Rumiko Takahashi's "Urusei Yatsura" will get a new anime in 2022

A full-page New Year's advertisement in the January 1 issue of Sankei Shimbun announced that Rumiko Takahashi's manga Urusei Yatsura will inspire a new TV anime in 2022 after more than 35 years. The new TV anime series is planned for four seasons. An official website for the upcoming series opened today, featuring a trailer, a look at Lum in the first key visual, the main cast, and the voice actors for the two lead characters.



Hiroshi Kamiya and Sumire Uesaka play the lead roles as Ataru Moroboshi and Lum, respectively. The new anime also commemorates the 100th anniversary of Shogakukan.

Takahashi serialized the romantic sci-fi comedy from 1978 to 1987 in Weekly Shounen Sunday, compiled into 35 volumes. Studio Pierrot and Studio Deen co-produced a TV anime that aired 195 episodes from October 1981 to March 1986. The manga also inspired four side-story films between 1983 and 1986, followed by two sequel films in 1988 and 1991.

Hideya Takahashi and Yasuhiro Kimura are directing the new anime. Yuuko Kakihara is handling series composition, while Naoyuki Asano is working on character designs. The animation is being produced at david production.

Viz describes the series as follows:

Experience the celebrated romantic comedy about an unlucky human boy who meets a beautiful alien princess from outer space anew in this large-format edition with completely new translations and new cover designs. In the series, Ataru Moroboshi's supernatural encounters with the female kind begin when he is chosen to play tag with an alien princess named Lum, who invades Earth in her UFO. Ataru has ten days to touch Lum's horns, or the aliens will take over Earth! As it turns out, the game of tag is just the beginning of Ataru's troubles, as he continues to have strange encounters with alien beings like the beautiful snow spirit Oyuki and the sexy crow goblin Princess Kurama!