The 3-nen Z-gumi Ginpachi-sensei anime adaptation has received a teaser trailer.
The anime is based on a Gintama spin-off light novel series written by Tomohito Osaki, which envisions Gintoki as a high school teacher called Ginpachi Sakata. It is set to begin airing in October 2025 and is part of the Gintama manga’s 20th anniversary project.
3-nen Z-gumi Ginpachi-sensei parodies the Japanese drama 3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi-sensei, which aired its first season in 1979 and released the four-hour Final special in 2011. The main Gintama anime has featured shorts with the Ginpachi-sensei premise. The light novels are published under Shueisha’s
The original Gintama comedy manga by Hideaki Sorachi began in 2004 and released its 77th and final tankoubon volume in 2019. It was mainly serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump, but some of its later chapters were published in Jump GIGA in 2019, while the concluding chapters were released via a Gintama app. Twenty-three volumes were published in English by Viz Media.
The TV anime adaptation of the main manga began airing in Japan in 2006 and ran until 2018 for four seasons. There are also a few anime movies, including 2021’s Gintama THE FINAL. Gintama on Theater 2D: Thorny Arc, an edited, limited-run theatrical release of the series’ “Thorny Arc” with bonus footage, debuted in Japanese theaters last November. Another compilation film, Gintama on Theater 2D: Kintama-hen, premiered on November 22, 2024 JST.
Crunchyroll describes the Gintama anime as:
Staff
• Director: Natsumi Higashida (Tokyo Mew Mew New assistant director)
• Chief director: Makoto Moriwaki (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun director)
• Series composer: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Shangri-la Frontier)
• Series composer: Mitei Mark II
• Character designer and chief animation director: Shinji Takeuchi (Gintama)
• Music composer: Audio Highs
• Animation production: BN Pictures
Cast
• Tomokazu Sugita as Ginpachi Sakata
• Daisuke Sakaguchi as Shinpachi Shimura
• Rie Kugimiya as Kagura
Source: @gintamamovie
