Urusei Yatsura Volume 7 is the seventh 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!
Princess Kurama the crow goblin is bound to marry the man who awakens her with a kiss - but please, let it be anyone but Ataru! Hoping to replace Ataru with a different suitor, Kurama decides to return to her enchanted slumber. On a sunny afternoon, her capsule descends toward Earth once more... but will she land the man she truly wants?
Characters[]
TBA
Chapters[]
| Chapter # | Title | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 125 | "Super Musashi, Sprint to the Heavens" (スーパー武蔵、天までダッシュ！！, "Suupaa Musashi, tenmade datsushiyu!") | ||||
| In a pastiche of historical Japan, young Miyamoto Musashi dreams of being famous, though his dreams are interrupted when he is trampled by the notorious local thief, Ataru Moroboshi, who is fleeing from angry villagers with a stolen cow. He temporarily evades his pursuers and flees to the Shitsubo-ji temple, run by the corrupt priest Cherry and his adoptive daughter (and Ataru's would-be wife) Lum. The three of them cook and eat the stolen cow, but are interrupted by the villagers, who angrily string Ataru up from a tree (with Cherry alongside him). Once the menfolk have left, a gaggle of beautiful maidens from the village arrive to free Ataru... though once they realize he's been cheating on all of them, they quickly give up. Only Lum remains behind, and she frees Ataru once he promises to wed her. But he betrays her, tying her up and fleeing. Several days later, he is at a small roadside tea shop, waiting for his chance to skip out on the bill. He gets that chance when Miyamato Musashi storms through, steals some food, and then flees, with Ataru and a man who will later reveal his name as Kojiro Sasaki hot on his heels. Once they are safely away, they exchange names, with Kojiro swiftly earning Miyamoto's wrath for his blunt insults. As Kojiro leaves, Miyamoto vows revenge. | |||||
| 126 | "Musashi, in Training!" (武蔵、ただいま修行中！！, "Musashi, tadaima shugyochou") | ||||
| The corrupt priest of the Shitsubo-ji temple, Cherry, and his adoptive children Lum and Ran arrive in ancient Kyoto, looking for Ataru Moroboshi, who ran from their village several days ago. They discover him wearing a mask and fleeing a crowd of angry people, who believe him to be called "Miyamoto Musashi". Ten's fiery breath disperses the crowd, and the quartet flee into the wilderness. Soon afterwards, the people of Kyoto seek the aid of Sakura, owner of the Yoshioka Dojo, and ask her to hunt down "Miyamoto Musashi" in exchange for them canceling her restaurant tabs. She gathers her sister Shinobu and current student Kojiro Sasaki and goes in search, running into Ataru in a restaurant in Kyoto, where he uses his true name (and blackmailing Kojiro about his own dine-and-dash) to worm his way into their confidence. Suddenly, a runner comes with news that Miyamoto is on the rampage in the marketplace, and Sakura and her entourage go to intervene, with Ataru and his entourage tagging along. They discover the real Miyamoto stealing food from the market, and Ataru leaps onto Miyamoto's bundle of stolen goods, letting the ronin carry him away from the angry mob. | |||||
| 127 | "Bad Boy Musashi, Be a Man!" (ダメッ子武蔵、男やないか！！, "Dametsuko Musashi otoko yanaika!!") | ||||
| Sakura, Shinobu, Lum and Kojiro Sasaki travel through the land of Himeje, on the hunt for Miyamoto Musashi - they have tracked him by his dine-and-dashes, and realize he is traveling to all the gourmet restaurants of Japan, with his next target being the fried fish of Onomichi. However, they are low on funds, so they begin setting up a place to put on a performance to earn money. That night, however, both Lum and Kojiro decide they are tired of traveling with Sakura and Shinobu, and they go their separate ways. The next day, on his way to his next victim, Ataru stumbles across Kojiro's abandoned monkey, and takes him on as an accomplice - using Kojiro's name for him. Eventually, Ataru, Sakura, Lum and Kojiro's paths intersect in Shimonoseki, where they all coincidentally pick the same restaurant - one Miyamoto Musashi has started with his new wife. However, all of them bar Lum get poisoning from his fugu, so he carries them over to Ganryu Island and buries them as part of the traditional cure. As Miyamato prepares to depart, Kojiro insults Miyamoto, who promptly clubs the arrogant ronin's head with an oar before leaving. | |||||
| 128 | "Terror of the Willow Ghost?!" (柳精翁の恐怖！？, "Ryuuseiou no Kyofu!?") | ||||
| When an English class in 2-4 finishes calmly and ahead of schedule for once, Onsen Mark attempts to tell a ghost story at the encouragement of his students. His first effort, a recital of the seven scary legends of Tomobiki High School, falls through, so he improvises and tells a tale of an old willow tree that is supposedly host to a vengeful spirit. After class lets out, Ataru takes Lum and Kosuke to the tree their teacher described; mocking it as an obviously fake story, Ataru doodles a mocking version of Shutaro Mendo's family crest, crying and shouting "It's dark! It's cramped! I'm scared!", on its trunk. As soon as the three teens leave, the tree's spirit pops out of it; enraged by Ataru's action, he seeks revenge. He catches the three in the streets of Tomobiki and gives them a phony treasure map which claims that the shadow of Tomobiki High's clock tower at midnight reveals a hidden treasure; when Mendo spots Ataru's graffiti emblazoned on the spirit's back, he picks a fight, and the spirit challenges Mendo to meet him beneath the Tomobiki High clock tower after midnight. He plans to ambush Mendo and to bury the trio in their treasure pit. But his plans go awry when the quartet run into Onsen Mark, who drags them all to the night shift room. He tries to scold them, but they instead break into his sake stash and all get drunk, causing the angry spirit to instead settle for doodling Ataru's graffiti all over the exterior and interior of the school, which sees the angry Mendo chasing Ataru around the next day. | |||||
| 129 | "Enemy Ten" (テン敵, "Ten toki") | ||||
| During dinner at the Moroboshi household, Ten begins insulting Ataru once again, which leads to a fight. This time, Ataru easily overpowers Ten, clubbing him with a frying pan and throwing him into the yard before triumphantly noting that this is his fifth consecutive victory. When his mother scolds him for being rowdy at dinner, Ataru merely points out that Ten is the one who provokes the fights. The next morning, Ten stews over his string of defeats, only for Ataru to stumble cross him on his way to school and beat him up again. An angry Ten tries to get back at Ataru with a rope trap, but it fails. As Ten goes sulking through the streets of Tomobiki, he encounters Cherry, who deduces that Ten is sulking because of his physical weakness. He offers the young oni a set of iron geta, asserting that they will help him train his muscles, then departs. Soon afterwards, Ten gets accidentally run over by the boys from Class 2-4, who are out jogging. Ten tries to flame them in retaliation, but since he's pinned to the ground by his iron geta, he can't resist the blowback effect. The angry Ten is about to take them off, but then the girls from Class 2-4 arrive, and they are so impressed to hear he's doing strength training that he is unable to disappoint them by stopping. That evening, Ten is still struggling to get home; he initially thinks Lum has come to help him, but she instead gives him a spring-loaded harness, so he can work on his upper body strength, and flies off. Eventually, the young oni struggles hom and tries to confront Ataru, but his gear makes it all but impossible to move. He flings it off in disgust and flies away, crying. Then he starts trying to flameblast Ataru through the roof, ultimately cutting out a circular chunk of wood that crushes Ataru. | |||||
| 130 | "Fossil Backcountry" (化石の僻地, "Kaseki no hekichi") | ||||
| It's Golden Week, and Ataru has decided to escape the crowds by going on a picnic in a remote mountain region with Mendo, Shinobu, Lum and Ten. By sheer coincidence, they pick an area that Cherry likes to train in, and after beating him off of their food, he mentions that there are fossils in the area. Soon afterwards, they set up to eat, but Lum is distracted by strange shapes in the rocks. She digs them out, and soon has a very impressive array of fossils. The curious Ten asks what sort of creatures the bones belonged to, and Ataru, whether as a prank or out of ignorance, assembles the motley array into a nonsensical, vaguely bird-like creature. On a whim, Lum brings it to life, and it leads them on a chase through the woods before getting into a fight with Cherry. In the end, the group returns home, watching the footage of a "mystery documentary" crew who they inadvertently ran into during the chase. | |||||
| 131 | "Cavity Wars" (虫歯ＷＡＲＳ！！, "Mushiba wars!!") | ||||
| Ataru has a horrible nightmare about having a cavity and being treated by Lum, who declares her intent to pull all his teeth. At breakfast, Ten ironically turns out to have a cavity himself; Ataru can't resist tormenting Ten by poking it, and Ten bites it, after which Ataru sets off for school. Before class, Ataru regales his classmates with the story of Ten's cavity, only to suddenly find his own teeth aching. Lum arrives and grimly explains that oni cavities are contagious, being spread by bite. In fact, if a sufferer bites about half a dozen people, their cavity will instantly heal. Immediately, the rest of Class 2-4 barricade Ataru, but they forget about Ten the brat, who sneaks up behind them and bites boys until his cavity is healed. These boys bite other boys and soon the majority of the male members of Class 2-4 are infected. Cherry suddenly arrives and nobly offers to take the infection from them, but nobody can stand the thought of biting Cherry, so they refuse. The girls flee the class and barricade the boys inside, infected and uninfected alike. Onsen Mark arrives and, upon hearing the situation, tries to talk the infected boys into stopping this behavior; he is promptly bitten by several of them. Lum reveals that she can cure the toothaches too, and Onsen Mark submits to her... but her cure apparently involves pulling the teeth, so the infected boys resume menacing their uninfected classmates. | |||||
| 132 | "Wash Away the Jade Blossom in the Tub" (湯船に浮かぶ銭の花を流せ！！, "Yubune ni ukabu zeni no hana o nagase") | ||||
| On one of his days off from school, Ataru decides to look for a part time job, his search hampered by the ridiculous number of perks he wants for a role aimed at a casual teenage employee. Lum does eventually point out a role that is still quite generous, and also piques Ataru's interests: a bathhouse is looking for a casual back-washer. Mind immediately filled with visions of scrubbing bathing beauties, Ataru goes to apply. His first warning should be that he needs Lum to find the path there; the Asura Bathhouse, it turns out, caters to aliens and monsters. But the real problem, from Ataru's perspective, is that he is assigned to work the men's baths. He does try to stick it out... but quickly loses patience. Suddenly, Ten arrives to taunt him, and he lets slip that the men's baths adjoin the women's. Ataru immediately tries to climb over the dividing wall, but is intercepted by an annoyed Lum. Realizing that she came here with Benten and Oyuki makes Ataru all the more determined to get over, and he finally gets there by following Ten through an underwater passage. Upon arrival, Lum irritably blindfolds him, and tries to keep him out of mischief by making him unknowingly "wash" a sculpture of a naked girl. Ataru's brief tenure as an employee comes to a crushing end when a bored Ten blows him up with some "toy" torpedoes just out of spite. | |||||
| 133 | "Domestic Spat Settlement" (夫婦ゲンカ始末記, "Fuufuu genka shimatsusa") | ||||
| It's almost time for dinner at the Moroboshi household, but there's just one problem: Lum's father has dropped by, and the Moroboshis aren't enthused by the idea of sharing their meagre meal with the giant oni. However, as neither Ataru nor his mother can muster the courage to ask him to leave, he is allowed to stay. Things turn out even worse than they expected when he devours the entire meal singlehandedly before any of them can touch it. Too timid to express their anger, they instead ask why he is there, and learn that he ran away from his own home after getting into a fight with his wife - worse, he has no intention of leaving until and unless she comes and apologizes to him first. The next day, he tags along to visit Lum's class, where he scares all the students and even Onsen Mark. But not even the formidable teacher is brave enough to risk rousing the wrath of Lum's father, who eventually decides to step up and take over the class to lecture the boys on the proper path of manliness, such as standing firm for yourself in the face of women. Then Lum's mother arrives and everyone quickly sees that his words were all hot air, as the smaller but fiercer female oni very clearly rules the roost. | |||||
| 134 | "The Grateful Raccoon" (タヌキが”ツルの恩返し”, "Tanuki ga "tsuru no angaeshi"") | ||||
| As the starts to go down, Ataru is taking Lum on a rare date cycling in a nearby forest. As they start to head home, they come across what appears to be a crane caught in a tanuki trap. Taking pity, albeit with some slightly selfish motivations, Ataru sets it free and bandages its cut leg. Once it flies off, they start home again, but neither sees the crane fly after them and then join them by turning into first a tanuki and then a bigger backpack wrapped around Ataru's own. By the time they get home, it's time for dinner; Ataru ditches his backpack in his room and goes to eat, giving the tanuki the chance to return to its true form. Ten, who is sulking and refuses dinner, says hello to the strange new guest, who introduces itself as Oshima. The tanuki wants to repay Ataru, but is unsure of how to do so. Fortunately, Ten is reading a copy of the myth of the Grateful Crane, which inspires Oshima to emulate the crane's example. Unfortunately, Oshima's efforts are less than helpful; its "cute girl" transformation looks like a tanuki in a dress, it can't create fake money from leaves, and ultimately it falls asleep in Ataru's closet. When Ataru grumbles about incompetent tanuki, Oshima uses that as an excuse to leave, emulating the ending of the Grateful Crane myth... though Oshima's departure lacks the poignancy of the Grateful Crane's. | |||||
| 135 | "Mendo Residence Masquerade Ball" (面堂家仮面ぶとう会, "Mendoke kamen-butou-kai") | ||||
| One evening, as Ten playacts as a swashbuckling hero with the aid of Torajima, two of Ryoko Mendo's kuroko servants arrive; they have an invitation for Ataru and Lum to attend a masquerade ball, and the two happily accept. Back at the Mendo estate, Shutaro confronts his sister Ryoko and vows he will kill Ataru before he can get in kissing range. Soon afterwards, Ataru and Lum arrive at the Mendo estate, and to their confusion, are presented with a chest full of weapons. They are soon attacked by Lum's fanboys and Mendo, who clarifies that this isn't a masquerade ball, but a masquerade brawl. Upon hearing this, Lum takes up a kanabo and tries to bludgeon Ataru unconscious so that she can drag him home, which only incentives him to run away in search of Ryoko. He evades Onsen Mark and the fanboys, then advances on Ryoko's location, picking off the weak and distracted fighters as he goes. When he arrives at Ryoko, however, she confronts him and challenges him to a fight for his earlier defeat of her brother. Ataru has no interest in fighting her, but two of Ryoko's kuroko grab him and hold him in place. Ryoko attacks with a set of nunchaku, but knocks the kuroko out instead of Ataru. Ataru immediately presumes that Ryoko was just bluffing, and tries to kiss her, only for Lum to intercede and bludgeon him unconscious. She drags her husband back home, whilst Ryoko mentally complains about how hard it is to handle nunchaku properly. | |||||
| 136 | "Kurama Again!" (Kurama futatabi!!, "クラマ再び！！") | ||||
| Ataru and Lum are playing tennis against Mendo and Shinobu when they are interrupted by the arrival of Kurama's karasutengu, carying their mistress in her cryo-sleep capsule. They explain that Kurama has deemed Ataru utterly unsuitable as a mate, and the elder has agreed to let her "do over" her marriage kiss. Ataru immediately tries to kiss her awake again, but is dragged away by the furious Lum. The karasutengu try to get Mendo to kiss Kurama, for he looks like her type, but Mendo hesitates, reluctant to kiss a girl in front of an audience. As Ataru struggles to escape Lum's grasp, Mendo finally musters the courage to do it, but is dragged away by a jealous Shinobu, giving Ataru the chance to kiss Kurama awake once more. However, when she wakes, Mendo is the first man she sees, Ataru having been yanked away and punished by Lum, so she believes Mendo is the one who woke her. | |||||
| 137 | "Sealed with a Kiss!" (Kuchi zuketo toma ni chigiran, "口づけと共に契らん！！") | ||||
| Aboard Kurama's ship, her karasutengu discuss whether or not they should inform her that it was Ataru Moroboshi and not Shutaro Mendo who kissed her awake. The elder is adamant on informing her of the truth, but she's already left to see her "new husband". At Tomobiki High, Class 2-4 is having a discussion on dating etiquette, which leads to a debate about who is worse; Ataru or Mendo. The girls of 2-4 immediately rally to defend Mendo's character, unaware of his privately lamenting his hesitation to kiss Kurama previously. Lum, meanwhile, is preparing a gun to shoot Kurama on sight. Suddenly, the tengu princess arrives, warmly greeting Mendo (and coldly denouncing Ataru), to the outrage of Class 2-4's female students. The karasutengu arrive swiftly, and quickly coax Mendo into agreeing to impregnate Kurama. Ataru protests that he was the one who kissed her, but Kurama refuses to believe him, and the karasutengu quickly construct a "love nest" for the consummation to take place. Upon seeing it, Mendo protests, but Kurama drags him inside, only to find Ataru already waiting for her. Once again, Ataru protests that he was the one who awoke Kurama, and this time the karasutengu elder confirms it. Desperately, Kurama pleads with Mendo to say he was her responsible, but he admits that Ataru is telling the truth. Enraged, Kurama throws both boys and the elder out of her nest, sealing herself inside. | |||||
| 138 | "Goodbye, Covenant!" (掟、おさらば！！, "Okite, osamaga") | ||||
| Three days later, Kurama is still sulking over Ataru having won spousal right to her twice. The elder tries to push her to accept fate and mate with Ataru as their law demands, but Kurama demands to know why she should follow the law. It turns out the elder has no idea what will happen if she breaks the law, and he turns to a database of his predecessors' memories, going deeper and deeper as he tries to find which of them knows the secret. Annoyed, Kurama leaves to go and see Mendo, arriving at Tomobiki High. She instantly finds herself the object of desire for both Ataru and Mendo, with different forces trying to keep them away from her. She acknowledges the obvious similarities, but points out that at least Mendo has better looks than Ataru. Suddenly, the elder arrives, with the recording of the very first elder, from 120 generations: he reveals that there is no dire malediction or hidden curse to the law of marriage by first kiss, but rather it was created from pure sentiment, as he met his own wife after waking a female karasutengu with a kiss. Enraged, Kurama declares she will not follow this law, with even the current elder admitting it is stupid. She is about to pick Mendo as her mate, when Ataru intervenes and reveals Mendo's crippling phobias. Disgusted, Kurama declares he is no more suitable than Ataru, and goes off to find herself a truly worthy specimen of a man. | |||||
| 139 | "Message in a Bottle" (ビン詰めの誘惑！！, "Binzume no yuuwaku") | ||||
| Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Mendo and Ten are enjoying a holiday on the beach. As the sun goes down, Ten finds a love letter in a bottle, before the group returns to their hotel. Over dinner, they muse about where they'll go tomorrow, and discuss going to a nearby cove called Cockle Inlet. The hotel's staff interject, protesting that the area is haunted by a man-eating monster, but then fall to arguing over whether the monster appears as a beautiful young woman, a hideous old crone, or a brutish male giant. Soon afterwards, both Ataru and Mendo discover their own love letters, and a phone number that arranges for them to meet the senders tomorrow at Cockle Inlet. Ataru tries to sneak off without the others at dawn, but is foiled by plans set by the boys and girls alike. Still, the motley crew races to Cockle Inlet, where they meet a beautiful young woman, who invites them to stay at a waterfront inn tucked away in the inlet. The creepy atmosphere does get to most of them, but Ataru refuses to leave, mind set on the idea of getting a date with the young woman. None of them notice the deformed giant lurking in the ceiling, hungrily eying them all and sharpening a huge axe... | |||||
| 140 | "Ghostly Gastronomy" (食べれば恐怖！！, "Tabereba sasupensu!!") | ||||
| The sun sets over the haunted inn at Cockle Inlet. Inside, the innkeepers - three monsters in the form of a beautiful young woman, a hulking giant, and an ugly crone - plot to kill and eat their guests; Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Mendo and Ten. Only the maiden objects... because she is being left with Ataru for her meal, and she considers him the most unappealing victim. Still, at dinner she slips him a message in his soup, planning to lure him away to eat him. Ataru, a sucker for a pretty face, isn't the least bit suspicious, and slips away at the first opportunity. Mendo, Lum and Ten go after him, leaving Shinobu behind to take a bath - where she is attacked by the giant! Mendo gets separated from the oni, and stumbles across the crone, who gets him to carry her back to the inn; she tries to bite his neck, but she's too feeble, so she resolves to cook him first. Lum finds Ataru flirting, blasting him with lightning and dragging him back to the inn, unwittingly saving him from being devoured. Back at the inn, they discover the enraged Shinobu, but are then attacked by the giant and the crone. The maiden arrives to find her "partners" defeated, and flees into the sea aboard a large cockle shell... as do the other two monsters moments later. | |||||
| 141 | "Baseball Shenanigans" (校内賭博球技大会, "Kounai tobaku kyougitaikai") | ||||
| Tobimaro Mizunokoji arrives at Tomobiki High as the students are holding an intramural baseball game. He tries to make a dramatic entry, but his bumbling means that all he achieves is to get stuck in a tree. Suddenly, Ryoko arrives, and after a brief moment's tormenting Tobimaro, she gets him down and goes to plead with Ataru to let Tobimaro join his team for the game. She claims that Tobimaro is her first love, describing the great fun she had tormenting him when they were children. As Ataru's team has secretly taken a bribe to throw the game, they happily let him join, only for Ryoko's kuroko to intervene to try and help Tobimaro win it - especially after Ryoko and her brother stake Ryoko and Tobimaro's "relationship" on the game. It all ends with a tie, courtesy of one of Ryoko's pit traps. | |||||
| 142 | "Spicy Camping Calamity" (辛いキャンプに明日はない！！, "Karai kyanpu ni asunahai!!") | ||||
| Lum busies herself cooking dinner, having invited herself on a camping trip with Ataru, Mendo, and Ataru's two friends Kosuke Shirai and Hokuto. When the meal is ready, Ataru wants no part in it, which the other boys soon learn the hard way is because Lum's native cuisine is too spicy for them to handle. Unwilling to insult Lum, but unable to bear her food, the four boys retreat to their tent and try to raid their "emergency supplies" of snacks, only to discover that a rabbit has stolen them. Desperately starving, they decide to risk descending the mountain to a nearby village to steal some food. Along the way, they catch a talking rabbit, which reveals itself as the one who stole their food. It barters with them for its life, promising to lead them to food in the village, but the village turns out to be booby-trapped and on high alert after years of raids by the pest. With its final chance to save its skin, it leads them into its tunnels towards what it promises will be easy food... which turns out to be their own campsite, where a happy Lum has made breakfast. | |||||
| 143 | "Paranormal Peachy Parable" (桃源郷奇談！！, "Toukenkyou kidan!!") | ||||
| Ataru is on a camping trip with his friends Kosuke Shirai and Hokuto, as well as Mendo, Lum and Ten. The four boys are trying to catch fish, dreading the thought of another super-spicy Lum-cooked meal and trying to keep Ten from tattling on them. Suddenly, they fish up an enormous peach, out of which pops Cherry. He claims to have found his way to "peach paradise", a beautiful valley full of fruit, flowers and gorgeous nymphs. As one, the boys set out for the valley, with Lum naturally skeptical of Ataru's motives for going. Sure enough, when presented with a forking road with one sign saying "food" and the other "nymphs", Ataru distracts his companions and heads up the "nymphs" road... which rejoins the "food" road a short distance later. They find themselves in a valley, where Cherry is gobbled up by a carnivorous peach that then falls into the water. Moments later, the teens find a beautiful young woman being carried away by a bunch of hairy men. They explain that they are being terrorized by an "evil peach", who is demanding the girl as a sacrifice. The boys' first thought is to run away with the girl, but they are instead charged to race up an obstacle course; the first to take up the sacred sword before the evil peach and strike it dead will be the victor. Naturally, the boys can't resist, and Lum joins in. Ataru ultimately succeeds, but it turns out the story was all a ruse, and this was just a game the hermits play for their own amusement. | |||||
| 144 | "The Perfidy of the Sakura Triplets" ( 三人サクラ浮気の構図, "San nin Sakura uwaki no kozu") | ||||
| Ataru and Lum have once again taken a beach vacation, bringing along Ten, Mendo and Shinobu. This time, they have also run into Sakura, who is less than thrilled to see them. As Ten plays in the sand, Ataru can't resist "playfully" destroying Ten's sand castle, causing Ten to rebuild it with a strange bit of alien technology that makes it virtually indestructible. Shortly afterwards, once Sakura falls asleep, Ataru sends Lum and Shinobu off to get some drinks, and reveals he has a plan to use Ten's sand-manipulating toy to create an animate "sand doll" of the beautiful miko. This idea intrigues Ten, who reveals the cores can even be used to animate sand sculptures; Ataru asssembles three sand statues of Sakura, which Ten brings to life. Ataru, Ten and Mendo all go their separate ways, each with a sand Sakura. This, of course, leads to problems when Lum and Shinobu return, having run into Sakura's fiancé Tsubame along the way. He initially becomes quite distraught after seeing the three boys seemingly cosying up to Sakura, before the truth inevitably comes out. | |||||
| 145 | "Dolphin Dating and Beach Babe Patrol" (デートとイルカと海辺の浮気, "Deeto to iruka to umebe no uwaki") | ||||
| Ataru, Lum and Mendo are on the beach, and Ataru is having fun playing volleyball with a bunch of cute girls who aren't rejecting him for once. Lum grows very angry at Ataru ignoring her, and ultimately storms off. She soon crosses paths with a lonely dolphin who wants to find a human girlfriend, and with the aid of a transformative earring, she sets out on a plan to make Ataru jealous. She leads the dolphin in his handsome new body past Ataru, who is horrified to see Lum acting so friendly with a strange guy. Pausing only to distract Mendo by giving him a crowd of girls to show off for, Ataru tracks Lum and her new "boyfriend" across the beach. Consumed by jealousy, especially when he sees the strange boy being mobbed by interested cute girls when Lum briefly leaves him alone, Ataru tries repeatedly to get the transformed dolphin in trouble, causing him to get repeatedly slapped. This, combined with Mendo scolding him that the proper "manly" thing to do is for guys to treat girls, causes the dolphin to come to realization that he was wrong to want to become a human guy. He thanks Lum and hugs her, which is the last straw for Ataru: he comes charging out of hiding, screaming at the stranger to leave his girl alone... but then forgets all about Lum when the dolphin turns into a pretty human girl, glomping her instead and getting hit by Lum for it. | |||||
| 146 | "Keep Our Beaches Clean" (みんなで海をきれいにしよう！, "Minna de ume o kirei nishora!") | ||||
| On the beach, Ataru, Mendo and Ten hide in the trash-choked breakers, trying to spy on a girl's swimming class. Lum and Shinobu find them, and attempt to foil their plans by covering them in what they claim is sunscreen, but is actually a surface tension nullifying lotion, making it impossible for them to swim. The boys find an unlikely ally in a pair of passing flotation device lenders, and resume attempting to get close to the swimming girls, only for a jealous Lum to repeatedly interfere. Finally, they find they were tricked and the floaties they were given were actually used as trash-collecting devices, before they are taken back by the vendors - a dappya-monster and a mermaid! | |||||
Anime Episodes[]
- Episode 47 (Chapter 130)
- Episode 48 (Chapters 136, 137 & 138)
- Episode 49 (Chapter 131)
- Episode 52 (Chapter 134)
- Episode 53 (Chapter 132)
- Episode 55 (Chapters 125, 126 & 127)
- Episode 57 (Chapter 133)
- Episode 61 (Chapter 135)
- Episode 67 (Chapters 142 & 143)
- Episode 69 (Chapters 139 & 140)
- Episode 70 (Chapter 141)
- Episode 74 (Chapter 128)
- Episode 82 (Chapters 144 & 145)
- Episode 83 (Chapter 129)
See also[]
TBA