On the official site for the new anime adaptation of the manga written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi, Urusei Yatsura (Those Obnoxious Aliens), a new promotional video was revealed for the second season of the project. This second season It will be released on January 11, 2024 and will have a duration of two arcs (that is, six continuous semesters of broadcast).
Additionally, a special year-end program that will feature the participation of voice actors Hiroshi Kamiya, Sumire Uesaka and Shuuhei Nakano It will be broadcast on December 29.
A new voice cast member was also announced, including:
The first season premiered during the season of Fall-2022 (October-December) in Japan and had a total of 23 episodes, while the platform HIDIVE is in charge of its distribution in the West (although with its eventual departure from Latin America, we will have to wait for a new platform to be in charge of transmission). Since its announcement it had already been reported that “it will adapt selected stories from the manga and will develop over four quarters or a full year.”
On the other hand, Takahashi published the original manga in the magazine Weekly Shonen Sunday from the publisher Shogakukan between September 1978 and February 1987, compiling the work in thirty-four volumes. The manga inspired a 195-episode animated adaptation released in October 1981, a film series, and a series of OVAs.
Production team
- Hideya Takahashi (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind) and Yasuhiro Kimura (2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu) They are in charge of directing the series in the studios David Production.
- Yuuko Kakihara (Hataraku Saibou) is in charge of writing and supervising the scripts.
- Naoyuki Asano (Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!) is in charge of character design and animation direction.
- Masaru Yokoyama (Horimiya, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, 2019’s Fruits Basket) is in charge of composing the soundtrack.
Synopsis of Urusei Yatsura
There’s not much to write home about about the lascivious Ataru Moroboshi, but his extraordinary bad luck sticks out like the horns on an alien’s head. When Earth is threatened by a fleet of alien invaders known as the Oni, Ataru is selected to represent humanity in a duel against one of them. For Ataru it is a stroke of luck that the duel is actually a game of tag, and that his opponent is Lum, daughter of the leader of the Oni, who puts her personal dignity before victory, as Ataru discovers when he seizes the top of Lum’s bikini and, with it, of victory.
However, misfortune strikes again when Lum confuses Ataru’s promise to marry his girlfriend, Shinobu Miyake, with his desire to marry Lum herself, and decides that he quite likes the idea. Using her influence as an alien princess, she moves in with him. Forced to deal with the consequences of his womanizing ways, Ataru must balance his crumbling relationship with Shinobu while keeping Lum happy, all while he flirts with every woman he meets.
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