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4chan /lum/ rehabilitation center Tomobikanon 7/16/23 (Sun) 07:49:40 No.41 [Reply]

just learned about this place
let's start lumposting!

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Tomobikanon 4/26/25 (Sat) 00:09:11 No.1713

>>1668
>>1668
It's not genius writing: if Lum becomes too nice the story lacks conflict now. So they introduce Kurama who is closer to what Lum was originally going to be, then Sakura and Ran.

Tomobikanon 4/26/25 (Sat) 00:27:58 No.1714

>>1713
This is why I headcanon Lum as being actually competent and a bitch like in the real early episodes, because the idea that she A) can cause trouble and B) can get out of trouble lines up with how she's portrayed at times.

Tomobikanon 4/26/25 (Sat) 22:08:30 No.1737

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>>1714
The story and setting got re-written since they didn't have a plan and just responded to what worked and what fans seemed to like. The early premise seems to be Ataru and Shinobu (remember her?) being accosted by Urusei Yatsura on a weekly basis when they just want to get on with their lives and get married. Lum was just going to be a recurring harlot who is trying to break them up because she wrongly thinks that Ataru is engaged to her. Then the story was retooled to be about Lum and Ataru being together with Shinobu as the side character.

Then it was retooled AGAIN to focus mostly on Tomobiki high school - making it the prototypical high school anime. Characters like Sakura, Mendo, or Ryunosuuke have nothing to do with the original premise, but they end up taking a majority of screen time once they're introduced.

Rumiko's later works were more planned out with a more consistent premise because she and her team had more experience in what fans wanted. If they knew how the series would play out, UY would probably be a supernatural series with no aliens centered on the high school and town from the get go. Other than electricity and flying around, the fact Lum is an alien is irrelevant for 75% of later UY stories. Could have easily made her and the Oni come from subspace to begin with.

Tomobikanon 5/15/25 (Thu) 00:14:38 No.2145

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Tomobikanon 5/19/25 (Mon) 13:40:08 No.2156

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pLUMp.

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Urusei Yatsura episode guide: Tomobikanon 5/15/25 (Thu) 19:15:44 No.2150 [Reply]

Source:
https://imgur.com/a/urusei-yatsura-retrospective-LKTUEJO

Tomobikanon 5/15/25 (Thu) 19:16:50 No.2151

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Tomobikanon 5/15/25 (Thu) 19:17:46 No.2152

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Lum's best outfit Tomobikanon 5/1/25 (Thu) 11:48:04 No.1909 [Reply]

I still go with this gold standard. What do you think?

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Tomobikanon 5/2/25 (Fri) 23:52:18 No.1994

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

Tomobikanon 5/3/25 (Sat) 07:02:11 No.2002

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

Tomobikanon 5/3/25 (Sat) 13:28:33 No.2005

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

Tomobikanon 5/3/25 (Sat) 15:06:25 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.

Tomobikanon 5/15/25 (Thu) 02:51:36 No.2148

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Ataru Posting Tomobikanon 4/24/25 (Thu) 05:28:06 No.1631 [Reply]

Nuts to Lum. We need more ATARU and his zany hijinks. He has the energy of a Loony Tunes character.

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Tomobikanon 4/24/25 (Thu) 05:35:58 No.1637

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Tomobikanon 4/24/25 (Thu) 05:57:12 No.1648

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Tomobikanon 4/24/25 (Thu) 06:03:18 No.1651

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Tomobikanon 5/1/25 (Thu) 11:21:52 No.1905

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One track mind.

Tomobikanon 5/15/25 (Thu) 02:31:37 No.2146

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Chadtaru.

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Images you can never find a reason to post Tomobikanon 4/24/25 (Thu) 21:12:46 No.1663 [Reply]

Or weird cross overs in general.

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Tomobikanon 5/8/25 (Thu) 21:23:39 No.2099

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Tomobikanon 5/9/25 (Fri) 00:42:17 No.2102

>>2099
Classic

Tomobikanon 5/9/25 (Fri) 02:40:26 No.2103

>>2102
Either she participated in a communist themed slumber party or made a visit to Jusenkyō

Tomobikanon 5/14/25 (Wed) 01:23:08 No.2128

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Tomobikanon 5/14/25 (Wed) 19:24:45 No.2132

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Ryoko Tomobikanon 5/9/25 (Fri) 09:20:11 No.2104 [Reply]

She's the best girl that Rumiko has ever made.

Tomobikanon 5/10/25 (Sat) 15:13:34 No.2107

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Tomobikanon 5/14/25 (Wed) 00:59:41 No.2127

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uh… sisters? Our response?

Tomobikanon 5/14/25 (Wed) 02:45:08 No.2129

>>2127
Oyuki didn't do anything wrong unless you count being cheap. Benten's shenanigans were also all on the level. They don't compare to Ryoko at all.

Ryoko didn't suffer too much, admittedly. I didn't really mind though, she mostly only tortured Mendo and Tobimaro. Tobimaro absolutely didn't deserve it, which made it a lot funnier. And Mendo being the voice of reason was a fun contrast to his usual self.

Tomobikanon 5/14/25 (Wed) 13:36:44 No.2131

>>2129
Not to mention that in addition ryoko is actually funny

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What is Ran? Tomobikanon 4/23/25 (Wed) 05:55:39 No.1407 [Reply]

We know Rumiko has an interest in mythology, and that Lum, Benten, and Oyuki, are clear parllels to real world mythological figures. Ran is the odd-one out and for 40 years fans have tried to figure out which specific mythological creature Ran actually is.

She has some kind of life-drain kiss so she's a Succubus? Is that the European variety or a Japanese one? No one's ever been able to pin her down exactly.

It's entirely possible Rumiko didn't think of anything specific so it's a red-herring.

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Tomobikanon 4/29/25 (Tue) 13:06:41 No.1839

>>1826
Seems about right
>>1821
lol

Tomobikanon 4/30/25 (Wed) 01:02:27 No.1841

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>>1658
The 4 space babes stories are by far the least interesting. Even Ran is a downgrade in them. Ran works best paired with Ataru and scheming against lum.

Tomobikanon 4/30/25 (Wed) 01:06:16 No.1843

>>1841
I found them hilarious and a personal highlight from my watch through, felt like classic slapstick at times.

Tomobikanon 5/13/25 (Tue) 22:05:09 No.2125

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Source supposedly is: "Urusei Yatsura Dancing Star Fan-Book
Rumiko Takahashi Q&A 1-55 English Translations"

"Q13: A QUESTION ABOUT THE BELOVED RAN-CHAN.
LUM IS AN ONI, BENTEN IS ONE OF THE SEVEN LUCKY GODS, KURAMA IS A TENGU, AND OYUKI IS A YUKI-ONNA, EACH OF LUM'S FRIENDS IS BASED ON SOME MYTHICAL BEING OR MONSTER.
BUT WITH RAN-CHAN, IT'S UNCLEAR.
WHAT EXACTLY IS SHE? SINCE SHE CAN SUCK THE YOUTH OUT OF PEOPLE WITH A KISS, COULD SHE POSSIBLY BE A SUCCUBUS?
I THINK A LOT OF FANS ARE WONDERING ABOUT THIS TOO.

TAKAHASHI: I DON'T REALLY KNOW. BUT YEAH, SHE DEFINITELY IS SOMETHING WITH POWERS LIKE THAT. SHE'S A MEMBER OF SOME KIND OF SUPERNATURAL SPECIES."

Tomobikanon 5/14/25 (Wed) 05:54:59 No.2130

>>2125

God has waved their hand this day, Ran is Ran.

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Is Lum a loli??? Tomobikanon 4/25/24 (Thu) 20:47:34 No.583 [Reply]

So I'm sure we're all familiar with that episode of uy where the school gets a new hard ass teacher who instantly starts crushing on lum (can't remember episode number). anyway, sensei gets called a lolicon for being into lum-chan. but lum isn't what we'd think of a loli. she's married, full sized, and has big tits even if she's the same age as ataru which is still kinda old for a loli. So I went and looked around at the loli hentai that was being made in the mid 80s and so far its what you'd expect. but its not like i'm the lolimaster or something and know what i'm talking about... r-right fed-chan? so did the word's meaning change? did the whole flat chested bratty midget thing come later? afaik lolicon means like "pedophile" in modern Japanese. gotta be a loli history guide somewhere. Anyway I'm high as fuck and probably reading too much into things. Gonna go take a nap.

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Tomobikanon 5/6/25 (Tue) 03:18:36 No.2058

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>>2057
You can think of early UY as a nexus that many, many, film makers, writers, and animators, were part of who then went on to other things.

Kanako's films were part of the "pink film" genre of erotic softcore films and ran under the Nikkatsu Roman Porno line. So it's telling that right after UY, he's directing erotic films that are quasi pornographic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nikkatsu_Roman_Porno_films

Tomobikanon 5/8/25 (Thu) 21:26:55 No.2100

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Ran's in-world fanbase is mostly pedos who like her childishness and innocence.

Tomobikanon 5/8/25 (Thu) 21:36:22 No.2101

>>2100
I didn’t notice that pac-man looking fucker before but did notably laugh at that quote

Tomobikanon 5/13/25 (Tue) 02:28:50 No.2114

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Curious what the Japanese term is here.

Tomobikanon 5/13/25 (Tue) 22:11:29 No.2126

>>2114
If you take a listen to what she is actually saying, the localizers were actually having some fun. Shinobu is being referred to as a Zashiki-Warashi, as she was sometimes compared to early on in the series. This is a yokai that resembles a child and is commonly shown with a similar haircut as Shinobu.

"Ep. 9, Story 17: "Princess Kurama, Sleeping Beauty"

…

First Impression: Kurama's first impression of Shinobu is not at all flattering. Kurama calls Shinobu "Zashikiwarashi," which are household guardian spirits in the Toohoku ("Northeast") region of Japan, which is the area of Honshuu (the largest of the four main islands of Japan) north of Kantoo, and is known for being cold and covered in snow a lot of the time. These spirits typically have the appearance of a plain, immature, round-faced, rosy-cheeked girl with a bob haircut, which happens to describe Shinobu very nicely at this point in the series.

…"

https://archive.animeigo.com/liner/out-print/urusei-yatsura-tv-series.html

Animeigo is the source of these subtitles as far as I can tell and these are their liner notes. They're also why some fans think Ten is named Jariten.

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Goofy screenshots Tomobikanon 5/1/25 (Thu) 06:43:56 No.1855 [Reply]

Expressions not meant to be absurd but look it when taken as stills.

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Tomobikanon 5/1/25 (Thu) 15:02:36 No.1956

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Tomobikanon 5/1/25 (Thu) 15:40:28 No.1966

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Tomobikanon 5/1/25 (Thu) 15:45:20 No.1968

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Tomobikanon 5/1/25 (Thu) 15:51:19 No.1970

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Tomobikanon 5/13/25 (Tue) 20:55:43 No.2124

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Ryuunosuke Appreciation Thread Tomobikanon 12/19/22 (Mon) 21:16:44 No.140 [Reply]

Thread dedicated to the one and only Ryuu-chan.

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Tomobikanon 5/1/25 (Thu) 13:06:26 No.1919

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Tomobikanon 5/13/25 (Tue) 03:06:34 No.2117

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>>140
These three rarely got paired up together.

Tomobikanon 5/13/25 (Tue) 15:36:05 No.2121

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Ryuunosuke is better than Benten because her I-don't-know-how-to-be-a-girl shtick is hilarious, and also because she is more attractive. She also gets her boobs out more

Tomobikanon 5/13/25 (Tue) 17:12:53 No.2122

>>2121
>Ryuunosuke is better than Benten

I'm sorry, but I highly disagree with your statement.

Tomobikanon 5/13/25 (Tue) 20:50:06 No.2123

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>>2121
Rumiko added Ryu-chan instead of starting a new comic because she was bored of UY. Ryu actually fits the new setting and theme of the series which is revolving around the whacky hijinks at Tomobiki high school. Benten is more of a left-over from the original design where the comic would revolve around alien-yokai that show up and harass Ataru because he's unlucky.