Product Description

URUSEI YATSURA TV VOL.1

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #135837 in DVD
• Brand: E1 Entertainment
• Released on: 2001-03-27
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Animated, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English, Japanese
• Subtitled in: English
• Running time: 23 minutes

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This disc offers the first four installments of the 195-episode TV series based on Rumiko Takahashi's popular manga series, Urusei Yatsura ("Those Obnoxious Aliens"). In Japanese mythology, oni are hideous demons; Takahashi turns them into aliens. To save the Earth, high school lecher and nerd Ataru Moroboshi is pitted against the lovely, curvaceous Lum in a game of tag. When he wins, Lum believes he's proposed and moves in with his long-suffering parents. Shinobu, Ataru's girlfriend, objects and a skewed romantic triangle develops. Lum's friends and relatives begin arriving and complicating life further: cute little Ten breathes fire; staggeringly handsome Rei transforms into a tiger-monster. No wonder the neighbors want to run the Moroboshi family out of town. This slapstick comedy-romance anticipates Takahashi's Ranma 1/2, but Ataru, who has virtually no redeeming qualities, is less likable than Ranma. Unrated; suitable for ages 12 and up: Risqué humor and brief nudity. --Charles Solomon

From the Back Cover
When the Oni, a mysterious race of Aliens, come to repossess the Earth, they give us one chance to save our planet - a champion, selected at random, must defeat their princess, Lum, in their national sport - Tag! Unfortunately for Earth, the champion turns out to be Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous lad whose lack of luck is legendary. When Ataru lays eyes on the curvaceous Lum, he readily agrees to take on the task of touching the tips of her tiny horns, Alas, when the contest begins, he find out that the Oni forgot to mention one small matter - Lum can fly! When all seems lost, his girlfriend Shinobu promises to marry him if he wins. Win he does, but Lum misinterprets his victory cry as a proposal of marriage - to her! Now Lum's living in his closet, planning their wedding, and zapping him with high-voltage electricity if he even looks at another woman. His girlfriend isn't sure if she's been jilted or saved from a life of misery, his Lum-crazed schoolmates are plotting to get him "out of the way", his parents are loudly wishing he's never been born, and to top it all off, a demented Buddhist Monk has been seen lurking around the neighborhood mumbling something about evil spirits and curses. Then Lum's friends and relatives start visiting, and things start to get really weird! Sit back, relax, and prepare yourself for the first four episodes of "Those Obnoxious Aliens," Japan's most popular (and wackiest) animated comedy. And if you think they're funny, wait until you see the other 192!