Gintama Spinoff 3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei Will get 1st New Original in 6 Years

3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei (Class 3-Z’s Trainer Ginpachi), Tomohito Ōsaki‘s spinoff new series of Hideaki Sorachi‘s Gintama manga, is getting its first fresh new volume in six years on December 4. The new is titled Soreyuke Dai Kyūgi Taikai (Hotfoot Forth to the Tall Ball Sport).

Ōsaki’s spinoff new series is determined in Gintama High College and follows the college teacher Ginpachi Sakata (despite not having the persona or appearance befitting a teacher) and his college students. The story first debuted in 2006. Shueisha printed the most modern volume in the radical series in 2018. Sorachi is credited for the original work.

The novels are inspiring an anime adaptation that can premiere on TV Tokyo in October 2025.

Sorachi’s original “science-fiction period-drama comedy” manga began in 2003 and ended in June 2019 with over 55 million copies in circulation. The manga has inspired plenty of tv anime series with 367 total episodes, as successfully as three outdated anime motion pictures. The latest anime series premiered in July 2018. The manga has moreover inspired assorted original video anime (OVA), tournament anime, two live-circulation motion pictures, and two live-circulation procure spinoffs. Viz Media printed the manga’s first 23 volumes in English.

Gintama THE VERY FINAL (Gintama: The Final), the third and final anime movie in accordance with the finale of the original manga, combined with fresh story substances, opened in Japan in January 2021.

Eleven Arts screened the movie in Japanese with English subtitles and with an English dub in North American theaters in November 2021. Eleven Arts and Command! Manufacturing unit released the movie digitally in January 2022, and on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in February 2022.

The manga moreover inspired a procure anime particular titled Gintama The Semi-Final with a story that served as a two-episode prequel to the movie. The procure anime premiered exclusively in Japan on the online dTV provider in January 2021.

A series of most modern Gintama on Theater 2D compilations started screening in Japan in 2023. The main of the fresh Gintama on Theater 2D compilations, Gintama on Theater 2D: Baragaki-rooster (Thorny Arc), opened a three-week restricted engagement in Japanese theaters in November 2023. The second compilation, Gintama on Theater 2D: Ikkoku Keisei-rooster, opened its three-week tear on June 21. The third compilation, Gintama on Theater 2D: Kintama-rooster, could well gain a three-week restricted screening in Japan starting on November 22.

The compilations are segment of the Gintama franchise‘s Twentieth anniversary celebration, with 2023 being the Twentieth anniversary of Hideaki Sorachi‘s Gintama manga debuting, and 2026 being the Twentieth anniversary of the tv anime’s premiere. The Yorinuki Gintama-san rerun of the tv anime moreover spawned two “on Theater 2D” compilations in 2012 and 2013.

Supply: Shueisha