Urusei Yatsura Chapter 267 Discussion

animefan8800 said:
@0451



So I've heard regarding Maison Ikkoku. And I didn't even know Takahashi had a twitter account so no clue on that lol.

It turned out to be a new release date for an already announced art book that got delayed before. So nothing major. I kind of expected it'd be something like this but still got my hopes up anyway and got disappointed like many others.



Either way, you should watch Maison Ikkoku when you have the time. It’s not considered one of the best romcoms of all time for no reason.

Just read this chapter for the first time and I actually feel like there was a bit of a missed opportunity for a better ending with this one. I was thinking/hoping Ran would find a way to replace the pictures in the locket pieces with ones of her and Rei before the locket was reunited, thereby getting to be attached to him forever. It'd probably require more setup, but even Takahashi herself on the final page pretty much admits the ending we got was a dumb copout. Ah well, still a fun ride either way.

animefan8800 said:
@0451



Ah yes, Inaba the Rabbit Man for Shinobu, I'm well aware and look forward to reading those chapters in a few days. I plan on finishing up my read before New Years. :) And yeah, I'm not surprised by the writing by the seat of your pants approach considering it's how Akira Toriyama was and I know they were actually interviewed together once back in the day while she was doing Ranma and he Dragon Ball.



On a tangentially related note I knew Takahashi liked to recycle ideas. Her current series Mao, which I'm also reading and collecting, borrows heavily from Inuyasha, which I own and have just finished a reread of last night, but holy crap I never knew she was doing it this early. By which I mean Ryuunosuke and her father are pretty much just prototypes for Ranma and Genma. If you've read/seen Ranma 1/2 before Urusei Yatsura as was my case it's pretty much impossible to miss. And I don't mean that as a criticism really, I actually really like Ryuunosuke, but it was uncanny how as soon as she showed up Urusei Yatsura starting feeling so much more like Ranma to me than it did before that point.



EDIT: Oh and hey, apparently this was my 8,000th post on here. Neat.

Yeah. That's my goal too. I want to catch up before Season 2 of the Remake starts airing.



In my case, it was the opposite. I started with Urusei Yatsura. The anime, that is. I had an idea that Ranma 1/2 was similar to UY so I decided to wait a bit before watching it to give it a fair chance.



After I watched it nearly a year later I was really surprised to see just how similar the two were. In the beginning it felt more similar to Maison Ikkoku which I liked but as it went on it pretty much became Urusei Yatsura 2.0.



I haven’t read the manga of Ranma 1/2 or any other Takahashi manga yet but I plan to. Especially Ranma 1/2 since the anime was unfinished + the overabundance of trashy filler episodes disappointed me a lot.



I'm also looking forward to reading Mao and also Rinne at some point. I'm not sure if I'll read Inuyasha since it’s way too big.



I know the anime skipped a massive amount of content between the original series and The Final Act. So that's my motivation to give Inuyasha a shot at some point. I'll probably read it some day but it'll probably be the last Takahashi series I'll read after I have nothing else left to complete.



Anyway, how's Mao aside from being similar to Inuyasha? Is it actually good? And is the translation quality good? Do you think it will ever get an anime? If so, which studio would be the best for the job?



Congrats! I also reached the 3000 mark a few days ago and didn’t even realize it lol.

animefan8800 said:
@0451



Oh for sure, but the funny thing is even if you kept my new hypothetical status quo where they could never be apart I think it could still be entertaining and work to an extent. School scenes might be tricky, but you could bend the rules as needed since it's a whacky comedy series anyway. And you'd get far more Rei appearances. I think too that it could work considering the series was over two-thirds of the way finished by the time this chapter came out, but then I have no way of knowing if Takahashi herself even knew that at the time. I'd guessing probably not lol.

Takahashi is definitely the "make the story up as you go along" type of author. She herself admitted to it a few times.



At this point it’s hard to tell if she was planning to end the series or not. But I highly doubt it cause she said that she felt comfortable to end Urusei Yatsura after she made a certain one of its characters happy. And those chapters wouldn’t release until a year or so after this chapter came out.



UY was pretty flexible in its early days. It was in its experimental phase and Takahashi tried different things to see what worked, like promoting Lum to be the main heroine.



After that, the change in the status quo mainly happened through the introduction of new characters.

animefan8800 said:
Just read this chapter for the first time and I actually feel like there was a bit of a missed opportunity for a better ending with this one. I was thinking/hoping Ran would find a way to replace the pictures in the locket pieces with ones of her and Rei before the locket was reunited, thereby getting to be attached to him forever. It'd probably require more setup, but even Takahashi herself on the final page pretty much admits the ending we got was a dumb copout. Ah well, still a fun ride either way.

Yeah. Basically every chapter ends like this. It’s both a blessing and a curse of an episodic series where the status quo must not change.

Can't have Rei without Ran lol.



That locket turned out to be some dumb couple trinket that teenagers would buy. Except it's from space so it has such fancy but misleading features.



I freaking love these 2 chapters. Probably one of my favorites. They're underrated too cause I rarely see anyone talking about them, unlike some other chapters.




Loved the anime adaptation of these 2 chapters too. I still remember the Devilman reference.





Wish the Remake would adapt these chapters.