Urusei Yatsura Volume 1 is the first volume of the 34 Volume Format of Urusei Yatsura.
Summary[]
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Characters[]
- Lum
- Ataru Moroboshi
- Shinobu Miyake
- Cherry
- Ataru's Father
- Ataru's Mother
- Lum's Father
- Mirror Demon
- Lum's Stormtroopers
- Sakura
- Rei
- Benten
Chapters[]
| Chapter # | Title | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "A Good Catch" (かけめぐる青春, "Kakemeguru Seishun") | ||||
| After being slapped by his girlfriend Shinobu Miyake, a lecherous boy named Ataru Moroboshi is annoyed by a monk named Cherry who warns him of a bad fortune. Upon going to his home, he meets an Oni alien who has come to invade Earth and learns that he has been randomly selected to a game of tag in which the human player must grab the horns on the head of the Oni player within 10 days as a chance to stop the alien invasion, although his opponent is not the giant Oni, but his daughter Lum, which excites Ataru by the thought of touching her. However, Lum is not easy to catch for she can fly, and Ataru only succeeds in stealing her bikini on the eight day, but after Shinobu encourages him on the ninth day by pledging to marry him if he wins, manages to trick Lum using her bikini and grab her horns on the final day. As Ataru expresses his joy of being able to get married, Lum misinterprets this as proposal to her and accepts, much to Shinobu's anger. | |||||
| 2 | "Poor Little Devil" (やさしい悪魔, "Yasashī Akuma") | ||||
| Cherry interrupts Ataru and Shinobu on a date, causing Ataru to get hit in the back of the head by a stray baseball from a nearby game. Cherry then follows Ataru home, inviting himself to dinner and into Ataru's bedroom, claiming he wants to protect Ataru from some coming evil. When Ataru wakes up at the cusp of midnight and checks his injury out with the aid of two mirrors, he accidentally summons an imp; when Cherry attacks the imp, he prevents it from returning through the mirror, stranding it. Ataru permits the imp to live at his home until Cherry can figure out a way to send it home, but his tolerance quickly runs out when it starts hitting on Shinobu. Cherry finally attempts a banishing ritual, but botches it and instead summons a horde of imps. | |||||
| 3 | "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (悲しき雨声, "Kanashiki Amekoe?") | ||||
| A gaggle of Ataru's male schoolmates who have become obsessed with Lum drag him into a meeting atop Tomobiki High School, determined to make him help them in summoning Lum back. Ataru initially refuses, but changes his mind when they agree to let him cheat off of them in math. However, their ritual instead summons a different alien, who carries them to Ataru's house in his UFO. The alien then reveals he's an interstellar taxi driver, and demands an extortionate fee; the equivalent of Earth's entire reserves of oil. When Ataru refuses, he summons his taxi union and starts stealing Earth's oil, making Ataru a public pariah. At the height of the disaster, Lum returns, and offers to pay the bill if she can live at the Moroboshis; Ataru initially refuses, but is beaten until he changes his mind. Lum pays the bill and the alien taxi drivers return the oil... by letting it rain back down across the planet for a week. | |||||
| 4 | "All of Me" (あなたにあげる, "Anata ni Ageru?") | ||||
| 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. | |||||
| 5 | "Dire Straits" (絶体絶命, "Zettai zetsumei?") | ||||
| Ataru attempts to arrange for a date with Shinobu by telephone one night, only for Lum to overhear and attempt to spoil things by shouting lies for Shinobu to overhear. This is the last straw for Ataru, who orders her to leave his house and never return. Hurt, the oni girl flies away, but not before giving Ataru a final electric shock. He staggers downstairs and phones Shinobu, trying to tell her that Lum is gone, only for her to mysteriously interrupt their phone call, which upsets Shinobu and makes her hang up the phone. Ataru's mother berates him over dinner for making a scene in front of a local gossip, and he storms out of the house. He intends to visit Shinobu, but is struck by lightning, and realizes that Lum is stalking him in her UFO. He goes to a public payphone, and despite Lum's interference, manages to convince Shinobu that Lum is lying and trying to break them up. After returning home, he gets into a fight with his mother about how much time he's spending on the phone, and finally decides to brave the gauntlet of Lum's wrath to see Shinobu in person, with the aid of his father's rubber rain poncho. Lightning bolts devastate the streets all around him, but he and Shinobu finally meet. The sight on her remote-viewer so incenses Lum that she crashes her UFO almost on top of them, engulfing them in a thick cloud of smoke. The explosion separates the two teens, and they try to find each other, but in the confusion, Ataru ends up hugging an ecstatic Lum. Believing that Ataru has tricked her, Shinobu smashes him on the head with a rock and leaves, with Lum gloating as she clings to the dismayed Ataru. | |||||
| 6 | "The Things We Do for Love" (愛で殺したい, "Ai de Koroshitai?") | ||||
| One evening, as Cherry sits down to a pot of hobo stew, he sees an ill omen in its contents and immediately rushes over to the Moroboshi household, certain it will involve Ataru. Ataru is busy trying to lean up, which angers Lum, as she realizes he's doing it in anticipation of a visit from Shinobu. On her way to the Moroboshi house, Shinobu is accosted by a strange creature; part tiger and part cow. It carries her to Ataru's room, where it transforms into a handsome male Oni. An angry Lum explains that this is her former fiancé, Rei, who has come to try and win her back. But she wants nothing to do with him; aside from his ugly transformation, he's also a brainless eating machine. She goes so far as to lie about being pregnant with Ataru's baby, which inspires Rei to challenge Ataru to a duel. A sweet potato eating duel ensues, and Ataru miraculously wins. | |||||
| 7 | "The Way to a Man's Heart" (憎みきれないろくでなし, "Nikumi kirenai Roku de Nashi?") | ||||
| Whilst wandering the streets of Tomobiki, Ataru and some friends stumble across a new beef bowl restaurant. Unfortunately, Rei is already inside, pigging out. Ataru shares Rei's story with the boys, and they try to leave, only to run into Lum, who was looking for Ataru. Rei tries once again to get Lum to return with him, and she mockingly promises to do so if he can give her an eloquent proposal. To their shock, he succeeds by reading from a "Japanese for Dummies" scroll. Fortunately for Lum, Ataru and the boys play ignorant about her promise, and Rei is too stupid to remind Lum in Japanese. An angry Rei tries to chase Lum down, causing her, Ataru and Ataru's friends to flee. Rei continually repeats his proposal, breaking up many couples, but the fleeing teens evade him by leading him past various food sources, which Rei stops to eat. It ultimately ends with Rei catching up to Lum and Ataru at the Moroboshi household, before they are besieged by angry merchants, smitten girls, and enraged ex-boyfriends. | |||||
| 8 | "Take Me Home" (いい日旅立ち, "Ii hi Tabi Tachi?") | ||||
| Ataru returns home from school and is greeted by Cherry, who explains he has come to say farewell. Ataru misunderstands his intent, and believes that Cherry is leaving. He learns his mistake when an armored Lum abducts him in her flying saucer to partake in her homeworld's Setsubun festival. He is even less thrilled when he arrives to what seems like a battle between the Oni and the Gods of Luck, though to his relief it turns out to just be a beanbag tossing contest. His relief soon gives way to lust when he spots the beautiful Benten, and he immediately abandons the Oni side to try and flirt with her. This outrages Lum, who knocks over her team's basket when she goes after him, costing the Oni the game. As punishment, Ataru is chosen as that year's "whipping boy"; he is tied to a stake and both the Oni and the Gods of Luck pelt him with beans whilst chanting for ill luck to depart and good fortune to come their way. | |||||
| 9 | "The Big Game" (大勝負, "Dai Shobu?") | ||||
| One evening, Ataru and Lum are left home alone as the Moroboshis go on a couple's retreat for three days. Lum decides to cook for their dinner, but screws up, causing an explosion. Miniature spaceships and robots pour from her cooking vessel and start fighting in their house. Summoned by premonitions, Sakura and Cherry arrive; after conferring with the teens, they decide to summon the spirits controlling the fighting forces so they can be persuaded to stop. Instead, they only summon a pair of possessing spirits who start fighting themselves. After considerable chaos, the aliens who own the toy soldiers arrive and deactivate them, apologizing for the trouble; Lum accidentally created a portal that swapped her cooking for their toy soldiers. Using Lum's awful cooking, they shock the two spiritualists back to their senses. Ataru taunts them over their pent-up ill-will towards each other, but his mockery of Lum's cooking causes her to start attacking him, which prompts Cherry and Sakura to take their leave. | |||||
Anime Episodes[]
- Episode 1 (Chapters 1 & 3)
- Episode 3 (Chapter 6 & 7)
- Episode 5a (Chapter 4)
- Episode 6 (Chapter 2 & 5)
- Episode 15a (Chapter 8)
- Episode 73 (Chapter 9)
Trivia[]
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