The second half of the new anime ''Urusei Yatsura'' adds two new members to the cast

The official website for the new television anime of Rumiko Takahashi's Urusei Yatsura manga revealed two new cast members on Thursday for the second half of the anime. 

The two new cast members are: 

• Ayumu Murase as Nagisa Shiowatari 

• Koichi Sakaguchi as Nagisa's Dad 

The anime's second half will premiere in January 2024. 

plot of the story: 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 anime premiered in the Noitamina programming block on Fuji TV in October 2022. HIDIVE is streaming the anime, and began streaming the English dub on March 1. 

The manga inspired a television anime series that aired from 1981 to 1986. In addition to the series, various anime films and an original video anime (OVA) series were also produced. Most of the previous anime content was released on home video by AnimEigo, with the exception of the film “Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer”, which was released by Central Park Media. Once the licenses of these companies expired, Discotek Media took over the reissuing of the movies. 

Sources: Ufficial website, ANN