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New Urusei Yatsura Anime's 2nd Half to Air for Half Year Starting on January 11
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The official website for the new television Shūhei Nakano will air on December 29.
The site also revealed one more new cast member:
The anime's first half ran for half a year, or two cours (quarters of a year), without breaks. The entire run of the anime will adapt selected stories from the manga and last four cours, or a full year, although not consecutively.
Fruits Basket) is composing the music.
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 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: Urusei Yatsura anime's website, Comic Natalie
