Sebastian Weinberg wrote:

On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Mike Noakes wrote:

:       And while I'm asking - and I hate to bring this up, since it'll
: probably raise a lot of conflicting answers - but where is Ranma's room?
: I've been following Sebastian Weinberg's (sp?) floorplan, which seems
: pretty accurate, but while he places Ranma's bedroom on the ground floor,
: 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.  My decision to place the
room downstairs stems from the fact that there are numerous points
later in the manga where the room is clearly downstairs.  I can
seek them out again, if you like - one that springs to mind is
during the first Bakeneko story, where the cat is punched through
Ranma's door and lands in the garden, walks back in through the
door and is right back before Ranma's room.  Also the general
architecture of the downstairs rooms is different from the
upstairs ones and Ranma's and Genma's room fits in better there.
If anyone can point out another scene that places the room
upstairs, besides the one mentioned for volume 1 I'd like to be
notified.

All in all, the house is remarkably consistent for a manga
location, given that the process of creating a weekly manga makes
planning and fitting in locations difficult.

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.  According to that, Ranma and Genma's room is at
the top of the stairs, facing on a hall that forms the leg of a "T" with
the hall with the girls' rooms.  It is right at the top of the stairs. 
The bathroom is downstairs, as far away from the stairs as possible.  As
near as I can figure, Soun sleeps downstairs, but there is no room
assigned to hm in the floorplan.

Of course, how consistently this has been used throughout the series is
anybody's guess....

mata ne,
bengman

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