An alien race known as the Oni arrive on Earth to invade the planet. Instead of taking over the planet by force, the Oni give humans a chance to fight for the rights to the planet by taking part in a competition. The computer-selected human player is Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous, unlucky and stupid high school student from the Japanese city of Tomobiki, and the Oni player is Princess Lum, daughter of the leader of the Invasion force.
Air date: 1981-10-14
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: This episode opens with a baseball game and Ataru getting hit with a left field flyball. Ataru is soon escorted home and discovers he's been chosen to fight an invading alien force's champion in a 10-day game of tag. If he loses, the aliens will invade. 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.
Air date: 1981-10-14
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: This episode opens with Ataru friends Megane and Lum's Stormtroopers at school who are watching films of the tag game. In this episode, a space taxi gives Ataru a ride home by accident and the fee is...too much. Since Ataru cannot pay, the space Taxi Collection Agency starts stealing all the oil in the world.
Air date: 1981-10-21
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: This is the first episode with Jariten, Lum's cousin. Jariten arrives in a giant peach and he and Ataru are enemies at once.
Air date: 1981-10-21
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: This episode opens with Lum putting on makeup to go meet Darling at school. A swallow swallows some food Jariten gives it and it grows such that it looks like a penguin. It's appearance in school is just the start of a full day of panic.
Air date: 1981-10-28
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: This show features the first appearance of Rei, Lum's former fiance. This episode opens with Ataru in his room watching a storm, and Lum trying to coax him to bed. Shinobu meets Rei and brings him to Ataru's house. After a lot of arguing, Rei challenges Ataru to a duel for Lum.
Air date: 1981-10-28
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: Ataru, Megane, and friends are going to a Gyudon restaurant for lunch and are quite shocked to see Rei munching down food like a black hole. During the rest of the episode, Rei is chasing Lum, Ataru and friends and as the chase goes on, the chaos grows on.
Air date: 1981-11-04
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: First episode with Kintaro, the vicious little boy with the pet flying bear and the red haired alien nanny. Lum and Jariten meet Kintaro inside a wind carp, and Kintaro tells them he's was looking for his nanny in the carp. Ataru, Shinobu, Lum, and Jariten try to help Kintaro find his nanny by asking around.
Air date: 1981-11-04
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: Kintaro's nanny, with Ataru's help takes the alien children on a tour of Earth and a Earth child's school. Ataru tells the myth of the real Kintaro who grew up in the wild and slew a demon. So Kintaro decide to live up to his name.
Air date: 1981-11-18
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: First appearance of Sakura, The Shinto maiden. Ataru can no longer endure Lum, so he has gone undercover. Unfortunately, at a restaurant, the appearance of Lum, Ataru parents, Shinobu, and Cherry blows his cover; and a mob chases after him. He manages to duck them and bumps into Sakura, who takes him home for exorcising.
Air date: 1981-11-18
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: Arriving at school one morning, Ataru is greeted by all boys in the school who are waiting for the new nurse, Sakura, arriving at school today. Ataru appears to be sick, but in reality he is possessed; and Sakura performs the exorcism.
Air date: 1981-11-25
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: Ataru is phoning Shinobu in order to make plans for a date, when Lum interrupts and get's Shinobu mad at Ataru. Ataru throws Lum out and spends the rest of the episode trying to contact Shinobu. But Lum is persistent and uses a ray to jam the phone lines. But this ray also has the side affect of making a plane and a helicopter vanish.
Air date: 1981-11-25
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: Walking home from school, Ataru is assaulted by a group of black cats and gets a nasty bump on the head. At midnight, he is using two mirrors to look at the bump, when a little demon pops out of the mirror. The demon proves to be too much for Ataru and Mr. Moroboshi, so they get Cherry to exorcise it.
Air date: 1981-12-02
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: Cherry gives Ataru some yellow ribbons which when tied to her horns, negate Lum's powers. In order to coax Lum into wearing them, Ataru has to put on a big charade of really loving her.
Air date: 1981-12-02
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: After an odd loss of control of his body after dinner, Ataru finds out Lum has some clay for making voodoo dolls. Ataru takes full advantage of the situation until Lum make a doll of Shinobu, and Ataru tries to get it away from Lum.
Air date: 1981-12-09
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: First appearance of Oyuki, Lum friend and queen of Neptune. Oyuki also has incredible ice powers. Megane and friends visit while Shinobu is nursing Ataru, who has a cold; and they discover a gate to Neptune in Ataru closet. By accident, they go through this gate and arrive on Neptune to be greeted by Lum and Oyuki.
Air date: 1981-12-09
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: While Ataru is flying an ultra-light, with Lum and Jariten tagging along, Kintaro crashes into him. With the help of Lum's electric shock, the crash send them all back in time to the dinosaur age.
Air date: 1981-12-16
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: First episode with Kurama, the karas-tengu princess. On a field trip, Ataru and friends accidentally meet a karas-tengu who takes Ataru to marry Kurama. Kurama then tries to reform Ataru to be her perfect husband.
Air date: 1981-12-16
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: Kurama uses a weird dimensional door to try and cure Ataru of his lechery. Inside the door, Ataru faces hostile versions of the girls he loves.
Air date: 1981-12-23
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: Megane and Lum's Stormtroopers set up a plot to embarrass Ataru and get Lum to leave him at the same time. They set up a date who will make a fool of Ataru, but Lum finds out and twists things around.
Air date: 1981-12-23
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: Megane and Lum's Stormtroopers set up a plot to embarrass Ataru and get Lum to leave him at the same time. They set up a date who will make a fool of Ataru, but Lum finds out and twists things around.
Air date: 1982-01-06
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: First appearance of Mendo, the rich noble; but it is not until episode 27 that he really does anything. Mendo tells a tale about ancient Japan featuring the normal cast in a slightly different alien invasion story. The aliens this time, all look like a bunch odd barbarians, except for a pretty girl and her young boy cousin.
Air date: 1982-01-06
Runtime: 12 min
Overview: First appearance of Mendo, the rich noble; but it is not until episode 27 that he really does anything. Mendo tells a tale about ancient Japan featuring the normal cast in a slightly different alien invasion story. The aliens this time, all look like a bunch odd barbarians, except for a pretty girl and her young boy cousin.
Air date: 1982-01-13
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: First appearance of Tsubame, Sakura's boy friend who has some magic abilities. Sakura invites Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Megane, Perm, Chibi, and Kakugari to a disco. Things later go haywire as Tsubame starts casting spells and all sorts of weird creatures appear, including Rei.
Air date: 1982-01-13
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Kurama takes Ataru back in time to help her father who appears to be afraid of women. Later Ataru and Kurama's father have to get past a guard on a bridge.
Air date: 1982-01-20
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ataru, Lum, Shinobu, Sakura, Megane, Cherry, and others are staying at a beachside resort. During the day, an octopus is stealing peoples swimsuits, but it appears to look like Cherry is doing it. At the end, they find the octopus and beat him up.
Air date: 1982-01-20
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Still at the resort, the group meets some maniac who is having an all-you-can-eat contest. Sakura reveals the secret of her figure to be a diet pill called "Beauty Foods". But we really know the real reason is Sakura can just plain eat like a whale, and we see her do so as she beats Ataru and Cherry in the contest and clean the maniac of all his food.
Air date: 1982-01-27
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Mendo returns for a formal introduction on his first day at school. He and Ataru have a duel for presidency of the class which ends in a tie. So they have a duel with cannons, which Ataru wins with help from Lum.
Air date: 1982-01-27
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum's computer tells her that Mendo is really the best choice for her lover, so she brings a set of constellation scales to school and weight Ataru versus Mendo in a series of test in the scales. At the end, the scales break and we see the class as constellations.
Air date: 1982-02-03
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: First appearance of Benten, Lum's best friend the goddess. Lum takes Ataru to another planet to help in a battle against Benten's family. The battle consists of catching stones in bowls on a giant set of scales. Ataru starts playing with Benten and ends up messing up the entire game.
Air date: 1982-02-03
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Match Benten and her girl biker friends come to Earth for another round of fun. Ataru sides up with Benten again, and Lum recruits Jariten and some people dressed as demons.
Air date: 1982-02-10
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ataru and Kuribayashi are enemies from the very start. Then Lum shows up and Kuribayashi falls in love. Finally Lum goes out with Kuribayashi in hopes on lightening his spirits.
Air date: 1982-02-10
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: On a day when students mothers come to school, Mrs. Mendo and Lum's mother get into a dispute and Mrs. Moroboshi acts as judge by setting up a roulette game.
Air date: 1982-02-24
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Mendo bring an antique camera to school that sends Ataru off into other worlds. Lum manages to find him through a class room window that had been stuck for years.
Air date: 1982-02-24
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Every morning, Ataru goes jogging early to see girls. On the way to school, Ataru breaks the fall of an attempted suicide as he was grabbing for a 100-yen coin below her. Ataru and Mendo get into a dispute over who is more noble and end up playing a game of tennis.
Air date: 1982-03-03
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: First appearance of Ran, Lum's childhood friend. During a small celebration at the Moroboshi house, a little doll enchants Ataru to follow it to Ran. Ran tries to kiss Ataru to drain his youth, but Lum shows up.
Air date: 1982-03-03
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ran invites Lum, Ataru, and Ten over for cookies and tea, but her real plot is to suck Ataru's youth. Ran makes a double of Ataru and tries switching them, but she gets confused and loses the real Ataru.
Air date: 1982-03-10
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum acquire's Ataru's diary that has written in events that will happen throughout the day. Ataru tries to use it to his advantage, but the records in the diary are not quite how they first read; making use of puns or ambiguous statements.
Air date: 1982-03-10
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Mendo finds an alien child in his locker and goes through great lengths to hide it from everyone. Later after everyone has found out, a whole mob of these alien children arrive, just for Mendo.
Air date: 1982-03-17
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: During math class, Kuribayashi and all the students fall asleep, save for Ataru and Mendo. Lum arrives and finds out that a tiny old man and girl are responsible for this magic. The tiny girl then uses some more magic to have a party with Lum, Ataru, and Mendo; until the principal arrives with some parents.
Air date: 1982-03-17
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum, Mendo, Shinobu, Ran, Ten, Sakura, and Cherry all are in a blossom orchard for some traditional reason. Ataru is in the blossom orchard for a picnic. Cherry's chanting summons some sort of woman spirit, whom Ataru runs off and meets with a giant.
Air date: 1982-03-24
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ataru eats a lollipop Lum gave him and gets a mouth burn. Running off, he finds Cherry and a weird melon, which Ataru eats to cool his mouth. The melon causes Ataru to split into two Ataru's, one polite and the other casual. The two continue to fight all day.
Air date: 1982-03-24
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Sleeping in class, Ataru has weird dreams which he relates a little of as he occasionally talks in his sleep. Annoyed, his classmates wake him and a dream demon comes out from Ataru's sleep.
Air date: 1982-04-07
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum returns to her home planet unaware that her father is throwing her a matchmaking party. Ataru (who knows about the party) and Ten follow her.
Air date: 1982-04-07
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum returns to her home planet unaware that her father is throwing her a matchmaking party. Ataru (who knows about the party) and Ten follow her.
Air date: 1982-04-14
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: On a class field trip, Ataru journeys to an underwater kingdom; and Ataru, Lum, Shinobu and Mendou get lost in a cave (exposing Mendou's legendary fear of the dark).
Air date: 1982-04-14
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: On a class field trip, Ataru journeys to an underwater kingdom; and Ataru, Lum, Shinobu and Mendou get lost in a cave (exposing Mendou's legendary fear of the dark).
Air date: 1982-04-21
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ataru and Ten switch bodies after wearing some kind of special earmuffs.
Air date: 1982-04-28
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ataru becomes the owner of a white caterpillar that Lum's Stormtroopers gave him as it eats a lot more than ordinary caterpillars.
Air date: 1982-05-05
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ten has an unrequited crush on Sakura.
Air date: 1982-05-12
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Dracula wants to suck the blood of a beautiful young girl and his target is Lum.
Air date: 1982-05-19
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum travels back in time in order to meet a younger Ataru and cure his libido.
Air date: 1982-05-26
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ataru and Ten compete for the attention of the pretty female proprietor of a flower shop.
Air date: 1982-06-02
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: The gang meet Tsuyuko, a girl who seems to bring rain wherever she goes.
Air date: 1982-06-09
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ten's horn falls off during a fight with Ataru, leaving him weak and unable to breathe fire. Ataru wastes no time in taking advantage of the situation.
Air date: 1982-06-16
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Chaos ensues at the library after the characters in the books start coming to life. Wendy Darling (from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan novel) enlists Ataru and Lum's help in restoring order.
Air date: 1982-06-23
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Mr. Hanawa found employment in Ataru's school and at the same time, Lum gets enlisted into it.
Air date: 1982-06-30
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A goblin who is living in Mendo's private pool has been shooed out and is trying to find a new home.
Air date: 1982-07-14
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Remembering how Lum always got her in trouble when they were younger, Ran devises a new scheme to suck away Ataru's youth.
Air date: 1982-07-21
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Rei appears and causes an uproar by eating everyone's lunch, and Ran tries her best to win him back.
Air date: 1982-07-28
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: On a cool evening disco dance held by the students at Tomobiki High School during summer break, a mysterious man comes to stalk the girls.
Air date: 1982-08-04
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Things go wrong when Lum tries to make copies of Ataru in order to protect him from Ran's vengeance.
Air date: 1982-08-11
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1982-08-18
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum, Ataru, Shinobu and Mendo spend their summer vacation at the seaside. First they provoke the wrath of a watermelon god, then they are visited by a crying yōkai.
Air date: 1982-09-01
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A typhoon strikes Tomobiki and floods the Moroboshi household, but Lum has some inventive ways of helping her Darling and his parents cope with the flood waters.
Air date: 1982-09-08
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum and Ten get drunk from eating umeboshi, and Lum begins flying around terrorizing Ataru's classmates in order to get more umeboshi.
Air date: 1982-09-22
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: During one of the cats' mating season, Ataru, Lum and Ten meet a beautiful female cat-like humanoid.
Air date: 1982-10-13
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1982-10-20
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum's friends from outer space plan a surprise class-reunion party for her, but an unaware Lum can't understand why her friends are avoiding her and is hurt.
Air date: 1982-10-27
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1982-11-03
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1982-11-10
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Kurama has her subjects place her in suspended sleep again in the hopes that some prince may awaken her.
Air date: 1982-11-17
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ten has gotten cavities. However, these cavities can be cured by biting 10 people and spreading the cavities to others. To relieve himself, he pays Ataru's class a visit.
Air date: 1982-11-24
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Mendo's manipulative and dangerous younger sister, Ryoko, is introduced.
Air date: 1982-12-01
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Kotatsu-neko is introduced.
Air date: 1982-12-08
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ataru helps a wounded bird who transforms itself into a raccoon and moves in to repay the service to Ataru.
Air date: 1982-12-15
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1982-12-22
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: When Lum plans the class's end-of-year party, Ataru explains that New Year's is when you forget who you are. He's a bit worried she took it a bit literally...
Air date: 1983-01-05
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: The normal cast is again put into an ancient Japanese story with Ataru as a food thief with Onsen-Mark and Cherry as his occasional companions.
Air date: 1983-01-12
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-01-26
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum's mother boots father out of the house, so he comes to stay with Lum.
Air date: 1983-02-02
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-02-16
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-02-23
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-03-02
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-03-09
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum catches a cold from her father, which soon spreads across the entire male student body at Tomobiki High.
Air date: 1983-03-16
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-03-23
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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..
Air date: 1983-04-13
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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".
Air date: 1983-04-20
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-04-27
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-05-11
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-05-25
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-06-01
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Mendo's rival Tobimaro Mizunokoji returns, and the two decide to settle their baseball rivalry once and for all.
Air date: 1983-06-08
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-06-15
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-06-22
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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!
Air date: 1983-06-29
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-07-06
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-07-13
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-07-20
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-07-27
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: An accident at the mall causes Ataru's mother to become unconscious. During this time she begins to have nightmares.
Air date: 1983-08-03
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-08-10
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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).
Air date: 1983-08-17
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-08-24
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-09-07
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Tired of being defeated recently by Ataru, Ten goes into training with the help of Cherry and Lum to defeat his arch-nemesis.
Air date: 1983-09-14
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: On holiday at Mendo's family's mountain lodge, Lum, Shinobu, Ataru and Mendou are attacked by crazed Tororo yam filling (torojiru).
Air date: 1983-09-21
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-10-12
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-10-26
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-11-02
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-11-09
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-11-23
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Onsen-Mark is given the task of making "a woman" out of Ryuunosuke.
Air date: 1983-11-30
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1983-12-07
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ataru has a literal out-of-body experience when he eats a strange potion shaped like a fish cookie from Cherry.
Air date: 1983-12-14
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Mendo talks to Sakuranbo about Ataru's possible weaknesses in this clip show episode.
Air date: 1983-12-21
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-01-11
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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".
Air date: 1984-01-18
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ryunosuke is blackmailed into going on a date with Shinobu to obtain a bra, which she's always wanted to wear.
Air date: 1984-01-25
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A trio of middle-school space girls steal Benten's chain and then challenge her, Lum, and Oyuki to fight them.
Air date: 1984-02-01
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ran tries to clone Lum to get revenge on her, but it doesn't work quite as planned.
Air date: 1984-02-08
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-02-15
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-02-22
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-02-29
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-03-07
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: In the series' second clip show, Ran gets video tapes "highlighting" her unhappy childhood, as well as previous episodes' events.
Air date: 1984-03-14
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-03-21
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-03-28
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-04-11
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-04-25
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-05-02
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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...?
Air date: 1984-05-09
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-05-16
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-05-23
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Benten drops in to Tomobiki High, making friends with Ryuunosuke, leading to crime-fighting, kitten-saving adventures.
Air date: 1984-05-30
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-06-06
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ten meets a lovely little girl, only to find their time together is all too brief. Also in this episode: sumo wrestling and puppies.
Air date: 1984-06-13
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-06-20
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Possessed accessories bring three of our heroes to a spiritual fight to the... nap time.
Air date: 1984-06-27
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-07-11
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Megane convinces everyone to help him make a film starring Lum.
Air date: 1984-07-18
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Sakura's wand needs a recharge, leaving an opening for all the ghosties!
Air date: 1984-07-25
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ten gets a lesson once again about Oni candy and Earthlings while Ataru and Mendou's relationship develops to new levels.
Air date: 1984-08-01
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Kurama returns to find her mate. Instead she meets her match.
Air date: 1984-08-15
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: How can little Kitsune repay Shinobu's good deed?
Air date: 1984-08-22
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A beach town frantically searches for the food-thieving goblin as Ryuu is once again plagued by her past... and her dramatic father.
Air date: 1984-08-29
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ataru's ghost story becomes all too real when no matter how hard Lum tries to stop it.
Air date: 1984-09-12
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: The gang helps Pochi rescue his beloved blowfish from the sharky kidnapper.
Air date: 1984-09-19
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-09-26
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Pear-consciousness brings everyone in class closer to Ataru.
Air date: 1984-10-17
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-10-24
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-10-31
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum finds an alien way to motivate everyone to do their best at the talent show.
Air date: 1984-11-07
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-11-14
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-11-21
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-11-28
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-12-05
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.)
Air date: 1984-12-12
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1984-12-19
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum learns just how much she needs her powers.
Air date: 1985-01-09
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ninja Kaede seeks a new life in the city.
Air date: 1985-01-16
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Texas Chainsaw Tomato Massacre at its finest.
Air date: 1985-01-23
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Mendo's New Year's party takes a delicious, spongy turn when Ryoko hears about it.
Air date: 1985-01-30
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: The gang lands on an island where "poison" literally makes one's dreams come true.
Air date: 1985-02-06
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Once again, everyone is taught that Oni eating human food and humans eating Oni food is a drunken disaster.
Air date: 1985-02-13
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ataru learns the importance of happy thought thanks to a fairy.
Air date: 1985-02-20
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Everyone learns about eating other people's dreams.
Air date: 1985-02-27
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ginger, Pepper, and Sugar return to their old tricks to break up Lum and Ataru.
Air date: 1985-03-06
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Kotatsu Cat proves himself to be true to his name by catching the ever-running Kotatsu.
Air date: 1985-03-13
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ryunosuke's father tries to bring Masako to Ryunosuke's life with lies and trickery.
Air date: 1985-03-20
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Oyuki's cold is unlike anyone's on Earth. It's far more literal. The only cure can come from a cat.
Air date: 1985-03-27
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ten finds a new friend in a blowfish and brings havoc to Tomobiki with a blowfish and Oni candy.
Air date: 1985-04-03
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1985-04-10
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1985-04-17
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ran cooks an Oden with love mushrooms to Rei, but Kotatsu Neko eats it. NOTE: Mendo and Ataru make brief appearances.
Air date: 1985-04-24
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Mrs. Mizunokoji has Mendo and Asuka go on a date on their estate, but Ataru interferes to scare Asuka. Asuka goes on a rampage.
Air date: 1985-05-01
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A priest shows up and rings Ataru, Shinobu, Ryu, Lum, Mendo, and Sakura to a great bell in a shrine.
Air date: 1985-05-08
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1985-05-15
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1985-05-22
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1985-05-29
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Kitsune goes to Tomobiki High School and bring the class back to his class in the woods on a flying bus.
Air date: 1985-06-05
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: At the beach, Ataru, Mendo, Shinobu, Lum, and Ryu are trying to attract customers for the Hamajaya restaurant, but Mr. Fujinami keeps scaring away the customers.
Air date: 1985-06-12
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Benten comes to visit Lum and again meets Ryunosuke, but Mr. Fujinami is trying to convince Benten that Ryu is a boy.
Air date: 1985-06-19
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Jariten buys a magic bottle that can shrink anything down to fit inside it.
Air date: 1985-06-26
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Discipline in school raises to a new peak because of the disturbances caused by the arrival of packages from space for Lum.
Air date: 1985-07-03
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: During a fight between Ataru and Ten at breakfast, Ataru misses Ten and hits Lum with a rice cooker, causing her to forget how to understand or speak Japanese.
Air date: 1985-07-10
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Jariten gets a fever from staying in the sun too long and the cure is to be made very cold.
Air date: 1985-07-17
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ran gets sick and asks Lum to come over by sending Lum exploding dolls, missiles and the like.
Air date: 1985-07-24
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: An apparition of one of Shutaro's favorite octopi appears on his head and cannot be removed.
Air date: 1985-07-31
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A space centaur comes to Earth where he takes the guise of Ataru and tries to kiss every girl in school, but fails.
Air date: 1985-08-07
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: On a spaceship near Earth, an alien is cleaning a special food bowl and drops it.
Air date: 1985-08-14
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: It's a hot summer day, and the heat is bothering everyone except Lum.
Air date: 1985-08-21
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum buys a plant that grows a little cupid. She then gets the cupid to try hitting Ataru with an arrow.
Air date: 1985-08-28
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ten's mother visits and Jariten wants to give her a bouquet of carnations to show his love for her.
Air date: 1985-09-04
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: An escaped alien convict, a bluebird, come to Tomobiki and begins to grant people's wishes.
Air date: 1985-09-11
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ryunosuke has a final showdown with her father. If she wins, she gets to wear her mother's bathing suit.
Air date: 1985-09-18
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Kitsune comes to Tomobiki High School during a costume festival to see Shinobu.
Air date: 1985-09-25
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: The three scamps from Lum's old school are trying to one-up Lum's gang again. This time, they choose animals to match each of the gang's individual weaknesses.
Air date: 1985-10-02
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ryunosuke's father hatches a scheme to solve Hamachaya's finances while Mendou accidentally invites everyone to a beach outing.
Air date: 1985-10-16
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: After Ataru’s father is hit by a semi, the Moriboshi family’s financial situation grants them three wishes by a falling star.
Air date: 1985-10-23
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum receives a frog via special delivery, and intends to kiss him despite Ataru's objections.
Air date: 1985-10-30
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Sakura is possessed by a spirit spirit in order to properly exorcise it, but is tempted to go binge drinking before she has the chance.
Air date: 1985-11-06
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Sakura starts a yoga class, and the main characters all attend. They engage in “multiple-person yoga” to cleanse their souls, but it becomes a competition to see who’ll “win.”
Air date: 1985-12-04
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Onsen is leaving, and Lum organizes a goodbye ceremony. Before he goes, he has unfinished business to attend to… namely revenge for all the students’ hijinks over the years.
Air date: 1985-12-11
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Sakura must overcome Lum’s home-made soap in order to be with her true love. He mistakes her slippery nature for disinterest in him.
Air date: 1985-12-18
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1985-12-25
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Lum and Ataru visit the shrine and make very different wishes, which both come true, in a way. Different dimensions are involved.
Air date: 1986-01-08
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: The Mendo family uses the main characters as unwilling pawn-like pieces for a family game.
Air date: 1986-01-15
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ten is asked to retrieve an umbrella by a creature that lives in another dimension.
Air date: 1986-01-22
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: 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…
Air date: 1986-01-29
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Sakura makes medicine that Lum and Shinobu give to Mendo and Ataru. The medicine makes them delusional, but very creative.
Air date: 1986-02-05
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Onsen-mark must brave the families of some of his worst students in a round of home visits.
Air date: 1986-02-12
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: The main characters are forced to undergo meditation as punishment for their classroom disruption. Ran creates a giant doll that rampages through Tokyo like Gojira.
Air date: 1986-02-19
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: The little fox that loves Shinobu hears a tale that implies that if you grab an Oni's horn, you will win your true love's heart.
Air date: 1986-02-26
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Another suitor has swung in to Lum's life, and he's immune to electric shock.
Air date: 1986-03-05
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Ran's latest revenge scheme involves a control button in an attempt to take over Ataru's life.
Air date: 1986-03-12
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: It is a repeat of episode 44 ("After You've Gone") with a special introduction and best episode countdown before the episode.
Air date: 1986-03-19
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Every character from the show makes an appearance as the school attempts a retelling of a classic Japanese tale.
