A full-page New Yr’s greeting commercial within the January 1 version of the Sankei Shimbun paper introduced that Rumiko Takahashi‘s Urusei Yatsura manga is inspiring a brand new tv anime in 2022. The anime will air within the Noitamina programming block on Fuji TV and different channels.

The commercial lists an internet site that’s internet hosting a countdown timer ending on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. (Friday at 11:00 p.m. EST). The commercial reviews {that a} promotional video will debut at the moment.

Viz Media started publishing the manga in 2-in-1 omnibus editions in spring 2019 with new translations. Viz describes the collection:

Revisit the acclaimed romantic comedy about an unfortunate human boy who meets a gorgeous area alien princess on this massive trim measurement version with all-new translations and new cowl designs. Within the collection, Ataru Moroboshi’s supernatural encounters with the female sort all begin when he is chosen to play tag with an alien princess named Lum who invades the earth on her UFO. Ataru has ten days to the touch Lum’s horns or aliens will take over the earth! Because it seems, the sport of tag is simply the start of Ataru’s troubles, as he continues to draw unusual encounters with otherworldly beings like stunning snow spirit Oyuki and the horny crow goblin Princess Kurama!

The manga collection ran in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shonen Sunday journal from 1978 to 1987. Viz Media beforehand launched a part of the collection in English beneath the titles Lum and The Return of Lum within the Nineties.

The manga impressed a tv anime collection that ran from 1981 to 1986, varied anime movies, and an unique video anime (OVA) collection. AnimEigo launched many of the earlier anime on residence video aside from the Urusei Yatsura: Stunning Dreamer movie which Central Park Media launched. After these corporations’ licenses expired, Discotek Media has been reissuing the films.

Sources: Oricon, Urusei Yatsura tv anime’s web site