A classic comedy series with entertaining shitbag characters and silly shenanigans.
Mangaka Rumiko Takahashi manages to sell Urusei Yatsura's premise. As the title suggests, everyone in this manga is some kind of faulty person. However, none of it is taken particularly seriously. There is no need to get upset over someone being an asshole here, given that it has little overall consequence on the next chapters, or that the characters themselves may kind of deserve it. The result is that the author manages to pull of lots of gags with them, helped by the scenario's she puts them in. These are often rather silly takes
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 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Lum, The Return of Lum, Lamu, the Invader Girl, Those Obnoxious Aliens Japanese: うる星やつら More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 34
Chapters: 366
Status: Finished
Published: Aug 30, 1978 to Jan 21, 1987
Demographic:
Shounen
Serialization:
Shounen Sunday Authors:
Takahashi, Rumiko (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #16202 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #1506
Members: 14,179
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Jul 30, 2024
Most if not all cliches you would see in a romance anime/manga of current times have some sort of origin to Urusei Yatsura.
A lot of things that I have read here have been deeply explored in other works by different authors who likely grew up with this manga, even the girls who weren't Lum clearly were the favorites of many as I could recognize exactly which modern-ish girls are basically just copies of Oyuki, Ryuunosuke, Shinobu, Sakura, Ran, Asuka or even Benten. Hell, even Kurama, the worst girl, had so many traits which I could instantly recognize. Yes, it went on to inspire many great ... |
