20th Anniversary Sgt. Frog Anime Is Film Next Summer
Bandai Namco Pictures unveiled a teaser trailer for the new 20th anniversary anime project for the Sgt. Frog franchise on Wednesday. The teaser reveals that the project will be a new anime film that will open in summer 2026. Yūichi Fukuda (live-action Gintama, Saint Young Men, HK/Hentai Kamen) is the supervising director and scriptwriter for the film, with Fumitoshi Oizaki (Sgt. Frog character designer, Romeo X Juliet, Etotama, Akuma Kun, The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl) directing the anime at Bandai Namco Pictures, and Satoshi Koike (Etotama, Soul Eater Not!, Princess Connect! Re:Dive season 2) as character designer.Musicians ano and Soshina will perform the a new version of the anime's iconic theme song "KERO! to MARCH" titled "Mata Kaettekita KERO! to MARCH". The song will be theme song for the 20th anniversary itself.Sunrise's anime series based on based on Mine Yoshizaki's Sgt. Frog (Keroro Gunsō) manga ran from 2004 to 2011, and it spawned five feature films. Funimation released two "seasons" of the anime on DVD, after ADV Films had licensed but not released the anime.Discotek licensed the anime, and its release of Sgt. Frog includes all 358 episodes in successive SD Blu-ray Disc volume releases by season, beginning in 2021. Discotek released seasons 5-7 last year.American manga publisher Tokyopop released twenty volumes of the original manga in North America before shutting its doors in 2011.Source: Press release
