Quoting Thunderstruck <thunderstruck_comic@comcast.net>:

I would submit as a suggestion to you that you
rethink this basic assumption that Nerima is somehow
crazier than the rest of the world in the Ranmaverse.
While this is a pretty common fanfic notion, it does
not really bear out from the source material,

The source material does, however, bear out the notion
that there is a concept of "normal" physical abilities
not totally divorced from our own in the Ranmaverse.
Many, many panels show (Tokyo-area, at least) bystanders
surprised, awed, and/or stupified when our cast does
their thing.  And it's usually ALL bystanders.

Ranma and company travel to many places outside
Nerima in the course of the series. Every one of them
has curses, enchantments, monsters, weird martial
artists, and so forth and so on. There is every
indication that the entire world works that way in the
series, not that it's localized to Nerima.

There's two different things going on here.  Yes, when
the Ranma cast ventures to the beach, they'll find a
cursed bathing suit, a friendly giant octopus, or a
watermelon curse; if Ranma trains in the mountains,
he'll find a haunted mirror mansion; if the group goes 
to a hot-springs town, they'll find a cursed doll.
And, more to the point, that episode's one-shot
characters seem to treat these events as normal; nobody
ever says "You probably won't believe me, but..."

So CURSES are fairly normal in the Ranmaverse.  That's
not the same think as saying that monsters and high-
level martial artists shattering Olympic records are
encountered by the average person with the same
frequency.

To the best of my recollection, when our cast finds 
monsters, it's because they went looking for them.

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