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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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I've got a few of the OAVs on video, and I think it's a great series (though very odd).
It's a shame that more of these anime shows aren't put on TV instead of some of the other tripe we have on today.
Do you like any other anime IB?
If you do i'll suggest some of my favourites:
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!!!)
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.
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.
Kiki's Delivery Service: A young witch leaves home on her 13th birthday to learn withcraft in a nearby town. When there, she learns about herself and the outside world in a magical tale of self discovery.
Princess Mononoke: EPIC anime adventure and available on dvd in the UK. I watched this the other day and my dad (who hates anime and thinks they're all violent etc) but even he said Mononoke was good!
Wings of Honneamise: An epic tale of a civilization's first faltering steps into space.
Great great film.
Akira: you've probably already seen this.
The Castle of Cagliostro: high adventure with happy-go-lucky theif Lupin III
Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade: I've had this for a couple of weeks now but haven't had a good chance to watch it yet, but it looks really cool.
It's a shame that more of these anime shows aren't put on TV instead of some of the other tripe we have on today.
Do you like any other anime IB?
If you do i'll suggest some of my favourites:
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!!!)
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.
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.
Kiki's Delivery Service: A young witch leaves home on her 13th birthday to learn withcraft in a nearby town. When there, she learns about herself and the outside world in a magical tale of self discovery.
Princess Mononoke: EPIC anime adventure and available on dvd in the UK. I watched this the other day and my dad (who hates anime and thinks they're all violent etc) but even he said Mononoke was good!
Wings of Honneamise: An epic tale of a civilization's first faltering steps into space.
Great great film.
Akira: you've probably already seen this.
The Castle of Cagliostro: high adventure with happy-go-lucky theif Lupin III
Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade: I've had this for a couple of weeks now but haven't had a good chance to watch it yet, but it looks really cool.
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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