Designer Spotlights

Urusei Yatsura Season 2 Spotlights Lum in Final Chapter Visual, Adds New Characters

Urusei Yatsura Season 2 Spotlights Lum in Final Chapter Visual, Adds New Characters

A new final chapter key visual has been revealed for the ongoing second season of Urusei Yatsura, which spotlights the main heroine Lum. Season two first premiered in Japan on January 12, 2024, with the 42nd overall episode airing on May 24, 2024. 

Four episodes of the new Urusei Yatsura anime series remain to be broadcasted, which culminates with the airing of the final story arc beginning May 30, 2024. 

urusei yatsura final chapter visual lumurusei yatsura final chapter visual lum
© R.T,​​S/​​UP

In addition, the anime’s official Twitter account posted three new characters and voice cast members joining the series. They include Yuuichi Nakamura as Rupa, Inori Minase as Karula, and Choo as Upa. 

The first cour of the second season aired on January 12, 2024 until March 29, 2024. The first season of the Urusei Yatsura remake TV series aired in October 2022 for a total of 23 episodes.

Hideya Takahashi (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind) and Yasuhiro Kimura (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind) are serving as the series’ co-directors, with Yuuko Kakihara (The Aquatope on White Sand) as series screenwriter, Naoyuki Asano (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!) as character designer, and Masaru Yokoyama (Aoashi) as music composer. David production is in charge of the animation production. 

Other staff include Kazuhiro Takamura (Strike Witches: Road to Berlin director and character designer) and Mikio (The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 2 co-prop designer) as sub-character designers, JNTHED (Spriggan 2022 production designer, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker mecha design and 2D work assistance) and Yoshihiro Sono (Sabikui Bisco art and creature designer) as mechanical designers, Masanobu Nomura (Fate/Grand Order Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Paladin; Agateram co-art director) as art director, Ayaka Nakamura (The Heike Story assistant color designer) as color designer, and Yuuichiro Osada (World Trigger 2nd Season and 3rd Season) as compositing director.

Meanwhile, the anime’s main cast includes: 

  • • Hiroshi Kamiya as Ataru Moroboshi
  • • Sumire Uesaka as Lum
  • • Maaya Uchida as Shinobu Miyake
  • • Mamoru Miyano as Shutarou Mendou
  • • Wataru Takagi as Cherry
  • • Miyuki Sawashiro as Sakura

The new anime adaptation is based on select portions of Rumiko Takahashi‘s 1978 manga series and will run for four total cours. The manga ran in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday from September 24, 1978 to February 4, 1987 for a total of 34 tankobon volumes. VIZ Media releases the manga in English for North America. 

urusei yatsura season 2 anime main key visual urusei yatsura season 2 anime main key visual
© R.T,​​S/​​UP

A previous Urusei Yatsura TV anime series was released in 1981, inspiring multiple anime films and OVAs as well. The most recent Urusei Yatsura anime prior to the new 2022 adaptation was a 2008 OVA that was screened as part of the “It’s a Rumic World” exhibition paying tribute to Takahashi’s works. 

HIDIVE is streaming the new Urusei Yatsura anime series, describing the main synopsis as: 

When an alien race known as the Oni invade Earth, the chronically unlucky and unapologetically lecherous Ataru Moroboshi is selected as humanity’s representative in a duel for the fate of the planet! His opponent is Lum, the Oni’s very pretty princess, and it’s only thanks to Ataru’s unscrupulous behavior that he’s able to scrape out a win in a treacherous game of tag against her. Ataru thinks he’s had his lucky break at last, but when Lum takes a shine to him off the battlefield, the conflict follows him home as Lum invades not only planet Earth, but also the womanizing Ataru’s love life!


Source: Urusei Yatsura Official Anime Twitter

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *