Kodoani.com – A New Year’s advertisement in the January 1 issue of the Sankei Shimbun announced that the manga Urusei Yatsura by Rumiko Takahashi is adapting a new television anime in 2022. The anime will air in the Noitamina program on Fuji TV and other channels.
The ad lists a website that is hosting a countdown timer that ends Saturday at 1 p.m. (Friday at 11 p.m. EST). Ads reports that a promotional video will launch at that time.
Viz Media began publishing the omnibus 2-in-1 manga in spring 2019 with new translations. Viz describes the series:
Revisit the popular romantic comedy about an unlucky human boy who meets a beautiful space princess in this full-size edition with brand new translations and new cover designs. In the series, Ataru Moroboshi’s supernatural encounters with female characters begin when he is chosen to play a card game with an alien princess named Lum, who has invaded the earth on her UFO. that. Ataru has ten days to touch Lum’s horns or the aliens will take over the earth! As it turns out, the card game is just the beginning of Ataru’s troubles, as he continues to attract strange encounters with otherworldly beings like the beautiful snow spirit Oyuki and the elf princess Sexy Kurama!
The series ran in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine from 1978 to 1987. Viz Media previously released part of the series in English under the titles Lum and The Return of Lum in the 1990s.
The manga has adapted for a television animated series from 1981 to 1986, various animated films, and an original video animation (OVA) series.
Via: Kodoani.com
