During the Jump Festa event, it was revealed that an anime adaptation of 3-Nen Z-gumi Ginpachi-sensei (Class 3-Z’s Teacher Ginpachi) novel would debut in 2025 on TV Tokyo. The 3-Nen Z-gumi Ginpachi-sensei novel series by Oosaki Tomohito is a spin-off of Sorachi Hideaki’s Gintama manga. The event also revealed a 20th-anniversary exhibition for the franchise in Ikebukuro in Japan’s upcoming winter season.
Oosaki’s spin-off novel series was first published in 2006, and Shueisha published the latest volume in 2018. Sorachi is credited for the original work. The 3-Nen Z-gumi Ginpachi-sensei novel is set in Gintama High School and follows the school’s teacher, Ginpachi Sakata, and his students. Excerpts of the novel were previously animated as shorts at the end of several episodes of the Gintama anime series.
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Gintama was first published in 2003 and ended in June 2019. The manga inspired several anime series, three anime films, two live-action films and two live-action spin-offs. The latest anime premiered in July 2018, and the third and latest Gintama film, Gintama The Very Final, was released in Japan in January 2021.
Sakata Gintoki is a samurai living in an era when samurai are no longer needed. To add to his troubles, oppressive aliens have moved in to invade. Gintoki lives with Kagura and Shinpachi, taking on odd jobs to make the world a better place… and to pay their rent.
