The Beginner’s Primer to the ‘Urusei Yatsura’ 2022 Anime

Anime Fall Season has begun, and I’m already scrambling for a lifeboat. I’m a huge Rumiko Takahashi fan, and Urusei Yatsura has been on my list of anime to ‘definitely watch this season’ since I first heard the news. Here’s a mostly spoiler free guide for anyone who wants to know the details on one of the most anticipated animes coming this Fall! Log line: Boy meets girl but girl is from outer space!  Who Created it: The legendary Rumiko Takahashi, who first started creating manga in the late 1970’s–who is also responsible for such hits as Inuyasha, Ranma ½, and Maison Ikkoku. Takahashi was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame in 2018 and she won the Grand Prix at FIDB Angoulême in 2019. She won the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award twice in her career: once for Urusei Yatsura in 1981 and the second time for Inuyasha in 2002.  She is still active as a mangaka whose many works have been adapted for several other mediums including anime and live-action. She is currently working on Mao, an era-spanning supernatural adventure in Japan which has been running since 2019 and has been collected in over ten volumes in its native country so far. What is it About:  The chronically unlucky and unapologetically not pure of heart Ataru Moroboshi is selected as humanity’s representative in a duel for the fate of the planet when an alien race known as the Oni invade Earth.  His opponent is Lum, the Oni’s princess, and it’s only thanks to Ataru’s very …