Class is in session this fall! Get ready, because first period is set to be on Hell of a party!
Earlier today, Sentai Filmworks announced that they acquired the rights to Gakuen Basara in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Sentai streamed a subtitled teaser for the series, along with a confirmation that the show will stream on HIDIVE.
Gakuen Basara will launch on HIDIVE on October 6 at 1:00 UTC (10/5/2018 at 9:00PM EDT). The show hits Japanese TV on October 4. The full broadcast schedule is as follows (All times JST):
- TBS: 10/4/2018 at 26:28 (10/5/2018 at 2:28 AM)
- BS-TBS: 10/6/2018 at 26:00 (10/7/2018 at 2:00AM)
- ITV: 10/18/2018 at 25:36 (10/19/2018 at 1:36AM)
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 × 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.
(c) CAPCOM / Private BASARA Academy
The confirmed voice cast includes:
- Date Masamune: Kazuya Nakai
- Sanada Yukimura: Sōichiro Hoshi
- Takenaka Shigeharu: Akira Ishida
- Tsuruhime: Ami Koshimizu
- Azai Nagamasa: Kouji Tsujitani
- Oichi: Mamiko Noto
- Maeda Keiji: Masakazu Morita
- Kasuga: Natsuko Kuwatani
- Oda Nobunaga: Norio Wakamoto
- Uesugi Kenshin: Romi Park
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Ryotaro Okiayu
- Motochika Chōsokabe: Ryuuzou Ishino
- Suzuki Magoichi: Sayaka Ohara
- Motonari Mōri: Shigeru Nakahara
- Akechi Mitsuhide: Sho Hayami
- Sarutobi Sasuke: Takehito Koyasu
- Takeda Shingen: Tesshō Genda
- Maeda Toshiie: Tomohiro Tsuboi
- Ishida Mitsunari: Tomokazu Seki
- Tokugawa Ieyasu: Toshiki Masuda
- Katakura Kojūrō: Toshiyuki Morikawa
- Matsu: Yuko Kaida
- Ōtani Yoshitsugu: Fumihiko Tachiki
- Kobayakawa Hideaki: Jun Fukuyama
- Itsuki: Miyuki Sawashiro
- Shibata Katsuie: Nobuhiko Okamoto
- Kuroda Yoshitaka: Rikiya Koyama
- Gotō Mototsugu: Shinichiro Miki
- Shima Sakon: Yūichi Nakamura
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: Sentai Filmworks (Press Release)
