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Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube Debuts on July 2, Airs for 2 Parts With 2nd Half in January 2026

The official X/Twitter account for the television anime adaptation of Takeshi Okano and Sho Makura's Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube (Jigoku Sensei Nube) manga announced on Thursday that the anime will debut on July 2 with a one-hour broadcast for the first two episodes on TV Asahi's new programming block for anime titled "IM Animation W" at 11:15 p.m. JST. Subsequent episodes will debut at 11:45 p.m. JST. The anime will air in two split cours (quarters of a year), with the second cours premiering in January 2026.

Ryōtarō Okiayu will star as Meisuke Nueno, also known as “Nube,” in the anime. Additional cast includes:

• Ryoko Shiraishi as Hiroshi Tateno, a student in Class 5-3 at Domori Elementary School with a bright and energetic personality
• Aya Suzaki as Kyoko Inaba, a student in Class 5-3 who is frank, diligent, and reliable
• Tomoyo Kurosawa as Miki Hosokawa, a student in Class 5-3 who is curious and mischievous
• Ryota Iwasaki as Katsuya Kimura, a student in Class 5-3 who is relatively mature for his age
• Shiho Kokido as Makoto Kurita, a student in Class 5-3 who is one of the smaller students in the class
• Aya Endo as Ritsuko Takahashi, the homeroom teacher of Class 5-2
• Ai Kakuma as Yukime, a mysterious girl who claims to be Nube's fiancée
• Toshiyuki Morikawa as Kyosuke Tamamo, a handsome young man living in Domori Town

Yasuyuki Ōishi (episode director for Stars Align, Narenare -Cheer for you!) is directing the anime at Studio KAI. Fumito Yamada (episode director for Hell's Paradise, Love Is Indivisible by Twins) is the assistant director, Yoshiki Ōkusa (Butt Detective franchise, The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases) is the head writer, and Yū Yoshiyama (key animator for Dragon Ball Super, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury) is the character designer. Evan Call (My Happy Marriage, VIolet Evergarden) is composing the music.

Other staff members include:

• Assistant Character Design: Atsuko Takahashi
• Prop Design: Eriko Ito
• Yokai Design: Hironori Tanaka, Kijimaru
• Action Director: Takahiro Kagami, Yū Yoshiyama
• Setting Design: Akihiro Hirasawa
• Art Director: Minami Kasuga
• Color Design: Hironori Noji
• 3DCG Director: Masanari Kira
• Screen Design: Hitoshi Tamura
• Director of Photography: Eiko Hiramoto
• Editor: Masato Yoshitake
• Sound Director: Yasushi Nagura
• Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa, Rio Sato
• Recording: Soushi Shiihara

The show's staff describes the story in English:

A number of inexplicable phenomena have been plaguing the town of Domori. In order to protect the town's children, a new homeroom teacher known as “Nube” arrives.

Normally gentle and a bit outgoing, Nube has a secret side: he is, in fact, the only psychic teacher in Japan. Rumor also has it his left hand is possessed by a demon!

Hell's messenger of justice is here to take on the school's seven mysteries, ghosts, and evil spirits attacking his students. This occultist action story starts now!

Makura and Okano serialized the original 31-volume manga from 1993 to 1999 in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The manga has more than 29 million copies in circulation. The manga was later re-released in 2006 as 20 volumes.

Makura and Okano published a one-shot manga titled "Jigoku Sensei Nube: Ōmagatoki" in Grand Jump in April 2014, 15 years after the original manga ended. The duo then launched a sequel manga titled Jigoku Sensei Nube Neo in Grand Jump Premium in May 2014. That manga ended in December 2018, and has 17 volumes. The Jigoku Sensei Nube S manga launched in Saikyo Jump in 2018 and has four total volumes. The manga franchise also includes the 10-volume Reibaishi Izuna and 10-volume Reibaishi Izuna Ascension spinoff manga. A new one-shot for the manga launched in the September issue of Shueisha's Saikyo Jump magazine on August 2.

Sho Makura and Takeshi Okano posted a special one-shot manga on the officlal website of Shueisha's Saikyo Jump magazine on April 16. The special is set before the upcoming new serialization of the manga and is available to read for free until June 3.

The new manga series will debut in the June issue of Shueisha's Saikyo Jump magazine on May 2. Makura is credited for the original work and Okano is drawing the manga. The new manga series is titled Jigoku Sensei Nube Kai. In the new series, Nube crosses space and time to save the students of class 5-3, who have been sucked into a world of ghost stories.

The original manga inspired a television anime series in 1996-1997, a video anime series in 1998-1999, and three anime films in 1996 and 1997. The manga also inspired a live-action series adaptation in 2014.

Source: Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube anime's X/Twitter account