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New Urusei Yatsura Anime Adds 3 More Cast

The cast includes:

• Maaya Uchida as Shinobu Miyake
• Mamoru Miyano as Shūtarō Mendō
• Wataru Takagi as Cherry
• Miyuki Sawashiro as Sakura
• Kana Hanazawa as Ran
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Rei
• Saori Hayami as Oyuki
• Shizuka Ishigami as Benten
• Hiroshi Kamiya as Ataru Moroboshi

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

• Sub-Character Design: Mikio
• Mechanic Design: Yoshihiro Sono
• Prop Design: Ryō Hirata
• Art Design: Kaoru Aoki
• Art Director: Masanobu Nomura
• Color Key Artist: Ayaka Nakamura
• CG Director: Kanji Ōshima
• Compositing Director of Photography: Yuuichirou Nagata
• Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
• Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami

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.

Source: Comic Natalie