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Viga_of_stars
 Posts: 1240 Location: Washington D.C. in the Anime Atelier |
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I am a fan of rumiko takahashi's different works but some people these day only know of inuyasha....period...and many think that she's isnt even a woman! I really shocked some teenagers didn't know that one: its a woman and two there more than inuyasha.
so i created this thread to talk about all of her works fan enjoy. I first got interested in her through Urusei yatsura. It was the anime i needed to see indefinetly. My friend let me borrow an anime tape with beautiful dreamer when i was a noobtaku. and loved it. then my other bud let me borrow her ranma 1/2 manga and i traded my monster rancher for her ranma tapes. and so it began..... |
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Rakushun
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I haven't seen Urusei Yatsura or Mermaid Forest, but I have seen Maison Ikkoku and Inuyasha. And I sat through ALL of Ranma 1/2, right down to the bitter end.
I like her style, and her comedy is the gold standard for any anime/manga comedy. On the downside, her biggest franchises are overexploited and run out of freshness long before they stop running. They are always a joy to start and a pain to finish. |
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Randall Miyashiro
 Posts: 2451 Location: A block away from Golden Gate Park |
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Indeed her longer works tend to lack progression. I enjoy how Maison had a sense of progression in time which I didn't feel in UY, Ranma, or Inuyasha. It's odd how the series felt so contemporary when I watched in in the mid 80s, but now has become a period piece. I'm currently rewatching the entire series and things like the Galaga (I think) coin op and the Return of the Jedi poster at the theater make me smile.
I really enjoyed both Mermaid Forest and Takahashi Anthology. I would imagine a show like Takahashi Anthology (isn't it Takahashi Gekijou/Theater) would be really hard to write, but would have been great if it lasted longer. |
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DragonsRevenge
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Ranma Half is one of those "I cant believe I haven't seen this yet" titles, where it seems for some inexplicible reason, I've watched every thing but that. I need to see it before I die.
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dambuilder
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Ranma 1/2 was the first manga I've ever read. And I have seen and read (at least bits and pieces) of most of her works. I never really got into her longer series though. I guess they're simply too long for me.
I like a lot of her short stories a lot however. She surely created some original and unique stuff. My favorite is "Mermaid Forest". It's one of the best horror series I have seen in both, anime and manga. Hm, not necessarily anime, as I was rather disappointed by the tv series. The OVAs are excellent however. |
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DuelLadyS
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I'm far more found of the Mermaid forest OAV than the Mermaid Scar one... It's really a shame none of the old Rumik World videos are out on DVD, they're really quite good- Mermaid Forest and Fire Tripper especially. Although, I'd a bit more 'protective' of Mermaid Forest, as my original copy was lost (read: Proabably stolen), and I wasn't able to replace it till several years later. 
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NGE1113
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In my experience, I've found that her shorter works tend to fare much better than her longer shows that just keep going and going and going. The first properties of hers that I watched were Ranma and two of the Rumik World OVAS: Mermaid Forest and The Laughing Target. Of those three, the two OVAs have fared better taste-wise to me over the years, while (as I posted somewhere else), I found that Ranma was starting to repeat itself as the episodes wore on.
In the current day, I've just finished up Anthology and I really enjoyed it; the plot and character development that occurred was very nice, given the one episode storylines. I found Mermaid Forest TV good, in terms of developing a prior story leading into the OVA. And there's Inuyasha, which I'll follow on and off again if I have the time. It suffers from Ranma's problems of extending storylines that aren't crucial to the overall point, but fares better since it does remember (for the most part) that there's a story that needs to be told, and eventually returns to it. |
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Asako
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I loved her Anthology set. Ranma has always been an anime that I can just hop into and watch from any point. Like a comic strip, so I didn't mind the Anime in terms of finding a story line. You know the basics of the situation and roll with it like an episodic thing, not one big story. It's the same with her manga, you can just pick up any issue and pretty much follow it without previous issue knowledge. Kinda the same with Urusei Yatsura
One of my favorite shorts of hers would have to be Fire Tripper. 
Though, I believe her manga out-does the anime creations. |
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AirCooledMan_2006
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Out of Takahashi's works, I've only seen Inuyasha. However, I've been highly considering Ranma 1/2 lately, maybe even Urusei Yatsura.
Of course, I'd love to smack her one for dragging Inuyasha out as long as she has. |
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Dranxis
 Posts: 591 Location: Ohtori Academy |
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I've never liked too many of her anime adaptions, but I'll admit that it was the Inu-Yasha anime that led me to discover her manga. I love Rumiko Takahashi despite her flaws. I agree that her short stories are very well-done; I haven't seen the anime Anthology but I have copies of Viz's older graphic novel compilations. Her short stories are all very clever and expertly told, unlike some of her bigger properties. Mermaid Forest is a favorite of mine: the two main characters are fascinating and her artwork is surprisingly creepy for it. I also loooooooove Maison Ikkoku, definetly my all-time favorite manga romance.
As for her better-known series, I continue to follow the Inu-Yasha manga, even after 480 chapters. It's been definetly interesting: Takahashi is going back and forth from very well-done and much needed character development segments to frustrating mini-arcs which serve little purpose other than to upgrade the characters' weapons. Events have also gotten pretty rushed, and there's been several character deaths. The upgrades annoy me to no end, but it does look like it might be ending soon. I've read the first 16 or so volumes of Ranma, and admittedly I don't like ti too much. the characters are adorable, and there's an occasional funny segment, but I just don't find it as hilarious as some folks do. Now Urusei Yatsura... that's one I've been dying to see for a while, but Viz's manga has long been out of print, and the anime looks to expensive to collect. |
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Viga_of_stars
Posts: 1240 Location: Washington D.C. in the Anime Atelier |
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i alwys thought inuyasha was too long for it own good and still haven't finished tha manga in the anime. it length is annoying to me. Ranma and UY length doesnt bother me because i could pop in any ol episode and still enjoy it and know whats going on.
maison ikkoku i really want to see and based on what i hear im going to pick up the anthology at katsucon. did anyone heard of one pound gospel? in response to the above person...YEAH THE UY SHOULD COME BACK IN UNFLIPPED FORMAT. i got a book when i was a n00btaku in 2001 but i didn't know it was rare. the anime can be cheap though in vhs form. i got the vhs copies at roberts anime conrner for 5 or less 2yrs back and the box sets you can get for amieigo who actually finished the series after almost ten years. wow. Last edited by Viga_of_stars on Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:50 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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jgreen
 Posts: 1325 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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What I find amazing about Takahashi's work is that even though the animated versions tend to get stale after about 3 seasons, the manga don't. The fact that this happens even though the anime stories are so heavily based on the manga doesn't make much sense, but that's the way it works, and it's a massive credit to her as a storyteller.
Maison Ikkoku is, hands down, my favorite manga ever. I enjoy the anime, but quite as much. The manga had a much more madcap pace to it that really let the comedy shine as well as the romance; the anime seems to dwell far more on the romance. The manga is an A++++++++++++, the anime a solid B+. The Ranma 1/2 anime was one of the first I ever saw, and I'd put seasons 2 and 3 up against damn near any other TV series. Great, great stuff. The OAV series is probably my favorite Takahashi adaptation ever, and I really wish they would have kept it going (though 12 episodes, or whatever it was, is plenty long, true). I was buying Ranma on VHS back in the day, and when they changed Ranma's male voice at the beginning of the 4th season, I was kind of bummed and quit buying it. I just recently got seasons 4 and 5 on DVD though, but I haven't watched them yet. I understand they're not as good as the early stuff. InuYasha is, I think, a very excellent adaptation of her work, but this is another one that I've only seen the first 3 seasons of and the first 3 movies. I can feel it *just* starting to get repetitive, though, so I can relate with people who say they don't like the latter half of the show. I actually just watched the Mermaid Forest TV show last week for the first time and....it was good, but not great. The big problem with animating the MF stories is that they really work better as they were originally published, in short one-shot bursts. When you watch 13 episodes in a row where Yuta dies and comes back to life each time, it comes off as repetitive; when it's a part of the first story published in a couple years, it's a refreshing reminder instead. I prefer the OAVs, though I will say that the MF TV version of "Mermaid's Scar" was damn near just as good as the original OAV. And yeah, MUCH love for the Rumic World OAVs from back in the day! I wish to god someone would release those on DVD, as the used VHS prices are up in the $50 range. I figure I should throw out Maris the Chojo, which no one else has mentioned but was great (especially the "blooper reel" in the credits). And hey, what about One Pound Gospel? The animated OAV was another decent but unremarkable effort (a solid B), but the manga is one of her sweetest stories. Hopefully we can see some more OPG once she wraps up InuYasha.... |
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jgreen
Posts: 1325 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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Yeah, One Pound Gospel is the story of a boxer who is remarkably gifted but can't, for the life of him, keep his weight down, and as a result his gift is pretty much squandered. He gets newfound motivation when he meets Sister Angela, a nun at a nearby convent, and falls head over heels in love with her. He's in trouble, though, because she's "married to God," and that commitment isn't entered into lightly. It's a great little story, but unfortunately it has no ending. Much like the Mermaid stories, it's something Takahashi does inbetween other series (she last did an OPG story between the end of Ranma 1/2 and the beginning of InuYasha, while the other OPG stories were done while R1/2 was still running). The anime OAV only adapts the very first storyline, if memory serves. It was only released on subtitled VHS and is a pain in the butt to come by. Definitely worth checking out, but expect to hunt for it. |
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Viga_of_stars
Posts: 1240 Location: Washington D.C. in the Anime Atelier |
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of course. SHOULD VIZ BE ON THIS! lol. viz always deals with her works most. i wonder what would be the new long as hell story from her. i hope her post inuyasha work could be a comedy fantasy story. heavy on the comedy. the only knowledge i have of her pre ranma work isthe old to hunt amimerica favorite interveiws collection from 91 or someting to 95 or something. its in the 90s fro sure. i got it somewhere in the anime junk at home. |
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Dranxis
Posts: 591 Location: Ohtori Academy |
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I've always wanted to read One Pound Gospel, but along with UY it's one of Viz's older, harder to find titles.
Just a heads-up, Rumiko Takahashi announced earlier this year that she would be finishing One Pound Gospel up in a 5-part special. I don't know how many of the chapters have been published yet, but I do know that there is a scanlation group that's done at least the first one and plans to translate the rest. I wouldn't recommend scanlations if it weren't for the fact that Viz'll probably never bother to bring the rest over here. animenewsnetwork.com/news/2006-08-04/rumiko-takahashi-wraps-up-one-pound-gospel |
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