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Gintama's Spinoff TV Anime 3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei Unveils, Visual, Cast, Staff, October 2025 Debut

The "Gintama Channel 4-Shuu-nen Kinen & Sakata Gintoki Bakutan Kinen 2024" (Gintama Channel 4th Year Anniversary & Gintoki Sakata Sudden Emergence Anniversary 2024) livestream on Thursday revealed that the anime Jump Festa 2025 on December 21 at 3:40 p.m. JST.

The visual shows the new anime's protagonist Ginpachi as well as the original Gintama series' main character Gintoki:

Bakuman.) is composing for the music.

Returning cast from the original Gintama anime include:

• Tomokazu Sugita as Ginpachi Sakata
• Daisuke Sakaguchi as Shinpachi Shimura
• Rie Kugimiya as Kagura
• Satsuki Yukino as Tae Shimura
• Susumu Chiba as Isao Kondo
• Kazuya Nakai as Toshiro Hijikata
• Kenichi Suzumura as Sogo Okita
• Tetsuharu Ohta as Sagaru Yamazaki
• Yū Kobayashi as Ayame Sarutobi
• Akira Ishida as Kotaro Katsura
• Takehito Koyasu as Shinsuke Takasugi
• Satoshi Hino as Kamui

Ōsaki's spinoff novel series is set in Gintama High School and follows the school teacher Ginpachi Sakata (despite not having the personality or appearance befitting a teacher) and his students. The story first debuted in 2006. Shueisha published the latest volume in the novel series in 2018. Sorachi is credited for the original work.

The 3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei concept was previously animated as a short at the end of several Gintama anime series episodes.

Sorachi's original "science-fiction period-drama comedy" manga began in 2003 and Viz Media published the manga's first 23 volumes in English.

based on the finale of the original manga, combined with new story elements, opened in Japan in January 2021.

released the film digitally in January 2022, and on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in February 2022.

The manga also dTV service in January 2021.

A series of new Gintama on Theater 2D compilations started screening in Japan in 2023. The first of the new Gintama on Theater 2D compilations, Gintama on Theater 2D: Kintama-hen, will have a three-week limited screening in Japan starting on November 22.

The compilations are part of the Gintama franchise's 20th anniversary celebration, with 2023 being the 20th anniversary of Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama manga debuting, and 2026 being the 20th anniversary of the television anime's premiere. The Yorinuki Gintama-san rerun of the television anime also spawned two "on Theater 2D" compilations in 2012 and 2013.

Sources: Gintama Channel 4 Shuu-nen Kinen & Sakata Gintoki Bakutan Kinen 2024 livestream, 3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei anime's website