Ok, for all you people out there in the FFML, I bring you
VERSION 0.5 (!!!) of the Tendo Home Floorplan. Don't ask me
why the heck I'm even numbering this, but I am. At any
rate, I would like to thank the following people for their
input, either through the FFML or from their websites. In
no particular order:
Rebeka Thomas
Chris Nasipak
Matthew Lewis
Morgan Hudson
Pippin Took
God of Devils
Patrick Vera
David Lee Kersey
Jerome Fouletier
Steven A. Pirrone
Thomas Hood
Douglas MacDougall
Jim Lazar
Andrew Searls
And anybody else I might have missed. Sorry if I did.
Trust me, when I went out and asked a simple question about
a bathroom, things sort of ballooned out of control. Guess
that's what happens when you lump a whole lot of questions
together. In fact, for some reason, I'm making a FAQ, but
since there is no questions being asked, it's more of an
information sheet. At any rate, this just gives basic and
realistic information about the Tendo Home. (Wonder if
anybody did a 'This Old House'/Ranma 1/2 piece. I'm not
even going to touch that idea with a ten foot pole!) If
there are any spelling mistakes, tell me. If there are any
other mistakes, such as information and so on, give me
evidence (i.e. what episode or manga volume it was in.) If
you don't like it, delete this and ignore it.
Disclaimer:
Everything belongs to whoever it belongs to. I'm just
writing this stuff out. Oh yeah, all of the guess work that
is put in is my own personal opinion.
I. General Information
To the IMMENSE surprise of myself and all living things in
all of existence, there are TWO Tendo homes. There is the
Tendo home of the manga. And there is the Tendo home of the
Anime. This section will not only contain general
information, but information that SHOULD pertain to both
Tendo homes. (Damn, Mr. Tendo is RICH to own two homes! ;)
)
A. Size
The Tendo home is HUGE! That means that the Tendo family
are RICH! I base this off a picture of a sketch of the
Tendo home and dojo. If you want a relative approximate
size of the entire property, think of 3 or 3 1/2 average
American homes (frontyard and backyard), that are next to
each other. That is the size of the property. Go ahead and
go to the websites at the bottom of the page and take a look
for yourselves!
The house itself takes the space of 1 1/2 large average
American homes, mainly because it was built in the shape of
an L. The physical space provided inside the home is
probably the size of 2 large average American two story
homes. This is because the home is two stories tall, and
there aren't too many redundant rooms, like multiple
bathrooms. Of course, when you add in the size of the dojo
(which is as big as a small home or a large apartment), an
apparent storage shed (which can be emptied and used as a
garage for a 4 door car (don't know too much about cars,
personally)), and a koi pond the size of the dojo, well...
there is no WAY that you can call the Tendo property (Estate
would probably be more accurate) as belonging to people with
no money.
NOTE: If nobody believes me about the size, just go to the
websites and look at the pictures! Then pretend a nice
normal person is down there, and make sure that normal
person is scaled down so that he can fit through the door
that you see on the storage shed. And don't forget, there
are two doors to the shed, and that you only need to open
one of them to get into the shed. Then compare him to
everything else in the picture. That's how I got my
estimates on size.
B. Upkeep
This is for everyone who believes that Nabiki is the sole
source of income for the entire Tendo home. There is no
FREAKING way that this can be true! You need to consider
the cost of food, supplies for the home, supplies for the
dojo, supplies to maintain the plants and other living
creatures, utilites, and tax. Now, go and consider how much
money you can cheat out of students who happen to go to
school. There is no way Nabiki is going to be able to
support the entire Tendo family with what she makes (unless
she joined the Yakuza or other organized crime.)
After taking a good look at the size of the actual property
itself, it would be safe to assume, through the Tendo
Samurai Ancestry (assuming that they have samurai ancestry),
that there are property, investments, and other financial
holdings belonging to the Tendo family. You can't own
property that BIG and not be expected to be rich enough to
keep it and live comfortably. Especially with the
exorbitant property tax in Japan. It is also possible to
assume that you are going to be needing a LOT of students in
the dojo, if the dojo is the ONLY thing supporting the home.
Traditionally, in a Korean home at least, and probably in a
Japanese home as well as most of Asia, it is the wife (or
the women) who takes care of the finances (the men just make
the money). It is also the duty of the wife to give out an
allowance to the husband and to the rest of the family (only
if the husband agrees). I'd have to say that it is Nabiki
who maintains all of the investments, property, and other
financial holdings, and that they are being used to pay all
of the bills.
However, considering that Kasumi, Akane, and Soun own
personal property and that they probably go out and buy
stuff that interests them, they probably get an allowance
from Nabiki. Why is Nabiki chosen to maintain the finances?
Simple, maintaining such a large property and giving an
allowance to the rest of the family, probably leaves very
little money left over. And since Nabiki is shown acquiring
money from her fellow students, and that most of the
clothing, jewlewry, and make up are probably borrowed from
both of her sisters (check out Vol. 17 for Akane reclaiming
her stuff if you don't believe me), means that Nabiki
probably has to get money for herself through other means.
Means that she herself must do.
C. Time
The home was probably refurbished (or rebuilt) after World
War II. In fact, the entire setting of the Ranma 1/2 is
probably during the 60-70's. At least in the manga, however
there are signs of certain background products that are
being used that weren't even made until the 80's. The
reason why the house appears to have been refurbished is
because the bathroom contain western fixtures and tiles, the
kitchen has a gas stove and a refrigerator, the dojo and the
rest of the house contain flourescent lamps.
In the Anime however, later epsiodes, movies, OVA's bring
into play modern technology, such as giving Nabiki a
computer. Because the anime has an 'evolving' technological
level, it's a HECK of a lot harder to pin down the exact
time of the series, therefore allowing fanfic writers to
choose the year that they want. Of course, fanfic writers
have always 'customized' the house and everything else in it
regardless of the manga/anime.
Of course, the whole reason I'm even mentioning any of this
stuff about the time of when the Tendo home was built,
refurbished, etc., is because authors tend to forget that
the house is a good indicator of what type of technology,
vehicles, and historical events are going on. But that's
just my personal opinion. But, don't take my word for it...
(I think that's how it's said on The Reading Rainbow.)
D. Ranma
Ranma is right handed. He is not left handed. He is most
definetely right handed. As well as everyone else in the
series (I think).
II. The Tendo Home
Ok, this is where I am going to go and justify a lot of what
I say the size of the Tendo Home actually is. Heh heh heh,
I know that a LOT of you probably don't even believe me when
I say that the size of the home is realistic. Of course,
I'm just basing the size of the home from what I was able to
determine from that picture.
A. Map
The following are a basic map of the floorplan of the Tendo
Home. Don't even expect this map to be in scale. I'm using
ANSI/ASCII (depends on whatever it is this text editor saves
it as) to draw a floorplan. There is no WAY that it is
going to be in scale. Pretend that there are doors there
too. And closets. (Oh yeah, I also used a DOS editor to
look at text files saved in both ANSI and ASCII, and they
BOTH looked the same!)
1. Manga
_________
1F | ______ |___________
| | |____________|
Koi | | F | | | C |_|<-3
| |_____| 2 |_|___|_|<-T
| |____| | O |
| | | |___|
__|_____ | | __________
| | | | K | | |
| | 1 | |____| | |
| |_____| |________| D |
| |________| |
|__E________**_| |_________|
__________________
2F | | | |
| K2 | N | A |
|_____|_____|_____|_
|_____ __________|_|<-B
_| | |
| | | Key:
| S | |
| __| | 1=Happosai(?)
|___|__ | 2=Soun(?)
**| 3=Hamper(?)
A=Akane's Room
B=Drying Balcony
C=Changing Room
D=Dojo
E=Main Entrance
F=Family Room
K=Kitchen
K2=Kasumi's Room
Koi=Koi Pond
N=Nabiki's Room
O=Ofuro
S=Saotome's Room
T=Toilet
**=Stairs
NOTE: I have two different floorplans, each labeled
differently. I have written down what appears to be the
proper rooms. In fact, the rooms that have Numbers for
Labels, are the rooms that I am not sure of. Room 3 is
labeled, but it is so small I can't even make it out (I
requested a blown up picture from Jim Lazar, but I haven't
got a response back yet). Rooms 1 and 2 are
interchangeable. In the Anime, Room 1 is Happosai's room.
And that is also how it is labeled on the picture on the
website. However, a picture I got through email shows Room
1 as being Soun's. So I don't know.
2. Anime
________ *
1F | |*|
| B | |
| | | Key:
|_______| |
| | A=Akane's bedroom
Rest of house | | B=Bathroom
_ K=Kasumi's Bedroom
2F | |______ N=Nabiki's Bedroom
| | | S=Soun's Bedroom
| | S | **=Stairs
| | |
_______| |______|
| | |
| | |
| N | |
|______| |______
| | | |
| A | | K |
| | | |
|______| |______|
|*|
|*|
NOTE: Nobody has actually told me what the first floor
actually looks like in the Anime series. I'm just guessing
that the reason why, is because I didn't ask for it. Oh
well, live and learn.
B. Kitchen
Hey, Morgan Hudson told me what the heck the kitchen looks
like, so I must as well put his hard work for everyone to
know. This is pretty basic though, so don't expect to be
able to see the kitchen when you close your eyes!
1. Manga
I have no freaking clue. The only thing that I know about
the kitchen is that it has a 4 burner gas stove. Everything
else is up for grabs. Oh yeah, there's also a table in here
to.
2. Anime
Ok, now the kitchen has a 4 burner gas stove, overhead
cabinets, a western style kitchen sink with several cabinets
underneath, a drying rack next to the sink on the counter, a
trashcan next to the stove, and a refrigerator in the
corner. There is a door which may lead outside or to a
pantry, however it's most likely a pantry.
C. Bathroom
Ok, this is what got me into this whole shebang. The
bathroom. Why? Because there are so many different
versions of this single room, that I decided to go and
figure out what it's supposed to look like, and where in the
house it's supposed to be! Everyone was saying upstairs,
downstairs, in the basement even! (Just kidding ;) ) Also,
the toilet was never shown, mentioned anywhere, but since
the bathroom in the Tendo home uses western fixtures, it's
safe to assume that toilet is probably a western toilet. At
any rate since this is an important room, and where
important things happen in Ranma 1/2, I present to you a
description of the bathroom.
1. Manga
Apparently, the bathroom in the Manga has two parts. The
changing room and the washing room. From what Patrick Vera
described about what is in the changing room, there are a
washing machine and a sink on the right side of the room
when you enter. On the left is the toilet room. However he
then continues on and describes the washing room from the
Anime itself. Other people have told me that the washing
room is a single room, where the ofuro is in the back end,
and the washing area is in front of it. I'd have to say
that this is far more accurate, at least, because most of
the information I got confirmed this. The door to the
changing room is a western style door, while the door that
seperates the changing room from the washing room is a
traditional sliding door.
2. Anime
Ok, the bathroom in the Anime is seperated into three
sections. An unknow style door leads into the changing
room. Don't know what is in the changing room however. A
western style door seperates the changing room from the
washing room. Inside the washing room is one of those hand
held shower heads that you can pick up and use. Oh yeah, if
you haven't figured this out, both anime and manga have the
bathroom using western fixtures and tiles. There is a
traditional sliding door that seperates the washing room
from the ofuro. The ofuro is where you soak when you're
done washing yourself. Apparently, you're supposed to call
a furo an ofuro, because ofuro means 'honourable bathtub'.
I think. I'm not sure, but that's what Matthew Lewis told
me.
D. Bedroom
This is the second most important room/rooms in the Tendo
home. The bedroom. Yes, most important. A lot of the
really important stuff happens in the bedroom, just like
really important stuff happens in the bathroom. Oh, if
you're curious, only bedrooms belonging to the Tendo sisters
will talked about here. Why? Simple, those are the only
bedrooms that I really have any reliable information on.
Apparently, these may be the only rooms in the entire house
to have air conditioning. And all three bedrooms have
western style doors.
NOTE: Most of the information about the rooms are probably
safe to assume as being true, at least in the beginning of
the series. They may change later on. And remember folks,
I can be wrong with some of the information, and all I'm
putting down is what I have been told and what I have been
able to figure out.
1. Kasumi's Bedroom
Unfortunately, this is the least used bedroom in Ranma 1/2.
Kasumi's bedroom really doesn't get too much spotlight, so
not much to really talk about here. On her door is a wooden
nameplate, and maybe some flowers stuffed into the corner
where the K is. I feel sorry for Kasumi, not enough action
happens here.
2. Nabiki's Bedroom
Ah! The second most active bedroom in the Tendo house. And
the most interesting. This single room proves just how
unreliable the normal laws of physics do not work in Ranma
1/2. Also her door does contains a simple name tag, however
it was pointed out to me that someone could have sworn that
the simple name tag was replaced once with a duck that had
Nabiki's name on it. May or may not be true.
a. Manga
When you enter the room through the door, a large
closet/dresser thingy is on the left side of the room. On
the right side of the room is a cabinet, a bookshelf, and a
desk. The far side of the room contains the hated object
that kills the normal laws of physics. Her bed. Now before
I talk about her bed, let us first talk about her bedroom
window. It is large, and quite possible takes up a VERY
large section of the far wall. Now, the bed takes up about
a 1/3 of the room. If Nabiki had a twin sister, and that
they were lesbian lovers, they both can comfortably sleep on
that bed together, side by side. Considering the size of
the bed, and the size of the room, and how the three Tendo
sisters apparently have rooms that are the same size, then
that must mean that their bedrooms are just a little smaller
then the main bedroom of an average American home. Which
proves just how HUGE the Tendo house actually is. How the
bed actually defies physics is simple; HOW in the world did
they get that huge sucker of a bed into the room through the
DOOR?!
b. Anime
In the Anime, from what I have been told from Morgan Hudson,
Nabiki has bedsheets covered with the yen symbol, pink
curtains with small green and yellow polka dots, a big
stereo system, and woodpaneled walls. She also has a
computer that's on a desk next to a window during the
opening of "A Pure and Honest Christmas."
3. Akane's Bedroom
THE most active bedroom in the entire Tendo home. On the
door to her room is a simple duck containing her name.
a. Manga
Akane has a rather small bed, one where she can comfortably
lay on by herself. Quite possibly a twin sized bed. Next
to her bed, which is in a corner, is a small desk that is in
front of a small window. Sitting at the desk, a bookshelf
would be off to the left, set in a corner. Against the wall
that the bookshelf is set against, is Nabiki's room. On the
wall opposite the desk, is the door.
b. Anime
Green sheets cover Akane's bed, a bookshelf, a smell desk
with lamp, a computer chair, and a small stereo system.
Unlike the Manga, she doesn't have curtains over her window.
The floor has blue carpeting, and the walls have white
wallpaper with wooden floorboards.
III Websites
The following websites contain pictures that you should look
at to get more a detailed picture on the Tendo home. At
least the Manga version.
http://www.dougmacd.net/ranma/house.html contains a
floorplan and a picture of the Tendo property.
http://www.jps.net/searlsa/tendo/intro.html contains a
larger picture of the Tendo property.
IV Misc. Rambling
Most of this stuff should not be expected to be true. I
wrote all of this down with what I was told, so don't go
complaining about how something or other is so incredibly
wrong. I wouldn't mind expanding or making corrections on
this, so go on ahead and tell me if I'm wrong about
something. At least give me constructive criticism here!
And if somebody else has already created something even
remotely something like this, then why didn't ANYBODY TELL
ME!!!! :) Maybe somebody is going to actually use this,
maybe not. I do know that I am going to be using this
however. After all, I am the one who put this together.