Tuned in to Rumic World!

>>444
Sorry if I replied so late, but I agree with your statements. But I will form a quick counterargument that some people would make about your opinion on the backgrounds of the reboot.

Many would probably say that having high quality backgrounds won't matter because of how fast the reboot's pace is. On top of that, some people may say that you're nitpicking every last detail of the original so you can give it a much lower rating.

Now I don't really believe in that counterargument but I decided to write it out for you so can debate it.

As for standalone viewing I can agree that this episode is not very good.
I also did rewatch the original's first episode just for reference and I can see how it does things way better the reboot. Like it being actually funny (mostly part 2 of the episode).

Overall thou I can understand your arguments on why my ratings for the original are null. I just wanted to give the reboot a shot.

Hope everyone appreciates all the little interface changes I've made around here, mostly just to make everything feel tidier. Also, this thread is going to be archived, probably at the end of the month, since >>>/lum/ is up now (unless people really want it still around). Made some new banners and standardized the look and resolutions of the older ones. We should push to get more users from 4lum on here imo.

>>455
I think it could be moved to /lum/ like that /vr/ thread. Since this thread is currently the most popular one on the site right now.

>>456
That's true. I just want this thread to level off eventually so fresher threads can be made.

>>353
ran seems evil though.

Many relationships in Takahashi's works are stockholm syndrome but Lum and Ataru aren't

Focus on the times when they are not bickering, and they get along extremely well. They literally go out on dates in matching outfits.

They get angry with each other when Ataru flirts with other girls. If you ignore that, they're a perfect couple with extremely high compatibility.

>>670
Boy meets girl is a shit ending, partially because the Inaba the Dream Maker storyline ALREADY is the end, and that should have been it. They get to see the various endings for each other, including Ataru's perfect ending of a harem and Lum has left him.

>>1398
>>1398
This is AI dogshit

They actually get along really well when they're NOT bickering. They go out on dates constantly.

>>671
Shinobu and Ataru have known each other since kindergarten, and she just sorta chose him as her future husband right then and there. Ataru kinda went along with it.

>>1985
she's not a genie!

I believe she has actual crow's wings growing out of her head, but as the series goes on, the animators and Rumiko kinda forgot, and it looks more like she just has this goth hairstyle going on.

>>2112
She's a crow-goblin and human hybrid, rather than a pure blooded native crow goblin. It's relevant since her race are these tiny little crows (even the women). This means her samurai dad stuck his penis into one of these little crow ladies, and out popped Kurama. This might be why they had trouble finding a mate for her.

>>1982
Good start

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)

>>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.

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.

>>2081
Apparently they sold GB and now it's indie

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

I don't care for Beautiful Dreamer.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

This is unsourced from imdb, so take it with a grain of salt, but it does make sense. The next film is a direct almost 1:1 adaption of the comic, and then the next film was made much, much, later. To confirm or deny this, you'd have to check anime magazines from around this time, and most certainly someone at some point would have commented on it. The promotional interviews for Final Chapter would be the most likely spot where this would come up.

Sadly there's very little scanning of proper anime magazines from the 80s. There's thousands upon thousands of them so I don't blame them.

>>2064
I agree entirely. Sometimes people talk about Mendo's noble qualities and I can tell, they are approaching it from the anime. Not that I think Rumiko dislikes Mendo, but she's pretty clear that his better qualities are ultimately affectations, even if he won't fuck outside the school in a cheesy pleasure dome.

>>2075
I think it's just basic writing where you need foils. He overlaps with Lum and Ataru as a character. He is normally well meaning and polite like Lum, but Ataru angers him and you can see his sword strikes as similar to Lum's lightning. And like Ataru, he's a wannabe lady's man virgin.

>>2075
>>2075
Mendo has some noble qualities, as well as selfish and vain ones, so it's not entirely affectations. He will do the right thing when pressed, and would never hurt a woman. He's Ataru with pretentions of class.

Anime gives Mendo a bit of an edge, which culminates in the S2 finale where he kidnaps Lum under the guise of helping her and making her his bride. It's probably the most outright evil thing Mendo has done.

>>2025
This feels like a threat, knowing the extremes she’ll get into

>>2012
Ran can't cast magic.

Is Rumiko a closet case? Her comics are full of gender-bending, lesbian baiting. In the end, Ran used her life drain kiss on way more women than males.

Early UY is EXTREMELY horny, and if anything they tone it down a lot over time. Did the TV laws change or something?

>>1969
Not entirely sure but I am aware that broadcasters were furious when oshii snuck back in lum’s bare chest in the first episode lol

>>2087
1993(for the manga) or 1996(for the anime) depending on which anniversary it’s referring to

Found the source:
https://e-hentai.org/g/2054389/5094a0ccb5/

>>2089
A comment pointed out that because it was using the anime’s designs then that would mean this dates back to 1996