Anime Spotlight - Gakuen Basara: Samurai High School
by ANN Staff,
- Premieres October 4, 2018
Key Staff
- Director: Minoru Ōhara
- ("Glass Fleet (TV)", "Lupin III: Episode 0 'First Contact' (special)")
- Series Composition: Kōji Miura
- ("Hamtaro (TV)" as script)
- Character Design: Haruhito Takada
- ("Hunter × Hunter: Phantom Rouge (movie)", "Kaiji (TV)")
Story
A heated battle is once again revving up at Basara Academy between baseball star, Masamune Date, and soccer ace, Yukimura Sanada.
What's more, ever since student council chairman, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, received a suspension, leaving the seat up for grabs, a host of class "warlords" have become embroiled in a quest for supreme power.
Amid Ieyasu Tokugawa's appeals to bonds of kinship and Mitsunari Ishida's fervor to defeat him, who will wrest ultimate control of the domain in "troubled" times?
Let's Study!!
Basara High School jumps into the fray!
Character Names & Descriptions
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Masamune Date
Voice: Kazuya Nakai Class: 1-1 Former leader of Oshu Middle School and current captain of the baseball club. He is the team's ace, and he dons the #4 jersey. He spends most of his days fighting against soccer club captain Yukimura Sanada for the right to use the field for club activities. |
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Yukimura Sanada
Voice: Sōichiro Hoshi Class: 1-1 The passionate ace striker on the soccer team and Date Masamune's rival. He respects his teacher Shingen Takeda from the bottom of his heart. |
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Kojuro Katakura
Voice: Toshiyuki Morikawa Class: 2-1 The catcher on the baseball team who is there to support Masamune. He shows his manly side on the baseball team, but also has an unexpected passion for growing vegetables. |
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Sasuke Sarutobi
Voice: Takehito Koyasu Class: 2-1 A soccer team member who supports Yukimura, He is also an active member of the newspaper club. Sasuke searches for new scoops on the daily, and as such is one of the best sources for information within the academy. |
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Ieyasu Tokugawa
Voice: Toshiki Masuda Class: 1-2 In order to make a school filled with the bonds of friendship, he leads a revolt to impeach Hideyoshi from the student council, and even nominates himself to be the new student council president. It's due to this that his former friend Mitsunari does not think highly of him at all. |
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Mitsunari Ishida
Voice: Tomokazu Seki Class: 1-2 Mitsunari despises Ieyasu, his former friend who seeks to take the student council president throne away from Mitsunari's dear comrade Toyotomi Hideyoshi. As such, he is very competitive with him. Swearing to regain Toyotomi's right to be president, he jumps into the fray of the student council election. |
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Keiji Maeda
Voice: Masakazu Morita Class: 1-1 A wanderer who came back to school after taking a break for some time. He fell in love with Magoichi, and is head-over-heels for her. |
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Motochika Chosokabe
Voice: Ryūzō Ishino Class: 1-4 The gang leader in charge of Basara High School. A reliable guy, those around him call him "Bro." He doesn't get along with Motonari at all, and they fight like dogs and cats. The name of his beloved motorcycle is "The Fugaku." |
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Motonari Mori
Voice: Shigeru Nakahara Class: 1-4 The club president of the woodwind club, and a perfectionist when it comes to performing on his instrument. He has a very calm personality, but he throws CD-ROMs at his pawns (club members) when they mess up when playing. |
Cast
- Masamune Date
- Kazuya Nakai
- Yukimura Sanada
- Sōichiro Hoshi
- Kojuro Katakura
- Toshiyuki Morikawa
- Sasuke Sarutobi
- Takehito Koyasu
- Ieyasu Tokugawa
- Toshiki Masuda
- Mitsunari Ishida
- Tomokazu Seki
- Keiji Maeda
- Masakazu Morita
- Motochika Chosokabe
- Ryūzō Ishino
- Motonari Mori
- Shigeru Nakahara
- Kasuga
- Natsuko Kuwatani
- Oichi
- Mamiko Noto
- Tsuruhime
- Ami Koshimizu
- Matsu
- Yūko Kaida
- Toshiie Maeda
- Tomohiro Tsuboi
- Nagamasa Azai
- Kouji Tsujitani
- Hanbei Takenaka
- Akira Ishida
- Hideyoshi Toyotomi
- Ryōtarō Okiayu
- Magoichi Saika
- Sayaka Ōhara
- Kenshin Uesugi
- Romi Park
- Shingen Takeda
- Tesshō Genda
- Mitsuhide Akechi
- Shō Hayami
- Nobunaga Oda
- Norio Wakamoto
Staff
- Original Creator
- CAPCOM ("Gakuen Basara")
- Original Story Supervisor
- Hiroyuki Kobayashi (CAPCOM), Makoto Yamamoto (CAPCOM)
- Director
- Minoru Ōhara
- Series Composition
- Kōji Miura
- Character Design
- Haruhito Takada
- Chief Animation Director
- Naoki Aisaka
- Art Director
- Kazuhiro Arai
- Prop Design
- Hiroshi Ogawa
- Color Key
- Yuuko Fukuda
- Director of Photography
- Yorinobu Oda
- Editing
- Yasutaka Ikeda
- Sound Director
- Yoshikazu Iwanami
- Sound Production
- Dax Production
- Music
- Akiyuki Tateyama (High Kick Entertainment)
- Background Music Production
- High Kick Entertainment
- Animation Production
- Brain's Base
- Theme Song:
- "Be Affected"
performed by Takanori Nishikawa × Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas - Opening Theme Song:
- "Hokore Kedakaki Utsukushiki, Ikizama wo" (Be Proud of Your Noble & Beautiful Way of Life)
performed by EIGHT OF TRIANGLE
©CAPCOM/Basara Gakuen
