyo isn't very feminine and still quite reserved with Ranma.

because she is a communist

I'm not interested in spreading hate toward a fictional character, but honestly, I don't get it either.

Maybe is because she simps way too hard for Ranma. Maybe lonely otakus feel like they would give their lives for that kind of relationship? Idk, but for me Shampoo was always an annoying character. She will grow on you, eventually, but the fact that most of her personality is literally being clinging on Ranma because he accidentally beat her on a "fight"... I know everyone in this show is crazy, but for me this is just plain stupid. Is not like Akane was much better tho, and the mexican dub didn't make her any favour, but I liked her much more in this version than the og one.

Still, my favourite character of this series, is yet to debut, and I think she and Shampoo have almost opposite personalities, so I guess that I'm just not into yandere-like characters like Shampoo.

And yet you say this


It's very arrogant on your part to say only lonely otakus like her, it's not even true, since she has a huge female following, including me. She has fashion items, purses and keychains, all about her which have been released since 2017, second, If her character is as one-dimensional as you say, which it isn't, given that she's the only character so far to display two very polar opposite sides, then by the same logic I could say the same about any other character in this series being monodimensional.

@haseend Never said that ONLY male lonely otakus like Shampoo, I'm just saying that Shampoo is very "passionate" for Ranma, and definitely SOME people like to selfimmerse in a relationship like that. And I'm not even saying it in a contemptous way. Feeling lonely is not something to mock others about.


I... don't understand whats your point with this, but, sure.

And if we speak about how well Shampoo's character is written, I don't think that switching from being a psycho killer because of a non-sensical in-universe "tradition", to an obsessive suitress because of a a non-sensical in-universe "tradition", counts as being a deeply written character. Yet, even if I still think this is plain stupid, I also think this is mostly an excuse to introduce her character in a comedic way; and I even said that she DOES have a bit of character development, and even though I feel that she is "too clingy", to a point that I personally think it's annoying (both in fiction and in real life), she did grow in me with time. Still far from being my favourite character in the franchise, but it is a good addition to it.

But, if you wanna talk about how well written are Ranma's characters overall, yeah, I'll said that this is the weakest point of the whole series. Most, if not ALL characters in Ranma are rather monodimensional and lack any development to begin with. This series is clearly not a drama about human relations, and that's not necesarilly bad. If I had to pick every character with any bit of development, I would choose Ranma, Akane (to a lesser extent) and Shampoo (to a much lesser extent), and that's it, with the biggest problem being that any development is immediately forgotten by the time the next episode comes. This first 12 episodes, which adapt the first 35 or something chapters from the manga are, by far, the best part of the series, and MAPPA did an excellent job adapting it (I'm actually hyped for the second season). From here on it goes on an eternal downfall of episodic stories with no real impact on characters or plot. At all. I'm still reading the manga, haven't finished it, but I've read like 300 chapters and, sadly, I see no progression. Sure, there are some funny characters, there are some interesting arcs, but if you want anything close to "deep and complex characters with a lot a development", Ranma 1/2 is not what you are searching for.

I mean, your point was that she is popular only because of lonely otakus? Well she is clearly not since lonely otakus are not really the market for dresses purses or other feminine objects like heeled shoes.

You've got psycho killers everywhere in this show lol you’ve got a universe where morals are shit. Men try to gang up on a girl to get a date, Nabiki selling pictures of her sister, Ryoga trying to kill Ranma over some dumb grudge they had as high school boys.

Shampoo’s reasons for her behavior if anything have more justification than a lot of the characters who are just crazy for the sake of being crazy.
She has to kill female Ranma for her honor and marry male Ranma for the same reason, any other amazon from the same village has to do the same things she does, It's not unique to her. What is unique to her, is leaving and refusing to abide by her laws because of her feelings, but it’s clear that her amazon laws are important to her, and that’s why her grandmother comes to Japan to help her.
She had the most untapped potential out of all the characters given Rumiko even gave readers hints about her feelings and backstory, the inner struggle between her traditions and her feelings etc her lack of development is just because of the nature of the manga, as you mentioned character development is the weakest part of Ranma, but even so her character even left unexplored resonated with a lot of people.

@haseend
I literally said that was not my point. Like, explicitly.


I think Shampoo is the only character that has a real intention of killing another character. So, no, there are no psycho killers everywhere in this show. That said, I also mentioned that everyone in this show is crazy, and that's just how Rumiko Takahashi's humor works. Then, if everyone is crazy and "immoral", then you're proving my point that Ranma's characters are practically all the same, so, they are poorly written. Everyone.


I'll assume you're not being serious here, because that would mean you're not paying attention at all. And trust me, it is not a complicated plot to follow.


Oh, she does have a reason, doesn't mean it makes sense. Nor that it is a "valid" one. And again, being, lets say, """"the best written character"""" in a show that is basically a pile of crazy and of non-sensical characters, is not something that worths highlightning honestly.


Maybe we are not watching the same show to begin with. Did she leave and renounce to kill female Ranma because of her feelings? or because she learned that female Ranma (her enemy) and male Ranma (her "fiance") are the same person? Again, you're either not paying attention or overthinking things here. But, if she really had romantic feelings for male Ranma, then, again, you're proving my point. The fact that she fell deeply in love with a man she met for, like, 1 minute? is not what you call a well written character. Specially if she fell in love with him only because he (accidentally) knocked her out.


Never said the contrary, in fact, that's the reason why this thread was made. We are just trying to understand why she is so popular, and I gave a possibility of why SOME (and I'm not talking of you specifically, I don't even know who you are) people MIGHT like her: loneliness and selfimmersion. Is it THE ONLY reason? Of course not, never said that, but I wouldn't discard it.

@haseend
I literally said that was not my point. Like, explicitly.


I think Shampoo is the only character that has a real intention of killing another character. So, no, there are no psycho killers everywhere in this show. That said, I also mentioned that everyone in this show is crazy, and that's just how Rumiko Takahashi's humor works. Then, if everyone is crazy and "immoral", then you're proving my point that Ranma's characters are practically all the same, so, they are poorly written. Everyone.


I'll assume you're not being serious here, because that would mean you're not paying attention at all. And trust me, it is not a complicated plot to follow.


Oh, she does have a reason, doesn't mean it makes sense. Nor that it is a "valid" one. And again, being, lets say, """"the best written character"""" in a show that is basically a pile of crazy and of non-sensical characters, is not something that worths highlightning honestly.


Maybe we are not watching the same show to begin with. Did she leave and renounce to kill female Ranma because of her feelings? or because she learned that female Ranma (her enemy) and male Ranma (her "fiance") are the same person? Again, you're either not paying attention or overthinking things here. But, if she really had romantic feelings for male Ranma, then, again, you're proving my point. The fact that she fell deeply in love with a man she met for, like, 1 minute? is not what you call a well written character. Specially if she fell in love with him only because he (accidentally) knocked her out.


Never said the contrary, in fact, that's the reason why this thread was made. We are just trying to understand why she is so popular, and I gave a possibility of why SOME (and I'm not talking of you specifically, I don't even know who you are) people MIGHT like her: loneliness and selfimmersion. Is it THE ONLY reason? Of course not, never said that, but I wouldn't discard it.