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* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: One Sorcerer can defeat ten Amazons, but Ranma can fend off a hundred Sorcerers for...a few minutes? Then again, seldom, if ever, does such a lopsided number disparity actually end up with the one winning against the many. They just last a little longer than you might reasonably expect.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: When the springs of Jusenkyo erupt and curse the animals around the grounds (and warriors from the two tribes massing there), a squirrel comes away cursed to look like Akane. A very naked and unintelligible one, at that.

* [[Fantastic Drug]]: Vision dust. The Sorcerers use it open their minds and communicate telepathically over vast distances, but Cologne hints that the Amazons use it for a different effect...

* [[Fridge Logic]]: Just where ''did'' Genma go after getting to the Amazon village? Everybody else goes on to fight the Sorcerers, but he just...disappears.

** From chapter two:

{{quote| '''Sindoor''': The Sieve has failed. You know this. I knew it when I felt the [[Star Wars|great disturbance]] [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling|in the ripples]], the eddies of ki that flow through this place.<br />

* [[The Evils of Free Will|The Evils of Free Love]]: The "Night of Magic's Coupling"? 12 men and 12 women go into a room. They sleep with the number they're assigned. Then they get out and make way for the next group, all in five minutes or less. Being able to freely engage in passionate acts? That's dangerous and will get your whole village turned to ash.

* [[Theme Naming]]: all the Sorcerers have two names--a name for the body they were born in, which is a Chinese word for a bird (''Wuya'' is crow, ''Bailu'' is egret). Their other name, the one for the bodies they're cursed in, is invariably a cosmetic or a substance used in cosmetics (Kohl, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindoor Sindoor], Tilaka).

* [[Title Drop]]: Not of the whole fic's title, but individual chapters or parts thereof get this a lot. The phrase "cold rain" is often used to refer to the end of chapter one, where Akane bitterly accuses Ranma of not being a man (which, in turn, propels him to China and starts the whole mess). "Monsters and Demons" (chapter three) does this the most, though: the chapter title is dropped in part II, and part VII's title ("To Slay the Monsters within Our Souls") makes up the bulk of the last lines of the chapter.

* [[Town With a Dark Secret]]: Sort of. The Sorcerers' village is bubbled off to keep outsiders away, but even when Ranma's taken there, no one's particularly interested in explaining who and what they are to him until he sees Sindoor. It takes witnessing more than one bizarre ritual for Ranma really understand how messed up the Sorcerers are.

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: While Sindoor isn't exactly looking to make a utopia, she continually justifies her actions as in the best interests of the village. How this justifies wantonly subjecting prisoners to [[Body Horror|unholy mixes of curses]] is yet to be seen.

 

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