Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube Anime Casts Hiroko Kiso
- Jean-Carlos Matellan
- Jul 24
- 3 min read
Kose plays Teke Teke in 6th episode on August 6
The staff for the television anime adaptation of Takeshi Okano and Shō Makura's Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube (Jigoku Sensei Nube) manga revealed on Thursday that Hiroko Kose will play Teke Teke, a monster of urban legend. Teke Teke will appear in the anime's sixth episode on August 6.
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
Yū Kobayashi as as the human body model
Takaya Kuroda as monster Hatamonba
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 perform the opening theme song "P0WER-AkuryoTaisan-," and Chilli Beans. perform 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
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