Someone emailed me asking if Ranma needed scissors, don't know why they wanted to know, but Ranma does not need scissors. He is capable of cutting things using his/her fingers (considering that Ranma can cut perfect holes in stone walls barehanded and we see cutting techniques using air pressure, ki, and vacuum blades, I thought this was fairly obvious).
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Rumiko's knowledge on buildings is highly suspect. Why would the walls in Ryoga's house be made out of concrete/stone?
Why would the cold water line in the kitchen spray Ranma with hot water in the cooking chapter? And I'm sure there are other instances that don't stand out so obviously.
While Takahashi is an artist not an architect so it's pretty much expected that she will make these types of errors (similarly she is not a martial artist so the martial arts technique, not even counting the special ones, are occasionally flawed).
Ryoga's house being made extra strong, concrete instead of say wood does make sense, Ryoga is pretty damn strong and it might run in the family (plus people do build buildings with concrete/stone in real life -though stone veneers are more common than actually building the entire wall that way).
As for the cold water line in the kitchen, wasn't that supposed to be the hot water line connected to the small water heater that goes to the sink? Meaning it was hot water (Kasumi even sent Nabiki in to warn them that there was a problem with that line).
Concrete isn't very easily replaced, if they have a problem with strength and accidentally breaking things than they would use cheap materials like wood that can be easily replaced. Normal 2 story homes don't have concrete walls outside of the basement or base like in this video. (Ignore the rest of the construction)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcC0XEH6AY
Those water heaters don't work like that, they have to be turned on to produce hot water. Which is one of their supposed benefits from the tank system which is always heating water. It's also clearly the cold water pipe that goes into the heater which is hit. Since a sink unit like that would have a flexible plastic hose, which is shown when the fixed cold line is spraying out "hot water"
As I said Takahashi is an artist not an architect.
I do know that most houses of that type do not build with concrete/stone (particularly in Japan). Super strong would make sense to build with cheaper to replace materials, but just really strong, but not strong enough to break rock would make sense to build with rock (i.e. strong enough to break wood but not strong enough to break stone).
Most Japanese houses do not have basements (there are even laws prohibiting them in many places) and stone walls like the type Ryoga's house appears to have are more common in places like England than Asia (where you can find stone or brick walls thickened by an additional layer of thermic insulation and plaster - which are thick enough to take hits with sledgehammers). Of course Ryoga's house could be based on European design, not Japanese (there are a few, but not many, since it is not practical to build that way in Japan).
Yeah again I know that those heaters do not work that way but Takahashi made it very clear that it was supposed to shoot hot water, Kasumi and Nabiki's comments were supposed to hand-wave that. It is actually possible to break one in such a way to shoot hot water, but it is very difficult since they are designed to only heat water if the tap is on (and would only be on the out flowing pipe and would not shoot anywhere near that amount of water). It's basically comic exaggeration, similarly to how the eggs Akane stuck in the microwave blew the door off the microwave (unless she put some of those egg shaped explosives that Shampoo added to Mousses weapons to sabotage them).
Takahashi is not as bad as many authors. Buildings can and are built with stone and the other examples given (microwave and hot water spray) are for jokes.
I remember an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation in which some nanotechnology had nanites somehow evolve and develop sentience. Many, many comic book worlds have weird building properties such as Spiderman or Superman lifting things that should break apart being lifted the way they are (not designed and can not stay in one piece when lifted from one spot). Even non humorous shows sometimes have objects, like say toasters, act in a way that just would not happen for a joke. Many movies have weird buildings/objects, like cars exploding when shot with a bullet which would not happen in real life. The microwave weapon in Batman begins would not work like it was shown to, microwave radation should have been killing people and it really should not be turned on in a large metal train, etc...
How do we know the walls are made of concrete, and not something like plaster?
We don't, not really, but looking at them they do not look like plaster (they appear solid as opposed to layered over brick, stone, halftimber,... and we do see an interior/side view when it falls onto Ryoga after being cut out, the apparent weight of it also points to it being stone). Though we can not be sure of anything drawn, we just look at the drawings and make assumptions as to the materials.
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