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Dolphin Dating and Beach Babe Patrol (デートとイルカと海辺の浮気, Deeto to iruka to umebe no uwaki?), or "I Want a Date By the Fickle Sea" in the Project ILM Scanlation, is the 145th chapter of the Urusei Yatsura manga.

Summary[]

When Ataru ignores her on a beach vacation to chase other girls, Lum decides to make him jealous by helping a lonely dolphin find a human girlfriend.

Plot Overview[]

Ataru, Lum and Mendo are on the beach, and Ataru is having fun playing volleyball with a bunch of cute girls who aren't rejecting him for once. Lum grows very angry at Ataru ignoring her, and ultimately storms off. She soon crosses paths with a lonely dolphin who wants to find a human girlfriend, and with the aid of a transformative earring, she sets out on a plan to make Ataru jealous. She leads the dolphin in his handsome new body past Ataru, who is horrified to see Lum acting so friendly with a strange guy. Pausing only to distract Mendo by giving him a crowd of girls to show off for, Ataru tracks Lum and her new "boyfriend" across the beach. Consumed by jealousy, especially when he sees the strange boy being mobbed by interested cute girls when Lum briefly leaves him alone, Ataru tries repeatedly to get the transformed dolphin in trouble, causing him to get repeatedly slapped. This, combined with Mendo scolding him that the proper "manly" thing to do is for guys to treat girls, causes the dolphin to come to realization that he was wrong to want to become a human guy. He thanks Lum and hugs her, which is the last straw for Ataru: he comes charging out of hiding, screaming at the stranger to leave his girl alone... but then forgets all about Lum when the dolphin turns into a pretty human girl, glomping her instead and getting hit by Lum for it.

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Trivia[]

  • This chapter was originally published in Shonen Sunday 1982 Vol. 36; a milestone 1,300th issue which also featured chapter 50 of the manga Touch (Japanese: タッチ, Hepburn: Tatchi) - a baseball spokan (sports manga) about two brothers who compete with each other both for fame in the baseball world and the love of their childhood friend. Touch debuted simultaneously with Chapter 91 of Urusei Yatsura.
  • The dolphin Iruka's perfected human form is actually part of a pun that doesn't translate well outside of Japanese. In Japanese, the phrase "iro-otoko" is used to mean "a handsome man", but is written with the kanji characters for "color" and "man". Thus, the dolphin becoming a handsome man with a notably darker skin tone than the Japanese around him plays on both meanings of the phrase.
  • Mendō dramatically swinging at Ataru whilst crying about how he is blinded by tears, only to end up chopping through a watermelon (to the applause of watching girls), is a pun on the Japanese summer game of suikawari (スイカ割り, where players take turns to try to chop or bash open watermelons whilst blindfolded.
  • This chapter marks one of the rare times that Ataru gets openly possessive of Lum, to the point he actually orders Iruka to stop flirting with her. This is one of the most overt demonstrations of Ataru actually reciprocating Lum's feelings.
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