Jigoku Sensei Nube (2025)

In Doumori, an imbalance of spiritual forces threatens to plunge the small city into complete chaos. Thankfully, for the students of Doumori Elementary School, new teacher and exorcist Meisuke "Nube" Nueno is determined to prevent the malignant spirits—known as youkai—from accomplishing their evil deeds.

The first student who catches Nube's attention is transfer student Hiroshi Tateno, who displays inexplicable outbursts of anger, often lashing out at his classmates. When they find out that Hiroshi is possessed by a youkai, Nube manages to free his student thanks to the demonic power sealed in his left hand. However, a youkai hiding behind the appearance of doctor Kyousuke Tamano bursts onto the scene and quickly abducts Hiroshi.

Helped by his student Kyouko Inaba and his expertise in the occult, Nube quickly uncovers Kyousuke's sinister plans. Rushing to Hiroshi's rescue, Nube will show once more that he will stop at nothing to protect his beloved students against all supernatural threats.

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Nueno, Meisuke Main

Okiayu, Ryoutarou Japanese

Hosokawa, Miki Main

Kurosawa, Tomoyo Japanese

Inaba, Kyouko Main

Suzaki, Aya Japanese

Tateno, Hiroshi Main

Shiraishi, Ryouko Japanese

Kimura, Katsuya Main

Iwasaki, Ryouta Japanese

Kurita, Makoto Main

Kokido, Shiho Japanese

Yukime Supporting

Kakuma, Ai Japanese

Tamamo, Kyousuke Supporting

Morikawa, Toshiyuki Japanese

Takahashi, Ritsuko Supporting

Endou, Aya Japanese

Nakajima, Noriko Supporting

Touyama, Nao Japanese

Nishizawa, Nobutaka Producer

Ooishi, Yasuyuki Director

Nagura, Yasushi Sound Director

Chilli Beans. Theme Song Performance

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Nov 30, 2025

patkarunungan

Recommended

Hell Teacher Nube (2025) is a remake of a beloved 1990s horror series. I've seen some episodes of the original, and I was excited to watch this. How does it compare?


§ Overview

A new teacher in Doumori Elementary School, Nueno Meisuke, exorcises yokai thanks to his demon hand. Every now and then, yokai threaten his students, and it's his duty to protect them.


§ Let's talk about the studio and staff

⚫ Studio KAI is a little over half a decade old. It's not really that well-known, but it produced some notable works: 1) the initial seasons of Uma Musume, before CygamesPictures took over the Uma Musume franchise, ... and 2) 7th Time Loop.

⚫ Hell Teacher Nube (2025) is the directorial debut of Ooishi Yasuyuki. He was a storyboard artist for a single episode of the following anime: 1) Stars Align, 2) Higehiro, and 3) Farming Life in Another World.

⚫ The original character design by Okano Takeshi is well made. A cursory perusal of the manga shows that Nube has shorter hair, looks younger, and has the demeanour of a young lad.

⚫ I just find this adaptation's character design for Nube disorienting because of his thick and messy eyebrows. It's a drawback for the team of character designers. The original adaptation's design for Nube is better.

⚫ With the choice of Noji Hironori's dark colour palette as well as Hiramoto Eiko's cinematography, it evokes so much horror.


§ Let's talk about everything else


1. This adaptation reminds me clearly that this anime is supposed to be a horror mixed with some hilarious moments. The æsthetics aren’t as dark as the original, but they’re still much darker than what you usually see in anime. It's good enough to convey how scary the yokai can be.


2. Like the original, it is episodic. Some episodes might overlap with the episodes of the original adaptation, but it's not necessary or even desirable to reproduce every episode of the original anime, or even scenes from the manga. After all, this adaptation modernises the elements in the anime, so you see smartphones and other signs of modern technology, such as the existence of social media.


3. Since it is episodic, it's not clear what the plot of the anime is all about. (I haven't seen the entire original, so I can't fully judge the direction the story is supposed to take.) Suffice it to say that for the target audience of late grade schoolers and early teens, it does a satisfactory job of teaching some values, save for how Nube can act horny.


4. The OP of the new adaptation makes it seem that the anime is more serious compared to the original. The ED is good too.


§ Conclusion

This is a horror show for kids. It has some humour to make it palatable to young audiences, but also gets serious and emotional when it needs to be.


NOTA BENE: A grade of 6 out of 10 means that I find this anime slightly above average, and I enjoyed watching it.

A 6 means a decent score and one notch above average. If you're the kind of viewer who treats anything below a 7 as irredeemable, I'd encourage a broader, more nuanced approach to rating.

My enjoyment spectrum lies from 4 to 10. If I have scored an anime below 4, I actively dislike it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 24, 2025

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

Hell Teacher Nube — A classic series coming back with more of a reboot treatment than any semblance that belongs to the realm of readaptation.

For the uninitiated, it'd be best to say that with the current climate of the AniManga industry, where we're all entertained by shows from just about anywhere, mostly featuring the usual Isekai/fantasy slop that we've been so blindsided to since the COVID years, to the minority that looks interesting from a general angle but ultimately belongs to the pack of shows that just end up not holding their weight altogether. Now, don't go for a moment to think that this "quantity ... over quality" rhetoric only exists now, because just about every decade in anime has series that belong to the mediocre-to-average quality, and the past is not spared either.

This, then, brings us to the case of veteran mangaka Sho Makura and his famous series Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube, which, surprise surprise, used to belong to Shueisha's juggernaut Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from August 1993 to May 1999, capping at 31 volumes total. Even with its own anime adaptation back in the late 90s, a new generation of producers thought that it would be a nice idea to bring this series back from the grave, which is how we got the "rehashed" 2025 series that's shown here in 2 split cours, the first of which premiered this summer season.

This dark fantasy, action comedy-horror series about Meisuke "Nube" Nueno and the students of Class 5-3 of Domori Elementary School, dealing with supernatural disturbances in the usual episodic monster-of-the-week formula that's best known for at the time, sees the titular MC of a unremarkable teacher go around the school not just to teach the group of rowdy students who just see him as just insufferable as any other teacher they've been with, only to have them recognize that they are the cause of all of the supernatural circumstances that's happening around the school, forcing Nube to intercept with his spiritual abilities, much of it delving from his Demon's Hand that can put any spirit or monster to rest. Sounds typical, yes? At least the story plot is for its time, covered with its own restored normalcy and lessons to be learned.

What makes Hell Teacher Nube enticing is in its characters, some of which would go on to form rivalries with the titular teacher himself in the pursuit of whatever affiliation that Nube has going on. The students of Class 5-3, comprising Hiroshi Tateno, Kyoko Inaba, and the rest of the class student body, are just about as rowdy as any middle-schooler can get, and though immature at times, they at least do know when to give up their facade and request help from Nube most of the time. The recurring antagonist character is that of the kitsune/fox spirit Kyosuke Tamamo, the handsome teacher who presents much of the animosity of Nube himself, often being the centre of all the supernatural disturbances that happen no matter where he could be, much less the other teacher on the opposite end of the other homeroom teacher, Ritsuko Takahashi, whom Nube and the students fancy a lot as their school's "Madonna." However, the former is a damn try-hard to win her heart over, only to get intercepted by her pushbacks due to the fact that she cannot reason with him dealing with the supernatural. And once again, where story and characters go hand-in-hand with the times, this is as typical as it gets for 90s storytelling.

Even with Studio Kai's "remake" of the series, there is quite a change when compared to its older anime cousin. If you remember not too long ago, there was a similar treatment with David Production's readaptation of the popular Urusei Yatsura, where it was marketed under the "All-Stars" moniker, where select content from the manga would be adapted into the series for a brand-new skin. And with Hell Teacher Nube here, that treatment is pretty much exactly the same as the planned rhetoric above, being heavily episodic in nature. Sure, it isn't as bad as it sounds, but for a series that's a bit less long than said series above, the renewed series' dynamic can feel out of place at times, especially for a series that has even less recognition and that only caters to the hardcore fans of the series to begin with.

As for the overall animation, it just looked drab and felt lacking and subpar at times, with the story beats helping where animation was needed the most. Even the OST is below average, though J-Rock band Shintenchi Kaibyaku Shudan: Zigzag's OP can be kind of decent and good at times, and Chilli Beans's ED just truly gets lost in the sea of listenership.

Still, for a reboot/remake series, you could do far worse than experiencing a long-lost "legend" like Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube, and this is only the first half to go, with the 2nd half in winter next year. It's a decent experience; I'll give it that for the foresight to see what will be up for then.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 24, 2025

Chuy_diazz

Not Recommended

This is a modernized shell of that '90s classic.

I didn't watch the original series, but there's no denying it's a classic, even today. Thinking it would be treated like a classic and that they'd do a good job, I decided to give it a chance. In the end, they just gave me a reimagining of the story, with no defined plot and flat, charisma-free characters. You could have titled this "My Poor Teacher vs. the Neighborhood Demons," and I would have enjoyed it more.
The first two episodes are an introduction to Nube's world. It shows you Nube in his dual roles as teacher and exorcist, ... his relationship with the students, the main "villain," and what fights are like in this world. What happens in those two episodes is completely thrown out the window in the other 11 episodes and they start telling stories no one asked for. Nube, in his role as a teacher, is comic relief about how he's always short on money, but beyond that, Nube has no depth. As an exorcist, your job is simply to hit something with your hand and explain to the demon on duty. This becomes repetitive by the middle of the season and tiresome by the end. The students are flatter than the earth in the mind of a flat-earther. None of them develop, explore, or have anything to contribute.
They're just there to be magnets for the demons that Nube will have to exorcise. If you replace them with plants, the story ends up benefiting. The "Villain" appears at the beginning and leaves, saying "I'll be back," and when he does, he ends up being more like Nube's boyfriend than her rival. I don't mind them being boyfriend and girlfriend, I mind that their romance wasn't developed on screen. That was the last good thing they had, and they decided not to exploit it. The fights went on sabbatical. They don't exist, they don't exist, it's just running from the demon the entire episode, and at the end, Nube will arrive to deliver a slap capable of exorcising even the most stubborn demon. There are no fights, no rituals, no chants, no tools, no strategies, just exorcising slaps.

The idea of ​​a remake is to allow the original story to be known by new audiences with a technological update on the technical side. If you're going to use a '90s classic to talk to me about being eco-friendly, the importance of trash, and the power of friendship, you didn't need to tarnish the name of a franchise when you could have just as easily created a new one and ruined it with this terrible level of production.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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