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New High School! Kimengumi Anime Reveals Promo Video, 13 More Cast Members, Theme Song Artists

The staff for the new television anime of Motoei Shinzawa's High School! Kimengumi (High School! Funny-Face Club) manga revealed a promotional video on Friday. The video reveals and previews Rikon Densetsu's ending theme song "Suteki!!" BREIMEN will perform the opening theme song "Funky Spice feat. TOMOO."

The staff also revealed a new visual.

The staff also revealed 13 new cast members (left to right in top row, then middle, then bottom row):

• Kōsuke Toriumi as Don Harumage
• Yōko Hikasa as Masuyo Ikari
• Yui Horie as Ran Wakato
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Takuma Sessa
• Show Hayami as Kou Irooto
• Tomokazu Sugita as Sakugo Jidai
•  Fumiya Imai as Ichirō Shinjitsu
• Junya Enoki as Menichi Nikaidō
• Aimi as Mari Oda
• Yui Ishikawa as Yumi Monozukishi
• Yōji Ueda as Takuseki Ichidō
• Kanna Nakamura as Kiri Ichidō
• Yūki Okada as Lassie Ichidō

The anime will debut on January 9 and will air on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block on Fridays at 11:30 p.m.

The gag comedy centers on a group of five idiosyncratic, wacky students, known in the school halls as Kimengumi, who all befriend the cutest girl in school and her best friend. Whereas the original manga (and its first television anime) were set in the 1980s, this new anime will set the story in the modern Reiwa era with a new cast.

The new anime stars:

• Tomokazu Seki as Rei Ichidō
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Gō Reietsu
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Kiyoshi Shusse
• Chiaki Kobayashi as Jin Daima
• Kikunosuke Toya as Dai Monohoshi
• Haruka Shiraishi as Yui Kawa
• Ikumi Hasegawa as Chie Uru
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Yō Nihiruda
• Toshiki Horikita as Omiya Nakasudō
• Yūhi Asagiri as Kensaku Meri
• Masafumi Kobatake as Ranto Jōgai
• Kazuki Ogawa as Koeru Tabuchi
• Yūsuke Kobayashi as Kai Undō
• Takuto Yokoyama as Ken Akiresu
• Masayuki Satō as Susumu Intahai
• Shuya Watanabe as Yutaka Konjō
• Ayumu Asakura as Chikara Suji
• Kaoru Sakura as Maki Hidari
• Sachiko Okada as Ikue Sandanhara
• Marie Ōi as Desuko Honba
• Minami Shindō as Kayo Ōba
• Hayato Yamamoto as Kimeru Setto
• Yohei Sasamori as Torio Tanokin
• Ayato Morinaga as Kazaru Sugata
• Hiroki Nishimiya as Takashi Hokori
• Daisuke Sakuma as Shō Kireide
• M.A.O as Jako Amano

Kazuaki Seki (live-action Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey, Faking Beethoven, music videos for Perfume and Gen Hoshino) is directing his first anime at Animation Studio Seven with Takashi Nishikawa (Strange+, Nobunaga Teacher's Young Bride) serving as the animation director. Shigeru Murakoshi (Zombie Land Saga, The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse) is overseeing the series scripts, and Yuka Abe (animation director on Fire Force, Full Dive) is designing the characters. Night Tempo is producing the project's songs, and Slow Curve is planning and producing the project.

The first anime's theme song "Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi" gets a cover version by Haruka Shiraishi and Ikumi Hasegawa, and is given a modern rearrangement by Night Tempo.

The original story began in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine as the 3-Nen Kimengumi (Third-Year Funny-Face Club) manga in September 1980. When the characters graduated from junior high school to high school, the story changed its title to High School! Kimengumi, and continued running from 1982 to 1987.

The first television anime aired for 86 episodes between 1985 and 1987, and its hit nationwide success spawned a film in 1986 with the working English title Teenage Masked Tribe.

REMOW offered the first anime with English subtitles for the first time on YouTube this past summer.

Sources: Press release, High School! Kimengumi anime's X/Twitter account