Topic: A good or bad schoolgirl?

[GiovaneDinamitardo]

Do you think that Lamù is a good schoolgirl?

For what we said RT, as a child was a real plague: refractory to discipline enough to launch missiles against teachers (she did it against CaO2 with Benten and Ran) or to place a bomb on their back (she did it against Cr-AB, in the manga, even with Benten and Ran), listless to do her homework (you can see it in the manga, in the episode "revenge of the convolvulus"), ready to fight all the time (it's learned in the first episode that talks about Ginger, Pepper and Sugar).

And when she grew up?

In all the episodes (both the anime and the manga) I've never seen her doing homework, but in the episode "that magnificent summer" Lum  threats Ataru: "if you don't date me I won't help you anymore to do your homework ".

The only time we see her take a test at school is in crisis and, in fact, it's understandable: it's so difficult for anyone to translate the ancient Japanese in the modern, let alone an alien!

But the question remains: do you think that Lamù is a diligent schoolgirl or even in high school  maintained her attitude impatient and lazy?

[cata]

I think she's intelligent but that doesn't really mean anything when it comes to school grades. You can skip classes and be smart or be dumb and get high grades (with help from classmates or something).

Behaviour in the classroom means even less when it comes to school grades.

I think she would get average grades in Tomobiki. In her planet, I think she would get bad grades in the first years but quickly improve her grades in middle school.

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I believe Lum already graduated high school on her home planet but goes to school with Ataru so she can be close to him. I think this was referenced in one of the earlier TV episodes.

[GiovaneDinamitardo]

Sorry ?!? 

Lamù already graduated high school on her home planet [...] hink this was referenced in one of the earlier TV episodes

Which one ?!?

I really missed it !! 

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It was referenced way back in the first few episodes although I can't remember which one. Graduating at an early age is nothing new. in my wife's country most high school kids graduate at 16 years old. You'll have to watch those early eps again to find it as I don't have a Netflix subscription any more.

[GiovaneDinamitardo]

Wait, wait: now I got !!

Lamù is graduated with the diploma took at MIDDLE SCHOOL, like the one of Kagome !!

She got it in her planet when was about 14, togheter with Ran, Benten and Oyuki: we know it 'cos', during a reunion, prof CR-AB ("Gran-Kyo" in italian) give them some photo: "I took them during the graduation ceremony", he said  !! (this episode is one of the lasts of the manga).

This also means that Lamù still has no high school diploma !!

That's why she riskes serious rejection !!!

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I seriously doubt that a girl who can fly a spaceship, build giant robots, traverse alternate realities and has a middle school diploma which on earth would probaby qualify her for a minimum of a college degree is all that worried about human high school in Japan where they still grade on a Bell curve.

[veehive]

I would be inclined to believe that extra-terrestrial beings would be educationally superior to us (as pointed out: they fly spaceships, so they MUST be smarter). My OPINION is that Lum is a bright girl who was BORED in her interstellar school (thus the pranks) and has graduated; she attends Earth high-school but is there ONLY to be close to Ataru; she merely goes through the motions in class 2-4 to play along while keeping close to Her Darling.

[cata]

You know the whole "being smart = good with computers" and such? I don't buy it. I wouldn't say Lum and the others are smarter because in their home planets they have more advanced technology. The aliens that MADE their gadgets are the ones who are intelligent, without a doubt. But the ones who only use their gadgets? I mean, I can work with a laptop but I didn't invented it so I can't build one even though I know how to use it. See what I mean? Just like you can build some table but have no idea how to get the right wood and such for the same table. Like, I can use a microwave oven but I know nothing about how microwave ovens are built and such.

I think I've made my point.

[GiovaneDinamitardo]

The point is that Lamù IS able to assemblate a duplicating-gun, or a live-translater-mask, or a 3D projector and other devilries coming from her planet !!

Both anime and manga are full of episodes like that !!

Veehive is right: Lamù went to school just to be so close to her darling but anything cleared us about the fact that she's a good or bad schoolgirl.

... OR MAYBE I MISSED SOMETHING ONCE AGAIN ?!?

[cata]

Ataru can run non-stop for a pretty feminine face. Does this mean humans are physically better than aliens? No!

Ataru can flip girls' skirts using a yo-yo! C'mon, that's got to count for something! I mean, I never saw Lum do that so it must mean that Ataru is... huh... smarter?

I think the only conclusion we can get about UY, is that alien technology is way more advanced than human technology.

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Ataru can run non-stop for a pretty feminine face. Does this mean humans are physically better than aliens? No!

Ataru can flip girls' skirts using a yo-yo! C'mon, that's got to count for something! I mean, I never saw Lum do that so it must mean that Ataru is... huh... smarter?

I think the only conclusion we can get about UY, is that alien technology is way more advanced than human technology.

So you think that doesn't transfer over as to how smart they are in general then?
The tech Lum uses is very advanced and uses wormholes to transfer between two points in space.
I am willing to bet most of us here cannot assemble a giant robot and yes we have them it's true they are industrial robots but no one here could asemble one.
We also had spaceships (Space Shuttle) until they were mothballed but no one on this forum can pilot one.
Go back 400 years and see how many people could drive a car or operate a computer.
Lum is IMO smart enough to do what most humans can't do and she does it with ease. She has also fixed her own ship on occaision.
I think if a test were given to pass high school Lum would ace it. 

[UruseiNeo]

Alien high school, maybe...

Earth high school? Very unlikely.

There's even a chapter/episode where she is taking a test and having trouble even saying "they shouldn't expect aliens to know this" or something like that.

[cata]

Yeah, Mozzart, Einstein, Darwin, Da Vinci had a HUGE amount of intelligence. Guess what? Not a single one of us are close of that. Yet, we can use computers, get transplanted, go to the moon (for money), etc.

If you want to compare alien's IQ to a random Earth person, then you must be sure that their equal. What's the point of comparing Einstein's IQ with a random average person? Their not on the same class. If Lum could actually create something, then the conversation would be different but all she does is assemble mechanical parts, fire guns and pilot spaceships. We, random humans can build buildings, bridges, highways, assemble furniture, fire guns and drive cars.

In my perspective, Lum's IQ is average. There's not someone in UY who is the "smart kid". Not even Megane, the typical glasses nerdy guy.

So, you want to see who's smarter? Chose the most intelligent alien and chose the most intelligent human and then we'll see. Of course aliens would win BUT picking Lum won't work.

[GiovaneDinamitardo]

we had already discussed in another thread: Ten, an asylum-age child, speaks fluently a foreign language tricky and difficult as the Japanese!

Oh, the mistery of the alien school !!