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Shampoo's great-grandmother and the most dangerous person in the Cat Cafe by a comfortable margin. Ancient Amazon elder who moves by hopping on a staff and looks like a wizened old woman the size of a child. The most powerful martial artist the show introduces when she chooses to demonstrate it, which she does selectively and for maximum effect. Her agenda regarding Ranma is entirely practical: she wants him as a husband for Shampoo and she pursues that goal with the patience and strategic competence of someone who has been alive for several centuries. The show's most genuinely threatening comic character and the one who most consistently outmaneuvers everyone else in the cast.
COLOGNE THROUGH THE ARCHIVE //
ANYTHING-GOES MARTIAL ARTS //
Open page →An ancient Joketsuzoku technique taught to Ryoga by Cologne. By striking the exact structural "breaking point" (tenketsu) of non-living matter with an index finger, internal resonance shatters massive boulders and stone walls into dust. Ineffective against living tissue, but grants extreme terrain destruction in combat.
An ancient Chinese Amazon technique taught to Ranma by Cologne. The practitioner grabs roasted chestnuts out of a roaring bonfire without getting burned. Unlocks blinding hand speed capable of delivering hundreds of physical jabs in a single second.
Hiryu Shoten-ha (Flying Dragon Soaring Blast)
SPOILER! Ultimate Counter Art · Hot/Cold Spirit Spiral Open →The ultimate technique of Anything-Goes Martial Arts taught by Cologne. Requires the user to maintain a cool, composed fighting spirit while drawing an opponent's burning rage into a spiraling circular path. The temperature contrast creates a rising tornado vortex that launches the attacker into the sky.
