Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura Gets New Anime in 2022
To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of publisher Shogakukan, Urusei Yatsura will be returning this year with a brand new anime project. The series will be adapting select material from the original manga’s massive run, and is scheduled to run for four full cours of episodes (meaning four “seasons” worth of 12-13 episode batches) when it finally premieres. Produced by David Animation, the staff for this new series includes some veterans from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind.
A concrete release date has yet to be set for the new Urusei Yatsura anime just yet, but it has been confirmed that Hiroshi Kamiya (Levi Ackerman in Attack on Titan) will be providing the voice for Ataru Moroboshi and Sumire Uesaka (Shalltear Bloodfallen in Overlord) will be voicing Lum. Hideya Takahashi and Yasuhiro Kimura (who both worked on JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind) will be directing the new anime for David Production, Yuuko Kakihara will be handling the scripts for the series, and Naoyuki Asano will be designing the characters.
It’s actually pretty difficult to view any of the classic Urusei Yatsura anime episodes legally, so this new series is going to be many fans’ first introduction to Rumiko Takahashi’s classic manga story. Viz Media is currently publishing Urusei Yatsura in English, and they describe the manga as such, “Revisit the acclaimed romantic comedy about an unlucky human boy who meets a beautiful space alien princess in this large trim size edition with all-new translations and new cover designs.
