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Present For You (あなたにあげる, Anata ni Ageru??) or "All of Me" in the first Viz Translation, is the 4th chapter of the Urusei Yatsura manga.

Summary[]

Ataru crosses paths with a beautiful miko cursed to endure endless maladies.

Plot Overview[]

Ataru attempts to dine out inconspicuously at a ramen restaurant, only for his identity to be revealed on the television by a program where Lum and his parents beg for him to return home. Unpopular these days due to the recent oil disaster, an angry crowd of customers start to gather, and Ataru attempts to flee, only to run headfirst into a beautiful but sickly woman. With the ugly mood behind him getting worse, he carries her away to safety. The woman introduces herself as Sakura and asks for Ataru's story; upon being told about how his life has become miserable since Lum moved in, she has him take her to a shrine, promising to exorcise his ill luck. Ataru is skeptical, but the sight of Sakura's mother, who is the spitting image of Cherry, makes him try to flee. The women hogtie him and drag him to the altar, where Sakura attempts to perform an exorcism. Instead, strange monsters pour from her body and crowd around Ataru; the disease spirits that have bedeviled Sakura her entire life. Now healthy once more, Sakura exorcises them, only for a menacing new spirit to arrive. Later, in the hospital, Cherry congratulates his niece on her recovery whilst they, his sister, Lum, Ataru's parents and two doctors attempt to minister to the sickly Ataru, who is being haunted by the last spirit.

Characters in Order of Appearance[]

Trivia[]

  • This chapter marks the debut of Sakura and her mom.
  • A prototype of Onsen-Mark appears during the flashback sequence to Ataru's troubles at school due to Lum's presence. He has a very different face to the finalized version, but he has the characterization and the iconic onsen symbol-emblazoned shirt.
  • The chapter's title is, once again, taken from a song that was popular that time - this one by a singer named Mineko Nishikawa.
  • The restaurant that Ataru eats at as the chapter begins displays the characters 中章 or "chuushou" on its various banners; this is the traditional marker of a Chinese restaurant.
  • Spark Enjou, the protagonist of Takahashi's early one-shot story Bye Bye Road (バイバイロード), makes a cameo appearance in this chapter.
  • One of the kidnappers from Takahashi's early one-shot story A Band of Young Ruffians (不良青年団) appears walking down the street in the first panel of the chapter.
  • A young woman seen walking down the street in the first panel will later be recycled in the subsequent dojinshi Equation of Nirvana (涅槃の方程式) as female protagonist Mifue Aobajou.
  • At the chapter's climax, Sakura's mother refers to the energy swirling above the trio as Sakura enacts her exorcism as "reiki". Literally translating as "mysterious atmosphere", this is the term used in Japanese to refer to spiritual energy, especially in relation to yokai and to human mystics.
  • When Sakura accidentally exorcises herself, she notes that all of her myriad disease symptoms have vanished. Japanese folklore has long attributed disease to yokai; not only do many yokai have the power to inflict diseases as a generic ability, but there are many specific types of yokai that are the manifest spirits of specific diseases.
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