Urusei Yatsura concerns the tempestuous relationship between two focal characters: Ataru Moroboshi who is possibly the most unfaithful, unlucky and lecherous idiot to have ever been born, and there's Lum, a tigerskin-bikini clad alien package of sex appeal, jealousy and electricity who's fallen for him. The series chronicles the misadventures of these two stubborn teenagers along with a veritable entourage of weird characters. Among these characters is the richest boy on the planet, a superhuman schoolgirl, a fire-breathing baby, a powerful priestess/school nurse, a cute and psychotic alien vixen with a split personality, a gender-bending martial artist, an alien biker chick, an ice queen of Neptune, a deranged monk, a giant ghost cat and hundreds of other lunatic personalities; aliens, humans and inhumans alike interract in endless hysteria in a town named Tomobiki.
Japanese study overview
Urusei Yatsura is a Japanese anime of 239,403 characters, with 10,121 unique words and 1,711 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 10,121 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- お前you×386
- 俺I×373
- 言うto say×359
- 好きliking×324
- 待つto wait×279
- 僕I×219
- 私I×192
- 面堂Mendou×185
- 君Mr×180
- 諸星Ose×179
- 男man×166
- 帰るto return×139
- 先生Senjō×112
- 弁天Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)×41
- 露子Akirako×33
- 終太郎Shuutarō×32
- イモ虫hornworm (caterpillar of a hawk moth)×32
- 金太郎Kintarō×30
- 桃太郎Toutarō×19
- 友引day that is lucky in the morning and evening but unlucky around noon, when one's luck affects others (in the traditional calendar)×17