urusei yatsura announced two new additions to its cast and revealed a short trailer.
As Comic Natalie reported, the new anime reboot of Rumiko Takahashi’s classic sci-fi romantic comedy has announced that actors Maaya Uchida and Mamoru Miyano are joining its cast as the voices of Shinobu Miyake and Shutaro Mendo respectively. New art of each character was revealed along with photos of their new voice actors. Uchida previously starred in animes like Food Wars! Shougeki no Shouma, The Promised Neverlandand My Next Life as a Villain: All Routes Lead to Doom. Miyano is known for his stellar performances in Death Note, Free! Iwatobi Swim Club and Chihayafuruand also voices one of the new villains in the upcoming Dragon Ball Super: Superhero. A short trailer for the anime was also released, ending with a brief animated glimpse of the series’ female lead, Lum.
The new adaptation is being animated by David Production, the studio behind the jojo’s bizarre adventure anime The series is being directed by Hideya Takahashi (platinum end,) and Yasuhiro Kimura, who directed jojoThe season of the Golden Wind. Takahashi’s iconic characters are being adapted into animation by character designer Yuko Kakihara, who previously worked on The Aquatope on white sand. Hiroshi Kamiya, who voices Levi in attack on titanwill play the main protagonist of the series, Ataru, while Don’t play games with me, Miss NagatoroSumire Uesaka from ‘s will do the voice of Lum.
urusei yatsura was the first hit for celebrated manga author Rumiko Takahashi, who would go on to create equally iconic manga like Ranma 1/2 and inuyasha. The series tells the story of Ataru Moroboshi, a perverted high school student who is selected by the alien Oni race to participate in a game of tag that will determine the fate of the Earth. To stop the Oni from invading Earth, Ataru has to blow the horns on the head of his princess, Lum, within ten days.
It has already been confirmed that the series will run for four seasons and will adapt the best-known stories from Takahashi’s original manga, which ran from 1978 to 1987. The show will air in Japan as part of Fuji TV’s noitamina programming block. Details about the show’s international launch have yet to be announced.
The new show will be the second anime adaptation of Takahashi’s manga. The original anime aired between 1981 and 1986 and was produced by a trio of studios that included Pierrot, who would later go on to animate. narutoand Studio Deen, known for his work on shows like Fruit basquet (2001) and KonoSuba.
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