> less interested in those things than most.  I want to know as much as I
> can about the Jusenkyou curses.
>     If you change with hot and cold water, what makes it hot and cold.
> Hot to me may be warm to you, and chilly to some (weird) other guy.  At
> what point does it happen?  How much water does it take?  How fast is
> it? What does it feel like?  How disorientating is it?  Stuff like this
> interests me, and  figure you've all tried to figure it out before.

Well, the short answer is that Jusenkyou curses behave however
Takahashi-sensei wants them to. The rest of us are left trying
to deduce from examples. Certianly many people were suprised
by a Jusenkyou curse which appears in the role of a *major
spoiler* in the final story arc.

An interesting thing about the hot vs. cold water question
is that Japanese has distinct words for hot and cold water.
("mizu" => cold water, "oyu" or "yu" => hot water)

People have inferred that a relatively small amount of water
is effective when it is applied to the head. And it's been
speculated that the temperature is hot or cold relative
to body temperature. But I don't think there's definite
proof.

Even in the Ranma-verse, people who understand ancient Chinese
curses seem in a distinct minority, though there's a lot of
magic going around. Given that this is a martial arts
comedy, the Chinese influence is less surprising.

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    Albert Lunde          Albert-Lunde@northwestern.edu (new address)
                          Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (old address)