'Urusei Yatsura' TV Anime Reveals Additional Cast, Staff, First Promo, Fall 2022 Premiere

by DatRandomDude
May 19, 2022 8:33 AM | 22 Comments

The official website of the new television anime adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's Urusei Yatsura (Those Obnoxious Aliens) manga revealed on Thursday additional cast, staff, first key visual (pictured), and a first promotional video. The anime is scheduled to premiere on Fuji TV's noitaminA block in four cours in October 2022.

Wataru Takagi (Great Teacher Onizuka) and Miyuki Sawashiro (Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii) joins the cast as Sakuranbou and Sakura, respectively.

Staff
Series Director: Takahiro Kamei (JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 5: Ougon no Kaze episode director)
Sub-character Design: Kazuhiro Takamura (Strike Witches character design), Mikio (Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 2 prop design)
Mechanical Design: JNTHED, Yoshihiro Sono (Vampire in the Garden)
Prop Design: Ryou Hirata (Kakushigoto (TV))
Art Setting: Kaoru Aoki (Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!)
Art Director: Masanobu Nomura (Kiznaiver)
Color Design: Ayaka Nakamura (Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara)
CG Director: Kanji Ooshima (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou CG composition)
Director of Photography: Yuuichirou Nagata (Golden Kamuy)
Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose (Ousama Ranking)
Music: Masaru Yokoyama (Horimiya)
Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!)

Hideya Takahashi (JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 5: Ougon no Kaze) and Yasuhiro Kimura (2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu) are helming the new anime at David Production. Yuuko Kakihara (Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara) is handling the series composition and Naoyuki Asano (Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!) is designing the characters.

Takahashi serialized the sci-fi romantic comedy manga in Weekly Shounen Sunday from 1978 to 1987 and compiled into 35 volumes. Shogakukan later reprinted the series in 15 wide-ban volumes in 1989–1990, 18 bunkoban volumes in 1998–1999, and 35 shinsoban volumes in 2006–2008.

PV

Source: Comic Natalie

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Cool! But Ranma when? I need the rest of the manga in anime form. Lol

Jul 28, 2022 7:47 PM by enya04

Urusei Yatsura was the anime that got me into anime.

I'm really sad the original cast (the ones alive and still in the industry) weren't hired for their roles.

I'll watch this of course and I hope it gets more people into anime

May 22, 2022 7:28 AM by CataOrShane

It looks like it's keeping as much as it can from the original show. I think that's okay.

I hope it gets a good enough run.

May 22, 2022 4:07 AM by Haneken2086

I see the anime is quite popular in Japan. I don't know whether the story is poorly aged or something. Will give it a try when it comes out.

May 21, 2022 2:16 AM by Ophiomorphos

kamiya hiroshi is literally The Guy Ever

May 20, 2022 10:56 PM by yoroshikus

Looks really good visually. The voice actress for Lum sounds really spot on too. I've known about the original and how influential it was, but I've never sat down to watch it. I'll be sure to watch this.

May 20, 2022 7:12 PM by takkun_

well i'm not sure about the premise but it looks like something that I would watch for sure. Just hope the animation is better than the PV.

May 20, 2022 5:34 PM by hazecloud

Can't wait to see how amazing this one's gonna be I'm so happy david production is handling these compound projects from time to time it's nice.

May 20, 2022 12:18 PM by moekyunkawaii

Another addition to the Fall 2022 Anime Extravaganza!!!

May 20, 2022 7:36 AM by AddaeAkono

i would watch it :3

May 20, 2022 6:54 AM by Stacias

Ronninn said:
So did you guys really forget Rick and Morty Anime announcement?

When I saw this revealed I got so excited lol....But maybe you'll have to bring it tp the attention of one of the mods

May 20, 2022 5:33 AM by Tokoya

fall is insanely stacked wtff

May 20, 2022 1:23 AM by BerriesSan

So did you guys really forget Rick and Morty Anime announcement?

May 20, 2022 12:56 AM by Ronninn

It's certainly got the all-stars treatment, though adapting only certain segments of the manga for a 4-cour, 52 episode max remake, which I'm fine with it since the standard of 100+ episodes isn't as sustainable now, compared to back then in the golden age of anime in the 1980s.

Regardless, I'd expect DavidPro to go all out on this, something close to JoJo-like production process.

May 19, 2022 8:32 PM by KANLen09

Tokoya said:
Visually it looks pretty good if you ask me...I've never seen this series before so I'm glad that my first outing with it SHOULD be a good one

But man this Fall is truly goated now lol

same here, i've never watched the original so this is going to be my entry point. the visuals are nice, i'm looking forward to it!

May 19, 2022 4:54 PM by n3k0rin

This will be even better than the original.

May 19, 2022 4:52 PM by Lucifrost

From that short trailer everyone except Ataru seems to draw from the original cast in their performance which is great, the original cast is legendary. I was worried since the anouncement that Ataru might be miscast but we'll see. Miscasts don't happen all that often so I'll try to limit my worries. The visual direction looks good and hey, they even brought the old theme song back.

May 19, 2022 4:36 PM by Theo1899

nice, fall looks pretty much goated now

May 19, 2022 10:42 AM by ryoko6

Looks neat and I'm glad Lum sounds close to her original.

May 19, 2022 9:38 AM by MegamiRem

Visually it looks pretty good if you ask me...I've never seen this series before so I'm glad that my first outing with it SHOULD be a good one

But man this Fall is truly goated now lol

May 19, 2022 8:42 AM by Tokoya

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