Sherbert Fury (怒れ、シャーベット, Ikare, shabetto?), also known as "Rage, Sherbert" in the Project ILM Scanlation, is the 344th chapter of the Urusei Yatsura manga.
Summary[]
Ran attempts to get rich quick by exploiting one of Oyuki's Neptunian sherbert-creatures in a scorching Japanese summer, but she might be biting off more than she can chew...
Plot Overview[]
Oyuki invites Lum, Benten and Ran to visit her newest business venture; a ranch for sherberts, a flying Neptunian creature that can create ice cream cones. They point out it's hard to judge the taste of ice cream on a frozen world, and Ran asks to be allowed to take one to Earth to try selling its products there. Oyuki agrees, but warns Ran that she will be expected to recompense her for anything that goes wrong. As it's the middle of summer in Tomobiki, Ran makes a killing with her sherbert, but the heat shorts out its air-conditioned cage, making it viciously aggressive. When it attacks Lum, she blasts it in retaliation, releasing the creature. The three alien girls desperately try to recapture it, with Benten's bike taking a savage beating from it. Unfortunately for Benten, Oyuki appears just in time to hear Benten badmouthing her, and after she calms her sherbert, she freezes Benten and Ran solid as punishment.
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Trivia[]
- This story indirectly calls back to several other Oyuki-prominent chapters:
- The story revolves around Ran attempting to exploit Oyuki's ice-related powers and creatures in hot summer's weather to fatten her wallet, as she did in Chapter 246.
- The plot revolves around a marketable Neptunian life-form, as in Chapter 297.
- Oyuki's miserly streak is referenced, another call-back to Chapter 246.
- Oyuki's tendency to express her angry by rampant displays of her cryokinesis whilst displaying no change of facial features returns; it was last featured in Chapter 219.