Shampoo, the Gung Ho girl, is from an ancient Amazon tribe dating back 3000 years. She is a very accomplished fighter and easily beat every other woman of her tribe in a fight. Being from an amazon tribe, she is uninhibited, often jumping in on Ranma in the bath uninvited and the like. Some say Shampoo loves Ranma. I think it'd be more accurate to call it lust. She is also a very sneaky person when she tries to get Ranma to love her. She's tries everything from making dim sum that causes the person eating it to hug the nearest person to bribing Ranma with Instant Nannichuan for a date. Maybe I should explain how Ranma got involved with this Chinese beauty...

It all started right after Ranma and Genma fell into their Jusenkyo springs and became cursed. They began wandering through China as a girl and a Panda when they came across Shampoo's tribe. They arrived in the village during a tournament where Shampoo was clearing kicking the crap out of the other competing women. Famished, Genma and Ranma sat down and began eating the feast that was just sitting there. It was then their guide polietly informed them they were eating first prize! Shampoo saw this and challenged Ranma. Ranma quickly defeated Shampoo, and therefore won first prize. Shampoo stood up and gave Ranma a kiss on the cheek, know as The Kiss of Death. You see, to an amazon, the highest dishonor is being defeating by an outsider. The Kiss of Death is a promise to hunt Ranma down to the ends of the Earth in an attempt to kill her. Ranma quickly turned and ran for her life.

Time passed, and Ranma settled down in Japan with the Tendo family. Shampoo, true to her word, found Ranma and proceeded to try and kill her. Akane finally misled Shampoo into thinking Ranma was gone, though she really wasn't.. Later at the Tendo dojo, Shampoo broke in and tried to kill Akane for lying to her. Ranma (as a boy) accidentally KOed her. When Shampoo got up, instead of a kiss of death, Shampoo gave Ranma a passionate kiss. You see, when an amazon is defeated by an outsider woman, she gives the outsider the Kiss of Death, however, if the outsider is male, the outsider has to marry her! Determined to get rid of Shampoo, Ranma poured cold water on himslf and made it seem like Ranma was really a girl. Confused by this paradox, Shampoo returned to China.

When Shampoo returned to China she was disgraced because of her failure to carry out the Kiss of Death. Her great-grandmother heard out Shampoo's problem and said that Shampoo needed more training. Can you guess where they went to train? Jusenkyo. Shampoo's great grandmother knocked Shampoo into Maoniichuan, Spring of Drowned Cat. From now on whenever Shampoo gets splashed with cold water, she turns into a cat. After her great grandmother assured Shampoo that Ranma was really a man, Shampoo mailed herself as a cat to the Tendo dojo. Upon seeing Ranma, she pounced at him. As you may remember, Ranma is deathly afraid of cats. Oh well.

Some facts about Shampoo:

• Shampoo is a delivery girl for her great grandmother's restaurant, The Cat Cafe.
• Shampoo never uses her brakes on her delivery bike.
• Shampoo is not above sneaking into Ranma's bed at night to sleep with him.
• Shampoo is always trying to get Akane out of the picture, such as erasing all memory of Ranma from Akane's mind.

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