Spica75 wrote:That´s exaggerating it a bit. We do know though that there´s at least several times where it happens a bunch of times on the same day, and that the way it happens is often totally unlikely.
That's suggesting a number of logical fallacies. Unlikelihood doesn't mean that there must be something at work aside from chance and deliberate actions from tangible, known variables. And, again, that we see these unlikely events happening within a day a few times does not mean that it's common/normal for the vast majority of days that we do not witness. You also have to consider the fact that the one responsible for illustrating these events to us clearly have a reason to be discriminatory when it comes to showing us certain things.
In comparison, i think i have been splashed with water(cold OR warm) once or MAYBE twice in over 40 years in any way even remotely resembling what happens to Ranma all the time(and even that´s stretching similarity, as likely neither of my "events" would have triggered such a curse if i had it(nor have anyone i know had that kind of watery experiences by way of random)).
Getting splashed by cold water once per week is already an extremely unlikely thing to happen based on pure random chance. Heck, even once a YEAR isn´t remotely likely unless you do something to seek probabilities out.
I'm fairly confident that your circumstances and character are
very different from his, and that matters a lot. There's no way that your expectations can come anywhere near to being equivalent. If he were more sedentary, avoidant and less adventurous, then I might humor you, but he's not. It's because he moves around a lot, can do it in ways we can't, and has the strength, fortitude and skills to expose himself to hazards beyond us, that trivializes his exposure to water. His chances aren't the same as ours simply because he's the sort of person who puts himself out there where such things are more possible, as opposed to the sort of person who spends most of their time in a controlled and/or dry environment, who may or may not also have an "uncomplicated" social life. Ranma's simply not the kind of person who goes out of his way to significantly reduce the possibility of coming into contact with water by chance.
And while there´s no real timeline for Ranma, we do know it takes place during a rather short period of time, almost certainly less than 2 years, with some parts suggesting less than 1 year even.
Can't be less than one year, considering there's two New Years, not to mention multiple Summers and Winters. (Heck,
at least half a year passes in just the span of the first four graphic novels.)
But what you're saying is beside the point. Whatever amount of time we think has passed while certain characters' ages and school grade remain the same, we still only see a very small fraction of it.