{"id":71778,"date":"2023-10-19T02:31:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T09:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=71778"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:24:45","slug":"urusei-yatsura-reveals-special-pv-and-additional-season-2-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/10\/19\/urusei-yatsura-reveals-special-pv-and-additional-season-2-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Urusei Yatsura Reveals Special PV and Additional Season 2 Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A &#8220;special PV&#8221; for the new <em>Urusei Yatsura<\/em> anime, which sees <strong>Hiroshi Kamiya<\/strong>&#8216;s Ataru Moroboshi introducing the show&#8217;s myriad characters (with more enthusiasm for the girls), has been released. Additionally, it was announced that<strong> M.A.O<\/strong> is joining the cast as Asuka Mizunokouji for next January&#8217;s second season.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Accompanying M.A.O are <strong>Toshiharu Sakurai<\/strong> as Asuka&#8217;s father and <strong>Kotono Mitsuishi<\/strong> as Asuka&#8217;s mother.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300c\u3046\u308b\u661f\u3084\u3064\u3089\u300dSPECIAL PV\u301c\u8af8\u661f\u3042\u305f\u308b\u304c\u611b\u3057\u305f\u5973\u6027\u305f\u3061\uff0b\u305d\u306e\u4ed6\u301c\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8QJIBcmVNIE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The first season of&nbsp;<em>Urusei Yatsura<\/em> premiered in October 2022 and ran for 23 episodes. It was previously announced that the anime, which adapts selected portions of <b>Rumiko Takahashi<\/b>\u2018s 1978 manga, will have four cours in total.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The <em>Urusei Yatsura <\/em>manga was serialized in Shogakukan\u2019s Weekly Shonen Sunday and ran until 1987. Viz Media describes the plot as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>In a high-stakes game of tag, Ataru must touch Lum\u2019s horns in ten days\u2014or aliens will take over the earth! The fact that Lum can fly doesn\u2019t make Ataru\u2019s job any easier. As it turns out, the game of tag is only the beginning of Ataru\u2019s troubles, as he continues to attract strange encounters with otherworldly beings like beautiful snow spirit Oyuki and the sexy crow goblin Princess Kurama!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"984\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-71783\" data-id=\"71783\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/uruseiyatsuraseason2_asukavisual.jpg?resize=696%2C984&#038;ssl=1\" 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swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A previous <em>Urusei Yatsura <\/em>anime series aired in the 1980s and was followed by multiple movies and OVAs. Before the 2022 adaptation, the most recent <em>Urusei Yatsura&nbsp;<\/em>anime was an OVA released in 2010.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uy_allstars\/status\/1714929386686972289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">@uy_allstars<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director: <strong>Hideya Takahashi<\/strong> (<em>JoJo\u2019s Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director: <strong>Yasuhiro<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Kimura <\/strong>(<em>JoJo\u2019s Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Series composer: <strong>Yuuko Kakihara<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>The Aquatope on White Sand<\/em>)\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer: <strong>Naoyuki Asano<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Music composer: <strong>Masaru Yokoyama<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Aoashi<\/em>)\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Sub-character designer: <strong>Kazuhiro Takamura<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Strike Witches: Road to Berlin<\/em> director and character designer)\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Sub-character designer: <strong>Mikio<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 2<\/em>\u00a0co-prop designer)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Mechanical designer: <strong>JNTHED<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Spriggan<\/em> [Netflix] production designer)\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Mechanical designer: <strong>Yoshihiro Sono<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Sabikui Bisco<\/em>\u00a0art and creature designer)\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Art director: <strong>Masanobu Nomura<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Fate\/Grand Order Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Paladin; Agateram<\/em>\u00a0co-art director)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Color designer: <strong>Ayaka Nakamura<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>The Heike Story<\/em> assistant color designer)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Compositing director: <strong>Yuuichirou Osada<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>World Trigger 2nd Season<\/em>\u00a0and<em>\u00a03rd Season<\/em>)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Animation production:\u00a0<strong>david production<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Cast<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <strong>Hiroshi Kamiya<\/strong> as Ataru Moroboshi<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022<strong>\u00a0Sumire Uesaka<\/strong> as Lum<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <b>Maaya Uchida\u00a0<\/b>as Shinobu Miyake<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <b>Mamoru Miyano<\/b> as Shutarou Mendou<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <strong>Wataru Takagi<\/strong> as Cherry<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Miyuki Sawashiro<\/strong> as Sakura<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;special PV&#8221; for the new Urusei Yatsura anime, which sees Hiroshi Kamiya&#8216;s Ataru Moroboshi introducing the show&#8217;s myriad characters (with more enthusiasm for the girls), has been released. 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