Mendō Siblings!! (面堂兄妹!!, Mendō Kyōdai!!) and A Strange New Year at the Mendō Estate (面倒邸新年怪, Mendō-tei Shinnen Kai) are the two segments of the eleventh episode of the 2022 adaptation of Urusei Yatsura.
Summary[]
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Mendō's sister Ryōko appears one day in town, causing trouble to her brother later at school.
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Invited to the Mendō Estate by Ryōko, Ataru, along with various other guests, all participate in a Mendō family game... Shenanigans occur, and Mendō is just as ignorant of what's going on as the other guests.
Plot[]
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A sale is held at the Tomobiki Shopping district, and a young lady is led through there via oxen cart and is chaperoned by her servants. The young lady drops a handkerchief out of the cart, which was found by Ataru, who immediately tracks the scent of its owner. Upon returning the item, its owner asks for Ataru's hand, but when he retracts it, he pulls out a skeleton causing him to run away in fear, to the item's owner's amusement.
Later, at school, Ataru Mendō about his encounter with the skeleton, but he calls Ataru an idiot, enough though Lum vouches for him. During class, Mendō contemplates Ataru's claim, and when Hokuto vouches for him and mentions men in black clads, it jogs Mendō's memory.
Around lunch, the now-unveiled lady from the oxen cart has a red carpet rolled out for her as she carries her lunch to Class 2-4. There she meets with Mendō and provokes the girls in the class by claiming Mendō is her fiance. Ataru tries to console and guide the young lady out of there, who reveals to him that she is the skeleton he encountered earlier that day. Freed from the girls in the class' grasp, Mendō curses the lady named Ryōko, who turns out to be his sister.
Why Ryōko was there was to deliver Mendō's lunch; however, Mendō already had his lunch for that day, and the lunch Ryōko was delivering was from four days ago. This was due to the slow pace the oxen-driven cart was going. Ryōko then opens up Mendō's four-day-old lunch box, which had since completely spoiled, and offers him to eat it. However, Mendō refuses to eat it, making Ryōko cry. Hence, Ataru offers to eat the spoiled lunch. Before Ataru can eat the lunch, an argument between Lum and Ryōko occurs on who will feed the lunch to Ataru, and Mendō cuts in, advising Ryōko not to get involved with Ataru.
Tensions start rising between Ataru and Mendō, so Ryōko calls her servants to lock Mendō up in a nearby broom closet. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ataru courts Ryōko who, in turn, asks that Ataru visit her estate sometime by infiltrating it. Mendō cuts into the conversation by slamming the broom closet onto Ataru, who again demands his sister not associate with Ataru any further. Despite this, Ataru vows to visit his family's estate after the commercial break.
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On New Year's day, Ataru enters the Mendō Estate, where Mendō himself demands to know why he came there uninvited. However, Ataru claims Ryōko invited him there, prompting Mendō to draw his katana and warn him not to touch his sister. As it turns out, Lum, Shinobu, Sakura, Benten, and Oyuki where there as well for the party too.
Eventually, there all lead to where Ryōko, standing atop the third floor of a tower, welcomed the group using a megaphone. She also informed them that an osechi meal had been prepared for them in the party room. After this, Ryōko informs her Mother, Father, and Grandfather that their guests had gone inside and the new year's party would be a special one.
Back to Ataru's group, they follow red arrows pointed at the floor, leading them to a room with multiple cushions on the floor and a mochi tower. A sign asks them to sit on a cushion of their choosing, and when they do, Ataru and Benten each fall down a trapdoor underneath their cushions. One of the walls in the room then pushes Mendō, and the others out, where a giant wall of needles then chases after them. Mendō, Lum, and Shinobu take refuge in a dark room where someone approaches them.
Switching over to Ataru and Benten, they ride on a conveyor belt that sends them back to the house entrance. A servant of the Mendō family asks that they follow the red arrows on the floor, but Benten refuses to comply with the order. She then breaks into a room where she's captured in a net by Mendō's servants and has a "failure" talisman placed on her head.
Following the red arrows marked on the ground, Ataru regroups with Mendō, Lum, and Shinobu, where Mendō's Grandfather greets him. After they drink the tea served to them, all but Lum become paralyzed due to the anesthetic the tea was laced with. Although paralyzed, Ryōko walks by the room, and Ataru tries to follow her, but falls into the small indoor pond. He's then dragged somewhere by Ryōko's servants to be changed into a new set of clothes, while Lum is escorted to a different room where she's paired with Sakura and Rei. From there, Lum is forced to partake in a mochi eating contest, which she loses and is sprung out of the estate.
Elsewhere, Ataru, now dressed in old Edo-style clothing, is tripped by one of Ryōko's servants while Mendō and Shinobu encounter Mendō's father, who locks the two in a dark cramped room. He intended to make Mendō cry because of his phobias, but when he doesn't, he gets Shinobu out of his side, causing him to freak out. Shinobu gets back at Mendō's father by locking him in the room and walks away with Mendō to search for the others.
All of the antics occurring within the estate is revealed to be all part of a board game that Mendō's Family was playing for their amusement. And in the end, Lum, Shinobu, Mendō, and Ataru reach the party room, where both Mendō and Ataru are launched into the air by a bamboo rocket, and it explodes into a firework display that read, "Very Happy New Year".
Cast[]
- Ryōko Mendō
- Hokuto
- Ataru Moroboshi
- Lum
- Shūtarō Mendō
- Onsen-Mark
- Akira
- Satoshi
- Mendō's Father
- Mendō's Mother
- Mendō's Grandfather
- Rei
Trivia[]
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Differences from the Manga[]
- The episode is an adaptation of chapter 121 which took place far later in the story.
- The b-story takes place after meeting Ryoko and features her in the story as managing the game, but in the manga it originally took place before meeting her in chapter 114.
- The gates to the Mendo Estate are made of wood and bear the symbol of the Mendo Clan, but in the manga and 1981 anime they were made of metal and did not bear the family symbol. The gates are also smaller than in the manga.
- Ataru arrives at the estate by himself and Lum, Shinobu and Sakura were already there waiting for him, but in the manga he arrived with Lum, Shinobu and Ten, with Sakura being absent in the original story and Ten not being introduced yet in the 2022 anime.
- Benten and Oyuki are present in the episode's b-story but were not a part of it in the manga.
- Rei is present in the b-story as a cameo but was not present in chapter 114.
- Mendo's grandfather is given an additional scene in the anime's b-story not present in the manga where he interacts with Oyuki to deny that there's any prize money. This was not present in the manga.
- The b-story does not end the same way as in the manga, instead it ends by mimicking the ending from chapter 163 where instead of Ryoko using a giant Christmas Tree rocket to blast the characters into the sky and blow them up with fireworks, Ryoko instead uses a giant bamboo rocket. In the manga, chapter 114's story ends with Mendo, Shinobu and Ten "winning" by being tricked out of the estate while Ataru and Lum are forced to play the game from the start.
- The Mendo Mansion Board Game used in the episode is completely different from the one shown in chapter 114.
Gallery[]
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