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I find Lum cutesy. I tried getting into the 1981 anime, but I stopped after episode 6 because the whole thing felt too mean-spirited (and this is coming from someone who's more accepting of SpongeBob's more infamously mean-spirited moments, as well as Disney's Chicken Little). Maybe I'll share my thoughts on that old Urusei Yatsura thread you made. :-P

Word on finding Lum cutesy, I remember seeing her in a YouTube thumbnail for an episode of the BBC dub, which was how I first got into UY. The manga is really good and really funny from what I've read so far, don't think either anime has caught its exact comedic energy.

Also out of curiosity, which Spongebob episodes would you consider as examples of mean spiritedness?

For the SpongeBob episodes, it's things like "One Coarse Meal" and "Stuck in the Wringer"(and some others) that have the subject others' ire... not so much me, though.