lum - Catalog

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Maison Ikkoku

>it's the story of an almost 30 woman who sulks in her room and gets angry at 2 men for showing any romantic interest in anyone else despite not dating them
>and then man who does everything for her
>this goes on for like 6 years in-universe

This series is pretty frustrating.

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Rumic World webm/gif thread

May or may not include Lum.

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Ranma 1/2

Now THIS is a classic.

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Shinobu > Lum

Discuss

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Do you ever have dreams about Urusei Yatsura?

U(rugua)Y?

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4chan /lum/ rehabilitation center

just learned about this place
let's start lumposting!

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Evolution of Urusei Yatsura:

>Art style

Starts off as a very 70s looking series with very skinny females, and unrealistic proportions. Ataru is especially unrecognizeable in early chapters. Rumiko's art style evolves, with more realistic proportions and more curves for the women. Faces are quinticential 80s style.

>Focus

Starts as Shinobu and Ataru are accosted by "Urusei Yatsura" with some inspired by Japanese folklore. Then it's a Lum and Ataru will they or won't they story focused on Tomobiki high school. Introduction of Mendo and Onsen Mark becoming a regular character, and Sakura becoming the school nurse, mark the change. Lum spends less and less time wearing her tiger striped bikini.

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Urusei Yatsura episode guide:

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

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Lum's best outfit

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

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Ataru Posting

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

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Images you can never find a reason to post

Or weird cross overs in general.

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Ryoko

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

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What is Ran?

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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Is Lum a loli???

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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Goofy screenshots

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

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Ryuunosuke Appreciation Thread

Thread dedicated to the one and only Ryuu-chan.

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Urusei Yatsura

pretty Ran deservers to be here I love you Ran

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Are they really perfect for each other or is this a Stockholm syndrom situation?

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oni gokko (鬼ごっこ)

So is Lum like a genie or something and the whole thing is just an ironic wish? You catch the Oni, you get your wish granted? I'm not familliar enough with the actual children's game and the mythology of actual oni.

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Kurama

>over 1000 years old
>was put on ice until they could find a mate
>either has crow wings on her head or styles her hair like it does
>can just casually travel through time
>apparently her crows couldn't find a mate in literally 1000 years

What's the deal with Kurama? Were her crows just slacking off for generations and not really finding a mate?

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Rumic World Wiki

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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Urusei Yatsura films

How would you rank them?

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Mendo Army

Oshii used Mendo as a vector for his militerism fetish while the comic merely had him have some glasses wearing bodyguards. Did he go too far? The show makes Mendo a tad bit more menacing than perhaps Rumiko had intended. The two-parter where they're used by Mendo to try to thwart Atru from getting Lum back makes Mendo a bit of a Bond villain.

The Mendo Army: Good or bad? It was a nice excuse to see various bits of German hardware from the Wehrmacht or Bundeswehr from MP40s, Leopard 1A5. It basically vanishes after Oshii leaves.

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/ran/ - Ranchan

Best girl by a mile. Sleek, wholesome, driven. Everything you want in a gal.

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Sakura Appreciators

Sakura Sensei is so cool, so mature, so gorgeous.

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Official Promotional Art

I have never seen a full collection of promotional art. Does one even exist?

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Let's discuss who is the best guy in urusei for a change.

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Good visuals

Screenshots or gifs of nice imagery. Some of the direction in Rumiko's works can be quite nice.

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Rumic World Story Times

Hello! This might be premature and the site will be back up before Wednesday, but I wanted to see if any of the people who read my threads on /a/ would prefer I stick to my schedule and post the first volume of Rinne this Wednesday here or simply delay it until the site is back up. If the site goes back up, I'll probably redo it.

If you don't know what I am talking about, I dumped a few of Rumiko Takahashi's series on /a/ over the last year and a bit. Inuyasha was the most recent one.

Inuyasha Storytime: https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/271410702/#q271410702
One-Pound Gospel Storytime:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/270924290/#270924290
Mermaid Saga Storytime:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/270405739/#270405739
Ranma 1/2 Storytime:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/265277188/#265277188
Maison Ikkoku Storytime:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/263144591/#263144591
Urusei Yatsura Storytime:
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/258674340/#258674340

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10 best Urusei Yatsura episodes (NHK poll 2019)

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

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I started reading mao. It's pretty good.

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/hardcore nudity/

They used to get naked a lot on these old shows!

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Urusei Yatsura Beautiful Dreamer

Does anyone know about a particular deleted scene that was allegedly showed only in Japan theaters were Ataru was hit in the head with a mallet and had a dream where he was a old man. I can't find any leads on this.

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Why does she consume large amounts of Tabasco? Is she retarded?

Also post food recipes that include lots of Tabasco within the dish, Lum would love it if you do.

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The Great Debate: Lum vs Shinobu

So who would you rather date? Say you had a meeting with the truck and got isekai'd into a Rumic 2D paradise. Now you have a choice between these two ladies.

>EXHIBIT A. Lum
Perks? She's an alien princess of a mighty and powerful space empire. That's a big step up from your shitty earth bound existence. Not only are you never short of funds but she has a personal army and a UFO to boot. The downside is she will use these things against you if you upset her. She's not entirely used to earth customs, which can be an advantage and a disadvantage depending on your taste. she' also hawt as hell and not afraid to flaunt it. The downside is she appears to be some sort of sexual sadist who shows love by frying her darling with volts of electric. Her ability to fly and access to a UFO mean you'll never escape her. But I guess that's fine if your into masochism.

>EXHIBIT B. Shinobu
Cute, petite, and none of the alien stuff that make Lum so weird. She's not as good looking as either, a bit pasty and thin compared to Lum with breasts that'd make a lolicon drool. Cute over sexy. But Shinobu is confident, upstanding, intelligent, and usually clam. This makes her fairly reliable in serious situations that require the use of common sense and a functional human brain. Her earthly human family should be somewhat easier to deal with than Lum's. By far her worst drawback is her explosive temper and ability to throw around furniture like a pro wrestler. So much as glance at another girl and you'll risk a steel chair to the head.

So which will it be? Who do you choose? Is there someone else feeling left out?

Personally, I'd marry Lum for the political connections and make Shinobu my concubine, unless the Oni tolerate polygamy then she'll be our sweet co-wife as God intended.

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Lum getting hurt

She gets hurt the least in the entire series, so I want to catalogue all the incidents here.

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Lum the Forever

This movie's great, and extremely well directed. Let's talk about it.

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Concerned Lums

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

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/lum/ culture

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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Rin-ne Storytime

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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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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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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Who would have won there?
>votes only
>with the final contest

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Ryūnosuke

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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My new home board
What have you got to offer?

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Does she have any redeeming qualities?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_Checklist#Items
How high does she score?

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Surreal and Absurd moments in da 'Y

Post em'

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BUT WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN!???!

If Jason Vorhees taught us never to hitchike, what did we ever learn from Urusei Yatsura?

The borderline Buddhist messaging is pretty clear when you realize Ataru's attachment to women is the source of the problem, not to mention Ran's obsessive rivalry with Lum and the way the Shinto master Cherry is obviously a fraud. Its like an absurd counterpart to Sex and Zen minus the graphic love scenes and Amy Yip's huge tits (although Lum doesn't exactly disappoint in that area). Chasing after girls skirts leads to karmic retribution in the form of forced marriage to an alien princess. But is the show encouraging me to seek carnel relations with alien women or dissuade me? I can't tell. Is it about the futility of sex? Is Ataru the boy Sisyphus doomed to be forever cockblocked?

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NOOO KURAMA! SHIT SHIT I'M GOING TO GET STABBED FUCK FUCK FUCK

!!!!!!

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/lum/ OC contest!

Hello rumic maniacs! Now that /lum/ is back, I wanted to do something that'll actually engage the community. That's why I'm starting the /lum/ OC contest! Over the next month (ending on March 15th) you're encouraged to make OC that celebrates rumic works and /lum/ culture. This includes
>banners for this board
>video skits
>AMVs
>art (physical or digital)
>music
>fan games (if you've got the skills)
We will then vote as a board on who gets the title of ultimate lumfren! Also all the art will be put on a special page.
Now get cracking!

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Surprise!

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Ran > Lum

Do you get blocked for dropping a trvthnvke?

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Rumic Settei

Post your favorite Rumic Settei (production sheets)
https://characterdesignreferences.com/art-of-animation-3/urusei-yatsura
https://characterdesignreferences.com/art-of-animation-6/art-of-maison-ikkoku
https://characterdesignreferences.com/art-of-animation-1/art-of-ranma
https://characterdesignreferences.com/art-of-animation-5/art-of-inuyasha

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Is he gay?

Or just retarded? Let's say a male falls in love with a female who he doesn't know is actually a male crossdresser despite this fact being repeatedly explained to him. How do we classify Kuno sexually? Well okay, Ranma isn't a crossdresser since he physically changes into a she and isn't pretending which complicates things a lot. I mean, theoretically it would be fine to be attracted to her when he's a her. I guess it would only be gay if the attraction also includes boy Ranma. Clearly, Akane is lesbian or some adjacent type of perversion but we knew this already. Seriously, what else explains that haircut? Soun betrothing his daughter to a gender bender was a stroke of genius. But when it comes to Kuno I see the following possibilities:

A. He is gay but doesn't realize it. Probably faps to 女装 JAV tapes and justifies it with "they are boys not men actually and this is traditional samurai nanshoku and therefore not gay." Rivalry with male Ranma is just his psychically repressed gayness. Why else is Kuno always around him?

B. Not gay. He's only turned on by the red haired pig tailed girl and is just a simple village pervert.

C. He's just retarded and fools can't consent so what does it matter anyway? But if he managed to sleep with girl Ranma (PLEASE GOD NOOOO!) would Kuno have successfully r *ped himself?

I like to think sexual identities are made up insanity Western label-mania and Kuno is like a platypus that fucks with the taxonomy. Maybe we need to mint a new orientation of brain damaged kendoka who are specifically pervy for guys that turn into girls but only when they are girls?

Time to push little figamin into pool of drowning imageboard admin 非常悲惨的故事

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New Years Eve Ranma Marathon!

Happy New Years! We will be running a Ranma 1/2 anime marathon (old & new series) starting at 12PM EST/5PM UTC at https://cytu.be/r/wapstreams
This is the thread for all your reactions.
See you soon!

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Best Rumiko Adaptation Songs

This is a thread for the best songs featured in adaptations of Rumiko's works. Could be OPs, EDs, insert songs, BGM, or remixes of any of these.
I'll start with "Born to be Free" by Steffanie, featured in the intro to UY3.

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Ranma 1/2 Remake

So they announced a new Ranma anime being done by MAPPA and I didn't see anyone talking about it so I thought I'd make a thread.
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT7MWy9oLf8

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Magic

Each thing personally affects reality.Example-eating salt and then being assalted.Find which thing and pick the categories,words,letters and symbols and get the answer to any question or not pick the words and the words that are remaining or farthest away are the answer.Find which thing and do magic.Thinking thoughts,snapping or pointing your fingers and a book with the information appears or the thing you were thinking of appears.The elements.Vitamins and minerals.Eating or drinking the same food again and again or a combination of things or not eating or drinking enough.Write a paragraph of information about subjects.Get the answer by connecting the words and other things,specifying,adding words to the words,correcting the errors,synonyms.

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I hate Akane Tendo

What was her problem? Will theyr fix her in the remake?

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UYAS Thread

/lum/ will never die - for all of its faults, I appreciate that at least it was given a chance, and while it's probably going to be forgotten about in the next decade, it was nice to see something new in 30 years.

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Lum

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Fan Art Thread

Very simple. We post fan art that we like. Please remember to link the original place the art was posted (generally twitter/pixiv), so we can keep up with these artists and support them. Note that this is open to all rumiko works, not just UY.
I really enjoy this piece based on episode 144 of the original anime. Maybe I'm a sucker for dutch angles but it fits the "dreamy" atmosphere.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/115511329

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Maison Ikkoku is better than Urusei Yatsura.

There, I said it.

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UY 1981 Music Thread

This is a thread dedicated to the songs used in the original Urusei Yatsura anime.

The full UY OST is vast and can be listened to on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/urusei-yatsura-ost or seeded at https://nyaa.si/view/868533 .

The series is known for it's distinct soundtrack, full of a variety of genres reflective of the diverse Japanese popular music that later came to be known as "city pop", though not all of the tracks necessarily belong to that. Many of the most recognizable tracks from early in the series can be attributed to Shinsuke Kazato and Fumitaka Anzai. Anzai in particular is responsible for the synthesizer laden tracks that define the series, while Kazato's work tended to be more orchestral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo_7emKXlHE .

Urusei Yatsura also used outside soundtracks, notably the Beatles inspired Digital Mystery Tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gJMlXCGcBw and Masayoshi Takanaka's Finger Dancin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhSfnx8dfg .
There is also heavy Latin influence in some of the show's most famous themes, like Lum's Love Song and Love Mobius. Later in the series, artists like Steffanie and Cindy brought new influences into the series, such as hard rock.
There's even a series of official UY remixes, including Digital Trip Urusei Yatsura https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mBsiVwUQPaU5LyZfKBwMPfkojCwXbg0Is and Urusei Yatsura Remix (1991) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLha3ysj0EbYFO6uZeDNdUZThqnC-TMcXb
Here are some interesting interviews with people who worked on the sounds of Tomobiki:
https://www.furinkan.com/features/interviews/musicboxuy.html
https://www.furinkan.com/features/interviews/anzai.html

What are your favorite songs from the series?

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I love my wife Ran-chan!

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Urusei Yatsura Community around the web.

Discuss the UY Community.

Are there problems? Or is it going well?

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Urusei Yatsura Fanfiction

Got any interesting ones to share? The Senior Year is really famous but i haven't read it, anybody can give some feedback before i dive in 50 pages of 90s ff autism?

R: 0 / I: 0 (sticky)

The return of /lum/

I removed /lum/ a while back to try and consolidate the board. But maybe we can actually revive this place. This won't be a strictly UY board (since all rumic threads reference eachother), and OC is heavily encouraged! I'll be moving all the old posts here.

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/lum/ bros, you there?

It's been awhile.

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Kino UY fash moments

ITT: we post the fashiest moments in Urusei Yatsura

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You VILL listen to the stunning soundtrack by Kaoru Wada
You VILL get comfy at the sight of the Ferris wheel
You VILL get immersed into the world of medieval Japan
You VILL marvel at the beautiful backgrounds and colour palettes
And you VILL enjoy it

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this guy and ten in a room. You have a pistol with one bullet. Choose wisely /lum/

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/lum/ recruitment

Let's face it. /lum/ is comfy, but slow. We need to spread the word about /lum/ so this board can truly be a worthy successor to old /a/ UY threads. I think we should get some real nice OC and spread the word both on the nu lum threads on /a/ as well as r/uruseiyataura, and maybe even other places. Any of you have ideas?

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/nulum/ Reboot containment thread

Discuss the reboot.

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The Cars of Urusei Yatsura.

Cars from Urusei Yatsura. Post 'em

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The /lum/ directory