after finding out that japanese studios get pennies on international sales and that the official versions sold are usually inferior to what you can find on black seas, I don't get why anyone would knowingly buy from localized stores
but as i said, the issue isn't so much if it's banned now or not, it's how vague it can be. J-List now wont ship +18 items to Australia because some kept being sent back but you can argue Shikkoku no Sharnoth ~What a Beautiful Tomorrow~ Fullvoice ReBORN isn't extreme in any sense but still +18
so the issues the store fronts that export to Australia face end up being more than they are worth and easier to just ban it all which is a save from the government who would have to say that themselves
@Hakase when ordering, no. that is on the sender to declare which there are huge fines for incorrect declarations
so i can buy Sono Hanabira Games but it's the person who send it to be that has to declare they are Games. whether Customs opens up the package to see is random
i think the idea would be to use only a couple to get under the radar
anyway, while i don't think porn itself is banned, the wording could target any porn and stores like J-List take measures themselves already
infact i would not be surprised if what happened was that people just kept buying stuff they know is banned and was using the "privacy" packaging to try and sneak it in
I have watched the first episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion and at the end, after the credits, there was a short teaser of the next episode, ended with the sentence:
Tune in next time for lots more fan service!
I have watched much more American tv shows and movies than anime, so for me, the word "
@Derpy I'm wondering when will be the point when someone invents physical goods cryptography so that you can order a mess of dust, dirt, oils, grease and smelly goo, and then decrypt it at home into the original object
of course even the slightest disturbance in the mass of random particles will result in an undescipherable mass of useless matter
Fun fact: Lum never was intended to have Blue/Green hairs in first place.
Despite popular belief her REAL hair color was an iridescent, changing color. The green color was actually a limit of the animation style in those years
This is also why the recent QPosket figures are available in two colors
The "anime" one and the "manga cover" one.
Would be cool to see some recent animation actually trying to give her the original planned hair color. Probably, she would look like MLP Celestia.
second point second page..... Lum tries to invite Ataru to bed only in the first issue of the comic, where she has a personality quite different from what she show in the rest of the serie.
Third, Ataru NEVER wanted to "get rid of her". He claims to, but even in the first example of her leaving he isn't really happy. After that single incident (again, first issue of the comic, probably even before Rumiko decided if Lum was the protagonist or the antagonist) he actually get quite mad every time she gets away.
As for the chaos, yep, that was what made Lum a great show. Ignore the ones who tell you it was a fanservice-only show. Lum is not an old version of Love Ru.
The name was there for some reason.
The may have tried to call her "Lum Invader" in the west, but the original title Urusei Yatsura.... was a double meaning pun
"the ones from the Uru star" but also "those noisy people"
@EddieKal Anyway more seriously, interesting reading, if not a tad cherry picked. The coffee-shop episode plays that way yes, but one should also mention the episode where she tries to apply dog-training to Ataru by going to the past and giving a five years old version of him a small doll that would electrocute him every time he just get close to a girl.
@EddieKal Anyway, to be fair, I wasn't looking for an analysis of Lum. I was hoping to find someone who actually saw that specific movie.
Without going in detail, that movie is quite peculiar, to the point it is often regarded as "a puzzle" without a clear meaning.
@Derpy From what I read in Napier's writing, the series does sound very interesting. I will for sure watch it when I find the time. I am always open to discussing themes, tropes, social implications of anime.
@EddieKal to be fair, it is not directly a tropes nor social implications that some see in the movie. It is mostly an hidden message than some see and a second meaning for the story.
@EddieKal the movie has a very odd plot, that doesn't really make much sense.
But if you look at how the movie is crafted, a sort of second meaning emerges
a reason for the movie to be played out in that odd way.
It is not about the role of Lum as a female character or other similar considerations like the article you linked before.
In this case it is a sort of "message" to the one watching the movie
But it is quite cryptic, to the point that most fans won't probably even notice
There is a quite famous article that goes into analyzing the movie and this second meaning, but reading it without knowing the series would probably feel quite empty.
@BESW I will just keep pretending this year April Fool "toy" was the knitting game on the winter bash site (which still works by the way, did a Lum out of it)
There's this manga that I read some time ago that I really liked. The main characters are a boy and a rich (school) girl (eventually they become couple I think?). The details that I remember (vaguely) are kinda long so bear with me.
The girl was from a rich family and 'locked' up in a mansion by ...
I have watched the first episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion and at the end, after the credits, there was a short teaser of the next episode, ended with the sentence:
Tune in next time for lots more fan service!
I have watched much more American tv shows and movies than anime, so for me, the word "
