With this trailer, the official website of the new anime Urusei Yatsura confirmed our prediction and the second part of the anime series will premiere on January 11, 2024. This second part is made up of 2 cours (parts) that will be shown continuously. A special year-end program for the anime featuring seiyuu Hiroshi Kamiya, Sumire Uesaka, and Shūhei Nakano will air on December 29.
Urusei Yatsura began to be published in Weekly Shonen Sunday in September 1978 and ended in February 1987 with 34 volumes. The manga inspired an anime series with 195 episodes that premiered in October 1981 and which also had some films and OVAs.
The voice cast is different from the 1981 adaptation, we have it like this:
- Sumire Uesaka as Lum, replacing Fumi Hirano.
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Ataru Moroboshi, replacing Toshio Furukawa.
- Maaya Uchida as Shinobu Miyake.
- Mamoru Miyano as Shuutarou Mendou.
- Wataru Takagi like Cherry.
- Miyuki Sawashiro like Sakura.
Synopsis of Urusei Yatsura
Not much is said about the lecherous Ataru Moroboshi, but his extraordinary bad luck stands out like horns on an alien’s head. When Earth is threatened by a fleet of alien invaders known as Oni, Ataru is selected to represent humanity in a one-on-one duel. It is a stroke of luck for Ataru that the duel is truly a game of tag, and that his opponent is Lum, the daughter of the Oni leader, who puts her personal dignity above victory when Ataru takes off the top part of her brindle bikini by mistake and thus takes victory. However, misfortune reappears when Lum mistakes Ataru’s promise to marry her girlfriend, Shinobu Miyake, and by exerting her influence as an alien princess moves in with her self-styled Darling.
