{"id":95861,"date":"2025-10-23T06:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/95861\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T06:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:13:11","slug":"classic-shonen-jump-series-returning-for-new-reboot-after-40-years-watch-the-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/95861\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Shonen Jump Series Returning for New Reboot After 40 Years: Watch the Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

One forgotten Shonen Jump<\/a> classic is coming back to screens with a whole new reboot anime 40 years after its original run came to an end. It\u2019s been a great time to be a fan of Shonen Jump\u2019s various properties. While the magazine itself is going through a lot of changes this year with lots of cancellations and others just getting their start<\/a>, many of the classic franchises from the past have been at the center of some huge celebrations. You might have seen a lot of these older classics come back with new reboots for major anniversaries, and now another is on the way. <\/p>\n

Motoei Shinzawa\u2019s High School! Kimengumi first hit the pages of Shonen Jump back in 1980, and steadily evolved through the years since the anime ended its run in 1987. But now 40 years after the original anime ended its run, and many more since the manga first began, High School! Kimengumi is coming back with a brand new anime series bringing all of its characters to life in a whole new kind of way following reports popping up earlier this week<\/a>. You can check out the first look at its new reboot TV series below. <\/p>\n

High School! Kimengumi Returns With New Reboot Anime<\/p>\n

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High School! Kimengumi is returning to screens with a new TV anime series in celebration of the manga\u2019s 45th anniversary of its debut with Shueisha\u2019s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Scheduled to premiere some time next January as part of the Winter 2026 anime schedule, High School! Kimengumi will be directed by Kazuaki Seki (who has previously only had experience with live-action projects) for Seven. Takashi Nishikawa will be serving as animation director, Shigeru Murakoshi will be writing the scripts, and Yuka Abe will be designing the characters. <\/p>\n

Night Tempo will be overseeing the anime\u2019s new songs, and Slow Curve will be producing the new anime project overall. The central voice cast has also been announced with this initial reveal too with the likes of Tomokazu Seki\u00a0as Rei Ichido, Shunsuke Takeuchi\u00a0as Go Reietsu, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka\u00a0as Kiyoshi Shusse, Chiaki Kobayashi\u00a0as Jin Daima, Kikunosuke Toya\u00a0as Dai Monohoshi, Haruka Shiraishi\u00a0as Yui Kawa, and Ikumi Hasegawa\u00a0as Chie Uru. It\u2019s going to be a monumental return given that this series hasn\u2019t been highlighted in this kind of way for such a long time.<\/p>\n

What Is High School! Kimengumi? <\/p>\n

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Originally crafted by Motoei Shinzawa as 3-Nen Kimengumi with Shonen Jump, the series followed a special club of kids in middle school (forming the titular \u201cKimengumi\u201d) who would get up to all sorts of shenanigans and situations. It was such a hit that the series eventually morphed into what is currently known as High School! Kimengumi when the boys all made their way to high school. The series had an anime that ran for 86 episodes in the late 1980s, and now the franchise is finally coming back through this whole new reboot airing next year. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the wackier series Shonen Jump has had, so it\u2019s going to be intriguing to see whether or not the humor of the classic is going to age well in the modern day. But as the franchise gets ready for its reboot, it\u2019s about to reach a whole new audience that might never have experienced it before. What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One forgotten Shonen Jump classic is coming back to screens with a whole new reboot anime 40 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,70990,111,139,69,63636,70991,70992,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-95861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-high-school-kimengumi","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-regular-news","14":"tag-shonen-jump","15":"tag-shonen-jump-generic","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}