Manga 'Urusei Yatsura' Gets New TV Anime in 2022

Fuji TV announced a new television anime adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's Urusei Yatsura (Those Obnoxious Aliens) manga on Saturday. The station also opened an official website, revealing the lead cast, staff, a teaser visual (pictured), and teaser promo. The new anime, comprising select episodes from the original series, is scheduled to air on Fuji TV's noitaminA programming block in four cours beginning 2022.

Hiroshi Kamiya (Osomatsu-san, Uramichi Oniisan) and Sumire Uesaka (Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san, Musaigen no Phantom World) are starring as Ataru Moroboshi and Lum, respectively. The new anime commemorates Shogakukan's 100th anniversary.

Staff
Director: Hideya Takahashi (JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 5: Ougon no Kaze), Yasuhiro Kimura (2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu)
Series Composition: Yuuko Kakihara (Chihayafuru 2)
Character Design: Naoyuki Asano (Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!)
Studio: David Production

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. Urusei Yatsura has sold a cumulative 35 million copies of its compiled volumes.

Studio Pierrot and Studio Deen co-produced a television anime that aired in 195 episodes from October 1981 to March 1986. The manga also inspired four side story movies between 1983 and 1986, followed by two sequel movies in 1988 and 1991. An 11-episode original video anime ran from 1985 to 1991.

AnimEigo licensed the anime series in North America in 1992 and began releasing the television anime on VHS in October that year and later in DVD format in March 2001. The distributor also released five of the six movies on home video in 1993–1994, with Central Park Media releasing the Beautiful Dreamer movie in November 1993. Discotek Media reacquired the Beautiful Dreamer movie in 2018, followed by the remaining five movies last year.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English in 1989 and released seven comic book issues before canceling publication the following year due to poor sales. The publisher reintroduced the manga in its Animerica magazine in 1994 and shipped eight volumes between 1995 and 1999—roughly covering 11 tankoban volumes—and put the series on hiatus in 1998.

VIZ Media relicensed the manga in July 2018 and began releasing 2-in-1 omnibus volumes in February 2019. The 12th volume went on sale on November 16, with the 13th volume planned for a February 15, 2022 release. The manga has also been published in multiple foreign languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and Chinese.

Urusei Yatsura won the 26th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen and Shoujo categories in 1980.

Synopsis
Not much is notable about the lecherous Ataru Moroboshi, but his extraordinary bad luck sticks out like the horns in 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. It's a stroke of rare luck for Ataru that the duel is in fact a game of tag, and that his opponent is Lum, daughter of the Oni's leader, who places her personal dignity above victory—as Ataru finds out by seizing Lum's bikini top and with it, victory.

However, misfortune kicks in again when Lum mistakes Ataru's promise to marry his girlfriend, Shinobu Miyake, as the desire to wed Lum herself, and decides she rather likes the idea. Wielding 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 the while flirting with every woman he meets. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Teaser PV


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Source: Comic Natalie

Urusei Yatsura (2022) on MAL