Urusei Yatsura/Trivia

• Cash Cow Franchise: During the 80s.
• Executive Meddling: Movie 1: Only You fell victim to this. Averted with Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Several, some of whom got their start here.
  • Fumi Hirano - Lum
  • Toshio Furukawa - Ataru Moroboshi
  • Akira Kamiya - Shutaro Mendou
  • Saeko Shimazu - Shinobu Miyake
  • Shigeru Chiba - Megane
  • Mayumi Tanaka - Ryuunosuke Fujinami
  • Ichiro Nagai - Cherry
• Keep Circulating the Scanlations: VIZ translated the manga for a while in the early 90's but then dropped it. One could say the series isn't as culturally accessible outside Japan as Takahashi's other series (especially with its many, many puns), but the anime has been entirely translated.
  • And now the anime is falling into this category. AnimEigo, which held the license to the show, OVA's, and all but one of the movies for over twenty years, announced their rights to the title expired as of 9/30/2011. That one movie they didn't have, Beautiful Dreamer, belonged to a company that went bankrupt in 2009, and copies of it are increasingly hard to find.
• What Could Have Been: Shinobu was supposed to be the female lead, but Lum's popularity forced Rumiko Takahashi to change the Official Couple.
• The Wiki Rule: The Urusei Yatsura Wiki