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Gakuen Basara Anime Unveils More of Cast & Staff, Opening Song Artists
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
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 a new visual for the anime on Thursday. The staff also revealed more cast and staff members, as well as the opening theme song artists for the anime.
The new cast members include:
Yūko Kaida as Matsu
Tomohiro Tsuboi as Maeda Toshiie
Akira Ishida as Takenaka Shigeharu
Ryōtarō Okiayu as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Sayaka Ōhara as Suzuki Magoichi
Additionally, the staff revealed the following character with no cast member:
EIGHT OF TRIANGLE will perform the anime's opening theme song "Hokore Kedakaki Utsukushiki, Ikizama o" (Live Proudly, Nobly, and Beautifully).
The additional staff members include:
- Chief Animation Director: Naoki Aisaka
- Art Director: Kazuhiro Arai
- Prop Design: Hiroshi Ogawa
- Color Key: Yuuko Fukuda
- Director of Photography: Yorinobu Oda
- Editing: Yasutaka Ikeda
- Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
- Sound Production: Dax Production
- Music: Akiyuki Tateyama (High Kick Entertainment)
- Background Music Production (High Kick Entertainment)
- Theme Song: Takanori Nishikawa
- Animation Production Collaboration: Maruga Factory
The show stars:
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
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
Additional characters include:
Honda Tadakatsu
Yumekichi
The show will premiere on TBS on October 4 and then on BS-TBS on October 6. The official website also revealed a new key visual.
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.
As previously announced, 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
