Ranma ½/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

Line 171:

**** While we're on the topic, I wouldn't worry about how an octopus drowned. I would, however, worry about how an octopus got into a remote valley of springs in mainland China.

** Well, [[Word of God|Takahashi herself]] said that it would. Also, the Temporary versions have been shown to work on Ranma and Genma as well.

** While nothing is ever stated as to why Taro assimilated his Octopus curse, there's three perfectly good simple explanations that could explain it. For a start, it could have happened because Taro's original curse is a case of [[Mix and Match Critters]] -- it's four seperate creatures that drowned in one spring, all blended into one seamless whole. A new curse just got "infected" by the same glitchy "programming" and added to the whole. Option two is that Taro only splashed himself with Octopus water and it takes heavy or total immersion to have a new curse overwrite an old one -- note that whenever a "Nanniichuan spring" shows up in the series, Ranma and co always try to arrange a large quantity, not a mere ladleful (Instant Nanniichuan, Japanese, Powdered and Outlet Nanniichuan in the anime, one whole cask of Nanniichuan was only enough water to cure one person in the manga finale). Finally, option three is that "template" Springs (Nanniichuan for guys, Nyanniichuan for girls) overwrite and anything else is absorbed.

** While nothing is ever stated as to why Taro assimilated his Octopus curse, there's three perfectly good simple explanations that could explain it. For a start, it could have happened because Taro's original curse is a case of [[Mix-and-Match Critters]] -- it's four seperate creatures that drowned in one spring, all blended into one seamless whole. A new curse just got "infected" by the same glitchy "programming" and added to the whole. Option two is that Taro only splashed himself with Octopus water and it takes heavy or total immersion to have a new curse overwrite an old one -- note that whenever a "Nanniichuan spring" shows up in the series, Ranma and co always try to arrange a large quantity, not a mere ladleful (Instant Nanniichuan, Japanese, Powdered and Outlet Nanniichuan in the anime, one whole cask of Nanniichuan was only enough water to cure one person in the manga finale). Finally, option three is that "template" Springs (Nanniichuan for guys, Nyanniichuan for girls) overwrite and anything else is absorbed.

** None of the above answer the question of how the cast learned that the Nanniichuan can cure them. Among the cast, it seems to have suddenly and abruptly become common knowledge that it could, even though no one is ever actually shown discovering this fact.

Line 278:

** This troper has memories of his late great-grandmother up to just prior to his younger sister's birth. (His sister going on 17 at the time of this edit.)

** Read The Belgariad by David Eddings. Trying to say Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-yaddayadda-Grandmother would just take too damn long. Sayin Great Grandmother is much easier and quicker.

** I'm not sure, [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Japanese_honorifics~~#~~Familial_honorifics~~ but is "Grand-mother" not a polite way to address elderly women in Japanese]?

** I'm not sure, [[wikipedia:Japanese honorifics#Familial honorifics|but is "Grand-mother" not a polite way to address elderly women in Japanese]]?

* '''The [[Foreign Queasine]] article has enlightened me to the true horrors of ordering donkey meat in China, but I have to wonder if it also applies to pork. After all, the Jusenkyo Guide tossed P-chan in a wok to boil, lobster style, without killing him first. Shampoo also served him up in a platter with sauce and garnish after merely knocking him out (without even bothering to wash him, it seems.) Is raw, cold pork a delicacy for the people of the Jusenkyo area?'''