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2nd Live-Action Gintama Show Casts Rie Kugimiya

The official Rie Kugimiya will appear in the show in a voice role. The announcement did not reveal what role she will play.

Kugimiya plays the character Kagura in the Gintama television anime, but Kanna Hashimoto plays the character in the live-action series and films. Kugimiya commented that her appearance in the live-action show is very "Kagura-like, in a certain way."

dTV streaming service, and will have three episodes. The three episodes are titled "I Can't Sleep," "Hijikata Smoking Ban," and "No Matter How Old You Are You Hate Going to the Dentist."

ENDRECHERI, the solo project of perform the show's theme song "one more purple funk… -Kōmei katana-." Dōmoto previously played the character Shinsuke Takasugi in the first live-action Gintama film, and will reprise his role in the sequel film.

Returning from the first live-action show are Yūma Yamoto plays the character Tetsurō from the same manga.

Gintama 2: Okite wa Yaburu Tame ni Koso Aru (The Law is Surely There to be Broken), the opens in Japan on Friday. The story will cover both the "Shinsengumi Crisis" and the "Shogun Reception" arcs, the latter of which features the introduction of the Shogun.

The film stars:

• Shun Oguri as Gintoki Sakata
• Masaki Suda as Shinpachi Shimura
• Kanna Hashimoto as Kagura
• Masami Nagasawa as Tae Shimura
• Masaki Okada as Kotarō Katsura
• Tsuyoshi Muro as Gengai Hiraga
• as Otose
• Yuuya Yagira as Toushirou Hijikata and his otaku split personality "Tosshi"
• Kankurō Nakamura as Isao Kondou
• Ryō Yoshizawa as Sougo Okita
• Tsuyoshi Dōmoto as Shinsuke Takasugi
• Haruma Miura as Kamotaro Ito
• Masataka Kubota as Bansai Kawakami
• Shinichi Tsutsumi as Katakuriko Matsudaira
• Ryo Katsuji as the Shogun
• Natsuna Watanabe as Ayame Sarutobi
• returning but in a different, as-yet unannounced role

Rock band back number will perform the film's theme song "Daifuseikai."

The first film opened in Japan last July, and it earned 980 million yen (US$8.9 million) in its first four days. The film also screened the film in the United States and Canada starting on January 19.

released the first film on DVD, Blu-ray Disc and DVD combo pack, and Digital HD on March 6.

Sources: Gintama 2: Yo ni mo Kimyō na Gintama-chan show's Twitter (link 2), Comic Natalie