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3-Nen Z-gumi Ginpachi-Sensei Spinoff Novels Get Full-Color Vertical-Scrolling Manga Adaptation on Jump Toon
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
Manga launches on October 6, same day as debut of novels' anime adaptation
This year's 44th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine announced on Monday that Tomohito Ōsaki's 3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei(Class 3-Z's Teacher Ginpachi) spinoff novel will get a vertical, full-color manga adaptation on Shueisha's vertical-scrolling manga service Jump TOON titled 3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei Touuunn!!, which will launch on October 6. Ao Suzumemura is in charge of the storyboard, and Yūki Aonuma is drawing the manga adaptation.
Ōsaki's spinoff novel series of Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama manga 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 will publish a new novel volume (image right) titled Oide yo Rinkan Gakkō (Going on a School Camp) on October 3. Sorachi is credited for the original work.
The novels are inspiring an anime adaptation that will premiere on TV Tokyo on October 6 at 12:00 a.m. JST (effectively, October 7) on TV Tokyo and its affiliates. Los Angeles-based Web3 anime-styled brand Azuki's Anime.complatform will stream the anime for free.
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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