>>132
Discord exists, but that's actually worse then r/uruseiyatsura.

There are a few forums, but those seem to be rather dead.

>>131
It is just a smaller community than most. I'm glad the new anime at least gets more people making stuff and discussing. Personally, the best place I've found that is English-speaking is tumblr. I hope that the Japanese-speaking sites are doing better.

i honestly wonder what the japanese sites are up to

>>520
I check twitter for art. Some people also post excitedly for stuff in the new anime.

>>521
I heard the Japanese Twitter UY fans are cool

>>2018
>The Final Chapter
>Always My Darling
>Only You
>Beautiful Dreamer
>Remember My Love
>Lum the Forever

I don't care for Beautiful Dreamer.

>>2034

Yeah, honestly, the fact that it killed the franchise is what got me to put it on fifth place, I originally had it as fourth and went "what do I even remember about this movie" and remembered my own personal bias of "being bland is worse than being bad". I don't care for movie 3 more than movie 6, but I don't /actively/ dislike either of them and I remember parts of movie 3, so that's why I placed it at a higher rank.

>>2033
Lum the Forever's script is very messy, but the story is mostly straight forward and you can think of it as "Lum meets an Old One".

The tree holds the seal on a yokai that drains the lifeforce (seemingly the most important figure in town) to feed itself. By killing the tree, they unknowingly unleash this being and continues to grow until an Oni princess was able to calm it and a new tree planted to contain it. Only that it led to her eventual death.

The story in the present is a repeat of the cycle, and
Lum fufills the role of village elder and the Oni princess, so she gets her life force drained and is going to calm the being leading to her death. The being is initially an egg, then a fetus, and it seems very child like and wants a mother figure, only being child like it doesn't know limits and seems to kill its mother figure.

Have you played Demon's Souls (2009)? It's another HP Lovecraft inspired story, where a vastly powerful being can shape reality, but it's child like and it needs a mother to lull it to sleep to calm its vast power.

The being wants Lum to itself, so it tries to erase people's memories of Lum. Then after lum is drained, it starts sapping on Ten. The tree grows powerful enough that it starts producing a fog that when breathed in connects the dreaming person to the tree's power and manifests their dreams as reality.

Mendo figures this out and starts a war of the Zaibatsus to force everyone to wish that things went back to normal and to destroy the manifested dream worlds in the cross fire. It's hare brained but kinda works?

Ataru simply wishes for normalcy as well and jogs like Lum used to job. When he falls asleep and connects with the being he wishes for Lum back. The fetus like being finally understands, that Lum belongs to Ataru and the rest of the world, and relinquishes her and goes back to sleep. Presumably another tree will be planted on it to seal it.

>>2044
As I said the script? Messy with pacing issues and the story is hard to follow. It likely got re-writes for more action (hense the ending war) when it should have stayed a spooky mystery story. The overall story might have worked better as an original story. If it was called "Legend of the Oni Princess" the film would likely be much better received and liked.

For plus sides: some amazing scenes, score, and animation sequences. Mendo's date with Shinobu and his dream sequence are highlights of the film.

The symbolism is pretty obvious: Urusei Yatsura anime is over so move on. The first thing the being manifests is Lum on a tv screen, and the last image we see is Lum on a tv screen that fades away. The series was over, and the film is meant to be the send-off to it and a message to the fanbase. The fantastical being birthed by felling the tree is representitive of the Urusei Yatsura fanbase, and their obsession with lum is unhealthy. Go out into the real world and find a real woman and let Lum go. For message, Evangelion has a similar meta message for anime otaku.

This is unsourced from imdb, so take it with a grain of salt, but it does make sense. The next film is a direct almost 1:1 adaption of the comic, and then the next film was made much, much, later. To confirm or deny this, you'd have to check anime magazines from around this time, and most certainly someone at some point would have commented on it. The promotional interviews for Final Chapter would be the most likely spot where this would come up.

Sadly there's very little scanning of proper anime magazines from the 80s. There's thousands upon thousands of them so I don't blame them.

>>1982
Good start

I always just called that site Furinkan. That's why you make disambiguation pages and parentheses:

>Rumic World (manga)
>Rumic World (anime)
>website furinkan.com (aka Rumic World)
>Rumic World (Wiki)

>>1982
>>1983
>>1988
I don't hate Rumiki. Honestly, I wanted to help with it, but outside of minor trivia things, I have no idea how to write the basic setup and framework for a wiki.

I guess we could take it from existing wikis, but that felt off.

Fandom is an evil cancer company and fan wikis need to dis-absolve themselves form it. Typically a fanbase will get sick of fandom, then fork their wikis.

>>2081
Apparently they sold GB and now it's indie

>>2255
Easier to show an image of the process than to describe it. This is what I mean by a telecine. You take 4 frames of film and spread it over 5 frames of NTSC video. Since a CRT alternated scan lines when you play back those 5 frames of video on a NTSC CRT it properly displays the 4 actual frames of film correctly and keeps the audio in-sync with the video track.

As for why we have this stupid problem in the first place. Way back in the black and white TV days the NTSC standard was created and 30fps was decided on as the rate of play back. I won't bore you with all the reasons for why it's different than 24fps film. I'll just leave it at that's how things are. Then later on when they added color to NTSC they slightly reduced the frame rate to 29.97fps. The 0.03fps is where the color signal lives.

When we moved over to LCD "HD" televisions we had a chance to do away with this dumb frame rate for good. But so many legacy sets were still in use and so much of the hardware in the industry was already using 29.97fps that it was decided to stick with it. So we're probably never getting anything else. On modern hardware it's possible to have true 30fps frame rate with color of course. This is usually used for things like CGI and credits. Which ends up being a huge pain because a lot of shows combine 24fps as 29.97fps with 3:2 pulldown telecine with full 30fps sections. Which requires either manually slowing down the 30fps sections, speeding up the 24fps sections by inserting duplicate frames or mixing frame rates together in the same container (aka VFR). Most people settled on slowing down the 30fps sections to 24fps. Hence why CGI portions look jerky in a lot of modern encodes. Then there are a bunch of raw providers that rip Japanese TV that just said fuck it and sped everything up to 60fps with duplicate frames everywhere to get around the same problem.

Sorry for encoder autism. This is a useless skill that I should have never learned in the first place. Since the vast majority of people can't tell the difference anyway and the industry certainly doesn't give a damn about doing things properly either. So it just led to a lot of frustration because now I nitpick every show I download, watch or buy. If you think things are bad in the disc world you haven't seen anything yet. Broadcast is so much worse.

>>2256
>I won't bore you with all the reasons for why it's different than 24fps film
Actually, I will bore you since I've posted so much already. The reason NTSC is 30fps/29.97fps is due to the fact that the grid in America ran at 60hz. The television gets its timing from the 60hz on the power grid. This is also why PAL regions run at 25fps instead of 30/29.97fps. Since their grid is 50hz.

So you see. The fps is half of the the hz the grid is running at. There are places like Japan where they have funky grid running at differ hertz in different places of the country. They get around the problem with converters and other methods. There are also various sub-standards like NTSC-U vs. NTSC-J. But in general the fps stays the same when you're in the same family and there are only slight differences in how they do things for broadcasting purposes.

Be thankful you're in NTSC land instead of PAL land. In PAL land instead of spreading the 24fps film source over more frames they just sped up the audio track. So everything from PAL world in the analog days was slightly sped up and the audio sounded wrong. But when it's all you know/can watch you don't really notice. The difference in the frame rate speeds is also why their video game consoles were clocked slightly slower than the Japan/American counterparts. Which I'm sure anyone that's played a PAL version of a game back to back against the NTSC has noticed. Games like Sonic for the Megadrive are particular painful in that respect.

Video is fun isn't it?

I'm sure this disc has probably been ripped before but it's still worth checking to see if anyone is requesting it. As you might have a better disc than whatever one they had to work with. Whenever you buy an LD you should check around to see if anyone is wanting to rip them. Since a lot of modern BDs/DVDs are horrible or the LDs have additional content that's either been lost or is a better master than what was available in other formats.

There is a big resurgence of people wanting to re-rip VHS and LDs at the moment because of the Domesday device and whatever the one for VHS is called. We can pull the RF signal off these now without analog conversion. Which allows us to pull much higher quality rips off the media. Pretty much everything needs to be re-ripped now before this old analog media is gone Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2251
yes, the main problem is on their end. But that's why a domesday is still preferred, even if it wasn't a very good transfer so you can get the most crystal clear image of their bad transfer. I think all these old LD should be preserved just because, even if there's no real need for it.

>>2252

I typically use this deinterlacer for video game footage and it makes every frame clear, none of this blended frame shit, and it worked great on old VHS/Video8/Hi8 footage too. It also does look exactly this shit on my CRT, it was actively distracting.

>>2254

I did 30 FPS first and then 60 to make sure that the deinterlacer wasn't introducing any additional issues. If the deinterlacer was causing issues, any sort of 60 FPS video would be adding a bit of A->B blending, but that would be A clear, A-B bad, B clear. Here, it's A-AAB-AB-ABB-B; I think the graph at >>2256 explains my problem perfectly, that I'm getting BC-CD blending, and the deinterlacer is making it worse. I would have preferred them to just do A-B-C-D-D instead, but we get what we get.

>>2257

Hehe, I grew up in SECAM signal but PAL import land, I was lucky to get shit working in colour.

I still do have the original interlaced .mpg files though, busted aspect ratio and all (sadly don't have any proper lossless capture devices, I wanted to get that Micomsoft one back in the day, but no money then). If you want to try your hand with avisynth, you should, I definitely did not try to rip out the blended frames that way before trying to convert to MP4.

Episode 15: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ebRPk4tBnTrLhEemxHDHnVd21gNPtLkY/view?usp=drive_link
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>>2259
>>2259
domesday

>>2099
Classic

>>2102
Either she participated in a communist themed slumber party or made a visit to Jusenkyō

Finished the television series, I enjoyed this but IMO I liked UY more, still regardless i liked how the cast was handled here being a bit more self contained so the various reoccurring side characters could show up more. Also I’ll now find those “I’ve finally found /a/“ posts much funnier in retrospect. Onto the ova series next

>>2209
Finished the OVA’s incense rumic world special, and the hilarious hot song contest. That’s two rumic series finished as a whole. Also took a look at the last chapters btw, I know it’s not what people expected but it is fitting overall, plus it’s a foregone conclusion they get together anyway. Between this and UY, I’m surprised I hadn’t watched or read either until recently, seriously anyone new to both CHECK THEM OUT! YOU. WILL. LOVE. THEM!

>>2449
it looks so soulless compared to the og, what a downgrade

>>2449

Play this back at 1.5x speed

>>2364
It's on 9anime

original:
https://9animetv.to/watch/urusei-yatsura-1040?ep=16774
reboot s1:
https://9animetv.to/watch/urusei-yatsura-18160?ep=94618
reboot s2:
https://9animetv.to/watch/urusei-yatsura-2022-2nd-season-18835

>>2364
For the manga, I think it takes a bit for Rumiko to hit her groove for storytelling and art. The addition of Mendo (chapter 30), Lum joining the school, and Sakura becoming the school nurse are essential as it creates the school dynamic that is the focus of the rest of the series. A good chunk of the stories is just the main four going somewhere with Sakura tagging along sometimes. Her art becomes quite refined.

The manga is thus easier to digest, faster to read, and more consistent.

>>2364
For the anime, it starts out being a famously very rushed low budget production that became a hit so they got more budget as they went. Even in the early batch of episodes, there's a lot of stylistic and directoral flourishes that are fantastic.

it's back