Lum
"DARLING NO BAKA!"
Urusei Yatsura (which roughly translates to "Those Annoying Aliens") hit the anime scene in 1981, after it became Rumiko Takahashi's first manga hit. The plot started when the Oni, an alien race, decided to take over the Earth--but not without giving the humans a fighting chance. If Earth's champion could touch their champion, Princess Lum, on her horns, then the planet would be left alone. Earth's champion turned out to be high school student and all around pervert Ataru Moroboshi. His solution? Steal Lum's top and force her to choose between her modesty or her horns. Ataru wins and the Earth is safe, but through a misunderstanding with Ataru, his girlfriend, and Lum, the latter thinks she's been proposed to. She accepts, and now Ataru is stuck with a very powerful alien who electrocutes him when he looks at other women...but is devoted to him nonetheless.
Urusei Yatsura, for many American anime fans who were first exposed to the genre in the 1980s (like myself), is a classic. It also set up Takahashi's tendency towards romance manga/anime where the male and female start off as antagonists, grow to love each other, and the male gets the hell beat out of him (admittedly he usually deserves it). She would reuse the premise for Ranma 1/2 and Inu-Yasha. It's rather obscure now, because its popularity peaked long before the "anime wave" hit the US in the late 90s.
Therefore I was pretty surprised to see Lum at ACen 2016. The fact that her costume is pretty much just a tiger-striped bikini might be dissuading as well. Nonetheless, it was good to see the "old school" represented, and this cosplayer really did a fine job on ol' Lum.
Lum
"DARLING NO BAKA!"
Urusei Yatsura (which roughly translates to "Those Annoying Aliens") hit the anime scene in 1981, after it became Rumiko Takahashi's first manga hit. The plot started when the Oni, an alien race, decided to take over the Earth--but not without giving the humans a fighting chance. If Earth's champion could touch their champion, Princess Lum, on her horns, then the planet would be left alone. Earth's champion turned out to be high school student and all around pervert Ataru Moroboshi. His solution? Steal Lum's top and force her to choose between her modesty or her horns. Ataru wins and the Earth is safe, but through a misunderstanding with Ataru, his girlfriend, and Lum, the latter thinks she's been proposed to. She accepts, and now Ataru is stuck with a very powerful alien who electrocutes him when he looks at other women...but is devoted to him nonetheless.
Urusei Yatsura, for many American anime fans who were first exposed to the genre in the 1980s (like myself), is a classic. It also set up Takahashi's tendency towards romance manga/anime where the male and female start off as antagonists, grow to love each other, and the male gets the hell beat out of him (admittedly he usually deserves it). She would reuse the premise for Ranma 1/2 and Inu-Yasha. It's rather obscure now, because its popularity peaked long before the "anime wave" hit the US in the late 90s.
Therefore I was pretty surprised to see Lum at ACen 2016. The fact that her costume is pretty much just a tiger-striped bikini might be dissuading as well. Nonetheless, it was good to see the "old school" represented, and this cosplayer really did a fine job on ol' Lum.