A “special PV” for the new Urusei Yatsura anime, which sees Hiroshi Kamiya‘s Ataru Moroboshi introducing the show’s myriad characters (with more enthusiasm for the girls), has been released. Additionally, it was announced that M.A.O is joining the cast as Asuka Mizunokouji for next January’s second season.
Accompanying M.A.O are Toshiharu Sakurai as Asuka’s father and Kotono Mitsuishi as Asuka’s mother.
The first season of Urusei Yatsura premiered in October 2022 and ran for 23 episodes. It was previously announced that the anime, which adapts selected portions of Rumiko Takahashi‘s 1978 manga, will have four cours in total.
The Urusei Yatsura manga was serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday and ran until 1987. Viz Media describes the plot as:
In a high-stakes game of tag, Ataru must touch Lum’s horns in ten days—or aliens will take over the earth! The fact that Lum can fly doesn’t make Ataru’s job any easier. As it turns out, the game of tag is only the beginning of Ataru’s troubles, as he continues to attract strange encounters with otherworldly beings like beautiful snow spirit Oyuki and the sexy crow goblin Princess Kurama!
A previous Urusei Yatsura anime series aired in the 1980s and was followed by multiple movies and OVAs. Before the 2022 adaptation, the most recent Urusei Yatsura anime was an OVA released in 2010.
Source: @uy_allstars
Staff
• Director: Hideya Takahashi (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind)
• Director: Yasuhiro Kimura (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind)
• Series composer: Yuuko Kakihara (The Aquatope on White Sand)
• Character designer: Naoyuki Asano (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)
• Music composer: Masaru Yokoyama (Aoashi)
• Sub-character designer: Kazuhiro Takamura (Strike Witches: Road to Berlin director and character designer)
• Sub-character designer: Mikio (The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 2 co-prop designer)
• Mechanical designer: JNTHED (Spriggan [Netflix] production designer, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker mecha design and 2D work assistance)
• Mechanical designer: Yoshihiro Sono (Sabikui Bisco art and creature designer)
• Art director: Masanobu Nomura (Fate/Grand Order Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Paladin; Agateram co-art director)
• Color designer: Ayaka Nakamura (The Heike Story assistant color designer)
• Compositing director: Yuuichirou Osada (World Trigger 2nd Season and 3rd Season)
• Animation production: david production
Cast
• Hiroshi Kamiya as Ataru Moroboshi
• Sumire Uesaka as Lum
• Maaya Uchida as Shinobu Miyake
• Mamoru Miyano as Shutarou Mendou
• Wataru Takagi as Cherry
• Miyuki Sawashiro as Sakura
