The Town of Titipu-SIMS-page3

Kitty-Chan is an unmarried young lady who lives alone
with her beloved cats, and dreams of adventure and romance.
One of the first to open the mysterious package that came
to her door, she hopes that by using the magical gifts she
has acquired, she might find the adventure and romance
she desires. She knew she was on the right track when
a ring of mushrooms in her back yard one night was
filled with lights and tiny fairies dancing around them.
She even noticed that her cats were able to do very
unusual things. Kitty-Chan has many eciting plans for
herself and for her friends. Oh yes--the cats!
They are all females, and their names are Pitti-Sami,
Pixi-Misa, Lucki-Chan, Happi-Chan, Cooki-Chan and Ladi-Bug.
Kitty has her hands full with all these cats.

Honey-Chan is a sweet-natured teenage girl who has
been raising her little sister, Bee-Chan ever since
the untimely death of their parents, who are buried on
their property. They were left with a small, but
comfortable house and the beehives in their beekeeping
farm, and Honey-Chan works very hard, insisting that
her sister devotes time to study as much as possible.
She greatly admires Kitty-Chan, and shares her desire
for romance and adventure. But the work must be done
first, and honey must be bottled and sold. And the
little bees need to be taken care of. She is very
busy, and very dedicated.

Yoshi Nattsu is an amiable, hard-working stiff who does
his best to support his large family. He is actually
Koko's twin brother (twins run in this family), and
looks a great deal like him. His wife, Yoko, is an
outgoing, gregarious woman with eccentric tastes in
clothes and hairstyles. They have two sets of twins.
The boys are named Hiro and Hiro, and are completely
opposite personalities. So are the twin sisters. Niko
and Kiko. they also have a dog named Sushi and a cat
named Sashimi. The house is really too small for this
large family of six, so it is a good thing that most
of the children are quiet and studious. Well...some
of the time they try to be. They have frequent family
outings, perhaps just to get away. The house is so
crowded that no one ever gets a moment of peace!
Yoshi is thinking of moving to a bigger one.

Darkmoon Midnight was once a beautiful and celebrated
Geisha, but no more! She retired to the far side of
Titipu, along with her servant, Shadow, and keeps largely
to herself. She makes her neighbors feel a little
uncomfortable, although they are polite to her. This is
because rumor has it that she is a dark sorceress or
witch, and is believed to be actively practicing the
magical arts for some yet-unknown purpose. Of course,
what her neighbors do not know is that her goal is to
become Mistress of the Dark and leave Titipu behind
forever, to live in the mysterious Magic Town, accesible
though mysterious means. Darkmoon has a way also of
attracting cats. Black cats. She has two of her own,
named nightshade and Whisper, but there are many more
hanging about the yard.

Mitsu-Bishi Sakura and his beautiful young wife,
Ike-Bana, are rich, beautiful, gracious, and a
little bit annoying. They are so annoyingly
lovely-dovey that they cannot seem to keep their
hands off each other, even in public. They plan to
have babies - but not just yet, because first they
must devote themselves to their fluffy little dog,
Fufu-Chan, who they take to dog shows.
Makes you a little ill, doesn't it?

Buko-Bu and his wife Chichi-Bu are a young couple
who just recently moved to Titipu. We don't know
a great deal about them yet, but I am sure that in
time we will know them very well.

Fuji Moto is a third-generation silkworm farmer, a
business that was once thriving and commonplace in
Titipu. His little farm is full of mulberry trees
and fluttering white moths who eat the leaves. Fuji
recently married beautiful Miki, his devoted bride.
Together they will make the farm produce a great
deal of high-grade silk to sell in town.

Taro Tatami is a farmer with a small plot of land,
just a short distance down the road from the Motos
and from Sake Sapporo. It is a nice little farming
community on the western side of Titipu, and comfortably
close to the Titipu Nursery. Taro is unmarried,
and would like to find a loving wife to help him on
the farm. I wonder where he will look for one?

Sake Sapporo, despite his double-barreled name, does
not grow any of the ingredients that go into making
either sake nor beer. He has a small apple orchard,
as well as a small but celebrated vinyard of fine
wine grapes. He is very interested in dating Honey-Chan,
or perhaps Kitty-Chan. But he is shy, and not very
accustomed to going out with girls. Besides, his vinyard
keeps him much too busy for dating.

Chocho-San, or "Madame butterly", was a geisha in the
distant city of Nagazaki, who fell in love with (and married)
a US Naval officer named Frank Pinkerton. When his tour of
duty ended, he went back to the States without her, and she
has waited all this time for the louse to come back.
Her loyal housemaid,Suzuki, had already seen the opera and
knew how it was all supposed to end, so to prevent that,
she talked Chocho into moving away from Nagasaki, and
settling in the much nicer, smaller town of Titipu where
she could start over fresh. Chocho is the only person
left on the planet who still thinks Frank is coming back,
and she is the only person in town who celebrates the 4th
of July! Her house is decorated with Victorian-style
American furnishings, and she has raised her spoiled son
(named "Trouble") to think he is himself really an
American. Trouble not only looks like Frank, but is
just as obnoxious, which endears him to his mother all
the more. Chocho never did have good taste in men, and
Sukuki, who really runs the household, keeps trying to
find new boy friends for her, or encourage her to meet
new friends. She has an uphill battle.

One of the oddest people in Titipu is the famous actor,
Godzilla, who has a quiet villa on the south bank of the
Toki-Saki River. Godzilla's villa is quite grand for an
atomic iguana, but he is really only six feet tall as
opposed to the 100-foot monster he plays in all the
movies. He is actually rather polite and refined, and
the local girls fawn all over him. Peep-Bo and Pitti-Sing
in particular like to hang around his house. The only
person he really doesn't get along with is Yoshi Nattsu,
whom he had an argument with over checkout issues in a pet
store (Godzilla has a pet gargoyle named Godzuki).
Living in semi-retirement, he waits for his agent to
call him back to Toho Studios for yet one more action
film. Meanwhile, he stays in practice by swimming daily
in his large pool, and by playing with his collection of
miniature model buildings, similar to the ones he
stomps on when on the filming set.

While Koko the Tailor gazes through his telescope,
searching the skies for signs of UFOs, he little
suspects that the larg, noisy house across the way
is actually inhabited by the very aliens he is looking
for. The house appered as if by magic, and the nominal
head of the house is a polite, likable teenage boy
named Tenchi Masaki, but it is difficult to say who
is really in charge in that house! The most obvious
candidates are space pirate Ryoko and alien Princess
Ayeka, both who are in love with Tenchi, and
fight with each other furiously for his affections.
Also in that house live Galaxy police officers Mihoshi
and Kiyone, who may be partners, but who are total
opposites. There is also Washu, who bills herself
as the "world's greatest scientist", but who masquerades
as a little girl. The real little girl in the house is
Ayeka's little sister, Sasami, who is probably the most
mature girl in the house, and certainly the best cook.
The last member of Tenchi's household is not a person at all,
but a crystaline being that transforms into a spaceship
and spends most of "her" time as a cabbit - a small,
furry, bunny-like animal that mews like a cat and
eats nothing but carrots. This creature, Ryo-Oki.
is currently in the form of a little furry "girl" so
that she can be a better companion for her beloved
friend, Sasami. There is never a dull moment in this
house, and Titipu may never be the same.

The scientist Washu doesn't always show herself as a
little girl, but in her adult form, lives in the Onsen--
her laboratory/garden/spa, hovering over the waters
between the houses of the samurai. This is her own
quiet get-away, although she welcomes the girls from
Tenchi's house whenever they come to use her spa.
There is much more to Washu than meets the eye, and
she is a mystery among her mysterious companions.

And now that you have visited their houses and learned some of their names, let's see if we can find out what is going on in the little houses, and how this little story will eventually unfold itself.

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