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Volume 15 (Sky Blue Cover)

Kung Fu Stew: Another typical meal at Furinkan High is interrupted by a food thief stealing all the bread and eating it in seemingly an instant! Picolette Chardin II, a French food conneisseur with one of the biggest mouths (literally) in existence, challenges an angry Ranma to a food eating contest, only to completely humiliate Ranma and foot him with the bill for the meal - 100,000 yen. Things get even worse when Picolette reveals that 20 years ago, Soun promised one of his unborn daughters to the Chardins after losing one of their eating contests. However, as female Ranma, Ranma will have her chance at revenge against the master of Martial Arts Eating.

Bad Manors: Ranma's arrived at the house of Picolette, and Picolette introduces her to the stringent and unforgiving Madame St. Paul, the woman responsible for training Chardin "brides to be" in the art of eating "elegantly", i.e. in Martial Arts Eating. Putting Ranma through a regimen that would make most boot camp sergeants pale in comparison, Ranma is forced to wear a tight iron corset and not ever be seen eating, even in reaching for food! In an introductory dinner, Ranma is completely outdone by the Chardins, whose large mouths and unusually long tongues rob her of every opportunity to eat - but Akane has prepared something for Ranma to use in an emergency that might come in handy...

La Miserable: Ranma hasn't eaten in a week, and it's beginning to show even as Madame St. Paul gets even harder on Ranma to train in the Martial Arts Eating style. Akane and Genma, sent by Soun in order to watch over Ranma, sneak into the mansion as a maid and panda, respectively, and attempt to sneak food to Ranma. But a determined Ranma is willing to forsake any feelings of sympathy in order to master the art, even if he has to endure Picolette stealing all of her food!

Lekarate De Foie Gras: Though Ranma is improving slightly at getting bits and pieces to eat in order to sustain herself, she's still slow when compared to the extremely quick (and big-mouthed) Chardins, who manage to finish a meal even before she is halfway through the main course! However, hope emerges as Soun and Akane dig up a technique in the history of Martial Arts Eating called "Parlay De Foie Gras", used by the only member of the Chardins with a normal sized mouth. Ranma has to discover its secrets, and must do so quickly, because Madame St. Paul and Picolette have decided to speed up the wedding preparations...

Bathroom Training: Ranma finally understands the Parlay De Foie Gras, and is now determined to master it in order to win the eating battle and prevent her wedding to Picolette. Locking herself in a bathroom with hot kettles and cold buckets, Ranma employs an unusual technique of hitting only the cold water buckets day after day. She also begins to not eat as much, slowing down the speed of her eating. Madame St. Paul suspects something, and Akane does too - but she may be too late to save Ranma when she finds a missing page of the Foie Gras book that describes the danger of the Martial Arts Eating technique that almost scandalized a family...

Who Masters What?: Ranma has finally mastered the Parlay De Foie Gras, but it may be at the cost of her energy as she almost collapses from starvation. Luckily, the iron corset that Ranma was forced to wear as a girl has fallen off, and now Ranma decides to challenge Picolette to a Martial Arts Eating contest in order to restore her pride and get out of the marriage that she willingly accepted. The Parlay De Foie Gras is about force feeding and immobilizing your opponent rather than eating the food yourself, but Madame St. Paul and Picolette may have a technique to counter even that...

Dinner Wars : The Final Course: Picolette and the extremely starving Ranma now face off in front of all of Furinkan High in order to determine the final outcome of Ranma's training. Ranma has the Parlay De Foie Gras on her side, and uses it to complete advantage and skill. But Picolette manages to counter the Parlay by shielding himself from its force-feeding effects, and now Ranma's food is not disappearing from her plate. As Picolette blocks Parlay after Parlay, and even throws some of his own, Ranma must now switch techniques, or risk losing once again to the Chardins.

Do Not Dessert Me: The match continues as Ranma desperately looks for a way to finish his meal without the normal use of the Parlay De Foie Gras that Picolette has learned to counter. Ranma even manages to feed everyone in the crowd, but it may not be enough as Picolette decides to block the Parlay completely by eating face down on his plate, sucking everything up. As Picolette reaches for the last plate, Ranma must now figure out how to eat double the plates and still win the match against the master of Martial Arts Eating...

Hand-Me-Down Ranma: With Nabiki continuously borrowing (and accidentally ruining) akane's clothes, and Ranma doing the same with some of her things, Akane isn't exactly happy at the two of them at the moment. Yet another botched apology from Ranma (and Nabiki) makes Akane bash the balcony they are standing on in anger. And after Ranma saves Nabiki (a girl with no ability to save herself in a fall) and lets Akane fall, Akane angrily tells Ranma to switch to Nabiki for a fiancee - an offer that Nabiki glady accepts. In the meantime, poor Ranma is caught in the middle of what could be a bad case of sibling rivalry...

The Terrible Truth!: Nabiki is taking full profitable advantage of the fact that she is now Ranma's fiancee, even going so far as to avoid a fight with any of Ranma's other fiancees by encouraging them to get into a bidding war over which one of them buys him off of her! Nabiki, however, is still not a fighter, and Ranma is forced to protect her even as the other girls realize that they've been duped. Despite her anger, a worried Akane keeps a close eye on the relationship between Nabiki and Ranma - but even she isn't expecting Nabiki to throw a monkey wrench into the sibling rivalry by confessing her "true feelings" to a shocked Ranma...

Nabiki's Feelings: Ranma is definitely being affected by Nabiki's confession to him, and it's something that makes Akane even more angry and depressed. As Nabiki continues to take advantage of the situation, this time by offering to rent Ranma out by the hour to anyone and everyone, Ranma is left to wonder if Nabiki's feelings are truly sincere. And though Nabiki is making money off of the whole situation, she's still subtly trying to get Ranma and Akane to confess their own feelings to one another and finally make up. If only Akane believed that she might be joking about Nabiki's feelings for Ranma...

I'm the Victim Here!: A depressed Akane seems to have given up on Ranma forever, and despite Nabiki's pokes and prods, doesn't want to admit that she truly is in love with him. Nabiki hatches a plan to get Ranma and Akane to make up, and get some quick cash out of the deal, but her attempts at making Akane jealous only backfire when Ranma and Akane have another explosive fight that leaves the two unable to speak to one another...

I'm Sorry, Akane: Ranma and Akane still haven't really been able to make up, and even though Nabiki is still trying to get them back together the two of them seem to be too stubborn to even talk with one another without disintegrating into a shouting match. As Nabiki tries to think of yet another strategy to get them back together, Ranma finds out that he's been toyed with all along with Nabiki's "feelings", and plans to strike back with the worst date a girl could ever go on. But an extreme backfire is in the works when Nabiki tells Akane that Ranma wants to go out on a date with her and not herself...

Maze of Love: Ranma's dead set on putting Nabiki through hell and back on their "date", but Nabiki discovers that the date she actually had Akane substitute for her for is now a revenge trap! Now Nabiki risks her own well-being as she decides to bait Ranma into chasing her into a hedge maze, and right into Akane, who is once again depressed about the whole situation. Ranma may be still seeking his revenge however, and when he finally tries to take it, it may, unbelieveably, be more helpful than hurtful in the end.

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