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Gakuen Basara TV Anime Reveals 6 More Cast Members, Character Designs
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The official website for the television anime adaptation of Gakuen Basara, a high school spinoff project based on CAPCOM's Sengoku Basara game franchise, revealed six more cast members for the series on Monday.
The new cast includes (reprising their roles from previous works in the franchise):
Mamiko Noto as Oichi
Kouji Tsujitani as Azai Nagamasa
Romi Park as Uesugi Kenshin
Tesshō Genda as Takeda Shingen
Shō Hayami as Akechi Mitsuhide
Norio Wakamoto as Oda Nobunaga
The anime will premiere in October.
The previously revealed cast includes:
Kazuya Nakai as Date Masamune
Sōichirō Hoshi as Sanada Yukimura
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Katakura Kojūrō
Takehito Koyasu as Sarutobi Sasuke
Masakazu Morita as Maeda Keiji
Ryūzō Ishino as Chōsokabe Motochika
Shigeru Nakahara as Mōri Motonari
Toshiki Masuda as Tokugawa Ieyasu (replacing Tōru Ohkawa)
Tomokazu Seki as Ishida Mitsunari
Natsuko Kuwatani as Kasuga
Additional characters include:
Honda Tadakatsu
Yumekichi
The Gakuen Basara school battle comedy parody reimagines the Warring States Era warriors of CAPCOM's action game franchise as rival students in a modern high school. Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura battle to replace Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the next student council president. The project published several official comic anthologies between 2007 and last year.
Minoru Ōhara (Glass Fleet, Lupin III: Episode 0 'First Contact') is directing the anime at Brains Base, and Kōji Miura (Examurai Sengoku) is in charge of the series scripts. Haruhito Takada (Kaiji) is designing the characters. CAPCOM's Hiroyuki Kobayashi and Makoto Yamamoto are supervising from the original work.
CAPCOM's Sengoku Basara franchise already inspired three television anime series, one anime movie, a live-action series with two compilation films, and several stage plays.
Sources: Gakuen Basara's official website, Comic Natalie
