Quote:Interesting! I'd love to see a picture of her hair iridescing like that.
A lot of the early color work by Takahashi herself has "rainbow-like" green-yellow-blue ink washes on Lum's hair to try to pull it off with materials available at the time. It's why her hair highlights are so strange in the Anime as well. Pay particular attention to her hair in this clip (if you can access youtube.)
I think the animation studio that did Ranma 1/2 did the same thing to Shampoo's hair because "That's how Takahashi-sensei does exotic hair colors!"
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