Jusenkyo [Ranma 1/2]

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1. #1Jusenkyoconstant

   Keys: Jusenkyo, curse, splash, cold water, hot water · Secondary: Shampoo, Mousse

   Jusenkyo, (Zhòuquánxiāng in Mandarin) is the legendary training ground of "cursed" springs, located in the Bayankala Mountain range, south of Mount Kensei, in Qinghai Province, China. It is maintained by the Jusenkyo Guide.

   Many sad stories have happened in Jusenkyo, mainly that people and animals have drowned in the various pools hundreds or thousands of years ago. Legend has it that when something is immersed in one of these pools, the pool becomes cursed, and anyone falling into that pool will become whatever first fell in or drowned there, although, unless specified, they retain their mind, personality and skills. The cure (or rather the reverse of transformation as it were) is to be splashed with hot water. Then the victim would remain in his or her natural form until again encountering cold water.

   The Curses of Jusenkyo are all Spring-specific, as each spring is named after a specific transition trait. It appears that there can only be one spring per curse, or that no two have simply coincided. Regardless, the curses are all vastly different from each other and some may even defy common logic. There is at least one Spring where four animals were immersed in at once, and a few of them are apparently "Blank" in the regard that none of them have had anything "drown" in them yet.

   Jusenkyo seems to sometimes serve as a "training ground" for martial artists, who seek to train through vaulting and dueling atop the bamboo poles that jut out of the many springs. Precisely what this seeks to train or how effective it is happens to be unknown; no trainee has ever been seen to complete their training at the springs without being cursed.

   Jusenkyo seems to attract interest nowadays almost solely due to its curse-bestowing status rather then any actual benefit to be gained from training there, but it is possible that whatever past training benefits there were are simply lost to history.

   Outside of being mentioned as a training ground in the Martial Arts community, the curses themselves seem be practically unheard of, possibly do to the scrutiny of such an unscientific accusation or simply a neglected part of the tales. The Joketsuzoku tribe live in a village that is close to these cursed springs but yet the knowledge is also near-none-existent to them as well as Shampoo and Mousse had no knowledge about it until cursed themselves.

2. #2List of known cursed springs
   • Spring of Drowned Panda; Created: 2000 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Girl; Created: 1500 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Man; Created: 1000 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Black Piglet; Created: 1200 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Cat; Created: 1800 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Duck; Created: 1300 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Yeti-riding-Bull-carrying-Crane-and-Eel; 2500 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Octopus; Created: 1600 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Twins; Created: 3000 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Pious Man; Created: 1000 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Child; Created: 1700 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Warrior Goddess (Asura); Created: 4000 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Akane; Created in 1988, Akane Tendo, nearly getting drowned in a blank spring;
   • Spring of Drowned Buddhist Priest; Created: 999 years ago.
   • Spring of Drowned Pteranodon; Created: 85,000,000 years ago;
   • Spring of Drowned Sabertooth Tiger; Created: 2.58 million years ago.

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