Urusei Yatsura (2022 TV series)

This article is about the 2022 TV series. For the 1981 TV series, see Urusei Yatsura (1981 TV series).

Urusei Yatsura
Promotional poster that features a group of characters chasing Ataru Moroboshi with Lum in the foreground
Created by	Rumiko Takahashi
Based on	Urusei Yatsura by Rumiko Takahashi
Written by	Yūko Kakihara
Directed by	Takahiro Kamei Hideya Takahashi Yasuhiro Kimura
Voices of	Hiroshi Kamiya Sumire Uesaka Maaya Uchida Mamoru Miyano Wataru Takagi Miyuki Sawashiro
Theme music composer	Maisondes
Composer	Masaru Yokoyama
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	37
Production
Producers	Noriko Fujimoto Shuuhou Kondou Kazuki Ooshima Yoshinori Takeeda Masaki Hasebe
Cinematography	Yuichiro Osada
Editor	Kiyoshi Hirose
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	David Production
Original release
Network	Fuji TV (Noitamina)
Release	October 14, 2022 (2022-10-14) – present (present)
Related
Urusei Yatsura (1981)

Urusei Yatsura (うる星やつら) is a Japanese anime television series produced by David Production based on the manga series of the same name by Rumiko Takahashi. It is the second television anime adaptation of the manga, following the 1981 adaptation by Kitty Films that ran until 1986. The series premiered on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block on October 14, 2022, and is scheduled to run for 46 episodes across two split two-cour seasons, with most episodes having two segments per half-hour.

Production and release

On January 1, 2022, a new television series adaptation was announced and premiered on Fuji Television's Noitamina programming block on October 14, 2022. The series is produced by David Production and chief directed by Takahiro Komei, Hideya Takahashi, and Yasuhiro Kimura, with Yūko Kakihara as head writer, character designs and season 1 chief animation direction by Naoyuki Asano, and Masaru Yokoyama composing the music. The series was announced for 46 full-length episodes of four cours split up into two seasons. One opening and ending theme was used per cour, and are all performed by Maisondes. For the first cour (episodes 1–11), the opening theme is "Aiue" (アイウエ) featuring Minami and Sakuramoti, and the ending theme is "Tokyo Shandy Rendezvous" (トウキョウ・シャンディ・ランデヴ, Tōkyō Shandi Randevu) featuring Kaf and Tsumiki. For the second cour (episodes 12–23), the opening theme is "Love Trap Muchu" (アイワナムチュー, Aiwanamchū) featuring Asmi and Surii, and the ending theme is "Not Enough" (アイタリナイ, Aitarinai) featuring Yama and NITO. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series in North America, Europe, Oceania, and selected Latin American and Asian territories. The second season of the series premiered on January 12, 2024. For the third cour (episodes 24–35), the opening theme is "Lock-On" (ロックオン, Rokku-On) featuring Hashimero and Meguru, and the ending theme is "Thunder Blossom" (雷櫻, Kaminarizakura) featuring 9Lana and Sakuramoti. For the final cour (the remainder of the series), the opening theme is "By My Darling" featuring Mikimaria and NITO and the ending theme is "Haru Magai" featuring AYUNi D and NITO.

Series overview

Season		Cour	Episodes	Original run	Theme songs
					Opening	Ending
	1	1	11	October 14 − December 23, 2022	"Aiue" by Minami and Sakuramoti	"Tokyo Shandy Rendezvous" by Kaf and Tsumiki
		2	12	January 6 − March 24, 2023	"Love Trap Muchu" by Asmi and Surii	"Not Enough" by Yama and NITO
	2	3	12	January 12 − March 28, 2024	"Lock-On" by Hashimero and Meguru	"Thunder Blossom" by 9Lana and Sakuramoti
		4	11	April 12, 2024 - TBA	"By My Darling" by Mikimaria and NITO	"Haru Magai" by AYUNi D and NITO

Episodes

Season 1 (2022–23)

All episodes have chief animation direction by Naoyuki Asano.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboarded by	Original air date
1	1	"Young Love on the Run" Transliteration: "Kakemeguru Seishun" (Japanese: かけめぐる青春)	Hideya Takahashi	Yūko Kakihara	Hideya Takahashi	October 14, 2022 (2022-10-14)
		"Between a Rock and a Hard Place" Transliteration: "Zettai Zetsumei" (Japanese: 絶体絶命)			Takahiro Kamei
When aliens from the planet Oni come to invade Earth, Ataru Moroboshi is chosen to save his planet if he wins a game of tag against their princess, Lum. After succeeding, due to a misunderstanding, Lum thinks that Ataru has proposed to her, much to his girlfriend Shinobu Miyake's irritation. Lum tries to thwart Ataru and Shinobu's attempts at communicating, resulting in chaos and destruction in the city.
2	2	"Present for You" Transliteration: "Anata ni Ageru" (Japanese: あなたにあげる)	Yasuhiro Kimura	Yūko Kakihara	Yasuhiro Kimura	October 21, 2022 (2022-10-21)
		"The Yellow Ribbon of Happiness" Transliteration: "Shiawase no Kiiroi Ribon" (Japanese: 幸せの黄色いリボン)
Lum insists on spending time with Ataru in school, angering Shinobu and making his life miserable. While trying to go into hiding, he meets a shrine maiden named Sakura who insists on performing an exorcism on him. Ataru receives from Cherry, a wandering monk, a yellow ribbon that strips Lum of her powers when it is tied around her horns. Although effective, it also causes its own set of strife and misery for the fastener. Later, a young man named Shuutaro Mendo parachutes into the city.
3	3	"Trouble Rains Down!!" Transliteration: "Toraburu wa Maiorita!!" (Japanese: トラブルは舞い降りた！！)	Takahiro Kamei	Yūko Kakihara	Takahiro Kamei	October 28, 2022 (2022-10-28)
		"Amazed in a Maze" Transliteration: "Meiro de Meromero" (Japanese: 迷路でメロメロ)
New transfer student, Shutarō Mendō, is instantly popular with the class' girls but disliked by the boys who set Ataru as his opponent for class president. Since the class is equally divided between male and female students, the election ends in a draw, and Shutarō decides to settle the result with a duel. During a class outing, Lum, Ataru, Shinobu, and Shutarō explore a cavern hoping to spend time alone with their romantic interest, unaware that a weird love square has developed between them. The two boys plot together to split the group, but things don't go as planned, and Shutarō reveals a secret about himself. Something concealed in the cavern is revealed when Lum uses her powers to light the way after they get lost.
4	4	"Sealed with a Kiss!!" Transliteration: "Kuchizuke Totomoni Chigiran!!" (Japanese: 口づけと共に契らん！！)	Kyōhei Suzuki	Yūko Kakihara	Takahiro Kamei	November 4, 2022 (2022-11-04)
While Lum, Shinobu, Ataru, and Shutarō play tennis, a group of crows carry a coffin-like object out of the spaceship seen launching in the previous episode. The "coffin" slides downhill and crashes into the tennis court, where the crows reveal that the woman sleeping inside is their princess, Kurama. After learning that they are looking for a one-time-mating partner for their princess, Ataru manages to awaken her with a kiss, thus sealing the deal. However, Kurama believes she was kissed by Shutarō, and then Ataru's stubbornness and the crows' meddling cause her to question her people's traditions.
5	5	"The Glove of Love and Conflict" Transliteration: "Ai to Tōkon no Gurōbu" (Japanese: 愛と闘魂のグローブ)	Shugo Tsuneoka	Yūko Kakihara	Tomoko Iwasaki	November 11, 2022 (2022-11-11)
		"How I've Waited for You…" Transliteration: "Kimi Matedomo…" (Japanese: 君待てども…)
The school hires Sakura as the new nurse, causing a commotion among male students. The PE teachers ask her to exorcise a pair of boxing gloves, but Cherry and Kotetsu-Neko make one of the gloves go flying and hit Lum. Later, Ataru ends up wearing both gloves which results in much grief for him, but also Lum's delight. Shutarō's male classmates are jealous of all the love letters he gets from the female students. Some of them decide to take him down a notch by making Ataru gloat with a fake love letter. However, Ataru bets the class president's position on whether the letter is real or not. Terrified at the idea of having Shutarō as class president, the conspirators try to fix things, but it doesn't go as planned. Lum finds out the truth, and feeling neglected by Ataru, decides to let him learn a lesson but can't help feeling sorry for him. Later, Lum receives a message from her father, reminding her that they have a big showdown with a rival clan.
6	6	"Good Day for a Departure" Transliteration: "Ihi Tabidachi" (Japanese: いい日旅立ち)	Koichi Chigira	Yūko Kakihara	Hiroshi Hara	November 18, 2022 (2022-11-18)
		"Oyuki" (Japanese: お雪)
		"Ataru Retires" Transliteration: "Ataru no Intai" (Japanese: あたるの引退)
Lum brings Ataru to her home planet through a portal to battle with the Fukujin alien clan. There he flirts with Lum's childhood friend Benten of the Fukujin and faces punishment for making the Oni lose. Believing that Ataru is dead, his parents and Cherry perform a ritual to guide his soul to the afterlife. Bedridden with a cold, Ataru is visited by his classmates Shinobu, Shutarō, Satoshi (Megane/Eyeglasses), Kōsuke (Perm), and Akira (Chibi). After finding an interdimensional portal Lum left open in Ataru's room closet, they are brought to Neptune by another of Lum's childhood friends named Oyuki. On the day before the school's Summer Break starts, Ataru announces to the class that he is retiring, which results in everybody else squabbling to become the show's new main character, when in reality he just wants to retire from his position as Class President.
7	7	"Home Is Where You Find It" Transliteration: "Sumeba to" (Japanese: 住めば都)	Junichi Yamamoto	Yūko Kakihara	Junichi Yamamoto	November 25, 2022 (2022-11-25)
		"Marine Garbage Disposal" Transliteration: "Nama Gomi, Umi e" (Japanese: 生ゴミ、海へ)
While hanging out with Lum, Shinobu, Shutarō, Cherry, and Sakura at one of the Mendō family's hotels, Ataru finds a water-dwelling yōkai secretly living at the bottom of the pool. After Shutarō kicks it out, the little yōkai finds a new home. While on his way out to the beach with Lum to meet with Shinobu and Shutarō, Ataru is asked by his mother to dispose of the water-yōkai living in their bathtub. At the beach, Sakura is on a date with her fiancé, unaware they are being spied on. Meanwhile, a boy ordered by his mother to get rid of his pet Pochi, carries it around in a box hoping to find someone to adopt it. After abandoning it, it turns out the pet is actually just Cherry. Sometime later, Ataru receives a postcard from the water-yōkai, who has been adopted by the boy.
8	8	"Transfer Student Close Call…" Transliteration: "Tennyūsei, Kikīppatsu…" (Japanese: 転入生、危機一髪…)	Hisashi Sugawara	Hiroko Kanasugi	Hisashi Sugawara	December 2, 2022 (2022-12-02)
		"Farewell Party Close Call…" Transliteration: "Owakare Pātī Kikīppatsu…" (Japanese: お別れパーティー危機一髪…)
Lum enrolls as a student in Ataru's class, nearly causing him to choke to death. During the school's sports festival, Ataru hits on Ran, a childhood friend of Lum, who transferred to the class next door to take revenge over a boy they both liked in the past. A small robot in Ran's likeness tells Lum that Ran has decided to give up on exacting vengeance and to return to her planet. She invites both Lum and Ataru, who is unaware that Ran is an alien, to a farewell party. However, it turns out to be a deception to switch Ataru with a simulacre. The next day at school, Lum meets Ran who again expresses her desire for vengeance. Meanwhile on an alien world, a fearsome creature roars while holding a doll in Lum's likeness.
9	9	"To Kill With Love" Transliteration: "Ai de Koroshitai" (Japanese: 愛で殺したい)	Yutaka Kagawa	Yuta Suzuki	Yutaka Kagawa	December 9, 2022 (2022-12-09)
		"Studying Mayhem" Transliteration: "Jishū Sōdō" (Japanese: 自習騒動)
Lum's ex-fiancé, Rei, comes to Earth to propose to her. Although he transforms into a huge beast when upset, he is incredibly handsome in his normal state. However, Lum categorically turns him down because she can't stand his gluttony. After a failed attempt to win Lum over and burning with jealousy, Rei chases Ataru and Lum around the local park, causing much mayhem among couples and food-vendors. Rei shows up at school looking for Lum and food. The girls are charmed by his handsome form, which proves devastating for poor Shutarō. Ran, who is in love with Rei, finds herself fighting for his attention with Lum and even Cherry. When Lum and Ataru return home, Rei has also charmed Mrs. Moroboshi. Later on, Ataru's parents and Lum's mother prepare for the upcoming parent's day at school.
10	10	"Parents' Day Horrors" Transliteration: "Senritsu no Sankanbi" (Japanese: 戦慄の参観日)	Shugo Tsuneoka	Yūko Kakihara	Minoru Ohara	December 16, 2022 (2022-12-16)
		"Since Your Parting" Transliteration: "Kimi Sarishi Nochi" (Japanese: 君去りし後)	Jiro Fujimoto
As Ataru and Shinobu's mothers arrive to school for parents day, Shutarō's mother's ox-cart gets crushed by Lum's mother's spaceship. Lum is asked to translate the Mendo matriarch's grievances, since her mother doesn't speak Japanese, but her poor translation skill causes many misunderstandings. Ataru snaps at Lum who disappears, leaving behind a little handmade doll in her image. In the following days, Lum's absence causes quite a stir and has devastating effects on Ataru. Meanwhile, Lum is with her parents renewing her passport, when her father accidentally turns on the microphone she hid in the doll, learning of Ataru's true feelings.
11	11	"Mendo Siblings!!" Transliteration: "Mendō Kyōdai!!" (Japanese: 面堂兄妹！！)	Yumeko Iwaoka	Hayashi Mori	Junichi Yamamoto	December 23, 2022 (2022-12-23)
		"A Strange New Year at the Mendo Estate" Transliteration: "Mendō-tei Shinnen Kai" (Japanese: 面倒邸新年怪)			Koichi Chigira
Shutarō's mischievous younger sister, Ryoko, visits him at school and catches Ataru's interest, causing much mayhem. Ryoko invites Ataru, Lum, and their other friends to the Mendō's family New Year's party, where she prepared a rather twisted board game which ends in a bang.
12	12	"Ten is Here" Transliteration: "Ten-chan ga Kita" (Japanese: テンちゃんがきた)	Tatsuki Yamamoto	Hiroko Kanasugi	Tomoko Iwasaki	January 6, 2023 (2023-01-06)
		"A Date for Just the Two of Us" Transliteration: "Futari Dake no Dēto" (Japanese: ふたりだけのデート)
Irritated that his parents are overjoyed at having Lum living with them, Ataru storms out of the house and finds her little cousin Ten in the mailbox. Later, they go to Sakura's temple for the New Year, where they meet with Cherry, Shinobu, and Ran, who is working there part-time and does some quick thinking to keep secret that she is an alien. Ataru snaps after Ten foils his attempts at flirting with the girls, and Sakura gets a new admirer. Ataru helps Ten write a love letter to Sakura and plan a date with her. However, things don't go as planned.
13	13	"The Great Off-Campus Snack Battle" Transliteration: "Kaikui dai Sensō" (Japanese: 買い食い大戦争)	Fumihiro Ueno	Yūko Kakihara	Shinji Itadaki	January 13, 2023 (2023-01-13)
		"A Gift from Ten!!" Transliteration: "Ten Kara no Okurimono!!" (Japanese: テンからの贈り物！！)
The school decides to crakdown on snacking during lunch time, and post teachers at the students' favorite spots to catch them. Ataru leads a resistance which escalates in an all-out war in the shopping district. When the topic of Sakura's fiancé comes up, Ten gives the girls a ball-shaped contraption, which when looked into claims to predict who the viewer is destined to marry. The results turn out to be somewhat unsatisfying... Later, Ten buys a pack of chewing-gum sticks from the same site as the ball.
14	14	"That Mizunokoji Boy" Transliteration: "Mizunokōji-ka no Otoko" (Japanese: 水乃小路家の男)	Junya Enoki & Takahiro Kamei	Hayashi Mori	Satoshi Ōsedo	January 20, 2023 (2023-01-20)
		"Love Letter Trouble" Transliteration: "Toraburu・Retā" (Japanese: トLOVE ル・レター)	Yuki Morita
During a baseball game at the Tomobiki High School's sports tournament, Tobimaro Mizunokoji shows up to challenge Shutarō because of a childhood incident. Tobimaro's skills and meddling from Shutarō's sister, Ryoko, make for a memorable game... One morning, Ryoko walks the Mendō's pet octopuses instead of Shutarō, and receives a challenge letter meant for her brother from Tobimaro. The letter's wording makes her think it's a love letter, but Shutarō is adamantly opposed to a relationship between her and his rival, so she asks for Ataru's help and it ends up in a most unique showdown.
15	15	"Anko Pathos, the Taste of Love?!" Transliteration: "Anko Kanashi ya, Koi no Aji!?" (Japanese: あんこ悲しや、恋の味！？)	Eiichi Kuboyama	Yūko Kakihara	Shinji Takagi	January 27, 2023 (2023-01-27)
		"Memories and a Close Call…" Transliteration: "Omoide Kikīppatsu..." (Japanese: 思い出危機一髪・・・)	Sho Sugawara
		"Adverse Effects" Transliteration: "Kusuriguchi Gai" (Japanese: 薬口害)	Sho Sugawara
After Rei eats a crumb of taiyaki off Ran's cheek, she mistakes it for a kiss and assumes he is over Lum. At a café with Lum, Ran revisits their childhood and how she constantly got in trouble because of Lum's doing. Shaken by how she wronged her friend, Lum forgets to pay the bill on her way out. Shinobu and Lum see Sakura roasting a newt to make medicine. The girls interest awakes when Sakura mentions it can be used to make a love potion. The concoction ends up looking as candy, and Lum gets Ataru to eat one with mixed results.
16	16	"Family Feud!!" Transliteration: "Gekitō, Oyakodaka!!" (Japanese: 激闘、父子鷹(おやこだか)!!)	Daisuke Kurose	Yūko Kakihara	Masayoshi Nishida	February 3, 2023 (2023-02-03)
		"Hello, Sailor Suit!!" Transliteration: "Sērāfukuyo, Konnichiwa!!" (Japanese: セーラー服よ、こんにちは!!)	Yukio Kuroda		Tomoko Iwasaki
On one of the last days of Summer, Lum, Shinobu, Ataru, and Shutarō meet the Fujinami family, a father and a teenager, running the only open seaside café on the beach. The teen, named Ryunosuke, doesn't want to take over the family business which causes conflict with the father. Ataru and Shutarō decide to leave until they find out Ryunosuke is a girl, but their attempts at flirting are unsuccessful. The group then try to get parent and child to solve their issues peacefully, only to cause more mayhem. After destroying their seaside café, Ryunosuke and her father get a live-in job at the Tomobiki High School's supply store. Ryunosuke enrolls as a student but her popularity with the girls irritates Ataru and his classmates. In the hopes of turning things around, they buy her a school's sailor uniform after 'convincing' her father. To learn how to be more feminine first, Ryunosuke writes a friendship letter to Ran, who thinks it's a love letter and that she is dealing with a boy. They go on a date that gets disrupted by Ataru.
17	17	"A Chest Full of Longing!!" Transliteration: "Akogare wo Mune Ni!!" (Japanese: あこがれを胸に!!)	Shugo Tsuneoka	Hiroko Kanasugi	Minoru Ohara	February 10, 2023 (2023-02-10)
		"Wish Upon a Star" Transliteration: "Hoshi ni Negai wo" (Japanese: 星に願いを)
Ryunosuke decides to buy her first bra. She meets Shinobu who is being stalked by delinquents from Butsumetsu High. After learning that the delinquents' bossman is hopelessly in love with her, Shinobu goes on a date with Ryunosuke in the hopes of making the unwanted admirer give up on her, with Ryunosuke wanting to use the money given to her for the job to buy a bra. Ataru, as usual, can't resist interfering. During dinner at the Moroboshi's, a shooting star crashes in the house and introduces itself as the Wishing Star, offering three wishes. After the first two wishes are wasted, deciding on the remaining wish brings much strife to the family.
18	18	"Indelible Lipstick Magic!!" Transliteration: "Kienai Rūju Majikku!!" (Japanese: き・え・な・いルージュマジック!!)	Yumeko Iwaoka	Hayashi Mori	Keiichi Sasajima	February 17, 2023 (2023-02-17)
		"Lethal Attacks! Yaminabe" Transliteration: "Hissatsu! Yaminabe" (Japanese: 必殺！ヤミナベ)
Lum creates a lipstick that makes people wearing it attracted to each other like magnets. The next day at school, Ataru tries it on Ryunosuke but the whole class ends up wearing it. For the following week's recreational activity, the class votes for 'Yaminabe', involving eating a hot pot casserole in the dark where everyone brings something to throw in. In the following days, Lum makes Ataru eat a spicy Oni dish, and in retaliation, he tries to find out what foods she hates before the Yaminabe.
19	19	"Magic Realm! Jungle of Terror" Transliteration: "Makyō! Senritsu no Janguru" (Japanese: 魔境！戦慄の密林(ジャングル))	Yoshinobu Kasai	Yuta Suzuki	Yasufumi Soejima	February 24, 2023 (2023-02-24)
		"Pickled" Transliteration: "Yopparai Bugi" (Japanese: 酔っぱらいブギ)
Shutarō invites his classmates to meet the Mendō family's prized octopuses. With Ataru in the lead, they insult the most precious octopus on the estate, Matsuchiyo, who runs away with his feelings sorely hurt. They all go to find Matsuchiyo after Shutarō promises a reward for the little octopus' safe return. Ten goes to the school bored and both he and Lum get drunk after eating pickled plums from the students' lunches. Lum proves to be rather unpleasant when intoxicated and flies around the school looking for Ataru. Meanwhile on a spaceship, three alien girls are plotting against Lum, Benten, and Oyuki.
20	20	"Recovering That Which Was Lost" Transliteration: "Ushinawareta Mono o Motomete" (Japanese: 失われたモノを求めて)	Yasuhiro Kimura	Hiroko Kanasugi	Tomoko Iwasaki	March 3, 2023 (2023-03-03)
Benten's chain gets stolen after she gets knocked down while checking on a girl who looked dead. Ten days later, together with Lum and Oyuki, Benten is challenged to a duel by three younger girls from their old middle school who hope to prove they are rowdier. After much pandemonium to get her chain back, Benten reveals why it is so important to her.
21	21	"Cosmo Teacher CAO-2" Transliteration: "Kosumo Tīchā CAO-2" (Japanese: 惑星教師(コスモティーチャー)CAO-2)	Sho Sugawara	Hayashi Mori	Sho Sugawara	March 10, 2023 (2023-03-10)
		"Ooh, Scary! Voodoo Doll" Transliteration: "Ana Osoroshi ya, Wara Ningyō" (Japanese: あな恐ろしや、ワラ人形)
After learning of a mining operation on a planet with a secret from when they were in elementary school, Oyuki meets with Lum, Benten, and Ran about their revenge attempts on their old robotic teacher, CAO-2. Ryouko makes a voodoo doll of Shutarō and entrusts it to Ataru, which he attempts to reclaim without Ataru learning the truth.
22	22	"Big Bottle, Little Bottle" Transliteration: "Dai Bin Shō Bin" (Japanese: 大ビン小ビン)	Yuichi Nakazawa	Yuta Suzuki	Koichi Chigira	March 17, 2023 (2023-03-17)
		"When Love Strikes" Transliteration: "Ai ga Fureau Toki" (Japanese: 愛がふれあうとき)			Hideya Takahashi
Ten accidentally shrinks Lum with a jar that makes things smaller. While he rushes to get another jar to turn her back to normal, she tells Ataru that the only way for her to regain her regular size is for him to shower her with love and affection. On her way to school, Shinobu saves a little puppy being bullied by big dogs. The puppy turns out to be a shape-shifting fox who falls in love with her, following her to school. Later, Tomobiki High School's principal decides to hold a contest to crown the Queen of the School, based on beauty, intelligence, personality, skills and strength. The boys in the contest's executive committee have no clear plan to select a winner, but self-proclaimed committee-head Ataru states he will decide.
23	23	"The Tomo-1 Queen Contest" Transliteration: "Kessen!! Tomo-1 Kuīn Kontesuto" (Japanese: 決戦!!友1クイーンコンテスト)	Kiyomitsu Sato & Yūsuke Kubo	Hiroko Kanasugi	Yūsuke Kubo & Hideya Takahashi	March 24, 2023 (2023-03-24)
Lum, Shinobu, Sakura, Ran, and Ryunosuke compete in the finals of the Tomo-1 Queen Contest in front of the whole school with Ataru as the presenter, motivated by the "150 thousand yen" prize. The girls take part in several activities, which are primarily just advertisements for stores in the Shopping District. The final challenge is a battle in the boxing ring, so Ran kisses Shinobu, Sakura, and Ryunosuke to significantly weaken them. However, it turns out the girls aren't fighting each other but rather a group of muscular animals. With the three unable to deal with them, Ran is forced to kiss them again to return their strength, allowing everyone to successfully win the battle. The judges award them a tie, greatly annoying the contestants; even further when they realize the "150 thousand yen" they are given to split is just taiyaki. Ataru, meanwhile, runs away with the kickback money from the sponsors.

Season 2 (2024)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Chief animation direction by	Original air date
24	1	"Fantasy Bubble Gum" Transliteration: "Mōsō Fūsengamu" (Japanese: 妄想フーセンガム)	Directed by : Shugo Tsuneoka Storyboarded by : Takahiro Kamei	Hayashi Mori	Naoyuki Asano	January 12, 2024 (2024-01-12)
		"Love Knows No Barriers" Transliteration: "Ai wa Kokkyō o Koete" (Japanese: 愛は国境を越えて)	Directed by : Eiichi Kuboyama Storyboarded by : Takahiro Kamei		Satoru Kiyomaru
Ataru steals Ten's gum that can create whatever the user imagines when chewing and blowing a bubble. Ataru accidentally hits Lum with a rice cooker on the forehead, causing Lum to not remember speaking Japanese with everyone not understanding her.
25	2	"Trickle of Memories?!" Transliteration: "Omoide Boroboro!?" (Japanese: 想い出ボロボロ!?)	Directed by : Yumeko Iwaoka Storyboarded by : Taizō Yoshida	Yuta Suzuki	Naoyuki Asano	January 19, 2024 (2024-01-19)
		"Album of Memories" Transliteration: "Omoide no Arubamu" (Japanese: 想い出のアルバム)			Ryo Kobayashi
		"The Home Visits Blues: Feuding Fujinami Edition" Transliteration: "Namida no Katei Hōmon: Gekitō no Fujinamike-hen" (Japanese: 涙の家庭訪問 激闘の藤波家編)			Ryo Kobayashi
Ryunosuke is curious to know about her mother, in which her father thought she was dead. The cast goes through an album to know who Ryunosuke's mother looks like, or so they think. Onsen-Mark does a series of home visit interviews starting with the Fujinami family. It resulted in him getting beaten by Ryunosuke and her father.
26	3	"Electric Jungle" Transliteration: "Denshoku no Makyō" (Japanese: 電飾の魔境)	Directed by : Fumihiro Ueno Storyboarded by : Takumi Dôyama	Hayashi Mori	Naoyuki Asano & Satoru Kiyomaru	January 26, 2024 (2024-01-26)
27	4	"Lover Thief" Transliteration: "Koibito Dorobō" (Japanese: 恋人泥棒)	Directed by : Fumio Maezono Storyboarded by : Miwa Sasaki	Yuta Suzuki	Naoyuki Asano	February 2, 2024 (2024-02-02)
		"That Mizunokoji Girl" Transliteration: "Mizunokōji-ka no Musume" (Japanese: 水乃小路家の娘)	Directed by : Takahiro Kamei Storyboarded by : Miwa Sasaki		Masashi Yamada
Kurama once again returns looking for love, this time setting her sights on Ran's crush (and Lum's ex-boyfriend) Rei! Shutarō is arrange to marry Ton's little sister Asuka, which both Shutarō and Ton had no knowledge of her and Asuka is terrified of men.
28	5	"The Continuation of: That Mizunokoji Girl" Transliteration: "Tsuzuku・Mizunokōji-ka no Musume" (Japanese: 続・水乃小路家の娘)	Directed by : Kiyomitsu Sato Storyboarded by : Tomoko Iwasaki	Yuta Suzuki	Naoyuki Asano & Ryo Kobayashi	February 9, 2024 (2024-02-09)
The continuation of the arranged marriage and the reason why Asuka is scared of men is due to an absurd tradition of Mizunokoji Family.
29	6	"Kotatsu Love" Transliteration: "Kotatsu ni Kaketa Ai" (Japanese: コタツにかけた愛)	Directed by : Yuki Morita Storyboarded by : Kyōhei Ishiguro	Hiroko Kanasugi	Naoyuki Asano	February 16, 2024 (2024-02-16)
		"Lum Becomes a Cow" Transliteration: "Ramu-chan, Ushi ni Naru" (Japanese: ラムちゃん、ウシになる)			Satoru Kiyomaru
		"The Home Visits Blues: Luxurious Mendo Edition" Transliteration: "Namida no Katei Hōmon: Kareinaru Mendō Ka-hen" (Japanese: 涙の家庭訪問 華麗なる面堂家編)			Satoru Kiyomaru
30	7	"Eerie Earmuffs" Transliteration: "Iyāmaffuru no Kai" (Japanese: イヤーマッフルの怪)	Eiichi Kuboyama	Hayashi Mori	Naoyuki Asano	February 23, 2024 (2024-02-23)
		"Family Tree" Transliteration: "Keizu" (Japanese: 系図)			Ryo Kobayashi
Ataru buys two earmuffs that he and Ten put them on, causing them to switch bodies with each other. Ataru is late to school and Lum opens a portal so they get there fast, but they are actually send 10 years into the future. However, they discover something that suggests they won't end up together.
31	8	"Open the Door" Transliteration: "Tobirawoakete" (Japanese: 扉を開けて)	Shugo Tsuneoka	Hayashi Mori	Naoyuki Asano Masashi Yamada (part 1 only) Satoru Kiyomaru (part 2 only)	March 1, 2024 (2024-03-01)
32a	9a		Directed by : Kyōhei Suzuki Storyboarded by : Taizō Yoshida			March 8, 2024 (2024-03-08)
Inaba loses the key fortune where Shinobu, Lum and Ataru uses it that takes them to the space of doors, they go in one of them which they end up back in the future where Ataru is with Shinobu and Lum turns out for some reason with Rei. Inaba informs them this is one of the futures and there are many doors of different futures, one of them where Ran does get with Rei but Lum for some weirdly reason ends up Shutarō. After looking at a apocalyptic mad max-like future that can't be explained, Inaba tells them they can make doorknobs to create new futures and Ataru, Lum and Shinobu create their ideal future but Lum's doorknob gets melted. Ataru finally sees his harem future, but Future Lum leaves Future Ataru after being fed up with him and treating her badly, Ataru realize that getting his harem costed Lum. Ataru and Lum finally discover a future where they do get together.
32b	9b	"The Home Visit Blues: Prohibitive Miyake Edition" Transliteration: "Namida no Katei Hōmon: Kinji Rareta Miyake-ka Hen" (Japanese: 涙の家庭訪問 禁じられた三宅家編)	Directed by : Kyōhei Suzuki Storyboarded by : Taizō Yoshida	Hayashi Mori	Naoyuki Asano & Satoru Kiyomaru	March 8, 2024 (2024-03-08)
33	10	"Haunted Mendo" Transliteration: "Ayakashi Mendō" (Japanese: あやかしの面堂)	Naokatsu Tsuda	Hiroko Kanasugi	Naoyuki Asano & Satoru Kiyomaru	March 15, 2024 (2024-03-15)
		"Last Date" Transliteration: "Saigo no Dēto" (Japanese: 最後のデート)
34	11	"The Case of the Battered Principal" Transliteration: "Kōchō ōda jiken" (Japanese: 校長殴打事件)	Directed by : Fumihiro Ueno Storyboarded by : Miwa Sasaki	Yuta Suzuki	Masashi Yamada	March 22, 2024 (2024-03-22)
		"The Secret Flower Garden" Transliteration: "Himitsu no hanazono" (Japanese: 秘密の花園)
		"The Home Visits Blues: Hellish Moroboshi Edition" Transliteration: "Namida no Katei Hōmon: Jigoku No Moroboshi-Ka-Hen" (Japanese: 涙の家庭訪問 地獄の諸星家編)
35	12	"L♥ve—Darling in Danger" Transliteration: "Ai ● dārin no kiki!!" (Japanese: 愛●ダーリンの危機!!)	Yumeko Iwaoka	Yūko Kakihara	Ryo Kobayashi	March 29, 2024 (2024-03-29)
		"Foxes in the Moonlight" Transliteration: "Tsukiyo no kitsune-tachi" (Japanese: 月夜のキツネたち)
		"The Home Visits Blues: Mark Osnen Goes to Space" Transliteration: "Namida no Katei Hōmon: Onsen Māku Sora E" (Japanese: 涙の家庭訪問　温泉マーク宇宙(そら)へ)
36	13	"Wretched Shutaro!!" Transliteration: "Mijimekko Shūtarō!!" (Japanese: みじめっ子・終太郎!!)	Directed by : Yukio Kuroda Storyboarded by : Daisei Fukuoka & Takahiro Kamei	Hayashi Mori	Ryo Kobayashi	April 12, 2024 (2024-04-12)
37a	14a	"Asuka Returns" Transliteration: "Asuka Futatabi" (Japanese: 飛鳥ふたたび)	Directed by : Yuki Morita Storyboarded by : Minoru Yamaoka	Hayashi Mori	Naoyuki Asano	April 19, 2024 (2024-04-19)
37b	14b	"A Stormy Date" Transliteration: "Arashi O Yobu Dēto" (Japanese: 嵐を呼ぶデート)	Directed by : Yuki Morita Storyboarded by : Minoru Yamaoka	Hayashi Mori	Masashi Yamada	April 19, 2024 (2024-04-19)
38	15		N/A	N/A	N/A	April 26, 2024 (2024-04-26)

Home media release

In Japan, the series was released in two DVD and Blu-ray box sets in 2023. Volume 1, which contained the first cour, was released on March 15, 2023, while volume 2, which contained the second cour, was released on June 28, 2023.

In North America, Sentai Filmworks released the first season on Blu-ray as "Seasons 1 & 2" (representing the first two cours instead of the de facto first season) on March 19, 2024.

External links

• Urusei Yatsura 2022 anime website (in Japanese)
• Urusei Yatsura (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia