The second season of the new Urusei Yatsura anime will kick off its Japanese broadcast on January 11 (effectively January 12 at 12:55 AM JST). Also revealed: a fourth (overall) trailer, a consecutive two cour format, and Miyu Irino‘s casting as Inaba.
The first season premiered in October 2022 and ran for 23 episodes. It was previously announced that the anime would have four cours in total.
The new Urusei Yatsura anime adapts selected portions of Rumiko Takahashi‘s 1978 manga, which was serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday and ran until 1987. Viz Media describes the manga 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!
The manga previously inspired an anime series in the 1980s. There were also multiple movies and OVAs. The most recent Urusei Yatsura anime prior to the 2022 adaptation was an OVA released in 2010.
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
Source: @uy_allstars
