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Spicy Camping Calamity (辛いキャンプに明日はない!!, Karai kyanpu ni asunahai!!?), or "The Strict Camping Trip!!" in the Project ILM Scanlation, is the 142nd chapter of the Urusei Yatsura manga.

Summary[]

When a camping trip puts them all at the mercy of Lum's super-spicy cooking, Ataru and his "friends" desperately look for alternatives.

Plot Overview[]

Lum busies herself cooking dinner, having invited herself on a camping trip with Ataru, Mendo, and Ataru's two friends Kosuke Shirai and Hokuto. When the meal is ready, Ataru wants no part in it, which the other boys soon learn the hard way is because Lum's native cuisine is too spicy for them to handle. Unwilling to insult Lum, but unable to bear her food, the four boys retreat to their tent and try to raid their "emergency supplies" of snacks, only to discover that a rabbit has stolen them. Desperately starving, they decide to risk descending the mountain to a nearby village to steal some food. Along the way, they catch a talking rabbit, which reveals itself as the one who stole their food. It barters with them for its life, promising to lead them to food in the village, but the village turns out to be booby-trapped and on high alert after years of raids by the pest. With its final chance to save its skin, it leads them into its tunnels towards what it promises will be easy food... which turns out to be their own campsite, where a happy Lum has made breakfast.

Characters in Order of Appearance[]

Trivia[]

  • This chapter was originally published in Shonen Sunday 1982 Vol. 33, which, unusually, has a street date of July 22, 1982 - a Thursday, rather than the normal Wednesday release.
  • This chapter reveals to Mendō, Kosuke and Hokuto that Lum's food is so spicy as to be completely inedible by normal humans.
  • When Ataru and company first capture the rabbit, it is silhouetted against the moon. This is an homage to the classic Chinese and Japanese belief of the rabbit in the moon, contrasting the European belief in the "Man in the Moon". There are different tales as to why the rabbit can be found on the moon, with the oldest tale, originating from China, describing it as helping the moon goddess to prepare alchemical elixirs of immortality. In Japan, the rabbit is instead said to be a cook making mochi (sweet cake-like patties of sticky rice) for the lunar kami. In Chinese and Japanese Buddhist teachings, on the other hand, the rabbit was placed there as a symbol of charity and self-sacrifice by the god Sakra after the rabbit encountered Sakra in the guise of a starving old man and, being unable to offer anything else, attempted to plunge to its death in the old man's fire so that he might feed on the rabbit's cooked flesh.
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