Rance

''Note: This article is about the fictional character named Rance. For games that are titled Rance, see Category:Rance series.''

Rance is the name of a character as well as the title of a series of games featuring the same character. His lastname is unknown. Though popularly known and loved as Rance, his first name literally translates to Lance; a not-so-subtle bit of H-innuendo.

Rance is a Rank level 2 swordsman. A kichiku warrior by nature, he is motivated by sexual instincts instead of love or justice. He lives in the a small town named Ice, of the Free Cities, and is member of the local Keth Guild, taking on various odd jobs when money runs out. He has a slave named Sill Plain, and owns a humanoid artificial lifeform named Atena.

His heroics have saved three out of the four major nations in the world from being conquered by Demons, as well as helping quite a number of damsels in distress. On the other hand, his impulsive sex drive has, to put it extremely mildly, scarred quite a number of young women for life.

Appears in: Rance 1, Rance 2, Rance 3, Rance 4, Rance 4.1, Rance 4.2, Rance 5D, Rance 6, Sengoku Rance, Mamanyonyo, Kichikuou Rance, Toushin Toshi 2 (cameo summon).

Referenced in: Toushin Toshi, Persiom

Personal history

 * Warning - the following information contains spoilers to the various games Rance appeared in.


 * GI0098
 * Rance was born
 * GI1002
 * A one-armed warrior brought Rance, then 4 years old, to the village of Komora Town. The warrior died a few days later.  Rance was taken in by the village chief.
 * GI1011
 * At 13 years old, Rance's pervertness awakens. He became quite a pro at flipping girls' skirts.
 * GI1012
 * Had his first experience with the village chief's second daughter.
 * Later on, he made moves on the village chief's elder daughter, as well as numerous other girls in the village. As a result, he got chased out.
 * Began adventuring with a female warrior.
 * GI1014
 * The female warrior died. Rance entered the Keth Guild.  Presumably this is when he started living in the town of Ice.
 * GI1015 (= LP0000)
 * One of his victims, a girl in a wealthy family, had an abortion, causing Rance to begin taking birth control into consideraton.
 * Rance performed odd jobs for the Keith Guild for money.
 * LP0001
 * Purchased a slave, Sill, from a slave trader.
 * Investigated the kidnapping of Hikari, and rescued her.
 * Princess Lia Parapara Leazas decided that Rance will have to marry her since he took her virginity.
 * Rance met Kurusu Miki for the first time in Leazas Castle, though neither remembered the encounter years later.
 * Defeated the Four Witches of Custom and saved the town of Custom.
 * LP0002
 * Participated in the liberation of Leazas, and was named the Supreme Commander of the Leazas Liberation Army.
 * Bounded the devil Ferisu into his service.
 * Obtained the Demon Sword Chaos, and defeated the demons Nosu (killed), Aizeru (killed), and Satera (allowed to escape). Defeated the former Demon King, Gil (which was unsealed by Rance's prior actions), and sealed her in a foreign dimension.
 * Got thrown into the Floating City Ilarpu by the God of Light. Helped in the creation of Athena . Escaped from Illarpu when it crashed.
 * Saved Happiness Pharmecudical
 * Rescued Rizna from the Genbu Castle.
 * LP0003
 * Incident at Count Corpy's House
 * Had a duel with Arios The-O Man. Ended in a draw, but Rance suffered great injuries.
 * Rance embarked on a trip to seek out and assault The-O Man's former girlfriends.
 * LP0004
 * While performing a job for some Zeth official, got thrown into slave camp due to being disrespectful to a magic user.
 * Escaped slave camp, and joined Ice Flame, an anti-government resistence group in Zeth to seek equality between magic users and non-magic users.
 * Persuaded Ice Flame to join forces with the terriorist organization, Pentagon, and destroyed the mana battery powering Magi's Line, throwning the Zeth government into chaos.
 * Prevented the Leazas army from taking advantage of Zeth during the Demon army invasion of Zeth. Persuaded Queen Lia Parapara Leazas to help Zeth fight back the Demon army.
 * Defeated the demons Jeek (killed), The Saiseru (escaped), and Kamilla (sealed). Restored the mana battery, allowing Magi's Line to decimate the Demon army invaders.
 * Magic the Gandhi, daughter of the king of Zeth, was betrothed to Rance due to his heroics. Rance ran away from the wedding.
 * LP0005
 * Hotspring trip to JAPAN. Had a chance meeting with Oda Nobunaga, became fast friends, and become the hidden ruler of the Oda House.
 * Defeated the Demon Xavier (escaped) at the Honnou Temple Incident.
 * Defeated Xavier (killed) at the Tenman Bridge. Saved JAPAN from being sunk into the void.  As a result, the Oda House ruled over the unified JAPAN.
 * ~ LP0030
 * Around this time, Rance participated in the Toushin Toshi Tournament. He was disqualified after assaulting his female opponent.

Unconfirmed trivia
Once upon a time, the Japanese H-game magazine "TECHGIAN" had a ranking to let the readers vote for their favorite H-game character. For a year, Rance held the first place. Then TECHGIAN changed the ranking to "your favorite H-game heroine", disqualifying Rance. (Source: 2-ch, "ランスシリーズ　その１５１" thread, posts 552~560)