Crunchyroll announced on Thursday that the television anime of Kei Urana’s Gachiakuta manga will have a premiere event through advanced screenings in 15 countries and regions before the anime’s worldwide streaming debut. The staff also began streaming a new promotional video.
The video reveals and previews the opening theme song. The band Paledusk will perform the opening theme song “HUGs,” and DUSTCELL will perform the ending theme song “Tomoshibi.”
The staff also revealed new cast members and the show’s July 6 debut. The new cast members include Toshiyuki Morikawa as Regto, and Yūki Shin as Jabber.
©Kei Urana, Hideyoshi Andou and KODANSHA/ “GACHIAKUTA” Production Committee
©Kei Urana, Hideyoshi Andou and KODANSHA/ “GACHIAKUTA” Production Committee
The anime will debut in Japan on July 6 and will air on CBC, TBS, and 26 other channels.
A partial list of the advanced screenings as part of the “Gachiakuta World Takeover” event include:
United States: Anime Expo (Los Angeles) – July 4 at 10:00am PDT
France: Japan Expo (Paris) – July 4 at 11:45am CEST
Brazil: Anime Friends (São Paulo) – Date TBD
Germany: Astor Film Lounge (Berlin) – July 5 at 6:00pm CEST
India: PVR Icon (Mumbai) – July 4 at TBD
Mexico: Antara Shopping Mall (Mexico City) – July 4 at TBD
Italy: The Space Moderno, Piazza della Repubblica (Rome) – July 4 at 6:30pm CEST
Crunchyroll will announce more countries at a later date.
At Anime Expo, the event will screen the first two episodes, and creators Kei Urana and Hideyoshi Ando alongside producer Naoki Amano will attend the premiere.
The anime’s staff also revealed a behind-the-scenes video featuring Urana and Ando.
©Kei Urana, Hideyoshi Andou and KODANSHA/ “GACHIAKUTA” Production Committee
Crunchyroll will stream the anime starting on July 6 in the following territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS (excluding Russia and Belarus), and the Indian subcontinent.
The anime stars:
Fumihiko Suganuma (The First Slam Dunk unit director, Train to the End of the World chief episode director) is directing the anime at BONES. Hiroshi Seko (Chainsaw Man, Vinland Saga, Mob Psycho 100) is in charge of the series scripts. Satoshi Ishino (Date A Live, Captain Earth, Release the Spyce) is designing the characters, and is also serving as the chief animation director. Taku Iwasaki (Bungo Stray Dogs; Shin Kamen Rider) is composing the music.
Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story:
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!
Urana launched the manga in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine in February 2022. Hideyoshi Ando is credited for graffiti design. Kodansha published the manga’s 14th volume on March 17.
Sources: Press release, Gachiakuta anime’s website, Comic Natalie
