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Fields	USA Info	Japanese Info	Image
Name	Nodoka Saotome	Nodoka Saotome
Alias
Race	Human	Human
Gender	Female	Female
Age
Hair	Brown	Brown
Eyes	Brown	Brown
Height
Weight
Status	Homemaker	Homemaker
Quote
Voice	Lisa Bunting	Ikeda Masako
Debut
Anime	Ranma 1/2	Ranma Nibunnoichi

I've forgotten where this info and image came from. Sorry! Edited by yours truly (contact me).

A mother's influence is detrimental to training a boy in Saotome-style martial arts, so Genma took his infant son and left Nodoka. As he left, he swore to make Ranma a manly man inside and out, or they would commit honorable seppuku (what we call hara-kiri) like men. As a martial artist's wife, she accepted Genma's decision. Truly, a remarkable woman (she'd have to be to marry a man like Genma!).

Nodoka received letters from Genma until he took Ranma to Jusenkyo, when they suddenly stopped. So she comes to the Tendo dojo, wanting nothing more than to see her son Ranma grown to be a manly man. And if Ranma isn't a manly man, she'll hold Genma to his promise. So when she hears about her son doing unmanly things like wearing women's clothes, her placid demeanor disappears and she draws her katana.

When she shows up at the dojo, Ranma and Genma are "off on another training trip", leaving fiancee Akane behind with her tomboy "cousin" Ranko and Ranko's pet panda...

The above description came from Eric's Ranma 1/2 Web Page page, and was edited by yours truly (contact me).