The upcoming Gachiakuta anime adaptation has received a visual and short promotional video for its protagonist Rudo.
The visual is drawn by the show’s character designer and chief animation director Satoshi Ishino.
Gachiakuta is set to premiere in 2025. It is based on the action manga by Kei Urana, which started publication in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine and has 13 tankoubon volumes as of December 2024. The anime’s synopsis reads:
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!
The manga, which has graffiti art by Hideyoshi Ando, was a Shonen Category finalist in the 47th and 48th Kodansha Manga Award. Kodansha USA publishes it in English.
Staff
• Director: Fumihiko Suganuma (Train to the End of the World chief episode director, T.P Bon Episode 6 storyboard artist and director)
• Series composer: Hiroshi Seko (Wind Breaker, Jujutsu Kaisen)
• Character designer and chief animation director: Satoshi Ishino (Godzilla Singular Point)
• Animation production: BONES FILM [credited under Studio Bones at time of announcement]
Source: @gachiakuta_PR
