The staff for the television anime adaptation of Takeshi Okano and Shō Makura‘s Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube (Jigoku Sensei Nube) manga revealed a new cast member on Thursday. Takaya Kuroda will voice the monster Hatamonba, and will appear in the anime’s fifth episode on July 23.
©Shou Makura・Takeshi Okano/SHUEISHA・Domori Elementary School Alumni
The anime’s staff also revealed on July 3 that Yū Kobayashi joined the cast as the human body model, and appeared in the third episode, which aired on July 9.
©Shou Makura・Takeshi Okano/SHUEISHA・Domori Elementary School Alumni
©Shou Makura・Takeshi Okano/SHUEISHA・Domori Elementary School Alumni
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 debut at 11:45 p.m. JST. The anime will air in two split cours (quarters of a year), with the second cours premiering in January 2026.
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. Additional cast includes:
- Ryōko Shiraishi as Hiroshi Tateno, a student in Class 5-3 at Domori Elementary School with a bright and energetic personality
- Aya Suzaki as Kyoko Inaba, a student in Class 5-3 who is frank, diligent, and reliable
- Tomoyo Kurosawa as Miki Hosokawa, a student in Class 5-3 who is curious and mischievous
- Ryōta Iwasaki as Katsuya Kimura, a student in Class 5-3 who is relatively mature for his age
- Shiho Kokido as Makoto Kurita, a student in Class 5-3 who is one of the smaller students in the class
- Aya Endō as Ritsuko Takahashi, the homeroom teacher of Class 5-2
- Ai Kakuma as Yukime, a mysterious girl who claims to be Nube’s fiancée
- Toshiyuki Morikawa as Kyosuke Tamamo, a handsome young man living in Domori Town
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.
-SKS- ZIGZAG performs the opening theme song “P0WER-AkuryoTaisan-,” and Chilli Beans. performs the ending theme song “Sunflower.”
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