Gachiakuta, an action manga series by created by manga artist Kei Urana and graffiti artist Hideyoshi Andou, announced a TV anime adaptation today produced by Studio Bones scheduled to release in 2025. The anime’s official website opened today, releasing a teaser trailer and visual.
Gachiakuta anime teaser trailer
Special artwork and messages from Kei Urana and Hideyoshi Andou were also released.
The anime’s main staff was also announced and includes:
Director: Fumihiko Suganuma (director of THE FIRST SLAM DUNK, episode director of SHIROBAKO, Eccentric Family)
Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko (series composition/script for Attack on Titan – The Final Season and Chainsaw Man)
Character Design and Chief Animation Director: Satoshi Ishino (Chief animation director of Godzilla Singular Point and A.I.C.O. Incarnation)
Animation Production: Studio BONES (My Hero Academia, Fullmetal Alchemist and Eureka Seven)
More details on the anime adaptation are scheduled to be announced during Anime Expo on July 4.The Gachiakuta manga is serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine since February 2022. The 11tg tankobon volume is set to release in Japan on June 17. The manga also won the Global Special Prize in the Comics category of the Next Manga Awards 2022.Kodansha USA releases the English version of the manga with the third volume scheduled to release in July. Kodansha USA describes the series:
Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he’s falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment—exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity has bred vicious monsters, and if Rudo wants to have any hope of discovering the truth and seeking vengeance against those who cast him into Hell, he will have to master a new power and join a group known as the Cleaners who battle the hulking trash beasts of the Pit!
Sources: “Gachiakuta” anime official website / Twitter, press release©Kei Urana, Hideyoshi Andou and KODANSHA/ “GACHIAKUTA” Production Committee
