Manga 'Chuuzenji-sensei Mononoke Kougiroku' Gets TV Anime in 2025

by Vindstot
Oct 1, 2024 3:55 PM | 18 Comments

A television anime adaptation of Aki Shimizu's Chuuzenji-sensei Mononoke Kougiroku: Sensei ga Nazo wo Hodoite Shimau kara (The Mononoke Lecture Logs of Chuzenji-sensei: He Just Solves All the Mysteries) manga was announced by Pony Canyon on Tuesday, scheduled for a 2025 airing. The production company opened an official website, revealing the main staff and a teaser visual (pictured).

Staff
Director: Chihiro Kumano (Unnamed Memory assistant director)
Series Composition, Script: Atsushi Oka (Ookamikakushi script)
Character Design: Masahiko Suzuki (Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu)
Studio: 100studio (Kono Sekai wa Fukanzen Sugiru)

Shimizu began serializing the supernatural mystery manga—a spin-off to Natsuhiko Kyougoku's Hyakki Yakou novel series—in Shounen Magazine Edge in October 2019. Following the magazine's suspension, the manga switched to the Comic Days app in December 2023. Kodansha published the ninth volume on May 9, with the tenth volume scheduled to be released on October 8. The manga has a cumulative 10 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

Synopsis
School x Supernatural x Mystery. This story takes place before the exorcist Kyougokudou opened up a used bookstore...

Our setting is in Tokyo in 1948, just right after the war. Kanna Kusakabe had just become a second-year at a high school when she meets the new language teacher, Akihiko Chuuzenji. Mysterious supernatural things keep happening around Kanna. Once again today, Kanna is going to open the doors to the library prep room to seek help from the surly Chuuzenji-sensei who is waiting inside.

A high school supernatural mystery featuring the unlikely duo between a teacher and a high school girl is about to begin! (Source: Pony Canyon, edited)

Official site: https://chuzenji-anime.jp/
Official X (Twitter): @chuzenji_anime

Source: Press Release, PR Times

Chuuzenji-sensei Mononoke Kougiroku: Sensei ga Nazo wo Hodoite Shimau kara. on MAL

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@eblf2013, it doesn't need a remake. I hope for an anime adaptation of Ubume no Natsu! It would be great!

Oct 3, 2024 10:01 AM by Memore

@Antanaru , of course it can be.

Oct 3, 2024 9:59 AM by Memore

I really hope they adapt Ubume no Natsu and also a remake to Mouryou no Hako.

Oct 3, 2024 9:21 AM by eblf2013

@Memore You'll see. Also, shoujo can't be a mystery/detective story?

Oct 3, 2024 8:52 AM by Antanaru

Antanaru said:
As for anime, this one reminds me of... I think it was set in Taisho era with fox girls and military guys. Sounds great right? Military guys and fox girls for boys, handsome military guys and cute yukata for girls but I can't recall anything about that series other than setting and that it exists.

I think you are talking about Otome Youkai Zakuro 😎

Oct 3, 2024 2:20 AM by STURRAMAK

@kihel HK, yes, she adapted novels into mangas.

Oct 2, 2024 10:51 PM by Memore

@Memore

By the way, I've read both the Kyogokudo series of novels and this manga, but strictly speaking, the authors are not the same.

This work is,
・Kyogoku Natsuhiko (original idea)
・Hanzo Tamura ( writer )
・Aki Shimizu (artist)

So, to be precise, Kyogoku Natsuhiko is only the original idea.

Oct 2, 2024 5:30 PM by kihel

I've already read the manga up to volume 8, but I didn't think they would make an anime. I thought the original Kyogokudo series of novels would be the first to be adapted into an anime or an outside story for the parts that haven't been animated.

As for the setting, the timeline of this work is set before Mouryou no hako.

Oct 2, 2024 5:24 PM by kihel

@Antanaru, it is not a shojo, it is a detective, read carefully please!

Oct 2, 2024 2:19 PM by Memore

@Memore I mean interesting setting wasted on cheaply made shoujo in disguise.

Oct 2, 2024 2:18 PM by Antanaru

@Antanaru, how does it remind you if the mentioned one has fox girls?? It is completely different!

Oct 2, 2024 11:53 AM by Memore

@RobertBobert In general, writing in shoujo is much worse than in an average shounen. They are more or less a picture harlequin. I've often picked series to read almost at random and it was really easy to spot one written by a female author, who clearly should be publishing in a shoujo magazine, by how characters acted and the flow of the plot.

Before someone mentions Arakawa Hiromu - she was an outlier with FMA and a one time wonder too (FMA is good, though it lost focus by the end, but Gin no Saji was such a slog to read). I love Aria but Amano Kozue struck the gold just once, I couldn't even bother to finish Amanchu.

As for anime, this one reminds me of... I think it was set in Taisho era with fox girls and military guys. Sounds great right? Military guys and fox girls for boys, handsome military guys and cute yukata for girls but I can't recall anything about that series other than setting and that it exists.

Oct 2, 2024 11:22 AM by Antanaru

@Antanaru I understand what you mean by "shoujo in disguise", but it is standard practice for work to be published as shonen with the goal of not only appealing to the standard male demographic, but also attracting an additional female audience. The general premise is aimed at a male audience, but such a setting and obviously handsome men are popular with girls, so why not?

Oct 2, 2024 8:09 AM by RobertBobert

Early Showa era is an interesting setting but this promo art looks really cheap. It will probably be just another low quality manga promo. And shoujo in disguise to make it worse.

Oct 2, 2024 7:20 AM by Antanaru

Thought the girl was his future wife but alas, it’s a different character. Still excited to watch this!

Oct 2, 2024 5:42 AM by 0arche

@CrunchyCrobat, yes, author is the same. I recommend to watch it!

Oct 2, 2024 3:55 AM by Memore

An anime in the same universe as Mouryou no hako? Sign me up. really wish they'd adapt more of the main series tho rather than a side series, but I ain't complaining

Oct 1, 2024 11:51 PM by CrunchyCrobat

Familiar people, hehe. This is the fourth or fifth announcement of a detective manga adaptation recently. I know that the Japanese love detective stories, but it feels like there is a real boom in detective animemanga in Japan right now.

Oct 1, 2024 4:18 PM by RobertBobert

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