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I'd like to share an interesting shipping ranking of Urusei Yatsura by SilverBuller, especially the arguments presented. Rankings divided into Top Shippings (who he ships with the character), Ok Shippings (not people he ships with the character, but who he wouldn’t mind), and Low Shippings (people he do not ships with the character). Please note that the rankings and comments you'll read below are his, not mine.

Warning : This will include spoilers. Anyway, let's begin :

TOP SHIPPINGS

#1) Lum Invader – >!Ok, so absolutely no one should be surprised to see Lum as number one. Her relationship with Ataru is as funny as it is adorable. After a misunderstanding where she thinks Ataru wants to marry her, she accepts his, um, not-proposal. From there, she acts all lovey-dovey with him, constantly trying to get close and be affectionate with him while getting jealous of other girls and angry at his attempted playboy ways. I must admit, I find it a little peculiar that she agreed to marry him, and her feelings for him seem to develop out of nowhere. However, it seems like she may have developed those feelings over their days of playing “Tag” together. It seems her species respects and admires determination and resilience, and so Ataru’s refusal to give up and his eventual victory in their game may have been what caught her initial interest and be why she agreed to the marriage. From there, we see her feelings for him grow, and she affectionately refers to him as « Darling ». Things start out where she seems to mostly be acting the role of a dedicated wife, getting in his way of other girls and punishing him with her electric attacks when he flirts with them, but it becomes more and more apparent that she does or comes to actually love him, becoming more and more possessive of him and affectionate towards him and trying to earn his love and gain his interest. Ataru, for the most part, spends most his time being annoyed with her and trying to avoid her so he can go after other girls. This seems to be because he seems to like being the chaser, and so gains a bit of disinterest when Lum chases him instead. Since Lum is the one pursuing him though, he seems to assume that she will always be there, which is why he seems to ignore her and takes her for granted. And since he seems to know that she will never leave him, he feels comfortable pursuing other girls, even though he knows she’ll punish him for it. However, it’s during the instances when she’s gone or when he thinks he’s going to lose her that his real feelings for her start to show, causing him to become depressed and long for her, and then show much relief when she comes back or the risk to their relationship is gone. Truthfully, even though he doesn’t act like it and even pretends he doesn’t, he actually loves her as well. And in the original anime series, they even meet their future descendant, indicating that despite their problems, everything works out between them.!<

OK SHIPPINGS

#2) Shinobu Miyake – >!Aside from Lum, pretty much all the other girls that serve as Ataru’s love interests are basically rinse and repeats. Shinobu is a bit of an exception though. She and Ataru have a history where they’re old friends, and even implied to be sweethearts, if not actually having been in a relationship. Ataru’s playboy ways though seem to have ruined things between them, or at least caused a lot of problems in their relationship to the point where Shinobu broke up with him. She still harbored feelings for him though, as she agrees to marry him if he manages to catch Lum to end the invasion, which is what caused the whole misunderstanding between him and Lum, causing Shinobu to become jealous. And for a while, she continued to show jealousy, but as she befriends Lum and as more time passes, her interest and feelings for Ataru seem to fade and change, and the breaking point seems to be when she falls for Shuutarou and turns her interest to him. She’s also shown to have a bit of a shallow side though, where she goes based off looks, hence her preference of Shuutarou over Ataru. At this point though, Shinobu seems to have fallen into the role of just another girl Ataru pursues whenever he can. Initially, he had shown the most interest in her, the promise of getting to marry her being what enabled him to find the strength and determination to catch Lum. After he gets engaged to Lum though, for a while he tries to meet Shinobu, only to have Lum constantly get in the way. But just like with Shinobu, his feelings for her seem to fade now that he has Lum and her interests have moved elsewhere, and so she becomes just another girl her likes to flirt with.!<

#3) Oyuki – >!I know I said that Shinobu was the one exception to Ataru’s rinse and repeat love interests, but when we first meet Oyuki, there is one thing that causes her to stand out from the others, and that’s that she seems to return Ataru’s interest. When he pursues her, despite knowing that he’s engaged to Lum, and even though she’s good friends with Lum, she accepts his advances, and the two of them openly make out. It even seems like things would have gone even further between them had they not been interrupted. But even though Ataru pursues her along with the other girls, she doesn’t accept his advances anymore after this. She does seem to find him amusing though and likes him as a friend and doesn’t seem to mind his advances, which is more than can be said for the other girls he pursues, which is why she ranks higher than them. As for things on Ataru’s end, she doesn’t seem to stand out as anything special to him, she’s just another girl he’s attracted to and tries to flirt with.!<

LOW SHIPPINGS

#4) Benten – >!As I said before, from Benten on, they’re all just standard girls Ataru takes an interest in and regularly pursues, but there’s nothing that really makes one stand out from the other in Ataru’s eyes. As such, I ranked them more or less on character and their relationship with Ataru. For Benten, she ranks a little higher than the others because she’s Lum’s best friend and has a similar personality. However, she holds no interest in Ataru and seems to find his flirting with her annoying. She seems to tolerate his presence and is civil with him except for when he pursues her.!<

#5) Ryuunosuke Fujinami – >!When they first met, Ataru had no interest in Ryuunosuke, but that’s because he thought she was a boy. The moment he found out she was a girl though, she fell on his radar of girls to pursue, and he starts treating her like all the other girls he takes an interest in, flirting with her whenever possible. He uses the fact that she’s trying to become more girly to his advantage to try and get closer to her and flirt with her, but she doesn’t have any interest in him beyond friendship and what he’s willing to do for her to help her be more girly.!<

#6) Kurama – >!While Ataru took immediate interest in Kurama, she seemed to immediate hold him in contempt, looking down on him and his ways. She has a very shallow nature, dismissing him for his average looks while taking an instant interest in Shuutarou because of how attractive she finds him and wanting to mate with him. According to tradition, since she was awakened by Ataru’s kiss, she’s supposed to mate with him, but she absolutely refuses, wanting nothing to do with him. Despite her lack of interest and open disdain, Ataru continues to try and pursue her, and even becomes insistent that she follow her clan’s tradition of mating with him, only to be shot down by her. He still flirts with her any chance he gets though, but she’s ultimately nothing more than one of the many girls he’s interested in.!<

#7) Ryouko Mendou – >!Like all of the others, Ryouko is just one of the many girls Ataru is attracted to and pursues. But also just like them, she has no interest in him and finds his pursuit of her annoying. However, she’s a notorious prankster, and so uses his flirtatious behavior towards her to her advantage in order to pulls pranks, and so tolerates him for that purpose. She’s also completely in love with Tobimaro, and will use Ataru’s flirting towards her advantage in order to pursue Tobimaro as well. Ataru knows she’s in love with Tobimaro, but is still intent on trying to gain her interest, but she’s ultimately just another girl he’s attracted to.!<

#8) Sakura – >!For the most part, Sakura is just another girl Ataru is interested in who has no interest in him and finds his flirting annoying. Unlike the others though, things between them are taken a step further, where she doesn’t seem to like him at all and only tolerates him because she has to. Actually, she really seems to hate him, partly due to her having to deal with the spirits of misfortune he attracts. There’s also the fact that there’s a pretty big age gap between them and that she has a fiancé. And yet Ataru continues to make advances to her and suffer the consequences of doing so like all the others.!<

#9) Ran – >!I almost put Ran above Sakura, but her personality is what ended up putting her beneath her. She’s got a rather twisted and vindictive side to her, where she seeks to destroy Lum and all she cares about, and that includes things between her and Ataru. Her nature borders on indifference to almost cruel at times, where she shows no care as to what happens to Ataru as long as it furthers her goals. She’s also almost obsessively in love with Rei, and uses Ataru’s flirtatious behavior towards her to her advantage, even though she hates it when he pursues her.!<

#10) Elle de Rosenbach – >!Yeah, so no surprise to find Elle in last place. As a result of Ataru winning a game of shadow tag against her when they were kids, and according to her people’s customs, that makes them engaged, and so she returns for him several years later. And while Ataru is initially attracted to her just as he is every other pretty girl he meets, things go south pretty fast. Elle is one messed up person. She literally seeks to build a collection of men for her reverse-harem, and has actually collected 99,999 so far, freezing them and trapping them in a giant fridge, and she wanted to add Ataru to the mix. While Ataru was initially into her, when he finds out what she’s really like and what she plans, he wants nothing to do with her. So, yeah, for him to lose interest in a girl, one who is apparently known throughout the galaxy for her beauty, you know it’s bad.!<

Note : The first picture is a fanart made by AnimeManga_4U. Original link here : Animefanservice, Yuriship, Animecouple / Ranma X Ukyo - pixiv

Before I begin, I want to clarify that I primarily know Ranma ½ from the anime that aired between 1989 and 1992, the three animated films, and the OVAs released between 1993 and 1996, plus the one released for the 50th anniversary of Weekly Shonen Sunday in 2008. I haven't yet seen the new anime that's been streaming on Netflix since 2024, and I've only read part of the manga (the first six volumes of the Perfect Edition). I've read some Reddit comments suggesting that Ukyo's character was toned down in the older anime productions compared to the original manga, so my opinion might be somewhat biased. But let's move on.

Let's be clear, I have absolutely nothing against the Ranma x Akane shipping. On the contrary, they're the most touching couple in Ranma ½, the two of them are perfect together. Nevertheless, I think that if this relationship were to fail, Ukyo would have been a very good backup plan, and not just because she's the childhood friend of the Saotome son. Ukyo can be a bit pushy but her heart is in the right place and given her past can be understandable. The only « wacky » thing about her is her undying love of serving Okonomiyaki to people, and her wanting to fulfill Genma's promise and marrying Ranma is a bit more watered down than the situations with Shanpu and of course Akane.

This is the full length version of the Onitsuka shoe/fashion campaign add. This debuted alongside the first episode of the 2022 Studio David version of Urusei Yatsura.

Original link.

When it aired on August 31, 1988, on the « Club Dorothée » program (the most popular children's program on French television between 1988 and 1995), Urusei Yatsura was given a French opening sequence which, while not unpleasant to listen to, completely failed to capture the overall atmosphere of Takahashi's work, as if the only thing the adaptors retained was Lum's physique. However, they didn't understand that Urusei Yatsura is a slapstick romantic comedy sprinkled with Japanese folklore, fantasy, and science fiction, dealing with conflicting relationships between individuals (among other things).

I invite internet users to express themselves in both English and Italian, depending on their native language.

Invito gli utenti di internet ad esprimersi sia in inglese che in italiano, a seconda della loro lingua madre.

Original link.

Testo/lyrics :

Original text :

Sarà un amore strano questo qua (uouououooo)
che brucia fuori dentro qua e là (uouououooo)
uno sguardo solamente e la fiamma è accesa già,
scappo, resto, fuggo, torno, chi lo sa ?

Com’è difficile stare, (al mondo)
Com’è difficile stare, (al mondo)
Com’è difficile stare, (al mondo)
Se non possiamo sbagliare mai !

Mi piacerebbe scappare (dal mondo)
finisco poi per restare io non me ne andrò…
…tanto già lo so che poi vinci sempre tu !

Nel mio destino pace non ce n’è (uouououooo)
nessuna al mondo è matta come te (uouououooo)
tu mi guardi sorridente e io tremo perché so…
(il testo di interrompe qua, sfumando)

Translate (Thanks Google Translator) :

It's going to be a strange love, this one (wow)

that burns on the outside, inside, here and there (wow)

just one look and the flame is already lit,

I run away, I stay, I flee, I come back, who knows ?

How difficult it is to be, (in the world)

How difficult it is to be, (in the world)

How difficult it is to be, (in the world)

If we can never make mistakes !

I'd like to escape (from the world)

I end up staying, I won't go away...

...I already know that you always win !

There's no peace in my destiny (wow)

no one in the world is as crazy as you (wow)

you look at me smiling and I tremble because I know...

(the text stops here, fading)

Ho letto che la prima opera di Rumiko Takahashi gode di una certa fama in Italia, ma mi piacerebbe saperne di più. Insomma, cari vicini italiani appassionati di storie stravaganti con protagonista l'adorabile Oni in bikini tigrato, fatevi avanti !

P.S. : Mi scuso in anticipo per eventuali errori di ortografia. Non conoscendo l'italiano, sto usando Google Traduttore.

When the movie was first released on VHS in 1983, the song had a French version sung by Corrine Le Poulain.

Note that since Monkey Punch didn't negotiate the exploitation rights of Lupin with the descendants of Maurice Leblanc, the film was renamed « Vidocq contre Cagliostro ». Here's the cover : 107799563_o.jpg (2048×1460)

Original link : Urusei Yatsura out of context.

I wanted to share some screenshots from this 1984 illustration book, which I discovered thanks to FUTURE10S. I should point out that these pictures are not mine but are from sales items on eBay.