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Urusei Yatsura (DS!!!!)
- Thread starter olimario
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Tellaerin said:
But really, This artwork looks ripped from a 1980s "Create your own anime character" book. The one where you're given the same face and you're to add crazy colored hair and robot arms!
This is generic.
Schoolgirl... CHECK!
Girl in bikini with crazy hair... CHECK!
Edgy girl with robot limbs... CHECK!
Serious girl in traditional japanese garb... CHECK!
Looks like about a thousand other japanocrap drawings I've seen.
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
Dead said:
It's Oli, doesn't matter he would spout things even if he doesn't have a f'ing clue what he's talking about.
Shouta said:
So he pioneered the shitty anime art from the 80s? That's like being the guy who created the Jabber Jaw cartoons and who pioneered Josie and the Pussycats.
Anyhow, here is some artwork I like.
http://www.froghatstudios.com/art/queen.jpg
more
http://www.froghatstudios.com/art/mo_sun.jpg
more
http://jay-t.com/public/gaf/bof3.jpg
and pretty much anything by andrew jones
HomerSimpson-Man said:
DUR DUR DUR HE DISAGREES WITH ME DUR DUR DUR
So the anime was good. The artwork still looks shitty to me. Do I have to have some profound understanding of the series before I can comment on the artwork I'm seeing?
olimario said:
I'm no anime fan -- honestly, how many magic robots, embarassed teenagers, and mysterious bioflavinoids does the world need? -- but I do know "Lum".
So, two things:
1. You're right -- Ususei Yatsura (Lum) ran from 1981 to 1986 on Television. So, indeed, it should look like a 1980's book -- it was indeed designed in the 80's.
2. And I'd wager most of the anime cliches you mention, in fact, originated here.
Hope this helps.
(I swear to god I played this game on the TurboGrafx-16 CD-ROM, with a Japanese exchange student we had at the time. "Uh, she said, I want to sleep with you right now", he'd awkwardly translate for me.)
[Edit: late, because I blab too damn much. Sorry.]
SonicMegaDrive
Member
Gah!
I expeted to see some lame Gundam Seed-type artwork.
It's Lum! That's not generic! Lum CREATED that style, dammit!
I expeted to see some lame Gundam Seed-type artwork.
It's Lum! That's not generic! Lum CREATED that style, dammit!
The Shadow
Member
G-Fex said:
Doesn't she have a softcore non-nude website now? I could have swarn I heard about that a year or two ago.
The Shadow
Member
civilstrife
Member
Now that is putting the second screen to good use.
SonicMegaDrive
Member
I guess to an inexerienced anime fan, Lum might look generic.
When I think of generic anime, this is the kind of thing that comes to mind:
You can't really say this style looks like any one artist's style. It looks completely devoid of personality.
Good anime styles are the ones that I look at and can immediately know the artist, or the artist where the inspiration was drawn from.
For example:
This is art by Kenichi Sonoda. His style was very popular in the late 80's, and can be seen in many popular classics like Gunsmith Cats, Bubblegum Crisis, and Gall Force.
This is art by Akemi Takada, another artist who's style has remained popular for the last 20 years or so. Her art can be found in such series as Creamy Mami, Kimagure Orange Road, Twilight Q, and Patlabor.
Both artists have a very unique, eye-pleasing style hardly found in your normal generic anime or Japanese game today.
When I think of generic anime, this is the kind of thing that comes to mind:
You can't really say this style looks like any one artist's style. It looks completely devoid of personality.
Good anime styles are the ones that I look at and can immediately know the artist, or the artist where the inspiration was drawn from.
For example:
This is art by Kenichi Sonoda. His style was very popular in the late 80's, and can be seen in many popular classics like Gunsmith Cats, Bubblegum Crisis, and Gall Force.
This is art by Akemi Takada, another artist who's style has remained popular for the last 20 years or so. Her art can be found in such series as Creamy Mami, Kimagure Orange Road, Twilight Q, and Patlabor.
Both artists have a very unique, eye-pleasing style hardly found in your normal generic anime or Japanese game today.
SonicMegaDrive
Member
jiggle said:OMG, generic copycat of sailormoon!
:lol
Hey, if Sailor Moon had that artstyle, it might actually be worth watching!
SonicMegaDrive
Member
GDGF said:
I wish Lum was generic.
Beer Monkey
Member
-1 Olimario
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
+1 to the "WTF generic?!" camp.
JackFrost2012
Banned
this is incredibly retarded even by Olimario's high standards.
THAT'S LUM!
jesus christ I don't like anime and have never seen an episode of Urusei Yatsura in my life and I know who Lum is
THAT'S LUM!
jesus christ I don't like anime and have never seen an episode of Urusei Yatsura in my life and I know who Lum is
Maybe she was one of the most influential authors back in the eighties? She was never about drawing, but creating interesting stories/characters. Anyway, calling her stuff generic is like saying Hitchcock is generic just because he´s been copied a bazillion times :lololimario said:
The Shadow said:
I looked at her in spite of the command not to. Probably because of the command.
If you guys wanna have a discussion about "generic" art, feel free to click the link and commence.
p.s. I came in here not knowing what Lum was, because I don't like anime at all; when you all briefed us on how important (/near and dear to you) the series was, I guess it made more sense... just wanted to chime in that to the casual observer in 2005 who doesn't give two shits about anime, this stuff looks pretty "generic" from the random snippets of anime I've caught over the years.
Shouta
Member
MadFuzzy said:
It is true that she is a lot less influential than she used to be but she still is an icon in the anime world. Anyone that knows a little bit about anime in general (barring first timers) will have heard of her or have seen one of her series.
Not knowing about anime isn't really the problem, it's olimario's attitude that gets people to jump on him. The thread title screams it.
I read about this game when the DS was announced, but I still don't get it.
Didn't Ms. Takahashi refuse to allow additional Urusei Yatsura projects after the disaster that was Always My Darling? (The much delayed and finally released in 1994 Mega CD game Dear My Friends doesn't count because it was, well, much delayed.) What's changed since then?
And I do have to say, Lum and company have been drawn better in the past. Much better than this. These pics make even the final direct to video specials look good.
Didn't Ms. Takahashi refuse to allow additional Urusei Yatsura projects after the disaster that was Always My Darling? (The much delayed and finally released in 1994 Mega CD game Dear My Friends doesn't count because it was, well, much delayed.) What's changed since then?
And I do have to say, Lum and company have been drawn better in the past. Much better than this. These pics make even the final direct to video specials look good.
That's the point of Urusei Yatsura. It perfected the perverted boy tries to have sex with every girl he sees and always fails cliche now common in Japanese cartoons and comics.n-off said:
Oli sucks for not knowing anything about Rumiko Takahashi. However I must thank him for making a thread for a game as awesome as this.
This game wins on many levels, and NEEDS to be localized, ASAP.
This game wins on many levels, and NEEDS to be localized, ASAP.
You should mean "reading". The manga is less "generic" in many ways.SonicMegaDrive said: