Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling [Sub] (LD)

Release date: 1994-07-27
Suggested retail price: $39.95

SKU: AD-093009
UPC: 737187000898 737187000898
ISBN-10: 1565670884 1565670884

Description:
Urusei Yatsura: It's Japanese for "Surreal Slapstick!"

It all started in 1981 when the Aliens invaded. Fortunately for Earth, they were very polite invaders and gave us a chance to keep our planet. If a champion, selected at random, could defeat their beautiful princess, Lum, in their national sport, Tag, all would be saved.

Unfortunately for Earth, the lucky champion turned out to be Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous and luckless lad from Tomobiki, near Tokyo.

Ataru took one look at Lum and took on the challenge. Alas, things started to look very bed for Earth when he discovered Lum could fly! When all seemed lost, Ataru's semi-girlfriend, Shinobu, promised to marry him is he won. Spurred on to new lows of sneakiness by the prospect of finally getting lucky, Ataru pulled it off (literally).

Alas, his lack of luck lasted. Lum misinterpreted his victory cry as a proposal of marriage, promptly accepted and moved into his closet.

And when Lum's friends and relatives started dropping by, things began to get REALLY weird!

Thus the stage was set for (at last count) almost 200 TV episodes, a dozen Original Video Animations and 6 Theatrical Films, all concentrated doses of the peculiar insanity that is "Urusei Yatsura" - "Those Obnoxious Aliens."

In the first Urusei Yatsura Movie, "Only You," Ataru found himself a reluctant bridegroom trapped between two warring Alien Princesses.

In the second Urusei Yatsura Movie, "Beautiful Dreamer," he found himself trapped in one of Lum's Dreams.

In the Third Urusei Yatsura Movie, "Remember My Love," a lovesick magician turns him into a Hippopotamus!

In Movie No. 4, a cherry tree gets chopped down and war is declared!

The tried to stop things in Movie No. 5, "The Final Chapter," but the Urusei Yatsura roller coaster just keeps on getting loopier and loopier.

Which brings us to this, the sixth and (so far) latest movie installment "Always My Darling"... Lupica, another one of the legion of space princesses that all seem to have found out about Earth in some tour book, appears and abducts Ataru. Lum, assisted by her friends Oyuki and Benten, give chase. However, Lupica is not after Ataru for his good looks or charming personality (because he doesn't have either).

Lupica's goal is the greatest love potion in the galaxy. To get it, she needs the possessor of the greatest lust in the universe.

Now you know why she needs Ataru Moroboshi.

(added on 2022-01-06, modified on 2022-01-06)

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