Urusei Yatsura (1981)

Action · Adventure · Animation

The invasion of an alien race known as the Oni begins a new life for Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous trouble-making tenth grader in the small town of Tomobiki. After unwittingly proposing to the Oni princess Lum Invader instead of his sweetheart Shinobu, Ataru becomes a conduit for aliens arriving on Earth, causing all sorts of havoc for him and his companions, not to mention his own reputation!

IMDb rating: 7.5 (1,544 votes)
Episode average: 7.5 matches the IMDb rating
Seasons: 9
Streaming (US): Crunchyroll
Language: JA
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 9 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1981)

7.17 avg 22 episodes 7.7 → 7.6 25 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	I'm Lum-chan the Notorious/It's Raining Oil in Our Town	7.7	91
2	Space Mail Delivery! Ten-chan Arrives!/Mrs Swallow and Mrs. Penguin	6.9	64
3	The Handsome Shape-Changer Rei Arrives!/Die, Ladykiller!	6.9	66
4	Kintaro of the Autumn Sky/Live Vigorously!	6.6	54
5	The Mysterious, Seductive Beauty Sakura/Virus in Distress	7.0	56
6	Love Triangle Black Hole/Hey Hey, It's a Little Demon	6.8	51
7	The Scary Electric Shock!/The Doll of Ill Will	7.2	51
8	Neptune Beyond the Closet/The Confusing Dinosaur Age	6.8	48
9	Sleeping Beauty Princess Kurama/Athletic Woman Hell!	7.5	47
10	Pitter-Patter Christmas Eve	8.0	50
11	Ataru Genji Visits Heinkyo	6.7	43
12	Love Battle Royale/Father, You Were Strong	6.8	42
13	Hawaiian Swimsuit Thief/Full Course from Hell	7.3	43
14	Mendou Arrives with Trouble!/Constellation-Go-Round	7.2	42
15	The Great Spring War/The Benten Corps' Return	7.0	41
16	Oh, Lonely Teacher! Kuribayashi Sensei Appears/Terrible Inspection Day	7.6	43
17	Fourth Dimensional Camera/Demonic Jogging	7.1	40
18	Girl's Day! Ran-chan's Arrival/Ran-chan's Introduction	7.6	44
19	Diary of Sorrowful Tomorrows/Whose Is This Child?	7.2	39
20	Sleeping in Class on a Wonderful Spring Day/Peach Blossom Poetry Contest	7.0	41
21	Duel! Ataru vs. Ataru/Waking to a Nightmare	7.3	43
22	The Great Space Matchmaking Operation	7.6	42

Season 2 (1982)

7.12 avg 21 episodes 7.1 → 7.0 25 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
2	The Big Springtime Picnic Uproar!	7.1	37
3	Beware of Earmuffs!	7.0	37
4	Fly, Imo-chan!	7.2	40
5	Ten's Love	6.7	36
6	What a Dracula!	6.5	37
7	Lum's Education Lecture Course for Boys	7.1	36
8	From the Gardenia, with Love	6.9	34
9	A Beautiful Girl Brings Rain	7.5	40
10	Gimme Back My Horn!	7.2	36
11	Shocking Library: Quiet Please!	7.7	39
12	Mr. Hanawa Arrives! It's the Springtime of Youth	7.0	33
13	Goblin in Distress, Yearning for People	7.1	33
14	Darling's Had It This Time!	6.8	35
15	Rei Returns! The Big Study Hall Panic!!	6.8	33
16	The Coming of the Mysterious Red Mantle!	7.0	32
17	Steal Darling! The Copy Operation!!	7.3	33
18	Thrilling Summer Date	7.6	38
19	So Long, Goodbye, Summer Days	7.2	31
20	Panic in a Typhoon!	7.4	35
21	Drunkard's Boogie	7.5	33
22	The Terror of Meow	7.0	31

Season 3 (1982)

7.40 avg 9 episodes 8.5 → 6.9 25 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	After You've Gone	8.5	45
2	Lum's Class Reunion	7.5	35
3	Lunchtime Eat-Out'ers Gather Round!	7.7	31
4	Terror! The Deserted Fossil Grounds Mystery	7.4	29
5	Princess Kurama: A New Challenge!	7.1	27
6	The Terrifying Cavity Wars!	6.8	27
7	The Mendou Siblings!	7.8	29
8	There's a Cat on the Stairs	6.9	27
9	Can a Raccoon Repay a Favor?!	6.9	27

Season 4 (1982)

7.60 avg 25 episodes 7.5 → 8.3 25 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Do-or-Die Subspace Part-Time Job	7.5	27
2	The Big Year-End Party That Lum Organized!	6.8	28
3	Bad Boy Musashi: A Success Story	6.7	25
4	We'll Risk Our Lives During Classtime!	7.9	29
5	Domestic Quarrel: To Eat or Be Eaten?!	7.3	26
6	Steal the Kiss of Miss Snow Queen!	7.2	25
7	St. Valentine's Day Horror	7.8	30
8	Love, Love, Catchball!	8.1	33
9	The Mendou Family's Masquerade Ball	7.8	28
10	Space Cold Panic!	7.6	28
11	Ryuunosuke Arrives! I Love the Sea!	7.4	30
12	Goodbye Season	7.7	30
13	Ran-chan's Great Date Plan	7.3	28
14	Happy Birthday My Darling	8.3	33
15	Seeing Shangri-La as a Hell Camp!	7.6	26
16	The Groom's Name Is Ryunosuke	7.8	25
17	Bottled Letter Seashore Mystery!	8.1	29
18	Dramatic Appearance! Mizunokoji Ton-chan!	7.6	27
19	Shinobu's Cinderella Story	7.5	28
20	Lum-chan the Ruthless Rebel	7.4	27
21	The Big Showdown! Sakura vs. Sakuranbo	7.4	24
22	Ghost Story! Old Man Willow!	7.0	26
23	And Then There Were None	8.5	39
24	Firefighter Mommy Visits!	7.4	28
25	Darling's Dying!?	8.3	33

Season 5 (1983)

7.75 avg 29 episodes 8.6 → 8.2 25 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pitiful! Mother of Love and Banishment!?	8.6	33
2	The House of Mendou: Summer Xmas	8.5	38
3	Panic in the Haunted Inn	7.9	28
4	Oh! The Memories of Mother	7.6	30
5	Full of Sunshine, Full of Amours	7.8	26
6	Big Battle! Ten vs. Ataru	6.9	25
7	Terror! Attack of the Killer Potatoes!	7.8	27
8	Galactic Teacher CAO-2 Strikes Back!	7.7	25
9	Outraged! Piteous Boy Shutaro!	8.0	29
10	Wow! The Mysterious Matsutake Mushroom Soup!	7.8	27
11	Enraged Lum!	8.3	28
12	Lum & Ataru: A Night Alone	8.1	31
13	Lady Ryuunosuke!	7.8	28
14	Document! Who'll Be Miss Tomobiki?	8.2	30
15	Bizarre! The Medicine of Selflessness!	7.8	26
16	Shutaro's Jinxed Morning	6.5	26
17	The Story of a Traveling Snowman	7.6	25
18	Lum-chan's Ancient Japanese Fairytales	6.6	24
19	Shine! The Blessed Bra!!	7.7	26
20	Challenge! Benten VS. The Girl Trio!!	7.8	27
21	Plenty of Lum-chan's!	8.5	29
22	Certain Death! Stand-Up Eating Contest	7.8	27
23	The Great Vault! Courageous Survival!	7.3	28
24	Operation: Peek in the Woman's Bath	8.9	34
25	Sakura, Sad Years of Youth	7.7	27
26	Burning Ran's Emotional Video Mail	6.8	25
27	Sakura-san of my youth!	6.2	25
28	Scramble! To the Rescue of Lum!	8.3	32
29	A Fight to the Death! Ataru vs. the Mendou Brigade!	8.2	32

Season 6 (1984)

7.55 avg 21 episodes 8.5 → 7.3 25 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Dimensional Switch: Where's Darling?	8.5	33
2	Crash! Her Majesty and the Rugger Man of Love	8.0	31
3	Ran-chan, Tasting the Tearful Love of a First Kiss	7.7	28
4	The Indelible Magic Lipstick	8.1	26
5	Deadly Combat! The Mendou Family's Flower Display Death Match	7.1	24
6	Benten & Ryuunosuke: Run for the Morrow!	7.7	28
7	Great Horrors! Oyuki Is Finally Angered!!	7.6	26
8	Ten-chan's Wonderful Love Story	7.4	23
9	Haunted House Special! Quest for Mendou Estate Treasure!!	7.8	26
10	Love and Fighting Spirits! Battle of Glove vs. Pants!!	7.2	24
11	Lum-chan's Becoming a Cow?!	7.8	30
12	Great Achievement! The Film of Lum-chan's Youth	7.3	25
13	Ghostbusting! Exorcising the Beautiful Sakura!	6.9	25
14	Attack of the Protozoa! Panic at the Poolside	7.5	26
15	Here Again! The Hunter of Love, Princess Kurama	7.3	28
16	The Fox's Unrequited Love	7.9	26
17	Ryuunosuke Confused! Solid Rock Mother Cherishes Her Young Pebble!	7.5	23
18	The Stairs! Footsteps in the Girls Dorm!!	7.5	23
19	Pool Spooks! Burning with Forbidden Love	7.1	22
20	Ran-chan's Panic: No Tomorrow for Tomobiki	7.3	25
21	Where Is Love's Home? Kuriko and Chôjûrô	7.3	25

Season 7 (1984)

7.49 avg 22 episodes 7.9 → 7.4 25 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Man or Bird? An Opulent and Luxurious Superhero!	7.9	30
2	Attack Your Seniors! The Revenge of the Girl Trio	7.3	26
3	Hidden Talent Show of Fire! Performing Is Our Life!	7.4	23
4	Don't Die! Ryôko Special Straw Doll!!	8.0	27
5	Omiai Hell! Is the Armored Girl a Beauty? Or a Beast?	7.2	22
6	Love of the Armored Girl! Maidenly Feelings Reeling	7.5	22
7	I Dearly Need You! Return of the Honest Fox!	7.9	26
8	I Hate Gossiping Flowers!	7.9	26
9	The Birth of Ten-chan's Son? I Didn't Know a Thing	6.7	23
10	Lum's Courageous Duel! An Ironic Victory	8.2	24
11	Job Hunting! Return of the Runaway Ninja Kaede!!	6.9	22
12	Tomobiki High School Survival! Who Are the Survivors?	7.2	23
13	The Mysterious Giant Cake! Love's Fleeing Panic!!	7.5	25
14	Underground Reincarnation! What's Darling Thinking Of!?	7.2	23
15	Play Panic? The Mendou Family Cherry Blossom Display Banquet!!	6.8	23
16	From the Far Spring! The Tale of the Lonely Fairy!!	7.9	25
17	To Dreamland! Darling Battle Royal Abduction	7.9	24
18	Return of the Girl Trio! The Great Scheme to Seduce Darling!!	7.2	25
19	The Scampering Kotatsu Neko! Anything to Get Warm	7.4	22
20	Ryuunosuke's Father's Self Sacrificing Devotion! His Wife Is Within Images!	7.5	22
21	Spring Blossom! Frozen by Oyuki's Cold	7.8	24
22	Panic Among Friends! I Love to Eat Blowfish	7.4	23

Season 8 (1985)

7.59 avg 16 episodes 7.8 → 7.7 25 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Armored Girl Returns! Plenty of Older Brothers	7.8	26
2	The Boredom Syndrome! Is Tomobiki Wasting Away?	7.6	26
3	Look Out, Ran! Kotatsu Neko's Primary Love Is Oden!?	7.3	22
4	The Armored Girl Returns Again! A Storm Raising Date	7.1	22
5	Arrival of the Mysterious Priest! The Bell Battle Royal	8.0	24
6	First Love Relived!? A Return to the Past for Lum and Rei	7.6	22
7	Appearance of the Youthful Old Man! Shine, Great Teahouse of Dreams!	7.3	23
8	I Love Darling's Sincerity	7.9	29
9	The Honest Fox Again! I Love Shinobu	7.2	24
10	I Love the Sea! Prayers for the Thriving Hamajaya!?	8.2	24
11	Ryuunosuke vs. Benten! The Fruitless Duel of Passion	7.3	22
12	The Magic Bottle! What's to Become of Me?	7.8	26
13	The Great Devil's Debut! Lum's Dangerous Purchase!	7.4	21
14	Goodness! Words Aren't Getting to Darling	7.9	27
15	The Devil's Summer! Ten-chan's Eel Lunch Plot!	7.3	24
16	Visitation Panic! I Didn't Mean Any Harm	7.7	26

Season 9 (1985)

7.47 avg 30 episodes 7.4 → 7.6 25 min avg

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Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Scary! Is That an Octopus on Shutaro's Head?	7.4	22
2	Invader from Space! He's After Lum's Lips!	7.3	23
3	Space Survival! They Are the Eaters	7.6	25
4	It's a Thrill! The Terrible Overhead Cooler	7.3	23
5	Love Attack! The Romance Never Stops!!	7.6	22
6	Rare Form! Worries for Mother the Firefighter!!	7.8	25
7	Hard-selling Happiness! Out of Focus Bluebird!!	7.3	21
8	Great Uproar! Ryuunosuke's First Time Wearing a Swimsuit!!	7.8	26
9	I Want a Bride! The Fox's Love Adventure!	7.2	22
10	How Persistent! The Girl Trio's Great Animal Plan!	8.1	24
11	Fast Money in Fast Fighting! Hamajaya's Forbidden Business	8.0	23
12	Wish Upon a Star! The Winning Family's Consumer Panic	7.8	22
13	Special Delivery Kiss! Darling's First Jealousy!	7.1	21
14	Scary Sake! Sakura's Possession a Big Failure	6.9	22
15	It's Strange! Cherry's Yoga School!	7.3	21
16	Good-bye Onsen-Sensei!? Tearful Good-bye Marathon Banquet!	7.3	21
17	Pure Love Sakura! The Slippery Soap of Separation?	7.4	22
18	Asuka vs. Older Brother! Battle for Certain Love!	7.2	22
19	Darling's Ill Omen! The Dreaded Fourth Dimensional Oracle!!	7.9	22
20	New Years Panic! The Mendou Family's Human Parcheesi Tournament!	7.6	25
21	Dreaming Ten-chan! The Great Adventure at the End of the Rainbow!	6.8	21
22	I Want to Date! Ataru's Test Program!	7.4	21
23	Darling Said He Loved Me	7.4	21
24	Death-Defying House Call! A Teacher Life Is Dangerous Too!!	7.6	22
25	Total Chaos! Ran-chan's Giant Doll!	7.6	22
26	Blind Love! You Bet Your Life, Honest Fox	7.5	20
27	Come Quickly, Darling! Lum's Dangerous Marriage Talk	8.2	24
28	It's Unbearable! Ran's Mischief Campaign	7.1	21
29	Urusei Yatsura Pre-Departure Special! Shine!	7.1	24
30	All-Star Banquet! We Are Immortal!!	7.6	25

Urusei Yatsura (1981)

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