The second season of the Urusei Yatsura anime series has revealed the addition of Ayumu Murase and Kouichi Sakaguchi to the series’ supporting voice cast. Season two is scheduled to premiere in January 2024.
Murase is voicing the cross-dressing ghost Nagisa Shiowatari and Sakaguchi is voicing his father. They join several new additional voice cast members for the series that includes:
- • Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shingo
- • Motoko Kumai as Kokeru Moroboshi
- • Manaka Iwami as Nozomi
- • M.A.O as Asuka Mizunokouji
- • Toshiharu Sakurai as Asuka’s father
- • Kotono Mitsuishi as Asuka’s mother
Meanwhile, the main voice cast consists of:
- • 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
Hideya Takahashi (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind) and Yasuhiro Kimura (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind) are credited as the series’ directors, with Yuuko Kakihara (The Aquatope on White Sand) as series screenwriter, Naoyuki Asano (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!) as character designer, and Masaru Yokoyama (Aoashi) as music composer. David production is the animation production company.
Other staff members include Kazuhiro Takamura (Strike Witches: Road to Berlin director and character designer) and Mikio (The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 2 co-prop designer) as sub-character designers, JNTHED (Spriggan 2022 production designer, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker mecha design and 2D work assistance) and Yoshihiro Sono (Sabikui Bisco art and creature designer) as mechanical designers, Masanobu Nomura (Fate/Grand Order Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Paladin; Agateram co-art director) as art director, Ayaka Nakamura (The Heike Story assistant color designer) as color designer, and Yuuichirou Osada (World Trigger 2nd Season and 3rd Season) as compositing director.
Season one of the new Urusei Yatsura TV anime premiered in October 2022 and ran for 23 episodes. It adapts select portions of Rumiko Takahashi‘s 1978 manga series and will run for a total of four cours. The manga series was serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday from September 24, 1978 to February 4, 1987. Viz Media releases the manga in English.
A previous anime series aired in the 1980s and was followed up by multiple films and OVAs. An OVA episode was released in 2010 after debuting at the “It’s a Rumic World” exhibition of Rumiko Takahashi’s works in 2008.
HIDIVE is streaming Urusei Yatsura and describe the synopsis as:
When an alien race known as the Oni invade Earth, the chronically unlucky and unapologetically lecherous Ataru Moroboshi is selected as humanity’s representative in a duel for the fate of the planet! His opponent is Lum, the Oni’s very pretty princess, and it’s only thanks to Ataru’s unscrupulous behavior that he’s able to scrape out a win in a treacherous game of tag against her. Ataru thinks he’s had his lucky break at last, but when Lum takes a shine to him off the battlefield, the conflict follows him home as Lum invades not only planet Earth, but also the womanizing Ataru’s love life!
