Where Does The Urusei Yatsura Anime End In The Manga?

There are some old and legendary series that everyone knows, and then there are some old and legendary series that only a handful of people know. Urusei Yatsura was definitely the latter, but it before Rumiko Takahashi was recruiting me into her shoujo cult with Inuyasha, or even Ranma ½, she had already long hooked people with Urursei Yatsura.

Where To Start The Urusei Yatsura Manga After The Anime?

Where to pick up the Urusei Yatsura manga after the anime, be it the original 1981 anime or the 2022 remake anime, is complicated. Both series are actually full adaptations of the manga, but only in the way that they both adapt the final chapter of the manga.

Does Urusei Yatsura 1981 adapts every manga chapter? No.

Does Urusei Yatsura 2022 adapt every manga chapter? No.

Both series actually have the same approach to adapting the Urusei Yatsura manga. Since the series is widely episodic, they pick and choose chapters they want to adapt. Both series jump around the series quite a bit adapting chapters out of order as well as skipping quite a few chapters.

What is the Difference Between Urusei Yatsura 1981 and Urusei Yatsura 2022?

So if neither series was adapting the entire manga, why reboot it?

Well, modern animation did make the series look pretty nice. Honestly, the remake was more of a homage to the series than an attempt to properly adapt all of it, which the series doesn’t really need to have happen as Rumiko Takahashi tends to draw her stories out a bit too much.

The Urusei Yatsura 1981 anime adapts more chapters of the manga, but also has some anime-original filler. You will also have to watch Urusei Yatsura Movie 5 to see the actual ending of the manga animated in the 1981 series.

Urusei Yatsura 2022 skips more chapters and is faster paced, but weaves a more cohesive storyline out of what it does adapt. It also doesn’t have much, if any, anime-original filler content.

If you want to see how the Urusei Yatsura 2022 anime compares to the manga as well as the original anime, this absolute legend wrote up detailed comparisons for both Season 1 and Season 2.

Is The Urusei Yatsura Manga Over?

The Urusei Yatsura manga is complete. It ended in 1987 with Chapter 366.

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