The series will air on 9 January 2026.
The remake anime of the classic gag series High School! Kimengumi (High School! Funny-Face Club) has a massive cast. Ahead of the show’s 9 January premiere, it was announced that Kenichi Ogata, who voiced the school principal Sakio Kochō in the original anime will be returning to voice the same role in the new series.
Kenichi Ogata is returning to the series after 40 years
Veteran voice actor Kenichi Ogata voiced the principal of the school Sakio Kochō in the original High School! Kimengumi anime in 1985. Four decades later, the new anime is bringing him back to voice the same role. Those who loved the original anime will definitely take a walk down memory lane after hearing him in the new series.
The new anime’s other cast members are:
- 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
- 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
Kazuaki Seki directs the remake anime at Seven, with Takashi Nishikawa working as the animation director. Shigeru Murakoshi is handling series composition while Yuka Abe designs the characters. Night Tempo is in charge of in-show song production, and Slow Curve handles the planning and production of the series.
The anime is being adapted from Motoei Shinzawa’s classic gag manga series from the 1980s. The story of the anime focuses on the five members of the Kimen Gumi (Funny Face Club): Rei Ichido, Go Reietsu, Kiyoshi Shusse, Jin Daima, and Dai Monboshi. They all attend the Ichiou High School and have distinct and wildly eccentric personalities. The new transfer student Yui Kawa is intrigued by them and she and her friend Chie Uru start spending time with the group. Although the original manga and anime took place in the 80s, the new anime transfers the characters into the modern Reiwa era.