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The invasion of an alien race known as the Oni begins a new life for Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous trouble-making tenth grader in the small town of Tomobiki. After unwittingly proposing to the Oni princess
Season 1
7.6/1091 votesI'm Lum-chan the Notorious! - It's Raining Oil All Over Town
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/1981
Ataru Moroboshi, an unlovely flirtatious boy, has been chosen to fight an invading alien force's champion in a 10-day game of tag. If he loses the aliens will invade Earth, but if he wins, the aliens will go home. Ataru isn't at all willing to play tag until he sees the alien's champion: the beautiful Lum. A group of admirers of Lum try to summon her UFO back to Earth, using Ataru as bait, but instead they get an intergalactic taxi that takes them though subspace, and the fare for the taxi is the value of all the oil on the planet.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Hiroyuki Hoshiyama
7.0/1065 votesMail from Space - Ten-chan Arrives! - Mrs. Swallow and Mrs. Penguin
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1981
A peach falls from the sky, in which Lum's cousin, Ten comes out for a visit. He is capable of breathing fire and is an instant enemy to Ataru. Ten feeds alien candy to a swallow, making it grow massively in size such that it looks like a penguin. Its appearance in school is just the start of a full day of panic.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.9/1055 votesThe Coming of Rei the Handsome Shapechanger! - Die Dreamy-Man!
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1981
Shinobu meets upon Rei, Lum's handsome ex-fiancé, and brings him to Ataru’s house, much to the dismay of Lum. Ataru and his friends find Rei in a restaurant. His poor Japanese being mocked makes him go wild, and as he chases the boys and Lum throughout town, the chaos grows on.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
7.2/1050 votesKintaro from the Autumn Sky! - Gonna Live Like a Man!
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1981
Lum and Ten meet a vicious little boy on top of a flying bear, whom Ataru and Shinobu identify as Kintarō, who came from the sky and is lost. Kintarō's nanny, with Ataru's help, takes the alien children on a tour of Earth and end up in a preschool where the actual Kintarō learns the myth of the real Kintarō and thus hopes to be a role-model to the kids.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.4/1046 votesSakura - Raving Beauty of Mystery - Virus in Distress
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1981
Ataru runs away from home, unable to stand the pressure of living with Lum, and bumps into a beautiful lady named Sakura, who takes him to her shrine for exorcism. Sakura becomes Tomobiki High School’s nurse, and her beauty makes all the boys deliberately injure themselves in order to go see her. But later, they get really sick, which might be connected to Ataru, who oddly enough wants to avoid her.
Director: Mamoru Oshii, Motosuke Takahashi
Writer: Unknown
6.7/1042 votesBlack Hole Love Triangle - It's a Lovesick Little Demon!
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1981
Lum constantly interferes with Ataru's attempts to reach Shinobu by phone. By barging into their phone conversation from her UFO, it inadvertently creates a black hole that causes aircraft to vanish. Ataru puts two mirrors together on Friday the 13th and accidentally makes a little demon appear from another dimension.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
7.4/1042 votesElectric Shocks Scare Me! - Voodoo Dolls of Vengeance
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1981
Cherry gives Ataru a magical yellow ribbon, which when tied to her horns, negate Lum's powers. But will this really allow him to be happy? After an odd loss of control of his body after dinner, Ataru finds out Lum made a voodoo doll of himself using some clay. Ataru takes advantage of the situation for revenge scheme, until it gives Lum the idea to make a Shinobu doll.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
7.0/1040 votesNeptune is Beyond My Closet - That Crazy Age of the Dinosaurs
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/9/1981
Ataru, Shinobu and Lum’s Stormtroopers wind up in Neptune through a portal discovered in Ataru’s closet where they are greeted by Lum’s friend Oyuki. While in the air, Lum, Ataru, Ten and Kintaro accidentally wind up back to the dinosaur age.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
7.2/1039 votesPrincess Kurama, Sleeping Beauty - Athletics in Women's Hell!
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 12/16/1981
Ataru’s wish upon a star seems to come true as he is selected to awake the Karasutengu Princess Kurama by a kiss and mate with her for a night, but he is not her ideal man. Still trying to cure Ataru of his lechery, Kurama uses a weird dimensional door where Ataru faces hostile versions of the girls he loves.
Director: Keiji Hayakawa, Tameo Kohanawa
Writer: Unknown
7.1/1038 votesPitter Patter Christmas Eve
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 12/23/1981
Lum's Stormtroopers devise a scheme to embarrass Ataru and get Lum to dump him by setting up a fake Christmas Eve date for him.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
7.2/1042 votesAtaru Genji Goes to the Heian Capital
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 1/6/1982
The normal cast is put into an ancient Japanese story that takes place during the Heian period, with a special guest appearance.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBattle Royal of Love - Father You Were Strong
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 1/13/1982
Sakura invites Ataru and others at a local disco, which is a perfect setting for her boyfriend Tsubame to prove himself worthy of being her fiancée to Cherry by displaying his magic abilities that however go awry. Kurama takes Ataru back in time in hope of teaching him to be her ideal man like her father.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHawaiian Swimsuit Thief - Full Course From Hell
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 1/20/1982
During a Hawaiian vacation at a beachside resort, the girls’ swimsuits are stolen. Could Cherry be the culprit? Still at the resort, Sakura, Ataru and Cherry compete in an all-you-can-eat contest.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesMendo Brings Trouble! - Constellation is Spinning
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 1/27/1982
Tomobiki High School gets a new student: Shutaro Mendo, the son of Japan's richest family. He and Ataru have a duel for presidency of the class. After a computer told Lum that her perfect matchmade partner is Shutaro instead of Ataru, she shrinks the two down and places them on a Horoscope device.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Great Spring War - The Benten Gang's Return Match
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 2/3/1982
Lum takes Ataru to her home planet for the Setsubun Battle, but the game goes awry as he goes after the goddess Benten. Benten shows up for Earth's Setsubun, and a rematch ensues as Ataru angers Lum by taking advantage to play with Benten.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAh Lone Teacher! - Terrifying Visiting Day
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 2/10/1982
A new teacher, Sanjuro Kuribayashi, has been tasked with bringing order to Class 2-4, and he grows extremely hostile towards Ataru for being Lum’s fiancé. During parents' visiting day, Lum's Mother and Mrs. Mendo have an all out war against each other.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Fourth Dimension Camera - Demonic Running
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 2/24/1982
Mendo brings an antique camera to school that sends Ataru off into other worlds. Ataru strangely becomes amazingly lucky to the point that Mendo loses his popularity.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGirls' Day! Introducing Ran-chan - Ran-chan's Invitation
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 3/3/1982
Ataru is enchanted by a doll that takes him to Ran, Lum’s childhood friend, who is not so joyful about old times when the topic of Rei comes up. Ran invites Lum and Ataru into her spaceship for a farewell party, but Lum doesn't believe she has given up on sucking Ataru's youth.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Tearful Diary of Tomorrow - Whose Kid Is This?
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 3/10/1982
Lum acquires Ataru's diary from the next day, which allows her to know what he shall go through today. Ataru tries to use it to his advantage, however... Mendo finds an alien child in his locker and goes through great lengths to hide it from everyone.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSleepy Serene Springtime Classroom - Peach Blossom Song Contest
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 3/17/1982
The whole Class 2-4 has fallen asleep due to a tiny spirit taking a make-up exam for her master. However, there is still Ataru, Mendō and Lum to make fall asleep. A poetry-reading contest takes place at a blossom orchard, where it is said that a wizard of poetry uses a maiden to lure men for a poetry challenge.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDuel! Ataru vs Ataru - Wake up to a Nightmare
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 3/24/1982
By eating a manju Cherry intended to bury, Ataru splits into two, one polite and the other casual. As Ataru sleeps in class after continuously losing to Lum in a card game the night before, he keeps having weird dreams until meeting a weird fellow feeding nightmares to a baku.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGreat Space Matchmaking Operation
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 4/7/1982
Lum returns to her home planet unaware that her father is throwing her a matchmaking party. As Ten blabs about it, Ataru uses his spaceship to follow her.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBig Springtime Picnic Uproar!
Season 1 Episode 45 - Aired 4/14/1982
On a school field trip, Ataru gets involved with Kappas and a limestone cavern reveals Mendo's greatest weakness.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesBeware the Earmuffs!
Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 4/21/1982
Ataru and Ten switch bodies after wearing some kind of special earmuffs.
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThrilling Summer Date
Season 1 Episode 62 - Aired 8/11/1982
Lum and Ataru go on their first date together after Lum watches a television program that makes her realize her relationship with Ataru is abnormal. Ataru, although hesitant at first, shows that he does actually have feelings for Lum, but feels uncomfortable expressing them.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDrunkard's Boogie
Season 1 Episode 65 - Aired 9/8/1982
Lum and Ten get drunk from eating umeboshi, and Lum begins flying around terrorizing Ataru's classmates in order to get more umeboshi.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Tomoko Konparu
N/A/100 votesAfter You've Gone
Season 1 Episode 67 - Aired 10/13/1982
Lum's Stormtroopers throw Lum a party, but Ataru spoils it by yelling at Lum and accusing her of ruining his life. Lum leaves for her home planet, and when she doesn't return, Ataru, believing she has gone for good, begins to miss her and tearfully wishes she would return. However, it turns out Lum merely left to renew her passport.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThose Buy-Eaters Gather Round!
Season 1 Episode 69 - Aired 10/27/1982
Lum, Ataru, Shinobu and the rest of the Tomobiki student body - except for Mendo and his small gang of "good kids" - fight a new school rule which forbids students to leave the campus to eat lunch at fast-food joints.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesTerror! The Deserted Fossil Grounds Mystery
Season 1 Episode 70 - Aired 11/3/1982
Ataru, Lum, Mendo, Shinobu, and Jariten all go on a picnic to a remote part of Japan which has some fossils. A group of archaeologists are also exploring this area and using a lot of fancy tricks to make the exploration seem more dramatic than it is.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Suicide Subspace Parttime Job
Season 1 Episode 76 - Aired 12/15/1982
Ataru finds the perfect part-time job - a washing attendant at a bathhouse - which he excitedly anticipates as being an opportunity to ogle and grope naked women. However, it doesn't turn out the way he expected.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLove Love Catchball!
Season 1 Episode 83 - Aired 2/23/1983
Ten orders two special balls called Love-Love Catchballs that supposedly show a person's future love, one for each gender. When Ataru finds the one for guys that show their future wives, things quickly get chaotic.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesRan-chan's Great Date Plan!
Season 1 Episode 88 - Aired 4/13/1983
Admiring Ran's feminine beauty, Ryunosuke goes out with her in an attempt to become more feminine, but everyone else except Ran (who doesn't know Ryunosuke's true gender and thinks she's going on a date with a guy) thinks this means she's interested in girls when she claims she has no interest in boys. Lum and Ataru decide to intervene with Ran and Ryunosuke's "date".
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHappy Birthday My Darling
Season 1 Episode 89 - Aired 4/20/1983
When Ataru flips out over Lum for forgetting his upcoming birthday, she goes absent from school for days and only comes home late at night. This causes both Ataru and Lum to become upset, as well as separately confine in Miss Sakura.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSeeing Togenkyo as a Hell Camp!
Season 1 Episode 90 - Aired 4/27/1983
After enduring Lum's ultra-spicy dinner on a camping trip, Ataru, Mendou, Megane, and Perm head off to find food (with Lum and Ten not far behind). They eventually end up fighting against the Evil Peach after they're tipped off by Cherry of a village that produces giant peaches, wanting to save a beautiful girl from being sacrificed.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesBottled Letter Seashore Mystery!
Season 1 Episode 92 - Aired 5/25/1983
After Ataru, Ten, and Mendo fall for a beautiful woman's love letters - which end up luring them (along with Lum and Shinobu) to the inn she works in - they stay at a creepy inn, where the residents quite literally want them for dinner.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesShinobu's Cinderella Story
Season 1 Episode 94 - Aired 6/8/1983
Shinobu gets involved with the rich Kobayakawa family's youngest son, the adopted Makoto, whose father recently died. But his older siblings want to bump him off so that they don't have to share their late father's wealth with him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesBig Showdown! Sakura vs Sakuranbo!!
Season 1 Episode 96 - Aired 6/22/1983
Ataru and Lum are left home alone when his parents leave for three days, and Lum locks Ataru inside of his own house! When a botched-up meal causes planes and tanks to appear instead of food, it attracts the attention of Sakura and Sakuranbo, who try to fight them off..but end up fighting against each other's summoned creatures instead!
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGhost Story! Old Man Willow!
Season 1 Episode 97 - Aired 6/29/1983
Onsen-Mark tells the class a story of a cursed willow tree, which Ataru finds a load of fluff and ends up releasing an old man after Mendou after he carved his company's symbol with a knife on said tree. The old man drops a map to a possible treasure, while Mendou plans to see him at midnight to settle a score regarding the mockery of his company logo Ataru carved on the back of his robe. Meanwhile, Onsen-Mark is forced to do guard duty across the school by himself at night.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesFirefighter Mama Visits!
Season 1 Episode 99 - Aired 7/13/1983
Ten's mother, a firefighter, comes to visit her son on Earth. Ten must keep his fire-breathing a secret from his mother as she hates pyromaniacs and will send all those who are to Hell. Unfortunately for him, Ataru - taking full advantage of Ten's mother's position - isn't going to make it easy on him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesMendo Family - Summer Christmas
Season 1 Episode 102 - Aired 8/3/1983
Ryoko holds a "Summer Xmas" party, where everyone must come in male-female pairs. And the main attraction is a gigantic Christmas tree, which they must climb in order to get to the dance floor above. The male winner will receive a kiss from Ryoko, and the female Mendou.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesPanic in the Haunted Inn
Season 1 Episode 103 - Aired 8/10/1983
Ataru, Lum, Mendo, and Shinobu stay at an inn and meet Otama, a scaredy-cat ghost who tries (and fails) to out-scare an old couple each year around the summer. But the old couple are far scarier than she is (though not on purpose).
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGalactic Teacher CAO-2's Revenge
Season 1 Episode 108 - Aired 9/21/1983
Lum, Ran, Benten, and Oyuki find out that their old teacher, a giant, robot chalkboard eraser named CAO-2, has come to Earth after being trapped on a deserted planet for years. And the former three are not pleased with the news.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesEnraged Lum-chan!
Season 1 Episode 111 - Aired 11/2/1983
After Ten burns Lum's scarf she made especially for Ataru, he's forced to do something he's never really done before - apologize. And Ataru is making sure to drag this out as much as possible, even convincing Lum to get angry at him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLum and Ataru – A Night only for Two
Season 1 Episode 112 - Aired 11/9/1983
Ataru's parents head away for an overnight trip to Atami, leaving Lum and Ataru in the house together. Ataru dreads the prospect of a Lum-cooked dinner, while a horrified Mendo and Lum's Stormtroopers storm the Moroboshi home to protect Lum from Ataru. Ataru tries to kiss her at the last moment, but as a precaution, puts an armor that prevents electricity, in the last frames...he begins to cry.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDeadly! Standup Eating Wars!!
Season 1 Episode 122 - Aired 2/8/1984
Megane deals with a tough, fast-eating "fast-food costumer dragon" named Ryuu at the noodle shop he works at, who criticizes others' inferior foods and eats for free if not satisfied. But soon other fast-food fighters start hitting the scene in Tomobiki, and Megane only worries even more. Turns out that Mendou, who's thinking of opening a supermarket in town in an attempt to bankrupt the small-time family restaurants, is the cause of this, starting a contest between Ataru and co. and the fast-food fighters to determine if Tomobiki gets the supermarket.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesOperation - Peek in the Woman's Bath
Season 1 Episode 124 - Aired 2/22/1984
Ataru takes a bath at an old-fashioned sento (along with Cherry), where he tries to peek on the girls' side, where Lum, Shinobu, Sakura, Ran, Ryoko, Ryunosuke, Benten, and Oyuki are having a private party. But soon the Stormtroopers and even Mendo find out about Ataru's plan.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesScramble! Recapture Lum!
Season 1 Episode 128 - Aired 3/21/1984
Episode 1 of a 2-episode serial. Ataru and Lum get into an argument, with Lum going to her UFO to sleep that night. But in her sleep it crashes on Mendou's property, with Lum losing her memory in the process. Mendou, disgusted by Ataru's lack of sympathy about Lum's missing, informs Ataru that she's on his property. He also tells him that if he wants her back, he'll have to go on his property and deal with him and his army. After some nudging by Lum's Stormtroopers, Ataru works together with them to save her.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDeathmatch! Ataru VS Mendo Brigade!
Season 1 Episode 129 - Aired 3/28/1984
Episode 2 of a 2-episode serial. Despite their best efforts, all of Lum's Stroomtroopers except Megane have been kidnapped. Ataru is saved from captivity by Mendou's little sister Ryoko, who gives him supplies and even a motorcycle to save Lum with.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDifferent Dimension Switch - Where is Darling!?
Season 1 Episode 130 - Aired 4/11/1984
During Hanami, Ataru snaps a tree branch and somehow causes a rip in dimensions, sending Lum to a parallel world. Here Ataru lost the game of tag in the first episode, his family living in poverty. And he refuses to talk to Lum because he is upset that she ruined his life, as well as his parents'. Lum hops dimensions in hopes of finding the real Ataru.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesClash!! Queen Majesty and Ragaman's Love
Season 1 Episode 131 - Aired 4/25/1984
Ryunosuke loses the cloth that wraps up her breasts, but decides to not buy a new wrap when she's finally treated like a girl by everyone around her. But when it comes time to play rugby at gym class, the boys are more interested in Ryunosuke's large chest than they are in playing the actual game. At the same time, an evil space queen and her all-male henchmen are plotting to overtake Earth, their ship the size (and shape) of a rugby ball.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesRan-chan - First Kiss Tastes Tears of Love
Season 1 Episode 132 - Aired 5/2/1984
Ran tries to win Rei's heart literally through his stomach. And while she doesn't succeed, she does manage to get an indirect kiss from him when he licks bean paste from her face. Lum is happy to see Rei and Ran paired up, ecstatic at the idea that Ran will no longer bother her. Or is she...?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesUn-re-mov-ab-le Rouge Magic
Season 1 Episode 133 - Aired 5/9/1984
Lum is sad that she's never kissed Ataru, so she invents a lipstick that makes whoever wears it to kiss anyone else who's also wearing it.
Director: Iku Suzuki
Writer: Shigeru Yanagawa
N/A/100 votesHaunted Special! Search for Mendo Mansion's Treasure!!
Season 1 Episode 138 - Aired 6/13/1984
Mendo's elderly grandfather requests Shutaro find the secret family treasure. Unfortunately for Shutaro, his classmates decide to join. Unfortunately for his classmates, is it hidden in the extensive Mendo Estate.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAttack the Seniors! Revenge of the Knowing Three Daughters
Season 1 Episode 152 - Aired 10/24/1984
The Planet Middle School Girl Gang is back to get revenge on Lum. However, she's too distracted by Ataru's proposition; if she can go three days without shocking him, he'll go on a date with her.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDon't Die! Ryoko's Special Straw Doll!!
Season 1 Episode 154 - Aired 11/7/1984
Ryoko harnesses the power of voodoo and gives Ataru a voodoo doll effigy of her brother Shutaro, who unintentionally hurts him without realizing it. Shutaro now must do everything to prevent Ataru from finding out that the voodoo doll is of him, while trying to avoid himself in the process.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesMatchmaking Hell! Is the Armored Daughter a Beauty? Beast?
Season 1 Episode 155 - Aired 11/14/1984
Episode one of a two-Episode Serial. Shutaro is forced into an arranged marriage with the heavily armored Asuka Mizunokoji of the Mizunokoji clan, who've been mortal enemies with the Mendou clan for generations. While Shutaro wants nothing to do with Asuka, Ataru (of course) wants this armored girl for himself. A girl who, apparently, has never met a man before, much less one outside of her armor. At episode's end her armor is removed via Lum shocking her with Ataru clinging to her, revealing her true appearance. Cherry ends the episode, breaking the fourth wall as he tells the audience to turn in next time for the conclusion.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesLove of the Armored Daughter! Maiden Heart is Shaky Wobbling
Season 1 Episode 156 - Aired 11/21/1984
Episode two of a two-episode Serial. Her armor now gone, a terrified Asuka runs away from Ataru, Shutaro, and even her own brother Tobimaro. It's also revealed why Asuka is in the armor; no male from the Mizunokoji clan is allowed to see their daughter until she turns 15. Shutaro, initially against the idea of the arranged marriage, is now all for it when he hears from Ataru that Asuka is cute, despite her being scary powerful due to 15 years in armor. Ryoko, however, plans to put a stop to the arranged marriage with a giant army and later an armored suit. The marriage is soon after called off.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesMeeting even if Death! Pure Fox Returns!!
Season 1 Episode 157 - Aired 11/28/1984
Inspired by a movie about a fox using a spell to turn a human girl he loves into a fox like himself for one night, Kitsune looks for Shinobu to find his missing gingko nuts, which he wants her to eat under a full moon to do the same. Ataru and Lum help them. Kitsune eventually finds them, turning Lum, Ataru, Cherry, Shinobu, AND Kotatsu-Neko all into foxes, as well as many of the people in town partially into foxes as well. A half-fox Shinbou and Kitsune dance together under the full moon, happy together.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesWhat Do I Care for Talking Flowers!
Season 1 Episode 158 - Aired 12/5/1984
Ran and Lum learn a valuable lesson about spreading rumors after Ran's talking flowers (named Ryuugenvillias) spread rumors about them to the entire town, soon affecting/hurting everyone's lives. (Aside from Ataru, oddly enough, who is mostly unaffected.)
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesUnderground Reincarnation! What's Darling Thinking!?
Season 1 Episode 164 - Aired 1/30/1985
The gang lands on an island where "poison" literally makes one's dreams come true.
Director: Junji Nishimura
Writer: Toshiki Inoue
N/A/100 votesFar Spring! Tale of the Lonely Fairy!!
Season 1 Episode 166 - Aired 2/13/1985
Ataru learns the importance of happy thought thanks to a fairy.
Director: Osamu Sekita
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesFirst Love Again!? A Return to the Past for Lum and Rei!!
Season 1 Episode 178 - Aired 5/8/1985
Jariten finds part of a love locket Lum and Rei got when they were going together. At a birthday party for Mendo's favorite octopus, Lum tries to hide this fact, especially from Ataru.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesI Love Darling's Kindness...
Season 1 Episode 180 - Aired 5/22/1985
A ghost girl who fell in love with Ataru while she was alive wants to have a date with him. She spent most of her life in the hospital and made a scarf, mittens, and most of a sweater before dying; all of which she wanted to give to the handsome boy she saw from her window, Ataru.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesAsuka VS Big Brother! It's Battle for Certain Love!
Season 1 Episode 206 - Aired 12/18/1985
Asuka will not stop flirting with her brother, so her mother makes a desperate wager with her: if he defeats in Asuka in combat, Asuka must give up on marrying him. Unfortunately, their respective martial abilities mean she's almost guaranteed a victory. Lum's help is employed. It gets weird.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAtaru Wants to Go on a Date! Operation Examination!
Season 1 Episode 210 - Aired 1/22/1986
Shinobu makes a deal with Ataru that she’ll go on a date with him if he comes in first on one of the upcoming exams. However, Ataru and studying don’t mix, so he comes up with a crazy scheme to help him pass…
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
