The new television adaptation of Motoei Shinzawa’s beloved manga “High School! Kimengumi” has been officially announced. This upcoming anime will bring a fresh take on the classic comedy, setting the story in the modern Reiwa era with a new cast of characters. The series will premiere in January and will air on Fuji TV’s Noitamina programming block on Fridays at 11:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. EST).
The official website for the new anime revealed the “leader visual” and cast for the “Omegumi” all-girl gang. M.A.O will voice Jako Amano, the leader of the Omegumi. The cast for other members of Omegumi includes (image above from second top left to bottom right):
The gag comedy centers on a group of five idiosyncratic, wacky students, known in the school halls as Kimengumi, who all befriend the cutest girl in school and her best friend.
The new anime stars Kazuaki Seki, known for his work on “Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey,” “Faking Beethoven,” and music videos for Perfume and Gen Hoshino. Seki is directing his first anime at Animation Studio Seven, with Takashi Nishikawa, known for “Strange+” and “Nobunaga Teacher’s Young Bride,” serving as the animation director. Shigeru Murakoshi, known for “Zombie Land Saga” and “The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse,” is overseeing the series scripts, and Yuka Abe, known for her work on “Fire Force” and “Full Dive,” is designing the characters. Night Tempo is producing the project’s songs, and Slow Curve is planning and producing the project.
The first anime’s theme song “Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi” gets a cover version by Shiraishi and Hasegawa, and is given a modern rearrangement by Night Tempo.
The original story began in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine as the “3-Nen Kimengumi” (Third-Year Funny-Face Club) manga in September 1980. When the characters graduated from junior high school to high school, the story changed its title to “High School! Kimengumi,” and continued running from 1982 to 1987.
The first television anime aired for 86 episodes between 1985 and 1987, and its hit nationwide success spawned a film in 1986 with the working English title “Teenage Masked Tribe.” Hiroshi Fukutomi directed the first anime, and Hatsuki Tsuji and Hiroshi Kanazawa designed the characters. Shunsuke Kikuchi composed the music. The anime starred Issei Futamata, Kaneto Shiozawa, Miki Takahashi, Naoki Tatsuta, Naoko Matsui, Shigeru Chiba, and Tesshล Genda.
REMOW offered the first anime with English subtitles for the first time on YouTube this past summer.
News Source: Animenewsnetwork.com
