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Gakuen Basara Anime Unveils 7 More Cast Members, Theme Song Info
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The staff for the television anime adaptation of Gakuen Basara, a high school spinoff project based on CAPCOM's Sengoku Basara game franchise, revealed seven more cast members and the theme song information. T.M. Revolution (Takanori Nishikawa) is collaborating with rock band Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas on the anime's theme song "Be Affected."
The newly announced cast includes:
Fumihiko Tachiki as Yoshitsugu Ōtani
Jun Fukuyama as Hideaki Kobayakawa
Miyuki Sawashiro as Itsuki
Yūichi Nakamura as Sakon Shima
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Katsuie Shibata
Shinichirō Miki as Matabee Gotō
Rikiya Koyama as Kanbee Kuroda
The show also stars:
Kazuya Nakai as Date Masamune
Sōichirō Hoshi as Sanada Yukimura
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Katakura Kojūrō
Takehito Koyasu as Sarutobi Sasuke
Masakazu Morita as Maeda Keiji
Ryūzō Ishino as Chōsokabe Motochika
Shigeru Nakahara as Mōri Motonari
Toshiki Masuda as Tokugawa Ieyasu (replacing Tōru Ohkawa)
Tomokazu Seki as Ishida Mitsunari
Natsuko Kuwatani as Kasuga
Mamiko Noto as Oichi
Kouji Tsujitani as Azai Nagamasa
Romi Park as Uesugi Kenshin
Tesshō Genda as Takeda Shingen
Shō Hayami as Akechi Mitsuhide
Norio Wakamoto as Oda Nobunaga
Yūko Kaida as Matsu
Tomohiro Tsuboi as Maeda Toshiie
Akira Ishida as Takenaka Shigeharu
Ryōtarō Okiayu as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Sayaka Ōhara as Suzuki Magoichi
Additional characters include:
Honda Tadakatsu
Yumekichi
The show will premiere on TBS on October 4 and then on BS-TBS on October 6. A preview screening of the first episode will be held on Friday, September 28 in Tokyo.
The Gakuen Basara school battle comedy parody reimagines the Warring States Era warriors of CAPCOM's action game franchise as rival students in a modern high school. Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura battle to replace Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the next student council president. The project published several official comic anthologies between 2007 and last year.
Minoru Ōhara (Glass Fleet, Lupin III: Episode 0 'First Contact') is directing the anime at Brains Base, and Kōji Miura (Examurai Sengoku) is in charge of the series scripts. Haruhito Takada (Kaiji) is designing the characters. CAPCOM's Hiroyuki Kobayashi and Makoto Yamamoto are supervising from the original work.
Additional staff members include:
- Chief Animation Director: Naoki Aisaka
- Art Director: Kazuhiro Arai
- Prop Design: Hiroshi Ogawa
- Color Key: Yuuko Fukuda
- Director of Photography: Yorinobu Oda
- Editing: Yasutaka Ikeda
- Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
- Sound Production: Dax Production
- Music: Akiyuki Tateyama (High Kick Entertainment)
- Background Music Production (High Kick Entertainment)
- Animation Production Collaboration: Maruga Factory
EIGHT OF TRIANGLE will perform the anime's opening theme song "Hokore Kedakaki Utsukushiki, Ikizama o" (Live Proudly, Nobly, and Beautifully).
Source: Animate Times
