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Urusei Yatsura Season 1

October. 14,1981
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Urusei Yatsura

An alien race known as the Oni arrive on Earth to invade the planet. Instead of taking over the planet by force, the Oni give humans a chance to fight for the rights to the planet by taking part in a competition. The computer-selected human player is Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous, unlucky and stupid high school student from the Japanese city of Tomobiki, and the Oni player is Princess Lum, daughter of the leader of the Invasion force.

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Urusei Yatsura

1981  / NR

An alien race known as the Oni arrive on Earth to invade the planet. Instead of taking over the planet by force, the Oni give humans a chance to fight for the rights to the planet by taking part in a competition. The computer-selected human player is Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous, unlucky and stupid high school student from the Japanese city of Tomobiki, and the Oni player is Princess Lum, daughter of the leader of the Invasion force.

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Director
Kazuo Yamazaki
Cast
Toshio Furukawa, Fumi Hirano
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Urusei Yatsura Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 217 - Immediate Farewell Special - Shine!! Planet Uru Awards
Episode 214 - Pure-hearted Fox! He’ll Risk His Life for Love!!
Episode 213 - Ran’s Humongous Doll of Destruction!
Episode 210 - Ataru Wants to Go on a Date! Operation Examination!
First Aired: January. 22,1986

Shinobu makes a deal with Ataru that she’ll go on a date with him if he comes in first on one of the upcoming exams. However, Ataru and studying don’t mix, so he comes up with a crazy scheme to help him pass…

Episode 207 - Darling Great Misfortune! Four Dimension Fortune of Fear!!
Episode 206 - Asuka VS Big Brother! It's Battle for Certain Love!
First Aired: December. 18,1985

Asuka will not stop flirting with her brother, so her mother makes a desperate wager with her: if he defeats in Asuka in combat, Asuka must give up on marrying him. Unfortunately, their respective martial abilities mean she's almost guaranteed a victory. Lum's help is employed. It gets weird.

Episode 205 - Sakura’s Pure Love! Slippery Soap Spells Sayonara!
Episode 204 - Say Goodbye to Onsen!? Tearful Farewell Marathon
First Aired: December. 04,1985

Onsen is leaving, and Lum organizes a goodbye ceremony. Before he goes, he has unfinished business to attend to… namely revenge for all the students’ hijinks over the years.

Episode 203 - It’s Creepy! The Sakuranbo School of Yoga!
First Aired: November. 06,1985

Sakura starts a yoga class, and the main characters all attend. They engage in “multiple-person yoga” to cleanse their souls, but it becomes a competition to see who’ll “win.”

Episode 202 - Beware of Booze! Sakura’s Exorcism Error!
Episode 200 - Wish Upon a Star! The Frenzied Desire of Ataru’s Family!
Episode 199 - All-You-Can-Grab Fish Frenzy! The Hamajaya Scam
Episode 198 - How Persistent! The Three Daughters' Great Animal Mission!!
Episode 196 - Great Storm! Ryunosuke's First Time Wearing a Swimsuit!!
Episode 186 - Goodness! Words Aren't Getting to Darling
Episode 185 - Some Disassembly Required: Lum’s Dangerous Shopping
Episode 183 - Ryunosuke vs. Benten: The Pointless Charm Contest!
Episode 182 - I Love the Sea! The Saga of Hamajaya!
Episode 180 - I Love Darling's Kindness...
First Aired: May. 22,1985

A ghost girl who fell in love with Ataru while she was alive wants to have a date with him. She spent most of her life in the hospital and made a scarf, mittens, and most of a sweater before dying; all of which she wanted to give to the handsome boy she saw from her window, Ataru.

Episode 179 - Here Comes the Barista of Youth! Shining Café of Dreams!
Episode 178 - First Love Again!? A Return to the Past for Lum and Rei!!
First Aired: May. 08,1985

Jariten finds part of a love locket Lum and Rei got when they were going together. At a birthday party for Mendo's favorite octopus, Lum tries to hide this fact, especially from Ataru.

Episode 176 - The Armored Girl Is Back Again! Dates of Thunder!
Episode 175 - Look Out Ran! Kotatsu Neko's First Love Oden!?
Episode 174 - Boredom Syndrome! Is Tomobiki Town Wasting Away!?
Episode 173 - The Armored Girl Returns! Older Brother is Full
Episode 159 - The Birth of Ten-chan's Son!? I Dunno
First Aired: December. 12,1984

An accident causes an egg to be attached to Ten's body. The egg hatches and reveals a strange bee-like creature who proceeds to harass Ten constantly, claiming Ten is his father.

Episode 158 - What Do I Care for Talking Flowers!
First Aired: December. 05,1984

Ran and Lum learn a valuable lesson about spreading rumors after Ran's talking flowers (named Ryuugenvillias) spread rumors about them to the entire town, soon affecting/hurting everyone's lives. (Aside from Ataru, oddly enough, who is mostly unaffected.)

Episode 157 - Meeting even if Death! Pure Fox Returns!!
First Aired: November. 28,1984

Inspired by a movie about a fox using a spell to turn a human girl he loves into a fox like himself for one night, Kitsune looks for Shinobu to find his missing gingko nuts, which he wants her to eat under a full moon to do the same. Ataru and Lum help them. Kitsune eventually finds them, turning Lum, Ataru, Cherry, Shinobu, AND Kotatsu-Neko all into foxes, as well as many of the people in town partially into foxes as well. A half-fox Shinbou and Kitsune dance together under the full moon, happy together.

Episode 156 - Love of the Armored Daughter! Maiden Heart is Shaky Wobbling
First Aired: November. 21,1984

Episode two of a two-episode Serial. Her armor now gone, a terrified Asuka runs away from Ataru, Shutaro, and even her own brother Tobimaro. It's also revealed why Asuka is in the armor; no male from the Mizunokoji clan is allowed to see their daughter until she turns 15. Shutaro, initially against the idea of the arranged marriage, is now all for it when he hears from Ataru that Asuka is cute, despite her being scary powerful due to 15 years in armor. Ryoko, however, plans to put a stop to the arranged marriage with a giant army and later an armored suit. The marriage is soon after called off.

Episode 155 - Matchmaking Hell! Is the Armored Daughter a Beauty? Beast?
First Aired: November. 14,1984

Episode one of a two-Episode Serial. Shutaro is forced into an arranged marriage with the heavily armored Asuka Mizunokoji of the Mizunokoji clan, who've been mortal enemies with the Mendou clan for generations. While Shutaro wants nothing to do with Asuka, Ataru (of course) wants this armored girl for himself. A girl who, apparently, has never met a man before, much less one outside of her armor. At episode's end her armor is removed via Lum shocking her with Ataru clinging to her, revealing her true appearance. Cherry ends the episode, breaking the fourth wall as he tells the audience to turn in next time for the conclusion.

Episode 154 - Don't Die! Ryoko's Special Straw Doll!!
First Aired: November. 07,1984

Ryoko harnesses the power of voodoo and gives Ataru a voodoo doll effigy of her brother Shutaro, who unintentionally hurts him without realizing it. Shutaro now must do everything to prevent Ataru from finding out that the voodoo doll is of him, while trying to avoid himself in the process.

Episode 152 - Attack the Seniors! Revenge of the Knowing Three Daughters
First Aired: October. 24,1984

The Planet Middle School Girl Gang is back to get revenge on Lum. However, she's too distracted by Ataru's proposition; if she can go three days without shocking him, he'll go on a date with her.

Episode 151 - Man or Bird? Gokakenran Ally of Justice!
Episode 149 - Ran-chan Panic: There is No Tomorrow for Tomobiki Town
Episode 146 - Ryunosuke Stunned! My Young Child Loves Rock Mother!!
Episode 143 - Counterattack of the Primeval Animals! Panic at the Poolside
Episode 140 - Lum-chan's Becoming a Cow?
First Aired: June. 27,1984

Lum and Ataru are both bitten by a cow in a pet shop. Shortly afterward, Lum's horns begin to grow and resemble a cow's horns, and a horrified Lum believes she is turning into a cow.

Episode 138 - Haunted Special! Search for Mendo Mansion's Treasure!!
First Aired: June. 13,1984

Mendo's elderly grandfather requests Shutaro find the secret family treasure. Unfortunately for Shutaro, his classmates decide to join. Unfortunately for his classmates, is it hidden in the extensive Mendo Estate.

Episode 137 - Ten-chan's Strange Love Story
Episode 136 - Great Horrors! Oyuki is Finally Angered!!
Episode 134 - Deathmatch!! The Mendo Family Flower Display Death Match
Episode 133 - Un-re-mov-ab-le Rouge Magic
Episode 132 - Ran-chan - First Kiss Tastes Tears of Love
First Aired: May. 02,1984

Ran tries to win Rei's heart literally through his stomach. And while she doesn't succeed, she does manage to get an indirect kiss from him when he licks bean paste from her face. Lum is happy to see Rei and Ran paired up, ecstatic at the idea that Ran will no longer bother her. Or is she...?

Episode 131 - Clash!! Queen Majesty and Ragaman's Love
First Aired: April. 25,1984

Ryunosuke loses the cloth that wraps up her breasts, but decides to not buy a new wrap when she's finally treated like a girl by everyone around her. But when it comes time to play rugby at gym class, the boys are more interested in Ryunosuke's large chest than they are in playing the actual game. At the same time, an evil space queen and her all-male henchmen are plotting to overtake Earth, their ship the size (and shape) of a rugby ball.

Episode 130 - Different Dimension Switch - Where is Darling!?
First Aired: April. 11,1984

During Hanami, Ataru snaps a tree branch and somehow causes a rip in dimensions, sending Lum to a parallel world. Here Ataru lost the game of tag in the first episode, his family living in poverty. And he refuses to talk to Lum because he is upset that she ruined his life, as well as his parents'. Lum hops dimensions in hopes of finding the real Ataru.

Episode 129 - Deathmatch! Ataru VS Mendo Brigade!
First Aired: March. 28,1984

Episode 2 of a 2-episode serial. Despite their best efforts, all of Lum's Stroomtroopers except Megane have been kidnapped. Ataru is saved from captivity by Mendou's little sister Ryoko, who gives him supplies and even a motorcycle to save Lum with.

Episode 128 - Scramble! Recapture Lum!
First Aired: March. 21,1984

Episode 1 of a 2-episode serial. Ataru and Lum get into an argument, with Lum going to her UFO to sleep that night. But in her sleep it crashes on Mendou's property, with Lum losing her memory in the process. Mendou, disgusted by Ataru's lack of sympathy about Lum's missing, informs Ataru that she's on his property. He also tells him that if he wants her back, he'll have to go on his property and deal with him and his army. After some nudging by Lum's Stormtroopers, Ataru works together with them to save her.

Episode 127 - Sakura-san is My Youth!
Episode 126 - Burning Ran's Emotional Video Mail
Episode 125 - Sakura - Melancholy of a Youth Time
First Aired: February. 29,1984

Sakura literally re-meets her childhood when Cherry slips her a pill that makes her childhood self appear, who wants to play. But everyone else thinks it's her illegitimate child.

Episode 124 - Operation - Peek in the Woman's Bath
First Aired: February. 22,1984

Ataru takes a bath at an old-fashioned sento (along with Cherry), where he tries to peek on the girls' side, where Lum, Shinobu, Sakura, Ran, Ryoko, Ryunosuke, Benten, and Oyuki are having a private party. But soon the Stormtroopers and even Mendo find out about Ataru's plan.

Episode 123 - Great Vault! Courageous Survival!
Episode 122 - Deadly! Standup Eating Wars!!
First Aired: February. 08,1984

Megane deals with a tough, fast-eating "fast-food costumer dragon" named Ryuu at the noodle shop he works at, who criticizes others' inferior foods and eats for free if not satisfied. But soon other fast-food fighters start hitting the scene in Tomobiki, and Megane only worries even more. Turns out that Mendou, who's thinking of opening a supermarket in town in an attempt to bankrupt the small-time family restaurants, is the cause of this, starting a contest between Ataru and co. and the fast-food fighters to determine if Tomobiki gets the supermarket.

Episode 118 - Lum-chan's Ancient Japanese Fairytales
Episode 117 - The Story of a Traveling Snow Dharma
First Aired: December. 21,1983

After saving its life three times from Ten's antics, a snowman spirit awards Ataru with a late night dinner, taking the form of a cute pink-haired girl that only he can see.

Episode 114 - Document - Who Will Be Miss Tomobiki!?
Episode 112 - Lum and Ataru – A Night only for Two
First Aired: November. 09,1983

Ataru's parents head away for an overnight trip to Atami, leaving Lum and Ataru in the house together. Ataru dreads the prospect of a Lum-cooked dinner, while a horrified Mendo and Lum's Stormtroopers storm the Moroboshi home to protect Lum from Ataru. Ataru tries to kiss her at the last moment, but as a precaution, puts an armor that prevents electricity, in the last frames...he begins to cry.

Episode 111 - Enraged Lum-chan!
First Aired: November. 02,1983

After Ten burns Lum's scarf she made especially for Ataru, he's forced to do something he's never really done before - apologize. And Ataru is making sure to drag this out as much as possible, even convincing Lum to get angry at him.

Episode 110 - Grand! The Mysterious Matsutake Pot!!
First Aired: October. 26,1983

A batch of matsutake mushrooms from Cherry turn the Tomobiki High student body and staff alike (except Lum and Cherry himself) into a bunch of high weirdos desperate for entertainment.

Episode 109 - Outraged! Piteous Kid Shutaro!!
Episode 108 - Galactic Teacher CAO-2's Revenge
First Aired: September. 21,1983

Lum, Ran, Benten, and Oyuki find out that their old teacher, a giant, robot chalkboard eraser named CAO-2, has come to Earth after being trapped on a deserted planet for years. And the former three are not pleased with the news.

Episode 107 - Terror! Tororo has Come to Attack!!
Episode 105 - Full of Sunshine - Full of Amours
Episode 104 - Ah The Eyelid of Mother
First Aired: August. 17,1983

Ryunosuke tries to recall what her mother was like, and her father doesn't help her at all in this endeavor. A new eyecatch featuring Lum and Ataru is introduced this episode.

Episode 103 - Panic in the Haunted Inn
First Aired: August. 10,1983

Ataru, Lum, Mendo, and Shinobu stay at an inn and meet Otama, a scaredy-cat ghost who tries (and fails) to out-scare an old couple each year around the summer. But the old couple are far scarier than she is (though not on purpose).

Episode 102 - Mendo Family - Summer Christmas
First Aired: August. 03,1983

Ryoko holds a "Summer Xmas" party, where everyone must come in male-female pairs. And the main attraction is a gigantic Christmas tree, which they must climb in order to get to the dance floor above. The male winner will receive a kiss from Ryoko, and the female Mendou.

Episode 99 - Firefighter Mama Visits!
First Aired: July. 13,1983

Ten's mother, a firefighter, comes to visit her son on Earth. Ten must keep his fire-breathing a secret from his mother as she hates pyromaniacs and will send all those who are to Hell. Unfortunately for him, Ataru - taking full advantage of Ten's mother's position - isn't going to make it easy on him.

Episode 98 - And Then There was Nobody!?
First Aired: July. 06,1983

Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Mendo, Onsen-Mark, Sakura, Cherry, and the Stormtroopers have a stay at a mansion, where they are slowly picked off one by one in a manner similar to the nursery rhyme Cock Robin.

Episode 97 - Ghost Story! Old Man Willow!
First Aired: June. 29,1983

Onsen-Mark tells the class a story of a cursed willow tree, which Ataru finds a load of fluff and ends up releasing an old man after Mendou after he carved his company's symbol with a knife on said tree. The old man drops a map to a possible treasure, while Mendou plans to see him at midnight to settle a score regarding the mockery of his company logo Ataru carved on the back of his robe. Meanwhile, Onsen-Mark is forced to do guard duty across the school by himself at night.

Episode 96 - Big Showdown! Sakura vs Sakuranbo!!
First Aired: June. 22,1983

Ataru and Lum are left home alone when his parents leave for three days, and Lum locks Ataru inside of his own house! When a botched-up meal causes planes and tanks to appear instead of food, it attracts the attention of Sakura and Sakuranbo, who try to fight them off..but end up fighting against each other's summoned creatures instead!

Episode 95 - Lum-chan the Ruthless Rebel
First Aired: June. 15,1983

Ataru is the producer/director of a film for school. At first it only involves him, Lum, and the Stormtroopers, but it soon involves most of the student body after Ataru gets funding by Mendo.

Episode 94 - Shinobu's Cinderella Story
First Aired: June. 08,1983

Shinobu gets involved with the rich Kobayakawa family's youngest son, the adopted Makoto, whose father recently died. But his older siblings want to bump him off so that they don't have to share their late father's wealth with him.

Episode 92 - Bottled Letter Seashore Mystery!
First Aired: May. 25,1983

After Ataru, Ten, and Mendo fall for a beautiful woman's love letters - which end up luring them (along with Lum and Shinobu) to the inn she works in - they stay at a creepy inn, where the residents quite literally want them for dinner.

Episode 91 - The Muco Flower's Name is Ryunosuke
First Aired: May. 11,1983

Ataru is changed into a girl by Kurama's tengu henchmen after they try to use a cannon to change Ryunosuke into a man for their princess. NOTE: There is no appearance of Shinobu in this episode.

Episode 90 - Seeing Togenkyo as a Hell Camp!
First Aired: April. 27,1983

After enduring Lum's ultra-spicy dinner on a camping trip, Ataru, Mendou, Megane, and Perm head off to find food (with Lum and Ten not far behind). They eventually end up fighting against the Evil Peach after they're tipped off by Cherry of a village that produces giant peaches, wanting to save a beautiful girl from being sacrificed.

Episode 89 - Happy Birthday My Darling
First Aired: April. 20,1983

When Ataru flips out over Lum for forgetting his upcoming birthday, she goes absent from school for days and only comes home late at night. This causes both Ataru and Lum to become upset, as well as separately confine in Miss Sakura.

Episode 88 - Ran-chan's Great Date Plan!
First Aired: April. 13,1983

Admiring Ran's feminine beauty, Ryunosuke goes out with her in an attempt to become more feminine, but everyone else except Ran (who doesn't know Ryunosuke's true gender and thinks she's going on a date with a guy) thinks this means she's interested in girls when she claims she has no interest in boys. Lum and Ataru decide to intervene with Ran and Ryunosuke's "date".

Episode 87 - Goodbye Season
First Aired: March. 23,1983

Ataru talks to Megane one day about handing over a "position", which Shinobu overhears, thinking that he's planning to give up on Lum. Not wanting to lose Mendou, she takes manners into her own hands..

Episode 86 - Ryunosuke Arrives! I Love the Sea!
Episode 84 - The Mendo Family... Masquerade War
First Aired: March. 02,1983

Ryoko plans a masquerade "party" (which is actually a tournament of sorts) to get closer to Ataru, but her brother Shutaro is dead-fast against this, hiring all of Ataru's rivals to fight him.

Episode 83 - Love Love Catchball!
First Aired: February. 23,1983

Ten orders two special balls called Love-Love Catchballs that supposedly show a person's future love, one for each gender. When Ataru finds the one for guys that show their future wives, things quickly get chaotic.

Episode 81 - Steal the Kiss of Miss Snow Queen!
Episode 79 - We'll Risk Our Lives During Classtime!
First Aired: January. 12,1983

After he's pelted by snowballs by Ataru and his friends, an annoyed Ten plans revenge on Ataru during class after Onsen-Mark threatens the class should any of them make noise.

Episode 78 - Badboy Musashi - A Success Story
Episode 77 - The Big Year-End Party that Lum-chan Organized!
Episode 76 - The Suicide Subspace Parttime Job
First Aired: December. 15,1982

Ataru finds the perfect part-time job - a washing attendant at a bathhouse - which he excitedly anticipates as being an opportunity to ogle and grope naked women. However, it doesn't turn out the way he expected.

Episode 72 - The Terrifying Cavity WARS!
Episode 70 - Terror! The Deserted Fossil Grounds Mystery
First Aired: November. 03,1982

Ataru, Lum, Mendo, Shinobu, and Jariten all go on a picnic to a remote part of Japan which has some fossils. A group of archaeologists are also exploring this area and using a lot of fancy tricks to make the exploration seem more dramatic than it is.

Episode 69 - Those Buy-Eaters Gather Round!
First Aired: October. 27,1982

Lum, Ataru, Shinobu and the rest of the Tomobiki student body - except for Mendo and his small gang of "good kids" - fight a new school rule which forbids students to leave the campus to eat lunch at fast-food joints.

Episode 68 - Lum-chan's Class Reunion
Episode 67 - After You've Gone
First Aired: October. 13,1982

Lum's Stormtroopers throw Lum a party, but Ataru spoils it by yelling at Lum and accusing her of ruining his life. Lum leaves for her home planet, and when she doesn't return, Ataru, believing she has gone for good, begins to miss her and tearfully wishes she would return. However, it turns out Lum merely left to renew her passport.

Episode 64 - Panic in Typhoon!
Episode 63 - So long Byebye Summer Days
Episode 62 - Thrilling Summer Date
First Aired: August. 11,1982

Lum and Ataru go on their first date together after Lum watches a television program that makes her realize her relationship with Ataru is abnormal. Ataru, although hesitant at first, shows that he does actually have feelings for Lum, but feels uncomfortable expressing them.

Episode 60 - The Coming of The Phantom Red Mantle!
Episode 55 - Shock Library - Quiet Please!
First Aired: June. 16,1982

Chaos ensues at the library after the characters in the books start coming to life. Wendy Darling (from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan novel) enlists Ataru and Lum's help in restoring order.

Episode 54 - Gimme Back My Horn!
Episode 46 - Big Springtime Picnic Uproar! (2)
Episode 45 - Big Springtime Picnic Uproar! (1)
Episode 44 - Great Space Matchmaking Operation (2)
Episode 43 - Great Space Matchmaking Operation (1)
Episode 42 - Wake up to a Nightmare
First Aired: March. 24,1982

Sleeping in class, Ataru has weird dreams which he relates a little of as he occasionally talks in his sleep. Annoyed, his classmates wake him and a dream demon comes out from Ataru's sleep.

Episode 41 - Duel! Ataru vs. Ataru
First Aired: March. 24,1982

Ataru eats a lollipop Lum gave him and gets a mouth burn. Running off, he finds Cherry and a weird melon, which Ataru eats to cool his mouth. The melon causes Ataru to split into two Ataru's, one polite and the other casual. The two continue to fight all day.

Episode 40 - Peach Blossom Poetry Contest
First Aired: March. 17,1982

Lum, Mendo, Shinobu, Ran, Ten, Sakura, and Cherry all are in a blossom orchard for some traditional reason. Ataru is in the blossom orchard for a picnic. Cherry's chanting summons some sort of woman spirit, whom Ataru runs off and meets with a giant.

Episode 39 - Sleepy Serene Springtime Classroom
First Aired: March. 17,1982

During math class, Kuribayashi and all the students fall asleep, save for Ataru and Mendo. Lum arrives and finds out that a tiny old man and girl are responsible for this magic. The tiny girl then uses some more magic to have a party with Lum, Ataru, and Mendo; until the principal arrives with some parents.

Episode 38 - Whose Kid Is This?
First Aired: March. 10,1982

Mendo finds an alien child in his locker and goes through great lengths to hide it from everyone. Later after everyone has found out, a whole mob of these alien children arrive, just for Mendo.

Episode 37 - The Tearful Diary of Tomorrow
First Aired: March. 10,1982

Lum acquire's Ataru's diary that has written in events that will happen throughout the day. Ataru tries to use it to his advantage, but the records in the diary are not quite how they first read; making use of puns or ambiguous statements.

Episode 36 - Ran-chan's Invitation
First Aired: March. 03,1982

Ran invites Lum, Ataru, and Ten over for cookies and tea, but her real plot is to suck Ataru's youth. Ran makes a double of Ataru and tries switching them, but she gets confused and loses the real Ataru.

Episode 35 - Girls' Day! Introducing Ran-chan
First Aired: March. 03,1982

First appearance of Ran, Lum's childhood friend. During a small celebration at the Moroboshi house, a little doll enchants Ataru to follow it to Ran. Ran tries to kiss Ataru to drain his youth, but Lum shows up.

Episode 34 - Demonic Jogging
First Aired: February. 24,1982

Every morning, Ataru goes jogging early to see girls. On the way to school, Ataru breaks the fall of an attempted suicide as he was grabbing for a 100-yen coin below her. Ataru and Mendo get into a dispute over who is more noble and end up playing a game of tennis.

Episode 33 - Fourth Dimensional Camera
Episode 32 - Terrifying Visiting Day
Episode 31 - Oh, Lonely Teacher! Kuribayashi Sensei Appears
First Aired: February. 10,1982

Ataru and Kuribayashi are enemies from the very start. Then Lum shows up and Kuribayashi falls in love. Finally Lum goes out with Kuribayashi in hopes on lightening his spirits.

Episode 30 - The Benten Gang's Return Match
First Aired: February. 03,1982

Match Benten and her girl biker friends come to Earth for another round of fun. Ataru sides up with Benten again, and Lum recruits Jariten and some people dressed as demons.

Episode 29 - The Great Spring War
First Aired: February. 03,1982

First appearance of Benten, Lum's best friend the goddess. Lum takes Ataru to another planet to help in a battle against Benten's family. The battle consists of catching stones in bowls on a giant set of scales. Ataru starts playing with Benten and ends up messing up the entire game.

Episode 28 - Constellation is Spinning
First Aired: January. 27,1982

Lum's computer tells her that Mendo is really the best choice for her lover, so she brings a set of constellation scales to school and weight Ataru versus Mendo in a series of test in the scales. At the end, the scales break and we see the class as constellations.

Episode 27 - Mendo Brings Trouble!
First Aired: January. 27,1982

Mendo returns for a formal introduction on his first day at school. He and Ataru have a duel for presidency of the class which ends in a tie. So they have a duel with cannons, which Ataru wins with help from Lum.

Episode 26 - Full Course from Hell
First Aired: January. 20,1982

Still at the resort, the group meets some maniac who is having an all-you-can-eat contest. Sakura reveals the secret of her figure to be a diet pill called "Beauty Foods". But we really know the real reason is Sakura can just plain eat like a whale, and we see her do so as she beats Ataru and Cherry in the contest and clean the maniac of all his food.

Episode 25 - Hawaiian Swimsuit Thief
First Aired: January. 20,1982

Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Sakura, Megane, Cherry, and others are staying at a beachside resort. During the day, an octopus is stealing peoples swimsuits, but it appears to look like Cherry is doing it. At the end, they find the octopus and beat him up.

Episode 24 - Father, You Were Strong
Episode 23 - Love Battle Royale
First Aired: January. 13,1982

First appearance of Tsubame, Sakura's boy friend who has some magic abilities. Sakura invites Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Megane, Perm, Chibi, and Kakugari to a disco. Things later go haywire as Tsubame starts casting spells and all sorts of weird creatures appear, including Rei.

Episode 22 - Ataru Genji Goes to the Heian Capital (2)
First Aired: January. 06,1982

First appearance of Mendo, the rich noble; but it is not until episode 27 that he really does anything. Mendo tells a tale about ancient Japan featuring the normal cast in a slightly different alien invasion story. The aliens this time, all look like a bunch odd barbarians, except for a pretty girl and her young boy cousin.

Episode 21 - Ataru Genji Goes to the Heian Capital (1)
First Aired: January. 06,1982

First appearance of Mendo, the rich noble; but it is not until episode 27 that he really does anything. Mendo tells a tale about ancient Japan featuring the normal cast in a slightly different alien invasion story. The aliens this time, all look like a bunch odd barbarians, except for a pretty girl and her young boy cousin.

Episode 20 - Pitter-Patter Christmas Eve (2)
First Aired: December. 23,1981

Megane and Lum's Stormtroopers set up a plot to embarrass Ataru and get Lum to leave him at the same time. They set up a date who will make a fool of Ataru, but Lum finds out and twists things around.

Episode 19 - Pitter-Patter Christmas Eve (1)
First Aired: December. 23,1981

Megane and Lum's Stormtroopers set up a plot to embarrass Ataru and get Lum to leave him at the same time. They set up a date who will make a fool of Ataru, but Lum finds out and twists things around.

Episode 18 - Athletics in Women's Hell!
Episode 17 - Princess Kurama, Sleeping Beauty
First Aired: December. 16,1981

First episode with Kurama, the karas-tengu princess. On a field trip, Ataru and friends accidentally meet a karas-tengu who takes Ataru to marry Kurama. Kurama then tries to reform Ataru to be her perfect husband.

Episode 16 - That Crazy Age of the Dinosaurs
First Aired: December. 09,1981

While Ataru is flying an ultra-light, with Lum and Jariten tagging along, Kintaro crashes into him. With the help of Lum's electric shock, the crash send them all back in time to the dinosaur age.

Episode 15 - Neptune is Beyond My Closet
First Aired: December. 09,1981

First appearance of Oyuki, Lum friend and queen of Neptune. Oyuki also has incredible ice powers. Megane and friends visit while Shinobu is nursing Ataru, who has a cold; and they discover a gate to Neptune in Ataru closet. By accident, they go through this gate and arrive on Neptune to be greeted by Lum and Oyuki.

Episode 14 - Voodoo Dolls of Vengeance
First Aired: December. 02,1981

After an odd loss of control of his body after dinner, Ataru finds out Lum has some clay for making voodoo dolls. Ataru takes full advantage of the situation until Lum make a doll of Shinobu, and Ataru tries to get it away from Lum.

Episode 13 - Electric Shocks Scare Me!
First Aired: December. 02,1981

Cherry gives Ataru some yellow ribbons which when tied to her horns, negate Lum's powers. In order to coax Lum into wearing them, Ataru has to put on a big charade of really loving her.

Episode 12 - It's a Lovesick Little Demon!
First Aired: November. 25,1981

Walking home from school, Ataru is assaulted by a group of black cats and gets a nasty bump on the head. At midnight, he is using two mirrors to look at the bump, when a little demon pops out of the mirror. The demon proves to be too much for Ataru and Mr. Moroboshi, so they get Cherry to exorcise it.

Episode 11 - Love Triangle Black Hole
First Aired: November. 25,1981

Ataru is phoning Shinobu in order to make plans for a date, when Lum interrupts and get's Shinobu mad at Ataru. Ataru throws Lum out and spends the rest of the episode trying to contact Shinobu. But Lum is persistent and uses a ray to jam the phone lines. But this ray also has the side affect of making a plane and a helicopter vanish.

Episode 10 - Tormenting Virus
First Aired: November. 18,1981

Arriving at school one morning, Ataru is greeted by all boys in the school who are waiting for the new nurse, Sakura, arriving at school today. Ataru appears to be sick, but in reality he is possessed; and Sakura performs the exorcism.

Episode 9 - Sakura - Raving Beauty of Mystery
First Aired: November. 18,1981

First appearance of Sakura, The Shinto maiden. Ataru can no longer endure Lum, so he has gone undercover. Unfortunately, at a restaurant, the appearance of Lum, Ataru parents, Shinobu, and Cherry blows his cover; and a mob chases after him. He manages to duck them and bumps into Sakura, who takes him home for exorcising.

Episode 8 - Live Vigorously!
First Aired: November. 04,1981

Kintaro's nanny, with Ataru's help takes the alien children on a tour of Earth and a Earth child's school. Ataru tells the myth of the real Kintaro who grew up in the wild and slew a demon. So Kintaro decide to live up to his name.

Episode 7 - Kintaro of the Autumn Sky
First Aired: November. 04,1981

First episode with Kintaro, the vicious little boy with the pet flying bear and the red haired alien nanny. Lum and Jariten meet Kintaro inside a wind carp, and Kintaro tells them he's was looking for his nanny in the carp. Ataru, Shinobu, Lum, and Jariten try to help Kintaro find his nanny by asking around.

Episode 6 - Die Dreamy-Man!
First Aired: October. 28,1981

Ataru, Megane, and friends are going to a Gyudon restaurant for lunch and are quite shocked to see Rei munching down food like a black hole. During the rest of the episode, Rei is chasing Lum, Ataru and friends and as the chase goes on, the chaos grows on.

Episode 5 - The Coming of Rei the Handsome Shapechanger!
First Aired: October. 28,1981

This show features the first appearance of Rei, Lum's former fiance. This episode opens with Ataru in his room watching a storm, and Lum trying to coax him to bed. Shinobu meets Rei and brings him to Ataru's house. After a lot of arguing, Rei challenges Ataru to a duel for Lum.

Episode 4 - Mrs. Swallow and Mrs. Penguin
First Aired: October. 21,1981

This episode opens with Lum putting on makeup to go meet Darling at school. A swallow swallows some food Jariten gives it and it grows such that it looks like a penguin. It's appearance in school is just the start of a full day of panic.

Episode 3 - Mail from Space - Ten-chan Arrives!
Episode 2 - It's Raining Oil All Over Town
First Aired: October. 14,1981

This episode opens with Ataru friends Megane and Lum's Stormtroopers at school who are watching films of the tag game. In this episode, a space taxi gives Ataru a ride home by accident and the fee is...too much. Since Ataru cannot pay, the space Taxi Collection Agency starts stealing all the oil in the world.

Episode 1 - I'm Lum the Notorious!
First Aired: October. 14,1981

This episode opens with a baseball game and Ataru getting hit with a left field flyball. Ataru is soon escorted home and discovers he's been chosen to fight an invading alien force's champion in a 10-day game of tag. If he loses, the aliens will invade. But if he wins, the aliens will go home. Ataru isn't at all willing to play tag until he sees the alien's champion: the beautiful Lum.

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