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From: 	Ross McKenzie[SMTP:rmckenzi@euclid.ucsd.edu]
Sent: 	Monday, May 20, 1996 3:24 PM
To: 	fanfic@tendo-dojo.ranma.net
Subject: 	anime background info needed


	I need some names for a new fanfic:
3) Konatsu's (the crossdressing ninja from R1/2) family name

	I double checked my copy of vol. 35, and on page 96 Konatsu introduces himself by
saying, "Kunoichi, Konatsu Kenzan." So Konatsu is evidently the family name, and Kenzan the
given name. I do find it a bit odd that no one, not even Konatsu's step-relatives, calls him anything
but Konatsu, as well as the fact that the other time Takahashi uses the name Konatsu, in Maison
Ikkoku, she uses it as a female given name, but there you are. Unless it's the custom for kunoichi to
introduce themselves by giving their names in the reverse of the usual Japanese order....

Reid Carson
rcarson@landmark.com