The official website for the new television anime adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura manga revealed three more cast members on Thursday for the second half of the anime.
MAO as Asuka Mizunokōji
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Toshiharu Sakurai as Asuka’s Father
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Kotono Mitsuishi as Asuka’s Mother
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The website is also airing special promotional videos for the anime. Hiroshi Kamiya narrates the video as Ataru Moroboshi and in the video Ataru introduces all the women he loves as well as”others”.
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The second half of the anime will premiere in January 2024.
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The anime premiered in the Noitamina programming block on Fuji TV in October 2022. HIDIVE is streaming the anime and began streaming the English dub on March 1.
The first half of the anime lasts half a year, or two years (a quarter of a year), without a break. The entire anime will adapt selected stories from the manga and the final four courses, or the entire year, although not consecutively.
Takahiro Kamei (episode director of Strike Witches: Road to Berlin, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind) will direct the series. Masaru Yokoyama (Horimiya, Mobile Suit Guns: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Fruits Basket 2019) is composing the music.
Viz Media began publishing the manga as a 2-in-1 magazine in spring 2019 with new translations. Viz describes the series:
Revisit the hit romantic comedy about a down-on-his-luck human boy who meets a beautiful alien princess in space in this full-sized edition with all-new translations and cover designs new. In the series, Ataru Moroboshi’s supernatural encounters with women all begin when he is chosen to play tag with an alien princess named Lum, who is invading Earth in her UFO. Ataru has ten days to touch Lum’s horn or aliens will take over the earth! As it turns out, the game of tag is just the beginning of Ataru’s troubles, as he continues to attract strange encounters with otherworldly creatures such as the beautiful snow spirit Oyuki and the goblin princess Raven seduces Kurama!
The manga ran in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine from 1978 to 1987. Viz Media previously released a portion of the series in English under the title Lum and The Return of Lum in the 1990s.
The manga inspired an animated television series that ran from 1981 to 1986, various animated films, and an original animated television series (OVA). AnimEigo has released most of its previous anime on home video with the exception of Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer, which was released by Central Park Media. After these companies’ licenses expired, Discotek Media re-released the film.
Source: website, Comic Natalie