Class returns for schoolchildren all over Japan later this week, and that includes the kids of High School! Kimengumi , for which a remake anime is starting on January 9. The official accounts for the new adaptation of Motoei Shinzawa’s comedy manga series revealed tonight that returning from the original 1985 series would be Kenichi Ogata as Kocho-sensei, the very old principal of the junior high school. Kenichi Ogata is best known for voicing Professor Hiroshi Agasa in Detective Conan , Genma Saotome in Ranma ½, and the Narrator in the Ranma ½ remake, as well as Gran Torino in My Hero Academia . He originally voiced Kocho-sensei in the original 1985 High School! Kimengumi anime, appearing in the first episode, is likely to do the same again this week. RELATED: High School! Kimengumi Anime Remake Shares Main Trailer, Visual, More Cast Members 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 on January 9 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
