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2024 Nintama Rantaro Anime Film Casts Toshihiko Seki as Tenki

The official website for Gekijо̄-ban Nintama Rantaro Dokutake Ninja-tai Saikyо̄ no Gunshi (Nintama Rantaro the Movie: The Dokutake Ninja Team's Strongest Strategist), the first anime film in the Nintama Rantaro anime franchise in 13 years, revealed a new visual for the film on Wednesday. The visual shows the Ha Class instructor Hansuke Doi as well as Tenki, the Dokutake ninja team's strategist who looks similar to Hansuke Doi. The site announced that Toshihiko Seki also voices Tenki in the film, in addition to voicing Doi.

The movie is based on Kazuhisa Sakaguchi's 2013 novel of the same name, which centers on Rantaro's teacher Hansuke Doi losing a battle against Sonnamon and Zatto Konnamon becoming a teacher at Ninjutsu Academy.

The returning cast includes:

• Minami Takayama as Rantarō
• Mayumi Tanaka as Kirimaru
• Teiyū Ichiryūsai as Shinbei Fukutomi
• Toshihiko Seki as Hansuke Doi
• Toshimitsu Oda as Heisuke Kukuchi
• Shigeru Shibuya as Kanemon Ohana
• Jun-ichi Kanemaru as Raizo Fuwa
• Takumi Yamazaki as Saburō Hachiya
• Ryūichi Azuma as Hachizaemon Takeya
• Showtaro Morikubo as Konnamon Zatto
• Tsubasa Yonaga as Sonnamon Moroizumi

Yasuhiro Mamiya voices Happōsai Hieta, replacing the late Shōzō Iizuka, who voiced the character in the anime series.

In addition, Naniwa Danshi members Ryūsei Ōnishi and Jōichirō Fujiwara appear in the film as guest voice actors.

Masaya Fujimori (Doraemon movies) is returning from the previous film to direct the new one at Ajia-do, the same animation studio for the television series. Original novel writer Sakaguchi is writing the screenplay.

Naniwa Danshi also performs the long-time Nintama Rantaro anime series theme song "Yūki 100%" (Courage 100%), which will be used in the movie. Goro Matsui wrote the lyrics and Kōji Makaino composed the music for Naniwa Danshi's new song "Arigatō Kokoro kara," which is specifically created as the theme song for the film. Matsui and Makaino also wrote the lyrics and composed the "Yūki 100%" theme song.

The franchise's previous film Gekijō-ban Anime Nintama Rantaro Ninjutsu Gakuen Zenin Shutsudō! no Dan opened in March 2011.

The 31st series in the Nintama Rantaro anime franchise debuted in April 2023. The 32nd series premiered in April 2024.

Soubee Amako's original Rakudai Ninja Rantarō ninja gag manga centers around Rantarō, a ninja apprentice at an elite ninjutsu academy in historical Japan. As elementary students, Rantarō and his ninja-in-training friends are called "Nintama" — a contraction of the words "ninja" and "tamago" ("egg").

The manga inspired the Nintama Rantaro television anime in 1993, and the NHK-E channel is still airing the 10-minute anime every weekday. The manga also inspired two anime films and two live-action films. Takashi Miike directed the first live-action film.

Sources: Gekijо̄-ban Nintama Rantaro Dokutake Ninja-tai Saikyо̄ no Gunshi film's website, Comic Natalie