Urusei Yatsura

Not much is notable about the lecherous Ataru Moroboshi, but his extraordinary bad luck sticks out like the horns in an alien's head. When Earth is threatened by a fleet of alien invaders known as the Oni, Ataru is selected to represent humanity in a duel against one of them. It is a stroke of rare luck for Ataru that the duel is in fact a game of tag, and that his opponent is Lum, daughter of the Oni's leader, who places her personal dignity above victory—as Ataru finds out by seizing Lum's bikini top and with it, victory.

However, misfortune kicks in again when Lum mistakes Ataru's promise to marry his girlfriend, Shinobu Miyake, as the desire to wed Lum herself, and decides she rather likes the idea. Wielding her influence as an alien princess, she moves in with him. Forced to deal with the consequences of his womanizing ways, Ataru must balance his crumbling relationship with Shinobu while keeping Lum happy, all the while flirting with every woman he meets.

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Lum Main

Hirano, Fumi Japanese

Moroboshi, Ataru Main

Furukawa, Toshio Japanese

Mendou, Shuutarou Main

Kamiya, Akira Japanese

Miyake, Shinobu Main

Shimazu, Saeko Japanese

Ran Supporting

Komiya, Kazue Japanese

Fujinami, Ryuunosuke Supporting

Tanaka, Mayumi Japanese

Sakura Supporting

Washio, Machiko Japanese

Sakuranbou Supporting

Nagai, Ichiro Japanese

Satoshi Supporting

Chiba, Shigeru Japanese

Ten Supporting

Sugiyama, Kazuko Japanese

Oshii, Mamoru Co-Director, Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard

Nunokawa, Yuuji Producer

Hasegawa, Hiroshi Producer

Yamazaki, Kazuo Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Key Animation, Animation Director

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Nov 1, 2023

AverageRiceFan

Recommended

Urusei Yatsura is just a really fun and hilarious anime and I don’t have much to say unlike a lot of other anime. For an anime adaptation of Rumikos first manga, it was really well done. Lum is a really solid and cute character, Atari starts off annoying but becomes a better character later on, Shinobu is awesome and she’s one of my favorites, oyuki, Benten, ran, Ryunosuke, and the other girls I love, Mendo is really funny, and I really like ton. Really the only character I didn’t like was Ryunosukes dad. The songs are bops and I listen to them regularly, and there’s ... really no story, it’s just a fun episodic series that’s hard to hate. Urusei Yatsura is really good and I highly recommend it, especially if you like stuff like ranma, or any of rumikos works really

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Oct 22, 2023

cinnapupp

Recommended

This is the one you should be watching. Disregard the Remake entirely.



SOME SPOILERS AHEAD
Although they really don’t matter much in an anime like this.




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Urusei Yatsura for what it is, it is a great anime. Funny with a colorfully cynical cast with the only difference being the beautiful Lum. The synopsis describes episode one but what the rest of the anime is, is about Lum and Ataru living together and having lots of wacky adventures. As they get closer and start to care for each other more and more, even if it doesn’t seem like it. It’s small changes from episode 10 the end of the series. Starting out from hating Lum to never wanting her to leave.

It’s really a romantic comedy to the fullest extent and the best episodes are the concept episodes (ex. And then there were none) and the episodes featuring Lum and Ataru’s relationship (I.e After You've gone).

Funnier than the manga with the addition of Perm, Chibi, Megane, and Kakugari. If there were antagonist to the anime besides the teacher, Mendo would be my next candidate. He’s a very funny yet disturbed guy obsessed with Lum (like half of the cast). It’s a fun time and meant to be watched overtime, the flaws of this anime is that it is very repetitive and adapts some chapters out of order.

The soundtrack is one of the best I’ve heard and the animation picks up after episode 50. I’d recommend skipping some episodes though, specifically Ten episodes. 8/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 19, 2023

Szandor

Mixed Feelings

Funny

Preliminary (22/195 eps)

It's kinda hard, to be honest, to watch this show after watching "Ranma ½". Clearly they have a lot in common, but Ranma does just about everything a bit better. So why do I think that this show isn't worthy of a higher score? Well...

-- Story & Writing
The overall story is simple, but I have not real issues with it. It serves as a good starting point for building the rest of the show up and there is nothing inherently bad with a simple premise. I do find the episodes lacking though and often they feel disconnected to the main story. Also, there doesn't seem ... to be much progression in the main story and while I can understand that this has advantages when writing individual chapters or episodes I quickly grow bored as the story never seems to move forward.

-- Characters & Acting
Characters vary a lot. There are some interesting characters that are fun and engaging, but most characters--including the main characters--are unfortunately lacking quite a bit. Especially the MC is a one-dimensional person with few likable traits. Many times it seems like the characters are blank canvases to simply put a story into, but since the stories are generally not too great it kinda falls flat.

-- Animation & Style
This is an early anime with a lot of inspiration from the drawing style of the time. It adds a charm to the show and while it's certainly not a masterpiece in any way I can't really fault it. The animation is okay and I've seen much worse, but it's clearly not a high quality product.

-- Music & Sound
Gotta say that "Lum's Love Song" is an absolute banger. Apart from that the music and sound is servicable and not really something you would consider either great or bad.

-- Conclusion
I can recommend this to people who want to watch a piece of history, enjoy some wacky hijinx with unlikely situations or like to see the protagonist get consistently electrocuted for oogling girls, but it's not really solid enough to warrant watching for everyone. As a product of its time it might score higher, but I'd say it's an average anime over all and while watching some of it can give a good frame of reference for similar shows I just can't bring myself to score it higher than "average".

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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