'Urusei Yatsura' TV Anime Reveals Additional Cast

The official website of the Urusei Yatsura (2022) television anime revealed four additional cast on Thursday. The anime is scheduled to broadcast on October 14 at 12:55 a.m. on Fuji TV's noitaminA block, Iwate Menkoi TV, Sakuranbo TV, Fukushima TV and Saga TV, followed by TV Ehime and others.

Cast
Father Moroboshi: Toshio Furukawa (Dragon Ball)
Mother Moroboshi: Keiko Toda (Cat's Eye)
Lum's Father: Rikiya Koyama (Fate/stay night)
Lum's Mother: Fumi Hirano (Urusei Yatsura)

Furukawa and Hirano were the voices of Ataru Moroboshi and Lum, respectively, in the original 1981 anime.

Hideya Takahashi (JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 5: Ougon no Kaze) and Yasuhiro Kimura (2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu) are helming the new anime at David Production. Yuuko Kakihara (Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara) is handling the series composition and Naoyuki Asano (Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!) is designing the characters.

Rumiko Takahashi serialized the sci-fi romantic comedy manga in Weekly Shounen Sunday from 1978 to 1987 and compiled into 35 volumes. Shogakukan later reprinted the series in 15 wide-ban volumes in 1989–1990, 18 bunkoban volumes in 1998–1999, and 35 shinsoban volumes in 2006–2008.

Source: Comic Natalie