

Shows Like Urusei Yatsura
Tokyo, Tomobiki Town. Lum, the gorgeous princess of the invading alien race of Oni is smitten with high school student Ataru Moroboshi. A dedicated womanizer, Ataru is unfazed by Lum’s fierce electric shock attacks and continues his daily hunt for pretty girls. With a host of other unique characters, including girl-next-door Shinobu, elegant shrine maiden Sakura, Lum’s best friends Oyuki, Benten, and Ran, Buddhist Monk Cherry, Ten, the little brat, heir to a wealthy family Shutaro Mendo and the masculine beauty Ryunosuke…it's a classic slapstick love comedy where anything goes!
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Urusei Yatsura
The original 1981 anime adaptation of the same Rumiko Takahashi manga - this 2022 series is a direct remake.

Ranma1/2
Another modern remake of a Rumiko Takahashi classic romcom manga - same author, same era of source material, same MAPPA-style revival treatment.

To LOVE-Ru
Near-identical premise: alien princess shows up on Earth and forcibly attaches herself to an unlucky high school boy, kicking off harem ecchi shenanigans.

Date A Live
Sci-fi harem comedy where supernatural girls (with electric powers like Lum) chase an ordinary high schooler. Shares ecchi tone and Maaya Uchida.

Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby
Manga-based alien-meets-Japanese-teen romcom with cohabitation hijinks, hitting the same lighthearted alien-romance niche as Urusei Yatsura.

High School DxD
Supernatural-girl harem ecchi anchored by a hapless lecherous male lead - very Ataru-coded protagonist with the same harem comedy structure.

Girlfriend, Girlfriend
School-life romcom built around an unwilling love-polygon between an indecisive boy and pursuing girls, echoing the Ataru-Lum-Shinobu triangle dynamic.

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Absurdist Japanese school comedy with a sprawling cast of eccentric girls orbiting a male lead - shares the Hiroshi Kamiya lead and the anything-goes gag-comedy DNA.

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Reawakened
Hiroshi Kamiya again leads a deadpan high-schooler dealing with bizarre psychic/supernatural classmates - same gag-anime tempo as the 2022 remake.

Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia
Ecchi harem with alien/extradimensional invaders and a school setting - hits the same beats but cruder.

SUPER HxEROS
Alien-invasion ecchi school comedy where horniness is literally the plot engine - tonally cruder cousin of Urusei Yatsura's lecherous-hero premise.

Infinite Stratos
School-life harem ecchi with a lone boy surrounded by powered girls - same harem-comedy template, sci-fi flavor.

When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace
Slice-of-life harem with supernatural-powered classmates and low-stakes romantic chaos at a Japanese high school.

Ladies versus Butlers!
Classic ecchi harem school comedy in the same lecherous-MC tradition Urusei Yatsura helped originate.

Monogatari
Hiroshi Kamiya headlines a school-set series where a male lead navigates supernatural girls with their own quirky problems - structurally close to the Ataru/Lum-and-friends format.

Arakawa Under the Bridge
SHAFT-style absurdist romcom about an ordinary guy and a self-proclaimed alien girl - shares Urusei Yatsura's surreal-romance vibe and Hiroshi Kamiya/Miyuki Sawashiro pairing.

Our Love Has Always Been 10 Centimeters Apart.
Hiroshi Kamiya-led Japanese high-school romcom - softer tone but same core school-romance audience.

Birdy the Mighty: Decode
Manga-based remake about an alien woman entangled with a Japanese boy - same alien-girl-on-Earth premise in a more action-leaning register.

Space Patrol Luluco
Comedic Earth/alien co-existence sci-fi school setting - Trigger's compact riff on the human-meets-aliens-in-school space.

Space Dandy
Episodic sci-fi comedy starring a womanizing alien-hunter - pulls from the same lecherous-male-lead-in-space comedic tradition Urusei Yatsura pioneered.
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