Urusei Yatsura (2022)

When aliens known as the Oni threaten to invade the Earth, they promise to leave under one condition—a randomly-chosen human must win a one-on-one game of tag against Lum, the beautiful daughter of the Oni leader. The "lucky" person selected happens to be the lustful and unlucky high schooler Ataru Moroboshi. Given 10 days to attempt to grab Lum's horns, Ataru realizes how impossible the challenge is as he is faced with Lum's extraterrestrial powers.

Motivated by a promise of marriage from his childhood friend Shinobu Miyake, Ataru manages to catch Lum off guard. He mistakenly grabs hold of her bikini top first, but he eventually achieves his true goal. Although the game is over, Lum misunderstands that she is the one whom Ataru wants to marry, and she decides to move in with him. The poor student constantly tries to shake off the clingy Lum while doing his best to reconcile with his desired fiancée. After Ataru's heroic feat results in such a disastrous outcome, it is questionable whether luck will ever be on his side.

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Lum Main

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Moroboshi, Ataru Main

Kamiya, Hiroshi Japanese

Mendou, Shuutarou Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Ran Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Fujinami, Ryuunosuke Supporting

Takagaki, Ayahi Japanese

Sakura Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Sakuranbou Supporting

Takagi, Wataru Japanese

Miyake, Shinobu Supporting

Uchida, Maaya Japanese

Satoshi Supporting

Satou, Setsuji Japanese

Ten Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Kondou, Shuuhou Producer

Takeeda, Yoshinori Producer

Fukuda, Eishou Assistant Producer

Takahashi, Hideya Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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Jul 28, 2024

CynosaurousRex

Recommended

Genuinely love it. I usually really hate the trope for "horny male teenager who loves women", but somehow even Moroboshi was somewhat tolerable in this show. I watched both seasons, but I'm just going to put this review here as a review of both the seasons in one.

First off, I really loved Lum's character. I love her spunk and also her design. It's just extremely iconic, and the fact that she ends all her sentences with "-cha~!" is super adorable as well! The cast of characters were all funny and loveable in their own way as well. Even Moroboshi, who fell into my LEAST FAVOURITE ... ANIME TROPE OF ALL TIME had some redeeming moments with his actions, especially in serious moments.

I found myself laughing, crying, and watching intently with this cast of characters, and I'm so devastated that there were only 46 episodes and not like 100+. The opening songs are also extremely catchy, same with the ending songs, and all in all I feel like this is just a cute slice-of-life comedy romance. There's also some times when it gets a bit more serious which I enjoy as well.

My only wish would be that they have 200 more episodes of this, but alas it has already ended. Seriously thinking about watching the originals, but I can't really bring myself to watch old-type animations. Well, I guess I'll have to wait for Ranma 1/2!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Aug 19, 2023

Benx2019

Mixed Feelings

The animation is quite good. Not a whole lot of flash, but overall the animation is very smooth. The character detail is good, but the backgrounds are *chef's kiss* great. The characters have just an average amount of depth, and are annoying from time to time. That being said a lot of them are fairly likeable. The story has an average amount of depth, but the hijinks the story leads to are quite fun and creative. The pacing is average. Almost boring, and the plot moves along very slowly. The voice acting is fair. Good casting, average performances, and only sometimes annoying. The ops/eds are ... great, and the soundtrack is very fun and occasionally great. Overall, it's a very well done gimmick comedy anime, but that's my biggest problem with it. Not a lot of plot, what is there move slowly. The characters are likeable, but events become incredibly repetitive. Great on the production side, but the anime itself get's old. If your into gimmick comedy, you'll love it. Otherwise it's a little hard to universally recommend. 6.45/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 16, 2024

ArctiKFox

Not Recommended

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Preliminary (19/23 eps)

I just can't with this show anymore, man. No positive character development to speak of, incredibly annoying and repetitive gags such as the electricity and every dude's constant horndogging, with predictable results from every single woman. The plots feel like the same variation on a theme every. single. episode, no real storyline that I could decipher. Don't even get me started on the dumbass baby, I hate that mf. The only redeeming factor for me are the intros and outros, they're genuinely well-animated and the music choices were fantastic. This show just wasn't for me, but I can respect if it is your thing.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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