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| This was just ... wow. I still can't comprehend everything that was going on in this ep., but it was all kinds of deep and awesome. |
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| Wonderfully weird. I've always liked Ataru's mom anyway. I've just realized that this woman has no name. We can call her "Ataru's mom" or "Mrs. Moroboshi", but she has no name of her own. The real reason is because she's not that important in a story about goofy teenagers, but to spin this fact into a dreamlike exploration of a middle-aged woman's angst, fears, and desires is excellently creative. I like how it repeatedly provides the obvious explanation for what's happening; she hit her head at the store and is dreaming. It repeats this so often it becomes boring, which is deliberate; why this is happening is not important. I also like how different characters we know serve as the doctor she wakes up to, underscoring the unreality of the situation. Perhaps best was old Four-Eyes as the blowhard spouting trite psychoanalysis. I can understand a fair bit of it (she's worried she's frittering away her life, or her life is too defined by her role as wife or mother, some shallow wish-fulfillment of indulgence), but I can't really grasp Ataru and Lum appearing on a flying cruse liner at the end. This kind of examination of a middle-aged housewife is often pretty cynical so it's interesting to see a strong current of love for her husband in her visions. In the segment where's she's old it's learning that he is dead that sends her falling to the floor in tears and somehow seems to trigger her becoming old. Later when she imagines her house being destroyed by aliens (fantasizing about an outside force removing the site of her tedious obligations?) she apparently can't imagine her husband not defending it (we hear him complain about the mortgage often enough, after all!) and so also being destroyed, which anguishes her. The contradiction of feelings lends the visions psychological believability. That the little girl (in the stereotypical '50s/'60s red suspender skirt) is her is pretty obvious, but I like the way that's emphasized by the way the child has squinty eyes and earlier she pulls one of her eyes into the same shape while looking in the mirror while her monologue mentions nostalgia. At one point she wears an apron with a chick and "Piyo Piyo" imprinted on it. This is the apron that Kyoko wears in Maison Ikkoku, a manga Rumiko Takahashi was working on at this time, concurrently with Urusei Yatsura. It would be adapted as a TV series in 1986. |
FronzelJan 17, 2015 9:11 PM
| Great episode. Some of the themes of this episode will be reprised in the second Urusei Yatsura Movie. |
| These episodes sure are getting weirder and weirder! Nice new OP&ED though! |
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| So...it was a dream within a dream? This episode made me question reality as it is...0.o So does Ataru's mom ever wake up from her never ending dream? Like the new op and ed by the way :) |
| Bit of a weird episode. Not really sure what happened. I think Ataru's mother went crazy after all those crazy antics happening around her. |
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| Fabulous episode, especially in taking Ataru's hot mom as the subject of an episode. This is basically Beautiful Dreamer squeezed into 22 minutes. It's interesting that Mrs. Moroboshi is only identifiable though male reference points- either through her husband's surname or as Ataru's mother- hence the question repeatedly asked to Mrs. Moroboshi in this episode"who are you" is never answered. We never know (or have yet to learn) Ataru's mother's first name or maiden name. I particularly enjoyed seeing her bad traits come out again and even hearing her speak similar to Ataru. |
| Utter bullshit. Whoever wrote this had too many umeboshi. It's like Japanese sjws were trying to destroy franchises decades before Disney raped Star Wars and Star Trek here. Crypto-feminist Freudian surrealist agit-toon can eat my ass. |
| The alien invasion is canon, I don't care what anyone else says. Everything that happens after episode 78 is just a dream. This is the real ending of Urusei Yatsura. @FahtahSensei Take your pills and chill, this is one of Urusei Yatsura's greatest episodes. |
PernodiJan 18, 2020 2:38 PM
Pernodi said: @FahtahSensei Take your autism pills and chill, this is one of Urusei Yatsura's greatest episodes. Umn...yeah. About that autism. |
FahtahSenseiJan 16, 2020 8:27 AM
trenchantbaka said: Pernodi said: The alien invasion is canon, I don't care what anyone else says. Everything that happens after episode 78 is just a dream. This is the real ending of Urusei Yatsura. So you're Omoshne in kissanime? I just found the same comment lol. Omoshne used to be my MALname way before I even had a Discus haha. I've changed it now to be more pronouncable. And ye everyone should know the TRUTH about Urusei Yatsura AMEN |
| This is my favorite episode so far. |
PlateJun 9, 2020 6:25 PM
| It felt like I was watching Inception and Evangelion at the same time. |
| That was really such a psychological mindfuck episode about Ataru's mom desires told through dreams. Really amazing episode considering it's actually a filler. |
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| Complete waste of an episode that ended up just pissing me off by having no resolution. It baits you and leads you on thinking it's building up to something great but like a lot of other episodes completely drops the ball and falls apart at the very end. Doesn't surprise me in the least to read Oshii wrote this one. Characters sitting around speaking pseudo-intellectual drivel and a bunch of surreal BS happening doesn't mean much when you can't complete the thought and leave the ending up in the air. I couldn't stand his Patlabor films, Beautiful Dreamer felt incoherent and irrelevant to the show, and now I come upon this episode which is just more of the same. |
| Great episode and an awesome new opening! I feel like it might have partly inspired "Moonlght Densetsu" |
| It was okay at first |
| Finally a new opening. Gave me some Sailor Moon vibes and the ending of this episode was on some Eva shit. I'm a fan of Ataru's mom since the beginning and this episode exploring her "midlife crisis" was hilariously brilliant. The super super sale wrestling was merely just another noon in her life compared to the insanity that followed. 5/5 |
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| What an insane episode to change the OP and ED with lol, they were both very good both visually and musically, it feels weird for the OP to change since it’s been the same since the beginning until now but it’s a welcome change. But this episode was really good, Ataru’s mom going through crazy dream sequences on loop after seeing a bit of her POV at the beginning of the episode was super interesting, so many cool scenes and also horrific ones, like some really good psychological horror which I’m a big fan of. The ending bit seemed like a reference to the classic “War of the Worlds” with those alien machines that looked like tripods which I’m also a big fan of, both the musical and different iterations of the story, and then ending on a confusing note, but my guess is either that little girl was the one having the dream, or it’s a young version of Ataru’s mom. Either way, really loved this one and I think it’s one of my favorites episodes so far. |
| This episode felt like animated poetry. And as a poem, it doesn't always have to be "clear" - I liked that it ended without giving any explanation. It reminded me of "Paprika", with its dreamy atmosphere and its psychological references. Thanks to some unconventional episodes like this, this series really surpassed my expectations! |
| ...Huh. Y'know, these more recent serious episodes are great, in a vaccum. But, it does feel more and more like Mamoru Ooshi's influence is starting to make the anime drift further and further from the tone of the source material, which I'm not sure how I feel about. |
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