Lum is a beautiful oni alien best known for her ability to fly and shoot electrical shocks. She's become iconic for ending nearly every sentence with ~datcha, a quirky verbal tic that fans translate roughly as "yes?" or "you know?"
Outside her school uniform, she's usually dressed in a tiger-striped bikini and knee-high go-go boots—an outfit that certainly gets attention. Despite her sweet, innocent demeanor, she's got a notoriously short fuse and can flip between adorable and furious in seconds.
Her big dream is settling down in a "Sweet Home with Darling," keeping house and raising kids while Ataru works. The problem? Her cooking is a disaster. Lum's idea of a meal involves dumping jalapeños, cayenne peppers, and Tabasco sauce into an alien energy bazooka and blasting them until they crystallize into inedible nuggets. She has access to tons of bizarre alien gadgets, but she barely understands how most of them work, which tends to cause comedic chaos.
A lot of the show's humor comes from the fundamental differences between human and Invader biology—like the time her horns started growing after a cow bit her, or when she got drunk eating pickled plums. These kinds of misunderstandings and mishaps drive some of the series' best moments.
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