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MyLumx01 - Rumiko Takahashi

Perhaps Lum is the most difficult character for me to understand… I felt very tense drawing Lum on this occaision. Drawing her face was especially difficult. I created her before I debuted. She was a character from a short story I considered doing at the time. When I first drew her, I took good care of her hairstyles and the shape of her skeleton.-laughs- Since then, a lot of people have loved her for a long time and I really appreciate it. I owe her my success. Had it not been for her, what would have become of me…-laughs- On the other hand Lum is the most difficult character for me to understand in "Urusei", as I feel rather sympathetic towards characters that are twisted or complicated. So, characters that are free and straight like Lum are more difficult for me to understand. It was also Lum who taught me that even in your own manga, you can find some characters that are not like you. With the publication of the shinsoban, I hope those of you who are new to Lum also support her and me. -Rumiko Takahashi

MyLumx02 - Mitsuru Adachi

As an old Japanese proverb goes, “A wise falcon (Taka) hides its talons,” but in the case of wise Taka (hashi) … I read through UY again and found it interesting that she already displayed her wide-range of talents here and there for which I later admired her. I did not notice when the series originally ran since gag manga attracted my attention at the time. My hero Tatsuya Uesugi was sold to a baseball club from a boxing club for a piece of cardboard on which Lum-chan was drawn. If such stupid stories created by a foolish creator have been loved by everyone for over twenty years, it is because the heroine, Lum-chan, is still brilliantly shining over manga history. Thankfully, -Mitsuru Adachi

MyLumx09 - Kazuhiro Fujita

Love, Love Song Because Lum never abandons Ataru, I like her. Because her thighs are 1.5 times wider than her calves and very sexy, I like her. Because she never gives her brilliant smile to anybody, I like her. Because Lum gets so angry that she does not look like a heroine, I like her. Because Lum’s lightning is so cool and fun, I like her. I like the way she sits cross-legged in the air when she is drunk. I like the way she treats Ran-chan. Love Love. Lum never abandons us stupid guys. And I like Rumiko Takahashi-sensei very much, as she said, “I’m wondering if there is anything more amusing than drawing manga?” -Kazuhiro Fujita

MyLumx12 - Ryoichi Ikegami

When Rumiko Takahashi made her debut, my blood froze, she was a new threat on the scene. I felt Takahashi-san was drawing in the rising new genre of the romantic-comedy, which cornered my more orthodox gekiga style. Nowadays that genre's charm and beauty hasn't abated in the slightest, and in fact has continued to evolve. Takahashi-san, the genius female mangaka once told me, "I've been a fan of your work for quite awhile, Ikegami-san," and I'll be honest I didn't really believe her. At that time all my work had been fairly dark.... but... curiously enough, it didn't matter to her. However she was able to discuss in detail the gekiga stories she had read, and wasn't just saying it. This has been my secret pride for many years, maybe one of the things I'm most proud of in my life. Hooray for Rumiko Takahashi, the genius female mangaka!! -Ryoichi Ikegami

MyLumx22 - Junji Ito

The thing about Takahashi-sensei's characters is that they were very fresh. In those days, physically, female characters in manga were depicted as the male ideal in very concrete terms- a kind and tender girl who was like a protective mother-figure, or conversely one who had an unyielding spirit, the motherly-type who would preach at a man, or perhaps a girl who was not good with words and was very dependant upon men. These kind of women who were created from the perspective of men were quite prominent. And then came Takahashi-sensei's women, who didn't fit that mold and seemed as real as true flesh and blood women. They could fly into a rage or become jealous. If she were not a woman, I don't think she would be able to so accurately depict what is in the hearts of her female characters. After that, our concept of the "ideal woman" suddenly seemed old-fashioned and out of date. Lum-chan and Kyoko Otonashi-san are both very fresh and charming characters. When Lum-chan fell in love with Ataru-kun, I was so envious, and in those days I was truly in love with Kyoko-san. I was quite the fool for them back then. Which brings me to my drawing, and how I wanted to try to depict Lum-chan… ah, perhaps something like that seems trite. -Junji Ito