{"id":180145,"date":"2025-12-08T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180145\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:01:11","slug":"new-high-school-kimengumi-anime-debuts-on-january-9-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180145\/","title":{"rendered":"New High School! Kimengumi Anime Debuts on January 9 – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"news01\"Image via New High School! Kimengumi anime’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 \u65b0\u6ca2\u57fa\u6804\uff0f\u96c6\u82f1\u793e\u30fb\u5947\u9762\u7d44<\/p>\n

The second 2026 issue of Shueisha<\/a>‘s Weekly Shonen Jump<\/a> magazine revealed on Monday that the new television anime<\/a> of Motoei Shinzawa<\/a>‘s High School! Kimengumi<\/a> (High School! Funny-Face Club) manga will debut on January 9. The anime will air on Fuji TV<\/a>‘s Noitamina<\/a> programming block on Fridays at 11:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Kazuaki Seki<\/a>\u00a0(live-action\u00a0Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist\u2019s Journey<\/a>, Faking Beethoven, music videos for\u00a0Perfume\u00a0and\u00a0Gen Hoshino<\/a>) is directing his first anime at Animation Studio\u00a0Seven\u00a0with\u00a0Takashi Nishikawa<\/a>\u00a0(Strange+<\/a>,\u00a0Nobunaga Teacher’s Young Bride<\/a>) serving as the animation director.\u00a0Shigeru Murakoshi<\/a>\u00a0(Zombie Land Saga<\/a>,\u00a0The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse<\/a>) is overseeing the series scripts, and\u00a0Yuka Abe<\/a>\u00a0(animation director on\u00a0Fire Force<\/a>,\u00a0Full Dive<\/a>) is designing the characters.\u00a0Night Tempo<\/a>\u00a0is producing the project’s songs, and\u00a0Slow Curve<\/a>\u00a0is planning and producing the project.<\/p>\n

The first anime’s theme song “Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi” gets a cover version by Haruka Shiraishi<\/a>\u00a0and Ikumi Hasegawa<\/a>, and is given a modern rearrangement by Night Tempo.<\/p>\n

The original story began in\u00a0Shueisha’s\u00a0Weekly Shonen Jump\u00a0magazine as the\u00a03-Nen Kimengumi\u00a0(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\u00a0High School! Kimengumi, and continued running from 1982 to 1987.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Teenage Masked Tribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

REMOW<\/a>\u00a0offered<\/a>\u00a0the first anime with English subtitles for the first time on\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0this past summer.<\/p>\n

Source: Weekly Shonen Jump 2026 issue 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image via New High School! Kimengumi anime’s website \u00a9 \u65b0\u6ca2\u57fa\u6804\uff0f\u96c6\u82f1\u793e\u30fb\u5947\u9762\u7d44 The second 2026 issue of Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-180145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}