Urusei Yatsura (2022)

When aliens known as the Oni threaten to invade the Earth, they promise to leave under one condition—a randomly-chosen human must win a one-on-one game of tag against Lum, the beautiful daughter of the Oni leader. The "lucky" person selected happens to be the lustful and unlucky high schooler Ataru Moroboshi. Given 10 days to attempt to grab Lum's horns, Ataru realizes how impossible the challenge is as he is faced with Lum's extraterrestrial powers.

Motivated by a promise of marriage from his childhood friend Shinobu Miyake, Ataru manages to catch Lum off guard. He mistakenly grabs hold of her bikini top first, but he eventually achieves his true goal. Although the game is over, Lum misunderstands that she is the one whom Ataru wants to marry, and she decides to move in with him. The poor student constantly tries to shake off the clingy Lum while doing his best to reconcile with his desired fiancée. After Ataru's heroic feat results in such a disastrous outcome, it is questionable whether luck will ever be on his side.

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Lum Main

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Moroboshi, Ataru Main

Kamiya, Hiroshi Japanese

Mendou, Shuutarou Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Ran Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Fujinami, Ryuunosuke Supporting

Takagaki, Ayahi Japanese

Sakura Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Sakuranbou Supporting

Takagi, Wataru Japanese

Miyake, Shinobu Supporting

Uchida, Maaya Japanese

Satoshi Supporting

Satou, Setsuji Japanese

Ten Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Takeeda, Yoshinori Producer

Kondou, Shuuhou Producer

Fukuda, Eishou Assistant Producer

Takahashi, Hideya Director

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Mar 31, 2023

Birdboi_Tenshi

Recommended

This is a reboot of the original source material, which was sorely needed. The old one was airing during 1981 - 1986. The voices were grating, especially in the BBC English dub. The English voices are still pretty bad in the reboot. The sub is fantastic. The ear piercing voices of the past are no where to be heard.
The animation is absolutely stunning. With fluid movement and vibrant colors, it is bound to keep one's attention. Also, the upgraded art of Rumiko Takahashi's work is so cute and loyal to her original work.
The opening themes are so adorably catchy that you find yourself humming them ... even though you know absolutely no Japanese.
The ending themes are beautiful with lovely art as well.
Overall, I rate this a 8/10. 2 stars are deducted because I dislike Ataru and think there is room for improvement.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Aug 19, 2023

Benx2019

Mixed Feelings

The animation is quite good. Not a whole lot of flash, but overall the animation is very smooth. The character detail is good, but the backgrounds are *chef's kiss* great. The characters have just an average amount of depth, and are annoying from time to time. That being said a lot of them are fairly likeable. The story has an average amount of depth, but the hijinks the story leads to are quite fun and creative. The pacing is average. Almost boring, and the plot moves along very slowly. The voice acting is fair. Good casting, average performances, and only sometimes annoying. The ops/eds are ... great, and the soundtrack is very fun and occasionally great. Overall, it's a very well done gimmick comedy anime, but that's my biggest problem with it. Not a lot of plot, what is there move slowly. The characters are likeable, but events become incredibly repetitive. Great on the production side, but the anime itself get's old. If your into gimmick comedy, you'll love it. Otherwise it's a little hard to universally recommend. 6.45/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 25, 2024

uridon

Not Recommended

Preliminary (4/23 eps)

Just watch the original.

People who like this have something wrong with them. The hyper obnoxious opening is the writing on the wall for how the old classic material of the show/manga will be regurgitated into a reboot with alllll the worst and wrong things about modern anime applied to it.
Shitty j pop and idol dancing, crappy digital animation with bloom effects and lighting dialed up to 1000x, and even Lum using Tiktok has to be the most offensive thing of all.

If you are a dumb baby that likes keys being waggled in front of you and will watch just about ... anything, or have neither seen nor read a smidge of the originals, than this should be right up your alley.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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