A hundred and ninety four episodes that never reach the ending, six films, and a remake forty one years later.
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Watch this first if you are only ever going to watch one. Mamoru Oshii took the cast of a broad comedy and made a strange, quiet film about a town stuck in the day before a festival. It works with no knowledge of anything else, and it is nothing like the series.
The best way into the actual series now. Forty six episodes, newly animated, adapting the manga fresh. It re-does stories the old series covered and adds ones it skipped.
The original, and a hundred and ninety four episodes. Worth knowing before you commit: it stopped ten months before the manga did, so it has no ending. The 1988 film is where the story actually finishes.
Then what? The six films all belong to the 1981 series. Only You, Remember My Love and Lum the Forever slot in between television episodes, and The Final Chapter from 1988 is the conclusion the series never reached. A later film, Always My Darling, came in 1991. A set of short video releases also exists and sources disagree so badly about how many and when that none are listed here.
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