Ted wrote:

> Maybe it's the pre-Meiji xenophobia when the Japanese resisted anything
> western. If it wasn't for the light bulb they'd have hung on to that
> belief for awhile longer. More I'd have to say Ranma takes place in the
> 80's. Calculators back then used to cost 40 dollars or more.

Yeah, well, there's one later episode where a kid has a japanese Super
Nintendo, which didn't come around till the early '90s.  Then again, the
Tendos don't even have a car...

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