New cast members join the upcoming new anime adaptation of Motoei Shinzawa’s comedy manga series High School! Kimengumi today with today’s announcement of Undo Kai’s voice actor, alongside the voice actors for the rest of the Udegumi crew. Yusuke Kobayashi will be voicing Undo Kai, whose character name is a pun on “Sports Festival” in Japanese. Kobayashi is best known as Subaru Natsuki in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- , Senku Ishigami in Dr. STONE and Footsoldier D in Go! Go! Loser Ranger! . The rest of the Udegumi crew from High School! Kimengumi includes: Akiresu Ken voiced by Takuto Yokoyama Intahai Susumu voiced by Masayuki Sato Konjo Yutaka voiced by Shuya Watanabe Suji Chikara voiced by Ayumu Asakura RELATED: High School! Kimengumi Remake Anime Casts Five Delinquents of "Bangumi" Kazuaki Seki (Perfume, Gen Hoshino music videos) directs High School! Kimengumi at Animation Studio Seven with series composition written by Shigeru Murakoshi ( ZOMBIE LAND SAGA ), character designs from Yuka Abe and in-show song production by Night Tempo. It is set to premiere in January 2026 in the noitaminA block. High School! Kimengumi is the second installment in Shinzawa's Kimengumi (literally translated to "Funny Face Club") manga series. The first entry, Sannen Kimengumi ("Third Year Funny-face Club" ), was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from October 1980 to April 1982. When the main characters entered high school, the title changed to High School! Kimengumi and the sequel was serialized in the same magazine from April 1982 to July 1987. The story centers on the five members of Kimen-gumi — Rei Ichido, Go Reietsu, Kiyoshi Shusse, Jin Daima, and Dai Monboshi — all of whom attend Ichiou Junior High School. Each member possesses a wildly eccentric personality. Transfer student Yui Kawa and her classmate Chie Uru, intrigued by the group, begin spending time with them. Source: Comic Natalie
