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I wish there was a plot, an event sequence, a development, something to add flavor, but there's none of that; it's a series made just to get through the day. When compared to Dragon Ball or Gundam, which came out around the same time, it's clear why it pales in comparison. I won't even bother responding to those who say it's not the same genre or that the writer chose this style; I'll just note that. Of course, it shook things up at the time, but it's also quite clear why it's still not popular today.
Watching dozens of episodes only to realize the relationships and characters are completely reset to zero every time just leaves a bad aftertaste. A formula that refuses to move forward might have worked for casual 80s TV broadcasting, but for anyone looking for actual substance or closure,…
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In 2025 with anime becoming ever more popular in America and other places I still find myself surprised that certain great anime go unnoticed and underrated. Despite its massive influence on the medium, Urusei Yatsura would be one of these anime. Urusei Yatsura is the grandfather of comedy anime that completely changed the medium and its ripples of influence can still be seen today.
The premise of the show is rather simple. An alien girl named Lum comes down from space and falls in love with a flirty high school boy named Atrau who wants nothing to do with her and only wants to get with other girls. Now you combine a glutinous monk, a mega rich snob, a sexy priest/nurse, a girl with super strength, a cute girl who is secretly menacing, and tons of obnoxious aliens and you have the show.…
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This is the one you should be watching. Disregard the Remake entirely.
SOME SPOILERS AHEAD
Although they really don’t matter much in an anime like this. Urusei Yatsura for what it is, it is a great anime. Funny with a colorfully cynical cast with the only difference being the beautiful Lum. The synopsis describes episode one but what the rest of the anime is, is about Lum and Ataru living together and having lots of wacky adventures. As they get closer and start to care for each other more and more, even if it doesn’t seem like it. It’s small changes from episode 10 the end of the series. Starting out from hating Lum to never wanting her to leave.
It’s really a romantic comedy to the fullest extent and the best episodes are the concept episodes (ex. And then there were none) and the ep…
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For the thing about Urusei Yatsura is that this series was adapted from the original manga of the same name by Rumiko Takahashi this series has capsulated about 195 episodes in which is got to the manga source material.
Story
It starts of with a perverted girl hunting lecher boy named Ataru Moroboshi always had been unlikeliest feeling he had is that has got to him until the Buddhist monk named Cherry has been noticed is that whenever he is up to something is that around the neighborhood about the curses and Evil spirits could be everywhere, but when the Alien race Oni wanted to invade Earth but apparently Ataru has been selected as Earth champion when his opponent is Princess Lum herself for the game of tag is something that Ataru had in mind at this point of course so Ataru realize tha…
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I'm not much of an anime or manga reviewer, but I think I'll at least review my favorite anime.
Urusei Yatsura, by the writer Rumiko Takahashi, the same author of Inuyasha, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma½, etc...
I haven't seen any of Rumiko's works yet besides UY (Urusei Yatsura) and Maison Ikokku (I'm still watching a little bit), but easily Urusei Yatsura and my favorite anime is basically a RomCom (Romantic Comedy) out of the curve, addressing themes that for the time (1980) I believe were quite difficult to portray.
I love the way the characters interact with each other, no matter the place or situation they work very well and are extremely funny, even if it's a closed room with 4 of the main characters, I'm sure there will be a good episode, I don't think Rumiko is the master of romance (at le…
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It all began 18 months ago, as I was curiously browsing a selection of anime titles. Among them, one peaked my eye with interest, "Urusei Yatsura." I didn't know the anime in particular, but did know the Author's (Rumiko Takahashi) other works like Inuyasha and Ranma 1/2. I decided to give it a go, watching the 2nd Yatsura movie beautiful dreamer to start off the series with. Although I only hade a vague idea of who the characters were, I was intrigued with the film.
By the end of it, I developed a bond with the series, it's wacky sense of humor mixed with the wide array of characters all fleshed out into glorified ideological persona's of the typical anime genre. I liked the chemistry between the characters that when mixed, resulted in a messy explosion known as "Urusei Yatsura." Soon I…
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Lum was technically one of the first anime characters I ever saw. Back when I was hardly into anime, I saw some Dragon Ball fan animation that had Lum as a cameo. I was intrigued, so I looked up who it was. Despite this, I didn't show any interest in watching her show until years later. I watched the first twelve episodes, and although I was addicted, I was turned off by how adult it got. I stopped watching it for a long time, but there were times when I missed it. Surely enough, I couldn't stay away from it, so I started it again from the thirteenth episode, and watched the whole series over the course of six months, including the movies and OVAs.
So many things about this anime made it memorable and enjoyable. The episodes had different feels from each other, but each one had something…
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Quick take: UY is a classic anime from the brain of Rumiko Takahashi. It's bizarre premise, bizarre atmosphere and even more bizarre characters are easy to fall in love with. The re-watch factor for this show is high due to the long length and the sheer number of crazy things that happen.
There's a couple things you need to know off the bat about UY, first, it isn't just about the relationship between Lum and Ataru, but rather the affect that Lum has on the entirety of Tomobiki. You'll find that there are smaller stories within the overall series and that all can trace their roots directly back to Lum being present in their lives.
The second thing you should know is that this series enjoys use of bat-shit crazy. There are plenty of moments where you'll laugh. Times when the town is comp…
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'Urusei Yatsura' is the first major work of Rumiko Takahashi to ever animated. Urusei Yatsura is actually the invention of what we nowadays call rom-com. It really does have Takahashi flavor that we see in her later work 'Maison Ikkoku'. If you thought 3 tennents of Maison Ikkoku are crazy then beware of Urusei Yatsura with some of the most bizarre and insane characters. Urusei Yatsura anime series has also set the stage for some of the most notable names in anime industry. Like Mamoru Oshii, Akita Kamiya, Studio Deen and Pierrot, Rumiko Takahashi and more.
Story- The story of Urusei Yatsura focuses around Ataru Moroboshi the most pervert, womanizer, lecherous boy ever alive in the entire universe. Suddenly when an alien group known as Oni tries to invade the Earth. They give us one cond…
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Urusei Yatsura is my favorite anime.
• This isn’t an easy title to achieve with how high my standards for Japanese animation have become, but Urusei Yatsura left a sublimely beautiful impression on me—so much so that I can’t even imagine any other series taking its place. As far as comedy goes, it’s not a bust-your-gut-out-laughing type of series; it’s more dry, tongue-in-cheek humor. My theory on why the BBC English dub of it was so spectacular, while the American dub flopped, was because the British excel at a more dry, witty type of humor than people in the States do.
• Speaking of ‘obnoxious,’ the title for Urusei Yatsura is a pun. The word ‘urusei’ (うる星): the character for ‘uru’ (うる) means ‘possible’ and ‘sei’ (星) means ‘good’ or ‘nice’—is a pun on the word ‘urusai’ (うるさい) which ca…
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If you're wondering why I gave this anime a 10/10 then let me tell you that this is the funniest anime I've ever seen and any anime that can be this consistently funny over 195 episodes deserves to be called a masterpiece.
Characters 10/10
It's the characters that truly make this anime great as they all just do their jobs so well.
Ataru: What I love most about Ataru is how I have nothing nice to say about him. There are a lot of other anime with characters who are perverts, but normally these characters have some redeeming quality to them that makes up for their perversion. Ataru has no redeeming quality. He is selfish, greedy, immoral, he'll flirt with other women while on a date with Lum, and he'll even flirt with Lum's mother right in front of her!
But don't worry because Ataru d…
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Urusei Yatsura is known for being the first masterpiece of Rumiko Takahashi, author of series like Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha and recently Kyoukai no Rinne. Originally her publications started in Shounen Sunday in 1978 with eventual releases, suddenly it was being published weekly thanks to the success it had. This also made it become an anime that was very liked, making it have 195 episodes, 12 OVAs and 6 movies.
If we compare her work with others, Urusei Yatsura goes more to science fiction, since somehow she mixes things from spiritual worlds that the mangaka adds in her other works; anyways, this story talks about how a girl from another world gets involved with a lusty earthling.
On the other hand the comedy, along with the romance, are the basis to develop the story that ends up in very s…
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Long series can live or die on the strength of their cast, and Urusei Yatsura has one of the best around. Provided you have the patience to sit through the first twenty episodes, and the endurance to remain interested for the last one hundred and seventy five of them. It's going to take a lot of resilience and nobody is going to blame you for giving up before the end. Yet this series is a highly influential classic and the least you could do is indulge in it a little, even if it's only as an introduction before preceding to the second movie spin-off, the seminal 'Beautiful Dreamer'.
Urusei Yatsura is the story of a lecherous high school student called Ataru Moroboshi and his alien wife, Lum Invader. The partnership is less than mutual though because while Ataru does care for Lum and even…
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Urusei Yatsura (Those obnoxious aliens) was an extremely popular manga and anime series that ran in Japan in the early 80s. Lately, people have been forgetting about these wonderful classics, and so I figured I'd write a review on one that I really enjoyed watching years and years ago, Urusei Yatsura. Urusei Yatsura is Rumiko Takahashi's first work to receive an anime adaptation (ahead of other classics such as Maison Ikkoku, Ranma and Inuyasha). Needless to say, Urusei Yatsura is a true classic that opened the way for future rom-com anime, and all the meanwhile is a wonderful-highly enjoyable story.
The basic outline of the story will seem really stupid, childish, cheesy, boring and "unorignal" at first. But if you take into account that this story was written over 30 years ago, then you…
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If I were to recommend only ONE show for someone to watch if they were new to anime. I can't say for sure that this one would top the list, but it'd definitely be one of the candidates to hold that spot.
This show is just one thing:
"good, old-fashioned anime fun"
The show excels at being absolutely random, and absolutely outrageous at some points. It's kinda like the Simpsons but with that fun and exaggerated anime twist added to it. That's why I genuinely enjoyed watching this show, it's just made me laugh at the situations that the characters get themselves into; or what they do to each other.
The only thing I didn't like about the show is that after you try to marathon thru the show and you watch 10-15 episodes in one sitting.. the show will probably become less enjoyable. I watched…
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This was my very first anime, which I began watching in the early summer of 1983. I figured it would be appropriate to post this here, since this marks my 30th year of anime. I'm fairly certain I was one of the only kids in the States in the early 80's who knew that Japan also made cartoons...oh crap...does that make me some kind of anime hipster?! *sigh* Anyhoo, I'm a huge fan of Rumiko Takahashi, and I'm quite happy that she introduced me into a wild world of fantasy, fun, romance and amazing storytelling. Kudos.
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I know this is going to sound like epic hyperbole, but please bear with me in the course of this review. My life has been subjected to a number of happy coincidences, so crazy in their randomness and so profound and wonderful in their effects. One of them was the one-in-a-million chance in which I met my girlfriend (we kinda "met cute," and now we're preparing to live together), and another was a chance meeting during one summer with someone who would go on to become my first full-time employer, a great help in getting into law school, and a treasured personal mentor.
Chancing upon AND deciding to give Urusei Yatsura - Those Obnoxious Aliens - was just another such astronomical, happy coincidence. Again, I don't mean to make it sound so overly dramatic, but when I found it randomly flippi…
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As a general rule, people usually forget what has come before. For anime fans, particularly those who aren’t Japanese, this is all too often the case as new shows are hailed as the best ever, groundbreaking, or original while completely ignoring what influenced them in the first place. Urusei Yatsura may not be (it's not) the greatest series in the history of anime but it ranks right up there in the top five most influential of all time.
Urusei Yatsura is the first of Rumiko Takahashi's work to receive an anime adaptation. It centers on what is today a tried and true anime concept, a beautiful alien girl, Lum, falls in love with a rather ordinary and none to bright boy, Ataru. While this may or may not have been the first time this had ever been put to film, you can be sure this was the…
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Back in my "Maison Ikkoku" review, I mentioned that it seems that fans have a tendency to neglect some of the old classics that made the creators they love big in the first place. Either that or they turn a blind eye to them, seeing as they're "old". I'll probably get some flack for all that, but it's just so prominent in today's anime fandom that the latest things out there are "the best anime ever" one day, and when "one year later" rolls its way by and/or when the series ends, it would be a thing of the past.
And the cycle goes on and on. This is the way everything in the media and life is unfortunately. But there are still series out there that can still be remembered by the vetran anime fans and are held in high esteem as being influential to many manga artists (Like "Dragonball" for…
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