Cherry creates a potion to remove a person’s Earthly Desires, but rather than try it himself he puts it in a taiyaki and gives it to Kotatsu Neko. The ghost cat is too wily to fall for this and passes it onto Ataru. Who, of course, eats it. That night his astral form leaves his body and sets off spying on various women around town. Suspicious after enduring visits from this astral pervert, Sakura and Shinobu visit the Moroboshi’s house along with Cherry. There they determine that this astral body is Ataru’s Earthly Desires given form and exorcise them from the house, leaving them with a healthy, normal Ataru…
The episode has pretty much used up all the content from the content from the manga chapter (bar the punchline) and it still has 10 minutes to fill. So it goes with the time honoured tradition of…
ALIENS HAVING A DISCO~!
Lum says they can live in the sky now, under the moon and organises a party. Ataru’s not keen, until she tells him there will be various women coming. However the gulf between his imagination and is rather large. And unlike most women in Urusei Yatsura, they are all attracted to him!
So Ataru returns home only to get exorcised again. The next day though they discover Ataru won’t awake, as his Earthly Desires are in fact the entirety of his personality…
This episode felt a lot more consistent compared to the last few, possibly due to there being less characters on screen for much of it they could focus more on individual performances rather than crowd control.
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Takeshi Oosaka makes one of two appearances as animation director here.
Screenplay: Keiji Hayakawa
Storyboard: Keiji Hayakawa
Director: Osamu Uemura
Animation Director: Takeshi Oosaka