History Manga / UruseiYatsura

** Several characters from popular series at the time are also snuck in from time-to-time: [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]], [[LightNovel/DirtyPair Kei and Yuri]], Series/{{Ultraman}}'s lobster rival, and [[Manga/MaisonIkkoku Kyoko]] -- and that's just in one episode! A couple of those are voice actor jokes -- Creator/AkiraKamiya (Shuutaro) voiced Kenshiro and Creator/SaekoShimazu (Shinobu) voiced Yuri. Episode 82 also has a reference to another Creator/StudioPierrot production with cameos from [[Anime/MagicalAngelCreamyMami Yuu Morisawa and Creamy Mami]].

* GroundhogDayLoop: The second movie, ''Beautiful Dreamer'', revolves around this trope. Note that it actually [[Older Than They Think came out nine years]] ''before'' the eponymous Bill Murray flick.

* GroundhogDayLoop: The second movie, ''Beautiful Dreamer'', revolves around this trope. Note that it actually came out nine years ''before'' the eponymous Bill Murray flick.

An anime [[https://twitter.com/SugoiLITE/status/1476904120858542082 remake]] by Creator/DavidProduction that more faithfully adapts select stories from the original manga premiered on October 14, 2022, on Fuji TV's noitaminA block. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhLF0pjMwns Teaser Trailer here]]. It is split into two 24-episode seasons.

* CausticCritic: When Class 2-4 is holding a Talent Show, Lum brings an oval-shaped alien (who makes anyone who doesn’t live up to his standards vanish) to act as a judge. [[spoiler: But actually, girls are given preferential treatment by him.]]

* TenLittleMurderVictims: There is an anime only episode "And Then There Were None" where the group was killed off one by one till only Ataru was left. [[spoiler: In the end, it turned out the murders and complicated reveal of a killer with Ataru's face were a complicated plan by the perfectly unharmed victims to "Fix" Ataru's personality. The ending makes it pretty clear that Ataru saw through it at some point and proved to be a better actor than they had realized.]]

* AdaptationDyeJob: A very triumphant example. Lum originally had iridescent (constantly shifting, rainbow colored) hair. It was changed to the iconic green (which was originally just Ten's) in the anime, which was so popular that it was retconned back into the later manga pages. You can see this in the [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/Lum%20Hair%20Urusei%20Yatsura/MooseChangerPat/Urusei%20Yatsura/UruseiYatsura25.jpg color manga covers.]] It's also the source of the very odd highlighting in the monochrome versions. Interestingly, [[http://koi-nya.net/img/subidos_posts/2013/05/rumic-world-35-el-set-de-libros-para-conmemorar-el-35-aniversario-de-rumiko-takahashi-como-mangaka.jpg this]] anniversary image implies that [[WordOfGod (to Takahashi)]] Lum's hair is ''still'' meant to be rainbow-colored despite the influence of the adaptations. Compare it to [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Female Ranma]], who's had red hair ever since the anime made it popular. In the All-Star anime, Lum's will be rainbow-color like in the manga. The 2022 anime still has green as Lum's primary hair color, but also makes nods to its original iridescent tone, most notably by having her hair turn a bright, gold yellow before shifting between various colors whenever she uses her electric abilities.

* CausticCritic: When Class 2-4 is holding a Talent Show, Lum brings an oval-shaped alien (who makes anyone who doesn’t live up to his standards vanish) to act as a judge.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: One episode transports Lum, Ataru and Ten into the past, where a dinosaur mistakes Ten for its hatched egg and the egg believes Lum to be its mom.

* FlatEarthAtheist: Mr. Hanawa, who starts teaching the same day Lum enrolls, somehow managed to miss the highly publicized that brought her to Earth, seems to think her horns are some sort of growth (despite having met her father), and consistently misses or ignores the other obvious sights she isn't human.

* LethalChef: Lum cooks reasonably well... [[AlienLunch but only by Oni standards]].

* YouDidntAsk: In one chapter[=/=]episode, Ataru, Lum and several of their friends go camping. Lum is making lunch and everyone is happy... except Ataru, who adamantly refuses to eat. [[BigEater Keep in mind this is a guy who usually eats ANYTHING and EVERYTHING he can get his hands on]]. His friends nag him about rudely rejecting Lum's food... and then they try it. Right away they drag Ataru away and ask him why he hadn't warned them Lum's food is ''very'' spicy. His answer? They didn't ask (and he didn't want to warn them). Jariten seems totally unfazed by it, which suggests Lum's tastes are [[AlienLunch normal for Oni]], which [[FridgeBrilliance makes sense]], really, considering Jariten can ''breathe fire''.

** Creator/AnimEigo's DVD subtitles would often do this with characters that speak the Oni language. From about Season 2 onward, Oni dialogue -- complete gibberish in Japanese -- was written in the Windows "Symbol" font (i.e. Greek letters, easily decipherable). Oni subtitles tended to say things like "If you can read this, you are a true otaku." (from Movie 1) and "That ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody was pretty cool." (from an episode that had a minute-long Star Wars-themed]] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment crack sequence)

* CurbStompBattle: In the first movie, the Oni fleet tries to give battle to the forces of Planet Elle. Elle's people are shown already to be incredibly technologically powerful, and later we even see that they have a mega-structure around their system like a Type II Civilization. The Oni are far outclassed and probably would have been slaughtered even worse than what they got if an Elle spy (shown to have chameleon like powers albeit not enough to fool the Oni crew) hadn't kidnapped Ataru off the main ship.
** The main 4 Tomobiki High kids went up against the much-feared "ghosts" haunting an inn at Cockel Inlet. These 3 cannibalistic clam fairies got their asses kicked by Lum and Shinobu, to the point that [[AintTooProudToBeg they were begging]] to be allowed to flee out of Japan.

* CastingGag: Ataru's father and Lum's mother in the 2022 anime are voiced by Ataru and Lum's original VAs from the 1981 version.

An anime [[https://twitter.com/SugoiLITE/status/1476904120858542082 remake]] by Creator/DavidProduction called ''Urusei Yatsura All-Stars'', that adapts select stories from the original manga, premiered on October 14, 2022, on Fuji TV's noitaminA block. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhLF0pjMwns Teaser Trailer here]]. It is split into two 24-episode seasons.

* AdaptationDyeJob: A very triumphant example. Lum originally had iridescent (constantly shifting, rainbow colored) hair. It was changed to the iconic green (which was originally just Ten's) in the anime, which was so popular that it was retconned back into the later manga pages. You can see this in the [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/Lum%20Hair%20Urusei%20Yatsura/MooseChangerPat/Urusei%20Yatsura/UruseiYatsura25.jpg color manga covers.]] It's also the source of the very odd highlighting in the monochrome versions. Interestingly, [[http://koi-nya.net/img/subidos_posts/2013/05/rumic-world-35-el-set-de-libros-para-conmemorar-el-35-aniversario-de-rumiko-takahashi-como-mangaka.jpg this]] anniversary image implies that [[WordOfGod (to Takahashi)]] Lum's hair is ''still'' meant to be rainbow-colored despite the influence of the adaptations. Compare it to [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Female Ranma]], who's had red hair ever since the anime made it popular. In the All-Star anime, Lum's will be rainbow-color like in the manga.

An anime [[https://twitter.com/SugoiLITE/status/1476904120858542082 remake]] called ''Urusei Yatsura All-Stars'', that adapts select stories from the original manga, premiered on October 14, 2022, on Fuji TV's noitaminA block. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhLF0pjMwns Teaser Trailer here]]. It is split into two 24-episode seasons.

An anime [[https://twitter.com/SugoiLITE/status/1476904120858542082 remake]] called ''Urusei Yatsura All-Stars'', that will adapt select stories from the original manga, is coming in 2022, to be shown on Fuji TV's noitaminA block. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhLF0pjMwns Teaser Trailer here]]. It will start on October 14, 2022 and will be split into two 24-episode seasons.

An anime [[https://twitter.com/SugoiLITE/status/1476904120858542082 remake]] called ''Urusei Yatsura All-Stars'', that will adapt select stories from the original manga, is coming in 2022, to be shown on Fuji TV's noitaminA block. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhLF0pjMwns Teaser Trailer here]]. It will start on October 14, 2022 and will be split into two 24 episode seasons

An anime [[https://twitter.com/SugoiLITE/status/1476904120858542082 remake]] called ''Urusei Yatsura All-Stars'', that will adapt select stories from the original manga, is coming in 2022, to be shown on Fuji TV's noitaminA block. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhLF0pjMwns Teaser Trailer here]].

** Most of the alien girls have outfits that are very swimsuit-like: Benten with the ChainmailBikini, Ran occasionally dons a pink bikini outfit, Oyuki has a crystal-surfaced one with AbsoluteCleavage (though she usually wears a kimono over it), and Kurama a black one-piece front-laced corset-type outfit.

* AbsoluteCleavage: A lot of Sakura's off-duty outfits, also a feature of the outfit Oyuki wears under her winter Kimono.

* NakedFreakOut: Happen to Sakura in Chapter 43/episode 13. The girls' swimsuits are stolen during a Hawaiian vacation, and everyone suspects Cherry (the actual culprit was an octopus). Also, Sakura's swimsuit is being pulled off while she is in the sea. Ataru, Megane, and Perm nobly swim out to help, but she swims away from them, crying as she stands like Venus in the waves. Ataru remarks that this is the first time they’ve seen her feminine side, which earns him a pounding.