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title says it all if you're a fan of the series.
But since I'm assuming most of you are not, I will let you in on the basic plot (if such a thing can be done here).
The story is based around one Ataru Moroboshi, a bloke of epic lecherous proportions. He has a girlfriend Shinobu. One day, aliens land on earth and say they will invade, unless a human can beat their champion at their favoured sport. The human will be picked at random from all of humankind, and will have ten days to defeat the alien champion at.... tag.
Of course, as it happens, Ataru is chosen at random as the human champion, and at first refuses to represent mankind. Only when the alien champion is unveiled - a beautiful and shapely (apart from two small horns on her head...) bikini clad young girl named Lum, who happens to be an alien princess (and only ever wears a bikini...), and heir to the invading army. One look at the lovely lady, and Ataru immediately accepts the challenge.
So, day 1, and the challenge begins. All Ataru has to do is catch the alien princess and touch her horns, and humankind is saved from the invasion. So, Ataru immediately charges toward Lum, and makes a diving leap for her horns. It is at this point it is revealed that Lum can fly. Lum easilly flies over Ataru, who lands squarely on his jaw on the hard concrete. Undetered, Ataru tries, tries and tries again to catch Lum and save mankind, climbing up street lamps, over cars and even up the sides of buildings trying to catch Lum. Unfortunately, every time he tries, he fails. Lum is just too good.
At the end of day 9, an exhausted Atar is comforted by hisgirlfriend Shinobu. To encourage him for the next day, Shinobu promises Ataru that should he be victorious, she will marry him. Encouraged, Ataru gets thinking...
Day 10. and the race is about to begin again. Ataru seems strangely confident. The timer begins, and Ataru pulls out a gun with a plunger attached to rope on it. He fires and catches Lum's bikini top, and pulls it off!! Embarrassed, Lum can only stand there hiding her chest while Ataru jumps over and grabs her horns. VICTORY!! HUMANKIND IS SAVED!
Ataru, overjoyed at the victory, and the prospect of the impending wedding, shouts aloud "I won! At last I can be married". Lum, being an alien, misinterprets this as a marriage proposal to her, and on her planet, proposals are sacred. She promptly accepts the proposal, which due to it's sacred nature, Ataru cannot withdraw - much to the lack of a musement of his girlfriend.
This sets the scene for easilly the most hilarious series of anime TV eps, OAV's and movies I have ever had the great pleasure of watching.
I suggest you invest in it.
IB
But since I'm assuming most of you are not, I will let you in on the basic plot (if such a thing can be done here).
The story is based around one Ataru Moroboshi, a bloke of epic lecherous proportions. He has a girlfriend Shinobu. One day, aliens land on earth and say they will invade, unless a human can beat their champion at their favoured sport. The human will be picked at random from all of humankind, and will have ten days to defeat the alien champion at.... tag.
Of course, as it happens, Ataru is chosen at random as the human champion, and at first refuses to represent mankind. Only when the alien champion is unveiled - a beautiful and shapely (apart from two small horns on her head...) bikini clad young girl named Lum, who happens to be an alien princess (and only ever wears a bikini...), and heir to the invading army. One look at the lovely lady, and Ataru immediately accepts the challenge.
So, day 1, and the challenge begins. All Ataru has to do is catch the alien princess and touch her horns, and humankind is saved from the invasion. So, Ataru immediately charges toward Lum, and makes a diving leap for her horns. It is at this point it is revealed that Lum can fly. Lum easilly flies over Ataru, who lands squarely on his jaw on the hard concrete. Undetered, Ataru tries, tries and tries again to catch Lum and save mankind, climbing up street lamps, over cars and even up the sides of buildings trying to catch Lum. Unfortunately, every time he tries, he fails. Lum is just too good.
At the end of day 9, an exhausted Atar is comforted by hisgirlfriend Shinobu. To encourage him for the next day, Shinobu promises Ataru that should he be victorious, she will marry him. Encouraged, Ataru gets thinking...
Day 10. and the race is about to begin again. Ataru seems strangely confident. The timer begins, and Ataru pulls out a gun with a plunger attached to rope on it. He fires and catches Lum's bikini top, and pulls it off!! Embarrassed, Lum can only stand there hiding her chest while Ataru jumps over and grabs her horns. VICTORY!! HUMANKIND IS SAVED!
Ataru, overjoyed at the victory, and the prospect of the impending wedding, shouts aloud "I won! At last I can be married". Lum, being an alien, misinterprets this as a marriage proposal to her, and on her planet, proposals are sacred. She promptly accepts the proposal, which due to it's sacred nature, Ataru cannot withdraw - much to the lack of a musement of his girlfriend.
This sets the scene for easilly the most hilarious series of anime TV eps, OAV's and movies I have ever had the great pleasure of watching.
I suggest you invest in it.
IB
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Insane Bartender wrote:
> Hmm, must be another band of the same name then
Not that I know of. I think you must have your wires crossed mate.
> Hmm, must be another band of the same name then
Not that I know of. I think you must have your wires crossed mate.
Craw wrote:
> No because Uresei Yatsura were actually from SCOTLAND
Hmm, must be another band of the same name then, since in early high school (some 8 years ago now) we had a class where they were displaying some welsh "talent". The only thing of note was Ryan Giggs, then they showed a couple of crappy bands, one, Urusei Yatsura, the other, some band who's name escapes me but they had a tune called Akira, some techno number with quotes taken from the Anime of the same name. I found it interesting (being very into Anime at the time) that two welsh twit bands had links with Anime...
> No because Uresei Yatsura were actually from SCOTLAND
Hmm, must be another band of the same name then, since in early high school (some 8 years ago now) we had a class where they were displaying some welsh "talent". The only thing of note was Ryan Giggs, then they showed a couple of crappy bands, one, Urusei Yatsura, the other, some band who's name escapes me but they had a tune called Akira, some techno number with quotes taken from the Anime of the same name. I found it interesting (being very into Anime at the time) that two welsh twit bands had links with Anime...
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Craw wrote:
> Not really. I thought you meant the band.
>
> you mean those stupid WELSH twits?
No because Uresei Yatsura were actually from SCOTLAND
> Craw wrote:
> Not really. I thought you meant the band.
>
> you mean those stupid WELSH twits?
No because Uresei Yatsura were actually from SCOTLAND
Totoro wrote:
> Do you like any other anime IB?
Yes (hence my camapign for the Pokemon forum to be changed into Anime/Manga)
> Cowboy Bebop: THE BEST ANIME SERIES EVER. Intergalactic adventures
> with a rag tag bunch of bounty hunters. Great music, art design,
> direction etc.
> I highly recommend it to everyone (and it's coming out on DVD in the
> UK soon!!!)
Heard about it, but never got round to watching it, will probably invest at some point.
> Patlabor: Set in the near future where industrial robots called
> 'Labors' are used, but there are lots of Labor releated crimes, so the
> government sets up the Special Vehicles Department to combat these
> crimes.
> There's 2 films, each having amazing characters, story and action
> scenes. And the TV series is being relesed on dvd every so often in
> the US.
A friend of mine has the Patlabor movies, I'll borrow them sometime...
>
> My Neighbour Totoro: An amazing film! Set in a rural Japanese town,
> two young girls have a fun adventure with a big cuddly forest
> spirit.
Totoro is another Rumiko Takahashi one isn't it? If this sort of thing is to your liking, you'll also enjoy Ranma 1/2, where a poor person is cursed to changing sex every time he/she gets wet.
> Akira: you've probably already seen this.
I have the entire graphic novel too. The manga is obviously massively superior to the film, I highly recommend you read it.
Others worth mentioning are:
Venus Wars (warish)
Oh My Goddess (slapstick comedy)
Urotsukidoji (anime porn - you will laugh all the way through it)
3x3 Eyes (fantasy)
Doomed Megalopolis (wierd)
Tenchi Muyo (slapstick comedy)
Macross (just utter class)
Everyone I know has seen at least 1 manga. After all, everyone has seen Transformers The Movie, which counts as manga since the only thing about it that isn't Japanese is the voice actors...
> Do you like any other anime IB?
Yes (hence my camapign for the Pokemon forum to be changed into Anime/Manga)
> Cowboy Bebop: THE BEST ANIME SERIES EVER. Intergalactic adventures
> with a rag tag bunch of bounty hunters. Great music, art design,
> direction etc.
> I highly recommend it to everyone (and it's coming out on DVD in the
> UK soon!!!)
Heard about it, but never got round to watching it, will probably invest at some point.
> Patlabor: Set in the near future where industrial robots called
> 'Labors' are used, but there are lots of Labor releated crimes, so the
> government sets up the Special Vehicles Department to combat these
> crimes.
> There's 2 films, each having amazing characters, story and action
> scenes. And the TV series is being relesed on dvd every so often in
> the US.
A friend of mine has the Patlabor movies, I'll borrow them sometime...
>
> My Neighbour Totoro: An amazing film! Set in a rural Japanese town,
> two young girls have a fun adventure with a big cuddly forest
> spirit.
Totoro is another Rumiko Takahashi one isn't it? If this sort of thing is to your liking, you'll also enjoy Ranma 1/2, where a poor person is cursed to changing sex every time he/she gets wet.
> Akira: you've probably already seen this.
I have the entire graphic novel too. The manga is obviously massively superior to the film, I highly recommend you read it.
Others worth mentioning are:
Venus Wars (warish)
Oh My Goddess (slapstick comedy)
Urotsukidoji (anime porn - you will laugh all the way through it)
3x3 Eyes (fantasy)
Doomed Megalopolis (wierd)
Tenchi Muyo (slapstick comedy)
Macross (just utter class)
Everyone I know has seen at least 1 manga. After all, everyone has seen Transformers The Movie, which counts as manga since the only thing about it that isn't Japanese is the voice actors...
Craw wrote:
> Not really. I thought you meant the band.
you mean those stupid WELSH twits?
incidentally, Urusei Yatsura is Japanese for "Those obnoxious aliens"
> Not really. I thought you meant the band.
you mean those stupid WELSH twits?
incidentally, Urusei Yatsura is Japanese for "Those obnoxious aliens"
I saw them supporting SFA at Bristol once.
I took a really fit bird with me too if I remember - showing off cos I was on the guest list.
I took a really fit bird with me too if I remember - showing off cos I was on the guest list.
I also thought you were refering to the band, who I once saw support SFA, and they were great.
They smashed stuff.
I wish I'd bought one of their albums now.
They smashed stuff.
I wish I'd bought one of their albums now.
Craw wrote:
> Not really. I thought you meant the band.
Same here. I'd almost forgotten about them to be honest. First heard of them on the Evening Session about 3 years ago, then nothing more...
> Not really. I thought you meant the band.
Same here. I'd almost forgotten about them to be honest. First heard of them on the Evening Session about 3 years ago, then nothing more...
Insane Bartender wrote:
> title says it all if you're a fan of the series.
Not really. I thought you meant the band.
> title says it all if you're a fan of the series.
Not really. I thought you meant the band.
Porno cartoons.
Nah..
Nah..
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