Ted Wang asked if the oroshi from "An Akane to Remember" is based on a
real Japanese legend.

Yes!!  It's based on the legend of the god Susanou, who rescued a young
woman about to be eaten by an 8-headed dragon, the oroshi.  He did it by
getting the oroshi drunk on sake and cutting off its heads while it slept.

-Saotome Laura, legend-keeper of the Dragon.

Founder of the Knighthood of the True Fiancee
Co-guardian of the First Gate 
Wielder of the gosunkugi for OLA (#shing# #shing#)
Member of the Church of Akane

YES!! I too have a web page!
http://www.whitman.edu/~stoffell/ranma.html
or the Knighthood:
http://www.whitman.edu/~stoffell/ktf.html