![]() Hikaru Shindo is like any sixth-grader in Japan: a pretty normal school boy with a two-tone head of hair and a penchant for antics. Together, Sai continues to search for the move people call "the god's hand" while Hikaru slowly began an interest in this ancient game and walks down the road of go. From inside the board came an old spirit named Sai who once dedicated his life to go. But there are plenty of old series I would like to see revived, so I’ll still be rooting for Urusei Yatsura to succeed commercially.A regular school boy, Hikaru Shindo stumbles upon an old go board while looking through his grandpa's old storage room for something worth money. From the beginning I’ve never really understood why this series specifically was chosen for a long reboot – there certainly didn’t seem to be a clamor for it – and if I was hoping the premiere would remind me, it really didn’t. And there’s gonna be four cours of it too (split down the middle), hogging a year’s worth of NoitaminA schedule space. It’s just a matter of not being a fan of what’s being adapted. I don’t remember the original that well but I feel like this is more or less on par with it as an adaptation so far. Pretty much everything here is fine – the visuals, the pacing, the BGM. The rest of the casting, including Uesaka Sumire as Lum, is perfectly fine. I never much liked Kamiya’s camp persona and he doesn’t work at all for me here. It’s ironic that David Productions cast the seiyuu who played Ataru and Lum in the original as their parents this time (a nice move), but cast a guy almost (well, almost almost) as old as Ataru. There are some things I would change – starting with the casting of Kamiya Hiroshi as Ataru. I don’t think it’s anything the remake does wrong, especially, so much as a function of not being that nuts for the material itself. I think she got better as a writer, as indeed most long-tenured mangaka do, and Urusei is just not that great.Īs such, I found this premiere to be just so-so. But it’s not my favorite Rumiko by a long shot – that would be her somewhat more serious Inuyasha (the original, not the trash sequel) – and even in hard comedy mode I preferred Ranma 1/2. As a pure gag anime and a relic of its time, it’s perfectly tolerable. I didn’t find the original all that funny. ![]() Ultimately, there’s one thing more than any other that colors my reaction to this reboot of Urusei Yatsura, and it’s this. ![]()
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