Urusei Yatsura Volume 15 is the fifteenth volume of the English edition of Urusei Yatsura.
Summary[]
Beautiful space alien princess Lum invades Earth in her UFO, and unlucky Ataru Moroboshi's world gets turned upside down! What unimaginable shenanigans will Lum bring to Ataru's life? One thing's for sure - nearly every moment is electrifying with her around!
Lum is finally going on another date with Ataru! But while she's waiting for him, an eccentric young man arrives to claim that he fell in love with her at first sight. Normally Lum wouldn't care, but Ataru is late for their date! Later, Mendo receives a mysterious New Year's card that says "I know your secret". Mendo doesn't have any secrets, but that doesn't stop him from vowing to track down the culprit! Now he just needs to find a way to analyze the handwriting of every guy at Tomobiki High...
Characters[]
TBA
Chapters[]
| Chapter # | Title | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 301 | "Electric Jungle - Part 1" (電飾の魔境＝その１＝, "Denshoku no makyo =sono 1=") | ||||
| Lum sits on a fountain, waiting for a date with Ataru, unaware that he has been hitting on girls whilst waiting to meet her. Ironically, just as he makes his last flirtation before intending to go to her, the girl he asks says yes to him. She drags him to a restaurant and starts thinking of an order, whilst Ataru gets increasingly guilty; spotting Kosuke, he has his confused friend take his seat and goes running to catch up with Lum. By this point, Lum suspects Ataru has ditched her to go girl-chasing, and is quite mad at him. Before she can storm off, she is suddenly approached by a tanned youth clad only in a leopard-skin loincloth, who grabs her hands in a very intimate gesture. The angry oni tries repeatedly to shock him, but to her surprise, it has no effect and he simply grabs her in an embrace. Ironically, that's when Ataru shows up, and he's not angry. His insistence on playing the wounded party further annoys Lum, especially when she realizes that Ataru really is jealous of the stranger but won't act on it. She decides it's time to give Ataru a taste of his own medicine, and rides away with the stranger on his elephant. He takes her to a small cabin in a bizarre forest, where he introduces her to his "grandfather"; an old TV. After an awkward sort-of-date, Lum announces her intent to go home, but her host won't let her leave. Lum initially escapes, but then changes her mind and decides to stay the night, to further Ataru's punishment. Meanwhile, back home, Ataru is wrestling with his guilt and his denial. | |||||
| 302 | "Electric Jungle - Part 2" (電飾の魔境＝その2＝, "Denshoku no makyo =sono 2=") | ||||
| Lum wakes up in the jungle cottage where she spent the night and is greeted by her host, who provides her a breakfast made from local jungle fruits and vegetables, which to Lum's delight have an "electric" taste. She asks if her host has always lived here alone, but he assures her that he lives with his grandfather (the TV) and his friends (local animals). These latter have dropped by to visit his "bride", a claim Lum finds less than pleasant, and she leaves whilst he's distracted. At Tomobiki High, Ataru is growing increasingly nervous about Lum's mysterious absence, and when Ten reveals she didn't come home to her UFO the previous night, he briefly panics before Lum appears. She calmly informs him that she's been kidnapped and unless he saves her, she'll be forced to marry her captor, before turning the back locker into a portal to the stranger's jungle. He shows up, intent on taking her back with him, and Ataru almost musters the courage to protest, but he is fatally distracted by Mendo and Mr. Fujinami, causing the two to vanish. When they try to follow, however, they find the plants in the jungle are full of high-voltage electricity. Ataru asks Mendo if he has some kind of shockproof suits, and they are taken to the Mendo estate, where he introduces them to the crazy old Mendo family gardener. Long ago, he experimented with creating electric-powered fruits and vegetables, but the experiment failed and his grandson went missing in the process. Borrowing the old suits, Ataru, Mendo, Kosuke and Shinobu march through the portal into the electric jungle to find Lum, motivated by a broadcast asserting that Lum's "captor" will forcibly marry her if they don't save her. | |||||
| 303 | "Electric Jungle - Part 3" (電飾の魔境＝その3＝, "Denshoku no makyo =sono 3=") | ||||
| Ataru and his friends have been searching the electric jungle for Lum for over an hour. Fortunately, Lum has left plenty of clearly marked signs to follow to find her. Lum and her captor are watching them via a camera, and the angry boy runs off to confront them. He tries to ensnare them in a coil thicket, showers them with glass from exploding lightbulb-fruits, and then tries to take them on with a pair of electrified daikon. Mendo easily slices his vegetable weapons apart, but is briefly taken down when the electrified slices land on his vulnerable head. The boy runs off, and Ataru gives chase, trying to snare the boy with a set of power cable vines. The strange youth counters by turning a coconut palm tree's top into a spinning razor-fan projectile. Lum intervenes, blasting it before it can cut Ataru to ribbons, but accidentally knocks him out cold when the coconut lands on his head. The boy grabs her whilst she's distracted and carries her off, kicking and screaming; with his immunity to electricity, she's lost her primary anti-pervert defense. Mendo, Shinobu and Kosuke catch up, too late to stop him. | |||||
| 304 | "Electric Jungle - Part 4" (電飾の魔境＝その4＝, "Denshoku no makyo =sono 4=") | ||||
| The four teens take shelter inside some peculiarly modern-looking ruins whilst Ataru recovers from his concussion. Meanwhile, Lum tries to shout her captor into letting her go by asserting her loyalty to Ataru, causing him to realize he was just a pawn in her game to make Ataru jealous. This momentarily makes Lum guilty, but that guilt turns to anger when he ties her up and declares he doesn't care, because he's going to marry her anyway. Grabbing his TV and Lum, he sets off for the wedding. Back in the ruins, Ataru regains consciousness, and Shinobu finds an old photo of the Mendo gardener and his grandson, Shingo. This causes Mendo to realize that this jungle is actually the old electric garden, left to grow wild for a decade. Which in turn means that the strange boy must be the long-lost Shingo. Spotting animals going past with wedding invitations, the four give chase once more. Ataru gets out ahead of them, and manages to wrest Lum free of Shingo's clutches, with Lum in turn saving him from an electrified vine-web. During the struggle, Shingo is dropped into a river, causing his TV to short out and die, and leaving him griefstricken. The teens take him to the Mendo estate proper and try to introduce him back to his real grandfather, which... doesn't exactly work as they intended, but it's still a reunion. | |||||
| 305 | "Magical Hat" (マジカルハット, "Majikaru hatto") | ||||
| Kotatsu Neko is enjoying a friendly game of go at a local barber's when a magician drops by to ask for a haircut. He puts his hat on Kotatsu Neko's head, and the bakeneko promptly walks off with it. He wanders the streets of Tomobiki for a while, buying himself a taiyaki, and then giving it up to feed a hungry kitten. As he laments his loss, suddenly he finds another taiyaki under his new hat. Deciding to spend the night at the Moroboshis, he is horrified to find that Ataru's mother threw out his favorite kotatsu quilt for being too raggedy. Suddenly, an exact copy of that quilt pours from under the hat. Ataru tries to use the hat to conjure up a girl, but it doesn't work; Sakura arrives and explains the hat needs supernatural energies to function, so only Kotatsu Neko can make it work. Ataru tries to get him to conjure up a girl, but he just conjures an exotic fruity drink. Mrs. Moroboshi guards the family dinner from Sakura and Cherry, but Cherry hits upon an idea; he tries to get Kotatsu Neko to conjure up more servings of hot pot for them. Unfortunately, the bakeneko just eats the hot pot, and then repeatedly fails to conjure what they want. Suddenly, the magician arrives and takes his hat back, before using it to disappear, much to the anger of the Moroboshis. | |||||
| 306 | "Red Shoes of Passion" (情熱の赤い靴, "Jonetsu no akai kutsu") | ||||
| It's nearly time for the Fall Art & Theatre Festival at Tomobiki High School, and everybody is avidly working to get ready for the big event... especially with the threat of the festival being cancelled and replaced by tests if they screw up. Class 2-4 is getting ready to put on a performance of Carmen, but there's a problem; Lum, who's playing the title character, has no shoes. Two of her classmates retrieve a set of high heels from the old prop closet, but they're white, which doesn't match Lum's red dress. Ataru simply paints them red and Lum puts them on... and then starts uncontrollably kicking Ataru in the face. It turns out that the shoes are haunted by the spirit of a raging bull. Worse, the Principal and Onsen Mark arrived just in time to see Lum start running wild under the curse's influence. Thinking quickly, Ataru spins a story about Class 2-4 actually performing an original composition inspired by Carmen, called "The Red Shooting Star of Spain". Class 2-4 does their best to remove the cursed shoes from Lum, with Ataru inventing the story on the fly. Finally, they manage to free Lum, and the Principal is delighted with the "performance", eagerly looking forward to the full show. | |||||
| 307 | "Reach for the Stars, Prima Ballerina!" (プリマの星をつかめ, "Purima no hoshi o tsukame") | ||||
| At the Fushiana Creative Ballet Troupe, the girls are practicing their routines when their discussion turns to the topic of who will be the next primadonna. A girl named Stardust is favored for her powerful jumps, which earns the envy of another girl, Violet Driedfish. She sabotages Stardust's landing by splashing salad oil over the floor, causing her to fall and be scolded by Coach Fushiana, who declares that Driedfish will be prima donna if Stardust cannot learn how to land. Stardust leaves the training in dismay, pondering over her ill-fortune with landings and somehow failing to realize that she is being constantly sabotaged. Suddenly, she spots a dappya child about to be hit by a car, but it is saved by Ryunosuke Fujinami, whose skill and grace elicit instant admiration from the aspiring ballerina. She begs Ryunosuke to accompany her to a nearby sweet shop, where she asks the tomboy to train her how to jump and land like she does. Once Ataru, Lum and Shinobu show up and tell Ryunosuke about how feminine ballet is, she eagerly agrees. She subjects Stardust to days of training better suited to the protagonist of a shonen martial arts manga, with Driedfish's efforts at sabotage not helping. Finally comes the day of the audition for prima donna, and this time, when Driedfish throws oil all over the floor where Stardust is about to land, she simply plunges straight through the floorboards, thus technically not falling over. Ironically, she then gives up on ballet and takes up a new passion: martial arts. | |||||
| 308 | "The Secret Past of the Cosmic Box" (箱宇宙に秘められた過去, "Kosumo bokkusu [hako uchu] ni himerareta kako") | ||||
| Ran is visiting Lum in her UFO when Ten arrives having bought a cosmic box, which can be used to grow fake stars, nebulas and galaxies. Lum notes they were popular when she was in elementary school, and she used to have one too, but it broke. This makes Ran nervous, especially when Lum starts dwelling on how much it upset her when the box was broken; she vaguely remembers the incident, but she can't remember who broke it. As she struggles to remember, Benten suddenly arrives. This jogs Ran's memory and she excuses herself to run home. Here, she uses some alien technology to confirm her memories: it was Benten who broke Lum's cosmic box, and she bullied Ran into keeping it quiet. Printing memory-photos for evidence, Ran returns to Lum's UFO, where she tries to jog Benten's memory in hopes of blackmailing her "friend"; when that fails, she tells Lum about what happened, hoping to see Lum get angry at her old friend. To her shock, the two just laugh it off, and start apologizing for various little misdeeds that they'd been keeping secret from each other. | |||||
| 309 | "Electric Secret Agent - Part 1" (電気仕掛けの御庭番；前編, "Denki ji kake no o-niwaban; zenpen") | ||||
| Shutaro Mendo is summoned by his father, who has something important to tell him. He explains the Mendos have long been served by oniwaban, and now it is time for Shutaro to receive his own personal oniwaban. It turns out that Mr. Mendo's oniwaban is the half-senile gardener, and Shutaro's chosen oniwaban is his electricity-absorbing half-feral grandson, Shingo. Soon afterwards, Mendo wonders if he even needs an oniwaban in this day and age, but decides to test Shingo. Things immediately get off to the wrong foot when he summons the youth, he makes his entrance by kneeling atop Mendo's head. Once he cools off, Mendo orders Shingo to go and see what Ryoko is up to. Shingo... blows Mendo off to watch the TV instead, until Mendo throws him through the window and orders him away. Shingo goes racing off across the estate, pondering the foolishness of sending him to find somebody whom he's never met. When he stumbles across Ryoko, he is instantly smitten, and tries to "court" her by re-enacting something he saw on TV. This amuses the drama-loving heiress, who plays along, giving Shingo a sweater carefully designed to unravel as he departs so one of her kuroko can follow him and learn his identity. Discovering that he's Mendo's oniwaban convinces Ryoko to play along with his crush, and she sends him a love letter. Shingo initially can't read it, but Ataru pops up out of nowhere to do it for him. Ataru runs off to meet Ryoko as if the letter were addressed to him, with Shingo in hot pursuit, stopping only to bludgeon Mendo unconscious. He stomps Ataru into the ground and then tries to run away with Ryoko, but Ataru tricks him with the same sweater that Ryoko used earlier, giving Tomobiki's #1 pervert a clear trail to follow. | |||||
| 310 | "Electric Secret Agent - Part 2" (電気仕掛けの御庭番；後編, "Denki ji kake no o-niwaban; koupen") | ||||
| As an angry Mendo gathers his wits to pursue his renegade oniwaban, Shingo and Ryoko are running aimlessly through the streets of Tomobiki when they decide to take shelter at a random house, which turns out to be the Moroboshi house. Lum instantly recognizes Shingo from when he tried to kidnap her to be his bride, something both Ataru and Mendo try to use to convince Ryoko not to elope with Shingo. Heartbroken, or at least feigning such, she bombards the group with grenades and runs back to the Mendo estate, shutting the door behind her as Shingo, Mendo, Ataru and Lum give chase. When the quartet climb the walls, she turns on the high-voltage electric barrier, but it has no effect on Shingo or Lum. Ataru tries to run away with Ryoko once he shakes off the shock, but this just gets him a blast from a charged-up, angry Lum. Shingo then tries to run away with Ryoko himself; when Ataru and Mendo resist, he cuts into the estate's underground powerlines to supercharge himself. He defeats the two boys, but is then attacked and defeated by his grandfather, who bleeds off all of Shingo's electrical energy and leaves him too weak to fight. He tries to recharge himself by glomping onto the overcharged Lum, which causes Ryoko to flee in ambiguously real heartbreak and a shower of grenades. | |||||
| 311 | "The Case of the Battered Principal" (校長殴打事件, "Kocho oda jiken") | ||||
| One day at Tomobiki High School, the Principal stumbles across Onsen Mark chewing out Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Mendo and Ryunosuke for their latest misdeeds, and suggests that as punishment, the four should be made to clean his office. When Onsen Mark checks in on them soon afterwards, he finds the principal has been laid out cold, and demands to know who did it. None of the five claim responsibility, and Onsen Mark comes up with a series of stories about how any of them could be responsible, before Ataru turns the questioning right back on him. Suddenly, the Principal wakes up and reveals the truth; he knocked himself out cold by cracking a boiled egg on his head, which Kotatsu Neko then ate, and he laughs at his own silliness. | |||||
| 312 | "The Runaway Turkey" (七面鳥逃げた, "Shichimencho nigeta") | ||||
| As the Moroboshi household eats dinner one night, the TV plays a report about an experimental turkey imbued with a super-charged metabolism that has escaped from a nearby science lab. Lo and behold, that same turkey wanders into their living room. Seeing as it's close to Christmas, and the lab is offering a pittance for the turkey's return, they decide to fatten it up for themselves for a meal. They start feeding the turkey, which gets bigger and bigger with everything it eats. All goes well until Lum insists on feeding it some of her cooking, which sends it running madly into the street. She goes in pursuit, and finds it just as it runs into Ran and eats all of her goodies to wash the taste out of its mouth. The angry Ran starts blasting with her gun, and the turkey runs away. It briefly wanders into the house of the Fujinamis, who try to capture it themselves, but it escapes. Then Ran hits it with a lucky shot that knocks it right into an instant ramen storage warehouse. Seeing the now kaiju-sized turkey, everybody gives up and goes home. | |||||
| 313 | "I Know Your Secret" (おまえのひみつをしっている, "Omae no himitsu o shitte iru") | ||||
| It's New Year's Day, and Mendo has received his cards, when he spots that one of them simply reads "I know your secret". Convinced it's a prank, most likely by Ataru, he orders his goons to throw a calligraphy party, intending to use this to prove Ataru's guilt and then punish him. Once everyone arrives, he sweetens the pot by proclaiming that the winner will receive a year's worth of food vouchers from his first class hotels. The party soon devolves into a brawl, with the girls fleeing and the boys using this as an opportunity to try and splatter Mendo. By the time it's quietened down, the whole room is covered in ink, as are all the male participants. All the while, the letter's true sender, Shingo, is oblivious to what he caused. | |||||
| 314 | "A Mature Love Story - Part 1" (おとなの恋の物語；前編, "Otona no koi no monogatari; zenpen") | ||||
| As the Fujinamis are brawling in the streets one day, they accidentally run into a woman - a widow named Kayo, who runs a local pet shop - and cause her to drop the statue she just commissioned of her beloved dead dog Sentaro, which shatters into pieces. Mr. Fujinami apologizes (by blaming Ryunosuke), but Kayo is struck dumb by his resemblance to Sentaro, causing her to be instantly smitten. Several days later, she works up the courage to ask Ryunosuke if her father is single, to Ryunosuke's shock. That evening, Ryunosuke tries and fails to figure out what could make such a classy, beautiful lady possibly fall for a loser like him. | |||||
| 315 | "A Mature Love Story - Part 2" (おとなの恋の物語；後編, "Otona no koi no monogatari; koupen") | ||||
| Ryunosuke wakes up and is shocked to find that the widow Kayo has set herself up in the Fujinamis' home and is cooking breakfast, though her father takes it in stride. Her patience only grows thinner when she realizes that Kayo is serving them dog food, and she storms off to class. The rumors flying around the school bout her father's new love interest don't help her mood, and so she calls her father out to the field at lunch time. There, she begins to duel him, asking if he's forgotten about her mother Masako, and declares she doesn't want a new mom. Which is when she realizes that her father completely missed the obvious signs that Kayo has a thing for him. He is immediately ready to begin hooking up with her, but that's when her employee Hanakichi, who has been crushing on her for ages, shows up. He begs with her to come back to the shop, but he cannot bring himself to ask her to leave Mr. Fujinami, who clearly resembles her beloved Sentaro. Despite a peptalk from Ryunosuke, he leaves. Ironically, when Kayo goes back to her shop to get some things, she forgets all about her love for Mr. Fujinami after seeing that Hanakichi has found her several animals who all clearly resemble Sentaro. So she breaks up with Ryuosuke's dad, who is left heartbroken, whilst Ryunosuke is left relieved. | |||||
| 316 | "Scary Manju" (饅頭こわい, "Manju kowai") | ||||
| It's a freezing cold morning in Tomobiki, and Class 2-4 is feeling particularly rebellious as a result. When a fight threatens to break out, Lum tries to be helpful by ordering some super-warming manju (steamed buns) from an alien restaurant. Ataru is skeptical of trying alien cooking, given its track record, but when he gives some to Onsen Mark and it turns out to be delicious, everybody happily eats it. And then they learn that humans who eat them and fall asleep turn into manju. This is a problem, because a side-effect of the manju's warmth is that everybody's feeling super-sleepy. They fight to stay awake, slowly losing more and more of their classmates to manjuhood, until Onsen Mark, the first to transform, suddenly wakes up and reverts to normal. Discovering it's only temporary and harmless, the last students give in, leaving a perturbed teacher and a sheepish oni as the only humanoids in class. It's noted that they retained the tendency to turn into manju when they fell asleep for over a week. | |||||
| 317 | "Raging Sky Battle" (怒りの空中戦, "Ikari no kuchusen") | ||||
| In anticipation of Setsubun, Benten buys some strange beans from a passing alien merchant. But on Setsubun, she refuses to visit Lum, and tells her to stay away. Confused, Lum goes to talk to Oyuki, and the two alien girls (plus Ataru, who invited himself into the conversation) decide to go and check on Benten. They have to break in to see her, and discover she has been parasitized by strange beans that have formed pseudo-wings on her back; when she gets mad, they flutter with enough force to send her flying. Oyuki recognizes them as Rage Beans, which normally parasitize Rage Cows as part of their lifecycle. Ataru tries to take advantage of the situation, glomping onto Benten and guiding her flying form out through the hole that Lum blasted to get them in. Lum gives chase, and starts a mid-air duel, hoping to keep Benten so angry she won't end up falling to the ground. In the end, Oyuki intervenes by freezing the beans, causing Benten to fall. The beans shatter when she hits the ground... but she also breaks her leg, leaving her less than grateful for Oyuki's help. | |||||
| 318 | "The Legend of the Snow Cave" (カマクラ伝説, "Kamakura densetsu") | ||||
| Ten wanders through a snowy mountain forest, looking for Lum, who has come up here on a ski trip with Ataru, Shinobu and Mendo. He stumbles across a snow cave, where a strange man invites him inside. He tells Ten that he has been trapped here for eighty years after foolishly accepting the same offer from a young woman; only by having somebody take his place can he leave, and he proceeds to do just that, leaving Ten trapped. Luckily for Ten, Lum and Ataru have found out he followed them and are looking for him. Ataru finds Ten, who tricks Ataru into entering the cave and then escapes, leaving Ataru to rot. A confused Ataru finds the strange man's journal and realizes what has happened. When Mendo shows up, Ataru tries to trick him, only for Shinobu and Lum to arrive. He shooes the girls out and tries to escape before Mendo, leading to a fight that is interrupted when a bear arrives and chases the girls back inside. Lum scares it off with a lightning bolt, and the girls depart, leaving Ataru and Mendo to squabble over who gets out first. Cherry and Ten show up with a statue that should let both of the boys escape, but they are too busy wrestling to hear him. | |||||
| 319 | "Date With a Spirit" (霊魂とデート, "Reikon to deito") | ||||
| One a regular winter day in Tomobiki, Tsubame exorcises the ghost of a young woman who is possessing a young man. Elsewhere, Sakura waits for her fiancé to show up, eager for their first date in a long time. She is quite unhappy when Ataru and Lum cross her path, with Ataru trying to imitate Tsubame to flirt with her. She is even less pleased when Tsubame shows up with the young ghost haunting him. The group retires to a cafe so Tsubame can explain the situation; the ghost wants a boyfriend, and is refusing to pass on without one. Ataru makes a nuisance of himself, trying to convince Sakura to break up with Tsubame, whilst Sakura tries and fails to summon a ghostly guy to be the ghost girl's boyfriend. Her first effort is a flop and she storms off home to her shrine, where a young man is calling about being exorcised of a ghostly possession. His possessor turns out to be the ghost of a cute young man, and so Sakura drags him back to the cafe. Ironically, it turns out that the ghosts knew and pined after each other in life, so they are happy to get together. Unfortunately, they make a nuisance of themselves by intruding on Sakura and Tsubame's date. | |||||
| 320 | "Ultra-Colorful Couple's Look" (極彩のペアルック, "Gakusai no pearukku") | ||||
| Lum and Ran are watching TV in Lum's UFO high over the Earth when an advert comes on for tacky matching housecoats that will supposedly make couples fall in love if they both wear them. The two alien girls scoff at the ridiculous-sounding idea, but Lum can't resist and buys a pair. The next day, Lum confronts Ataru on the way to school, but he refuses to wear his version of the coat. Once a passing Ran tells him what they supposedly do, however, he snatches both coats from Lum and tries to use them on Sakura, who promptly kicks him for his troubles. He tries to earn sympathy by telling Sakura what they are and how Lum bought them, nearly getting zapped by the angry alien. Ataru runs away from her and tries to use the coat on various girls at Tomobiki High, but they all reject the hideous-looking coat. He only stops when Lum catches him. In class, Lum tries to force Ataru to put the coat on by using a high-powered fan, only to end up blowing him out of the window. She flies after him, but the coat blows away and she goes chasing after it. She nearly gets mugged by a badly dressed thug, and then almost gets crushed by a falling telephone pole - only Ataru's swift intervention saves her, and he finally puts the coat on, due to getting soaked in the process. This gets recorded by the same TV shopping company, and it inspires Ran to get a pair for herself and Rei. | |||||
| 321 | "Invitation to Another Realm" (別世界への招待, "Bessekai e no shotai") | ||||
| One evening, Kotatsu Neko shields a starving stray cat from being pursued by an angry man. The bakeneko's kindness results in it being overcome by a strange trance that causes it to roam the streets, breaking into peoples' houses and eating their food. When word gets to the Moroboshis, they just try to lock themselves in, but find that Cherry and Kotatsu Neko are already eating all their food. Cherry explains that the bakeneko has been possessed, and trying to be helpful, Lum zaps Ataru with a raygun that projects his spirit to the same realm where Kotatsu Neko's spirit is being held. He discovers that Kotatsu Neko is being possessed by a family of flea spirits, who are compelling him to eat. Ataru protests that this is wrong, but they rebut that they always lived like this. He finally convinces them that they'd be better off living on a cat belonging to a rich family, and so they agree to move off of Kotatsu Neko and onto one of Ryoko Mendo's pet cats. | |||||
| 322 | "Darling's True Feelings" (ダーリンの本音, "Darin no honne") | ||||
| Lum is visited in her UFO by a traveling merchant offering T-shirts for sale. He convinces her to buy a True Feelings Explosion shirt, which will shout aloud whatever the wearer is thinking. Lum sneaks back to Earth and manipulates Ataru into putting the shirt on; it actually works as advertised. Ataru discovers he can block its effects so long as he wears something over it, but eventually Lum bluntly asks him how he feels about her. Ataru tries to avoid answering, but Lum just chases him down, cranking up the volume higher and higher, refusing to turn it off until he considers her question. Finally, Ataru gives in and admits that he loves her... but, ironically, the shirt screams the answer so loudly that Lum can't actually distinguish the words, whilst also burning itself out in the process. | |||||
Anime Episodes[]
- Episode 192 (Chapters 301, 302, 303 & 304)
- The Electric Household Guard (OVA) (Chapters 309 & 310)
- Date with a Spirit (OVA) (Chapter 319)
See also[]
TBA