It’s Ranma’s birthday and Genma spoils it by forcing him to hide from Nodoka. Ranma decides to continue hiding as Ranko to bug Genma and try to feel some of what having a family is about. When she blows out her birthday candles, she wishes for a family. When Ranko wakes up the next day she is disorientated, the Tendo’s sisters are her sisters and their mother is alive instead of Soun and views Ranko as her daughter.