The staff of the TV anime adaptation of Motoei Shinzawa’s High School! Kimengumi manga revealed new cast members for “Irootokogumi” characters. A new key visual for Irootokogumi leader Shō Kireide was also released.
The new Irootokogumi cast of High School! Kimengumi include (image below from top left to bottom right):
- Daisuke Sakuma as Shō Kireide
- Hayato Yamamoto as Kimeru Setto
- Yohei Sasamori as Torio Tanokin
- Ayato Morinaga as Kazaru Sugata
- Hiroki Nishimiya as Takashi Hokori
High School! Kimengumi will premiere in January 2026 and air on Fuji TV network’s Noitamina programming block on Fridays at 11:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. EST).
The anime’s theme song “Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi,” which was covered by Shiraishi and Hasegawa with a modern rearrangement by Night Tempo.
The anime’s cast includes:
- 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
- M.A.O as Jako Amano
- Kaoru Sakura as Maki Hidari
- Sachiko Okada as Ikue Sandanhara
- Marie Ōi as Desuko Honba
- Minami Shindō as Kayo Ōba
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. Lastly, 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!
