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 No.1755[Reply]

Let's discuss who is the best guy in urusei for a change.
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 No.2070

>>2066
This is just whining about the endings, since Inaba is tied into it and likely created to head off any chance of Shinbu and Ataru thinking of marriage in Boy Meets Girl.

A better ending might have Lum and Ataru breakup, so Shinobu and Ataru decide to go through with the marriage after all. I would still have Lum and Ataru back together in the end. I'd probably have Shinobu and Mendo paired up.

Inaba breaks up the main dynamic of the cast.

>>2066
Decades ago, one of my first exposures to the series was the OVAs and films, so Nagisaa is one of the first characters I saw.

 No.2074

>>2068
Nagisa appears in two arcs dedicated to him in the manga.

 No.2076

>>2074
I’m guessing one of them was adapted in the ova, and if so it must’ve been very late in the manga, as in right before “Boy meets girl”

 No.2079

>>2076
Volume 33, along with the second Inaba arc and some fun one-shot stories.

 No.2085

>>2066
If you can work it into the story and get some nice gags, then fine. I can see a nice story setup where Shinobu keeps cancelling on them, so Ataru and Mendo get suspicious and start stalking her. They then misinterpret what they see, thinking something much more sinister is going on, the boys paranoia reaches a fever pitch, and they strike out to save Shinobu from the clutches of evil, then after hijinks, it turns out she's dating some random and nothing sinister.

Literally anything better than god damn Inaba. I don't think that tool ever once stood up for himself and let Shinobu walk all over him. Ataru and Mendo would have both called out her bullshit.



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 No.1356[Reply]

Screenshots or gifs of nice imagery. Some of the direction in Rumiko's works can be quite nice.
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 No.2017

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>>1964
>>1964
>>1409
Examples from the show of Frame within a Frame. Here's another from The Graduate which uses a similar effect of a woman's legs to frame the image.

I suspect the specific reference might be the poster For Your Eyes Only.

 No.2071

>>1422
These might not seem significant, but if it's not done it's rather noticeable and the absence is why a lot of modern productions (especially American) are very visually bland.

Adventure Time is used as an example, but I could have used endless examples. No negative space, every section seems filled, and nothing stands out visually.

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This might be my favorite shot of Ran, really establishes her and her character.

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 No.1979[Reply]

When is the Rumic World fandom going to make their own? Fandom is cancerous and evil, and I hate having to use it.
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 No.1986

>>1983
This would be extremely confusing seeing that Rumic World can already refer to
>Rumiko's short stories collected
>The general concept of the shared "Rumic World" throughout her works
>The website furinkan.com (aka Rumic World)
It's better that it's named something different

 No.1987

>>1982
Good start

 No.1988

I always just called that site Furinkan. That's why you make disambiguation pages and parentheses:

>Rumic World (manga)

>Rumic World (anime)
>website furinkan.com (aka Rumic World)
>Rumic World (Wiki)

 No.1989

>>1982
>>1983
>>1988
I don't hate Rumiki. Honestly, I wanted to help with it, but outside of minor trivia things, I have no idea how to write the basic setup and framework for a wiki.

I guess we could take it from existing wikis, but that felt off.

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Fandom is an evil cancer company and fan wikis need to dis-absolve themselves form it. Typically a fanbase will get sick of fandom, then fork their wikis.



 No.2054[Reply]

1. Episode 44 After You've gone
2. Episode 75 And Then There was Nobody!?
3. Episode 157 I Love Darling's Kindness…
4. Episode 10 (Part 2) Pitter Patter Christmas Eve
5. Episode 1 (Part 1) I'm Lum-chan the Notorious!
6. Episode 194 Great All Star Banquet! We are Immortal!!
7. Episode 117 Lum-chan's Becoming a Cow?
8. Episode 106 "Deathmatch! Ataru VS Mendo Brigade!!
9. Episode 78 Pitiful! Mother of Love and Banishment!?
10. Episode 105 Scramble! Recapture Lum!!

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/perfectedition/10-best-urusei-yatsura-episodes-nhk-poll-2019-t5154.html

 No.2056

>>2054
That’s actually very similar to the penultimate episode listings

 No.2060




 No.548[Reply]

I started reading mao. It's pretty good.

 No.549

Have you started the people's war yet

 No.569

>>549
Winners don't do communism

 No.581

>>569
Lenin would've been a funnier name for the manga. Mao is just too brutal.

 No.2055

her art has regressed to the how to draw manga early 00's books.



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 No.2018[Reply]

How would you rank them?
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 No.2034

>>2033
Always my darling was kinda the straw that broke the camel’s back for the series and its fan base in regards to “let it end already, the story is over”. Now it’s not “bad” per say and I actually did kinda like it but in comparison to everything else I can see why but it did end the series ten year run and putting the cash cow to rest.

 No.2038

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>>2018
>The Final Chapter
>Always My Darling
>Only You
>Beautiful Dreamer
>Remember My Love
>Lum the Forever

I don't care for Beautiful Dreamer.

 No.2041

>>2034

Yeah, honestly, the fact that it killed the franchise is what got me to put it on fifth place, I originally had it as fourth and went "what do I even remember about this movie" and remembered my own personal bias of "being bland is worse than being bad". I don't care for movie 3 more than movie 6, but I don't /actively/ dislike either of them and I remember parts of movie 3, so that's why I placed it at a higher rank.

 No.2044

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>>2033
Lum the Forever's script is very messy, but the story is mostly straight forward and you can think of it as "Lum meets an Old One".

The tree holds the seal on a yokai that drains the lifeforce (seemingly the most important figure in town) to feed itself. By killing the tree, they unknowingly unleash this being and continues to grow until an Oni princess was able to calm it and a new tree planted to contain it. Only that it led to her eventual death.

The story in the present is a repeat of the cycle, and
Lum fufills the role of village elder and the Oni princess, so she gets her life force drained and is going to calm the being leading to her death. The being is initially an egg, then a fetus, and it seems very child like and wants a mother figure, only being child like it doesn't know limits and seems to kill its mother figure.

Have you played Demon's Souls (2009)? It's another HP Lovecraft inspired story, where a vastly powerful being can shape reality, but it's child like and it needs a mother to lull it to sleep to calm its vast power.

The being wants Lum to itself, so it tries to erase people's memories of Lum. Then after lum is drained, it starts sapping on Ten. The tree grows powerful enough that it starts producing a fog that when breathed in connects the dreaming person to the tree's power and manifests their dreams as reality.

Mendo figures this out and starts a war of the Zaibatsus to force everyone to wish that things went back to normal and to destroy the manifested dream worlds in the cross fire. It's hare brained but kinda works?

Ataru simply wishes for normalcy as well and jogs like Lum used to job. When he falls asleep and connects with the being he wishes for Lum back. The fetus like being finally understands, that Lum belongs to Ataru and the rest of the world, and relinquishes her and goes back to sleep. Presumably another tree will be planted on it to seal it.

 No.2045

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>>2044
As I said the script? Messy with pacing issues and the story is hard to follow. It likely got re-writes for more action (hense the ending war) when it should have stayed a spooky mystery story. The overall story might have worked better as an original story. If it was called "Legend of the Oni Princess" the film would likely be much better received and liked.

For plus sides: some amazing scenes, score, and animation sequences. Mendo's date with Shinobu and his dream sequence are highlights of the film.

The symbolism is pretty obvious: Urusei Yatsura anime is over so move on. The first thing the being manifests is Lum on a tv screen, and the last image we see is Lum on a tv screen that fades away. The series was over, and the film is meant to be the send-off to it and a message to the fanbase. The fantastical being birthed by felling the tree is representitive of the Urusei Yatsura fanbase, and their obsession with lum is unhealthy. Go out into the real world and find a real woman and let Lum go. For message, Evangelion has a similar meta message for anime otaku.



 No.160[Reply]

Shinobu > Lum

Discuss
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 No.1996

>>1872
>>1922
I always loved Rumiko taking gags and making them bigger and bigger and sometimes changing them along the way.

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 No.2031

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>>1800
Beautiful, sexy and pure.
A harlot like Lum could never compete.



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 No.1909[Reply]

I still go with this gold standard. What do you think?
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 No.1994

>>1993
Ugh. These are way out of order. admin, please fix the upload from quick reply.

 No.2002

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>>1993
>sexy chinese dress that highlights her figure
Mhh well just like her mother, interesting.

 No.2005

>>2002
Now I can’t unsee the similarities between these characters lol, it’s so true

 No.2007

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>>1993
>>2002
The outfit in question. Rumiko just likes these. Apparently, she used to wear them to events here and there.



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 No.84[Reply]

Now THIS is a classic.
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 No.130

>>127
>male Ranma
Ridiculous. Akane is a lesbian, just like the person who created her.

 No.512

I feel sorry for Ukyuo :_:

 No.1999

>>84
Resurrecting this thread, after finishing UY earlier I’ve now decided to check this one out. Like the previous series I’ve known about this one for a very long time, much more so seeing the previews for this at the end of the Pokémon tapes I used to watch, it’s surprising I haven’t seen this earlier as well. I went through the first season relatively quickly but now that I’ve reached the nettohen episodes I’m taking my sweet time

 No.2001

>>512
She could have definitely used the childhood friend angle to try and win Ranma, but again, we barely get any backstories of hers and Ranma, because you know..

 No.2006

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>>512
Best girl got robbed because Rumiko didn't want her self-insert to lose again…



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 No.1828[Reply]

They used to get naked a lot on these old shows!
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 No.1971

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i don't like the madhouse art style. Think this is the only topless Ran scene.

 No.1976

>>1971
Dat neck

 No.2003




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