In 1982, the anime series ranked sixth in "Animage" magazine's reader-voted Anime Grand Prix. The following year, the show climbed to fourth place. In 1984, the film "Urusei Yatsura: Only You" took fifth and the TV anime took sixth. While the TV series did not appear in the 1985 Anime Grand Prix, the film "Beautiful Dreamer" came in third. In 1986, the show reappeared in sixth place and the third film "Remember My Love" took third place. In 1987, the series went down to eighth place. The series received two additional awards as part of the "Anime Grand Prix". In 1982, its theme song "Lum no Love Song" was voted best anime song. In 1983, the sixty-seventh episode was voted best episode. A 2019 NHK poll of 210,061 people saw "Urusei Yatsura" named Takahashi's fourth best animated work, with "Beautiful Dreamer" in fifth.