Released in 1993, "Ranma vs Akane Okaasanno Ajiha Watashiga Mamoru!" has Kasumi falling ill, and leaving the Tendo home without a chef. It's a blessing when Nodoka Saotome, Ranma's mother, pays a visit and offers her assistance during Kasumi's illness. The family isn't too happy though when she offers to help teach Akane how to cook. Akane's desire to learn to cook is

even more intense, because she recently discovered her mother's old cookbook. Ranma (disguised as the Tendo's cousin Ranko) decides he should help in the kitchen in order to insure Akane doesn't accidently kill his mother with her notoriously bad cooking.