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Urusei Yatsura - RPG, Movies, Episodes & Stories => What is your favorite Episode? => Topic started by: Lum-chan on October 23, 2004, 04:35:09 AM
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By Dave Baranyi on Monday, July 5, 1999 - 06:52:
I went over the 30 Pony Canyon laser discs that cover the 117 episodes of the Urusei Yatsura TV shows which continue on after Animeigo's tape #20, in an attempt to pick my 10 favorite shows. I couldn't make ten; so the following list is my favorite 12. I could have easily added another 10 shows and most of the remaining 99 shows are also quite enjoyable. For instance, the shows with Sugar, Pepper and Ginger would have made a top 20 list. Only the shows with "Kitsune" the fox and the Ryuunosuke episodes really irritated me.
I've attempted to translate the titles off of the laser discs. I've left the translations rather literal. Those of you who are better than me at Japanese can correct me from the romaji transcription that I've also put down. I am also using the numbering off of the laser discs where, for the early shows, each quarter hour episode is counted as a separate show.
This list is in chronological order. I would be hard pressed to rank these shows because each one is exemplary.
LD#23 - Episode 112 - "Rumu to ataru - futari dake no yoru", "Lum and Ataru - Together embrace at night". A "must see" show in which Ataru and Lum are left alone for a weekend and Lum intends to play "wife" to the "full extent". This is the show in which Ataru realizes that there might be some "advantages" to giving in to Lum for once, but as usual, Ataru's luck doesn't let him take advantage of the situation. This show has some great comedy and lines.
LD#28 - Episode 130 - "I jikan kuukan darlin wa doko dacha?", "Strange Dimension Space - Where is Darling?". A poignant and bittersweet episode not based upon a manga story. Lum gets separated from Ataru at Hanami time and wanders through alternate dimensions looking for the "right Darling". A great episode for everyone who has wondered "what if" about Urusei Yatsura ( or even their own lives ).
LD#30 - the "Perfect" laser disc. This is the one disc ( or tape ) that has four great shows on it. These are the 4 shows to use to introduce someone to UY.
Episode 138 - "Makyou supasharu! Mendou yashiki no zaihou sagase!" , "Haunts of wickedness special! Mendo mansion treasure hunt!" A great "shaggy dog" story with an unforgettable scene between the "king" of mendou octopii and Shinobu as the gang hunts for a lost Mendou mask.
Episode 139 - "Ai to toukan! Guroubu VS pantsu no kettou!!", "Love and fighting spirit! Glove VS pants duel". A good manga episode turned into a great TV episode. Ataru gets "attached to" a cursed bloxing glove that causes him to punch anyone whom he grabs in a clinch. The scenes where Ataru punches himself silly in order to not let the boxing glove punch Lum are great.
Episode 140 - "Rumu chan ushi ni naru?", "Is Lum becoming a cow?". A great take off on soap operas with all sorts of cliches being skewered. Lum's horns start to grow and she ( and Ataru ) start to worry that she is turning into a cow. Lum's melodramatic worries are really great to watch.
Episode 141 - "Dou-dou kansei! Kore ga Lum chan no seishun eiga.", Again the gang makes a movie, but this time the satire is much sharper. There is a lot of Fellini in this episode.
LD # 37 - Episode 166 - "Haru tokara ji. Sabishi gari ya no yasai monotori." , "Long time until Spring. The lonely fairy story". Another poignant and quiet story. A snow fairy ( yuki onna )takes an interest in Ataru, but not for the "historical" deadly reasons. The interaction between Lum, Ataru and the snow fairy is quite moving. In my opinion this is a good example of how the TV series really does a lot with characterization in a way that was lacking in the manga.
LD#39 - Episode 175 - "Ayatsushi Ran! Kotatsu Neko no hatsukoi oden?", "Control, Ran! Kotatsu Neko's first love oden?". This is the show that really shows off Ran at her best as she attempts first to avoid Kotatsu-Neko's advances, then she finally decides to "take action". Ran's images are striking and her reactions are fabulous. I really like Ran, despite her "minor character flaws", and this show is her best.
LD#40 - Episode 180 - "Darlin no yasashi sa ga suki dacha." , "The kind Darling that I love". Another quiet episode, about the ghost girl who just wanted to have a date with Ataru. This show is similar to but significantly superior to a later show about Ten. Again, the show tells us a lot more about the characters. A great episode to show to friends who like "shoujo" anime.
LD#45 - Episode 200 - "Hoshi ni negai o! Ataru - ie wa yokubou panikku" , "Wishing Star! Ataru household's desire panic". The only show that really gives us some insight into the character of Ataru's father as he grapples with his daily routine and the chance appearance of a "wishing star". Of course, this being the Moroboshi household, the wishes don't work out, but there is a feeling of some level of success on the part of Ataru's father at the end of the show. An interesting companion to the show on LD#20 about Ataru's Mother.
LD#47 - Episode 207 - "Darlin daikyou! Koufu no yon shikan omikuji!" , "Darling very bad luck! Terror of the 4th dimension omikuji" , Another good manga story turned into a very good TV show as Lum and Ataru wander around a festival at night. Neither Ataru no Lum appreciate the fortunes that they receive, even when Lum shifts Ataru into an alien dimension, but it is obvious that they are getting the fortunes that they deserve.
LD#50 - Episode 218 - "O-risuta - dai enkai! Uchira wa fumetsu dacha!" , "List for a big party! We are immortal!!" , the final episode, a fitting conclusion to the series. The episode starts out with the cast receiving a mysterious invitation to a party, at which even the "gods" show up. Everything ends the way it should. Ataru even willingly kisses Lum, but with the results that one would expect, given Ataru's luck.
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By Freddie on Tuesday, July 6, 1999 - 21:18:
Wow! quite a lot of fav episodes...
I'm working on it, but I have to view my tapes again... Can't remember the correct episode numbers by heart
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By Keith David Hallam (1967) on Sunday, September 5, 1999 - 21:32:
OH WHAT I WOULDN'T GIVE FOR THE WHOLE UY COLLECTION ON TAPE. HELL I WOULD EVEN BUY A LASER DISC / DVD SYSTEM JUST TO WATCH IT. KINDA SAD HU. *L*
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By Majin Mendou on Tuesday, September 7, 1999 - 02:01:
I would do the same thing. Animeigo should kinda pick up the pace now that they got their license back. At the rate they're going, they'll probably translate it all by 2007 or maybe later.
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By Dave Baranyi on Tuesday, September 14, 1999 - 03:00:
The lack of action by AE in mid-97 is exactly why I bought a dual LD/DVD player! I then went out and hunted down the Pony Canyon LD re-releases of all the episodes that AE didn't release. Two years later, I can re-watch the UY shows whenever I want, and AE is just now advertising the release of tape #21.
Subsequently, I've been able to buy and watch all sorts of new and old anime on LD that I might never be able to see here if I depended upon "domestic" releases. BTW - I was in Tokyo in July and found to my surprise that all of the big anime stores still have lots of the UY LDs in stock! ( along with thousands of others - I would go broke really fast if I lived there for any amount of time )
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By Jocko on Friday, September 17, 1999 - 02:52:
So what do the non-Japanese understanding fans in the States do? Just hope AE keeps going and picks up the pace? I'd really dig seeing the last episode and number 166 someday.
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By Dave Baranyi on Monday, September 20, 1999 - 02:00:
You realize, of course, that you could get a B.A. in Japanese, and probably a M.A. too before ( and if ) AE finishes putting out all of UY. icon_smile.gif
What I don't understand is why AE doesn't have a "sign up" for the rest of the UY episodes. I bet that they would get more than enough committments to be able to do it in a year. AE is a very strange company.
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By Jocko on Tuesday, September 21, 1999 - 04:17:
Yes, they are. But pretty nice. Oh well, what can you expect of a bunch of people who base operations out of one of David Lynch's favorite towns?
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By ataru devo on Wednesday, September 22, 1999 - 02:35:
If Lynch were in charge, you'd probobly get a dead crow with each order.
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By Jocko on Thursday, September 23, 1999 - 04:59:
I want the Chicken Kit!
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I did hear they had released a limited edition 30,000 box sets of all the laserdiscs for $5000 and they sold out within 3 hours
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lesee...in the ovas...the sherbert esp. is all time my favorite!~ it feature all the alien lovelys (benten, ran, ouyuki, lum) in persuit of ou-samas sherbert birds! :DD it has laughs out the butt in it...i <3 that one so much!
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Only the shows with "Kitsune" the fox and the Ryuunosuke episodes really irritated me.
I haven't seen too many of those.
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I really need to watch that episode to see what you're talking about...
What's the number (from 1 to 195, not 1 to 200 and something)?
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The number is 134.
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Some times I don't understand you.
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Why's that?
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Forget it and return to the topic.
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What does AE means?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AE
LoL
AE refers to AnimEigo...
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So that's what it means.
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No I haven't.
Only saw 1-15 (in 195) but I have a few more already to watch tomorrow.
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I see...
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i dislike all the fox episodes, they clearly made to many fox episodes
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Why's that?
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I like the fox episodes, They're funny.
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to each his own i guess, i personally skip by every fox episode when i go through my collection
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to each his own i guess, i personally skip by every fox episode when i go through my collection
I was wondering why you skip every fox episode?
I like the fox episodes, They're funny.
Which fox episode is your favorite?
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to answer your question necron i find them boring
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In my opinion,those episodes were a little too slow,but gotta admit da costume party in ep. 174 and kotatsu vs. some kung fu guy in ep. 158 were nice
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The costume party episode was enjoyable, and the scene from episode 158 featuring the Fist of the North Star was humorous.
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In my opinion,those episodes were a little too slow,but gotta admit da costume party in ep. 174 and kotatsu vs. some kung fu guy in ep. 158 were nice
You are right, they are slow.
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So I guess I should skip the fox episodes?
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What is MTV?
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I can't believe you just asked that...
Just google it or something.
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Is it that "rock" TV channel?
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No... It's the Music TeleVision channel...
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Maybe they should have just drawn episode 134 with crayons, if they were so eager to make an episode as lame as that. Better yet, they shouldn't have made it at all.
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Do you've got any images?
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No, I don't.
However, in case you're wondering, I do have screencaps from Heavy Traffic and Wizards, both of which are much better than episode 134. I'd be happy to provide those. :)
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Really, thanks!
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Well, I did find this image on another website. It's small, but of high quality.
(http://www.metamorphose.org/entry/picsentryimage1RRYVSXvD74qPazRZ3rHGBKI.png)
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I think they are cute.
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They are cute, but that doesn't even look like Lum...
And is that Shinobu too?? O_o
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the stripes on lum are wierd
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They are cute, but that doesn't even look like Lum...
And is that Shinobu too?? O_o
Yes, that is Shinobu. And yes, you are correct. That fox does not even look like Lum. It has to be another character.
Posted on: February 13, 2007, 11:29:18 PM
the stripes on lum are wierd
I'm not sure if you could say it is Lum, because that fox has a completely different hairstlye. It also has stripes on its arms and ears, and in the other screencaps from this episode that I've seen, Lum wasn't wearing her tiger-striped wristbands. Thus, there is no way that fox could be Lum.
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lol, i never actually saw that seen, good thing though, i skipped by the fox episodes and now i have one more reason not to watch them, ignorance is bliss, i am not scarred and will never be
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Never ignore an Urusei Yatsura episode, never.
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hmm seems this time it was a blessing
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not really
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lol, i never actually saw that seen, good thing though, i skipped by the fox episodes and now i have one more reason not to watch them, ignorance is bliss, i am not scarred and will never be
Considering that the animation director of that episode was Yuichi Endo, I don't plan on watching it either. His character designs aren't my favorite. I find them to be rather crude.
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What a Pity I cannot cry.
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we'll cry enough for you
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thanks
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Just dont expect us 2 cry a river 4 ya
Btw,Necron99,i can provide ya the pics from episode 165 (the one where ran gets a cold)
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Show us all CK
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I would like to see some pics from episode 165. :)
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Don't they exist in the gallery?
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Is this the pic you were talking about for
E. the scene at the end The Final Chapter where Lum cries when she realizes that Ataru still loves her.
or did you want the pic from right before this, when it was just lum
(http://www.lum-chan.com/gallery/396_18_12_06_8_40_58.jpg)
more pics from the movies to come, courtasy of Forgotten_Lum
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When Ataru letted go Lum's horns.
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One of my favorites were the Ryuu vs Benten episode and the Ice Coolers episode
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They were very good ones indeed
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I dont like Kitsune very much is kind of boring and makes me sleepy
I think that he should look for another fox than a human
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I dont like Kitsune very much is kind of boring and makes me sleepy
I think that he should look for another fox than a human
To further elaborate, the episode in which he tries to marry Shinobu focuses on Shinobu's daily activities. About 16 minutes into the episode, the director finally says, "Fuck it! Let's get to the episode!", and he digs right in!
Now I know what Forgotten_Lum meant when he said that they made too many fox episodes. They probably should have just limited it to the first fox episode and the episode in which he fights Lum.
Personally, I do not see what is so special about the episode in which he tries to take Shinobu to show and tell. In fact, the only memorable scene from that episode was the Fist of the North Star's cameo appearance, and even he would later appear in "Special Delivery Kiss! Darling's First Jealousy!" (which, by the way, was far superior to the afore-mentioned fox episode).
The problem with the fox episodes is that they try too hard to be cute and artsy-fartsy. They also spend too much time padding the episodes.
A group of people on another website compared these episodes to the first three UY films and to the works of Hayao Miyazaki. I'd think twice before comparing Beautiful Dreamer, which was philosophical, interesting, and able to hold your attention span, to the fox episodes, which, by contrast, tried to be Miyazaki, but quickly faded out like a small dying rat.
In all honesty, I tried to give the fox episodes a chance, and frankly I found nothing worth keeping. :-\
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In UY, Kitsune and Dappya are the only characters that could disappear... but that is only my point of view
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Kitsune really pisses me of lol
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Kitsune really pisses me of lol
He doesn't necessarily piss me off. It's just that his episodes are borefests.
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Gettin disciples 4 yer cause,necron?
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Oh yeah.
Yoh Necron, look at this:
(http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/4073/semttulopi6.jpg)
(http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/1496/semttulo1pl2.jpg)
Are you pissed right now? :D
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How does an episode qualify as a non-AE episode?