Urusei Yatsura (2022) 2nd Season Episode 7 Discussion

If Rumiko Takahashi could have imagined when the chapter was released on March 20, 1979 that it would take almost 45 years to be animated.😅

I know we already had a chapter last season that was skipped in the original manga, but this just feels even more blatant.

The story is chapter 12, when Urusei Yatsura was just starting to form and you probably didn't yet know what extent this microcosm would reach. So this was probably time to try out some stuff, looking in which direction it would go. Imagine reading it back in these days and waiting for an adaption, which never came in the OG anime. But now its the day, time is ready.
It's almost like opening a time capsule after years.

I remember the chapter in many ways, not just because the year "1989" appears at the class reunion - which might be considered as distant future back then and now, even more further in the future, I'm glad it finally gets its adaption after all this years.

Ataru is probably the worst possible person to switch your bodies with. No matter who you are, he'll find a way to abuse it. Also, this episode was much funnier in the original where he switches body with Sakura as well and lots of other insanities happen. Oh well.

I liked how they kept the scene from the manga where "Ten" wants breastmilk from Sakura. That shit was hilarious lol.

One other positive change was that they didn’t switch their voices with their bodies. It makes so much more sense this way. Other than these improvements, the original anime episode was much better, like most OG anime episodes.


I still can't believe they adapted this chapter all these years later. It feels almost unreal. I assumed the OG anime didn't adapt it for a very good reason. But it was pretty clever for the Remake to adapt this chapter only to have it lead up to the next two episodes.

I'm sure some people are a bit confused by the second half of this episode. Especially Ataru x Lum shippers. I won't say much but the next 2 episodes will explain everything. Just wait until you watch them.

Man, Open the Door is finally coming next episode. It should be tradition to watch the excellent and underrated OVA OP before that episode starts.


Come to think of it, we're already near the end of the Winter season. So it makes sense that these are some of the last episodes. But even after episode 31 and 32, there should be at least 2 or 3 episodes remaining in the first cour of Season 2. Wonder what those will be.


Huh. Wonder what that's about. I'm pretty sure Season 2 will be the last season. So I'm not expecting any new anime announcements. At least not so soon while Season 2 is still airing.

I seriously had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming. 😂✨This is probably the record for the longest period of time between manga chapters and anime adaptations in anime history, after "Metropolis."

And it was worth the wait. Such a cool episode.
Just the beginning with Ataru's mother. Instead of "I never should have had him," she mumbles something about how it's unbelievable that they have the same genes.
The way to school is again typical Lum/Ataru comedy. I always like it when she just randomly pulls out the most absurd sci-fi objects out of her.😂

The time travel was also really cool. Even if they had to adjust a few things. In the manga, Ataru realizes that he has traveled 10 years in time because the year "1989" is written on the board. In the anime, the old onsen mark has to be used for the explanation.

Mendou and Ryunosuke are not absent from the class reunion, they were simply not invented at the time. And Lum still wears her bikini in the manga and not her school uniform - since she wasn't enrolled in school at that time.😅

Otherwise, it has been adapted very faithfully after 45 years. There were a lot of good gags, like Ataru crying over the food, holding his horror as Lum to Kokeru, or the ice cream ball after 10 years of inflation (In the manga it's 1500 yen, or 10 dollars.) Luckily it's not that far yet came.😂

Poor Lum. She was so sad when she couldn't find a horn on Kokeru. She even looked for it specifically. Even Kokeru started crying.

One thing that was a little different in the anime: The woman who is mistakenly thought to be Ataru's mother has a severe overbite in the manga and otherwise looks very frightening - which is also the reason for Ataru's shocked expression. In the anime, I think the lady actually looks pretty normal - so Ataru's shocked reaction is a little out of context.


The manga chapter 12 was published on March 20, 1979 and is therefore at the very beginning of the series. By the way, it is the earliest completely unadapted chapter in the series (at least it was until today).😅

At that time, Shinobu was still planned as the main character of the series, which is why Lum didn't appear in some early chapters. Until the love of the fans promoted her from supporting character to main character.

Inaba arc began on April 23, 1986, a full 7 years later, relatively towards the end of the series. I can't imagine that the Inaba arc was already in mind when Chapter 12 came out. So there is no such direct connection in the manga as there is now in the anime, where a very very early chapter and a very very late chapter are actually cleverly linked as a continuation story.

But as 0451 already said, the next few weeks will make a lot of things clearer. Wait for it (or read the highly recommended manga if you can't keep yourself on the edge of your seat because of the excitement😄).

Nevertheless, a very cool episode and, with all the background context, even a small sensation.
Imagine being "Shonen Sunday"-reader back in 1979 and now finally getting to see the adaption, you've waited so long.
It really feels great to see how a story, which was only told in printed form for 45 years, feels so alive and well in 2024.
This show never fails to suprise me.😍

Season 2 is so much better than season 1 (which I thought was great).