>young
>lustful
>charismatic
>wants to date geeky beta
>calls them darling
>has sweet tooth
>flaunts body constantly
>jealous
Not that I'm complaining, but is originality dead?
ITS THE SAME CHARACTER
Adam Clark
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Daniel Anderson
>wants to date geeky beta
Ataru is anything but a geeky beta
Michael Smith
No, Lum is a good character. Big difference.
David Allen
>charismatic
This is why 02 is far better.
Austin Bell
t. geeky beta
Caleb Reyes
It's a pretty obvious homage/reference OP.
Like, this isn't an issue of "originality" so much as it's working with ideas familiar to the viewer to lead them into the narrative.
Owen Hughes
>Ataru
>beta
Owen Ramirez
Someone hasn't watched Urusei Yatsura
Ryan Morales
I understand OP may be confused but unlike modern anime male protagonists Ataru has a personality.
Michael Cox
should I read Urusei Yatsura?
Asher Hall
Fuck off already, 02 will be forgotten once her show is done. Lum literally became one of the most iconic characters in the medium.
Jace Howard
Yes.
Jaxson Martin
>Lum literally became one of the most iconic characters in the medium.
when DitF stops airing Lum will once again be forgotten. She's only seeing popularity as some weird trolling tactic.
William Campbell
You do realize that Lum is famous and Iconic enough to be immortalized with a commemorative statue alongside ASTRO BOY, right?
Zachary Kelly
Can I cum on the Lum statue?
Brandon Nelson
And despite all that she will magically disappear from these threads when anons have to stop pretending to be Yatsura fans.
Adam Barnes
You know what a homage and/or reference is, right?
Brody Evans
I don't know if you know this but Sup Forums talked about Urusei Yatsura long before Darling in the Franxx aired, there was a huge series of threads where an user streamed the whole anime series and people posted about it as it streamed.
All this show did was up the conversation because more people are looking it up or remembering UY.
Tyler Morales
>Lum will once again be forgotten
By who exactly? She's literally one of the most iconic characters back in nipland. It's just like what this user stated. She got a gold statue along with other iconic characters like Astro Boy/Joe Yabuki/Matel.
Chase Walker
>young
>lustful
>charismatic
>wants to date geeky beta
>flaunts body constantly
>jealous
This applies to most waifus, so you're going to need more similarities.
Isaac Carter
who?
Aaron Wright
I guess you've never wandered into a what pre-2000s anime are you watching thread in the last 5 years, huh? People ride Yatsura's dick ALL THE TIME.
Liam Mitchell
Wait, there's English scans? Got a link?
Sebastian Gonzalez
I don't have a torrent or anything but:
Adrian Price
Yes, but it's frowned upon
Christopher Kelly
I don't care I'm gonna cum on the statue
Grayson Powell
This
Brody Mitchell
Just cover it up when you're done
Jose Morgan
damn this is my fetish now
Chase Brown
>putting a 700 dollar scarf on an anime statue
huh
Brandon Wilson
Well, I'm glad you have a new fetish
Connor Moore
Sounds like you weren't around for the anniversary.
Fucking newfags these days.
That's like 7 Yen in Japan so it's quite cheap actually.
Jace Hernandez
>lum is for ________
Ethan Campbell
>Yes, but it's frowned upon
Christian Turner
... Darling. ;_;
Anthony James
I want to impregnate that statue
Zachary Morris
Marriage
Carson Hughes
Lum is pretty, zerotwo looks like generic crap
Sebastian Allen
I like Urusei Yatsura but Lum is hardly a good character. Pretty much everyone in Urusei Yatsura is a one dimensional character. But Lum is the "idealized" one dimensional character, just like Shampoo. The average person who remembers her will just remember her for how she looks and a few of her catch phrases. She's on the level of someone like Ruri from Nadesico. A character not intended to be the main lead, but became the lead because of fan popularity.
Jayden Edwards
>she's on the level of someone like Ruri from Nadesico
Delete this
Andrew Cruz
Does the truth hurt too much?
Chase Hill
>lum
>pretty
She looks like some cheap whore you'd find in a ghetto alley
Robert Jones
DELETE DELETE DELETE!
Jayden Reed
>is originality dead?
The Japanese are the ultimate borrowers. Didn't you see Aoi Honoo? That scene with Okada Toshio where he's talking about how it's okay to pirate trademarked logos if you just change things up a little? That is one of the CORE tenets of Japanese culture. They borrow from everything, and have throughout recorded history.
Andrew Bailey
The shit thing is they're all left-to-right. Urusei Yatsura got translated and released in English in that period when western releases of manga had to be turned into left-to-right reading order.
Gabriel Diaz
I want to fug that statue.
Jackson Thompson
>originality
name 1 that does this in the past few years.
Noah Campbell
>$700
I don't think that's a real burberry scarf. Fuck, even in the US you can get knockoffs in any store for less than $20.
Justin Jones
>starts off as the villain
>becomes a generic bimbo
I don't get why she got so popular aside from looking slightly better than our typical 1980s anime girl. But hey, this is the same decade where Madoka from KOR got popular.
Ayden Martinez
>Madoka from KOR got popular.
Madoka is a complete babe. One of the few good tsundere desu.
>doesnt turn into a completely mess when the mood turns romantic
>isn't afraid of teasing the MC and taking the lead
>doesn't beat the shit out of him, gives him a slap or two at most when he deserves it
Connor Fisher
It's all in the design, which was unique for its time. A cute alien girl wearing a bikini madly in love with a japanese boy was pretty new for 1978.
The other characters were better, like Ran, Ataru's mother, Cherry etc.
Noah Russell
>does this all behind the back of her best friend, who is very open about her love for the mc
Joshua Miller
02 is way hotter then the scribble on the left. That's a huge difference.
Kevin Watson
>gets mad at the MC every single episode for a misunderstanding she already knows is not his fault
>keeps holding a grudge for the very first misunderstanding despite the fact that she knows Hikaru was the one who started it and it wasn't the MCs fault
>expects the MC to clear everything up and doesn't take the initiative herself
She's not a Tsundere. She's just a stuck up, entitled girl who can get by on her looks.
Lincoln Sanders
>originality
Nothing is truly "original". Everything created is simply a revision of something that already existed but with slight differences (I find that the biggest leaps of changes lead to something renowned. That's why the little change in anime has left us with nothing truly great). This process repeats itself until the new product is completely different from the original inspiration; it then becomes what we call "original". Lum, herself, was also created through this process.
You may hate 02, but she'll serve as a good stepping stone for better characters to come that fix her mistakes and who are original in their own ways.
Grayson Nelson
>Cherry
Luis Lopez
Lum was an antagonist for a grand total of one chapter.
Julian Butler
I didn't know blind people could post on Sup Forums.
Zachary Jenkins
They basically went down a quirky cool girl checklist to make 02.
Eli Powell
Lum wasn't meant to be a recurring character. If you read the manga, chapter 2 is the one with the mirror demon doesn't even mention her; it was meant to be the misadventures of Ataru & Shinobu.
John Torres
Is FeMC of new show as adorable and youthful as Lum? That might convince me to pick it up.
Josiah Walker
Aka. Not Ataru.
Anthony Wilson
Only read the manga, never touched the anime.
Ian Mitchell
Yeah Urusei Yatsura was pretty clearly conceived with the formula of
Ataru and Shinobu run into some weirdness, with Shinobu getting pissed and dumping Ataru over it.
Lum becoming a recurring character changed the plans.
Gavin Reyes
You're aware there have been UY threads long before DitF aired, right? There will also be more after it ends. Seasonal junk food come and goes. UY is a classic.
Jacob Nguyen
She retained a lot of her antagonistic properties for multiple seasons in the anime. Once she truly got rid of these, then she became the happy bimbo she's portrayed as the rest of the series. You can tell this just by her design, let alone her personality changes. Her eyes and hair become softer, she starts wearing more frilly dresses, her fangs get hidden more and she smiles more like a cute girl, etc. In effect, she becomes less and less "Oni" as the series goes on. By the end, she's just a generic girl. Albeit a lot more beautiful than the average background girl.
Samuel Foster
Yeah those design changes don't really exist in the original manga.
Colton Ortiz
Nathan Jones
Nice try. Lum was never that sadistic.
Blake Bennett
Also, Ataru deserved everything she gave him.
Ian Rivera
Matthew Rivera
Left or right?
Dylan Gray
Most of the time but I like that Lum despite being an angel wasn't perfect. There were a couple times she tried to hide her own flaws out of embarrassment and got called out on it. It shows that all in all she's still a naive young girl.
Sebastian Nelson
Left.
Elijah Ortiz
Both.
David Reed
>Gold
Bronze.
Benjamin Kelly
hiro had one for a couple episodes
Ian Bennett
it's not
Noah King
Left has more style
Wyatt Lewis
Rumiko Takahashi has an amazing sense of style for her characters.
Samuel Wilson
confirmed for not having ever red UY
>lustful
kind, but Lum is more childish sometimes
>charismatic
she is popular, but not charismatic
>wants to date geeky beta
Ataru is neither of those things: he is actually the reverse harem protagonist, that one guy that wants the harem
>has sweet tooth
Not really, but both have weird sense of taste
>flaunts body constantly
original costume
>jealous
while it works for Lum, 02 was never openly jealous and the only time she was pissed at 015 was because she called her a monster
Dominic Kelly
One is an actual cultural icon while the other is just a flavor of the month derivative.
Isaac Moore
>is originality dead?
Yes. I'm sure the next season of anime will feature blatant garbage versions of other timeless characters, maybe a bishonen Kenshiro or Astro Boy only he's a trap.
Anthony Green
Brandon Perry
Fucking hell, I hate high rise bottoms.
Christian Nguyen
>Astro Boy only he's a trap
Would ironically watch this.
Levi Clark
>villain
She was the “villain” for like 15 minutes lmao
David Russell
OP here, I don’t hate zero who lmao.
Just saying it’s drastically similar.
Anthony Evans
We all know the real reason you'd watch Boku no Astro Pico and it's not irony.
Kayden Howard
>lmao
Neck yourself
Hunter Collins
Ethan Cruz
She was one of my first faps, along with Bulma. Good times.
Juan King
>waifu fag lashing out
Robert Powell
Can't go wrong with more horny girls.
Dylan Long
I want fuck that statue.
Benjamin Murphy
Liam Allen
Thanks man.
Meh, I honestly could care less about that.
Mason Rogers
While it is true that her design is de-oni-fied, I strongly disagree that Lum is generic. For one she's a consistently entertaining character in a romcom and that is all that she needs to be, and secondly she never really loses that waifu aura of a girl so completely devoted to her Darling. Lum is the quintessential waifu, she has these weird and cute quirks and will do everything for Darling, it really is more than just her looks, Lum has a great personality. You can't cast her off as generic without trashing 99% of anime girls, honestly.
Levi Rodriguez
Don't forget that Lum may love Ataru she will not tolerate his more garbage moments.
Justin Richardson
does a real life statue count as official "art" ?