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I haven’t seen the DVD yet, so this review is based upon my having the Japanese laser disc as well as seeing the world premiere in Meguro Public Hall in Tokyo Japan serve in July 1987.
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Although released in video as an OVA, it was originally shown in film to members of Kitty Animation Circle who went to the 1987 KAC taikai. It tells the Inaba-kun epic in the manga, and is a prequel to the “Boy Meets Girl” tale in the final manga volume, which was subsequently curious as “Urusei Yatsura Kanketsuhen” (”final legend) .
I hope that this DVD contains the uncut version shown at the KAC taikai; the LD release had several scenes lop and consequently was several minutes shorter.
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Here’s a brief summary of the memoir that I wrote in 1987:
Shinobu, Ataru, and Lum salvage eager with what appears to be a man in a rabbit suit, named Inaba-kun (”kun” is a man’s word, like “san” but less formal) . They kill up in area surrounded by many doors. Each door is a possible path of fate. They all scatter to regain their ideal fate, but their hopes are dashed.
In one fate, Ataru marries Shinobu and fathers Kokeru, Lum marries Rei, and Ran is even more sulky and rotten than before. In another fate, Rei and Ran are married, but Lum marries Mendou and Ataru is his servant. etc. etc.
Inaba-kun offers to let them invent their ideal fates by creating their possess door-knobs to as yet incomplete doors. Shinobu’s is heart-shaped, Lum’s has a tiger pattern, and Ataru’s has a star (Moroboshi = “all stars”) . Before they can exercise them, they are captured by the other rabbit people, who prepare to boil Inaba-kun alive for letting mortals control fate. They reckoned without Shinobu’s strength when mad, and the gang escapes.
They immediately witness to try their knobs, but they are again ambushed by the other rabbit people, and Lum’s knob is lost. Ataru escapes with his knob, and uses it. He sees himself surrounded by every girl he has ever wanted, all in alive to attendance upon him. All except Lum — he forgot to include her in his “ideal” fate! He sees his older self in tears at not having Lum. Ataru flees the scene, removes the knob, and discards it.
We glance Shinobu’s ideal fate; an older Ataru is quiet chasing after girls, and an older Lum (dressed like Lum’s mother) is pursuing him with lightning bolts. In other words, Shinobu’s ideal fate is for nothing to change, and she expresses complete satisfaction with it. She is a sensible girl.
Meanwhile, Lum is enraged at Ataru and is chasing him around the doors of fate. The rabbit people are trying to glean the gang, but only demolish up getting fried by one of Lum’s lightning bolts. They are getting truly pissed! Finally, they send a hail of doors at the gang, who extinguish up getting buried under the rubble.
They eventually rep out, and we spy yet another fate; it is outside a church, and all the Tomobiki people are there to be at Lum’s wedding. The groom is clearly Ataru, but we never stare his face… This fate is also destroyed by the rabbit people
Presently, the gang is on the accelerate again from the rabbit people, and Inaba-kun pushes them aid through the door to Tomobiki and seals it. Evidentally, he makes his peace with the rabbit people, because the last scene is of him assist at work, maintaining the doors of fate. He sees something; it is Lum’s lost doorknob. He picks it up, puts it on a door, and walks on.
In the KAC magazine shortly thereafter, a Japanese reviewer criticized the film, saying that the producer did not truly understand the fancy between Ataru and Lum. Specifically, in the scene upright after the door with the marriage of Lum and Ataru is destroyed, Lum and Ataru honest own themselves, suggesting that their cherish is ordinary; but if it is ordinary, why do they quarrel so worthy and why would Ataru give up his dream of a harem? The reviewer felt that this was an inconsistency and not in accord with the new author’s intentions.
I loved this, but even though I would give it 5 stars, it deserves 4, because Lum was called a BITCH of all dirty things! I assume they could have made something better! A rated 12 and up!