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Deathmatch! Ataru VS Mendo Brigade!
Urusei Yatsura - S1 - E129
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.
Urusei Yatsura: Season 1 - 101 Episode s
1x79 - We'll Risk Our Lives During Classtime!
January 12, 1983
After he's pelted by snowballs by Ataru and his friends, an annoyed Ten plans revenge on Ataru during class after Onsen-Mark threatens the class should any of them make noise.
1x80 - Domestic Quarrel – To Eat or Be Eaten?!
January 26, 1983
Lum's mother boots father out of the house, so he comes to stay with Lum.
1x81 - Steal the Kiss of Miss Snow Queen!
February 2, 1983
Lum gets Ataru to go on a ski trip with her, but Mendo, Shinobu, and Lum's guards find out and tail along to cause static, Ataru enters a ski contest.
1x82 - St Valentine Day Horror
February 16, 1983
Ten becomes the new Ataru when he mistakenly gets another girl to marry him, but tries to escape so he could see other older women.
1x83 - Love Love Catchball!
February 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.
1x84 - The Mendo Family... Masquerade War
March 2, 1983
Ryoko plans a masquerade "party" (which is actually a tournament of sorts) to get closer to Ataru, but her brother Shutaro is dead-fast against this, hiring all of Ataru's rivals to fight him.
1x85 - Space Cold Panic!
March 9, 1983
Lum catches a cold from her father, which soon spreads across the entire male student body at Tomobiki High.
1x86 - Ryunosuke Arrives! I Love the Sea!
March 16, 1983
After their beach shop is ruined by their fighting due to Ataru and co.'s interference, a father and his "son" Ryunosuke move into Tomobiki High and set up a shop in-school.
1x87 - Goodbye Season
March 23, 1983
Ataru talks to Megane one day about handing over a "position", which Shinobu overhears, thinking that he's planning to give up on Lum. Not wanting to lose Mendou, she takes manners into her own hands..
1x88 - Ran-chan's Great Date Plan!
April 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".
1x89 - Happy Birthday My Darling
April 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.
1x90 - Seeing Togenkyo as a Hell Camp!
April 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.
1x91 - The Muco Flower's Name is Ryunosuke
May 11, 1983
Ataru is changed into a girl by Kurama's tengu henchmen after they try to use a cannon to change Ryunosuke into a man for their princess. NOTE: There is no appearance of Shinobu in this episode.
1x92 - Bottled Letter Seashore Mystery!
May 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.
1x93 - Dramatic Appearance! Mizunokoji Ton-chan!!
June 1, 1983
Mendo's rival Tobimaro Mizunokoji returns, and the two decide to settle their baseball rivalry once and for all.
1x94 - Shinobu's Cinderella Story
June 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.
1x95 - Lum-chan the Ruthless Rebel
June 15, 1983
Ataru is the producer/director of a film for school. At first it only involves him, Lum, and the Stormtroopers, but it soon involves most of the student body after Ataru gets funding by Mendo.
1x96 - Big Showdown! Sakura vs Sakuranbo!!
June 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!
1x97 - Ghost Story! Old Man Willow!
June 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.
1x98 - And Then There was Nobody!?
July 6, 1983
Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Mendo, Onsen-Mark, Sakura, Cherry, and the Stormtroopers have a stay at a mansion, where they are slowly picked off one by one in a manner similar to the nursery rhyme Cock Robin.
1x99 - Firefighter Mama Visits!
July 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.
1x100 - Darling's Dying!?
July 20, 1983
When Ataru gets poisoned by one of Ran's cupcakes, Lum rushes into a magical world to find an antidote for him before he dies.
1x101 - Pitiful! Mother of Love and Banishment!?
July 27, 1983
An accident at the mall causes Ataru's mother to become unconscious. During this time she begins to have nightmares.
1x102 - Mendo Family - Summer Christmas
August 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.
1x103 - Panic in the Haunted Inn
August 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).
1x104 - Ah The Eyelid of Mother
August 17, 1983
Ryunosuke tries to recall what her mother was like, and her father doesn't help her at all in this endeavor. A new eyecatch featuring Lum and Ataru is introduced this episode.
1x105 - Full of Sunshine - Full of Amours
August 24, 1983
Thanks to Ten's Core technology, he, Ataru, and Mendo make three Sakura sand dolls come to life. Frustrated, Lum goes out with another guy to make Ataru jealous.
1x106 - Big Clash! Ten VS Ataru
September 7, 1983
Tired of being defeated recently by Ataru, Ten goes into training with the help of Cherry and Lum to defeat his arch-nemesis.
1x107 - Terror! Tororo has Come to Attack!!
September 14, 1983
On holiday at Mendo's family's mountain lodge, Lum, Shinobu, Ataru and Mendou are attacked by crazed Tororo yam filling (torojiru).
1x108 - Galactic Teacher CAO-2's Revenge
September 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.
1x109 - Outraged! Piteous Kid Shutaro!!
October 12, 1983
Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Mendo, and Ryunosuke go back in time to when Mendou was an obnoxious, violent kid to cure him of both his nyctophobia and claustrophobia.
1x110 - Grand! The Mysterious Matsutake Pot!!
October 26, 1983
A batch of matsutake mushrooms from Cherry turn the Tomobiki High student body and staff alike (except Lum and Cherry himself) into a bunch of high weirdos desperate for entertainment.
1x111 - Enraged Lum-chan!
November 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.
1x112 - Lum and Ataru – A Night only for Two
November 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.
1x113 - Lady Ryunosuke!
November 23, 1983
Onsen-Mark is given the task of making "a woman" out of Ryuunosuke.
1x114 - Document - Who Will Be Miss Tomobiki!?
November 30, 1983
A contest is held in Tomobiki for Miss Tomobiki, with a reward of 150,000 yen for the winner. Candidates include Lum, Shinobu, Ran, Sakura, and Ryunosuke.
1x115 - Bizarre! The Medicine of Selflessness!!
December 7, 1983
Ataru has a literal out-of-body experience when he eats a strange potion shaped like a fish cookie from Cherry.
1x116 - Shutaro - Jinxed Morning
December 14, 1983
Mendo talks to Sakuranbo about Ataru's possible weaknesses in this clip show episode.
1x117 - The Story of a Traveling Snow Dharma
December 21, 1983
After saving its life three times from Ten's antics, a snowman spirit awards Ataru with a late night dinner, taking the form of a cute pink-haired girl that only he can see.
1x118 - Lum-chan's Ancient Japanese Fairytales
January 11, 1984
Cherry tells Ten a fairytale that's basically a giant mishmash of Japanese children's stories, featuring Ataru and Lum as an old couple and Ten as their "son".
1x119 - Shine! The Blessed Bra!
January 18, 1984
Ryunosuke is blackmailed into going on a date with Shinobu to obtain a bra, which she's always wanted to wear.
1x120 - Duel! Benten VS the Three Daughters
January 25, 1984
A trio of middle-school space girls steal Benten's chain and then challenge her, Lum, and Oyuki to fight them.
1x121 - Lum-chan is Full!
February 1, 1984
Ran tries to clone Lum to get revenge on her, but it doesn't work quite as planned.
1x122 - Deadly! Standup Eating Wars!!
February 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.
1x123 - Great Vault! Courageous Survival!
February 15, 1984
Ataru and Mendou get locked in the latter's giant safe, where they slowly go mad when the place starts flooding and they try to out-survive each other.
1x124 - Operation - Peek in the Woman's Bath
February 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.
1x125 - Sakura - Melancholy of a Youth Time
February 29, 1984
Sakura literally re-meets her childhood when Cherry slips her a pill that makes her childhood self appear, who wants to play. But everyone else thinks it's her illegitimate child.
1x126 - Burning Ran's Emotional Video Mail
March 7, 1984
In the series' second clip show, Ran gets video tapes "highlighting" her unhappy childhood, as well as previous episodes' events.
1x127 - Sakura-san is My Youth!
March 14, 1984
Ataru recounts how he met Sakura, and how she ended up as the school nurse of his school. This is intermixed with clips from previous episodes.
1x128 - Scramble! Recapture Lum!
March 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.
1x129 - Deathmatch! Ataru VS Mendo Brigade!
March 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.
1x130 - Different Dimension Switch - Where is Darling!?
April 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.
1x131 - Clash!! Queen Majesty and Ragaman's Love
April 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.
1x132 - Ran-chan - First Kiss Tastes Tears of Love
May 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...?
1x133 - Un-re-mov-ab-le Rouge Magic
May 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.
1x134 - Deathmatch!! The Mendo Family Flower Display Death Match
May 16, 1984
A mysterious monster is causing strange events in town. Mendo figures out what the monster is when all of his octopi are turned to septopi.
1x135 - Benten & Ryunosuke - Run Toward Tomorrow!
May 23, 1984
Benten drops in to Tomobiki High, making friends with Ryuunosuke, leading to crime-fighting, kitten-saving adventures.
1x136 - Great Horrors! Oyuki is Finally Angered!!
May 30, 1984
Ran upsets Oyuki and relives a traumatizing childhood experience with an angry Oyuki. The song "Magical Mystery Tour" by The Beatles seems to be featured as well.
1x137 - Ten-chan's Strange Love Story
June 6, 1984
Ten meets a lovely little girl, only to find their time together is all too brief. Also in this episode: sumo wrestling and puppies.
1x138 - Haunted Special! Search for Mendo Mansion's Treasure!!
June 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.
1x139 - Love and War! Battle of Glove VS Pants!!
June 20, 1984
Possessed accessories bring three of our heroes to a spiritual fight to the... nap time.
1x140 - Lum-chan's Becoming a Cow?
June 27, 1984
Lum and Ataru are both bitten by a cow in a pet shop. Shortly afterward, Lum's horns begin to grow and resemble a cow's horns, and a horrified Lum believes she is turning into a cow.
1x141 - Great Achievement! This is Lum-chan's Youth Film
July 11, 1984
Megane convinces everyone to help him make a film starring Lum.
1x142 - Scaring Ghosts! Pretty Sakura's Oharai!!
July 18, 1984
Sakura's wand needs a recharge, leaving an opening for all the ghosties!
1x143 - Counterattack of the Primeval Animals! Panic at the Poolside
July 25, 1984
Ten gets a lesson once again about Oni candy and Earthlings while Ataru and Mendou's relationship develops to new levels.
1x144 - Appeared Again! Hunter of Love Princess Kurama
August 1, 1984
Kurama returns to find her mate. Instead she meets her match.
1x145 - The Fox's Hard Feelings of Painful Love...
August 15, 1984
How can little Kitsune repay Shinobu's good deed?
1x146 - Ryunosuke Stunned! My Young Child Loves Rock Mother!!
August 22, 1984
A beach town frantically searches for the food-thieving goblin as Ryuu is once again plagued by her past... and her dramatic father.
1x147 - Thriller! Curra~n Collo~n Womens Dorm!!
August 29, 1984
Ataru's ghost story becomes all too real when no matter how hard Lum tries to stop it.
1x148 - Pool Spooks! Burning with Forbidden Love!!
September 12, 1984
The gang helps Pochi rescue his beloved blowfish from the sharky kidnapper.
1x149 - Ran-chan Panic: There is No Tomorrow for Tomobiki Town
September 19, 1984
Ran's lost konpeito-like supernova fragment causes quite a ruckus for Tomobiki High. The song The Fool on the Hill by The Beatles seems to be featured as well.
1x150 - Where is Love's Room? Kuriko and Chojuro
September 26, 1984
Pear-consciousness brings everyone in class closer to Ataru.
1x151 - Man or Bird? Gokakenran Ally of Justice!
October 17, 1984
Ten learns the difficulties of being the righteousness of the universe when he gets powers from a salary-man superhero, whom Ran and Lum have a grudge against.
1x152 - Attack the Seniors! Revenge of the Knowing Three Daughters
October 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.
1x153 - Blazing Hidden Trick! This Straight Line Road
October 31, 1984
Lum finds an alien way to motivate everyone to do their best at the talent show.
1x154 - Don't Die! Ryoko's Special Straw Doll!!
November 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.
1x155 - Matchmaking Hell! Is the Armored Daughter a Beauty? Beast?
November 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.
1x156 - Love of the Armored Daughter! Maiden Heart is Shaky Wobbling
November 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.
1x157 - Meeting even if Death! Pure Fox Returns!!
November 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.
1x158 - What Do I Care for Talking Flowers!
December 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.)
1x159 - The Birth of Ten-chan's Son!? I Dunno
December 12, 1984
An accident causes an egg to be attached to Ten's body. The egg hatches and reveals a strange bee-like creature who proceeds to harass Ten constantly, claiming Ten is his father.
1x160 - Lum's Courageous Duel! Victory is a Nitpicky Hand
December 19, 1984
Lum learns just how much she needs her powers.
1x161 - Big Employment Aspiration! Return of Missing Ninja Kaede!!
January 9, 1985
Ninja Kaede seeks a new life in the city.
1x162 - Tomobiki Highschool Survival! Who Are the Survivors!
January 16, 1985
Texas Chainsaw Tomato Massacre at its finest.
1x163 - The Mysterious Giant Cake! Love's Escape Panic!!
January 23, 1985
Mendo's New Year's party takes a delicious, spongy turn when Ryoko hears about it.
1x164 - Underground Reincarnation! What's Darling Thinking!?
January 30, 1985
The gang lands on an island where "poison" literally makes one's dreams come true.
1x165 - Snow Panic! The Mendo Family Hanami Banquet!!
February 6, 1985
Once again, everyone is taught that Oni eating human food and humans eating Oni food is a drunken disaster.
1x166 - Far Spring! Tale of the Lonely Fairy!!
February 13, 1985
Ataru learns the importance of happy thought thanks to a fairy.
1x167 - To Dream Land! Darling Battle Royal Abduction
February 20, 1985
Everyone learns about eating other people's dreams.
1x168 - Three Daughters Again! The Great Mission Tempting Darling!!
February 27, 1985
Ginger, Pepper, and Sugar return to their old tricks to break up Lum and Ataru.
1x169 - The Scampering Kotatsu Cat! Anything to Get Warm
March 6, 1985
Kotatsu Cat proves himself to be true to his name by catching the ever-running Kotatsu.
1x170 - Ryunosuke's Naïve Father! A Wife is in Vestiges!!
March 13, 1985
Ryunosuke's father tries to bring Masako to Ryunosuke's life with lies and trickery.
1x171 - Spring Full Bloom!? Frozen by Oyuki's Cold!!
March 20, 1985
Oyuki's cold is unlike anyone's on Earth. It's far more literal. The only cure can come from a cat.
1x172 - Friendship Panic! I Love to Eat Blowfish
March 27, 1985
Ten finds a new friend in a blowfish and brings havoc to Tomobiki with a blowfish and Oni candy.
1x173 - The Armored Girl Returns! Older Brother is Full
April 3, 1985
At the demand of her mother, Asuka faces her fear of men in a visit to Tomobiki High School after her love crushes her brother. It goes about as well as expected.
1x174 - Boredom Syndrome! Is Tomobiki Town Wasting Away!?
April 10, 1985
Ataru drinks a can of eye drops Lum left in his room, thinking it was juice. Because of this, everyone ends up having weird dreams.
1x175 - Look Out Ran! Kotatsu Neko's First Love Oden!?
April 17, 1985
Ran cooks an Oden with love mushrooms to Rei, but Kotatsu Neko eats it. NOTE: Mendo and Ataru make brief appearances.
1x176 - The Armored Girl Is Back Again! Dates of Thunder!
April 24, 1985
Mrs. Mizunokoji has Mendo and Asuka go on a date on their estate, but Ataru interferes to scare Asuka. Asuka goes on a rampage.
1x177 - The Mystery Priest Appears! Luck Bell Battle Royal
May 1, 1985
A priest shows up and rings Ataru, Shinobu, Ryu, Lum, Mendo, and Sakura to a great bell in a shrine.
1x178 - First Love Again!? A Return to the Past for Lum and Rei!!
May 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.
1x179 - Here Comes the Barista of Youth! Shining Café of Dreams!
May 15, 1985
A middle-aged man and his daughter opens up a teahouse which constantly becomes the scene of many fights between Tomobiki High School students and staff.