It's not easy being a teenaged martial artist named Ranma Saotome, but it's even worse when your martial artist father Genma takes you from home at an early age to go on a decade long training mission. He doesn't speak a word of Chinese, and yet insists on bringing you to the cursed training ground as JUSENKYO, where falling into one of the many springs instantly turns you into whoever - or whatever - drowned there last. And then, the two of you have this little ACCIDENT...