All Episodes of Urusei Yatsura
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Season 1
7.6/1092 votesI'm Lum-chan the Notorious! - It's Raining Oil All Over Town
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/1981
Ataru Moroboshi, an unlovely flirtatious boy, has been chosen to fight an invading alien force's champion in a 10-day game of tag. If he loses the aliens will invade Earth, but if he wins, the aliens will go home. Ataru isn't at all willing to play tag until he sees the alien's champion: the beautiful Lum. A group of admirers of Lum try to summon her UFO back to Earth, using Ataru as bait, but instead they get an intergalactic taxi that takes them though subspace, and the fare for the taxi is the value of all the oil on the planet.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Hiroyuki Hoshiyama
6.9/1066 votesMail from Space - Ten-chan Arrives! - Mrs. Swallow and Mrs. Penguin
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1981
A peach falls from the sky, in which Lum's cousin, Ten comes out for a visit. He is capable of breathing fire and is an instant enemy to Ataru. Ten feeds alien candy to a swallow, making it grow massively in size such that it looks like a penguin. Its appearance in school is just the start of a full day of panic.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.0/1056 votesThe Coming of Rei the Handsome Shapechanger! - Die Dreamy-Man!
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1981
Shinobu meets upon Rei, Lum's handsome ex-fiancé, and brings him to Ataru’s house, much to the dismay of Lum. Ataru and his friends find Rei in a restaurant. His poor Japanese being mocked makes him go wild, and as he chases the boys and Lum throughout town, the chaos grows on.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
7.2/1051 votesKintaro from the Autumn Sky! - Gonna Live Like a Man!
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1981
Lum and Ten meet a vicious little boy on top of a flying bear, whom Ataru and Shinobu identify as Kintarō, who came from the sky and is lost. Kintarō's nanny, with Ataru's help, takes the alien children on a tour of Earth and end up in a preschool where the actual Kintarō learns the myth of the real Kintarō and thus hopes to be a role-model to the kids.
Director: Tamiko Kojima, Yuji Yatabe
Writer: Yū Yamamoto
7.5/1047 votesSakura - Raving Beauty of Mystery - Virus in Distress
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1981
Ataru runs away from home, unable to stand the pressure of living with Lum, and bumps into a beautiful lady named Sakura, who takes him to her shrine for exorcism. Sakura becomes Tomobiki High School’s nurse, and her beauty makes all the boys deliberately injure themselves in order to go see her. But later, they get really sick, which might be connected to Ataru, who oddly enough wants to avoid her.
Director: Mamoru Oshii, Motosuke Takahashi
Writer: Unknown
6.7/1043 votesBlack Hole Love Triangle - It's a Lovesick Little Demon!
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1981
Lum constantly interferes with Ataru's attempts to reach Shinobu by phone. By barging into their phone conversation from her UFO, it inadvertently creates a black hole that causes aircraft to vanish. Ataru puts two mirrors together on Friday the 13th and accidentally makes a little demon appear from another dimension.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
7.3/1043 votesElectric Shocks Scare Me! - Voodoo Dolls of Vengeance
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1981
Cherry gives Ataru a magical yellow ribbon, which when tied to her horns, negate Lum's powers. But will this really allow him to be happy? After an odd loss of control of his body after dinner, Ataru finds out Lum made a voodoo doll of himself using some clay. Ataru takes advantage of the situation for revenge scheme, until it gives Lum the idea to make a Shinobu doll.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
7.0/1041 votesNeptune is Beyond My Closet - That Crazy Age of the Dinosaurs
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/9/1981
Ataru, Shinobu and Lum’s Stormtroopers wind up in Neptune through a portal discovered in Ataru’s closet where they are greeted by Lum’s friend Oyuki. While in the air, Lum, Ataru, Ten and Kintaro accidentally wind up back to the dinosaur age.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
7.1/1040 votesPrincess Kurama, Sleeping Beauty - Athletics in Women's Hell!
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 12/16/1981
Ataru’s wish upon a star seems to come true as he is selected to awake the Karasutengu Princess Kurama by a kiss and mate with her for a night, but he is not her ideal man. Still trying to cure Ataru of his lechery, Kurama uses a weird dimensional door where Ataru faces hostile versions of the girls he loves.
Director: Keiji Hayakawa, Tameo Kohanawa
Writer: Unknown
7.2/1039 votesPitter Patter Christmas Eve
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 12/23/1981
Lum's Stormtroopers devise a scheme to embarrass Ataru and get Lum to dump him by setting up a fake Christmas Eve date for him.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
7.3/1043 votesAtaru Genji Goes to the Heian Capital
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 1/6/1982
The normal cast is put into an ancient Japanese story that takes place during the Heian period, with a special guest appearance.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBattle Royal of Love - Father You Were Strong
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 1/13/1982
Sakura invites Ataru and others at a local disco, which is a perfect setting for her boyfriend Tsubame to prove himself worthy of being her fiancée to Cherry by displaying his magic abilities that however go awry. Kurama takes Ataru back in time in hope of teaching him to be her ideal man like her father.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHawaiian Swimsuit Thief - Full Course From Hell
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 1/20/1982
During a Hawaiian vacation at a beachside resort, the girls’ swimsuits are stolen. Could Cherry be the culprit? Still at the resort, Sakura, Ataru and Cherry compete in an all-you-can-eat contest.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesMendo Brings Trouble! - Constellation is Spinning
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 1/27/1982
Tomobiki High School gets a new student: Shutaro Mendo, the son of Japan's richest family. He and Ataru have a duel for presidency of the class. After a computer told Lum that her perfect matchmade partner is Shutaro instead of Ataru, she shrinks the two down and places them on a Horoscope device.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Great Spring War - The Benten Gang's Return Match
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 2/3/1982
Lum takes Ataru to her home planet for the Setsubun Battle, but the game goes awry as he goes after the goddess Benten. Benten shows up for Earth's Setsubun, and a rematch ensues as Ataru angers Lum by taking advantage to play with Benten.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAh Lone Teacher! - Terrifying Visiting Day
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 2/10/1982
A new teacher, Sanjuro Kuribayashi, has been tasked with bringing order to Class 2-4, and he grows extremely hostile towards Ataru for being Lum’s fiancé. During parents' visiting day, Lum's Mother and Mrs. Mendo have an all out war against each other.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Fourth Dimension Camera - Demonic Running
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 2/24/1982
Mendo brings an antique camera to school that sends Ataru off into other worlds. Ataru strangely becomes amazingly lucky to the point that Mendo loses his popularity.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGirls' Day! Introducing Ran-chan - Ran-chan's Invitation
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 3/3/1982
Ataru is enchanted by a doll that takes him to Ran, Lum’s childhood friend, who is not so joyful about old times when the topic of Rei comes up. Ran invites Lum and Ataru into her spaceship for a farewell party, but Lum doesn't believe she has given up on sucking Ataru's youth.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Tearful Diary of Tomorrow - Whose Kid Is This?
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 3/10/1982
Lum acquires Ataru's diary from the next day, which allows her to know what he shall go through today. Ataru tries to use it to his advantage, however... Mendo finds an alien child in his locker and goes through great lengths to hide it from everyone.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSleepy Serene Springtime Classroom - Peach Blossom Song Contest
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 3/17/1982
The whole Class 2-4 has fallen asleep due to a tiny spirit taking a make-up exam for her master. However, there is still Ataru, Mendō and Lum to make fall asleep. A poetry-reading contest takes place at a blossom orchard, where it is said that a wizard of poetry uses a maiden to lure men for a poetry challenge.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDuel! Ataru vs Ataru - Wake up to a Nightmare
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 3/24/1982
By eating a manju Cherry intended to bury, Ataru splits into two, one polite and the other casual. As Ataru sleeps in class after continuously losing to Lum in a card game the night before, he keeps having weird dreams until meeting a weird fellow feeding nightmares to a baku.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGreat Space Matchmaking Operation
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 4/7/1982
Lum returns to her home planet unaware that her father is throwing her a matchmaking party. As Ten blabs about it, Ataru uses his spaceship to follow her.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBig Springtime Picnic Uproar!
Season 1 Episode 45 - Aired 4/14/1982
On a school field trip, Ataru gets involved with Kappas and a limestone cavern reveals Mendo's greatest weakness.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBeware the Earmuffs!
Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 4/21/1982
Ataru and Ten switch bodies after wearing some kind of special earmuffs.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesFly Imo-chan!
Season 1 Episode 48 - Aired 4/28/1982
Ataru becomes the owner of a white caterpillar that Lum's Stormtroopers gave him as it eats a lot more than ordinary caterpillars.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesTen-chan's Love
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 5/5/1982
Ten has an unrequited crush on Sakura.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesWhat a Dracula
Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 5/12/1982
Dracula wants to suck the blood of a beautiful young girl and his target is Lum.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLum's Education Lecture Course for Boys
Season 1 Episode 51 - Aired 5/19/1982
Lum travels back in time in order to meet a younger Ataru and cure his libido.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesFrom the Gardenia with Love
Season 1 Episode 52 - Aired 5/26/1982
Ataru and Ten compete for the attention of the pretty female proprietor of a flower shop.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesA Beautiful Girl Brings Rain
Season 1 Episode 53 - Aired 6/2/1982
The gang meet Tsuyuko, a girl who seems to bring rain wherever she goes.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGimme Back My Horn!
Season 1 Episode 54 - Aired 6/9/1982
Ten's horn falls off during a fight with Ataru, leaving him weak and unable to breathe fire. Ataru wastes no time in taking advantage of the situation.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesShock Library - Quiet Please!
Season 1 Episode 55 - Aired 6/16/1982
Chaos ensues at the library after the characters in the books start coming to life. Wendy Darling (from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan novel) enlists Ataru and Lum's help in restoring order.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesTeacher Hanawa Arrives! It's the Youth
Season 1 Episode 56 - Aired 6/23/1982
Mr. Hanawa found employment in Ataru's school and at the same time, Lum gets enlisted into it.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGoblin in Distress - Wonderful People
Season 1 Episode 57 - Aired 6/30/1982
A goblin who is living in Mendo's private pool has been shooed out and is trying to find a new home.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDarling had It This Time!
Season 1 Episode 58 - Aired 7/14/1982
Remembering how Lum always got her in trouble when they were younger, Ran devises a new scheme to suck away Ataru's youth.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesRei Returns! The Big Study Hall Uproar!
Season 1 Episode 59 - Aired 7/21/1982
Rei appears and causes an uproar by eating everyone's lunch, and Ran tries her best to win him back.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Coming of The Phantom Red Mantle!
Season 1 Episode 60 - Aired 7/28/1982
On a cool evening disco dance held by the students at Tomobiki High School during summer break, a mysterious man comes to stalk the girls.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSteal Darling! Copy Operation!
Season 1 Episode 61 - Aired 8/4/1982
Things go wrong when Lum tries to make copies of Ataru in order to protect him from Ran's vengeance.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThrilling Summer Date
Season 1 Episode 62 - Aired 8/11/1982
Lum and Ataru go on their first date together after Lum watches a television program that makes her realize her relationship with Ataru is abnormal. Ataru, although hesitant at first, shows that he does actually have feelings for Lum, but feels uncomfortable expressing them.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSo long Byebye Summer Days
Season 1 Episode 63 - Aired 8/18/1982
Lum, Ataru, Shinobu and Mendo spend their summer vacation at the seaside. First they provoke the wrath of a watermelon god, then they are visited by a crying yōkai.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesPanic in Typhoon!
Season 1 Episode 64 - Aired 9/1/1982
A typhoon strikes Tomobiki and floods the Moroboshi household, but Lum has some inventive ways of helping her Darling and his parents cope with the flood waters.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDrunkard's Boogie
Season 1 Episode 65 - Aired 9/8/1982
Lum and Ten get drunk from eating umeboshi, and Lum begins flying around terrorizing Ataru's classmates in order to get more umeboshi.
Director: Tamiko Kojima
Writer: Tomoko Konparu
N/A/100 votesThe Terror of Meow
Season 1 Episode 66 - Aired 9/22/1982
During one of the cats' mating season, Ataru, Lum and Ten meet a beautiful female cat-like humanoid.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Mamoru Oshii
N/A/100 votesAfter You've Gone
Season 1 Episode 67 - Aired 10/13/1982
Lum's Stormtroopers throw Lum a party, but Ataru spoils it by yelling at Lum and accusing her of ruining his life. Lum leaves for her home planet, and when she doesn't return, Ataru, believing she has gone for good, begins to miss her and tearfully wishes she would return. However, it turns out Lum merely left to renew her passport.
Director: Junji Nishimura
Writer: Kazunori Ito
N/A/100 votesLum-chan's Class Reunion
Season 1 Episode 68 - Aired 10/20/1982
Lum's friends from outer space plan a surprise class-reunion party for her, but an unaware Lum can't understand why her friends are avoiding her and is hurt.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThose Buy-Eaters Gather Round!
Season 1 Episode 69 - Aired 10/27/1982
Lum, Ataru, Shinobu and the rest of the Tomobiki student body - except for Mendo and his small gang of "good kids" - fight a new school rule which forbids students to leave the campus to eat lunch at fast-food joints.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesTerror! The Deserted Fossil Grounds Mystery
Season 1 Episode 70 - Aired 11/3/1982
Ataru, Lum, Mendo, Shinobu, and Jariten all go on a picnic to a remote part of Japan which has some fossils. A group of archaeologists are also exploring this area and using a lot of fancy tricks to make the exploration seem more dramatic than it is.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesPrincess Kurama - A New Challenge!
Season 1 Episode 71 - Aired 11/10/1982
Kurama has her subjects place her in suspended sleep again in the hopes that some prince may awaken her.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Terrifying Cavity WARS!
Season 1 Episode 72 - Aired 11/17/1982
Ten has gotten cavities. However, these cavities can be cured by biting 10 people and spreading the cavities to others. To relieve himself, he pays Ataru's class a visit.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Mendo Siblings!
Season 1 Episode 73 - Aired 11/24/1982
Mendo's manipulative and dangerous younger sister, Ryoko, is introduced.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesA Cat with a Grudge on the Stairs
Season 1 Episode 74 - Aired 12/1/1982
Kotatsu-neko is introduced.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesCan a Raccoon Repay a Favor!?
Season 1 Episode 75 - Aired 12/8/1982
Ataru helps a wounded bird who transforms itself into a raccoon and moves in to repay the service to Ataru.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Suicide Subspace Parttime Job
Season 1 Episode 76 - Aired 12/15/1982
Ataru finds the perfect part-time job - a washing attendant at a bathhouse - which he excitedly anticipates as being an opportunity to ogle and grope naked women. However, it doesn't turn out the way he expected.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Big Year-End Party that Lum-chan Organized!
Season 1 Episode 77 - Aired 12/22/1982
When Lum plans the class's end-of-year party, Ataru explains that New Year's is when you forget who you are. He's a bit worried she took it a bit literally...
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBadboy Musashi - A Success Story
Season 1 Episode 78 - Aired 1/5/1983
The normal cast is again put into an ancient Japanese story with Ataru as a food thief with Onsen-Mark and Cherry as his occasional companions.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesWe'll Risk Our Lives During Classtime!
Season 1 Episode 79 - Aired 1/12/1983
After he's pelted by snowballs by Ataru and his friends, an annoyed Ten plans revenge on Ataru during class after Onsen-Mark threatens the class should any of them make noise.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDomestic Quarrel – To Eat or Be Eaten?!
Season 1 Episode 80 - Aired 1/26/1983
Lum's mother boots father out of the house, so he comes to stay with Lum.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSteal the Kiss of Miss Snow Queen!
Season 1 Episode 81 - Aired 2/2/1983
Lum gets Ataru to go on a ski trip with her, but Mendo, Shinobu, and Lum's guards find out and tail along to cause static, Ataru enters a ski contest.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSt Valentine Day Horror
Season 1 Episode 82 - Aired 2/16/1983
Ten becomes the new Ataru when he mistakenly gets another girl to marry him, but tries to escape so he could see other older women.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLove Love Catchball!
Season 1 Episode 83 - Aired 2/23/1983
Ten orders two special balls called Love-Love Catchballs that supposedly show a person's future love, one for each gender. When Ataru finds the one for guys that show their future wives, things quickly get chaotic.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Mendo Family... Masquerade War
Season 1 Episode 84 - Aired 3/2/1983
Ryoko plans a masquerade "party" (which is actually a tournament of sorts) to get closer to Ataru, but her brother Shutaro is dead-fast against this, hiring all of Ataru's rivals to fight him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSpace Cold Panic!
Season 1 Episode 85 - Aired 3/9/1983
Lum catches a cold from her father, which soon spreads across the entire male student body at Tomobiki High.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesRyunosuke Arrives! I Love the Sea!
Season 1 Episode 86 - Aired 3/16/1983
After their beach shop is ruined by their fighting due to Ataru and co.'s interference, a father and his "son" Ryunosuke move into Tomobiki High and set up a shop in-school.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGoodbye Season
Season 1 Episode 87 - Aired 3/23/1983
Ataru talks to Megane one day about handing over a "position", which Shinobu overhears, thinking that he's planning to give up on Lum. Not wanting to lose Mendou, she takes manners into her own hands..
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesRan-chan's Great Date Plan!
Season 1 Episode 88 - Aired 4/13/1983
Admiring Ran's feminine beauty, Ryunosuke goes out with her in an attempt to become more feminine, but everyone else except Ran (who doesn't know Ryunosuke's true gender and thinks she's going on a date with a guy) thinks this means she's interested in girls when she claims she has no interest in boys. Lum and Ataru decide to intervene with Ran and Ryunosuke's "date".
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHappy Birthday My Darling
Season 1 Episode 89 - Aired 4/20/1983
When Ataru flips out over Lum for forgetting his upcoming birthday, she goes absent from school for days and only comes home late at night. This causes both Ataru and Lum to become upset, as well as separately confine in Miss Sakura.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSeeing Togenkyo as a Hell Camp!
Season 1 Episode 90 - Aired 4/27/1983
After enduring Lum's ultra-spicy dinner on a camping trip, Ataru, Mendou, Megane, and Perm head off to find food (with Lum and Ten not far behind). They eventually end up fighting against the Evil Peach after they're tipped off by Cherry of a village that produces giant peaches, wanting to save a beautiful girl from being sacrificed.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Muco Flower's Name is Ryunosuke
Season 1 Episode 91 - Aired 5/11/1983
Ataru is changed into a girl by Kurama's tengu henchmen after they try to use a cannon to change Ryunosuke into a man for their princess. NOTE: There is no appearance of Shinobu in this episode.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Kazunori Ito
N/A/100 votesBottled Letter Seashore Mystery!
Season 1 Episode 92 - Aired 5/25/1983
After Ataru, Ten, and Mendo fall for a beautiful woman's love letters - which end up luring them (along with Lum and Shinobu) to the inn she works in - they stay at a creepy inn, where the residents quite literally want them for dinner.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDramatic Appearance! Mizunokoji Ton-chan!!
Season 1 Episode 93 - Aired 6/1/1983
Mendo's rival Tobimaro Mizunokoji returns, and the two decide to settle their baseball rivalry once and for all.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesShinobu's Cinderella Story
Season 1 Episode 94 - Aired 6/8/1983
Shinobu gets involved with the rich Kobayakawa family's youngest son, the adopted Makoto, whose father recently died. But his older siblings want to bump him off so that they don't have to share their late father's wealth with him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLum-chan the Ruthless Rebel
Season 1 Episode 95 - Aired 6/15/1983
Ataru is the producer/director of a film for school. At first it only involves him, Lum, and the Stormtroopers, but it soon involves most of the student body after Ataru gets funding by Mendo.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBig Showdown! Sakura vs Sakuranbo!!
Season 1 Episode 96 - Aired 6/22/1983
Ataru and Lum are left home alone when his parents leave for three days, and Lum locks Ataru inside of his own house! When a botched-up meal causes planes and tanks to appear instead of food, it attracts the attention of Sakura and Sakuranbo, who try to fight them off..but end up fighting against each other's summoned creatures instead!
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGhost Story! Old Man Willow!
Season 1 Episode 97 - Aired 6/29/1983
Onsen-Mark tells the class a story of a cursed willow tree, which Ataru finds a load of fluff and ends up releasing an old man after Mendou after he carved his company's symbol with a knife on said tree. The old man drops a map to a possible treasure, while Mendou plans to see him at midnight to settle a score regarding the mockery of his company logo Ataru carved on the back of his robe. Meanwhile, Onsen-Mark is forced to do guard duty across the school by himself at night.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAnd Then There was Nobody!?
Season 1 Episode 98 - Aired 7/6/1983
Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Mendo, Onsen-Mark, Sakura, Cherry, and the Stormtroopers have a stay at a mansion, where they are slowly picked off one by one in a manner similar to the nursery rhyme Cock Robin.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesFirefighter Mama Visits!
Season 1 Episode 99 - Aired 7/13/1983
Ten's mother, a firefighter, comes to visit her son on Earth. Ten must keep his fire-breathing a secret from his mother as she hates pyromaniacs and will send all those who are to Hell. Unfortunately for him, Ataru - taking full advantage of Ten's mother's position - isn't going to make it easy on him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDarling's Dying!?
Season 1 Episode 100 - Aired 7/20/1983
When Ataru gets poisoned by one of Ran's cupcakes, Lum rushes into a magical world to find an antidote for him before he dies.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesPitiful! Mother of Love and Banishment!?
Season 1 Episode 101 - Aired 7/27/1983
An accident at the mall causes Ataru's mother to become unconscious. During this time she begins to have nightmares.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesMendo Family - Summer Christmas
Season 1 Episode 102 - Aired 8/3/1983
Ryoko holds a "Summer Xmas" party, where everyone must come in male-female pairs. And the main attraction is a gigantic Christmas tree, which they must climb in order to get to the dance floor above. The male winner will receive a kiss from Ryoko, and the female Mendou.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesPanic in the Haunted Inn
Season 1 Episode 103 - Aired 8/10/1983
Ataru, Lum, Mendo, and Shinobu stay at an inn and meet Otama, a scaredy-cat ghost who tries (and fails) to out-scare an old couple each year around the summer. But the old couple are far scarier than she is (though not on purpose).
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAh The Eyelid of Mother
Season 1 Episode 104 - Aired 8/17/1983
Ryunosuke tries to recall what her mother was like, and her father doesn't help her at all in this endeavor. A new eyecatch featuring Lum and Ataru is introduced this episode.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesFull of Sunshine - Full of Amours
Season 1 Episode 105 - Aired 8/24/1983
Thanks to Ten's Core technology, he, Ataru, and Mendo make three Sakura sand dolls come to life. Frustrated, Lum goes out with another guy to make Ataru jealous.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBig Clash! Ten VS Ataru
Season 1 Episode 106 - Aired 9/7/1983
Tired of being defeated recently by Ataru, Ten goes into training with the help of Cherry and Lum to defeat his arch-nemesis.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesTerror! Tororo has Come to Attack!!
Season 1 Episode 107 - Aired 9/14/1983
On holiday at Mendo's family's mountain lodge, Lum, Shinobu, Ataru and Mendou are attacked by crazed Tororo yam filling (torojiru).
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGalactic Teacher CAO-2's Revenge
Season 1 Episode 108 - Aired 9/21/1983
Lum, Ran, Benten, and Oyuki find out that their old teacher, a giant, robot chalkboard eraser named CAO-2, has come to Earth after being trapped on a deserted planet for years. And the former three are not pleased with the news.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesOutraged! Piteous Kid Shutaro!!
Season 1 Episode 109 - Aired 10/12/1983
Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Mendo, and Ryunosuke go back in time to when Mendou was an obnoxious, violent kid to cure him of both his nyctophobia and claustrophobia.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGrand! The Mysterious Matsutake Pot!!
Season 1 Episode 110 - Aired 10/26/1983
A batch of matsutake mushrooms from Cherry turn the Tomobiki High student body and staff alike (except Lum and Cherry himself) into a bunch of high weirdos desperate for entertainment.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesEnraged Lum-chan!
Season 1 Episode 111 - Aired 11/2/1983
After Ten burns Lum's scarf she made especially for Ataru, he's forced to do something he's never really done before - apologize. And Ataru is making sure to drag this out as much as possible, even convincing Lum to get angry at him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLum and Ataru – A Night only for Two
Season 1 Episode 112 - Aired 11/9/1983
Ataru's parents head away for an overnight trip to Atami, leaving Lum and Ataru in the house together. Ataru dreads the prospect of a Lum-cooked dinner, while a horrified Mendo and Lum's Stormtroopers storm the Moroboshi home to protect Lum from Ataru. Ataru tries to kiss her at the last moment, but as a precaution, puts an armor that prevents electricity, in the last frames...he begins to cry.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLady Ryunosuke!
Season 1 Episode 113 - Aired 11/23/1983
Onsen-Mark is given the task of making "a woman" out of Ryuunosuke.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDocument - Who Will Be Miss Tomobiki!?
Season 1 Episode 114 - Aired 11/30/1983
A contest is held in Tomobiki for Miss Tomobiki, with a reward of 150,000 yen for the winner. Candidates include Lum, Shinobu, Ran, Sakura, and Ryunosuke.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBizarre! The Medicine of Selflessness!!
Season 1 Episode 115 - Aired 12/7/1983
Ataru has a literal out-of-body experience when he eats a strange potion shaped like a fish cookie from Cherry.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesShutaro - Jinxed Morning
Season 1 Episode 116 - Aired 12/14/1983
Mendo talks to Sakuranbo about Ataru's possible weaknesses in this clip show episode.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Story of a Traveling Snow Dharma
Season 1 Episode 117 - Aired 12/21/1983
After saving its life three times from Ten's antics, a snowman spirit awards Ataru with a late night dinner, taking the form of a cute pink-haired girl that only he can see.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLum-chan's Ancient Japanese Fairytales
Season 1 Episode 118 - Aired 1/11/1984
Cherry tells Ten a fairytale that's basically a giant mishmash of Japanese children's stories, featuring Ataru and Lum as an old couple and Ten as their "son".
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesShine! The Blessed Bra!
Season 1 Episode 119 - Aired 1/18/1984
Ryunosuke is blackmailed into going on a date with Shinobu to obtain a bra, which she's always wanted to wear.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDuel! Benten VS the Three Daughters
Season 1 Episode 120 - Aired 1/25/1984
A trio of middle-school space girls steal Benten's chain and then challenge her, Lum, and Oyuki to fight them.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLum-chan is Full!
Season 1 Episode 121 - Aired 2/1/1984
Ran tries to clone Lum to get revenge on her, but it doesn't work quite as planned.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDeadly! Standup Eating Wars!!
Season 1 Episode 122 - Aired 2/8/1984
Megane deals with a tough, fast-eating "fast-food costumer dragon" named Ryuu at the noodle shop he works at, who criticizes others' inferior foods and eats for free if not satisfied. But soon other fast-food fighters start hitting the scene in Tomobiki, and Megane only worries even more. Turns out that Mendou, who's thinking of opening a supermarket in town in an attempt to bankrupt the small-time family restaurants, is the cause of this, starting a contest between Ataru and co. and the fast-food fighters to determine if Tomobiki gets the supermarket.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGreat Vault! Courageous Survival!
Season 1 Episode 123 - Aired 2/15/1984
Ataru and Mendou get locked in the latter's giant safe, where they slowly go mad when the place starts flooding and they try to out-survive each other.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesOperation - Peek in the Woman's Bath
Season 1 Episode 124 - Aired 2/22/1984
Ataru takes a bath at an old-fashioned sento (along with Cherry), where he tries to peek on the girls' side, where Lum, Shinobu, Sakura, Ran, Ryoko, Ryunosuke, Benten, and Oyuki are having a private party. But soon the Stormtroopers and even Mendo find out about Ataru's plan.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSakura - Melancholy of a Youth Time
Season 1 Episode 125 - Aired 2/29/1984
Sakura literally re-meets her childhood when Cherry slips her a pill that makes her childhood self appear, who wants to play. But everyone else thinks it's her illegitimate child.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBurning Ran's Emotional Video Mail
Season 1 Episode 126 - Aired 3/7/1984
In the series' second clip show, Ran gets video tapes "highlighting" her unhappy childhood, as well as previous episodes' events.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSakura-san is My Youth!
Season 1 Episode 127 - Aired 3/14/1984
Ataru recounts how he met Sakura, and how she ended up as the school nurse of his school. This is intermixed with clips from previous episodes.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesScramble! Recapture Lum!
Season 1 Episode 128 - Aired 3/21/1984
Episode 1 of a 2-episode serial. Ataru and Lum get into an argument, with Lum going to her UFO to sleep that night. But in her sleep it crashes on Mendou's property, with Lum losing her memory in the process. Mendou, disgusted by Ataru's lack of sympathy about Lum's missing, informs Ataru that she's on his property. He also tells him that if he wants her back, he'll have to go on his property and deal with him and his army. After some nudging by Lum's Stormtroopers, Ataru works together with them to save her.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDeathmatch! Ataru VS Mendo Brigade!
Season 1 Episode 129 - Aired 3/28/1984
Episode 2 of a 2-episode serial. Despite their best efforts, all of Lum's Stroomtroopers except Megane have been kidnapped. Ataru is saved from captivity by Mendou's little sister Ryoko, who gives him supplies and even a motorcycle to save Lum with.
Director: Mamoru Oshii, Osamu Kamimura
Writer: Kazunori Ito
N/A/100 votesDifferent Dimension Switch - Where is Darling!?
Season 1 Episode 130 - Aired 4/11/1984
During Hanami, Ataru snaps a tree branch and somehow causes a rip in dimensions, sending Lum to a parallel world. Here Ataru lost the game of tag in the first episode, his family living in poverty. And he refuses to talk to Lum because he is upset that she ruined his life, as well as his parents'. Lum hops dimensions in hopes of finding the real Ataru.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesClash!! Queen Majesty and Ragaman's Love
Season 1 Episode 131 - Aired 4/25/1984
Ryunosuke loses the cloth that wraps up her breasts, but decides to not buy a new wrap when she's finally treated like a girl by everyone around her. But when it comes time to play rugby at gym class, the boys are more interested in Ryunosuke's large chest than they are in playing the actual game. At the same time, an evil space queen and her all-male henchmen are plotting to overtake Earth, their ship the size (and shape) of a rugby ball.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesRan-chan - First Kiss Tastes Tears of Love
Season 1 Episode 132 - Aired 5/2/1984
Ran tries to win Rei's heart literally through his stomach. And while she doesn't succeed, she does manage to get an indirect kiss from him when he licks bean paste from her face. Lum is happy to see Rei and Ran paired up, ecstatic at the idea that Ran will no longer bother her. Or is she...?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesUn-re-mov-ab-le Rouge Magic
Season 1 Episode 133 - Aired 5/9/1984
Lum is sad that she's never kissed Ataru, so she invents a lipstick that makes whoever wears it to kiss anyone else who's also wearing it.
Director: Iku Suzuki
Writer: Shigeru Yanagawa
N/A/100 votesDeathmatch!! The Mendo Family Flower Display Death Match
Season 1 Episode 134 - Aired 5/16/1984
A mysterious monster is causing strange events in town. Mendo figures out what the monster is when all of his octopi are turned to septopi.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBenten & Ryunosuke - Run Toward Tomorrow!
Season 1 Episode 135 - Aired 5/23/1984
Benten drops in to Tomobiki High, making friends with Ryuunosuke, leading to crime-fighting, kitten-saving adventures.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGreat Horrors! Oyuki is Finally Angered!!
Season 1 Episode 136 - Aired 5/30/1984
Ran upsets Oyuki and relives a traumatizing childhood experience with an angry Oyuki. The song "Magical Mystery Tour" by The Beatles seems to be featured as well.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesTen-chan's Strange Love Story
Season 1 Episode 137 - Aired 6/6/1984
Ten meets a lovely little girl, only to find their time together is all too brief. Also in this episode: sumo wrestling and puppies.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHaunted Special! Search for Mendo Mansion's Treasure!!
Season 1 Episode 138 - Aired 6/13/1984
Mendo's elderly grandfather requests Shutaro find the secret family treasure. Unfortunately for Shutaro, his classmates decide to join. Unfortunately for his classmates, is it hidden in the extensive Mendo Estate.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLove and War! Battle of Glove VS Pants!!
Season 1 Episode 139 - Aired 6/20/1984
Possessed accessories bring three of our heroes to a spiritual fight to the... nap time.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLum-chan's Becoming a Cow?
Season 1 Episode 140 - Aired 6/27/1984
Lum and Ataru are both bitten by a cow in a pet shop. Shortly afterward, Lum's horns begin to grow and resemble a cow's horns, and a horrified Lum believes she is turning into a cow.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGreat Achievement! This is Lum-chan's Youth Film
Season 1 Episode 141 - Aired 7/11/1984
Megane convinces everyone to help him make a film starring Lum.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesScaring Ghosts! Pretty Sakura's Oharai!!
Season 1 Episode 142 - Aired 7/18/1984
Sakura's wand needs a recharge, leaving an opening for all the ghosties!
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesCounterattack of the Primeval Animals! Panic at the Poolside
Season 1 Episode 143 - Aired 7/25/1984
Ten gets a lesson once again about Oni candy and Earthlings while Ataru and Mendou's relationship develops to new levels.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAppeared Again! Hunter of Love Princess Kurama
Season 1 Episode 144 - Aired 8/1/1984
Kurama returns to find her mate. Instead she meets her match.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Fox's Hard Feelings of Painful Love...
Season 1 Episode 145 - Aired 8/15/1984
How can little Kitsune repay Shinobu's good deed?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesRyunosuke Stunned! My Young Child Loves Rock Mother!!
Season 1 Episode 146 - Aired 8/22/1984
A beach town frantically searches for the food-thieving goblin as Ryuu is once again plagued by her past... and her dramatic father.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThriller! Curra~n Collo~n Womens Dorm!!
Season 1 Episode 147 - Aired 8/29/1984
Ataru's ghost story becomes all too real when no matter how hard Lum tries to stop it.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesPool Spooks! Burning with Forbidden Love!!
Season 1 Episode 148 - Aired 9/12/1984
The gang helps Pochi rescue his beloved blowfish from the sharky kidnapper.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesRan-chan Panic: There is No Tomorrow for Tomobiki Town
Season 1 Episode 149 - Aired 9/19/1984
Ran's lost konpeito-like supernova fragment causes quite a ruckus for Tomobiki High. The song The Fool on the Hill by The Beatles seems to be featured as well.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesWhere is Love's Room? Kuriko and Chojuro
Season 1 Episode 150 - Aired 9/26/1984
Pear-consciousness brings everyone in class closer to Ataru.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesMan or Bird? Gokakenran Ally of Justice!
Season 1 Episode 151 - Aired 10/17/1984
Ten learns the difficulties of being the righteousness of the universe when he gets powers from a salary-man superhero, whom Ran and Lum have a grudge against.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAttack the Seniors! Revenge of the Knowing Three Daughters
Season 1 Episode 152 - Aired 10/24/1984
The Planet Middle School Girl Gang is back to get revenge on Lum. However, she's too distracted by Ataru's proposition; if she can go three days without shocking him, he'll go on a date with her.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBlazing Hidden Trick! This Straight Line Road
Season 1 Episode 153 - Aired 10/31/1984
Lum finds an alien way to motivate everyone to do their best at the talent show.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDon't Die! Ryoko's Special Straw Doll!!
Season 1 Episode 154 - Aired 11/7/1984
Ryoko harnesses the power of voodoo and gives Ataru a voodoo doll effigy of her brother Shutaro, who unintentionally hurts him without realizing it. Shutaro now must do everything to prevent Ataru from finding out that the voodoo doll is of him, while trying to avoid himself in the process.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesMatchmaking Hell! Is the Armored Daughter a Beauty? Beast?
Season 1 Episode 155 - Aired 11/14/1984
Episode one of a two-Episode Serial. Shutaro is forced into an arranged marriage with the heavily armored Asuka Mizunokoji of the Mizunokoji clan, who've been mortal enemies with the Mendou clan for generations. While Shutaro wants nothing to do with Asuka, Ataru (of course) wants this armored girl for himself. A girl who, apparently, has never met a man before, much less one outside of her armor. At episode's end her armor is removed via Lum shocking her with Ataru clinging to her, revealing her true appearance. Cherry ends the episode, breaking the fourth wall as he tells the audience to turn in next time for the conclusion.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLove of the Armored Daughter! Maiden Heart is Shaky Wobbling
Season 1 Episode 156 - Aired 11/21/1984
Episode two of a two-episode Serial. Her armor now gone, a terrified Asuka runs away from Ataru, Shutaro, and even her own brother Tobimaro. It's also revealed why Asuka is in the armor; no male from the Mizunokoji clan is allowed to see their daughter until she turns 15. Shutaro, initially against the idea of the arranged marriage, is now all for it when he hears from Ataru that Asuka is cute, despite her being scary powerful due to 15 years in armor. Ryoko, however, plans to put a stop to the arranged marriage with a giant army and later an armored suit. The marriage is soon after called off.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesMeeting even if Death! Pure Fox Returns!!
Season 1 Episode 157 - Aired 11/28/1984
Inspired by a movie about a fox using a spell to turn a human girl he loves into a fox like himself for one night, Kitsune looks for Shinobu to find his missing gingko nuts, which he wants her to eat under a full moon to do the same. Ataru and Lum help them. Kitsune eventually finds them, turning Lum, Ataru, Cherry, Shinobu, AND Kotatsu-Neko all into foxes, as well as many of the people in town partially into foxes as well. A half-fox Shinbou and Kitsune dance together under the full moon, happy together.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesWhat Do I Care for Talking Flowers!
Season 1 Episode 158 - Aired 12/5/1984
Ran and Lum learn a valuable lesson about spreading rumors after Ran's talking flowers (named Ryuugenvillias) spread rumors about them to the entire town, soon affecting/hurting everyone's lives. (Aside from Ataru, oddly enough, who is mostly unaffected.)
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Birth of Ten-chan's Son!? I Dunno
Season 1 Episode 159 - Aired 12/12/1984
An accident causes an egg to be attached to Ten's body. The egg hatches and reveals a strange bee-like creature who proceeds to harass Ten constantly, claiming Ten is his father.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLum's Courageous Duel! Victory is a Nitpicky Hand
Season 1 Episode 160 - Aired 12/19/1984
Lum learns just how much she needs her powers.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBig Employment Aspiration! Return of Missing Ninja Kaede!!
Season 1 Episode 161 - Aired 1/9/1985
Ninja Kaede seeks a new life in the city.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesTomobiki Highschool Survival! Who Are the Survivors!
Season 1 Episode 162 - Aired 1/16/1985
Texas Chainsaw Tomato Massacre at its finest.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Mysterious Giant Cake! Love's Escape Panic!!
Season 1 Episode 163 - Aired 1/23/1985
Mendo's New Year's party takes a delicious, spongy turn when Ryoko hears about it.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesUnderground Reincarnation! What's Darling Thinking!?
Season 1 Episode 164 - Aired 1/30/1985
The gang lands on an island where "poison" literally makes one's dreams come true.
Director: Junji Nishimura
Writer: Toshiki Inoue
N/A/100 votesSnow Panic! The Mendo Family Hanami Banquet!!
Season 1 Episode 165 - Aired 2/6/1985
Once again, everyone is taught that Oni eating human food and humans eating Oni food is a drunken disaster.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesFar Spring! Tale of the Lonely Fairy!!
Season 1 Episode 166 - Aired 2/13/1985
Ataru learns the importance of happy thought thanks to a fairy.
Director: Osamu Sekita
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesTo Dream Land! Darling Battle Royal Abduction
Season 1 Episode 167 - Aired 2/20/1985
Everyone learns about eating other people's dreams.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThree Daughters Again! The Great Mission Tempting Darling!!
Season 1 Episode 168 - Aired 2/27/1985
Ginger, Pepper, and Sugar return to their old tricks to break up Lum and Ataru.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Scampering Kotatsu Cat! Anything to Get Warm
Season 1 Episode 169 - Aired 3/6/1985
Kotatsu Cat proves himself to be true to his name by catching the ever-running Kotatsu.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesRyunosuke's Naïve Father! A Wife is in Vestiges!!
Season 1 Episode 170 - Aired 3/13/1985
Ryunosuke's father tries to bring Masako to Ryunosuke's life with lies and trickery.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSpring Full Bloom!? Frozen by Oyuki's Cold!!
Season 1 Episode 171 - Aired 3/20/1985
Oyuki's cold is unlike anyone's on Earth. It's far more literal. The only cure can come from a cat.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesFriendship Panic! I Love to Eat Blowfish
Season 1 Episode 172 - Aired 3/27/1985
Ten finds a new friend in a blowfish and brings havoc to Tomobiki with a blowfish and Oni candy.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Armored Girl Returns! Older Brother is Full
Season 1 Episode 173 - Aired 4/3/1985
At the demand of her mother, Asuka faces her fear of men in a visit to Tomobiki High School after her love crushes her brother. It goes about as well as expected.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBoredom Syndrome! Is Tomobiki Town Wasting Away!?
Season 1 Episode 174 - Aired 4/10/1985
Ataru drinks a can of eye drops Lum left in his room, thinking it was juice. Because of this, everyone ends up having weird dreams.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLook Out Ran! Kotatsu Neko's First Love Oden!?
Season 1 Episode 175 - Aired 4/17/1985
Ran cooks an Oden with love mushrooms to Rei, but Kotatsu Neko eats it. NOTE: Mendo and Ataru make brief appearances.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Armored Girl Is Back Again! Dates of Thunder!
Season 1 Episode 176 - Aired 4/24/1985
Mrs. Mizunokoji has Mendo and Asuka go on a date on their estate, but Ataru interferes to scare Asuka. Asuka goes on a rampage.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Mystery Priest Appears! Luck Bell Battle Royal
Season 1 Episode 177 - Aired 5/1/1985
A priest shows up and rings Ataru, Shinobu, Ryu, Lum, Mendo, and Sakura to a great bell in a shrine.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesFirst Love Again!? A Return to the Past for Lum and Rei!!
Season 1 Episode 178 - Aired 5/8/1985
Jariten finds part of a love locket Lum and Rei got when they were going together. At a birthday party for Mendo's favorite octopus, Lum tries to hide this fact, especially from Ataru.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHere Comes the Barista of Youth! Shining Café of Dreams!
Season 1 Episode 179 - Aired 5/15/1985
A middle-aged man and his daughter opens up a teahouse which constantly becomes the scene of many fights between Tomobiki High School students and staff.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesI Love Darling's Kindness...
Season 1 Episode 180 - Aired 5/22/1985
A ghost girl who fell in love with Ataru while she was alive wants to have a date with him. She spent most of her life in the hospital and made a scarf, mittens, and most of a sweater before dying; all of which she wanted to give to the handsome boy she saw from her window, Ataru.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesReturn of the Pure-Hearted Fox! I Love Shinobu!
Season 1 Episode 181 - Aired 5/29/1985
Kitsune goes to Tomobiki High School and bring the class back to his class in the woods on a flying bus.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesI Love the Sea! The Saga of Hamajaya!
Season 1 Episode 182 - Aired 6/5/1985
At the beach, Ataru, Mendo, Shinobu, Lum, and Ryu are trying to attract customers for the Hamajaya restaurant, but Mr. Fujinami keeps scaring away the customers.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesRyunosuke vs. Benten: The Pointless Charm Contest!
Season 1 Episode 183 - Aired 6/12/1985
Benten comes to visit Lum and again meets Ryunosuke, but Mr. Fujinami is trying to convince Benten that Ryu is a boy.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLittle Magical Bottle: What Will Happen to Me?
Season 1 Episode 184 - Aired 6/19/1985
Jariten buys a magic bottle that can shrink anything down to fit inside it.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSome Disassembly Required: Lum’s Dangerous Shopping
Season 1 Episode 185 - Aired 6/26/1985
Discipline in school raises to a new peak because of the disturbances caused by the arrival of packages from space for Lum.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGoodness! Words Aren't Getting to Darling
Season 1 Episode 186 - Aired 7/3/1985
During a fight between Ataru and Ten at breakfast, Ataru misses Ten and hits Lum with a rice cooker, causing her to forget how to understand or speak Japanese.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDevil's Summer! Ten-chan's Great Unaju Mission!!
Season 1 Episode 187 - Aired 7/10/1985
Jariten gets a fever from staying in the sun too long and the cure is to be made very cold.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesOmimai Panic!? I Didn't Mean Any Harm
Season 1 Episode 188 - Aired 7/17/1985
Ran gets sick and asks Lum to come over by sending Lum exploding dolls, missiles and the like.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesScary!! There is an Octopus on Shutaro's Head!?
Season 1 Episode 189 - Aired 7/24/1985
An apparition of one of Shutaro's favorite octopi appears on his head and cannot be removed.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesInvader From Space! Lum's Dangerous Lips!!
Season 1 Episode 190 - Aired 7/31/1985
A space centaur comes to Earth where he takes the guise of Ataru and tries to kiss every girl in school, but fails.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSpace Survival! They are the Eaters
Season 1 Episode 191 - Aired 8/7/1985
On a spaceship near Earth, an alien is cleaning a special food bowl and drops it.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesIt's Stimulating! Overhead Cooler of Terror!!
Season 1 Episode 192 - Aired 8/14/1985
It's a hot summer day, and the heat is bothering everyone except Lum.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLove Raid! Romantic has Not Stopped!!
Season 1 Episode 193 - Aired 8/21/1985
Lum buys a plant that grows a little cupid. She then gets the cupid to try hitting Ataru with an arrow.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLong-Time Appearance! Worries for Firefighter Mother!!
Season 1 Episode 194 - Aired 8/28/1985
Ten's mother visits and Jariten wants to give her a bouquet of carnations to show his love for her.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHardsell Happiness! Out of Pint Bluebird!!
Season 1 Episode 195 - Aired 9/4/1985
An escaped alien convict, a bluebird, come to Tomobiki and begins to grant people's wishes.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGreat Storm! Ryunosuke's First Time Wearing a Swimsuit!!
Season 1 Episode 196 - Aired 9/11/1985
Ryunosuke has a final showdown with her father. If she wins, she gets to wear her mother's bathing suit.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesI Want a Bride!! The Fox's Big Love Adventure!!
Season 1 Episode 197 - Aired 9/18/1985
Kitsune comes to Tomobiki High School during a costume festival to see Shinobu.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHow Persistent! The Three Daughters' Great Animal Mission!!
Season 1 Episode 198 - Aired 9/25/1985
The three scamps from Lum's old school are trying to one-up Lum's gang again. This time, they choose animals to match each of the gang's individual weaknesses.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAll-You-Can-Grab Fish Frenzy! The Hamajaya Scam
Season 1 Episode 199 - Aired 10/2/1985
Ryunosuke's father hatches a scheme to solve Hamachaya's finances while Mendou accidentally invites everyone to a beach outing.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesWish Upon a Star! The Frenzied Desire of Ataru’s Family!
Season 1 Episode 200 - Aired 10/16/1985
After Ataru’s father is hit by a semi, the Moriboshi family’s financial situation grants them three wishes by a falling star.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSpecial Delivery Kiss! Darling Finally Gets Jealous!
Season 1 Episode 201 - Aired 10/23/1985
Lum receives a frog via special delivery, and intends to kiss him despite Ataru's objections.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBeware of Booze! Sakura’s Exorcism Error!
Season 1 Episode 202 - Aired 10/30/1985
Sakura is possessed by a spirit spirit in order to properly exorcise it, but is tempted to go binge drinking before she has the chance.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesIt’s Creepy! The Sakuranbo School of Yoga!
Season 1 Episode 203 - Aired 11/6/1985
Sakura starts a yoga class, and the main characters all attend. They engage in “multiple-person yoga” to cleanse their souls, but it becomes a competition to see who’ll “win.”
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSay Goodbye to Onsen!? Tearful Farewell Marathon
Season 1 Episode 204 - Aired 12/4/1985
Onsen is leaving, and Lum organizes a goodbye ceremony. Before he goes, he has unfinished business to attend to… namely revenge for all the students’ hijinks over the years.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSakura’s Pure Love! Slippery Soap Spells Sayonara!
Season 1 Episode 205 - Aired 12/11/1985
Sakura must overcome Lum’s home-made soap in order to be with her true love. He mistakes her slippery nature for disinterest in him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAsuka VS Big Brother! It's Battle for Certain Love!
Season 1 Episode 206 - Aired 12/18/1985
Asuka will not stop flirting with her brother, so her mother makes a desperate wager with her: if he defeats in Asuka in combat, Asuka must give up on marrying him. Unfortunately, their respective martial abilities mean she's almost guaranteed a victory. Lum's help is employed. It gets weird.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDarling Great Misfortune! Four Dimension Fortune of Fear!!
Season 1 Episode 207 - Aired 12/25/1985
Lum and Ataru visit the shrine and make very different wishes, which both come true, in a way. Different dimensions are involved.
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesNew Years Panic! The Mendo Family Game of Trouble
Season 1 Episode 208 - Aired 1/8/1986
The Mendo family uses the main characters as unwilling pawn-like pieces for a family game.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDreaming Ten’s Big Adventure at the End of the Rainbow!
Season 1 Episode 209 - Aired 1/15/1986
Ten is asked to retrieve an umbrella by a creature that lives in another dimension.
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesAtaru Wants to Go on a Date! Operation Examination!
Season 1 Episode 210 - Aired 1/22/1986
Shinobu makes a deal with Ataru that she’ll go on a date with him if he comes in first on one of the upcoming exams. However, Ataru and studying don’t mix, so he comes up with a crazy scheme to help him pass…
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesDarling Told Me He Loves Me!
Season 1 Episode 211 - Aired 1/29/1986
Sakura makes medicine that Lum and Shinobu give to Mendo and Ataru. The medicine makes them delusional, but very creative.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHellish Home Visits! The Passion of the Teacher!
Season 1 Episode 212 - Aired 2/5/1986
Onsen-mark must brave the families of some of his worst students in a round of home visits.
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesRan’s Humongous Doll of Destruction!
Season 1 Episode 213 - Aired 2/12/1986
The main characters are forced to undergo meditation as punishment for their classroom disruption. Ran creates a giant doll that rampages through Tokyo like Gojira.
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesPure-hearted Fox! He’ll Risk His Life for Love!!
Season 1 Episode 214 - Aired 2/19/1986
The little fox that loves Shinobu hears a tale that implies that if you grab an Oni's horn, you will win your true love's heart.
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesDarling, Rescue Me! Lum’s Dangerous Engagement
Season 1 Episode 215 - Aired 2/26/1986
Another suitor has swung in to Lum's life, and he's immune to electric shock.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesI Can’t Take It Anymore! Ran’s Malicious Operation!
Season 1 Episode 216 - Aired 3/5/1986
Ran's latest revenge scheme involves a control button in an attempt to take over Ataru's life.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesImmediate Farewell Special - Shine!! Planet Uru Awards
Season 1 Episode 217 - Aired 3/12/1986
It is a repeat of episode 44 ("After You've Gone") with a special introduction and best episode countdown before the episode.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGreat All Star Banquet! We are Immortal!!
Season 1 Episode 218 - Aired 3/19/1986
Every character from the show makes an appearance as the school attempts a retelling of a classic Japanese tale.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
