Urusei Yatsura (2022) 2nd Season

This review takes both seasons into consideration.

I'm glad I finally gave this classic story a chance. It was really, really entertaining. The pacing of the gags, the direction of the emotional scenes, the art direction, the character designs, the way the writers stitched different chapters around to introduce the supporting characters and give the illusion of development...Chef's kiss. As an Inuyasha fan who's now re-discovering Ranma 1/2 through its excellent remake (so far), this series definitely managed to capture the spirit of Rumiko Takahashi's writing.

Funnily enough, I think they dropped the ball on AtaLum just a bit in comparison. Season 1 adapts two very romantic ... stories during the first half of the season and then we don't reach the same heights with them until the end of it. I'd rather have those stories pushed towards the end or have more AtaLum stories adapted. 

On the contrary, the first cour of the second season did a great job at highlighting AtaLum and mostly adapting amazing stories one after the other. The second cour could use less Ten and more AtaLum before the final episodes. It almost felt like a regression, even though the story is mostly episodic in nature. If not more AtaLum, I'd love more stories about Lum and her best friends. The three of them are probably my favorite part of the story. 

I really have to praise the pacing again because Ataru, for me, is a very annoying character whose womanizing act got tiresome pretty quickly. As I'm going through the 1980's Urusei Yatsura movies, it becomes more and more clear to me that he can't carry a full-fledged story centered on him for the most part. He's too much for me. I get the purpose of his character, but I don't really enjoy it. And still, Rumiko and the remake managed to make me emotional during AtaLum scenes and root for them. That's something.

The voice acting deserves a special mention because it's absolutely phenomenal. Lum, Ran, Sakura and Shuutaro are scene-stealers. 

I definitely recommend this remake. It's a fun and easy ride full of eye-catching moments, well-paced gags and some really touching moments. It's insane how many tropes probably originated from this story.

7,5-8/10

A funny and good comedy show, its really well done and its foe every age, its just dumb stuff happening in the screen for 20 minutes ti forget about your sad life for a moment, funny and weird characters in funny and weird situations and you have a success, it's nothing complicated, it's nothing interesting its just dumb fun ok, overall its well animated, well made and well pace, it's just enough to entertain for 20 minutes ok, it's overall a fantastic show to watch with your friends or folks, sone episodes are better than others and sometimes you can skip episodes, nothing wrong with ... skipping one or two boring episodes guys, its nit school or job, skipping parts in JoJo its ok too (i skipped part 3 so boring)

Definitely worse than season 1 in a lot of aspects but overall the season is enjoyable

The problems with S2 is that the comedy is repetitive throughout the show with only fresh comedy when new characters are introduced and a couple plot holes mostly in the final arc

The ending is good, the Character development is good, accept Ataru and a few of the side characters Voice acting is amazing fits the characters really well, Pacing is good, Soundtrack is good The second opening is not as good as the previous openings id say its adequate Animation is beautiful the staff did amazing on it sets ... the atmosphere really well compared to the 80s version.

Overall the final season of Urusei Yatsura is very good with a few quality drops in some aspects but overall a very good satisfying final season.