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Summary: Funny and extreimly odd.
Review: Urusei Yatsura Vol.1 is pretty funny and engaging. The drawings not that good, but that can be expected from a 1981 anime show with a low budget.But I must say that this is a very odd tv show, for the charaters and people and aliens. But, if you can get past the poor drawing and oddness, as I did, then I am sure you will enjoy it.
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Summary: Old anime= Good Anime
Review: Well that might not fit all series, but it certainly fits this series. The series first aired on television in Japan back in the year 1981, and soon became a massive success spawning 196 television episodes, 6 movies, and 11 OVAs. The manga series created by the extraordinarily talented mangaka Rumiko Takahashi lasted from 1977-1986 and was collected in 34 volumes. The series itself is one of the oddest series ever created in my own humble opinion. The first DVD involves the main character Ataru Moroboshi playing tag with an Oni, a japanese demon or in this case an alien from outer space, meeting another Oni named Ten who arrives in a peach like Momotaro in japanese folklore, a crazy Buddhist monk named sakuranbou, or cherry, another japanese figure from folklore: Kintaro, the gluttenous Oni, Rei, among many many others. The show is a good introduction to many aspects of Japan especially folklore and the lives of modern, middle class Japanese, but that might the series less appealing to others because it might be too japanese, but give it a shot any fan of anime should.
Rating: 
Summary: Outrageous.....-ly funny that is
Review: Well, what to say about this. I can imagine a lot of people will think this just some other old stuff and disregard it and it IS quaint to be honest.I bought this at a whim and I was rather scared after seeing the first few seconds of the intro. What was this old-looking and rather below-average animation, which wasn't that well transferred to DVD either doing here. Why did I buy this!? Well, luckily I did view the rest and boy was I surprised. For a 20+ year old show this is top stuff. So what is so good? The animation is old-fashioned looking but VERY good for those times for a TV series. Very fluid and consistent. The voice acting is excellent and they really bring the characters alive. And of course the episodes themselves are hilarious. I was hooked quickly :). Of course there are bad things too. Not all episodes are excellent, some are merely average or good and a few are just plain bad (just a few in my eyes so far and I've seen the first 15 DVDs so far). The DVD quality is average usually, sometimes bad with bleeding, shimmering and after-images. I don't know if this is due to my player but I don't think so because I have a ton of other dvds that play just fine. Sound is decent, after all it IS 20 years old Mono quality. Biggest downside: NO extras, NO english dub, NO anything.
You get just the japanese version with english subtitles, that's it, excepting a morse code subtitle on the first dvd and some commercials on nr 6 or 7 I think. Well that's fine with me of course, because I prefer japanese with subtitles, but some might not. Anyway, if you like Ranma or series like Ranma (comedy with action) you should try hiring this dvd or one of the others and maybe, like me, you'll like it.
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