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Urusei Yatsura
Urusei Yatsura is currently streaming on HIDIVE....
Urusei Yatsura
Urusei Yatsura is currently streaming on HIDIVE....
Anime Taste Testing: Listeners
So Liverpool and Manchester finally united, and then the apocalypse happened. Sounds about right. I’ll get this out of the way right off the bat: I’m an unapologetic…
Anime Taste Testing: Pet
An adult anime for teenage edgelords. It seems that nearly every time I see a psychological genre anime marketed explicitly towards the seinen crowd, it feels exactly like…
Anime Taste Testing: ID:Invaded
Finally, the detective anime we didn’t know we needed (but that we definitely deserved). You’d be forgiven for wanting to give up on the anime detective/mystery genre entirely…
Anime Taste Testing: Arte
I’d say I love period pieces, but that would be a lie. I love accurate period pieces. I wish to god this title had just been set in…
Anime Taste Testing: Dorohedoro
Strap yourself in, this is one wild trip. And a trip Dorehedoro most certainly is. Whether it’s one you can stomach or not largely depends on your tolerance…
Anime Taste Testing: Overtake!
Let’s all ganbaru together.
Anime Taste Testing: SK∞
Fast and Furious: Okinawa Drift.
Anime Taste Testing: Gibiate
This one’s gonna be quick and dirty, because to be honest, I didn’t even make it through the whole first episode.
Anime Taste Testing: Noblesse
I just realized I still don’t know if these guys are meant to be vampires. However, they do seem to drink plenty of tea – maybe there’s blood…
Anime Taste Testing: Noblesse
I just realized I still don’t know if these guys are meant to be vampires. However, they do seem to drink plenty of tea – maybe there’s blood…
Anime Taste Testing: Kakushigoto
Yes, I genuinely like the pun. Given the synopsis, I was fully ready to experience something… well, pervy, for lack of a better term. What I wasn’t ready…
Anime Taste Testing: Horimiya
Aside from the creepy teacher, this series is actually pretty okay.
Anime Taste Testing: Gibiate
This one’s gonna be quick and dirty, because to be honest, I didn’t even make it through the whole first episode.
Anime Series Like Urusei Yatsura
For skirt-chasing Ataru Moroboshi, the only notable thing about him is his extraordinary bad luck. That luck kicks in when aliens suddenly invade Earth
High School DxD, Love Hina, Mr. Osomatsu, Urusei Yatsura, VLAD LOVE
Urusei Yatsura – 21 – Urusei Babies
This week we get a flashback to when Lum, Benten, Oyuki and Ran were being oppressed by their teacher when they were little tykes. Only their school is…
Anime Taste Testing: Darwin’s Game
Too generic to stand out, too trashy even by trash standards to be funny. At first glance, this seemed to be one of those shows that are so…
Anime Taste Testing: Deca-Dence
The show Shingeki no Kyojin might have been if the titans were mostly giant bug-dinosaur-like creatures, if the tone was happily far less self-serious, and if the characters…
Anime Taste Testing: Great Pretender
With the new anime season now starting up (however scant the offerings this time around to due COVID-related scheduling issues), I would be completely remiss if I didn’t…
Anime Taste Testing: Great Pretender
With the new anime season now starting up (however scant the offerings this time around to due COVID-related scheduling issues), I would be completely remiss if I didn’t…
Anime Taste Testing: Taisou Zamurai
Being a sports anime, a dad anime, and a surrealist comedy all in one is a tough sell, that’s for sure.
Anime Taste Testing: Bibliophile Princess
The only way to explain this is if people literally went out of their way to create something generic.
Anime Taste Testing: Jujutsu Kaisen
And the new anime season finally kicks off with… a less-than-stellar shounen work populated by characters that seem like they’re built less around their personalities and more around…
Anime Taste Testing: Kitsutsuki Tanteidokoro
The lesser of the two mystery shows airing the season, but probably still the best period piece. I imagine the setting is what will first strike viewers about…
Anime Taste Testing: Taisou Zamurai
Being a sports anime, a dad anime, and a surrealist comedy all in one is a tough sell, that’s for sure.
Anime Taste Testing: Akudama Drive
I don’t know what I just watched, but I know I want more of it.
Anime Taste Testing: Appare-Ranman!
I mean… where do I even start? Well, at the very beginning, I guess, because the opening scene (set one year after the events of the first episode…
Anime Taste Testing: Urasekai Picnic
I think I would have enjoyed this one a lot more had I not felt like it was trying so hard to be purposefully enigmatic – with the…
Anime Taste Testing: Kemono Jihen
While quite possibly the series I was least looking forward to giving a watch, this ended up being surprisingly alright.
Anime Taste Testing: Jujutsu Kaisen
And the new anime season finally kicks off with… a less-than-stellar shounen work populated by characters that seem like they’re built less around their personalities and more around…
Anime Taste Testing: Blue Period
This is one of those shows that I quite want to like, but am still in the process of working out if I actually do.
Anime Taste Testing: Kyokou Suiri
What do you get when you combine an anime from the same guy responsible for the creation of Zetsuen no Tempest with the man behind the writing for…
Anime Taste Testing: Chainsaw Man
Probably the perfect anime series for Tarantino fans.
Anime Taste Testing: Platinum End
If Madoka Magica was a (bad) battle royale instead of magical-girl.
Anime Taste Testing: Akudama Drive
I don’t know what I just watched, but I know I want more of it.
Anime Taste Testing: Back Arrow
So it’s mecha but with backwater villagers dressed as old-west cowboys and the more tech-advanced folk looking like something out of a Chinese-inspired historical-fantasy. Cool cool.
Anime Taste Testing: Deca-Dence
The show Shingeki no Kyojin might have been if the titans were mostly giant bug-dinosaur-like creatures, if the tone was happily far less self-serious, and if the characters…
Anime Taste Testing: Uramichi Oniisan
There always seems to be one show every season that I want to like more than I actually do. This time around, that’s Uramichi Oniisan.
Anime Taste Testing: Hortensia Saga
This would have felt lackluster and cliché had it been released 20 years ago – and what’s more, nothing would have changed between then and now aside from…
Anime Taste Testing: Kaizoku Oujo
Swash swash buckle buckle.
Urusei Yatsura – 03
「トラブルは舞い降りた!! / 迷路でメロメロ」 (Trouble wa Maiorita!! / Meiro de Melomelo) "Trouble Rains Down!! / Amazed in a Maze" There is an idea of a Mendou; some kind of abstraction.
Urusei Yatsura – 11
「面堂兄妹!! / 面倒邸新年怪」 (Mendou Kyoudai!! / Mendou-tei Shinnen Kai) "Mendo Siblings!! / A Strange New Year at the Mendo Estate" There's no Mend-ing this sibling rivalry.
Urusei Yatsura – 02
「あなたにあげる / 幸せの黄色いリボン」 (Anata ni Ageru / Shiawase no Kiiroi Ribon) "Present for You / The Yellow Ribbon of Happiness" "Who’s afraid of a little thunder?"
Urusei Yatsura – 09 –
Cherry senses doom in the air (and in his stew)—and it arrives while Ataru is cleaning his room for Shinobu while Lum is bored out of her mind…
Understanding Urusei Yatsura
The Urusei Yatsura manga and anime are heavily dependent on their production and reception contexts. Without this context, any new Urusei Yatsura media is bound to be fundamentally…
Urusei Yatsura – 05
「愛と闘魂のグローブ / 君待てども…」 (Ai to Toukon no Guroubu / Kimi Matedomo …) "The Glove of Love and Conflict / How I've Waited for You…" “Let me tell you the story…
Urusei Yatsura (1)
Author & Artist Rumiko TakahashiReleased February 2019 by Viz Media imprint VIZ SignatureTranslation: Camellia NiehEditor(s): Amy YuGenre: Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
Urusei Yatsura – 04
「口づけと共に契らん！！」 (Kuchizuke Totomoni Chigiran!!) "Sealed with a Kiss!!" She waited in her pod for her true love, and true love's first kiss. Like THAT's ever gonna happen!