The staff for the television anime of Takeshi Okano and Shō Makura’s Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube (Jigoku Sensei Nube) manga announced on Thursday that Chiwa Saitō is joining the anime’s cast as Mary, one of the school’s seven mysteries. The character will appear in the anime’s 24th episode on March 18.
Image via Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube anime’s X/Twitter account
©Shou Makura・Takeshi Okano/SHUEISHA・Domori Elementary School Alumni
The character is based on a similarly named urban legend spirit in Japan whose exact details vary with each telling. The version in Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube grants people a doll with missing limbs, telling people that they have a week to find the doll’s limbs hidden somewhere in the school, or face Mary taking their own limbs.
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© Shou Makura・Takeshi Okano/SHUEISHA・Domori Elementary School Alumni
The anime’s second cours (quarter of a year) premiered in Japan on January 7 at 11:45 p.m. JST.
The new cours streams in selected territories on the It’s Anime YouTube channel. The anime streams in North America on the It’s Anime FAST channels on WatchFree+ and Samsung TV Plus, and on Amazon Prime Video. The series also streams in Latin America on Amazon Prime Video, and on Bandplay in Brazil. The anime streams on aniverse in German-speaking European territories, and on Anime Generation in Italian-speaking European territories. The series streams on Hami Video and Chunghwa Telecom’s MOD in Taiwan.
THE ORAL CIGARETTES perform the new opening theme song “ERASE,” and Ayumu Imazu performs the new ending theme song “MAGICAL.”
The anime debuted on July 2 with a one-hour broadcast for the first two episodes on TV Asahi’s new programming block for anime titled “IM Animation W” at 11:15 p.m. JST. Subsequent episodes debuted at 11:45 p.m. JST. The anime is airing in two split cours.
The anime streams on Netflix in Asian territories except in Japan and China, and also streams on the It’s Anime YouTube channel in “limited territories only” (including the U.S. and Canada). The series streams on aniverse in German-speaking EMEA territories, and on Anime Generation in Italian-speaking EMEA territories. In Latin America, the series streams on Anime Onegai. Additionally, the series streams on Chunghwa Telecom’s MOD and Hami Video in Taiwan.
Ryōtarō Okiayu stars as Meisuke Nueno, also known as “Nube,” in the anime.
Yasuyuki Ōishi (episode director for Stars Align, Narenare -Cheer for you!-) is directing the anime at Studio KAI. Fumito Yamada (episode director for Hell’s Paradise, Love Is Indivisible by Twins) is the assistant director, Yoshiki Ōkusa (Butt Detective franchise, The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases) is the head writer, and Yū Yoshiyama (key animator for Dragon Ball Super, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury) is the character designer. Evan Call (My Happy Marriage, Violet Evergarden) is composing the music.
The show’s staff describes the story in English:
A number of inexplicable phenomena have been plaguing the town of Domori. In order to protect the town’s children, a new homeroom teacher known as “Nube” arrives.
Normally gentle and a bit outgoing, Nube has a secret side: he is, in fact, the only psychic teacher in Japan. Rumor also has it his left hand is possessed by a demon!
Hell’s messenger of justice is here to take on the school’s seven mysteries, ghosts, and evil spirits attacking his students. This occultist action story starts now!
Makura and Okano serialized the original 31-volume manga from 1993 to 1999 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The manga has more than 29 million copies in circulation. The manga was later re-released in 2006 as 20 volumes.
The original manga inspired a television anime series in 1996-1997, a video anime series in 1998-1999, and three anime films in 1996 and 1997. The manga also inspired a live-action series adaptation in 2014.
Sources: Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube anime’s X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
