Gakuen Basara Tv Anime Reveals 7 Main Character Designs

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Gakuen Basara, a high school spinoff project based on CAPCOM's Sengoku Basara game franchise, revealed character designs for the main characters on Friday. The cast members for the characters are reprising their roles from Sengoku Basara.

• Kazuya Nakai as Date Masamune
  
  
  
• Sōichiro Hoshi as Sanada Yukimura
  
  
  
• Toshiyuki Morikawa as Katakura Kojūrō
  
  
  
• Takehito Koyasu as Sarutobi Sasuke
  
  
  
• Masakazu Morita as Maeda Keiji
  
  
  
• Ryuuzou Ishino as Motochika Chōsokabe
  
  
  
• Shigeru Nakahara as Motonari Mōri
  

The Gakuen Basara school battle comedy parody reimagines the Warring States Era warriors of CAPCOM's action game franchise as rival students in a modern high school. Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura battle to replace Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the next student council president. The project published several official comic anthologies between 2007 and last year.

Minoru Ohara (Glass Fleet, Lupin III: Episode 0 'First Contact') is directing the anime at Brains Base, and Kouji Miura (Examurai Sengoku) is in charge of the series scripts. Haruhito Takada (Kaiji) is designing the characters. CAPCOM's Hiroyuki Kobayashi and Makoto Yamamoto are supervising from the original work.

The CAPCOM franchise already inspired three television anime series, one anime movie, a live-action serieswith two compilation films, and several stage plays.