The General Anime Thread...

[Sephy]

That girl is doing it right.

 

[AOS-]

It's a shame how Rumiko Takahashi's works are becoming forgotten, and are becoming irrelevant to today's anime fans.

You could be educating instead of pitying the show if you care about it as much as you do.

 

[TheCorvette]

You don't even need to watch the show (Urusei Yatsura-Those Selfish Aliens (1981)) to know who Lum is. She has had countless cameos in countless anime. I can't even be bothered to name all of her appearances because there have been THAT many.

Here is just one example (The one I remember most), Excel Saga.

(At 16 seconds)

Lum is the main character of Rumiko Takahashi's first work, Urusei Yatsura which went on for about 200 episodes, and is FINALLY being released on Blu-ray this year (Along with Ranma 1/2 and Maison Ikkoku). She is an oni from space that falls in love with the loser perverted lead male character after he defeated her in a game of tag to decide the fate of mankind (IIRC, if he lost, the earth would be destroyed). He won by accidentally pulling her top off.

(And I'm not really spoiling it as that all happened in the very first episode.)

 

[AOS-]

You don't even need to watch the show (Urusei Yatsura-Those Selfish Aliens (1981)) to know who Lum is.

Still never heard of Lum.

 

[TheCorvette]

Oh lord, the times really are changing. Read the entire Wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urusei_Yatsura

 

[AOS-]

Oh lord, the times really are changing.

Time never stands still, boy. Get used to it.

 

[TheCorvette]

In the case of Rumiko Takahashi's works, it's something hard to get used to because of how big of a deal they were (And not just because I'm a big fan of her), especially Urusei Yatsura.

It is one of the earlier school comedy anime ever made (According to roriconfan it's the first major one, so it wouldn't be a stretch to say it's a landmark for the genre), and it still stands up well from what I remember.

Shame it'll probably never get rescued, along with Rumiko Takahashi's other works (Ranma 1/2 is the most recent to go OOP), so HD fansubs we go in the future, unless this one upcoming kickstarter-like legal anime streaming site run by Japanese companies ends up streaming those shows.
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Quite interesting videos I recommend checking out that go into the history of this stuff.
Anime Evaluations from the first to 2012 (He's now at 2005)
Anime History-This huge blog in video form.

 

[nk4e]

This OVA has a cameo of the characters including ones from her other works.
The voice actor for Inyuasha also played Ranma.

 

[dice1998]

Still never heard of Lum.

This. That looks like excel and thus i'm treating her as such.

 

[ArcTypeMakoto]

Ranma was stupid.

 

[The Vanishing Boy]

-> In case of our folks who doesn't know who Lum is....

-Todays AEAD- Lum Edition

^ From the classic Manga/Anime by Rumiko Takahashi (Inu Yasha, Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkou, Mermaid Saga)

 

[Roger the Horse]

I've only heard of Lum because of BBC Choice.

 

[nk4e]

I think that Ranma was just simple. I enjoyed reading the manga's during my lunch break in highschool.

 

[Cano]

I've found both Takahashi's works I've tried to watch to be, as Nk said, very simplistic, but Ranma had some golden moments. Still, wouldn't try to watch again, nor Inu Yasha.

 

[The Vanishing Boy]

-> Share time!

^ I want to travel there!!!

 

[Roger the Horse]

I support Haruhi Racing!

 

[DK]

So, Eva-01's number in the GT300 class is #2. A certain German's gonna be pissed.

BTW, who's Yui-san? I hope this person named themselves after Yui Ikari rather than whatserface from K-On.

 

[eXtaticus]

Christ, the stuff you guys get away with posting in this thread...

Seriously, if I posted anything on the same level in the Pony thread, I'd be absolutely slammed for it. :/

 

[Suzumiya]

Too bad the Hankook didn't keep the scheme they had in 2011 for 2012. :/

 

[Shinshiki]

There was also a couple kawasakis that raced in the Suzuka 8 Hours with Evangelion schemes. They had bikes for unit 00, 01, and 02.

 

[C-ZETA]

Too bad the Hankook didn't keep the scheme they had in 2011 for 2012. :/

That Hankook Porsche specifically didn't race for 2012, the sole one that was racing this year is a different one. It also raced last year too.

 

[AOS-]

Christ, the stuff you guys get away with posting in this thread...
/

Only one person does.

 

[Sir Tuddle]

And he doesn't really. I really don't like how many times Tiger and Bunny get portrayed like that >:

 

[nk4e]

Oddly, I need to see examples...

 

[Lain]

So guys, I'm taking a break from anime... don't worry though, it'll be a short one. Only 44 years.

That is to say that I'll be watching my anime by year in chronological order, and syncronized with my chronological journey through movies. I'm currently on 1935 in my chronological film watching, and my oldest anime series right now is 1979, so I won't be watching anime until I reach 1979 in film, hence the 44-year anime hiatus. But of course it won't actually take me 44 years to watch the movies in my collection covering from 1935-1979.

 

[DK]

That is one hell of a weird way to watch movies.

 

[Cano]

You're nuts, Walter.

 

[LamboLP700-4]

I are have the returns! I haven't watched anything in a few months, what should I watch?

 

[AOS-]

Watch Psycho-Pass. Watch Shinsekai Yori. Watch Evangelion 3.0

 

[Sir Tuddle]

and this when it comes out :0