if possible, watch Urusei Yatsura in Japanse dub with English subs. The experience will be so much better, imho.

I voted for Lum's Love Song as the best, but I like Pajama Jama Da! a lot too. Most of the songs used for the opening and ending themes are good, but I think Lum no Love Song has become the all-time classic. It's been covered by so many other versions, too.

Well, of course it's Lum. She's not just cute and sexy (there are plenty of cute, sexy girls in UY) but she's sweet, loving and devoted. How can anyone not like her? Even Ataru's parents like her, and AMAZINGLY raise absolutely no objection to Lum living in Ataru's room in their house!! Although there are times when I wonder if that has less to do with them liking Lum than with not caring anything at all about their son in the least (Mrs. Moroboshi: "Oh, how I wish I'd never had him!").

Everyone wonders why Lum so completely and obsessively attached herself to Ataru, and I have to think it's because she's an Oni. Oni are supposed to be kind of like 'bad karma demons', so it's Ataru's own bad karma that attracts her like a magnet. And indeed, complications ensue due to all of Lum's friends that cause trouble for Ataru, so it's the wheel of karma -- "what goes around, comes around" or to put it in Judeo-Christian terms "as you sow, so shall you reap". Spread bad karma and it will return to bite you in the butt.

Yet Lum herself is the best thing that ever happened to Ataru, even though he doesn't realize it (or at least refuses to admit it to himself). Everyone else knows it immediately though, and is envious of Ataru's status in Lum's eyes. Especially Mendou and the so-called "Stormtroopers", led by Megane. They all have a keen appreciation of Lum, and a consequent resentment of Ataru for having the undeserved good luck to be the object of Lum's affection.

The only movie I've watched is the trailer for Only You, and the first few minutes (in badly dubbed English), and I'm already scared to watch the movies now. Especially that part where Lum turns into the Savage She-Hulk!

I read where Mamoru Oshii and Rumiko Takahashi met one time during the production of Beautiful Dreamer, but after reading the script Takahashi and Oshii barely had anything to say to each other.

It's also interesting to consider that Takahashi-san has admitted that she does not really understand Lum as a character or find her all that interesting. She certainly appreciates that the anime was successful largely due to the appeal of Lum to the audience, but there was a point (before the anime) at which she had wanted to actually write Lum out of the manga, because she was far more interested in concentrating her writing on Ataru's flawed character.