Urusei Yatsura All Stars starts airing on October 13, 2022! Both OP and ED songs are by MAISONdes.
By: Nicole S. Castro on September 30, 2022 at 09:14 PHT
A second promotional video has been released for the new TV anime adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's 1970s manga series Urusei Yatsura (Full title: Urusei Yatsura All Stars).
The reboot is scheduled to air on Oct. 13, 2022. It is animated by David Production.
Urusei Yatsura was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1978 to 1987. Its 374 individual chapters were compiled into 34 tankōbon volumes. It tells the story of Ataru Moroboshi and the alien Lum, who believes she is Ataru's wife after he accidentally proposes to her.
The original TV anime produced by Kitty Films broadcasted on Fuji Television affiliates from 1981 to 1986 with 195 episodes.
In this anime reboot for 2022, Ataru is voiced by seiyuu Hiroshi Kamiya while Lum is voiced by Sumire Uesaka.
The second PV features the opening and ending theme songs Aiue feat. Minami, SAKURAmoti and Tokyo Shandy Rendezvous feat. KAF, Tsumiki. Both theme songs are performed by musical band MAISONdes.
Cast
Shinobu Miyake (CV: Maaya Uchida)
Shutaro Mendo (CV: Mamoru Miyano)
Cherry (CV: Wataru Takagi)
Sakura (CV: Miyuki Sawashiro)
Ran (CV: Kana Hanazawa)
Rei (CV: Katsuyuki Konishi)
Oyuki (CV: Saori Hayami)
Benten (CV: Shizuka Ishigami)
Kurama (CV: Nana Mizuki)
Hot Springs Emblem (CV: Kenta Miyake)
Tsubame Ozuno (CV: Takahiro Sakurai)
Ryoko Mendo (CV: Marina Inoue)
Staff
Original work: Rumiko Takahashi's "Urusei Yatsura" (serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday)
Directors: Hideya Takahashi, Yasuhiro Kimura
Series composition: Yuko Kakihara
Character design: Naoyuki Asano
Sub-character design: Kazuhiro Takamura, Miki Tail
Mechanic design: JNTHED, Yoshihiro Sono
Props design: Ryo Hirata
Art setting: Kaoru Aoki
Art director: Masanobu Nomura
Color design: Aya Nakamura
CG director: Kanji Oshima
Cinematographer: Yuichiro Nagata
Editor: Kiyoshi Hirose
Music: Masaru Yokoyama
Sound director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
Animation production: david production
Source: Urusei Yatsura All Stars official Twitter, official website, Comic Natalie
NICOLE S. CASTRO
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Nicole is based in the Philippines and works as a freelance Japanese Translator/Interpreter and copywriter (English). She is a JLPT N2 passer who watches anime to "study" for N1. She has a long career history on LinkedIn (with primary focus on media and translation), but her anime watchlist is much, much longer.
