The staff for the new live-action series based on Tohru Fujisawa‘s GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka manga unveiled a 90-second trailer for the series on Thursday. The series’ official website also unveiled a new visual for the series.

In the new series, the now 52-year-old Onizuka works as a teacher at Seishin Academy, which aims to “raise the leaders of the future.” At Seishin, both students and teachers carry tablets through which the school disseminates information. Students anonymously rank teachers through the “Teacher Feedback System,” where teachers constantly ranked low lose their homeroom teacher status. Teachers and students both chat using the tablet, though neither side see it as a place to air their true feelings.

Onizuka’s direct teaching methods, where he puts himself on the line, are now seen as problematic, and it has led him to losing a string of teaching jobs prior to arriving at Seishin Academy. Now he must deal with the commercialization of education, being bound by rankings and oversight, and a school that seems to show no interest in others’ well being and relies on social media.

Takashi Sorimachi reprises the role of protagonist Eikichi Onizuka 28 years after his first outing, while Satoru Nakajima and Kazuhiko Yukawa return as director and scriptwriter, respectively, for the new series. The series is a sequel to earlier live-action adaptations, moving the time period from the Heisei era to the modern Reiwa era.

Meru Nukumi plays Mio Kashiwabara, the assistant homeroom teacher for Onizuka.

The new series will premiere on Kansai TV, Fuji TV, and affiliated channels on July 20 at 10:00 p.m. (9:00 a.m. EDT).

Fujisawa published the original GTO manga in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1997 to 2002. Other works in the franchise include the manga sequel GTO: Shonan 14 Days, the discontinued spin-off GT-R, and the predecessor series GTO: The Early Years. Tokyopop and Vertical published various GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) manga titles, including the GTO: The Early Years prequel, in North America. The GTO: Paradise Lost manga launched in Weekly Young Magazine in April 2014. After going on hiatus in February 2023, the manga moved to Kodansha‘s Magazine Pocket website under the new name GTO: Paradise Lost Kai and resumed in April 2024, and ended in October 2024.

The main manga inspired the first live-action GTO series adaptation in 1998, various television specials over the years, a remake series starring Exile member Akira in 2012 with its own spinoffs, and a live-action film in 2000. GTO: The Early Years inspired a new live-action series adaptation in February 2020. GTO Revival, a new live-action television special, premiered in April 2024.

The manga also inspired a television anime adaptation that aired in Japan in 1999. Tokyopop initally licensed the anime series in 2001, releasing it on DVD singles and two boxsets. Discotek licensed the anime and released it on home video in September 2013.

Sources: GTO 2026 series’ X/Twitter account, Kansai TV, Comic Natalie

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Shun Numa‘s Choujun Choujou-senpai (Super Psychic Policeman Chojo) manga revealed the main cast, main visual (pictured right), and first promotional video on Thursday. The anime is scheduled to premiere on Tuesdays at 11:00 p.m. on Fuji TV and Kantai TV stations in October 2026.

Cast

Meguru Choujou: Yuusuke Kobayashi (Dr. Stone)

Nao Ippongi: Riko Aono (Fumetsu no Anata e Season 3)

Robo-kun: Maria Naganawa (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon)

Yuki Inukai: Daisuke Ono (JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 3: Stardust Crusaders)

Hajime Keinain: Toshiya Miyata (Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoushu!)

Mr. Guy: Nobuaki Kanemitsu (Dragon Ball Daima)

Lily Togari: Kanna Nakamura (Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wake Nai jan, Muri Muri! (※Muri ja Nakatta!?))

Heisuke Ban: Kazuki Ura (Blue Lock)

Junichi Yamamoto (Fuufu Ijou, Koibito Miman.) is directing at Arvo Animation. Hayashi Mori (Hataraku Saibou Black) is handling the series composition and penning the script. Masakatsu Sasaki (Tonikaku Kawaii) is designing the characters.

Numa began drawing the comedy manga as a one-shot published in Weekly Shounen Jump in April 2023. The manga was then serialized in the same magazine from February 2024 to June 2025. Shueisha published the eighth and final volume in September 2025.

VIZ Media licensed the manga for English release and shipped the fourth volume on July 7. The fifth volume is scheduled for release on September 1. The manga is also simulpublished on the MANGA Plus website.

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Source: Comic Natalie

The staff of Ishimori Production‘s Cyborg 009: Nemesis, a new anime based on Shōtarō Ishinomori‘s Cyborg 009 manga, revealed on Thursday the anime’s key visual and July 19 debut. The anime will debut its three episodes on July 19 at 12:00 a.m. JST on Abema Premium, d Anime Store, U-NEXT, Anime Hōdai, Prime Video, DMM TV, and other streaming services in Japan.

The story follows a global organization known as Black Ghost, which seeks to lock the world into eternal war. Black Ghost captures nine men and women and turns them into cyborg soldiers, but the cyborgs rebel and fight against Black Ghost.

Yūki Kaji plays the anime’s main character Joe Shimamura/Cyborg 009.

Cast members for the other 00 Cyborgs are:

Before announcing the Cyborgs’ cast, the anime’s website also announced a new main cast member for the Nemesis group every week. The cast members include (Note: Character name romanizations are not official):

The anime’s staff announced on Tuesday that Kazuhiro Yamaji will voice Dr. Isaac Gilmore, and Tōru Nara will voice Dr. Robert Golbert.

Hideki Ambo is directing the anime at Arect. Atsuhiro Tomioka (Pokémon) and CHARATEX are writing the screenplay. sanorin is designing the characters.

Singer Kyōko from the rock band Barbee Boys performs the theme song “Taga Tame ni” (For Whom). The song was originally used for the 1979 Cyborg 009 television anime series. Ken Narita and Koorogi ’73 originally performed the song, and Ishinomori himself wrote the lyrics.

Ishinomori launched the original Cyborg 009 manga in Shōnengahōsha‘s Weekly King magazine in July 1964.

The manga inspired television anime series in 1968, 1979, and 2001, as well as films in 1966, 1967, and 1980. More recently, the manga spawned the 009 Re:Cyborg movie in 2012 and the Cyborg 009 Call of Justice movie in 2016. The manga also inspired a crossover original video anime (OVA) with Devilman in 2015.

Tsuguo Okazaki launched the Cyborg 009 Bgooparts Delete manga based on Ishinomori’s original series in July 2019, and the manga ended in September 2022. Scriptwriter Masaki Tsuji (Cyborg 009 anime) and artist Masato Hayase (Genma Taisen, 8 Man vs Cyborg 009) launched a new manga titled Cyborg 009 Taiheiyō no Bōrei (Cyborg 009: Ghost of the Pacific) in April 2024.

Source: Press release