'Gag Manga Biyori' Gets Fifth Season in Spring 2025

by Vindstot
Dec 3, 2024 4:32 PM | 9 Comments

Publishing company Shueisha announced a fifth anime season for Kousuke Masuda's Gag Manga Biyori manga on Wednesday. An official website also opened simultaneously, revealing the main staff, cast, and a key visual (pictured). The anime will air under the title Masuda Kousuke Gekijou: Gag Manga Biyori Go in April 2025. This marks the first anime in the series in 15 years.

Staff
Director: Akitarou Daichi (Gag Manga Biyori)
Sound Director: Kazuya Tanaka (Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou)
Music: Harukichi Yamamoto (Detroit Metal City)
Color Design: Mizuki Nakagawa (Komi-san wa, Comyushou desu. color setting)
Art Director: Manami Koyama (Kono Healer, Mendokusai)
Director of Photography: Yoshihisa Ooyama (Dororo)
Studio: Studio Deen

Cast
Taishi Shoutoku: Takeshi Maeda (Dies Irae)
Imoko Onono: Eiji Takemoto (Golden Kamuy)
Bashou Matsuo: Ryou Naitou (Death Note)
Sora Kawai: Takeshi Maeda
Usami-chan: Narumi Satou (SKET Dance)
Kumakichi-kun: Takeshi Maeda

Voice actors Yuuji Ueda (One Punch Man), Kaori Nazuka (Haikyuu!!), Masahito Yabe (Nurarihyon no Mago), and Kensho Ono (Yofukashi no Uta) are also starring in the anime.

Heavy metal singer Tetsuya Kanmuri (The Kanmuri) is returning to perform the ending theme.

The anime will have a stage at Jump Festa 2025 on December 22. Director Akitarou Daichi, voice actors Takeshi Maeda and Kensho Ono, and ending theme artist Tetsuya Kanmuri will attend the stage.

The gag comedy manga originally ran in Monthly Shounen Jump from December 1999 to June 2007. Following the magazine's discontinuance, the manga switched to Jump SQ. in November that year and ended after a nearly 15-year run in November 2015. Shueisha published it in 15 volumes. The manga also had one-offs and short term serializations in Weekly Shounen Jump and V-Jump.

Masuda continued the manga in Jump SQ. under the subtitle Gag Manga Biyori GB in December 2015. Shueisha published the eighth volume on August 2. As of January 2020, the manga has sold a cumulative 6 million copies of its compiled volumes.

Prior to the television anime, a Jump Festa special produced by DAX Production debuted in 2002. The first and second season, produced by animation studio Artland, aired in Winter 2005 and Summer 2006. Studio Deen produced the third and fourth season in Spring 2008 and Winter 2010.

Official site: https://www.gagbi-go.com/
Official X: @gagmanga_biyori
Manga special site: https://jumpsq.shueisha.co.jp/rensai/gag/

Source: Comic Natalie, Oricon News, Press Release

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Let's go, we are so back

Dec 7, 2024 12:27 AM by Surf_rock

Ok, guess I’ll add it to my PTW then. Looks funny.

Dec 4, 2024 3:14 PM by Gear707

A sequel after 15 years? Incredible.

Dec 4, 2024 4:52 AM by eblf2013

Damn, nice! This was one of my favorites back in the day.

Dec 4, 2024 4:27 AM by Kattvalp

I'm just hoping this'll get subbed because the fansubs for season 4 never even got finished

Dec 3, 2024 8:19 PM by Poydoo

@RobertBobert It's been on screen for quite a long time now, it was actually pretty damn popular back in the early days of Nicovideo.
Let's say popularity-wise it was on the level of, like, Lucky Star or Haruhi.

One quick search on good ol' NND should tell you enough.

Dec 3, 2024 6:22 PM by eze_tielve

@eze_tielve Is this not the first time this franchise has appeared on screen? This is the first time I've heard about it.

Dec 3, 2024 6:19 PM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert They handled the second half of the OG series just fine, they got this one in the bag.

Dec 3, 2024 6:17 PM by eze_tielve

Will Deen adapt the manga with surreal visuals? Is this some kind of internal meta humor?

Dec 3, 2024 4:45 PM by RobertBobert