Mina-san, Ohayou!
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Bridget Ellen Engman wrote:
: Sebastian Weinberg wrote:
:
: > On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Mike Noakes wrote:
: >
: > : I'm pretty sure it might be upstairs (based on the manga...)
: >
: > Well, there will certainly conflicting answers, since there are
: > conflicting sources. In the anime the room is *quite* decidedly
: > upstairs, and even in the manga you can see Ranma going downstairs
: > to take a bath once in the first volume.
: The Ranma 1/2 Movie & OVA "visual selection" manga has, as a bonus in
: the back of the book, the "floorplan" of the Tendo residence that is
: used by the animators.
But only for that OVA, apparently, since it is inconsistent with
some things in the Anime series, from what I hear (Ranma falling
into the pond when thrown from Akane's and his own widow, even
though the rooms do not face the same side of the yard).
: Of course, how consistently this has been used throughout the series is
: anybody's guess....
Judging from the Manga, I believe that Takahashi-sensei had a
pretty good idea of the house's layout, possibly even a plan, when
she drew the Manga (that would also make cooperation with the
assistants easier). The plan in the OVA book was probably drawn
only for that production, since it apparently contradicts the
Anime continuity in some places, and it *definitely* does not fit
the house that is shown in the Manga. When I heard of that plan,
I thought I could use it to check my own research against, but it
is entirely inconsitent with just about everything that can be
gleaned from the Manga. I heard there's a publication named
_Ranma 1/2 no himitsu_ (The secrets of Ranma 1/2) where some fans
tracked down a lot of the reference material that Takahashi-sensei
apparently used (You know, landscapes, locations, stuff like that)
and which includes a floorplan of the Tendou home. If anyone has
that book, I'd be *very* interested in some of the info therein.
Sebastian