Urusei Yatsura Movie 1: Only You

Lum doesn't need much assistance going ballistic when everyone in Tomobiki gets an invitation to Ataru's wedding -- and she's not listed as the bride! It seems that some 11 years ago, Ataru played "Shadow Tag" with a young girl named Elle and won. Unfortunately, Elle was yet another Alien Princess; and on her planet, if a boy steps on a girl's shadow, they have to marry.
When Elle's emissary comes to make arrangements, Lum redefines the term "the atmosphere was electric," but to no avail: a force-field now protects Ataru from her high voltage love-zaps. Lum's friend Benten suggests a pre-emptive wedding, and they proceed to abduct Ataru and all of the wedding guests, and the stage is set for the shotgun wedding of all time!

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"I, I, You & Ai (I,I,You & 愛)" by Izumi Kobayashi

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"I, I, You & Ai (I,I,You & 愛)" by Izumi Kobayashi

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Dec 2, 2012

AnnoKano

Recommended

During the first half of the nineteen eighties, Urusei Yatsura was the most popular anime series in Japan. The story of a beautiful alien who falls in love with a womanising teenager, it's credited with bringing the Otaku culture out from basements of Japan and into the public consciousness. Spawning a long-running TV series that ran between 1981 and 1986, as well as a series of films, the series remains popular in Japan to this very day.

Several years afterward, the series found a new audience when it was brought over to the United States during the nineties. Despite retaining its popularity in Japan, in ...

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Jul 24, 2020

stmwg01

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Quick take: “Only You,” is one of the most important turning points in Lum and Ataru’s relationship. The story is very well written and is worth a watch. I do suggest you watch this as part of the series, not as a stand alone as it expects you to have a working knowledge of the characters and premise. If you’ve been waiting for some Lum and Ataru romance, you’ll find a bit of it here. Rewatch value: extremely high.

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My Original series score: 10

“Only You,” is a fun story that is key in the relationship between Ataru and Lum. It was well ...

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Jul 15, 2021

Neimaj

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I made the horrible decision to watch and review all of the Urusei Yatsura movies. Hopefully these next reviews that I write don't become dull and monotonous. Lord give me strength. I'm going to spoil this movie, by the way. Eleven years prior, a young boy and a young girl meet each other in a playground and play a game of tag with each other. Everything is fine until the young boy steps on the young girl's shadow. The young girl tells the boy that on her home planet, if a boy steps on a girl's shadow then the two must marry someday. The young ... boy agrees to marry the girl someday, not even aware of the concept of marriage. The girl leaves and they never meet again, until eleven years later in present day, present time ha ha ha! The young boy's name was Ataru Moroboshi and grew up to be quite the unpleasant person. I've watched a large chunk of Urusei Yatsura up until this point, and I can safely say with absolute confidence that I really hate Ataru. Without going into too much detail, because let's be real, if you're reading this review you've seen or at least watched some of Urusei Yatsura, Ataru has the tendency to cheat on Lum. He's a complete scumbag because he cheats on her right in her face, begs for forgiveness after realizing how much he misses her, they make up, and then a week later he's cheating on her again. The dude is oblivious of how lucky he really is and takes advantage of Lum's kindness. Which leads to the plot of this film.

Anyone with a connection to Ataru in any way is given a letter of invitation to Ataru and Elle's wedding. The young girl that Ataru played with all those years ago, her name is Elle, and she is the queen of her own planet. Everyone almost instantly finds out about the wedding, including Lum, and no one is happy about it. Except for Ataru. He's ecstatic for the wedding; which is concerning because he has no memory of the promise he made eleven years prior. When meeting with the aliens who work for Elle, Ataru easily accepts his fate to marry Elle while knowing jack diddly shit about her. Lum is understandably pissed about the whole situation, but quickly falls into a depression. The first-third of this film is pretty slow with not much going on. That is until Lum meets Benten, an old friend who convinces Lum to fight and take back Ataru. They even planned a wedding for Ataru and Lum inviting most of the cast from the show. Well, not invite, more like forcefully brought along.

The midsection of the film starts to pick up by having a long, intense action scene where spies working for Elle kidnap Ataru. There's a brief scene of Ataru talking shit about Lum and how she's annoying and persistent all the time, and everyone hears it. What an absolute fuckface. Lum can be annoying at times, but she always means well and has the best intentions. Pretty sad how she fell in love with Fuckface Mcgee and he doesn't care half the time. There's a scene where Lum is chasing down the spy to rescue Ataru and she didn't realize that the ship she was using was going to explode. When it does, Ataru sees this and he's immediately concerned. I appreciate this scene because the writing in the series loves to show how terrible of a person Ataru is, but this scene in particular proves that he isn't heartless. I like that. Lum is unharmed and it leads to a sweet yet somber song about Ataru and Lum's relationship. It was really beautiful and it was a touching moment. And now, we finally meet Elle and honestly, she's not as cute as I thought she would be. She mistook Mendo, the rich asshole character, as Ataru and that got a laugh out of me. Elle portrays herself to be a sweet, prim and proper queen. She keeps her Moet et Chandon in her pretty cabinet. "Let them eat cake," she says, just like Marie Antoinette. She seems pleasant, but there's a twist. Mendo and Elle split off alone because Elle finds Mendo more attractive than Ataru. She then reveals to Mendo that she has a harem of one hundred thousand handsome men. She keeps them all in a large freezer so she can have an eternal harem. This may come off as nitpicky, but this brings up an issue. If she was a young girl only eleven years ago, how did she have the time to manipulate and capture one hundred thousand men. That's physically impossible. She would have to manipulate and capture nine thousand ninety one men a year. And yes, I did the math.

9,091 × 11 = 100,001

I mean, I'm a tad bit off, but whatever. The rest of the gang overhear this information and are quickly thrown into prison. From this point forward the movie becomes a "We have to stop the wedding" story, and right before Ataru and Elle are officially married, Lum interrupts the wedding and somehow the harem of one hundred thousand men are released. Shit gets wack after this point. The last twenty minutes of the film is insane and it definitely reminds you of an Urusei Yatsura episode, which is something I'll get into later.

The coolest scene in this entire film was also the shortest. The warp scene! Lum and Benten invade the wedding and try to leave by warping back to Earth. It's the only scene I found pretty to look at. Great animation, vivid and bright color choices, and the background looks like an acid trip. In fact, the whole sequence looks like an acid trip. The characters are thrown eleven years in the past do to the warp machine not functioning properly. That makes no sense, but whatever. They soon realize that Ataru never stepped on Elle's shadow and fibbed about the whole thing. What a massive fibber. I'm not entirely sure why, but Elle is devastated to see the truth. At the very end of the film, the characters make their way back to planet Elle and they're banished forever. When they make it back to Earth, a new wedding is prepared for Ataru and Lum, and of course, Ataru rejects it. That's how the film ends.

This was an okay film. My biggest complaint with it is that it felt like a twenty minute episode of the show stretched out to be a one hundred minute feature length film. The production quality of the movie doesn't look any better than the actual show. Maybe just slightly higher. The background art looks better and it's more detailed, other than that, it looks like an episode of the show. Most of the soundtrack is just music from the show, with the exception of a few new emotional tracks that sound great. The animation, like I said, is just like the show. Things do get a bit crazy near the end, especially with that mob of handsome men. I like this movie, but not all that much. If you like Urusei Yatsura, then just watch it. When I say it's just like an episode of the show, it really is just that, exactly. It's nothing all that special and the stakes are not that high, because stuff like this happens all the time in the show. Rumiko Takahashi's writing is peculiar. I'll give this film a 6 out of 10.

Story: 6/10
Art: 6/10
Sound: 8/10
Characters: 6/10
Enjoyment: 5/10
Overall: 6/10

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