A new character visual and short trailer have been released for the upcoming Gachiakuta TV anime series, spotlighting Enjin, who is the experienced Cleaner and captain of Team Akuta. The anime is scheduled to premiere in Japan in July 2025.
Fumihiko Suganuma (Train to the End of the World chief episode director, T.P Bon Episode 6 storyboard artist and director) is directing the anime adaptation, with Hiroshi Seko (Wind Breaker, Jujutsu Kaisen) as series screenwriter, Satoshi Ishino (Godzilla Singular Point) as character designer and chief animation director, and BONES FILM (credited under Studio Bones at the time of announcement) as the animation production company.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast stars:
- • Aoi Ichikawa as Rudo
- • Katsuyuki Konishi as Enjin
- • Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Zanka
- • Yumiri Hanamori as Riyo
The anime is based on the dark fantasy action manga by Kei Urana (with graffiti art by Hideyoshi Ando), which started publication in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine on February 16, 2022 and has released 14 tankobon volumes as of March 2025. The manga was also a Shonen Category finalist in the 47th and 48th Kodansha Manga Award. Kodansha USA publishes the series in English.
Crunchyroll will stream Gachiakuta worldwide, outside of Japan. The official English synopsis is described as:
Crawl back from the abyss of Hell to change this lousy world!
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!
Source: Gachiakuta Official Twitter
