From the Back Cover
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 work of Chinese, and yet he insists on bringing you to the cursed training ground known 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...
From now on, a splash of cold water will turn your father into a giant panda while you...well, you turn into a red-haired (and incredibly well-built) female version of yourself. Hot water will reverse the effect, but only until the next time. What's half-guy, half-girl to do?
A chance encounter at the local rink with the infamous "Golden Pair" of the high-school skating world turns into double trouble for Tanma and his reluctant Fiancie, Akane! Tantrum-throwing Azusa, a girl who goes gaga for anything "cute", falls head over heels for a certain widdle bwack piggy.