And I got a new donation this week! Kudos to L.S. for sending me 20 euros (I already spent 5 of them on a game on Steam... Damn, I am so weak... T_T).
With nothing more to report, we can focus on the main show, I guess: poor anime reviews!
Today, we have Urusei Yatsura to talk about! Please enjoy the intro.
What can I say? I am into old stuff
So Urusei Yatsura is the completely ridiculous story of Ataru Moroboshi, a guy with incredibly bad luck, and Lum, the princess of an alien race(?) which gives humanity one last chance before they take the planet by force: winning a weird version of tag (??). In order to win, Ataru has a stroke of genius, and steals Lum's bra(???) and then manages to accidentally propose marriage to her(!?!??!??!?!!!?). The plot, in case you weren't paying attention, is completely bonkers (although I might have made it slightly more absurd for comedic purposes ^_^), and it's all just an excuse to put Ataru in weirder and weirder situations. He is a lazy, lecherous and stupid, and just makes things worse on him with his terrible attitude. He is also petty and a coward, but despite all this, he manages not to be completely unrelatable (in fact, his misadventures more often than not will make you feel a bit sorry for the guy). It's an old comedic anime, with all the limitations such a series might have, but I still believe it's really funny, and worth watching. As always, I can't speak for the english adaptation, so I am going to blame any disappointment you might get from watching the this anime to that. :P
This should be everything for this week, until next time
Haven't been reading for a while so it's great to hear that the game is still being worked on. Thanks as always for your hard work.
ReplyDeleteUrusei Yatsura was actually my first harem anime, even before Ranma 1/2, and is easily still one of my favorite shows/mangas. The local video store near here had a few of the movies. As far as I know there is no English voice adaption for the TV series, but about half the movies have one and it's standard late 80s early 90s VO, great at times and terrible at others.
Yeah, it's really fun, if a bit dated. In Italy we had decent VO, thankfully, although the quality was uneven here too, from time to time (but I heard some REALLY bad old english VO, I can't remember anything that bad around here).
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