The second season of the new Urusei Yatsura anime will begin airing in January 2024. A key visual has been released along with the announcement.
The first season of Urusei Yatsura premiered in October 2022 and is 23 episodes long. The anime adaptation of a selection of Rumiko Takahashi’s 1978 manga will have a total of four courses.
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The manga was serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday and ran until 1987. Viz Media describes the plot as:
In the high-stakes game of chase, Ataru must touch Lum’s horns after ten days—or else the aliens will take over the earth! The fact that Lum could fly didn’t make Ataru’s job any easier. As it turns out, the game of chase is just the beginning of Ataru’s troubles, as he continues to attract strange encounters with otherworldly beings like the beautiful snow spirit Oyuki and the elf princess Sexy crow Kurama!
New Urusei Anime Yatsura directed by Hideya Takahashi and Yasuhiro Kimura with Yuuko Kakihara (The Aquatope on White Sand) is the series composer, Naoyuki Asano (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!) is the character designer and Masaru Yokoyama (Aoashi) is a composer. david production animation production company.
Other employees include:
Kazuhiro Takamura (Strike Witches: Road to Berlin director and character designer) as supporting character designer
·Mikio (The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 2 co-designer as supporting character designer
→JNTHED (Production designer Spriggan [Netflix]Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker mechanical design and 2D work support) as a mechanical designer
Yoshihiro Sono
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Masanobu Nomura (Fate/Grand Order Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Paladin; Agateram co-artistic director) as art director
Ayaka Nakamura (The Heike Story’s color designer assistant) as a color designer
Yuuichirou Osada (World Trigger Part 2 and Part 3) as director of photography
Meanwhile, the cast includes Hiroshi Kamiya as Ataru Moroboshi, Sumire Uesaka as Lum, Maaya Uchida as Shinobu Miyake, Mamoru Miyano as Shutarou Mendou, Wataru Takagi as Cherry and Miyuki Sawashiro as Sakura.
Urusei Yatsura previously inspired an anime series in the 80s, which was followed by numerous films and OVAs. Prior to the 2022 series, the most recent Urusei Yatsura anime was an OVA released in 2010.
Source: @uy_allstars
