Urusei Yatsura: Only You

Urusei Yatsura: Only You

Love, eleven years in the making... not that he remembers!

1983101 min6.1 / 10

A lighthearted romantic comedy built on absurdist premise and alien culture clash, where forgotten childhood promises collide with present-day relationships.

Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle's shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle's culture, this is viewed as a marriage proposal. Eleven years later, Elle returns to Earth in order to marry Ataru — by which time not only had he forgotten the events of his childhood, but he was also going out with Lum. The rest of the plot focuses on Lum's attempts to prevent the marriage.

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