At 3:08 PM -0700 21/10/2001, Defender of the Light wrote:

I'm replying to a couple of these at once.

--- Angus MacSpon <macspon@ihug.co.nz>

 wrote:

Well, as far as I can make out, the senshi are 13-14
at the start of SM, whereas I've always assumed that
Ranma & co are sixteenish.

Akane's age is specifically given as sixteen, in the beginning of the manga.

D'oh!  How could I forget that?  :)

Most of the other Ranma characters are in the same year of school as she.  The senshi I'm not sure about, but aren't they in junior high rather than high school?  Also, I think Ami is a year younger than the other senshi.  Wasn't mention made of her having skipped a year of school?

The SM manga explicitly says Usagi is 14.  I don't remember if Ami is
younger, but (apart from her figure) it wouldn't be a surprise.

 >(This may mean that Ranma is the Great Green

Arkleseizure, by the way. Five points for anyone
catching the reference...)

Hitchhiker's Guide.  I'm not sure of the exact book.  I caught it when I first read the story, but did not remember the spelling of Arkleseizure.

I had to look it up in the script book myself. :)  It's at the beginning of
the fifth episode.  Not sure where it is in the books; been a while since
I re-read them.

So what does that imply about the coming of the Great White Handkerchief?

It's going to need laundering afterward.

Cheers,
Angus