The Glove of Love and Conflict (愛と闘魂のグローブ, Ai to Tōkon no Gurōbu) and How I've Waited for You… (君待てども…, Kimi Matedomo…) are the two segments of the fifth episode of the 2022 adaptation of Urusei Yatsura.
Summary[]
- a
A new nurse in the school turns out to be Sakura and is tasked with exorcising a pair of boxing gloves. However, due to a minor incident involving Cherry chasing Torajima, she loses one of them, which lands in the hands of Lum. She would later ask Ataru what it is, and after he explains it, he tries it on, and hilarity ensues.
- b
Envious of Mendō getting a lot of love letters Kōsuke, along with a couple of other boys, trick Ataru with a fake love letter. Things become complicated when Mendō argues about the letter's authenticity and if the girl who wrote it was real. A wager between the two is then had, and the boys side with Ataru as they don't want Mendō to become the new class president...
Plot[]
- a
Ataru catches Cherry and Kotatsu-neko grilling a fish outside the Tomobiki High School gate and learns from Cherry that he's chaperoning someone. Hokuto and Kōsuke then reveal to Ataru that the school has a sexy new nurse, and he rushes off to meet her in her office. There, the boys from his class, including Mendō was there; however, Ataru learns that the nurse was the shrine maiden Sakura. It prompts Ataru and the others to ask Sakura to marry them, but she takes off her heel, smacks them all in the head, and kicks them out of her office. Upset that the school is full of "horndogs", Sakura is visited by three faculty members who ask for her shrine maiden services to exorcise a pair of boxing gloves. Before an explanation is given, Cherry barges into the room chasing Torajima, who stole his fish. Agitated by this, Sakura uses her chair to strike Cherry and Torajima out of her office, but in doing so, one of the boxing gloves is sent flying out the window too.
Flying toward the school, Lum passes by Cherry and Torajima and then comes into possession of the missing boxing glove. Later, Lum shows it to Ataru, who explains what it is to her and puts it on; doing this causes him to become possessed by the glove and hug any lady close to him. Despite Ataru's explanation, nobody believes him due to his perverted tendencies. To prove his point, Ataru cuddles Mendō with his boxing glove hand. Immediately, Sakura, accompanied by the faculty members, entered the classroom and explained the boxing glove's history. One of the faculty members then puts the other glove on Ataru, causing him to cuddle Onsen with one hand and knock him out with the other. The faculty member then explains the history of the other boxing glove and Sakura details that the soul of a resentful boxer possesses the gloves.
When Lum gets in Ataru's space, Ataru refuses to allow himself to harm her due to his disdain for harming a lady. Hence, Sakura uses a talisman-infused boxing ring to satiate the gloves' yearning by pinning Ataru and Lum against each other. Ataru manages to get the violent glove to knock him out until he's bruised and swollen. With that, the gloves come off naturally; however, Ataru angers Sakura by hugging her, which prompts her to put the violent glove on her hand and beat her.
- b
Walking to school, Lum tries to tag along with Ataru, who refuses her advances. They then walk past a couple, and Lum sees them hold hands, which Lum tries to replicate with Ataru, but he hits on Shinobu instead, making her upset.
At school, Mendō receives a bunch of love letters from the girls in the school, including two named Aya and Hitomi. Kōsuke and the other boys in the class watch this as it unfolds with vicious envy. They also scornfully curse Ataru as he enters the classroom with Lum by his side. In the bathroom, Kōsuke and the other boys concoct a plot to get back at Ataru and Mendō with a fake love letter from a girl named Otoko Kumino. As Ataru reads it aloud, Mendō hears it and is easily upset by the content that disparages him. Visiting the classroom while Ataru is all giddy, Lum learns that Ataru received a love letter from another girl, and in an attempt to get him jealous, Lum embraces Mendō. However, Ataru doesn't care that Lum is doing that, and Mendō consoles Lum telling her that the love letter from Otoko was fake. This prompts a wager between Ataru and Mendō, whereas if she's real, Ataru gets 10k yen, and if she's fake, Mendō becomes class president.
Consulting on how to proceed, Kōsuke and the boys decide to side with Ataru and hire a girl for 3k yen to meet Ataru at cafe Ketaguri at 4 pm. Hoping to make Ataru jealous, Lum tells him that she's considering going out with Mendō from now on. Despite this, Ataru was more than happy to allow it, prompting Lum to shock him. Sitting on one of the pine branches by the schoolyard, Lum overhears Kōsuke, and the boys learn that their Otoko can't make it because of a stomachache. Later, Kōsuke and the boys try and explain this to Ataru, but he remains hopelessly optimistic.
Afterward, at the designated meeting place, Ataru, along with the boys from his class, waits for Otoko, but she doesn't arrive after over an hour passes. To rescue her love from an embarrassing situation, Lum disguises herself as Otoko and takes Ataru on a "date", leaving his classmates speechless.
Walking home by the riverside, Ataru vents his frustrations on being played, but Lum rebukes that it was Ataru's fault for being so arrogant. Seeing the couple who held each other's hands again ahead of them, Lum silently feels jealous of them again, and Ataru begins to be attracted to her. Just as Lum was going to fly away, Ataru stopped her by grabbing her hand and asked if they could walk home together. Smiling at the proposal, Lum accepts it, and the two walk home together hand in hand.
Eventually, Lum gets a call from her father warning her about the "annual event".
Cast[]
- Cherry
- Kotatsu-neko
- Ataru Moroboshi
- Hokuto
- Kōsuke Shirai
- Sakura
- Shūtarō Mendō
- Torajima
- Lum
- Shinobu Miyake
- Onsen-Mark
- Akira
- Satoshi
- Aya
- Hitomi
- Otoko Kumino
- Lum's Father
- Benten
Trivia[]
- The two main chapters adapted in this episode, although run at 11 minutes in this adaptation, they were adapted in the 1981 adaptation as full-length episodes, being episodes 116 and 10.
- Chapter 37 was previously adapted as an 11-minute segment in the 1981 adaptation as Episode 5b.
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