On May 19, the Urusei Yatsura official website posted the first full trailer for the upcoming 2022 adaptation of legendary mangaka Rumiko Takahashi's classic work. The visual revealed more information about the upcoming project, including additional cast members and key members of staff.
The promotional trailer also dropped vital information regarding an October release for the new anime, officially titled Urusei Yatsura: All Stars. It is slated to run for a full year, adapting certain parts of the original manga. The trailer can be found below.
Urusei Yatsura: All-Stars is set up to have an all-star cast, including previously revealed cast members Hiroshi Kamiya as Ataru Moroboshi, Sumire Uesaka as Lum, Maaya Uchida as Shinobu Miyake, and Mamoru Miyano as Shūtarō Mendō. The new trailer reveals the voices of Cherry and Sakura who are to be played by Wataru Takagi and Miyuki Sawashiro respectively, rounding off the star-studded list of cast members.
The new trailer for Urusei Yatsura: All-Stars revealed the names of additional David Production staff members who'll be working on the series together with previously-revealed Directors Hideya Takahashi; who has credits on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, and Yasuhiro Kimura:
- Series Director: Takahiro Kamei
- Art Director: Masanobu Nomura
- Script Supervisor: Yuuki Kakihara
- Art Design: Kaoru Aoki
- Sub-Character Designers: Mikio and Kazuhiro Tamamura, as well as Mr. Osomatsu Character Designer Naoyuki Asano
- Color Key Artist: Ayaka Nakamura
- Director of CG: Kanji Oshima
- Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Composer: Masaru Yokohama
- Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
- Composing Director of Photography: Yuuichirō Nagata
The original Urusei Yatsura manga series ran from 1978 to 1987 in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine. The English version was published by Viz Media and titled Lum and Return of Lum in the 1990s. The story follows Ataru Moroboshi, an unlucky teenage boy who becomes the unfortunate representative of the Earth when an alien space princess and her father arrive in their UFO. Their objective is to invade the planet; however, they reveal that they will call off their invasion if the human representative chosen by them at random can best the princess, Lum, in a game of tag. Ataru is given ten days to touch the alien princess's horns or else the Earth will be overtaken by alien overlords. This fated encounter is the first of many for Ataru, who begins attracting more supernatural beings after meeting Lum.
Source: Anime News Network