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The Movie: "Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer"
Where You Can Stream It: Crunchyroll, RetroCrush
The Pitch: Ataru is a horny teenage boy who wants to make out with every pretty woman he meets. Lum is a beautiful alien from outer space with lightning powers. Lum loves Ataru, but Ataru thinks Lum is annoying. So goes "Urusei Yatsura," one of the most popular anime series of the 1980s. Based on a comic by the queen of romantic comedy, Rumiko Takahashi, it ran for 194 episodes and launched the careers of many young animators and directors. The chief director of its first 106 episodes, Mamoru Oshii, would go on to direct such films as "Ghost in the Shell" and "Patlabor 2."
The strangest work...
The Movie: "Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer"
Where You Can Stream It: Crunchyroll, RetroCrush
The Pitch: Ataru is a horny teenage boy who wants to make out with every pretty woman he meets. Lum is a beautiful alien from outer space with lightning powers. Lum loves Ataru, but Ataru thinks Lum is annoying. So goes "Urusei Yatsura," one of the most popular anime series of the 1980s. Based on a comic by the queen of romantic comedy, Rumiko Takahashi, it ran for 194 episodes and launched the careers of many young animators and directors. The chief director of its first 106 episodes, Mamoru Oshii, would go on to direct such films as "Ghost in the Shell" and "Patlabor 2."
The strangest work...
- 1/24/2023
- by Adam Wescott
- Slash Film
Digital Media Rights (Dmr), a leading global distributor of movies and television programs, and publisher of popular Ott channels, today announces the launch of RetroCrush, a new digital channel, on March 30, 2020. Devoted to streaming classic anime TV and movies, including more than 100 series and 40 features at launch, RetroCrush will be available with new video-on-demand (VOD) apps on iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Roku and smart TVs, and on desktop at www.retrocrush.tv. RetroCrush joins Dmr’s expanding family of Ott channels that also includes AsianCrush, Midnight Pulp, YuyuTV and Cocoro.
RetroCrush is available now with popular anime titles from the 70s, 80s and 90s. It will be available as a free, ad-supported video on-demand (Avod) service. Will Chao and Mary Gibson are RetroCrush’s content curators, with Selin Kilic and John Stack providing acquisitions support. Remarked RetroCrush curator Will Chao:
What makes this channel exciting is its focus on...
RetroCrush is available now with popular anime titles from the 70s, 80s and 90s. It will be available as a free, ad-supported video on-demand (Avod) service. Will Chao and Mary Gibson are RetroCrush’s content curators, with Selin Kilic and John Stack providing acquisitions support. Remarked RetroCrush curator Will Chao:
What makes this channel exciting is its focus on...
- 3/31/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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