So Rosebride is obsessed with gray market anime -- she's been downloading it like crazy. This was one of the first ones she actually managed to burn to DVD, and we were watching it a few months after it first aired in Japan. Ahh, the power of the Internet.
Momoko Kuzuryuu is a martial-arts crazed, super-strong girl living in the mountains with her father, who is one of the best martial artists in the world. Dad tells her one day that since she's a girl, she'll never master the family's secret techniques, and it is her job to go to the city and bear a child by the strongest warrior in the world.
Oh yeah, she's like fourteen.
So off she goes, to bed the "strongest warrior," a kid by the name of Koushi Inuzuka. He's the son of Momoko's father's best friend. He's also a complete wimp who freezes in fear at any sign of violence and is constantly studying so he can be a laywer.
Despite Koushi's adamant refusal to marry her and his subsequent displays of cowardice, Momoko falls in love with him and swears to remain in his house and train with his father in order to become the strongest fiancee ever.
This is over-the-top slapstick in the Ranma theme. Big action, big stunts, and broadly-drawn characters. It is also pretty damn funny.
Momoko offers herself up at any opportunity, whipping out her heart-covered futon in the middle of the street and begging for a little action. She even serves herself -- naked, of course -- as the platter for a sushi dinner, all to no avail. The series even makes a comparison of Koushi and Momoko's relationship as a master and a faithful dog. Momoko's the dog.
There's wild assassination plots, a superhero in a costume that would make Kekko Kamen blush, rent struggles and runaway zoo animals. What else could you want?
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