Live-action Gintama director Yuuichi Fukuda is returning from the second season to direct the new series.
As for the delayed second season’s unaired episodes, NHK will also be airing them, but after the third season’s episodes air.
It will once again star Ken’ichi Matsuyama as Jesus and Shouta Sometani as Buddha, who are both returning from the first season.
The second half of the second season got delayed because of Typhoon Hagibis, which caused billions of yen worth of damage, as well as killed several people.