This page is about other important characters from Urusei Yatsura. They aren't prominent enough to be considered major characters, but the following characters have either made an impact on the story or have had re-occurring appearances.
A big-lipped, pea brained juggernaut high-school punk who constantly persues Shinobu. The disgusting Soban is infatuated with her and just won't take no for an answer. He nearly always charges at her yelling "Shinobu-san suki da!!!" but is always met with a punch to the face. Not very smart, but very strong. Luckily, still not as strong as Shinobu.
Ten's a flame breathing pyromaniac toddler, but his mom is a female firefighter. How's that for irony? She has her own airbike and her rescues are often signaled with flash floods. Ten is usually an obnoxious brat, but when around his mother he's extremely nervous and uncharacteristically well behaved. That's because he's frightened to death of her. She's obsessed with fighting fires and even more obsessed with mercilessly punishing those who set fires. Even when still a baby, she would come home every day and tell Ten gruesome tales of her retribution against fire starters. From then on stemmed Ten's deep fear of his own mother. She doesn't quite know about how Ten irresponsibly unleashes his fire breath at the least irritation. But he knows too well that if she ever did find out, she'd probably kill him. Both Ten's parents are away a lot which may have been the chief contribution to Ten's precociousness.
A marriage between Ryuunosuke and Nagisa was arranged by their two fathers who are the best of friends. It appears from the start that Nagisa is a girl but it turns out that Nagisa is actually a guy who was raised to be a girl by his father. This transvestite fiance gives Ryuu the creeps and so she doesn't want to have anything to do with him. Nagisa however is completely in love with Ryuunosuke. When they first appeared, Nagisa and his father were dead and wandered as ghosts but by drinking the tear of the giant sea urchin Nagisa regained human form. He now can persue Ryuunosuke to his heart's content, however he still retains many spiritual qualities. For example, Sakura's spiritual wards repel Nagisa as they would any eretheral ghost. Nagisa has quickly become the biggest problem in Ryuu's life. Especially since we soon find out that despite his girlish upbringing, Nagisa was a champion sumo wrestler and is an even stronger fighter than Ryuunosuke. Ryuu's father is no help either since he encourages Nagisa's lewd behaviour.
One of the high-school guys in the manga often seen hanging around with Ataru. He's hot for Lum, just like every other guy in the school. Kosuke doesn't exist in the anime, mostly Lum's Guards were used instead, especially Perm. It's important to note that in the manga, the characters of Lum's Guards only existed for the first couple of volumes. Kosuke, along with a few other indistinguishable classmates filled the need for average high-school students as extras. However, Kosuke is the only one who actually goes beyond being a simple stock character. He does contribute something to the story on many occasions. The only reason he doesn't have his own character page is because he has no anime counterpart.
An illiterate and thick-headed jungle boy turned ninja who grew up in an artificial jungle where the plants all conduct electricity. Other than his grandfather who's a senile old gardener employed by the Mendou family, Shingo's primary contact with the outside world has been television. He believes everything he sees on TV is real and thinks of his TV (who he calls "Sofu-dono") as a real person. Living his whole life in an electric jungle Shingo is immune to electricity and has adapted to using it as a source of strength. So when he kidnapped Lum to become his girlfriend, she quickly discovered that her lightning zaps are ineffective against him. Shingo later re-appears in another story where he becomes Mendou's personal ninja bodyguard, adding one more complication to Mendou's already complicated life. He's a skilled ninja, but not a very effective bodyguard. With his brain rotted by television, Shingo is the type who gets carried away with the moment and losing touch with reality, often making a bad situation a lot worse. His grandfather will often pop-up and try to help, but the old man's senility has made him even more hazardous than his grandson. He keeps confusing Mendou with Shingo for one thing.
The very proud and dignified heads of the Mendou conglomerate. The father is a bit of a flake and a jokester which he often hides behind an air of seriousness. Ryouko seems to get much of her troublemaking tendencies from him. The mother is old fashioned and traditional and refuses to use modern conveniences. Ryouko seems to get her demurity, impeccable manners and use of old things from her mother. Looking at their whole family on a whole, Shuutarou seems to be the most normal one in the family. But considering Shuutarou, that's not saying a whole lot.
Heads of the Mizunokoji sporting goods empire. The father seems to be a useless wimp, and it's the mother who holds the entire family together. But as of late, she's been unable to keep it from coming apart. Her problem lies with her children's warped relationship. Mrs. Mizunokouji is even more powerful than Asuka, yet also highly intelligent. She can even do the "angry big-head" technique (which Soun Tendou from Ranma 1/2 later perfected). Of course she never apears outwardly angry because her face is unchanging like a china doll's. The smile on her face and vacant stare never changes. She tries to raise Asuka to be an ideal lady, but things keep going wrong, much of which she blames on Tobimaro. Like all members of the Mizunokoji family she has starry eyes, but the father's face is made up of Japanese hiragana characters.
A female Shinobi who dislikes the life of a Ninja so he is always looking for other lines of work. But her fellow ninja aren't willing to let her leave.
A violent little axe-weilding, flying bear riding toddler who seems to be the alien reincarnation of the legendary children's folk hero Kintarou. Yet he strongly denies being the same as the one in the fairy tale. One of Jariten's best friends.
Kintarou's pre-school teacher who has an idealistic attitute towards teaching nursery school kids. Travels with her class in a giant space-ship which looks a lot like a koi-nobori (Carp streamer).
A girl with black wings and horns like a gargoyle from Lum's planet.
Prim's fiance (although he doesn't acknowledge it). Was one of the many suitors for Lum when her dad tried to set her up with another man in a matchmaking party. Really proud in his prowess for digging holes and loves to show off his talent.
The principal of Tomobiki High (not the same principal as above) hired this teacher to discipline the unruly kids. He is instantly hostile towards Ataru. He only appears in the anime and fades away long before Onsen-Mark shows up.
Gave Ataru a Taxi drive home from school at warp speed. The fare was worth all of the oil on earth. The only one who could pay it off was Lum. Because of this Ataru was forced to allow Lum to live with him. The space cabbie also shows up in the first movie.
A deluded and optimistic teacher at Tomobiki. Not very swift, his attitude to teaching is totally idealistic and naive. Full of clichéd sayings about the possibilities of youth and the wonder of learning.
Lum, Benten, Ran and Oyuki's tyrannical robotic teacher from elementary space school. Benten, Lum and Ran get rid of him often, but found him to be indestructible. CAO-2 is shaped like a gigantic blackboard eraser. Often throws itself at students putting chalk dust all over them.
Ryuunosuke's mother. She died when Ryuunosuke was only an infant. The lack of a motherly influence was a contributor to Ryuu's strange condition.
A mean spirited little orange cat with an eye-patch who lives in the Moroboshi family's neighborhood. Often sits on the roof of their house. Torajima really likes to give Ten a hard time.
These aren't really UY characters but they've made more appearances in UY than any of the characters in this page. These are little fish aliens dressed in spacesuits with funny high-pitched voices. Their name comes from the fact that they end every sentence with "Dappya!" Dappya monsters are a running joke on the show and the manga. They pop in and out of the screen at random, narrate and make commentary or just stand there as extras in the show. They often substitute in the place of a background character. They have absolutely nothing to do with UY, but they keep interfering with the show. These were originally from Takahashi's first manga ever published. Katte na Yatsura an approximate English translation would be "selfish guys."
Elle is the antagonist from the first UY movie, Only You. She is the lovely ruler of planet Elle. She tried to get married to Ataru, but Lum and the gang put a stop to her plan. Elle has a hobby that makes Ataru's dream of a harem seem moral in comparison. She collects all of the handsome men that have ever loved her and freezes them for storage inside a giant refrigerator. Because she's one of the most beautiful women in the galaxy, her collection had reached 99,999 men by the time of the movie.
An old woman who was Elle's nanny as a child. She now serves as Elle's second in command.
Appears in the second movie, Beautiful Dreamer. A Short little dream demon dressed in red with a top hat and little black spectacles. Created an alternate reality in which Lum, Ataru and the others were all trapped inside. Has overwhelming control over manipulation of dreams into reality which almost always turn to nightmares. His cohort is the pig-like Baku, which to my recollection is an actual mythological creature which is said to eat dreams.
Ruu appears in the 3rd movie. He is a lonely young boy from the distant future who has been given incredible powers due to a crystal ball that he found. He meets Lum as a child while travelling through time. Later as he sees Lum with Ataru he decides to separate them indefinitely. But to his surprise he finds out that Lum is actually his ancestor.
Ruu's private tutor. Lahla knew of Ruu's relation to Lum and tried to put a stop to him altering the flow of time.
Ever since they've been children, Carla has loved Rupa. When one day Rupa showed Carla a picture of Lum, his bride-to-be, Carla changed from a childhood friend to a violent assailant. From then on she constantly threatened and terrorized Rupa out of jealousy. The more Carla would attack him, the more he'd try to distance himself from her (see any parallels here?). Near the end of the movie Rupa finds that he doesn't really want to marry Lum. He admits to Carla that he loves her and asks her to marry him.
Another alien princess who wields a bazooka and appears in "Always my Darling." Lupica wanted to obtain the fabled love potion but to do so legend had it that one must find the most lecherous man in the universe. A search for such a man turned up none other than Ataru Moroboshi.
The tofu vendor on a flying bike that Lupica wanted to use the potion on. Even though separated by class, they were good friends as children. As they got older, it grew into love for each other. But Lupica believed that Rio had no interest in her while Rio thought the same thing about Lupica. Because of this it caused a whole mess of problems for the UY gang.
