Forum - View topicRumiko Takahashi 4EVER!
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ghoti
Posts: 101 Location: Poland |
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Hello everybody!
I think everyone (or at least nearly everone  ) has heard of her and her creations. And the talk here is about the one and only - RUMIKO TAKAHASHI!
Ursei Yatsura with the moody alien-girl Lum. Ranma 1/2 with title star martial arts champion Ranma. And many more. So as I stumbled upon a nice page with some comments on Rumiko Takahashi's work, some comment by the artist herself and some words on her little known (at least to me) creations. So check it, and enjoy! http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~leon/mi/html/rumiko.html (Drat! My e-mail server has crashed again!  )
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GATSU
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Sounds like a PR piece. Anyway, I'm tired of her, and I hope Ranma Meets Fire Tripper(Oops, I mean Inu Yasha.) is her last manga.
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Hagakure
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Um...why do you care whether or not its her last manga? No one's forcing you to buy them, and she still has quite a fan following. I'd think it would suck if she quit, even though I'm not really a HUGE fan of her. Actuallly I think it sucks if any manga artist quits, its just less variety on the market. Just my opinion. |
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GATSU
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She's part of the reason there's so little variety in the first place.
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LordByronius
ANN Columnist
 Posts: 861 Location: Philippe for America! He is five. |
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Somewhere off the coast of Indonesia, in her underground lair, Takashi is yelling... "Curse you, GATSU!!! ONE DAY, YOU WILL BE MINE!!!" I don't much like Inu-Yasha either. I'd like for Takahashi to do some more short stories, rather than long and rediculous stuff like Ranma. Y'know, something akin to One Pound Gospel. Takahashi Is Good, but only in limited quantities, says I. |
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Tempest
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How so? I don't seem to recall any reports of her going out of her way to squash (a la M$) anything that was different from her view of Manga. |
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Tempest
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How so? I don't seem to recall any reports of her going out of her way to squash (a la M$) anything that was different from her view of Manga. Last edited by Tempest on Wed Aug 14, 2002 8:55 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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GATSU
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Tempest: She used to make fun of love triangles, and now she took them seriously. That's why she "jumped the shark".
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ANN_Bamboo
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What the hell are you talking about? You're saying she has no variety because in one story, she shuns love triangles, and in the next she embraces them? It seems to me that that's the definition of variety. If she had stuck with the same concept the whole time, then I'd have a beef with that. Besides, she's always had love triangles in just about all of her stories. As for 'jumping the shark,' that's shoujo. Live with it. You could just as easily argue that Naoko Takeuchi, or Yuu Watase are contributing to the cliches of the different types of girly anime. It seems to me, the only reason I have for being a little poked out on Takahashi is the way that Viz pushes her titles in every single release or advertisement they do. Course, that's not her fault though; it's entirely the fault of the ad execs. But hey, just because she changed her approach to story telling, doesn't make her a sell-out. |
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Tempest
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Umm, how does this affect Anime in general? Even if her stories were unvaried, it doesn't affect the variety of Anime in general, does it? |
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GATSU
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Sakechan:
"You could just as easily argue that Naoko Takeuchi, or Yuu Watase are contributing to the cliches of the different types of girly anime." Except shoujo tends to have more character development than shonen. Actually, now that I think about it, there are some cliches from them as well, but at least they don't continue to write beyond their ability to come up with original material. Even Toriyama respects himself by refraining from that. Tempest: "Umm, how does this affect Anime in general? Even if her stories were unvaried, it doesn't affect the variety of Anime in general, does it?" If you're the highest paid manga-ka, guess who other authors will imitate most. |
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Vicious
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I don't much like Inu-Yasha either. I'd like for Takahashi to do some more short stories, rather than long and rediculous stuff like Ranma. Y'know, something akin to One Pound Gospel.
[/quote] If only she treated Inuyasha like a short story, or relatively short story, instead of a long term one like Ranma(Which does NOT work with a story that has a ongoing plot) it'd be one of the best manga/animes out there in it's genre. It's a shame. If she were to start doing short stories though I think they'd be good and that she could still contribute alot to the market. |
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LordByronius
ANN Columnist
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I love Ranma, or at least I did love Ranma for a certain period, but the main problem with Inu-Yasha is that it isn't very interesting or funny, like Ranma and UY and her other longer series are. It's just characters fighting and getting more powerful and meeting other characters and fighting s'more. Oh, and ROMANCE.
Whiirrrrrrrrrrr. |
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ghoti
Posts: 101 Location: Poland |
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Well, Rumiko Takahashi didn't just creat Ranma and Inu Yasha.
There were quite a few shorts and a few mangas od a different genre, eg horror. That's why I placed the link (at the beginning of htis forum) in the first place. Some really interesting facts are mentioned there. |
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Gai Super Napalm
 Posts: 148 Location: Hoboken, NJ |
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For the recored, I agree with Gatsu again.
Of course, little inspiration or little new ideas in anime doesn't always mean that the new anime is bad. Lots of people copy or produce similar shows or stories and sometimes they are good (love hina to maison ikkoku) and sometimes they suck (pita-ten to digi charat).. |
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