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IM GOING FERAL

CHUUUU!!!!!! ⚡⚡⚡

#lum invader #lum #ataru #ataru moroboshi #atalum #urusei yatsura #うる星やつら #lum x ataru #IM SO #AAAAAAAAA

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YUME ART YUME ART

You make me feel spring...💗

#urusei yatsura #うる星やつら #atalum #ataru moroboshi #lum invader #AAAAAAAA #SO CUTEEEEE #THE COLOR SCHEME TOO AAAAAAAAAA

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AAAHAGSHJAGUWNSHABW

I LUV IT SM ITS SO CUTE N PRETTY I WANT TO EAT UR STYLE UP

also it’s no problem I’m happy to give tips/help anytime !! You’re literally one of the sweetest moots ever

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This one is a little present for @fricchead for being so kind for giving me a lesson on her rendering process; once again, thank you so much!! (　^ω^)

#AAAAAAAAA #TYSM #SHES SO PRETTY #I FEEL SO HONORED #one day I wanna make u a gift too #literally such a great thing to open the app to #urusei yatsura #lum invader

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Guys idk why tumblr always makes my art blurry, maybe it’s because of the canvas size ?? If anyone has a clue or tips pls feel free to let me know !!

「ダーリン大好きだっちゃ！」

I wanted to get this done near the end of the show because I had this idea in mind for a while, but idk what got me the urge to get this done now

Close up version too !!

#sorry for the bad quality #idk why they look grainy/blurry on here #they look fine on other platforms :(

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「ダーリン大好きだっちゃ！」

I wanted to get this done near the end of the show because I had this idea in mind for a while, but idk what got me the urge to get this done now

Close up version too !!

#urusei yatsura #lum invader #うる星やつら #atalum #lum x ataru #lumtaru #im so tired #was gonna draw Ataru too but maybe another time #:3

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PAIN.

I HATE THIS GAME OF EMOTIONS WE PLAY

#this hit the jugular #CRIED FOR A THIRD VARIATION DAMN #MY LIL GUY #urusei yatsura #ataru moroboshi #if Ataru has no fans left it means I’m dead

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Why is my Mirai Nikki phase starting to come back…

Future Diary Light Novel (thoughts/ short TL)

It’s common for light novels to receive manga or anime adaptations in order to introduce the series to a wider public. What’s not so common is for the reverse to happen, though with a series as popular as Future Diary was back in the early 2010’s, it’s only natural that a light novel was among the many adaptations it received. Said adaptation was released in 2012 and written by the author Itou Nobuki (who, according to his MAL profile, hasn’t worked on any other piece). The light novel was divided into two books, and each chapter contains unique artwork done by Masahiko Yoshihara. The art is also the only different/new thing the light novel adds to this series. 

The general consensus on the light novel is that it’s a retelling of the manga, which other than giving you a little more insight on the characters’ thoughts, doesn’t add anything new. I decided to give it a read to confirm this myself, and… I have things to say (spoilers for the LN ahead… and Future Diary too, duh).

First and foremost, the notion that the light novel adds nothing new is mostly correct, save for the prologue and epilogue. The prologue introduces the reader to ““Deus,”” who is experiencing some form of memory loss and is now being guided by MurMur through the Akashic Records to remember the events of the Survival Game. The novel then goes over the events we already know from the series all the way up to 9th’s death… where it suddenly ends. Yes, the novel ends with 9th’s death and jumps straight to the epilogue, where ““Deus”” informs the reader that he cannot recall the events after that, because it physically hurts him to remember.

That’s when we get the revelation that this isn’t Deus we’re dealing with, but Yukiteru, who has taken on Deus’ role after winning the Survival Game. Apparently, he’s experiencing problems with his memory similar to Yuno’s due to the trauma of losing her, so to further help Yukiteru remember the ending of the Survival Game, MurMur gives him Yuno’s diary, from which he gathers the final details. From there on, the events carry out similar to Redial, where the last entry in Yukiteru’s diary gets rewritten to “Yuno’s coming to see me.” Yuno then magically appears and it’s happily ever after and blah blah blah…

While I found the prologue and epilogue to be insightful in terms of giving us more details about the ending, I was pretty confused that the novel left out the most crucial aspects of the story. Everything from episode 22 and on from the anime (or the last two volumes of the manga), which includes: Yukiteru killing his friends, Yukiteru finding out that the dead cannot be revived, Happy End, time loop plot twist (which is the pillar the story is built upon btw), the final battle between Yukiteru, Yuno and the 9th… and the list goes on. If someone who hasn’t read the manga or watched the anime read this as a stand-alone piece, they’d be left scratching their heads at the epilogue. 

The novel makes you raise all the questions that would lead to the eventual plot twist, simply to end with said questions unanswered. And if you think this is weird, it’s because it is. The author himself acknowledges this on the author’s notes at the end of the novel. He explains that the light novel was set out to be a two-parter from the very beginning, meaning he couldn’t extend it to fit all aspects from the manga. Which is understandable; however, he deliberately chose to end it with 9th’s death because he "wanted to leave the story at its climax for the epilogue."

Look, I understand this man was working with what he was given, but if he really wanted to blue-ball the audience, he could’ve at least tried to fit the revelation of the time loop before cutting to the epilogue. You know, so the story actually makes some sense? The epilogue casually mentions the second and third world as if it's something that's been brought up before, when this is the first and only time it's mentioned. Anyway, I’m going off on a rant here. I’m very particular about pacing and structure in writing, so seeing something like this really grinds my gears (especially since I wanted to see the events from the final episodes novelized).

With that out of the way, I did translate a little bit of the light novel since there’s no official translation out there, namely the prologue, chapter 1 and the epilogue. I’m not planning on translating the rest of the novel since it’s basically a retelling, but I did find those parts to be interesting enough to translate, given that the prologue and epilogue delve into Yukiteru’s ten thousand years of solitude. 

Now that I have my little rant/ translation projects of the week out of the way, I’ll go back my cave ~

#future diary #mirai nikki #anime #the future diary #yuno gasai #amano yukiteru #it’s slowly creeping back #kinda wanna draw fanart now

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THIS IS SO CUTE I NEED THIS PUBLICIZED RN

How do you imagine that Ataru and Lum's relationship progressed immediately after the ending? Did things stay the same? Ataru still chasing other girls?

Hai there, hope you're doing great!!

Okok, since you've asked I'll be glad to share my post-boy meets girl headcanons!!

First up is Ataru, I think Ataru will still womanize even after the finale, I feel like it's still too early for him to let go of that habit. But that won't mean that there won't be any change. I feel like Ataru would a bit more open about how he feels about Lum, like he won't be like "What do you mean? I don't like you!" but would instead be like "yeah, yeah, you know how I feel about you..". Naturally, he won't say 'I love you' but he'll show it, for example: sometimes he'll be the one who brings up a date or sometimes he casually hold hands or hugs Lum randomly, you know a little bit of flirting to show that he does love her. I feel like the reason for this change would be because he doesn't want Lum to get the idea that he doesn't love her (like in boy meets girl) and do anything stupid to split them apart, but naturally, he keeps this thought to himself..

As for Lum, she'll still electrocute him if he cheats but like I said with Ataru, there is change. Since Ataru's been more open now, she wouldn't be scheming to get him to show his love but instead she'll be scheming to make him say 'I love you' (the final page has her promise that she'll do it). Ataru, being Ataru, will try many roundabout ways to avoid saying it. Lum also appreciates Ataru's flirting and gets really excited and happy when he does.. and may even go for cheek kisses and such to show her happiness, which gets him flustered. Most of the people in Tomobiki just watch them and agree that they are fit for the other since they're both idiots made for each other.

And that's about it I think! Basically, they don't change too much but there is some great progress in their relationship!!

#urusei yatsura #lum #ataru moroboshi #atalum #shinobu miyake #AAAAAAAA #PLSSSSSSS

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Dream Doors 🚪 💗

Finally got this done in time for the new ep :D

(Also sorta a remake of the old drawing I made)

#urusei yatsura #ataru moroboshi #lum invader #atalum #うる星やつら #lumtaru #lum x ataru #ataru x lum #LITERALLY WAS SPEEDING TO GET THIS DONE #i need to draw in the reboot style more

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AAAAA GLAD YOU GOT IT, YES ITS MY FAV UY MOVIE OF ALL TIME TOO

Was supposed to be drawing today but stuff happened and now I'm not in the mood so I guess I'll be watching UY movie 5..

#urusei yatsura #atalum #lum invader #ataru moroboshi #YAYAYAY

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THIS IS SO PRETTY

Yuno🔪🩸

#mirai nikki #yuno gasai #future diary #fanart #AAAAAAA #LOWKEY feel my Mirian Nikki phase coming back #GRET ART OP

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Omg after long awaited years we have a translationnnn

ALSO THIS PART LMAOOOO

Future Diary Radio TL

Here’s the (long time coming) update on the Future Diary Radio CDs! I’m sorry it took so long to finish this project, as always, school has me on a chokehold, but I’m glad to say the translations are finally done! In case you missed the original post, the Future Diary Radio CDs are an obscure piece of media from Future Diary that include commentary from some of the show’s voice actors, regarding their experiences voicing the characters and opinions about the series. You can now find the three tracks with the translated subtitles on my Youtube channel (daisynilla) or on the links down below. Special thanks to @iwanpepsu, @syrpai and @the-chosen-blood-teller for helping me gather the tracks from the radio CDs.

And on a semi-related note, I also wanted to use this post to comment on a couple of things that came up while doing research for this project.

1. In all of the three Radio CDs, the voice actors mention something about a live concert that happened at Shibuya AX on July 29th. I'm not sure how well-known this concert and the music featured in it are among the fandom, but given how much it is talked about in the radio CDs (and how much information I gathered on it incidentally), I figure I should make a separate post dedicated to that. Especially because of… this: 

2. On one of the Radio CDs, there was a mention of the DVD cast commentaries done by the Japanese voice actors. I don't own the DVD, but I was accidentally sent the audio for these Japanese cast commentaries in response to my last post about the Radio CDs. For my sanity’s sake, I’m not translating this, (I feel like the radio CDs are a good enough stand-in for the cast commentaries) but given its mention, I wanted to provide some of the context surrounding it. Like your regular cast commentaries on any DVD’s bonus features, the voice actors share their comments of the show as they watch the episodes. The order of the voice actors featured in each episode goes as follows:

Episodes 1-2: feature commentary from Misuzu Togashi (Yukki’s VA) and Tomosa Murata (Yuno’s VA).

Episodes 3-5: Aizawa Mai (Minene’s VA, ps her voice is so high it caught me off guard), Kawahara Yoshihisa (12th’s VA) and Sendai Eri (Tsubaki’s VA).

Episodes 6-8: Sanada Asami (Reisuke’s VA) and Mizuhara Kaoru (Rea’s VA).

Episodes 9-11: Ishida Akira (Akise’s VA), Matsuoka Yuki (Hinata’s VA) and Hiramatsu Hirokazu (10th’s VA).

Episodes 12-14: Ishii Makoto (Nishijima’s VA) and Tanaka Masahiko (Kurusu’s VA).

Episodes 15-17: Seki Tomokazu (Marco’s VA) and Kuwatani Natsuko (Ai’s VA).

Episodes 18-20: Yukana (Mao’s VA) and Shiraishi Minoru (Kousaka’s VA).

Episodes 21-23: Inada Tetsu (Ryuji’s VA, aka 11th’s secretary) and Konno Hiromi (8th’s VA).

Episodes 24-26: Domon Jin (3rd’s VA) and Honda Manami (MurMur’s VA).

(Also, I'm pretty sure the English version of the DVD includes cast commentaries too, but I don't know if those are the Japanese cast commentaries with translated subtitles or if it's commentary from the American cast… probably the latter, but I guess I’ll have to look a little deeper into that.)

#mirai nikki #future diary #the future diary #mirai nikki translations #OMG FINALLY #TYSM FOR THIS

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見合いコワし- (Deranged Marriage)

Wanted to try a new style/rendering method, inspired mainly by @NineV_ . Some parts look unfinished, but I’m still trying to get a hang of it

(The progress was posted on my Twitter if anyone is interested in checking out !! I had started working on this since last year then completely forgot about it lol)

#urusei yatsura #ataru moroboshi #lum invader #atalum #うる星やつら #lumtaru #FINALLY DONE

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Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️💓

The end product is kinda rushed but I really wanted to post this by today

#urusei yatsura #ataru moroboshi #lum invader #atalum #うる星やつら #lumtaru #lum x ataru #ataru x lum

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Hai Fricc!! Hope you're doing great!!! 🌹

So, I had randomly decided that I'd send you an ask and if you don't mind, I have 3 questions for you:

1) Who are your favorite UY characters (asides from the obvious Ataru and Lum)?

2) What are the funniest moments in the series to you? And..

3) What are you looking forward to the most in the remake?

Hope you'll answer them X3

OMG HIHIHIIII

I luv luv luv getting asks so I’m glad you reached out !!

1. Fav characters besides Lum and Ataru ?? Aaaaa I would have to go with the big three:

RAN: she’s so fockin funny and her personality switch up is my fav and not to mention her character design is BEAUTIFUL like I feel like if you saw a pic of Ran without knowing any of the characters you would think she’s the main protagonist

SHINOBU: it’s crazy how Shinobu was originally the main character alongside Ataru before Lum was (I know she was robbed from the spotlight and her man but STILL) and I love how insane hers and Lum’s rivalry was like holy shit I felt so bad for Shinobu. But as the series progressed I’m glad the two became friends and the awkward tension between the three characters died down (Shinobu, Lum, and Ataru). I also luv how much of a sweet heart and has such a gentle voice, but could flip a bus if she needed to AND be beating TF out of men 10x her size.

2. Okay funniest moments aaaaaa I would say there’s too many to count but I think one would be the time where Lum was training to fight this bully without her powers to prove to a underclassmen like “you can do anything if you put your mind to it.” And Lum arm wrestles Ataru and just completely fails and when Mendo gets a turn she just SHOCKS THE SHIT OUTTA HIM

Another would be the time with the gossiping flowers, and everyone thinks Mendo wet the bed when he was younger when it was actually Lum and she just LEAVES HIM OUT TO DRY AND TAKE THE BLAME. Wait now that I realize it these are just when Mendo gets hurt by Lum, I PROMISE I DONT DISLIKE MENDO AT ALL IT’S JUST FUNNY

3. Moments I’m most excited for the show, look I know Urusei Yatsura isn’t only about Atalum and I like the episodes we’re getting but CMONNN. WE’RE GETTING SO MUCH ATALUM CENTERED EPISODES AND IM SO SO SO EXCITED IM EATING PLYWOOD. Particularly very happy to see the Inaba arc (finally Shinobu gets a good man even though it’s kinda rushed) and the Boy Meets Girl ending AAAAAAAAA IDC IF ITS THE SAME SCENES WE’VE SEEN TWICE ALREADY IM ENJOYING EVERY MINUTE OF IT.

But Tysm Yume for the ask !! I could go on for hours talking about this series bc I’m literally in UY BRAINROT but I hope you have a GUD dayyy 💗💗💗

#urusei yatsura #ataru moroboshi #lum invader #うる星やつら #shinobu miyake #ran #shutaro mendo #Fricc Asks

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Clingy~

Don’t have much of a caption but yayayaya

#urusei yatsura #ataru moroboshi #lum invader #atalum #うる星やつら #lumtaru #lum x ataru #ataru x lum

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I LOVE FHIS SO SO MUCHHHH

swap au 😳

#ataru moroboshi #lum invader #urusei yatsura #AAAAAAA #NEED TO DRAW THIS ONE DAY