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In the footsteps of Urusei Yatsura
うる星やつら
4 real places in 2 prefectures: Tokyo, Niigata.
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The neighbourhood of Nerima, where Rumiko Takahashi lived for almost thirty years, inspired the setting of the town of Tomobiki: in the seventh volume of the manga the Moroboshi family's address reads ‘Nerima-ku Koizumi Gakuen’, a distortion of Ōizumi Gakuen.…
Tokyo2 places
photo by MikeMurry · CC BY-SA 2.0Nerima Ward (練馬区)
🚉 Nerima · 9 min walk
Nerima is also the implicit setting of Urusei Yatsura: Rumiko Takahashi lived there for almost thirty years. Here too there is no specific model: what remains is the Ōizumi area, in the north-west corner of the ward.
photo by はまぐり · CC BY-SA 4.0Musashi-Koganei Station (武蔵小金井駅)
🚉 Musashi-Koganei · in front of the station
Unlike the manga, set in Nerima, the first episode of the 1981 anime explicitly names this street in the dialogue, during the famous chase between Lum and Ataru: Studio Pierrot, which produced the series, was based…
Niigata1 place
photo by Drph17 · CC BY 4.0Niigata Manga and Anime Museum (新潟市マンガ・アニメ情報館)
🚉 Niigata Kotsu Bandai City Bus center · 4 min walk
Niigata is Rumiko Takahashi's home town, and the city's anime museum gives her a permanent station: ‘Tag with Lum’, where you step into the world of うる星やつら and try to catch Lum while dodging the lightning bolts she…