From: moakler@remus.rutgers.edu (bam!)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Urusei Yatsura popularity
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:46:23 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <1992Apr7.054334.3966@athena.mit.edu> pckyip@athena.mit.edu (Patrick C Yip) writes:

> >A core character is a character that appears more than once?  Huh?
> >No, the core character list for UY is less than 20.  You'd need 20 or
> >so stories to cover them all, and that's counting two-parters as separate
> >stories.
> >
> >Let's see:
> >	Ataru		Shinobu		Ataru's Parents
> >	Lum		Rei		Lum's Parents
> >	Megane and Co.	Mendo		Ryoko
> >	Ryunosuke	her dad		Onsen-Mark
> >	Benten		Ran		Oyuki
> >	Sakura		Cherry		the Crow princess
> >	Jari-Ten	Inaba-Kun
> >
> >20 exact, and I KNOW I'm stretching it.

You're missing a few.
> Where is Sakura's fiance? He appeared in many stories too.

Tsubame is definately a core character.
> And the three brats, Ginger, Pepper and Sugar? They were in the main role
>  in quite a few stories..
The Sukeban Group, probably the only girls in the series that were
inherently losers.
> And Megane's brother and parents? (oops forget his name, thebaseball Samurai)
These people are no relation to Megane.  Tobimaru, his sister Asuka,
and their very strange mother and henpecked father are a family that
rivals Mendo in wealth

> And Shingou, Mendou's secret bodyguard?
He doesn't show up until very late in the series.
> And Ataru's buddies in the class? (one of them with spots on his
face)
Kosuke only appears in the manga.  In the anime, he is replaced by Megane.
> And Ryunosuke's opposite, the boy who's just like a girl? (I keep forgetting
>  male's names :p)
Nagisa.
> And the principal? Kotatsu Neko (effectively the vice-principal)?
> And other teachers besides Onsen-Mark appeared occasionally too.
Not frequently enough to be considered anything close to main characters.
> And there are Mendo's dad, Ten's mother and ....
Mendo's mother, too, but she never speaks.
> as more than one stories, you have Karla and her finace (his name?)
Karla and Lupa.  I don't think they would  have shown up again just
because they were in a long storyline.  Ninja Kaede had an early long
storyline devoted to her and she never returned.
> There are more than 30!!!!
Kitsune-chan
Souban

> BTW Crow princess is Kurama hime. (I remember only beautiful female's names,
>  see how perverted I am :p)

Next on Donahue! Men who lust after comic-book characters! 8-)

> I think THIS is the main reason why UY couldn't catch on here. Although
> UY is such a rich and fascinating universe, anime fans here effectively know
> only the 5 movies that have been subtitled and that tiny portion of manga
> that were translated. And people don't know the real stuff, having not read
> the main stuff in the manga (that early part of manga really doesn't tell much
> about what the manga's like in its mature stage). 

 What do you mean, only 5 movies?  How many other series have "only"
five movies?  There are also a whole bunch of OAVs out there.  And who
needs subtitles anyway whane you can just ask the net for stuff 8-)

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