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 This is the thread for the current anime adaptation of RIN-NE (Kyoukai no Rinne), and for all manga by the illustrious Rumiko Takahashi, perhaps currently best known in the west for Inu Yasha. Waitwaitwait, she did other, better things, too! Urusei Yatsura, Maisson Ikkoku, and Ranma 1/2 are her other big ones, and they're all pretty great. Rin-ne is more in line with the tone of UY or Ranma, and it's solid Takahashi and a fun read. Synopsis (from Viz's volume 1): Viz posted:As a child Sakura Mamiya mysteriously disappeared in the woods behind her grandma's home. She returned whole and healthy, but since then she has had the power to see ghosts. Now a teenager, she just wishes the ghosts would leave her alone! At school, the desk next to Sakura's has been empty since the start of the school year. Then one day her always-absent classmate Rinne Rokudo shows up, and he's far more than what he seems! Characters, as that seems to be the done thing:  Our straight man viewpoint character, Sakura Mamiya. She's been able to see spirits and such for a decade or so now, and she's no longer impressed by their shennanigans. Able to "go with the flow" to a fault, she's always ready with a 10-yen coin for:  The eponymous Rinne, a part-shinigami, part-human who makes a meager living from the offerings left from those who make requests of him; requests of a spiritual nature, of course, which always seem to require fat stacks of yen (generally no more than ¥50, tops). After all, even hell runs on money. He is helped by:  Rokumon, a black cat who forms contracts with shinigami to help them out in various ill-defined ways. He generally takes the form of a small creepy-cute black cat with a human face, but can cast a glamour upon himself to make him appear large and menacing or like a little kitten. He is less scrupulous than Rinne when it comes to making a living. He was until recently in the employ of:  Rinne's grandmother, Tamako, who fell in love with a human 50 years ago. She is very conscious of the fact that she doesn't look old enough to be a grandmother, and wants you to be conscious of it as well. This is a joke that will quickly wear out its welcome, but it doesn't stay as prominent as in the first few episodes for long. She raised Rinne, and would prefer if he return to live with her. There are other characters, or course, and I try to add them as they are introduced in the anime. The anime is streaming on Crunchyroll. The manga no longer seems to be available for legal online reading, or even for digital purchase, but physical volumes are available from Viz. As mentioned, folks are encouraged to post about all the various Takahashi mangas/animes. I'll try to get writeups for them up at some point, and if the threads still alive when the Rinne anime ends (I think it's supposed to be a 2-cour) we can get the thread title changed.
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Apr 26, 2015 00:23
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Apr 26, 2015 00:23
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Apr 26, 2015 00:35
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Apr 26, 2015 00:54
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Watched episode 1 yesterday, was actually pleasantly surprised. I remember watching all of Ranma back in the old days, and this one is a more modern R. Takahashi show with all of the signature characteristics of her work. It will also end in typical Takahashi fashion probably, 5 years later with an ending that is not an ending and blueball the fans with the relationship development.
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Apr 26, 2015 03:15
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I love how deadpan the heroine is about all of this, this sort of humor really hits the right spot for me.
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Apr 26, 2015 03:34
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Why is every other female character so much more rad than Sakura? Especially Takahashi's signature one-note single-minded love rivals.
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Apr 26, 2015 04:20
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:I love how deadpan the heroine is about all of this, this sort of humor really hits the right spot for me. I stopped reading the manga years ago, but I remember really liking Sakura. She's just so calm and has rather low-key reactions for a Rumiko Takahashi character, which makes her really weird.
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Apr 26, 2015 05:14
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Might have to get into this poo poo, if the over the top tsundere lead isn't rehashed I can deal with the inuyasha clone
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Apr 26, 2015 05:46
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Rinne is just some good chill retro times. Like if Rumiko Takahashi had written Bleach instead and it stayed as a low-key ghostbusting slice of life series.
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Apr 26, 2015 13:34
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I wish it were more retro, and by that I mean poofy hair for everyone. Decent enough show though.
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Apr 26, 2015 13:38
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:Might have to get into this poo poo, if the over the top tsundere lead isn't rehashed I can deal with the inuyasha clone Sakura isn't tsundere at all and Rinne isn't really an Inuyasha clone personality wise, he feels much more calm and mature than Inuyasha ever did. The narrator is also pretty fun.
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Apr 26, 2015 13:43
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Sounds good, it's also pretty amusing rumiko's self-insert is now hot grandma
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Apr 26, 2015 14:23
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This show is funny and good.
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Apr 26, 2015 22:00
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I am loving the retro artstyle and how subdued Sakura's reactions are. I'm following this. I haven't really read/seen much of Takahashi's works other than the occasional episode of Inuyasha, so what would be a good series to start off with? The OP says that Ranma 1/2 is pretty similar in tone, so I was thinking of looking at that first.
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Apr 27, 2015 02:16
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You should read all of Ranma 1/2 yes. I can't vouch much for the anime since I have only seen bits of the early stuff but I vaguely recall watching and enjoying the two movies after the manga too.
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Apr 27, 2015 02:18
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:Sounds good, it's also pretty amusing rumiko's self-insert is now hot grandma yours isn't?
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Apr 27, 2015 03:28
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Nondevor posted:I am loving the retro artstyle and how subdued Sakura's reactions are. I'm following this. Ranma's great. I prefer the manga to the anime, but the first couple seasons of the anime and the OVAs are pretty good. The first season has a super-catchy OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syd129Vla0Q It's the first anime OP that I could sing along to, back when I was even nerdier than I am now! Urusei Yatsura is also similar to Rinne in tone, but I'm not nearly as familiar with it. The second UY movie, Beautiful Dreamer, is great, though in ways that have little to do with Takahashi.
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Apr 27, 2015 03:42
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:Ranma's great. I prefer the manga to the anime, but the first couple seasons of the anime and the OVAs are pretty good. The first season has a super-catchy OP: This is so nostalgic. Ranma 1/2 is the first anime I ever watched, even before DBZ I think, and definitely the first thing I watched that I had to download on the computer. I remember downloading all the episodes in some really low quality Real Player format. I think I was in 7th or 8th grade when I watched them. I never finished the series because it sort of runs out of steam after the first 4-5 seasons, but those first several seasons are really funny and the show has a really good cast and core premise/gimmick. edit: Here is the music video for the best Ranma 1/2 OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeR1FleDTIA (My favorite part of that music video is where she has one of those 17th century white wigs and is conducting while standing in the middle of a bunch of people with Native American chief pictures for heads.) Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Apr 28, 2015 |
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Apr 28, 2015 01:43
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Ytlaya posted:This is so nostalgic. Ranma 1/2 is the first anime I ever watched, even before DBZ I think, and definitely the first thing I watched that I had to download on the computer. I remember downloading all the episodes in some really low quality Real Player format. I think I was in 7th or 8th grade when I watched them. I never finished the series because it sort of runs out of steam after the first 4-5 seasons, but those first several seasons are really funny and the show has a really good cast and core premise/gimmick. We might be the same person.
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Apr 28, 2015 02:46
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Nondevor posted:I am loving the retro artstyle and how subdued Sakura's reactions are. I'm following this. Ranma 1/2 is probably the most broadly entertaining thing she's ever done, it's just pure fun. I prefer the manga by a large margin but the first few seasons of the anime and the OVA/movies are pretty good. If you want a somewhat more serious romance from her then Maison Ikkoku is also really good and oddly easy to relate too. The anime adaption is good, but like the manga is 15 volumes while the anime is about 100 episodes long and out of print, so... Urusei Yatsura is Rumiko's first series and dated as poo poo at this point, but it's worth experiencing just to realize how many tropes and character types she basically invented that are still being run into the ground today. Beautiful Dreamers is the second movie and has pretty much nothing to do with the manga but it super trippy and worth checking out as a stand-alone experience. Inuyasha was Takahashi's first attempt at doing a long, semi-serious action adventure thing while still not plotting anything out in advance ever and is a huge sprawling repetitive mess I can't recommend to anyone. Don't even bother with it, seriously.
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Apr 28, 2015 04:47
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apparently lovely realplayer videos is how everyone watched ranma back in the good old days
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Apr 28, 2015 05:15
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I didn't actually see the anime for ages outside ads in front of my Disney tapes. Read the manga at the library all the time instead.
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Apr 28, 2015 05:17
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Ranma 1/2, along with Slam Dunk and Magic Knight Rayearth, will always occupy a special place in my dorky, adolescent years. Out of all her works, though, the two I dig the most are probably Maison Ikkoku and Mermaid Saga.
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Apr 28, 2015 05:26
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This is a fun show. Never really got into any of Takahashi's prior works, so her style's still kinda fresh to me. I enjoy how neither of the leads are particularly wacky in and of themselves, nor is even the plot all that ridiculous, but it's still impossible to forget it's a comedy based solely on the way it's framed.
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Apr 28, 2015 07:14
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Rin-Ne is just nice and relatively calm which is refreshing given everything. Heck even the dramatic stuff is ether played off as utterly silly (There's really no way to take someone in a rabbit costume punching someone wearing a dorky mask in the face seriously). Plus the fact that no one is a completely irredeemable arse like how everyone in Ranma is (Well maybe except Rinne's Dad) helps too. A long and extended gently caress you to Viz for loving up the digital distro for the manga though. ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 12:19 on Apr 28, 2015 |
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Apr 28, 2015 10:58
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That was a good episode today. There was some good character development for both of our lead characters, the introduction of the third member of our love triangle and 5th main cast member and a rather nice and bittersweet story with the ghost of that student. 
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Apr 29, 2015 22:25
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Hunh, you know I was dreading the introduction of the (what I've been told, anyway) inevitable 'rival' character, but I actually ended up pretty fond of the guy. He isn't half the tool I expected him to be. Really, the entire character cast has been likeable so far.
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Apr 30, 2015 05:15
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So we've got Miho as Ryouga with Miroku's face, and I would guess Scythe Girl is either Sango or Ukyo. That leaves Devil Boy as... Pantyhose Taro I guess and the other red headed guy in the op has to be Rinne's dad/probably the main villain. I actually really like this show but I wish I didn't see Takahashi's building blocks everywhere.
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Apr 30, 2015 05:42
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From (iirc) the chat thread a couple days ago, we have a British dub of the first couple episodes (or at least first + some other) of Urusei Yatsura: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRcxz1MSPd0 It's pretty great.
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Apr 30, 2015 20:22
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:That was a good episode today. Yeah, it was well done. We're getting into stuff that I haven't read in a good long while and don't remember all that well. I think I'm enjoying it more for that.
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Apr 30, 2015 20:58
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  The voice acting at this part killed me. I heard that in general Takahashi's rival characters were insufferable, but this guy is great for how much of a dweeb he is. Ryouga in Ramna 1/2 is also pretty funny, so I dunno.  I'd say this was a pretty fun episode. Especially because of the character development!
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Apr 30, 2015 23:31
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Actually, Takahashi's rival characters usually own!!
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Apr 30, 2015 23:32
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Anyone who tells you they're bad is a liar, and you shouldn't trust them...
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Apr 30, 2015 23:32
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Yeah, I thought something was off because I really like the rivals in Ranma 1/2 so far, even the minor ones. Just got to the part where Ranma and Akane have an ice skating battle with another school. Behold... the unbeatable dance of death  It's great.
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Apr 30, 2015 23:40
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There's something so unique about Takahashi's humor that's really coming out in spades here. It was kinda there in Inu Yasha (though I only watched that for like the first 40 eps) but I mostly remember the vibes from Ranma. I'm loving this show and it's really hitting all the right nostalgia points while being completely brand new.
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Apr 30, 2015 23:48
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Srice posted:Actually, Takahashi's rival characters usually own!! Agreed. They are all completely one-note and none of them ever learn a drat thing, but I still tend to like them more than her major characters.
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May 1, 2015 08:55
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This episode was weak, but still had some decent gags. "This episode" being the one that aired almost a week ago, that is.
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May 11, 2015 21:32
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Looks like we get to meet Devil Boy next week. Wasn't expecting the Damashinigami leader lady to be second in command to Totally Rinne's Dad though.
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May 13, 2015 18:46
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So this is our Pantyhose then.
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May 20, 2015 16:08
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