1979
January
February
February 21stUrusei Yatsura Chapter 9
Ataru's friends have lunch with Rei at Tomobiki High, but soon start to insult his simplistic nature and he flies into a rage. Source: Tomobiki-cho
February 28th
Urusei Yatsura Chapter 10
Ataru gets hijacked and hauled into space where Lum forces him to compete in a bean-thowing Setsubun competition against one of her old friends named Benten. Source: Tomobiki-cho
March
March 7thUrusei Yatsura Chapter 11
With the Moroboshis away, Ataru is left to mind the house, however a visit from Cherry, Sakura and a group of aliens playing roughly with their toys trashes the house and leaves Ataru with all the blame. Source: Tomobiki-cho
March 14th
Urusei Yatsura Chapter 12
An egg found by Ataru soon starts to grow in response to his letcherous thoughts. Soon the world is changing and molding itself into Ataru's perverse mindset and it seems destined to be stuck that way unitl Ataru shapes up. Source: Tomobiki-cho
March 20th
Urusei Yatsura Chapter 13
Lum helps Ataru take a shortcut to school, however it winds up making him travel through time where he winds up at his 10th high school reunion and meets Kokeru, his son with Shinobu. Source: Tomobiki-cho
March 28th
Urusei Yatsura Chapter 14
Lum's toy doll allows her to manipulate Ataru however she'd like. Lum soon has the idea to get a lock of Shinobu's hair so that she can make a control doll of her as well, and it's up to Ataru to stop her. Source: Tomobiki-cho
April
April 4thUrusei Yatsura Chapter 15
While on a school fieldtrip Ataru finds a dessicated kappa. When he saves the kappa he gets a trip to the mythical underwater Dragon Palace. Source: Tomobiki-cho
April 11th
Urusei Yatsura Chapter 16
Cherry answers Ataru's wish to rid Lum of her powers when he gifts him a magical ribbon that stiffles her abilities. Ataru's school friends get involved and try to save Lum from Ataru's plan. Source: Tomobiki-cho
April 18th
Urusei Yatsura Chapter 17
Ataru and Sakura visit a local disco where they meet her lover, Tsubame Ozuno, a man who has studied magic in the West. It seems Ataru was brought along only to help draw the spirits that seem to seek him out. Source: Tomobiki-cho
April 25th
Urusei Yatsura Chapter 18
Ataru eats a candy with the world's bad luck baked inside which causes him to split in two. It seems two Atarus might be able to solve Lum and Shinobu's competition over who can claim him as their own. Source: Tomobiki-cho
May
May 11thDust Spot Chapter 1
Rumiko Takahashi has begun a new series in Shonen Sunday Zokan entitled Dust Spot!! (ダストスパート!!). Called back from training in the United States, two psionic agents, Tamuro Gomi and Yura Enjoji are joined by their handler in the JCIA, Tadayasu Sekoi, to investigate a series of dangerous terrorist attacks across Japan. They soon learn their opponent may be related to a national toy fad. Source: Rumic Theater
June
June 11thDust Spot Chapter 2
Yura is sent to infiltrate Kodenma High School after Sekoi goes missing. Her undercover mission is quickly botched when it turns out the school is filled with delinquents who will stop at nothing to get what they want. Source: Rumic Theater
July
July 11thDust Spot Chapter 3
The JCIA hit the beach to investigate a monster sighting. In the process they discover there is much more to this beachside resort than meets the eye when they meet a girl named Aoi Tokugawa and the United Pigs organization rears its ugly head once more. Source: Rumic Theater
August
August 11thDust Spot Chapter 4
Following the United Pigs, the JCIA get lost in a maze like forest surrounding Mount Fuji. With no means of escape, they battle a wicked elephant, meet a lost civilization and come to terms that in a society without waste, they’ll never be able to use Tamuro’s garbage teleporting power to return home. Source: Rumic Theater
Hello! Sensei
Additionally, in this month's issue of Shonen Sunday Zokan with Dust Spot, Takahashi-sensei did a bonus one page illustration with a written essay entitled Hello! Sensei (こんにちは！先生). The illustration shows Takahashi-sensei and her friend watching Pink Lady on television. Source: Rumic Theater
August 15th
Urusei Yatsura Chapter 19
Drunken crow aliens decide that Ataru is the perfect man for their Princess Kurama, however a feminization laserbeam winds up hitting Ataru and making a mess of things. Source: Tomobiki-cho
Author Thanks Fans for Support
Rumiko Takahashi returns, she's attending university so she's only currently able to publish a chapter a month she states in a note with the latest chapter, but says she has gotten so much positive feedback that she'd like to continue. She also does an extra Sunday Gag Post in this issue as well. Source: Tomobiki-cho
Sunday Gag Post
In addition to this week's chapter, Rumiko Takahashi also drew the Sunday Gag Post insert at the back of the magazine. Don't overlook it if you'd like one more joke from sensei this week. Source: Rumic Theater
September
September 11thDust Spot Chapter 5
When Yura and Tamuro are framed and suspected of working for United Pig they have to decide if they want to clear their names with the JCIA, or just quit the whole secret agent life and move to Paris. Source: Rumic Theater
September 26th
Urusei Yatsura Chapter 20
Thanks to Kurama's attempts to make Ataru a better man the women in his life wind up putting him on trial, however if everything is an illusion Ataru realizes he has little reason to stick to the lessons he's supposedly learned. Source: Tomobiki-cho
October
October 31stUrusei Yatsura Chapter 21
Kurama takes Ataru back in time to see what a real man should be like. While there they meet her father, Ushiwakamaru. However Ataru learns all the wrong things during his voyage to the past. Source: Tomobiki-cho
Urusei Yatsura Ending for Dust Spot?
Rumiko Takahashi comments in the latest issue that she believes this will be her final publication of Urusei Yatsura as she focuses on her studies and her new series, Dust Spot. Source: Tomobiki-cho
November
December
December 18thA New Dojinshi
Rumiko Takahashi has published a new dojinshi with her friend and classmate Hanako Meijiro. The piece is entitled The Equation of Nirvana (涅槃の方程式). Spark makes another return, always good to see him reappear in a story. As it is self published the story may be difficult to find, but its published in Bibitto volume 4. Source: Rumic Theater
December 20th
Takahashi Discusses Faces
Sitting down for an interview, Rumiko Takahashi discusses faces, making eye contact and being in her fourth year of university is mentioned in her profile. Source: Super Arts Gocoo 1979, Vol. 12