Urusei Yatsura: Lum The Forever [Sub] (LD)

Release date: 1994-03-08
Suggested retail price: $39.95

SKU: AD-093007
UPC: 737187000867 737187000867
ISBN-10: 156567085X 156567085X

Description:
Urusei Yatsura: It's Japanese for "Marvelously Mad!"

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!

Now in Movie No 4 "Lum the Forever," the gong get really weird, and the really weird gets going... to war! Strange things begin to happen in Tomobiki Town. When an ancient cherry tree, "Tarozakura," is cut down while Lum and Co. are making a movie, Lum loses her horns—and her powers!

Thus begins the strangest and most lyrical of the Urusei Yatsura movies. To explain any more would be to do you a disservice. Watch it, and draw your own conclusions.

WARNING: Anyone who watches this film and believes that they understand it is in dire need of professional help.

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

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