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Chapters Originally Published in:
Shonen Sunday 1983 Vol. 10 - 20

Urusei Yatsura Vol 17

Chapter 169: 父と娘の愛のバレンタイン!!
Chichi to kono ai no barentain!!

(A Valentines of Father-Daughter Love!)
Ryunosuke and her father come to blows over Valentine's Day candy. Ryunosuke has gotten a ton of Valentines from female admirers (to Mendo's dismay). She eats one in spite of her father and he laughs in her face telling her that it means she is accepted another woman's love as a man. Now Ryunosuke has to give a Valentine chocolate to another boy, or else.

Published In:
  • Shonen Sunday 1983 Vol. 10
  • Urusei Yatsura Tankobon Vol. 17 ch. 1
  • Urusei Yatsura Wideban Vol. 8 ch. 4
  • Urusei Yatsura Bunkoban Vol. 9 ch. 13
  • Urusei Yatsura Shinsoban Vol. 17 ch. 1
Publication Date: February 9, 1983
Pages: 16 (black and white)
Anime Adaptation:
  • None
Notes:
  • This issue contains an article on the first Urusei Yatsura film, Only You.
  • In Japan, it is tradtional for girls to give chocolate to boys on Valentine's Day. One month later, boys give cookies or other small gifts to girls on White Day.

  • Table of Contents
    • A: I saw the movie of Urusei Yatsura at the preview. It's interesting. Everyone should see it.

Chapter 170: 必殺ケンカ少年・スッポンのテン!!
Hiisatsu kenka shounen suppon no Ten

(Deadly Fighter Snapping Turtle Ten)
Ataru starts out in his room bullying and humiliating Ten. Ten gets really angry and Ataru lets out a scream of pain at some unseen event. The next day Ataru comes to school with a swollen cast on his arm. Later as things heat up, Ataru's cast begins to ignite into flames and after he dunks it in water we see that underneath the cast was Ten who had his bite locked onto Ataru's arm the whole time.

Published In:
  • Shonen Sunday 1983 Vol. 11
  • Urusei Yatsura Tankobon Vol. 17 ch. 2
  • Urusei Yatsura Wideban Vol. 8 ch. 5
  • Urusei Yatsura Bunkoban Vol. 9 ch. 14
  • Urusei Yatsura Shinsoban Vol. 17 ch. 2
Publication Date: February 16, 1983
Pages: 16 (black and white)
Anime Adaptation:
Notes:
  • Fire pails - Ataru plunges Ten into a random bucket in the classroom. Why is this there? Well, it is actually a fire bucket but more than that, it is an icon that punctuates temples, houses and other wooden buildings like older schools all across Japan: its elegant red silhouette and the inscription 防火用 (fire prevention) continually appears throughout the country. The buckets are often found in groups of three or four and can be filled with water or sand. It contains up to 8 liters. Additionally, the buckets can be used as physical punishment, as students can be made to hold them in the hallway if they misbehave.

  • Table of Contents
    • A: Ah... Number 97 was pulled. They transfered him after how many years? He did his job perfectly!

Chapter 171: あんこ悲しや、恋の味!?
Ani kanashi ya, koi no aji!?

(Anko Pathos, the Taste of Love?!)
On another moonlight picnic date with Rei, Ran brings taiyaki. She unknowingly gets some crumbs on her face which Rei proceeds to taste, but to Ran, it seems that he kissed her on the cheek. Ran is so happy that she invites Lum over and they have their little girl talk. But as Lum returns home she finds Rei who still persues her. Ran shows up and believes Lum has once again stolen her man. In a tizzy she gobbles down a taiyaki getting it all over her face. Rei repeats the same behavior, only this time he gives her a long drawn-out kiss on the lips. Then he goes back to chasing Lum again.

Published In:
  • Shonen Sunday 1983 Vol. 12
  • Urusei Yatsura Tankobon Vol. 17 ch. 3
  • Urusei Yatsura Wideban Vol. 8 ch. 6
  • Urusei Yatsura Bunkoban Vol. 9 ch. 15
  • Urusei Yatsura Shinsoban Vol. 17 ch. 3
Publication Date: February 23, 1983
Pages: 16 (black and white)
Anime Adaptation:
Notes:
  • Anko is a sweet paste made from adzuki beans. It is used as filling for various sweets and pastries, including taiyaki (a fish-shaped cake).
  • Ogura anko is a very smooth bean paste with chunks of sweet beans mixed in. White anko is a smooth, sweet paste made from lima beans or butter beans.
  • Ataru has a picture of Soichiro from Maison Ikkoku on his wall.

  • Table of Contents
    • A: I'm overwhelmed by the mountains of garbage... I wonder why there's so much?

Chapter 172: き・え・な・いルージュマジック!!
Kienai ruuju majikku!!

(Indelible Lipstick Magic)
Lum creates a special lipstick that does not rub off and causes an incredible magnetic pull between any two people that wear it, forcing them to kiss. Lum tries to use it with Ataru, but he resists. After he sees its true power, Ataru pretends to throw it away but he actually keeps it for his own purposes. Ataru takes it to class and gives it to Ryunosuke. It all goes haywire from then on as a kissing frenzy starts up and everyone in class wants in on the action.

Published In:
  • Shonen Sunday 1983 Vol. 13
  • Urusei Yatsura Tankobon Vol. 17 ch. 4
  • Urusei Yatsura Wideban Vol. 8 ch. 7
  • Urusei Yatsura Bunkoban Vol. 9 ch. 16
  • Urusei Yatsura Shinsoban Vol. 17 ch. 4
Publication Date: March 2, 1983
Pages: 16 (black and white)
Anime Adaptation:
Notes:
  • The title of this chapter is based on the 1982 song "I-ke-na-i Rouge Magic!!" (い・け・な・いルージュマジック!!) by Kyoshiro Imawano and Ryuichi Sakamoto (of Yellow Magic Orchestra). This song actually plays in the 2023 adaptation of this episode.

  • Table of Contents
    • A: It snowed heavily the other day. I was working so hard I didn't even notice the thunder.

Chapter 173: 埋没教室!!
Mai bakkyoushitsu!!

(Buried Classroom)
Ataru and his friends are ignoring Ten, so he tries to breathe fire on them, but they dodge and Ten hits a greenhouse, burning it to the ground. The guys who run the greenhouse are a trio of school boys who are really obsessed with tomatoes. Ataru turns them against Ten and he gets buried in the ground until Lum finds him later that night. The next day Ten has made Tomobiki High School sink itself into the ground, but classes must go on regarless of being three stories underground.

Published In:
  • Shonen Sunday 1983 Vol. 14
  • Urusei Yatsura Tankobon Vol. 17 ch. 5
  • Urusei Yatsura Wideban Vol. 8 ch. 8
  • Urusei Yatsura Bunkoban Vol. 9 ch. 17
  • Urusei Yatsura Shinsoban Vol. 17 ch. 5
Publication Date: March 9, 1983
Pages: 16 (black and white)
Anime Adaptation:
Notes:
  • The title is a reference to Kazuo Umezu's 1972-1974 horror manga classic The Drifting Classroom (漂流教室/Hyoryu Kyoshitsu) which was also published in Weekly Shonen Sunday.
  • The gardening enthusiast has given all his tomatoes Japanese girls' names.

  • Table of Contents
    • A: It's spring... it is getting warmer and warmer these days.

Chapter 174: 艶姿桜御祓!!
Adesugata Sakura no oharai

(Beautiful Sakura's Exorcisms)
Sakura finds her paper wand missing. It was taken by Jariten in the confusion of a fight with Torajima the cat. Without it Sakura can not expel or purify spirits. Later that day, Ataru and company enter her office to find it absolutely swamped with evil spirits, all of whom have latched onto Sakura. Ataru soon finds the wand, but he is not about to give it back that easily.

Published In:
  • Shonen Sunday 1983 Vol. 15
  • Urusei Yatsura Tankobon Vol. 17 ch. 6
  • Urusei Yatsura Wideban Vol. 8 ch. 9
  • Urusei Yatsura Bunkoban Vol. 9 ch. 18
  • Urusei Yatsura Shinsoban Vol. 17 ch. 6
Publication Date: March 16, 1983
Pages: 15 (black and white)
Anime Adaptation:
Notes:
  • The wandlike stick with zig-zag paper hanging from it that Sakura carries is a gohei (御幣). The paper that hangs from it is shide (紙垂). The gohei are used to cleanse, bless or exorcise an object or area.
  • "Let's meet at Jipangu at %" - The modern Shanghainese pronunciation of Japan is Zeppen. In modern Japanese, Cipangu is transliterated as チパング which in turn can be transliterated into English as Chipangu, Jipangu, Zipangu, Jipang, or Zipang. Jipangu (ジパング) as an obfuscated name for Japan has recently come into vogue for Japanese films, anime, video games, etc.

  • Table of Contents
    • A: I ate Russian hors d'oeuvres. They were delicious.

Chapter 175: 花見デスマッチ!!
Hanami desumatsuchi

(Flower Viewing Death Match!)
Something has been mutilating Mendo's octopi. They all only have seven tentacles when they are supposed to have eight. So Mendo hunts for the culprit and it leads to his sister Ryoko. She has been feeding Mendo's pet octopi to her pet cherry tree. Mendo pits his secret police against Ryoko's tree along with Ataru in a steel cage wrestling match. Lum also decides to join in the fight.

Published In:
  • Shonen Sunday 1983 Vol. 16
  • Urusei Yatsura Tankobon Vol. 17 ch. 7
  • Urusei Yatsura Wideban Vol. 8 ch. 10
  • Urusei Yatsura Bunkoban Vol. 9 ch. 19
  • Urusei Yatsura Shinsoban Vol. 17 ch. 7
Publication Date: March 23, 1983
Pages: 15 (red tint)
Anime Adaptation:
Notes:
  • Traditional cherry blossom viewings, or hanami, are outdoor parties where friends and family enjoy the brief splendor of the cherry blossoms together.
  • Kuroko are traditional Japanese theater stagehands who dress all in black. The audience can see them as they change scenery and props but pretend that they are invisible.
  • In the final panel Lum is putting Ataru in the wrestling hold known as the Sasori-Gatame, aka the Scorpion Deathlock. It was created by Riki Choshu and popularized in America by Sting and Bret Hart.

  • Table of Contents
    • A: I haven't had TK Hotel's blueberry pie in awhile. It's really something.

Chapter 176: 思い出ボロボロ!?
Omoide poro poro!?

(Trickle of Memories)
After a home cooked dinner with the Moroboshi family, Ryunosuke returns to her home pining over the fact that she grew up never knowing who her mother was. She fights her father because he keeps evading the subject by telling her a lot of phoney stories of his loves in his youth leading up to Ryunosuke's birth. She runs away to think about things, but her father finds her.

Published In:
  • Shonen Sunday 1983 Vol. 17
  • Urusei Yatsura Tankobon Vol. 17 ch. 8
  • Urusei Yatsura Wideban Vol. 8 ch. 11
  • Urusei Yatsura Bunkoban Vol. 9 ch. 20
  • Urusei Yatsura Shinsoban Vol. 17 ch. 8
Publication Date: March 30, 1983
Pages: 16 (black and white)
Anime Adaptation:
Notes:
  • Ataru and his mother are carrying toiletries and towels in their washbasins on the way to the public baths. You can usually purchase soap and towels at the baths, but most people prefer to bring their own.
  • Ryunosuke's mother's name (and many fake names) are revealed in this chapter.

  • Table of Contents
    • A: The scenery outside my window is beginning to bloom and color is returning. I love to watch the seasons changing.

Chapter 177: 思い出のアルバム
Omoide no arubamu

(Album of Memories)
Ryunosuke has a dream where she sees her mother, but it is a woman with her father's face. She wakes up with a horrified scream. After she recovers from the nightmare, she hears her father talking in his sleep and mentioning his dead wife's name, Masako. He then starts chasing down Ryunosuke while apparently sleepwalking and thinking that Ryunosuke is his wife. Later, Ryunosuke gets the idea to find an old photo album so that she can find out what her mother looked like. However, Mr. Fujinami was already prepared for that.

Published In:
  • Shonen Sunday 1983 Vol. 18
  • Urusei Yatsura Tankobon Vol. 17 ch. 9
  • Urusei Yatsura Wideban Vol. 8 ch. 12
  • Urusei Yatsura Bunkoban Vol. 9 ch. 21
  • Urusei Yatsura Shinsoban Vol. 17 ch. 9
Publication Date: April 6, 1983
Pages: 16 (black and white)
Anime Adaptation:
Notes:
  • Mount Ise, or Iseyama is a mountain in the Kanagawa Prefecture.

  • Table of Contents
    • A: The mangaka who have serials in Sunday played baseball. I would have liked to, but work...

Chapter 178: みじめっ子・終太郎!!
Mijimekko Shutaro

(Wretched Shutaro)
In the depths of the Mendo Manor, Shutaro Mendo is trying to cure himself of his crippling fear of the dark and of enclosed spaces by locking himself inside old vases, but it is completely unsuccessful. All his friends come by to help (rather for the free meal) and Lum offers to help as well. She can take them back in time so that they can stop the phobia before it gets worse. So Mendo, Shinobu, Lum, Ataru and Ryunosuke find themselves in the past where they meet Mendo as a small child. He is such an obnoxious brat that everyone, even Mendo himself, wants the kid to suffer. Kid Mendo calls his secret police to take care of them and so Ataru and Mendo are captured.

Published In:
  • Shonen Sunday 1983 Vol. 19
  • Urusei Yatsura Tankobon Vol. 17 ch. 10
  • Urusei Yatsura Wideban Vol. 8 ch. 13
  • Urusei Yatsura Bunkoban Vol. 10 ch. 1
  • Urusei Yatsura Shinsoban Vol. 17 ch. 10
Publication Date: April 13, 1983
Pages: 16 (black and white)
Anime Adaptation:
Notes:
  • Pickles and other preserves were tradtionally made in these giant earthenware jars.

  • Table of Contents
    • A: I met the science fiction writer Motoko Arai. The story of the movie was very fresh.

Chapter 179: 逆上、終太郎!!
Gyakujyou, Shutaro!!

(Frenzied Shutaro)
Mendo and Ataru are captured by the child version of Mendo. Mendo especially is being subjected to tortures for the kid's amusement. Soon Ataru starts to join in. Meanwhile Lum, Shinobu and Ryunosuke have dressed up as secret servicemen to infiltrate the manor. They rescue the boys, but then little Mendo drops a shrine bell on top of big Mendo. In the panic of his phobia, Mendo breaks out, but now he has gone completely psycho and wants to murder Ataru, but the little Mendo thinks he wants to kill him. After the ensuing chaos, the child Mendo gets trapped inside a food vat fearing for his life as Mendo smashes each of the vats with a broad axe looking for Ataru. Everyone later returns to the present, but in the past, Mendo has just accquired his own phobia.

Published In:
  • Shonen Sunday 1983 Vol. 20
  • Urusei Yatsura Tankobon Vol. 17 ch. 11
  • Urusei Yatsura Wideban Vol. 8 ch. 14
  • Urusei Yatsura Bunkoban Vol. 10 ch. 2
  • Urusei Yatsura Shinsoban Vol. 17 ch. 11
Publication Date: April 20, 1983
Pages: 16 (black and white)
Anime Adaptation:
Notes:
  • The origin of Mendo's fears is revealed in this chapter.

  • Table of Contents
    • A: At Mr. Shintani's party, I was told the food was Southern French cuisine. I was just glad it was so delicious.
    • Webmasters' Note: Shintani is Kaoru Shintani, who was publishing Futari Daka (ふたり鷹) in Shonen Sunday at the time.


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