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Anime.com to Stream GINTAMA - Mr. Ginpachi's Zany Class Spinoff TV Anime for Free

Los Angeles-based Web3 anime-styled brand Azuki's Anime.com platform announced on Thursday that it is partnering with TV Tokyo to stream the anime adaptation of GINTAMA - Mr. Ginpachi's Zany Class (3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei), Tomohito Ōsaki's spinoff novel series. The platform will stream the anime for free every week starting on October 6 at 10:00 p.m. EDT. There will also be watch parties for each episode. The company streamed an English-subtitled trailer:

The anime will premiere on TV Tokyo on October 6 at 12:00 a.m. JST (effectively, October 7) on TV Tokyo and its affiliates.

This year's Anime Expo event hosted the anime's world premiere on July 5.

Natsumi Higashida is directing the anime at BN Pictures. Makoto Moriwaki (Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun) is the general director. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) and Mitei Mark II are in charge of series composition. Shinji Takeuchi (Gintama) is the chief animation director. Audio Highs (Gintama, Bakuman.) is composing for the music.

Returning cast members from the original Gintama anime include:

• Tomokazu Sugita as Ginpachi Sakata
• Daisuke Sakaguchi as Shinpachi Shimura
• Rie Kugimiya as Kagura
• Satsuki Yukino as Tae Shimura
• Susumu Chiba as Isao Kondo
• Kazuya Nakai as Toshiro Hijikata
• Kenichi Suzumura as Sogo Okita
• Tetsuharu Ohta as Sagaru Yamazaki
• Yū Kobayashi as Ayame Sarutobi
• Akira Ishida as Kotaro Katsura
• Takehito Koyasu as Shinsuke Takasugi
• Satoshi Hino as Kamui

Ōsaki's spinoff novel series is set in Gintama High School and follows the school teacher Ginpachi Sakata (despite not having the personality or appearance befitting a teacher) and his students. The story first debuted in 2006. Shueisha published the latest volume in the novel series last December. Sorachi is credited for the original work.

The spinoff novel series will get a new novel volume on October 3 titled Oide yo Rinkan Gakkō (Going on a School Camp).

The 3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei concept was previously animated as a short at the end of several Gintama anime series episodes.

Sorachi's original "science-fiction period-drama comedy" manga began in 2003 and ended in June 2019 with over 55 million copies in circulation. The manga has inspired several television anime series with 367 total episodes, as well as three previous anime films. The latest anime series premiered in July 2018. The manga has also inspired various original video anime (OVA), event anime, two live-action films, and two live-action net spinoffs. Viz Media published the manga's first 23 volumes in English.

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