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So cool seeing an 80’s anime get a reboot🤩 this episode for some reason was making me laugh even though the cliche tropes are from the 80’s it still made me giggle bc why Ataru getting the short end of the stick💀 this is off topic but Lum is attractive asf I cant lie guys I was gawking at her the entire time she was on the screen she got a nice ass and some nice titties🤤😮💨  |
Treyv0nOct 13, 2022 9:55 PM
| Oh man... episode 1 and I'm already finding Lum annoying af. This journey sure will be interesting, huh? So, Ataru is a womanizer yet his goal is to get married? Huh... but isn't that the thing womanizers fear most? Also lmfao at the people complaining because this adaptation won't show nipples. Truly hilarious. |
| I feel somewhat mixed about it! It looks like the intent behind this show is somewhat of a "Dragon Ball Z Kai" of Urusei Yatsura. Basically cut out only the really good bits of the OG anime and package it into a much much shorter show And this could be good! A LOT of American/Western anime fans really freak out if you ask them to watch anything from before the year ~2000, so this could really be a gateway drug into the classic 1980s Urusei Yatsura anime and the excellent films with are so commonly looked over by my countrymen. The difference here is that they aren't using any of the OG anime, it's a fully new anime with a new VA cast and all new animation and songs and everything. Which is..idk. No way an anime in 2022 is gonna top the direction of 1980s Oshii (And Beautiful Dreamer) and certainly the production team must have known that coming into this project. But also releasing the classic animation with a modern cut would have been weird too, I guess.. They probably will skip over Beautiful Dreamer (the high point of the entire Urusei Yatsura series) entirely because of it's length, Takahaki's disdain for it, and because it relies so heavily on it's style that'd be hard to recreate for a modern production. As far as it's quality, this reboot seems pretty good so far, if a lil fast paced. The pacing is to be expected because it's more or less a highlights reel of the series I guess my take is: This new Urusei Yatsura reboot isn't bad at all. In fact the opening episode was pretty good but if you are new to the series do yourself a favor and just watch the original series imo. No disrespect if you're new and enjoy this though. |
| Ataru shouting out Shinobu's name reminds me of Kamiya as Araragi calling out Shinobu in the monogatari series. If you heard the voice clip out of context, you might've thought they were watching Araragi in his natural habitat. |
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| Really enjoyed that. |
| Absolutely love the visual style. The classic action shots with eye-popping neon colors is like candy for the eyes. |
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| Never saw original but this seems a lot like To Love Ru. It's borderline too stupid so far, but Lum is incredibly cute eye candy so I'll hold out a few eps. The main guy is trash tier MC so far. Hopefully it isn't as stupid as 2Lru. |
Treyv0n said: So cool seeing an 80’s anime get a reboot🤩 this episode for some reason was making me laugh even though the cliche tropes are from the 80’s it still made me giggle bc why Ataru getting the short end of the stick💀 this is off topic but Lum is attractive asf I cant lie guys I was gawking at her the entire time she was on the screen she got a nice ass and some nice titties🤤😮💨 They made her bikini bottom bigger in the remake, censoring her ass crack as your second image shows. |
| "Even villains have standards" -Accelerator-  |
Konan_Edogawa_ said: wildhood said: I actually like that they didnt update the technology or anything like that. It shows just how faithful David is to the remake at least in my opinion.And the trend of anime remakes continue. Here it is: the Urusei Yatsura remake. I started Urusei Yatsura (1981) back in 2015. Still watching it to this day lol. It's okay, I guess. Just another episodic comedy show. Was never a big fan of the series and in no rush to finish it. I also never read the manga, so I can't tell how faithful of an adaptation it is. All I know is that they are planning to adapt specific chapters from the manga, instead of adapting all the chapters. Meaning that the anime is going to skip a lot of the chapters of the manga. Lum is so much hotter in the remake. Apparently, Lum is the first tsundere, according to Wikipedia. It seems the remake did not update the technology. The show seems to be set around 1978-1981. It did update the artstyle though, which is the artstyle Rumiko Takahashi currently uses. But the 1981 version's artstyle is still closer to the original manga's artstyle. Enjoyable start so far. The original showed Lum's nipples in the first episode, but the remake didn't, but whatever, the rest of the 1981 version of the anime didn't show any more nudity after episode 1. Yeah really faithful censoring lum's outfit, with her asscrack showing that they completely eliminated 20+ chapters of jokes which involves said ass crack. As she uses it to woo the mc over from other women when he's horny. |
| "Even villains have standards" -Accelerator- |
| Flashy mind pain colors, neon hair, censorship, bad animation, this anime remake is awful. Hope it will recover Gigamecha12 said: Is not muticoloured. Lum's hair is green aquamarine dark green. Depending on the lighting the shade might change but is not made of neon. The colors are awful. The covers are a different issue completely.I've watched 79 episodes and a movie of the original anime. There where probably 2-3 scenes with any uncensored nipples in the show so far. It also becomes a lot less focused on ecchi comedy really quick. So all those of you bitchin about it being ruined cause ya can't see a pink patch of skin on Lum's chest either A. Never watched the show to begin with, or B. Are vastly blowing things out of proportion. Ranma 1/2 had WAAAAAY more nudity in it then Urusei Yatsura ever did. Ya might be getting the two mixed up. As for the concern on pacing. Look, I adore the original. It's a great and fun show! But, especially in the first 20 episodes where they aired 2 short episodes back to back instead of a full length episode? The pacing was EXTREMELY quick. Thats arguably part of the charm! Everything starts off semi-normal just to go completely off the rails by the end of the episode. David Production has emulated that greatly, and frankly as much as I have a soft spot for the original's look, it does not hold a candle to what they've done here. Lum was always meant to have multi-colored hair as we see in the Takahashi's colored pages. And now we can finally see it! The fx are great, and the animation is fantastic! Music's good and the voice actors nailed it. Do I like them more then the OG? Nah. But don't mean I dislike their portrayal! For anyone new to Yatsura, this is a great way to start. And hopefully it'll convince you to give the manga a try as well as maybe the original tv series from the 80's. Don't listen to the strangely horny doomers, watch it for yourself, If it resonates with you, I promise you'll have a good time! Its great to live in a world where Lum, Ataru and the rest of them are relevant again! |
| :) a blast from my past :) |
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| It was a pretty good episode, better than I expected tbh, because I'm always skeptical of remakes |
| I'd like to make myself believe that Planet Earth turns slowly |
| Better animation although the plot is the same!!! kekeke |
| Fun first episode! I think I would’ve enjoyed it more if it wasn’t as fast though, didn’t really have time to sit with any of the jokes. |
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| oh you really can see how this is a "modernized 80s anime". the story concept, humor, setting, etc. i was holding off on finishing the og just to see how this'll do but i think ill be finished the og first. hope it only gets better from now tho op and ed are amazing im absolutely addicted to them |
| Wow October 14, they really pick the exact same day as the OG Anime Adaptation began to airing. 41 Years later who would have thought this will get a Remake. Instantly love the old school Artstyle in the new modern Animation, it looks beautiful. What a Chaotic first episode, the dialogue was hilarious. We eating good for the next 6 months. |
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| Lum is perfectly cute as she should, I also really like her voice and how she talks, and how colorful everything is, really captures how the manga looks when colored (hell, the ad break eye catch is a recreation of one of the most famous ilustrations of the original and they nailed it). Oh and the original opening from the 81 anime sneaking in was a great touch. |
| I don' know... This feels old. This is well made with good voice acting and excellent OP & ED but whole thing feels too old. There is nothing new here. Everything has been seen like thousand times already in many anime. This might have been revolutionary back in then but it doesn't feel much these days when many anime after it has recycled, refined and processed same concepts over and over again to this day. |
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nightcrawlercyp said: Flashy mind pain colors, neon hair, censorship, bad animation, this anime remake is awful. Hope it will recover It's ridiculous how people who claim "bad animation" are just talking nonsense. Bad animation refers to missing frames in a cut, bad body proportions or incorrect color coding. Nothing of that occurs in this new adaptation. Also regarding to the modern color choices, it's a re-adaptation. Artistic liberties are there to be placed in a new reimagination of the series. If the director wanted the audience to experience the original colors in a 1:1 ratio it would had been a lot easier to just tell the audience to buy the old episodes in a dvd or bluray bundle. AcceleratorAngel said: Yeah really faithful censoring lum's outfit, with her asscrack showing that they completely eliminated 20+ chapters of jokes which involves said ass crack. DavidPro already stated that they are handpicking the episodes to be adapted, they aren't going to re-adapt the whole 195 episodes, so they are already filtering more than just 20+ chapters of asscrack jokes that only matters to the horny. So it's a good thing from a business side afterall. |
| I found it more annoying than funny. The lead actor yelling every 2 seconds was grating. |
| This is far worse than I imagined it to be based on the description, Lum is a controlling and abusive bitch. How did shit like this even get a remake!? Guess that there are far too many masochists otakus who dream of being abused by a cute girl in bikini. |
 「あなたのためなら世界中を敵にしてもかまわない」 "If it was for your sake I wouldn't mind even if I had to turn the whole world into my enemy" |
| Lum is what happens when you give a female pikachu a human personality. I love all the 80's and 90's attention to detail (the rotary telephones were fantastic). I like both the op and the ed (that 3D rendition of Lum is very cool) both in terms of animation and choice of music (seeing Lum singing the OP for instance). About the plot, well, yes, caching a thing that can fly is very hard; one would think that Lum expends some energy flying and giving electric shocks, so one could chase her until exaustion (tho, our protagoinist isn't in peak atletic form either). The drama of the second half of the episode was good (again, the thing with the telephones) but to me Shinobu's reaction isn't very realistic (it is quite obvius that Lum is behind everything, even if normally it would be Moroboshi's fault for being a womanizer). Also, I never watched the original but I always felt that I was born too late for it. But I know the characters from an early age, so I always wanted to watch them talk and move. |
ZenielDanakuOct 14, 2022 7:02 AM
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Kimurah said: If they had gone for the whole fanservice package the show would had had been presented in a different broadcasting/streaming services along with a different timeslot that would had hindered the amount of viewers. Just a small side note: The earliest broadcasting slots for this start at 1AM in the night, with most being later than 2AM. (EP1 had a special exception, airing after 2AM on all stations) |
| Damn, this poor guy. First he gets dumped by his girl, then he gets picked to be the savior of the world by competing in a game of tag and if he fails the world will be invaded and he will forever be ridiculed, his mother said she should've never gave birth to him, and now there's some squid alien chick getting in the way of his love life, lmao. At least that squid alien chick is pretty cute! Well anyways, I've never watched the original show (obviously because i wasn't even born when the original show came out, lol.) but this one seems pretty promising. I got interested in it when i heard that apparently Lum is considered to be one of the pioneers of waifu culture and one of the first ever anime girls to be considered a waifu. I love the art style and how it looks like a mix of an old anime style and a modern anime style, it looks pretty neat. And it felt pretty fun to watch too, definitely a great first episode and I will be looking forward for more. (Though, I will add as other people here have said, the pacing is definitely quite too fast, but I'm fine with it i guess. As long as I still enjoy it.) |
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| Okay so established it pretty well that it's gonna be a comedy which is nice. MC is funny. He's a teenager being a teenager but seems like he genuinely likes Shinobu. The intro was ridiculous though, aliens who speak Japanese come to invade but are decent enough that they allow a game of tag to decide if they will really invade or not lmao. Lum is really cute though. It's both because of her character design and the art style of this which seems like hasn't changed much from the original one, at a glance one can tell this is old anime art style. Lum's VA sounds pretty cute too and it suits Lum. Is Lum Yandere? Whatever but it is funny. It was ridiculous how Lum thought she was being proposed to and then the dad agreed too💀 The OP is such a banger. Can't describe how much I liked it. The visuals, the music. Top tier. Same goes for the ED. Both of the have great visuals. Liked the use of bright colours in both OP and ED. ED song is a banger too. I really want to see some cute Lum moments and hopefully some romantic moments between Lum and our MC. I mean it's already clear who the best girl is. 5/5. Wouldn't have watched this anime anytime soon if there wasn't a remake (keeping in mind 190 episode). I'm gald that this got a remake so I can at least watch this weekly. Looking forward to next episode. |
TsutanaiFuunOct 14, 2022 7:31 AM
 The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
| I came coz of stacked VA cast will stay for Old school Over-the-top Rom-Com |
Swiss_Bohemian said: You mean she stops screaming "cheater" and zapping Ataru and Shinobu and trying to tear them apart?Maou_heika said: This is far worse than I imagined it to be based on the description, Lum is a controlling and abusive bitch. Yes, that's somewhat true, but only in the very first couple of episodes (and manga chapters). Her personality gets quickly an overhaul, like it has already been mentionned in this thread. |
「あなたのためなら世界中を敵にしてもかまわない」 "If it was for your sake I wouldn't mind even if I had to turn the whole world into my enemy" |
| Perverted version of where Waldo but it's a game of tag with an alien |
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| I didn't like much the first episode. Not dropping it though after one episode, I give it a chance to prove to me why this story should be considered so good that the original series gained the classic status. |
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Kimurah said: nightcrawlercyp said: Flashy mind pain colors, neon hair, censorship, bad animation, this anime remake is awful. Hope it will recover It's ridiculous how people who claim "bad animation" are just talking nonsense. Bad animation refers to missing frames in a cut, bad body proportions or incorrect color coding. Nothing of that occurs in this new adaptation. Also regarding to the modern color choices, it's a re-adaptation. Artistic liberties are there to be placed in a new reimagination of the series. If the director wanted the audience to experience the original colors in a 1:1 ratio it would had been a lot easier to just tell the audience to buy the old episodes in a dvd or bluray bundle. AcceleratorAngel said: Yeah really faithful censoring lum's outfit, with her asscrack showing that they completely eliminated 20+ chapters of jokes which involves said ass crack. DavidPro already stated that they are handpicking the episodes to be adapted, they aren't going to re-adapt the whole 195 episodes, so they are already filtering more than just 20+ chapters of asscrack jokes that only matters to the horny. So it's a good thing from a business side afterall. By bad animation I am refering to stuff like how the mouth of ataru is animated |
| Uhhhhh, I have no clue what happened and my instincts tell me I'm better off not knowing. Colour palette is good, and so is the massive fucking Monogatari reference sitting right there in the remake of a series older than Mono. |
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nightcrawlercyp said: By bad animation I am refering to stuff like how the mouth of ataru is animated Like what? You can easily pull out a webm clip to explain what are you exactly refering to. Otherwise, like @Gigamecha12 and I stated you know jack about what good and bad animation stands for. |
| This is Love comedy on steroids and I'm all for it |
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