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Gakuen Basara Gets First Teaser Trailer & A Key Visual

Written By Samantha Ferreira

Talk about your battle royale high schools!

Earlier today, the official Gakuen Basara anime website updated with a new teaser trailer and a key visual. We break the details down below.

Promo Video

The 30-second teaser introduces main characters Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune. At the 22-second mark, the show’s opening theme song by T.M. Revolution kicks in.

Key Visual

The image features the major characters set against a clear blue sky. Masamune and Yukimura are front in center as they square off against one another.

Gakuen Basara Anime Key Visual
(c) CAPCOM / Private BASARA Academy

Gakuen Basara hits Japanese TV on October 4. TBS will air the series on October 4, while BS-TBS launches the title on October 6.

Gakuen Basara Character Visual
(c) CAPCOM / Private BASARA Academy

Gakuen Basara is a spinoff from Sengoku Basara. The series will be directed by Minoru Ohara (Lupin III: Episode 0 ‘First Contact’, Glass Fleet) at Brains Base, with Haruhito Takada (Hunter ร— Hunter: Phantom Rouge, Kaiji) providing character designs. Kouji Miura (Examurai Sengoku) is in charge of series composition.

Capcom’s Hiroyuki Kobayashi and Makoto Yamamoto will serve as supervisors.

The confirmed voice cast includes:

  • Date Masamune: Kazuya Nakai
  • Sanada Yukimura: Sลichiro Hoshi
  • Katakura Kojลซrล: Toshiyuki Morikawa
  • Sarutobi Sasuke: Takehito Koyasu
  • Maeda Keiji: Masakazu Morita
  • Motochika Chลsokabe: Ryuuzou Ishino
  • Motonari Mลri: Shigeru Nakahara
  • Azai Nagamasa: Kouji Tsujitani
  • Oichi: Mamiko Noto
  • Kasuga: Natsuko Kuwatani
  • Oda Nobunaga: Norio Wakamoto
  • Uesugi Kenshin: Romi Park
  • Akechi Mitsuhide: Sho Hayami
  • Takeda Shingen: Tesshล Genda
  • Ishida Mitsunari: Tomokazu Seki
  • Tokugawa Ieyasu: Toshiki Masuda

All seven characters are reprising their roles from other Sengoku Basara entries.

Sengoku Basara began its life in 2005 as a PlayStation 2 game. The title was releaesd in the west as Devil Kings. The title received six sequels through 2014, as well as a spinoff in 2016. The franchise received an anime TV series by Production I.G. in the Spring 2009 broadcast season.

Source: Comic Natalie

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Samantha Ferreira is Anime Heraldโ€™s founder and editor-in-chief. A Rhode Island native, Samantha has been an anime fan since 1992, and an active member of the anime press since 2002, when she began working as a reviewer for Anime Dream. She launched Anime Herald in 2010, and continues to oversee its operations to this day. Outside of journalism, Samantha actively studies the history of the North American anime fandom and industry, with a particular focus on the 2000s anime boom and bust. Sheโ€™s a huge fan of all things Sakura Wars, and maintains series fansite Combat Revue Review when she has free time available. When not in the Anime Herald Discord, Samantha can typically be found on Bluesky.

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