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 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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 No.1821

Ran is the famous mythological “street walker” of American urban mythology. These ladies of the night lurk on street corners, sucking the spunk out of men who pay them for this immoral service. They are said to spread disease and ill omen to the the towns they prowl at night.

 No.1826

UY wiki trying to parse it out.

 No.1839

>>1826
Seems about right
>>1821
lol

 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.

 No.1843

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



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 No.1757[Reply]

These apparently come from here? Who made them and why? Why are there so many variants?

 No.1765

Think the admin made it. As for variants, I assume for gags.

 No.1823

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It is from this panel, right?

 No.1824

>>1823
Looks like you found it

 No.1825

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huh?



 No.805[Reply]

We are the last bastions of classical /lum/ culture, such as the emperors in Constantinople were after the west was overrun by barbarians (Ran spammer & nippleschizo). We owe it to our illustrious ancestors to create OC and spread /lum/ culture far and wide so that we may be able to recapture the magic of 2020!
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 No.1754

>>1749
Finally finished the last movie, and with that the franchise itself. Maybe I’ll take a look at the original manga stories but with that I’m now in the same boat as the rest of the fan base. Wonderful story and a new favorite series in general, I don’t think I’m ever gonna forget the first ending song, it’s already cemented in my mind as iconic.

 No.1760

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>>1754
A LOT of manga chapters never got adapted, as the anime ended about 2/3 of the way through the show, so there was only a trickle of important stories that got adapted into OVA or films. A lot of hte anime adaptions are also wildly different from the manga counterparts that they might as well be original episodes.

 No.1761

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But on the other hand: a lot of things get expanded upon. This is like a panel in the original and skating becomes one of Lum's "things" in the anime run but gets dropped once Studio Deen takes over.

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>>1761
Her hobby is jogging in the manga pretty consistently. This is Heian era Lum, but we see Lum jogging fairly frequently in random chapters.

 No.1766

>>1762
Yes, jogging becomes her "thing" in the Studio Deen era too. Most famously shown in the Lum the Forever opening credits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxALfpss9b0



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 No.41[Reply]

just learned about this place
let's start lumposting!
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 No.1661

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>>1659
Ran-chan got Lum's awful traits.

 No.1668

>>1661
I get the Ranposters now

I don't like it, but I get them

 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.

 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.

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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.



 No.863[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Alright, it is Wednesday and I am gonna post the first volume of Rin-ne. Feel free to react or comment on any panel, though I appreciate if image replies are not used during the dump. Feel free to discuss anything related to Rin-ne after the dump.

Rin-ne is Rumiko Takahashi's return to comedy after Inuyasha. Rin-ne is VIZ's localized title, presumably chosen to assist in pronunciation. The original title is 境界のRINNE (Kyokai/Kyoukai no Rinne) which means Rinne of the Boundary. While it is not a megahit like some of her other huge series, I highly recommend it to fans of Ranma 1/2 and Urusei Yatsura though it is obviously different.

I will be using scans of the official VIZ localization. Be aware that some of the larger images may have been edited to be lower quality due to image size limits.

In addition, I will be dumping the one short story by Rumiko Takahashi and Mitsuru Ikegami that came out around this time called "My Sweet Sunday". Today, the scans I have of the one shot are the official VIZ ones.
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 No.1700

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>>1699
It wasn't the boyfriend being bad news.

 No.1701

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>>1700
Would you look at that.

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>>1701
End! All's well that ends well. I like this story, though I feel there could've been a bit more to it. It does touch upon how difficult it is to give advice and help people but it also shows that it is easy to misunderstand other people's situations. As such, I can't help but want a bit more from it. But life doesn't have an easy moral, I guess. Let me know what you thought of this one.

As mentioned before, I'll be back next WEDNESDAY with Volume 4 of Rin-ne.

 No.1716

Well, 4chan is back up. I hope you guys enjoyed reading Rin-ne on /lum/. I did enjoy posting it, but I'll admit, posting on both /a/ and here would take a lot of time and while I appreciate all of you who read it here, I think there will be more people reading on /a/.

I will be returning on /a/ on 4chan next Wednesday with Volume 1 of Rin-ne (reposting what I've posted here).

 No.1735

>>1716
thanks for stopping by



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 No.1101[Reply]

Requesting Lum pics and gifs
Especially a gif of Lum sleeping that I thought I had but don't seem to be able to find.
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 No.1310

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 No.1311

>>1196
if you dont know for sure you should rewatch the whole thing.

 No.1365

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A lot of people whined about Beautiful Dreamer having reduced Lum focus, but the plus side is that almost every single scene of her is gold. Even this little smile is perfect.

 No.1414

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The smoothness on this is pretty unreal.

 No.1632

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Beautiful Dreamer is best Lum. It has some great sequences with her flying around and takes her "magical" nature seriously.



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 No.789[Reply]

starting a new longform series of threads on here twitter & bluesky, figured I'd bring them here as well to spur discussion.
why? mostly because i haven't actually read the manga since i did a storytime on /a/ back in 2021, and there's a lot to see from rumiko's first.
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 No.1353

>>1350
And of course being a comedy series: Ran is just really really funny. Ryunosuke is funny. Benten and Oyuki just aren't very funny. Simple as that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdoujeC0lqw

 No.1354

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Frienimies.

 No.1396

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>>1352
Ran is great because she's actually involved in Tomobiki, while Benten and Oyuki are like actual "aliens" who pop down and then leave. They're disconnected.

>>1336
Based on this art, Benten and Oyuki would be at separate schools which I think would have fit quite nicely and effectively change nothing about the story or plot.

 No.1405

>>1396
So what if they're disconnected? I still like them a lot.

 No.1411

>>1405
It's effectively a new manga series when they show up, and it's just NOT that interesting. They can't really propell the storyline very well and at most they're just disconnected stories and objects for Mendo and Ataru to gawk at. Ran can start any number of shenanigans - like accidentally poisoning Ataru and Lum thinks he's gonna die so she has to go on an adventure to save him. Or Ran creates some mayhem that gets them all sent to detention. Ran gets taken on a date by Ryunosuke.

Actually Benten's BEST was the anime only ep and the manga chapter where she palled around with Ryunosuke.



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 No.661[Reply]

Who would have won there?
>votes only
>with the final contest
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 No.744

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>>661
Probably Ryuu, assuming there are more girls than boys in Tomobiki high.
My vote is for Shinobu, of course.

 No.776

Lum and it's not even close

 No.777

>>661
Close race between Lum and Ryuu split by gender, with a few token votes going to the other girls.

 No.1343

>>665
Tomobiki students have no idea that Ran is a psycho-bitch and she keeps up a pretty face in public. She is supposed to be psychologically damaged and holds a grudge against Lum, rather than being actually evil. So she's mostly normal, but then goes on her murder plans when Lum and Ataru are involved. So for them they're just attracted to her cutesy persona.

Ryu-chan also only sees the cutesy side. I don't think Ran and Ryu were ever in an adventure together with the gang, it was always one or the other.

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Did they cut the ep short so they could avoid Ran's lesbian kiss shenanigans? It's almost never used in the manga, but she has a soul drain kiss ability.



 No.1335[Reply]

Can we talk about how hot Ryūnosuke is? She puts the rest of the cast to Shame. Only Sakura is competition.


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 No.851[Reply]

My new home board
What have you got to offer?
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 No.859

>>858
All newbies need to learn the TRUTH of how Lum LIED to Ran's mom about wetting the bed, causing her permanent trauma.

 No.1053

>>859
Ran should've explained herself to her mom more clearly. She has nobody to blame but herself.

 No.1059

>>859
The best part about this was that much later in the episode with the rumor flowers, she lies about it again and mind break’s mendo for the rest of the episode

 No.1093

>>859
Trvkenuke. Lum must be zapped into a million tiny atoms. We're a Ran town.

 No.1322

>>1093
That’s only gonna make her stronger



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