Urusei Yatsura Volume 4 is the fourth 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's childhood friend Ran continues to cause trouble with her kisses, but that's the least of Ataru's worries! Ten, Lum's little cousin, arrives at the Moroboshi household, creating chaos at every turn. A miniature gentleman and self-proclaimed playboy, Ten loves Lum but hates Ataru. How will Ataru contend with this new fire-breathing nemesis?
Characters[]
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Chapters[]
| Chapter # | Title | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59 | "Memories and a Close Call" (思い出危機一髪..., "Omoide Kikiippatsu...") | ||||
| Ran invites Lum to a cafe for lunch. Lum hopes that her old friend wants to make peace at long last, but instead Ran reminds her of the many times that Lum got her into trouble when they were both little girls, vowing to punish Lum for this long catalogue of woes. In the end, Lum tearfully leaves... and also leaves Ran to pick up the check for both of them, giving her yet another grievance to stew over. | |||||
| 60 | "Genuine Close Call" (正真正銘危機一髪..., "Shōshinshōmei Kikiippatsu...") | ||||
| One day at Tomobiki High, Ran manages to ambush Lum and leave her tied up in a gym storage room. She immediately goes in search of Ataru, and ultimately finds him in the nurse's office, sick with a sore throat. She tries repeatedly to get her deadly kiss with Ataru, but finds herself being accidentally thwarted by Sakura, who is set on protecting Ran's virtue. Ataru, meanwhile, vacillates between trying to kiss Ran, fondling Sakura, and trying to get his hands on some medicine for his sore throat. In the end, Ran does manage to kiss Ataru... but to her shock, it seems to have no effect. Luckily for Ataru, he had unwittingly drunk Cherry's experimental youth potion beforehand. | |||||
| 61 | "Ataru Retires" (あたるの引退, "Ataru no Intai") | ||||
| As the last homeroom of the second semester ends, Hanawa gives a final farewell to the students. Before they leave class for the year, Ataru suddenly surprises everybody with an announcement that he is going to retire. Confusion immediately springs up because nobody knows what he's retiring from. Hanawa initially believes Ataru plans to drop out of school. Then Mendo believes he's breaking up with Lum, something that Lum doesn't take at all well. Then they get meta, suggesting that Ataru is retiring from the position of the series' protagonist, which sparks excitement as many characters want to take his place. Finally, an annoyed Ataru clarifies that he is retiring from his position as class president, at which everyone loses their enthusiasm and just leaves. | |||||
| 62 | "Fortune Fear" (おみくじこわい, "Omikuji Kowai") | ||||
| As Tomobiki holds its New Year's Eve festival, Ataru and Lum go on a rare date together. However, both of them draw predictions of misfortune. At Cherry's urging, they go to Fortune Street to see Sakura's stall, where Ran is temporarily helping out. However, they once more draw predictions of misfortune. Even Ran draws a fortune that seems to alternatively promise her victory and disaster. They try one last prediction, and it also goes wrong. Disgruntled, they finally leave Fortune Street... and find themselves exiting out of a gate labeled both "Misfortune" and "Fortune", with Ataru falling down the stairs on the Misfortune side. | |||||
| 63 | "Ten is Here" (テンちゃんがきた, "Ten-chan ga Kita") | ||||
| On New Year's Day, Lum is having the time of her life dressing up in Spring kimonos for the Moroboshis, who are delighted to have the chance to do this. Their open happiness makes Ataru feel jealous and unloved. He soon finds other things to worry about when he finds a strange baby in their mailbox - a baby who turns out to be Lum's infant cousin, Ten. Joined by Ten, Ataru and Lum go to Sakura's shrine to play some traditional New Year's games, where they meet up with Sakura, Cherry, Shinobu and Ran. Ten nearly gives away Ran's status as an alien, but Ran manages to cover it up. The group starts to play Hyakkunin Isshu, but Ten burns Ataru's hand for constantly grabbing at the girls when they go for the cards. Sugoroku goes no better, with Ten scorching Ataru's face for mocking his slow flying speed. Ataru retreats to the kitchen to cool off and sulk, and Ran tries to get closer to him, only for Ten to attack Ataru yet again. Finally losing his patience, Ataru attacks Ten with a frying pan and spatula, only to be dogpiled and scolded by Lum, Shinobu and Sakura. | |||||
| 64 | "Ten's Love" (テンちゃんの恋, "Ten-chan no Koi") | ||||
| On a snowy day, Ataru's mother orders the reluctant teen out to clear away all the snow that has piled up on their sidewalk. Moments later, Lum announces that she has to go somewhere and tells Ataru to look after Ten whilst she's gone. Despite not liking Ten much, Ataru realizes he has an opportunity, and talks Ten into helping him clear the sidewalk with his fiery breath. When his mother only gives him ten yen for it, he takes Ten and tries to earn more money by doing it for pay. To appease the oni kid, he lets him make a phone call, which gets them a job at Sakura's place. Things initially go well, but then Ten accidentally sucks Sakura's engagement ring into a klein bottle he used to dispose of the water left over, and he doesn't want to give it back due to his crush on her. Ataru talks him into doing it anyway, and then Ten flies off. Lum returns and Ataru is initially full of praise for Ten... but he changes his tune when an angry Ten starts remotely blasting Ataru with fire. | |||||
| 65 | "A Date for Just the Two of Us" (ふたりだけのデート, "Futari Dake no Dēto") | ||||
| Things are tense in Ataru's room; Ataru isn't happy that Ten is still staying with them. Ten pays him no mind; he's busy writing a love letter to Sakura, and he wants Lum to translate it into Japanese for him. When he hears it, Ataru mocks it, before offering to ghost-write Ten a better one. Ten agrees, and Ataru tries to sabotage Ten in revenge, sending Sakura a very explicit letter and giving Ten "dating instructions" that would be on the crude side even for a physically intimate couple. He doesn't count on Sakura both showing up to seek revenge on the pervert who sent her such a letter and being unable to harm a clearly naive and innocent young alien. In the end, Sakura gently lets Ten down, and Ten responds by burning Ataru - not because he realizes he was sabotaged, but because he thinks Ataru failed. | |||||
| 66 | "From Flower to Flower" (花から花へ, "Hana kara Hana e") | ||||
| Ten asks for Ataru's help in introducing himself to the beautiful young woman proprietor of a flowershop, only for Ataru to immediately fall for the woman herself. She seems oblivious to their interest, but instead gives them a gardenia. Ten wants to make it bloom beautifully to impress her, whilst Ataru would rather make it sickly to both make Ten look bad and give himself an excuse to get closer to the flower seller. Ironically, Ten causes the gardenia to bloom into a giant mutant with same alien fertilizer, causing it to become sapient and capable of speech. It too tries to hit on the flower seller, but she shoots it down, causing it to wander off and try to pick up girls, to the annoyance of both Ataru and Ten. | |||||
| 67 | "Bean-Shooter for Ogres" (鬼に豆鉄砲, "Oni ni Mamedeppō") | ||||
| Ataru arrives home on the day of Setsubun, and upon hearing what day it is, he immediately panics, terrified of being taken back to the Oni/Gods of Luck duel again. However, he overhears Lum, Ten and Benten griping that their planet's version of Setsubun has been cancelled. Feeling pervy and mischievous, Ataru talks them into celebrating Setsubun in the "Japanese Style"... by which he means he and Benten will chase Lum and Ten around whilst pelting them with beans. The two oni quickly counterattack, and the brief but fierce brawl ends with Ataru being thrown painfully into the street. Amused by her "first Earth Setsubun", Benten leaves, promising to come back next year. | |||||
| 68 | "Miss Snow Queen" (ミス雪の女王, "Misu Yuki no Joō") | ||||
| Ataru, Lum and Ten are on a skiing trip up in the mountains when the ski resort they are staying back offers a scavenger hunt race, with the first prize being a kiss from the mysterious but evidently very beautiful "Miss Snow Queen". Naturally, Ataru immediately becomes determined to win the race, even though it means facing off against a much bigger and stronger guy also determined to win that kiss. Through tenacity, ingenuity, and careful alliances with Ten, Ataru wins... but immediately regrets winning when he learns that "Miss Snow Queen" is none other than Lum. | |||||
| 69 | "Valentine's Day Disaster (バレンタインデーの惨劇, "Barentain Dē no Sangeki") | ||||
| It's Valentine's Day, and whilst Ataru is trying to avoid Lum, Ten finds himself being confronted by a young girl named Mako, who has developed a crush on him. She ambushes him and forces him to accept a chocolate heart, then runs away embarrassed, leaving the confused young oni in her wake. Lum clues him in, then goes chasing after Ataru again, before Mako swats Ten to the ground with a bamboo pole. She asserts that because Ten accepted her chocolate earlier, they now have to get married. Being unaware that this is just silly little kid logic, Ten becomes determined to try and force her to take it back, chasing her all the way to her home. He is awestruck by her beautiful, sweet-natured mother, who plays along with her daughter's childish beliefs, but things get messy when Ataru and Lum inadvertently follow him to Mako's home. | |||||
| 70 | "The Ant Traps of Love" (恋のアリ地獄, "Koi no Ari Jigoku") | ||||
| Ten's unwanted admirer, the young human toddler Mako, returns in an effort to try and win Ten's love.. However, despite his desperate desire to avoid her to instead snuggle with older women, he receives no sympathy; Ataru thinks it's hilarious that Ten is going through something similar to Ataru's own situation, whilst Lum sympathizes with Mako and encourages her pursuit. Ten is ultimately forced to go on a playdate at Mako's home, despite not wanting to. | |||||
| 71 | "Peach Blossom Poetry Slam" (桃の花歌合戦, "Momo no Hana Utagassen") | ||||
| Upon learning a myth about a peach grove where a man-eating demon would use a beautiful nymph to lure would-be poets for food, Ataru and Mendo set up a poetry reading with Lum, Shinobu, Ran, Sakura and Cherry, hoping to summon the nymph. To their surprise, they succeed. But then she summons the demon, who demands they defeat him in a poetry recital competition or be eaten. Fortunately, it turns out that the demon hasn't been summoned in so long that he's completely forgotten his former skills. | |||||
| 72 | "Eerie Earmuffs" (イヤーマッフルの怪, "Iyāmaffuru no Kai") | ||||
| Whilst wandering the streets of Tomobiki, Ataru and Ten stumble across a street stall selling earmuffs. Despite it being spring, Ataru decides to get a pair due to how cheap they are. Unfortunately, he's fallen afoul of an incompetent alien merchant trying to expand their market into Earth, as the "earmuffs" are actually body switching devices! Ataru and Ten swap bodies, and Ataru immediately tries to exploit Ten's popularity with girls. Ten-as-Ataru tries to get Lum to help him, but Lum's tendency to believe her cousin over anyone else comes back to bite him. In the end, Cherry arrives as Ataru-as-Ten is molesting Sakura with his own set of body-swap devices, resulting in Ten in Cherry's body, Cherry in Ten's body, and Ataru in his own body. | |||||
| 73 | ""Beware the Chaos Meow-Meow"!" (ニャオンの恐怖にゃ気をつけろ!!, "Nyaon no Kyōfu Nya Kiwotsukero!!") | ||||
| One night, some very noisy cats start fighting on the Moroboshi household's rooftop, annoying Ten so much that he goes up to see what's going on. There, he finds a one-eyed, tiger-striped tom is beating up a bunch of other toms to win the love of a beautiful catgirl. Once Ataru and Lum arrive on the scene, she explains that she was transformed into this form when she was possessed by her cat's spirit, and now she must be subjected to a ritual battle to determine if she will become fully human or fully cat. She shows them a picture of a beautiful young girl, and so Ataru and Ten eagerly battle for her humanity against the one-eyed tomcat. Somehow, Ataru wins and breaks the spell, only to find that the photo was of the woman's granddaughter, and that in her human form, she's an ancient crone. | |||||
| 74 | "The Flying Chaos Quartet" (大空に舞うハチャメチャ四人組!!, "Ōzora ni Mau Hachamecha Yo-ningumi!!") | ||||
| Mendo invites Ataru to go flying with him, and naturally Lum and Ten tag along as well. Mendo takes to the sky in a hang glider stylized to resemble a pterodactyl, whilst Ataru uses a gyrocopter. Ataru can't resist taunting Ten about being the worst flyer present, but Ten's attacks inadvertently rip open a portal in time, sending the quartet to the age of dinosaurs. Ten gets separated, and when the boys have no interest in finding her bratty cousin, Lum flies off to search for him, leaving them to be chased by a much larger real pterodactyl. Lum finds an egg that hatches and imprints on her, whilst its mother becomes convinced that Ten is her lost egg. | |||||
| 75 | "The Heian Arc, Scroll One" (平安編 壱の巻, "Heian-hen Ichi no Maki") | ||||
| In an anachronistic version of Heian-era Japan, Ataru Moroboshi and Shutaro Mendo are high-ranking government officials. They watch a report on a mysterious phenomena where sakura trees (used as electric power poles) begin glowing before suddenly exploding, before another matter takes their attention; Ataru has invited everyone in the area to a party at Mendo's mansion. At the height of the festivities, the sakura tree around which the party is being held starts to glow. At its peak, Ataru spots the cause: Lum, and he immediately goes to ask her for her information. After she gets over the initial shock, she happily gives it to him before she leaves, with neither she nor Ataru realizing that she has been mistaken for a fearsome oni and Ataru is believed to have chased her off. | |||||
| 76 | "The Heian Arc, Scroll Two" (平安編 弐の巻, "Heian-hen Ni no Maki") | ||||
| In an anachronistic version of Heian-era Japan, the government is paralyzed over what to do about the fearsome oni Lum. More accurately, they've largely forgotten her, and are more focused on bickering over where to hold lunch each day. Ataru, in fact, regularly sneaks off to date Lum, although to his disappointment, Ten keeps preventing him from getting a kiss from the beautiful oni. Ten doesn't trust Ataru, and becomes determined to prove that Ataru is cheating on her - in fact, he is cheating on her with his former girlfriend, Shinobu, though she refuses to let him get intimate with her whilst the "scary oni" is still out there. Ten goes to Heian-Kyo, and though he spends most of the day taking photos of girls, he does get an incriminating photo of Ataru and Sakura (for once, an accident). However, he takes so long that Lum grabs their pet, Nu, and comes looking for him. | |||||
| 77 | "The Heian Arc, Scroll Three" (平安編 参の巻, "Heian-hen San no Maki") | ||||
| In an anachronistic version of Heian-era Japan, Ten finds himself the voice of reason in an okonomiyaki restaurant being used by the Heian-Kyo defense force's leadership. Once he has everybody calmed down, Lum arrives and is welcomed, until it becomes clear that she is the "fearsome oni" the country has been afraid of, and her pet Nu, currently sitting on the restaurant's roof, is attracting terrified attention. Afraid of looking like fools, the Hein-Kyo defense team arranges for a big, spectacular, and rigged fight between them and Nue. Unfortunately, Ataru's cheating on Lum and Shinobu comes out, causing the two girls to attack him, and Nu is revealed to be a tiny, docile and cute little animal under his scary-seeming cloud-body, so they end up looking like fools anyway. | |||||
| 78 | "Love and School Violence" (愛"それは校内暴力とともに, "Ai" Sore wa Kōnai Bōryoku to Tomoni") | ||||
| Ataru airs a video he made on school violence and delinquency for an audience consisting of Mendo, Shinobu and Lum. Ataru is quite pleased with his efforts, but Mendo and Shinobu think it's terrible, and refuse to allow him to screen it for the rest of the school, going so far as to destroy the film projector. Ataru is greatly distressed; he got money from his classmates to make a comedy film and he's spent it all already. Seeing how dismayed Ataru is, Lum wants to do her husband a favor, so she fetches a projector from her UFO. Unfortunately, it's not physically compatible with either the power socket or the film reel, so she physically tinkers with it in order to make it work. This goes horribly wrong, bringing the film's characters to life. Ironically, some real delinquents from Butsumetsu High show up to pick a fight, and so the alien-spawned characters end up saving Tomobiki from their attentions. | |||||
| 79 | "Oh, Library!!" (ああ、図書館, "Ā, Toshokan") | ||||
| Class 2-4 is holding a study class in the Tomobiki High library, but Ataru and a gaggle of his male associates are more interested in studying a pornographic magazine he smuggled into school for them. Suddenly, they are interrupted by the beautiful young librarian, who requests their help in sorting the books. Ataru immediately volunteers, and as they work, she explains that the "Worlds of Books" are merging due to the disorganization, and will soon spill into the real world. Naturally, Lum happens across them and gets jealous, and her attempts to punish Ataru only aggravate the problem. Various characters from the books start spilling into the library, forcing the whole class to pitch in and restore order before they disappear. The librarian herself vanishes, but they discover she was actually Wendy Darling from Peter Pan! | |||||
| 80 | "Children's Day Fright!" (ああ、子供の日は恐怖じゃ！, "Ā, Kodomo no Hi wa Kyōfu ja!") | ||||
| On Children's Day, Lum introduces Ten to the strange Japanese custom of carp streamers, but the two aliens get the fright of their life when they find a bear curled up in one of them. A flying bear. Ridden by an axe-waving little boy. He explains to Lum that he's lost, and she takes him to find Shinobu Miyake, somehow believing he's her little brother, and incidentally interrupting Ataru's efforts to put the moves on his old flame. When Ataru regains consciousness, he realizes the strange kid is the spitting image of the mythical Kintaro. But it turns out he's actually just an alien toddler who looks like the mythical character, when a spaceship resembling a giant carp streamer turns up looking for him. It actually belongs to a beautiful alien preschool teacher, and Ataru invites himself aboard by claiming to love working with kids. He quickly finds himself having to deal with some very alien kids. | |||||
Anime Episodes[]
- Episode 2a (Chapter 63)
- Episode 4a (Chapter 80)
- Episode 8b (Chapter 74)
- Episode 11 (Chapters 75, 76 & 77)
- Episode 15b (Chapter 67)
- Episode 20b (Chapter 71)
- Episode 24 (Chapter 72)
- Episode 26 (Chapter 65)
- Episode 29 (Chapter 66)
- Episode 32 (Chapter 79)
- Episode 35 (Chapters 59 & 60)
- Episode 43 (Chapter 73)
- Episode 58 (Chapter 68)
- Episode 59 (Chapters 69 * 70)
- Episode 64 (Chapter 61)
- Episode 78 (Chapter 78)
- Episode 184 (Chapter 62)
See also[]
TBA