Everyone Stop Everything and Watch This Urusei Yatsura Trailer

Sometimes, Things Are Good. It’s not usually, so it’s necessary to acknowledge when they’re and rejoice these moments, which I why I completely beg you are taking two minutes out of your day to observe this trailer for the upcoming anime sequence Urusei Yatsura. Here’s why.

Urusei Yatsura is the primary main hit from manga writer Rumiko Takahashi of Inuyasha and Ranma 1/2 fame; it ran from 1978 to 1987, whereas the anime adaptation aired 1981-86. It’s technically a couple of girl-crazy, impossibly unfortunate highschool child named Ataru Moroboshi who will get chosen to defend the Earth when aliens arrive. If he can catch the alien chief’s daughter Lum in a recreation of tag, the world can be saved, however within the course of, Lum turns into satisfied Ataru has proposed to her. Yes, I do know it is a lot, even moreso once I say this description is like calling The Simpsons a sequence about “a suburban family.” Urusei Yatsura is bananas, that includes an immense quantity of aliens primarily based on Japanese mythology, highschool shenanigans, and an extremely wealthy solid of characters. There’s an episode the place potatoes—non-sentient, non-ambulatory potatoes—take over the world.

This trailer is for the Urusei Yatsura remake, which begins airing in Japan in October (and can finally come to the U.S. anime streaming service Hidive). I by no means imagined I’d get to see a contemporary, completely attractive model of my favourite anime sequence, so I’m not mendacity once I say it makes me so completely satisfied I genuinely teared up slightly:

Look, I get that this obscure anime sequence has little to no that means for you, and perhaps this trailer didn’t even pique your curiosity within the slightest. But I’d disappoint myself if I didn’t attempt to share one thing that brings me a lot pleasure in hopes that it conjures up anybody on the market to really feel slightly of the identical. Also, there’s an episode the place the principle solid has a metal cage wrestling match with a cherry blossom tree that they solely handle to win after getting the tree drunk. I like this present, and I hope a few of you’ll, too.

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