A new promotional video confirmed that a new TV anime adaptation of Motoei Shinzawa’s High School! Kimengumi manga will premiere in January 2026. The new High School! Kimengumi anime will air on Fuji TV network’s Noitamina programming block on Fridays at 11:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. EST).
What’s more, the anime’s cast and staff was announced alongside the release of a new official trailer and key visual. The video features the theme song “Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi,” which was covered by Shiraishi and Hasegawa with a modern rearrangement by Night Tempo.
The new anime’s cast includes (top left to bottom right in the image below):
- 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
Kazuaki Seki directs his first anime at Animation Studio Seven with Takashi Nishikawa as the animation director. Shigeru Murakoshi oversees the series scripts, and Yuka Abe is the character designer. Night Tempo is producing the project’s songs, and Slow Curve is planning and producing the project.
REMOW is currently streaming the original High School! Kimengumi anime on YouTube. Here’s an overview of the anime, via REMOW:
The Funny-face Club are technically high school students, but that’s where the normal part ends. The five members (Rei Ichido, Go Reiketsu, Kiyoshi Duse, Dai Moroboshi, and Jin Ooma) all have unique faces and even more unique personalities. Whether you’re talking about temperaments, intellect, physical quirks, or behavior, they’re all complete weirdos!
Alongside them are other colorful groups at school like the Pretty-boy Brigade, the Buckle-down Bunch, and the Rebel Crew), alongside classmates like Yui Kasengawa and Chie Ururu, and all their teachers who also get caught up in the chaos. Together, they dive headfirst into a nonstop series of wacky, wild antics.
It’s a story packed with absurdity, nonsense, unpredictability, and utter madness, featuring five hopeless underachievers that will stay in your memory forever!
