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A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! Anime Casts Showtaro Morikubo
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The official website for the television anime of Mai Tanaka's A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! (Yōkai Gakkō no Sensei Hajimemashita!) manga revealed on Monday that Showtaro Morikubo will voice the character Ranmaru Karasuma, the captain of the Karasu Tengu Troupe. Morikubo's character will appear in the anime's ninth episode on Tuesday.
The anime debuted on October 8 on ABEMA, d Anime Store, and Tokyo MX. Crunchyroll streams the series as it airs. The anime will have a continuous two-cours (quarter of a year) run.The anime stars:
- Ryota Ohsaka as protagonist rookie teacher Haruaki Abe
- Ryōta Suzuki as Mikoto Sano
- Reo Tanie as Mamekichi Maizuka
- Akari Kitō as Beniko Zashiki
- Hana Ayasaka as Kuniko Utagawa
- Shun Horie as Rintarō Miki
- Ryōta Iwasaki as Izuna Hatanaka
- Jun Fukuyama as principal of Hyakki Academy
- Taito Ban as Kо̄tarо̄ Hijita
- Yuki Sakakihara as Tamao Akisame
- Tomokazu Sugita as Yanagida
- Takao Mitsutomi as Yakumo Mujina
- Saku Hyūga as Tōya Fuji
- Nanako Mori as Yuri Renjō
- Tomoaki Maeno as Makoto Yamazaki
- Chitose Morinaga as Marshmallow
- Tetsuya Yanagihara as Chiisai Ojisan (small old man)
- Akira Takano as Rensuke Nyuudou
- Shōta Aoi as Akira Takahashi
- Gakuto Kajiwara as Amaaki Abe
- Ryōhei Kimura as Isaburō Ebisu
Katsumi Ono (Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V, Skeleton Knight in Another World, Beast Saga) is directing the anime at Satelight, Deko Akao (Anonymous Noise, B-PROJECT, Noragami) is in charge of series scripts, and Natsuki is designing the characters. Music group Four Eight 48 performs the opening theme song "Ebi Zori Turn!," and artist Yuika performs the ending theme song "Bokurashisa."
Yen Press is releasing the manga in English, and Manga UP! Global is releasing the manga digitally. Yen Press describes the manga:
Rookie teacher Haruaki Abe is as cowardly as they come. It's hard enough for him to handle human students without whimpering-and now he's going to be teaching at a school full of monsters?! It's a classroom of horrors for Haruaki, as his mischievous students use every means at their disposal to prank him! Will this poor teacher be able to get his group of ghouls under control, or is this class destined for failure?
The manga launched in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy magazine in 2014, and is ongoing. Square Enix will publish the manga's 18th compiled book volume on January 27. Yen Press will publish the 16th volume on February 18.
Sources: A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! anime's website, Comic Natalie
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