Staff:
• Director: Fumihiko Suganuma (Sirius episode director, Shirobako episode director)
• Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko (Jujutsu Kaisen, Wind Breaker)
• Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Satoshi Ishino (A.I.C.O. Incarnation, Godzilla S.P)
• Studio: Bones
• Official site: https://gachiakuta-anime.com/
• Official X (Twitter): @gachiakuta_PR
Avex Pictures opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Kei Urana's Gachiakuta manga on Thursday, revealing the main staff, a teaser promo, and teaser visual (pictured). The anime series is being produced by animation studio Bones for a 2025 airing.
The Anime Expo 2024 event at Los Angeles will host a panel highlighting behind the scenes for the anime on July 4, featuring Bones, a producer from Avex, and an editor from Kodansha.
Urana began serializing the action fantasy manga in Weekly Shounen Magazine in February 2022, featuring graffiti designs by Hideyoshi Andou. Kodansha published the tenth volume on March 15, with the 11th volume scheduled to be released on June 17.
Kodansha USA licensed the manga in English in March 2023. The second volume went on sale on April 30, and the third volume will ship on July 23.
Gachiakuta was nominated for the 47th and 48th Kodansha Manga Awards in the Shounen category. The manga also ranked 13th at the 2022 Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards and was the most popular manga among English voters.
Synopsis
Living in the slums of a wealthy town, Rudo and his foster father Legto try to coexist with the rest of the town's residents, but Rudo despises the wastefulness of the upper class. Ignoring the warnings from those around him, Rudo regularly rummages through the town's garbage in search of anything useful or valuable to save from the "Abyss"—a massive hole where anything considered trash is dumped, including people. Rudo's biological father was one such person, having been thrown into the Abyss after he was accused of murder.
One day, after running into a mysterious figure on the way home, Rudo returns to find Legto's dying body on the floor. He is immediately found at the scene by the authorities and is charged with murder. No one believes his claims of innocence, and he is thrown into the Abyss. Instead of dying, however, he finds himself in a strange, foul-smelling place surrounded by monsters made out of trash.
When Rudo is attacked by said monsters, he is saved by a man named Enjin, who reveals himself to be a "janitor"—someone who uses special weapons called "jinkis" to combat these creatures. In order to get his revenge on the one who killed Legto, Rudo reluctantly becomes a janitor to fight his way back up and out of the Abyss. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Gachiakuta on MAL
