Akane
GOOD QUALITIES:  Cute when she smiles

Add: Willing to help those in need (even though if they are her rivals, she
will most definitely find a reason to trash Ranma afterwards to balance out
her feelings)

BAD QUALITIES:  Hot tempered, inconsiderate of Ranma's feelings, Enviose,
Won't allow Ranma even the luxury of looking at an other girl without
blowing her stack, Impatient, overly violent, and won't admit when she's
wrong, to distrustful of Ranma.

Add: So dishonest of her feelings that she is tedious and tiring to Ranma
and EXTREMELY annoying to the other fiancees.  Also, she CAN be crafty and
manipulative (as can be seen in manga 10 when she tries to manipulate Ranma
into tricking Shampoo to fall into Mousse's hands). 

She gets jealous over the silliest things, continually says stuff that
imply that she likes Ranma and says something a second later that implies
that she hates him.  Overconfident in her own abilities, even when they're
far from adequate (see the 'Akane and her sisters' OAV).  

Kaori
Good qualities:  Cute, good cook, fairly considerate toward Ranma from the
little I saw, ruthless in achieving her objectives though she gives her
opponents a slight chance, admits defeat.
Bad qualitie: overly violent toward obstacles in her path.

Kaori is *not* cute.  She seems to be extremely ruthless and heartless, has
an irritating sneer throughout the whole story, and speaks in a contemptous
tone towards everyone else, most notably Akane.

Ukyo
Good qualities:  Cute, she can cook, Patient, likes to have fun, has
priorities, Athletic though not fanatic as Akane at present, Cares for
Ranma, loyal to Ranma

Add: willing to help others despite bringing embarrassment or other ills
upon herself (as can be seen by how she STATED in front of everyone that she
will take Konatsu under her care even back when she thought that Konatsu was
a lesbian attracted to her)

She's also probably the nicest person in the series, is generally very
forgiving (barring incidents involving stealing yatais and old men that
ruined her life), sweet, and extremely devoted to Ranma - or, more
specifically, making him happy. 

Bad qualities:  Holds a grudge,

Considering How Genma stole her only livelihood, made her a joke among all
those who know her, make her suffer for 10 years on the road, so on, so on,
I'd say just beating him up and not making him die a slow, torturous death
as being very gracious.

Agreed.

her only bad quality is that she WILL attack a girl she sees as seducing

Ranma

(as can be seen in manga 25, Hinako Chapter)  But she WON'T hold a grudge
after the fight is over.

Shampoo:  

Good:  Cooks, cute, loyal to Ranma

Add: Willing to disregard her goal for love and/or friendship (as can be
seen in her sparing Ranma-Chan in manga 4, despite the RUDE INSULT that
Ranma had deliberately gave her village by barring in there, eating the
winner's price, and beating up the winner WITHOUT EVER APOLOGIZING.
Ranma-chan was WORSE than the Dojo Destroyer in that chapter, and Shampoo
still spared her/him.) 

bad:  Air headed much of the time, 

Not really. She is A LOT smarting than the Akane and Kodachi, and knows how
to push Ranma's limits without EVER making him hate her for toyling with
him.  Whenever Ranma became annoyued with her, she has ways to immediately
defect his negative feeling through food, promises of cures, and her
intimate, lust-inducing glomping.

Honestly, though, she's an airhead.  If something involves Ranma, she gets
very fluttery.

won't back down, 

If you're referring to her pursuit of Ranma, that's because she has faith
that she can MAKE Ranma grow to love her in time.  She treats love as if
it's a battle ( just like Ranma).

A battle that she's obviously not going to win (I mean, c'mon, even the
fanfic writers never make Shampoo gets Ranma stories), but she's
persistent, I'll give her that.

poorly educated..

If she is, it certainly doesn't show considering how she can speak coherent
(if not perfect) Japanese after staying such a short time in Nerima.

Mousse and Cologne have been there even less time, and they speak flawless
Japanese.

Hunter Kid
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