High School! Kimengumi (ハイスクール!奇面組) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Motoei Shinzawa. The first series, Third Year Funny-face Club, was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1980 to April 1982. ''High School! Kimengumi'' was serialized in the same magazine from April 1982 to July 1987. An anime television series aired from October 1985 to September 1987, and an animated film premiered in July 1986.[1][2] A sequel manga, titled ''Flash! Funny-face Club, was published in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' from 2001 to 2005. A second anime television series adaptation produced by Seven aired from January to March 2026.
Summary
''High School! Kimengumi'' is an episodic chronicle of the bizarre adventures of a group of misfit junior high school (and later high school) boys who form a club known as the "Kimengumi". All of the character names in the series are puns. For example, "Kawa Yui" is another way of saying "kawaii", and "Uru Chie" is a slang form of "urusai", meaning "obnoxious" or "annoying".
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by Motoei Shinzawa, ''High School! Kimengumi started as a series titled Sannen Kimengumi (3年奇面組), which was published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from October 13, 1980, to April 12, 1982.[3][4] Shueisha collected its chapters into six volumes published between August 15, 1981, and January 8, 1983.
''High School! Kimengumi was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from April 19, 1982, to July 6, 1987.[5][6] Shueisha collected its chapters into twenty volumes published between April 8, 1983, and February 10, 1988.
Another manga titled Return of High School!
Reception
In a 2006 survey of celebrities by TV Asahi, ''High School! Kimengumi'' was listed as #87 on a list of the top 100 favorite anime series.[67]
The first episode of the 2026 anime adaptation was watched by 2.0 million households.[68]
External links
References
- http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=149827 All Cinema Online, retrieved 2006-06-17^
- http://cinema.intercritique.com/movie.cgi?mid=16809 CinemaScape, retrieved 2006-06-17^
- https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M544288 Media Arts Database, Agency for Cultural Affairs, retrieved January 25, 2020