Other things the memorial album has that people might find useful --

--a basic timeline of events 
--a description of a lot of aspects of Ranma's personality
--a chart of romantic relationships
-- a complete manga episode guide
--an interview with Takahashi-sama

Plus there's tons of Takahashi's watercolors, with notes by her on a few 
of them (which ones she likes, problems drawing them, etc.)

NOTE: she does say that in her watercolors she often colors Ranma-chan's 
hair pink to contrast with Ranma-kun's dark hair.  Implies that 
Ranma-chan's hair is supposed to be black in "reality"

If you haven't got this -- GET IT!  The pictures alone are worth it, so 
don't let a lack of knowledge of Japanese stop you.

mata ne,
bengman

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Bridget E. Engman * Zou yara, kuma yara, rakuda yara -- fushigi ni kemono ga
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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 Thomas_Schauer@ITA.DOC.GOV wrote:

but I recently got the Ranma Memorial Album, and I noticed a couple of
things:

1)  Tofu-sensei's family name is in fact Ono.  Of course, as Kunoichi
pointed out, it's also on the sign outside his office in the early manga.  I
only though to check that out after she pointed it out, however (I'm not
very clever, so...)

2)  The album gives the name of one of Ranma's friends (the one with
the light brown hair) as "Chappatsu", which means "light-brown hair". 
Appropriate enough name, I suppose.  It should also put to rest any
questions one may have about the color of *his* hair, at any rate...  So
far as I could tell, however, none of Ranma's or Akane's other
acquaintances' names are given (aside from the regular "cast", such as
Kuno and Ukyou, of course)