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Maybe Ranma 1/2? I don't recognize the episode description, but then I didn't see much of the series, and it was actually written by the same person, iirc, as Urusei Yatsura, so it's likely there would be character similarities, and there would definitely be artistic similarities.
I would've said Ranma, but ian mentions both Urusei Yatsura here and Maison Ikokku in another YKTS, so it stands to reason that he's at least passingly familiar with Rumiko Takahashi's second most famous work.
I really have no clue, though, I tend to shy away from older manga that isn't about sports.
Sounds just like Ranma in at least one respect (the boys wanting one of the girls - Akane - and her sending them flying), though. Don't know what else it could be.
Might be a stretch, not to mention my few memories of it are very hazy, but... High School Kimengumi?
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Thanks, but yeah, it wasn't Ranma. There were no supernatural stuff, just high school hijinks with the Japanese anime slapstick comedy. I don't think it was High School Kimengumi either, but it seems closer to the mark... I'll still look it up. And speaking of Akane, yeah, the way boys were courting that particular lady were very much like Akane's suitors in the sense that they turned the whole thing into an everyday ritual. And that lady was so much like Uruesi Yatsura's Sakura; she has long black hair and having that mature sexy teacher/nurse effect.
Yet another early-to-mid-80s anime series. This time the memory reminds me of Urusei Yatsura, except there's no Lum or aliens; just a bunch of down-to-earth high-schoolers with the slapstick humor. I remember characters who now remind me of Urusei Yatsura's Mendou, Ataru, and Sakura. The Sakura-like character is also very attractive to schoolboys who keep pestering her. She would literally send the boys flying, and as they soar through the air, the boys have their arms stretched out and their legs forming a diamond (soles clapped together), leaving jet contrails in their wake. The episode I got to watch was the gang visiting a temple and they seem to be taking up the challenge of breaking the temple's bell. The Mendo-like character uses a ladder to try to break the bell from the inside, while a couple of other guys are repeatedly punching and kicking it from the outside. The Ataru-like character comes on to the Sakura-like lady who slams him into the bell (as apparently was his plan). Apparently they fail and the priest gives them their consolation prizes, which are smaller versions of the bell. (The Ataru-like character gets a very small one for hitting the bell only once.) I'm really interested in knowing the series' title.