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New Urusei Yatsura Anime Casts Katsuyuki Konishi as Rei

posted on by Egan Loo
1st half-year season premieres in October

The official website for the new television Katsuyuki Konishi will play Rei:

Sumire Uesaka will voice Lum (right).

The other cast include:

Maaya Uchida as Shinobu Miyake

Mamoru Miyano as Shūtarō Mendō

Wataru Takagi as Cherry

Miyuki Sawashiro as Sakura

Kana Hanazawa as Ran, Lum's childhood friend who comes from space and transfers to Tomobiki High

The anime's first season will Shogakukan.

Fruits Basket) is composing the music. The other staff are:

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!) is deg the characters.

publishing the manga in 2-in-1 omnibus editions in spring 2019 with new translations. Viz describes the series:

Revisit the acclaimed romantic comedy about an unlucky human boy who meets a beautiful space alien princess in this large trim size edition with all-new translations and new cover designs. In the series, Ataru Moroboshi's supernatural encounters with the feminine kind all start when he's chosen to play tag with an alien princess named Lum who invades the earth on her UFO. Ataru has ten days to touch Lum's horns or aliens will take over the earth! As it turns out, the game of tag is only the beginning of Ataru's troubles, as he continues to attract strange encounters with otherworldly beings like beautiful snow spirit Oyuki and the sexy crow goblin Princess Kurama!

The manga series ran in Shogakukan's The Return of Lum in the 1990s.

The manga inspired a television anime series that ran from 1981 to 1986, various anime films, and an original video anime (reissuing the movies.

Sources: 2022 Urusei Yatsura anime's website, Comic Natalie


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