Monday, September 2, 2019

Urusei Yatsura, Vol. 1

Urusei Yatsura, Vol. 1Urusei Yatsura, Vol. 1 by Rumiko Takahashi
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When aliens invade earth, Ataru Moroboshi is selected to be earth's champion in a game of tag against Lum, the alien princess. Little does he know that Lum will fall in love with him and perpetually make his life more difficult...

I enjoyed the first volume of Ranma 1/2 so I decided to take a chance on Urusei Yatsura, Rumiko Takahashi's earlier work. It was awesome.

"What's that about?" my wife asked.
"It's like Archie if Veronica was a magic alien with horns and she had an ex-fiance who turned into a monster when he got angry. Other than that, just like Archie," I said.

That's simplifying things but Urusei Yatsura reminds me of Archie more than anything else. Ataru is like Archie in that he falls in lust with anything with compatible genitals, constantly caught between his human girlfriend Shinobu, the ogre princess Lum, and anything other female that wanders into his field of vision.

The comedy is in the Japanese vein, of course. Lots of misunderstandings, most of them involving Ataru's libido. Lum is a hilarious character. Rumuko Takahashi's art is cute and expressive. I don't know that I'm going to read every volume but I'm definitely on board for more.

Base on one volume of each, I prefer Urusei Yatsura to Ranma 1/2 but we'll see which one wins out in the long run. I'm definitely in for more of both. Five out of five stars.

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