not my fault. i was on hold with Medicare, KSLX had
 an interview with Jethro, and this popped into my
 head. Maybe i was "channelling" Uncle Fester...

you know the tune.

"gonna tell ye a story,  bout a Soun Tendo,
 livin' out in Nerima, with a failin dojo,
 then one day he was shootin' off his mouth,
 got his girls all engaged to someone from the south.

"Kansai - that is,
 Osaka prefecture.

"Well before you know it ol' Soun's in LEO,
  kicked there by the youngest Tendo,
  cause he said: 'hey daughters, here's the way it's gonna be,
  you'll marry this here Ranma, carry on the family...

"dojo and all...

"The Kansai Tendos...."
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immediate idea of "what if Nodoka was Nodoka Mendo!"
  obscenely wealthy Ranma taught martial arts all his
  life, plus business trips. Has a personal chef: Ukyou
  Kuonji (also does electronic sweeps), and  his 
  business contacts with the Nichieju have netted him
  his chief bodyguard, Shampoo.
<shudder> this concept came together WAY too easy.
 maybe i WAS channelling Uncle Fester. <shudder,shudder>