Urusei Yatsura Volume 29 is the twenty-ninth volume of the 34 Volume Format of Urusei Yatsura.
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| Chapter # | Title | ||||
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| 301 | "The 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 | "The 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 | "The 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 | "The 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 | "Passion of the Red Shoes" (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 | "The Star Prima's Balance" (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 Cosmo Box Hidden in the Past" (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 | "The Electric Household Guard - 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 | "The Electric Household Guard - 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 Punched 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. | |||||
Anime Episodes[]
- Episode 192 (Chapters 301, 302, 303 & 304)
- The Electric Household Guard (OVA) (Chapters 309 & 310)