The first volume of "Urusei Yatsura" introduces us to some of the main characters we'll come to know and love: Ataru Moroboshi, an unlucky lech and believer in free-love (for men only); Lum, the beautiful, but jealous alien princess who has inexplicably fallen for Ataru; Shinobu, Ataru's ex who would like nothing more than to see Lum return home; and Cherry, the insane Buddhist monk who, while claiming to be merely the foreteller of Ataru's bad luck, is often also the cause of it. There are a lot of pop culture jokes and puns which make Urusei Yatsura notoriously hard to understand for non-native Japanese speakers. But I believe the effort is worth it. ( )