Urusei Yatsura Volume 3 is the third 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!
Undeterred by Lum's jealous anger, Ataru continues to shamelessly chase skirts. When the priestess Sakura returns as Tomobiki High School's nurse, the school is plagued by unprecedented menaces that titillate Ataru's lecherous heart! Later, Lum's gorgeous childhood friend Ran escalates the school hijinks, but what Lum doesn't know is that Ran has a major score to settle!
Characters[]
TBA
Chapters[]
| Chapter # | Title | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | "Sakura Sensei, Enchanted Blossom" (妖花・サクラ先生, "Yōka Sakura-sensei") | ||||
| News of a beautiful new school nurse has the boys of Class 2-4 eagerly injuring themselves as an excuse to see her. But Ataru, who seems legitimately ill, has no interest, even protesting when his classmates drag him to see her. The nurse turns out to be Sakura, but even given the circumstances of their meeting, that still doesn't explain Ataru's uncharacteristic behavior. Sakura doesn't have long to think it over as her office is mobbed by students who are all exhibiting a wild array of ridiculous yet legitimate symptoms. Realizing they are all from Ataru's class, she has the whole class given a checkup, and discovers that the cause are influenza germs that have been taken over by a sickness spirit possessing Ataru. She exorcises the spirit and, once the boys have given it a thorough beating, it retreats, allowing the germs to go back to normal... and so they engulf the whole school in an influenza epidemic. | |||||
| 38 | "Everybody in the Rain'" (みんな雨ン中..., "Minna Ame nchū...") | ||||
| An ordinary school morning for Ataru gets off to an odd start even for him when he finds himself haunted by his own personal raincloud, which defies all efforts to avoid its constant downpour. Reluctantly, Ataru goes to see Sakura in hopes that she can exorcise it, but when he arrives to find her talking to what seems to be an umbrella, he changes his mind. In class, Lum tries to get rid of it, only to end up fighting with it. The clash brings Sakura running, and she reveals the umbrella she was talking to before is a kasa-obake, and the rain spirit's husband. She tries to help the two mediate their dispute, but communication swiftly breaks down, and she phones for a more suitable expert... a divorce councilor! | |||||
| 39 | "Ghost Story: Xerox Man" (怪談・コピー人間, "Kaidan Kopī Ningen") | ||||
| With midterms coming up, the less scholarly boys of Class 2-4 are desperate for help in physics. Mendo's notes are known to be excellent, but he refuses to let the boys copy from them... until Ataru blackmails him with his knowledge of Mendo's phobias. But the notes are far too detailed for the boys to copy by hand on their own. Lum offers to help with a copy machine in her UFO. Unfortunately, she mishandles her tech, and instead merges Ataru with the notebook, creating a notebook with Ataru's mind in it and a mindless copy of Ataru made from animated notebook pages. With the machine overloaded, they have to slip back to school to wait until it repairs itself. The copy-Ataru's trait of mindlessly imitating whoever is interacting with it nearly causes a lot of trouble, before it finally scares off the teacher. Deciding to take advantage, Ataru sells the rights to using his copy's body to students who want to bone up on their notes. | |||||
| 40 | "Youth Devoted to the White Ball" (白球にかけた青春, "Hakkyū ni Kaketa Seishun") | ||||
| Mendo's arch-rival, Tobimaro Mizunokoji, arrives at Tomobiki High looking for his yearly duel against Mendo in a game of baseball. Determined to break their eleven year streak of ties, Mendo hires Ataru and Lum to join his team. He turns out to desperately need their help; whilst Tobimaro's hiring an All-Star Little League team to be his players seems embarrassing, they're still better than Mendo's team, who have spent all year learning how to identify different baseball equipment on sight and haven't learned any of the rules of how to play. The resultant match is brief and farcical, culminating in Mendo and Tobimaro's twelfth tie. | |||||
| 41 | "The Red-Cloaked Phantom" (怪人赤マント, "Kaijin Aka Manto") | ||||
| Tomobiki High is about to host a student disco party, and news of this has brought the long-dormant Red-Cloaked Phantom out of retirement, eager to renew his now-forgotten legend as the terror of Tomobiki High. However, the years have been unkind to the Phantom, who is now a grossly overweight has-been, and his efforts are a string of failures. He gets stuck in a stall whilst trying to ambush some girls in the toilet, leaps out at a bunch of "girls" that turn out to be boys dressing in drag as part of a party game, and whilst he does cut an impressive figure dancing with Lum, his big reveal of himself as the Red-Cloaked Phantom just results in everybody laughing at him. | |||||
| 42 | "Surfin' SOS" (サーフィンSOS, "Sāfin SOS") | ||||
| Ataru and his small gaggle of associates are enjoying themselves on a sunny beach when they accidentally stumble across Sakura. She explains she came here because of her uncle, who loves surfing, viewing it as an ascetic practice. After clearing up an initial misunderstanding about Cherry being dead, Cherry invites Ataru and Mendo to go surfing. Neither boy is particularly adept at concentrating on their surfboard over the pretty girls around, especially when Lum playfully decides to mess with them both. | |||||
| 43 | "Bathing Suit Bandit" (水着ドロボウ, "Mizugi Dorobō") | ||||
| Mendo invites Lum to his personal vacation home, but is less than pleased when Ataru, Shinobu, several friends of the other teens, Sakura and Cherry invite themselves along as well. Cherry in particular attracts the most hostility from the others, with even Sakura lacking a kind word for her mooching uncle. That evening, the girls show off their newest swimsuits to each other, but come dawn the next day, they are horrified to find them gone. They do, however, spot what looks like a shiny bald head running from them. They bring this up with Sakura, but she is skeptical that her uncle would stoop to stealing girl's swimsuits instead of food. That skepticism vanishes when she is attacked by something that pulls her underwater and strips off her swimsuit - something that, in the brief glimpse she gets, looks like Cherry. That evening, the girls lay a trap and catch "Cherry" in the act... or, rather, they catch the perverted octopus that they think is Cherry. | |||||
| 44 | "Snatch the Bikini" (ビキニを奪え, "Bikini o Ubae") | ||||
| Mendo's beachside vacation takes an unexpected turn when Tobimaro Mizunokoji shows up, intent on another fight with his childhood rival. He and a gaggle of female underlings force their way onto Mendo's estate at gunpoint and steal Lum's clothing in an effort to force Mendo to come to Tobimaro's vacation home across the bay and duel him. Ataru and Lum set off by the sky, whilst Mendo attempts to come over the water... unfortunately, all he has is a glorified hamster ball that he and his goons are expected to "walk" across the water. As a result, Ataru and Lum face off against Tobimaro and his she-goons alone. Ironically, Tobimaro's underlings put up more of a fight than he does, and soon it has devolved into a three-way brawl as Lum tries to get her bikini back, Ataru tries to ask the women on a date, and the women try to avoid them both. | |||||
| 45 | "Food Fight" (マンナンウォーズ, "Mannan Wōzu") | ||||
| Still at the beach for their summer vacation, Sakura swaps some diet tips with Shinobu and her friends before Mendo invites them, Lum and even Ataru to attend a dinner party. Unfortunately, the meal is 4000 yen per person, and Mendo of course refuses to pay for anyone who isn't a girl. They are instead pointed to "The Hell Course", a massive multi-course meal of ridiculous proportions, which is free to anyone who can finish it all. Intrigued, Ataru, Cherry and Sakura all decide to enter. However, even Ataru and Cherry's stomaches are no match for the Hell Course... but the hotel's chefs have never encountered a glutton like Sakura, who almost casually devours the entire feast without appearing to gain so much as an inch. | |||||
| 46 | "Yoga Meditation" (ヨガで迷想, "Yoga de Meisō") | ||||
| The summer vacation takes an unfortunate turn when a heavy rainstorm blows in, leaving Ataru and his group bored and listless. Noting they've all packed on a few pounds over their vacation, and seeing Cherry performing his yoga, they decide to try yoga themselves. But Cherry initially tries to get rid of Ataru and Mendo so he can be alone with the women, so they beat him up and attempt to do their yoga lessons on their own. Eventually, their lack of success causes them to try and ask Cherry again, but ultimately, all he does is put them in a trance and attempt to escape. | |||||
| 47 | "A Tragic Date" (哀愁でいと, "Aishūdeito") | ||||
| As the sun sets on the last day of summer vacation, Ataru and his group hang out on the beach. All of them are feeling sentimental, in their own distinct ways. Suddenly, Sakura senses a supernatural presence, and hurries them away from the beach. That night, they sit aboard a chartered tour boat and start reflecting, only to be interrupted by a melodramatically melancholic sea monster, who begs to be allowed to wax sentimental with them. Out of politeness, they agree, but they ultimately find him to be so annoyingly overblown and expressive that he completely kills the mood. Especially when he cuts the rope on the boat and sends them drifting off with the tide. | |||||
| 48 | "Private Lesson" (個人教授, "Kojin Kyōju") | ||||
| Hanawa, a kind and optimistic, but naive and slightly overdramatic young teacher, begins working at Tomobiki High. Ironically, his first day on the job also coincides with Lum officially enrolling as a student at Tomobiki High, having her father pull some strings so that she can be a member of Class 2-4 with her beloved husband Ataru. Though well-meaning, Hanawa proves his own unearthliness when he completely fails to understand that Lum is an alien, even as his disbelieving students attempt to prove her extraterrestrial origins. | |||||
| 49 | "No Crying on the Court" (コートの中では泣かないわ, "Kōto no Nakade wa Nakanai wa") | ||||
| Meaning well, Hanawa coaxes Ataru and Lum to join the boys and girls volleyball teams respectively. To Ataru's dismay, the boys team is a bunch of losers who've never even had enough team members to be allowed to play before he joined. And Lum finds that the girl's team is headed by a brutal volleyball fanatic named Natsuko who is obsessed with victory and who holds a grudge against guys since she was dumped by one who demanded she give up volleyball for him. Worse, in the thick of the game, she turns into a snorting, stomping, glaring she-demon out of her sheer desire to win. | |||||
| 50 | "Love Disappears on the Court" (コートに消える恋, "Kōto ni Kieru Koi") | ||||
| Upon hearing that Lum is a member of the girls volleyball team, Mendo joins the boys team so he'll have the chance to play against Lum. Hearing that the girls team's leader is a beauty doesn't hurt either. Upon first meeting Mendo, Natsuko is immediately smitten with the handsome, wealthy, superficially charming youth, just like all the other girls in school. But she is terrified that he'll dump her when he sees her in full-blown sports-freak mode. She tries to tone her behavior down, but ultimately can't resist her urge to play. Ironically, Mendo actually seems to find this side of her fascinating, so he happily joins the volleyball team, which Ataru uses as an excuse to quit. | |||||
| 51 | "Parents' Day Horrors" (戦慄の参観日, "Senritsu no Sankan-bi") | ||||
| It's Parent's Day at Tomobiki High School, and Ataru's mother is dreading the embarrassment she expects to receive from her less than perfect son. However, she finds that Ataru is actually not the weirdest or most troublesome thing on campus for once. An old-fashioned ox-cart arrives, carrying a regal lady who refuses to speak directly but instead uses an elderly butler to convey her wishes for her. Then the ox-cart is c rushed under a spaceship, from which emerges a beautiful alien woman who excitedly flies over to Ataru's mother. She initially wonders if the strange alien is another of Ataru's girlfriends, but things are soon cleared up; the eccentric rich woman is Mendo's mother, and the alien is Lum's mother. Mendo's mother attempts to challenge Lum's mother to a duel, but the language barrier proves insurmountable. In fact, the bell to signal the end of the school day rings before anyone even thinks to step inside, and so the assembled parents and children all head home, with Ataru's mother thanking him for not misbehaving today. | |||||
| 52 | "Kunoichi, Running in Nara" (くノ一、奈良を走る..., "Kunoichi, Nara o Hashiru...") | ||||
| Class 2-4 takes a school trip to Nara, and wit the exception of Lum, most are quite bored. Suddenly, a feminine figure in all-concealing tight clothing goes running past their group, dropping a scroll that Ataru picks up. The girl is Kaede, a kunoichi from a clan that lives in Nara who has grown increasingly disgruntled with her future life as a ninja. However, before she can be even permitted to leave, her aged master Yatsude demands she retrieve the sacred scroll that she dropped. Kaede promptly goes and tries to seduce it back from Ataru, but her lack of enthusiasm repeatedly hinders her efforts, though she does manage to get it back in the end... after running a herd of pigs over it and making it illegible. | |||||
| 53 | "Kunoichi, Lurking in Kyoto" (くノ一、京に潜む..., "Kunoichi, Kyō ni Hisomu...") | ||||
| Having had enough of the ninja life, Kaeda abandons her former clan in Nara and flees to Kyoto, only to be pursued by her former master, Yatsude, and her rivals Mukade and Kumade. She takes up a new job working at an inn in Kyoto, where she first runs into Ataru, Lum, Mendo and Shinobu, and then learns that her former friends are chasing her. She escapes their first attempt at an ambush, but then finds that Ataru and his group are staying at the very inn where she's working. She attempts to disguise herself, and ironically fails to realize that Yatsude, Mukade and Kumade have all donned disguises and are searching for her in the inn. Luckily, they don't recognize her either. The yen finally drops at dinner, where a brief brawl ensues, before Yatsude's comments inspire Mukade and Kumade to also run away from the ninja life with Kaede. | |||||
| 54 | "Kunoichi Forever" (くノ一は永遠に…, "Kunoichi wa Eien ni...") | ||||
| On their last day in Kyoto, Ataru goes in search of the beautiful ex-kunoichi Kaede, with a jealous Lum tagging along. Their search is complicated by the fact that Master Yatsude has deployed the ninjas of the clan to search out the renegade Kaede... fortunately for Kaede, the ninjas are such bumbling idiots that they are actually even less competent than Ataru, and so both groups spend the whole day running pointlessly all over Kyoto. | |||||
| 55 | "Sports Festival Close Call" (体育祭危機一髪..., "Taiikusai Kikiippatsu...") | ||||
| It's the Sport's Festival at Tomobiki High, and Lum is happy to compete in the girl's events... until she notices that there's another new girl competing, a girl called "Ran". As well she should; transfer student Ran is actually Lum's childhood friend from Oniboshi. Unfortunately, she doesn't have fond memories of their childhood together like Lum does. In fact, she's come all the way to Earth to seek revenge, in the form of using her succubus-like power to drain Ataru's life. Lum dedicates the rest of the sports festival to keeping that from happening, which is no easy task given what a pervert her husband is. | |||||
| 56 | "Cultural Festival Close Call" (文化祭危機一髪..., "Bunkasai Kikiippatsu...") | ||||
| A week after the sports festival, Tomobiki High is holding its cultural festival. Ran shows up at Class 2-4, and Lum is initially hopeful that she's given up on her grudge. Instead, she reminds Lum of an entirely different grudge she bears, over Lum winning the heart of Rei, and vows she will drain Ataru's youth. She almost succeeds, but Lum manages to successfully chase her off after a few wacky hijinks. | |||||
| 57 | "Drama Festival Close Call" (演劇祭危機一髪..., "Engekisai Kikiippatsu...") | ||||
| It's time for Tomobiki High's drama festival, which means its various classes are putting on plays. In Class 2-7, Ran is playing the part of Otomi in a performance based on the story of Sanshiro Sugata. She has just reached a point where she is menaced by the villain Higaki when Ataru, dressed as Goku from his class's performance based on Journey to the West, interrupts to try and save her. Ran tries to steal her deadly kiss from the ever-willing Ataru, but is interrupted when Lum comes to retrieve her errant husband. Class 2-7 tries repeatedly to carry on with the show, but Ataru just keeps intervening, resulting in a very mixed up play indeed. | |||||
| 58 | "Farewell Party Close Call" (お別れパーティー危機一髪..., "Owakare Pātī Kikiippatsu...") | ||||
| Ran invites Lum and Ataru to come to her house (her UFO) for a final lunch together, promising that she is about to return back to her home amongst the stars. While hoping that Ran means what she says, Lum is suspicious, and she turns out to be right to be; not only does Ran try to drug her with sleeping potion-laced cookies, but her try plan is to trick Lum with leaving with a duplicate Ataru, allowing her to drain Ataru's youth at long last. Ironically, whilst Ran does manage to get Lum to leave without ever discovering her plans, she also screws things up, ending up with the duplicate Ataru instead of the real thing. As a result, she cancels her plans to leave until she finally gets revenge, much to Lum's confusion. | |||||
Anime Episodes[]
- Episode 5b (Chapter 37)
- Episode 13 (Chapters 42, 43 & 45)
- Episode 16b (Chapter 51)
- Episode 18 (Chapters 55 & 58)
- Episode 21.5b (Chapters 52, 53 & 54)
- Episode 33 (Chapters 48, 49 & 50)
- Episode 37 (Chapter 41)
- Episode 40 (Chapter 47)
- Episode 70 (Chapter 40)
- Episode 180 (Chapter 46)
- Episode 187 (Chapter 39)
See also[]
TBA