Crescent Pulsar R wrote:There's the universe's mechanics, too. Humans in Ranma 1/2 are capable of doing a lot more than humans in the real world. What seems more than human to us is acceptable -- perhaps even commonplace -- to them.
Midgets like Happosai, Cologne and Rakkyousai are cases of artistic license, as they are still treated as humans.
I'm not saying that it's impossible for one of the characters to have a parent or ancestor that had been among the youkai, yousei, or something of that sort: there's simply no direct evidence to draw such a conclusion as a fact, rather than as a theory. (This is with the exception, of course, of the Musk and Phoenix people, where it's evident enough that they're not completely human.)
It's not that simple as to say
Cologne is described as a mummy as I recall.
Happosai was trapped in a cave with no food, water, and possibly breathable air by a paper ward for about 16 years(Akane had just been born, but he had heard nothing of Ranma)(Not eating canonly kills human Ranmaverse martial artists) Humans can't be sealed in caves by paper wards.
He heals at an abnormally fast rate.
Nodoka exhibits abnormal strength and speed being able to keep up with Genma in spite of no training. She also looks like the monkey Herb through into the spring of drowned girl, and talks about being from a long line of warriors/martial artists.
Ranma has had his head smashed in with weapons(as in the weapons are stuck in his skull), and recovered in moments when he wanted to. He heals so fast it amazes even superhuman martial artists.
He looks like the monkey Herb threw in the spring of drowned girl when in girl form.
Ranma has gone without eating for a prolonged period of time without losing mass.
He survived being sealed in concrete and buried alive, and found it annoying much to the surprise of Happossai who had intended to kill Ranma that way.
Ranma survived someone reaching into his chest, and grabbing/crushing his heart in an attempt to rip it out, and fully recovered in about a week at most.
Ryoga has his fangs that are a blood line trait. While fangs like Ryoga's can be found in the general population they are very rare.
Ryoga's family curse shows a more mystical background.
Do to Ryoga's curse we can assume he was often on his own from a very early age, and had to fend for himself. As soon as he would be able to crawl he would start getting lost. This means he would have to be abnormally tuff in order to survive.
The curse is not simply getting lost, but either warping reality, or a teleport since Ryoga crosses large boding of water without realizing it.