Darwithe:
About a year passes over the course of Ranma, sez Takahashi, for what that's worth. It's certainly no more than that because Ranma and Ryouga are still 16 and Kunou still 17 as of the early 30s of the volumes.
So yes, if you say they weren't there, then you only have to explain why Soun Tendo and his family weren't tapped for it, given that they ARE tapped by the police for these sort of things, as I already pointed out (which makes it unlikely that the cops would stop any martial artist from interfering, even if they could). And speaking of martial artists, there's also Mariko, Asuka, Kunou, Kodachi, Sentarou, his grandmother, Satsuki, Mikado, Azusa... i.e., it's still a problem because Tokyo is stuffed with martial arts death machines.
The Asura/Tarou fight is less of a problem because unlike Jadeite, the entire city didn't know where they were in advance, and their fights were relatively short and fast-moving. Although they were still around long enough that you'd think somebody would poke around.
Necrotoid:
The problem is, the public is divided on Spider-man even after he's framed for crimes, and they love, say, the Fantastic Four (bathed in space rays) or Captain America (supersoldier serum) or the Vision (originally evil android). But if you're BORN with a mutant gene, you're automatically evil? Say wha? And what's to stop any mutant from saying "Well, actually, I just got bathed in, I dunno, Ultra Waves from an... alien... mind probe. That's where my powers come from, really. Yay, you love me now!" It'd make much more sense if the Xmen didn't share the same continuity as the non-mutant-based portions of the Marvel Universe.
And the Sailor Senshi rely on complete coincidence and plot contrivance to direct them in nearly every episode. You could probably count on one hand the number of times the Inners do actual detective work. Instead, if the villains decide to attack people on a cruise ship: why, wouldn't you know, Usagi wanted to take a cruise and won a contest to get on the ship! Or they're going after a painter - well, wouldn't you know that the Senshi just HAPPEN to be visiting his gallery the very moment he gets attacked!
In a very slight amount of defence for the series, Sailor Moon's got craploads of Destiny on her side, and she's destined to win, so you can use that to explain why she always happens to be in the right place at the right time. Until her Destiny gets mucked with, anyway...
About a year passes over the course of Ranma, sez Takahashi, for what that's worth. It's certainly no more than that because Ranma and Ryouga are still 16 and Kunou still 17 as of the early 30s of the volumes.
So yes, if you say they weren't there, then you only have to explain why Soun Tendo and his family weren't tapped for it, given that they ARE tapped by the police for these sort of things, as I already pointed out (which makes it unlikely that the cops would stop any martial artist from interfering, even if they could). And speaking of martial artists, there's also Mariko, Asuka, Kunou, Kodachi, Sentarou, his grandmother, Satsuki, Mikado, Azusa... i.e., it's still a problem because Tokyo is stuffed with martial arts death machines.
The Asura/Tarou fight is less of a problem because unlike Jadeite, the entire city didn't know where they were in advance, and their fights were relatively short and fast-moving. Although they were still around long enough that you'd think somebody would poke around.
Necrotoid:
The problem is, the public is divided on Spider-man even after he's framed for crimes, and they love, say, the Fantastic Four (bathed in space rays) or Captain America (supersoldier serum) or the Vision (originally evil android). But if you're BORN with a mutant gene, you're automatically evil? Say wha? And what's to stop any mutant from saying "Well, actually, I just got bathed in, I dunno, Ultra Waves from an... alien... mind probe. That's where my powers come from, really. Yay, you love me now!" It'd make much more sense if the Xmen didn't share the same continuity as the non-mutant-based portions of the Marvel Universe.
And the Sailor Senshi rely on complete coincidence and plot contrivance to direct them in nearly every episode. You could probably count on one hand the number of times the Inners do actual detective work. Instead, if the villains decide to attack people on a cruise ship: why, wouldn't you know, Usagi wanted to take a cruise and won a contest to get on the ship! Or they're going after a painter - well, wouldn't you know that the Senshi just HAPPEN to be visiting his gallery the very moment he gets attacked!
In a very slight amount of defence for the series, Sailor Moon's got craploads of Destiny on her side, and she's destined to win, so you can use that to explain why she always happens to be in the right place at the right time. Until her Destiny gets mucked with, anyway...