Ryuunosuke Fujinami

Ryuunosuke Fujinami (藤波竜之介) is a character in Rumiko Takahashi's manga and anime series Urusei Yatsura. In the anime she is voiced by Mayumi Tanaka.

About
A transfer student at Tomobiki High School, Class 2-4. She is a girl, but because her father says the successor to the Hamachaya (浜茶屋) must be a man, he raises Ryuunosuke as a boy and insists that she is one. Because her eccentric father has raised her as a boy in order to run the Hamachaya, she behaves a lot like one. However, since she is in fact a girl, she hates being treated like a boy. Always behaving like a boy, she would love nothing more than to let her feminine side show, but her father interferes in every attempt she makes. Her first love was her elementary school teacher, whom she later realizes was a woman. She is more popular than Mendou with the girls, something which bothers both of them. Only Ataru Moroboshi truly treats her like a woman.

Ryuunosuke and her father are frequently fighting. This is not because they are training in a martial arts style or because they enjoy it, but simply because they have grown accustomed to fighting one another over the years. She is at heart a kind and honest person and wishes no harm on anyone other than her father. But because of the warped way her father raised her, she is a bit naive and can be suckered into or convinced of pretty much anything. In order to earn money to rebuild the Hamachaya she and her father have moved into the Tomobiki school store, but they still fight all of the time.

She refers to her self in the first person as ore (おれ), which is typically used by guys, instead of atashi (あたし), which is typically used by girls.

Story
When Ryuunosuke first appears, she and her father are shouting at the sea, blaming it for the fact that the Hamachaya recieves no cutomers except during the summer. They fight so much that they accidentally destroy the Hamachaya, so they move into and operate the Tomobiki school store in order to raise money to rebuild it.

She is usually wearing a gakuran and sarashi. Wanting nothing more than to be more feminine, she is saving up some money in order to buy a bra and sailor suit.

Her father enrolls her in Tomobiki as a boy and refuses to sell her a sailor suit. He has promised to give her a sailor suit if she can beat him in a fight, but so far she has not been able to. At one point, Shinobu promised to buy her a bra if she posed as her boyfriend in order to scare away gang leader Soban, but as usual her father interfered.

Trivia

 * It is often believed that Ryuunosuke inspired Takahashi's later work Ranma ½. Also, the character Ryuuko Fujinami from Takahashi's short story Sengoku Student Council seems to be modeled after her as well.
 * Her name comes from professional wrestler Tatsumi Fujinami.

English Voice Actors

 * Kaitlyn Walker (dub produced for public TV)
 * Morgan Jarrett (movies 3 and 5 dubs)
 * Jamie Phelps (movie 6 dub)
 * Kimberli Wayman (movie 2 dub)