Character Profile: Mousse

A boy blindly following his love, Shampoo, who detests him. Even with his thick bottle-lens glasses, he mistakes statues, telephone poles, and bystanders for other people.

He shows up in Japan looking for Shampoo, even though he always fails to defeat her in a fight, but Cologne tells him Shampoo is going to marry Ranma. So he challenges this new rival for Shampoo's affections to a man-to-man fight (a troublesome point for Ranma). When Ranma defeats him, he returns to China and seeks training at Jusenkyou, where he walks into Yaazuniichuan, a spring where a wild duckling drowned 1300 years ago (if there's anywhere in the world a duck could drown, it's there). He returns to Japan with a supply of Yaazuniichuan water to turn Ranma into a duck, too, but (of course) fails.

According to the website Ranma ½ Perfect Edition, the kanji in Mousse's name can be broken down to mean "wash or thread," which has no meaning. The real pun in Mousse's name though, is that all the Chinese characters are named after beauty products, such as Shampoo and Cologne.