Last Chance For Lum!

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Greetings, anime fans! I've just discovered, while going on a Lum collecting binge, that the Animeigo license to make and sell DVDs of Urusei Yatsura, (aka Those Obnoxious Aliens, aka Lum) is going to lapse at the end of September 2011. That's in about one week of this writing! I just got the OVAs and Movies from the company, at www.animeigo.com. They also still have 38 of the 50 TV episodes, but only in the more expensive single disk format (4 episodes to a disk). So I'm going to look online for the TV series in a cheaper set format (there are 10 sets).

For those who don't know, Lum is one of the oldest and still the longest anime produced for the USA (back in the early Nineties) with its 200 episodes. Manga Goddess Rumiko Takahashi later also wrote the original and very popular series of Ran Ma 1/2 and Inu Yasha, which were also made into long running TV series, also with special movies and/or OVAs. She's done more serious work as well, but if you like light romantic comedy, these series are probably the most well known of all anime. Lum is the oldest, and established many "firsts" as its author eventually became one of the wealthiest Japanese on the planet. As for the production staff, the director of the TV Series and the first two movies went on to direct the famous Ghost In The Shell, one of the first Japanese animated movies shown in USA theatrical release.

Just finished watching my 11 new Lum DVDs. They are lots of fun. Some of the movies are quite surreal, and really good examples of what you can do with animation. The OVAs include some of my old favorites, like Raging Sherbet, where a borrowed alien sherbet bird goes on a rampage when taken to Earth (never overwork them in the heat), and Attack of the Girly Eyed Measles, where the male characters become infected and recieve giant girl anime eyes! What a hoot!