Should you watch Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
Anime · 1984
As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started.
The sides of Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
- The eve of a school festival that keeps repeating
- Ataru and his alien girlfriend Lum
- A town slowly emptying of people
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer is good for you if…
- you like a dream that folds in on itself until nothing feels solid.
- you like working out why the same day keeps coming back.
- you like slapstick high school comedy with a strange edge.
Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer is bad for you if…
- you don't watch anime.
- you find 1980s animation dated.
About: dreams · reality · wanting time to stop
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