This page is about the relationship between the female form of Ranma Saotome and Tatewaki Kuno. Similar to Akane Tendo, Tatewaki Kuno is madly in love with the female form of Ranma Saotome. However he is unaware that Ranma's female and male forms are the same person and as such refers to Ranma's female form as "the pig-tailed girl" whenever he sees or talks about her. This ignorance has persisted despite numerous events in which Ranma changed from normal to cursed form or vice versa when near Kuno. Nabiki Tendo tried to explain to him that they were the same person, but said that the pigtailed girl's body and soul belong to Ranma, causing Kuno to misinterpret this as her being Ranma's unwilling slave. However following this incident Kuno has not tried to either rescue female Ranma or pursu