It has been announced that “Gachiakuta“, the original manga by Kei Urana and graffiti art by Hideyoshi Andou will be getting an anime adaptation. It is also announced that Studio Bones, known for My Hero Academia, The Case Study Of Vanitas, etc., is in charge of animating this anime adaptation. This anime is scheduled for next year 2025. The official X account and Website for this anime have been opened and they shared the Kick-off Key Visual and The announcement trailer for this upcoming anime:
The key visual feature main character Rudo falling from the sky. The official X account describes this key visual as: “Crawl back from the abyss of Hell to change this lousy world!“
This anime will air in 2025. The original mangaka Kei Urana and Graffiti designer Hideyoshi Andou shared the congratulatory illustration for this manga getting anime:
The main staff working on this anime is officially announced:
Director: Fumihiko Suganuma
Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Satoshi Ishino
Studio: Bones
The comments also arrived from both manga artists and the staff for the TV Anime:
When I was little, I used to sit in front of the TV eagerly waiting for my favorite anime shows to come on.
Kei Urana
And as that little kid, I used to dream about one day having my own manga turned into an anime by Bones, a studio I love.
I’m looking forward to watching the Gachiakuta anime on the screen together with you all!
I’m looking forward to seeing Gachiakuta in motion! Enjoy every bit of it!
Hideyoshi Andou
My name is Fumihiko Suganuma and I’m the director of the upcoming Gachiakuta anime.
Fumihiko Suganuma
I’ll do my best to deliver 120% of the unique spirit and passion of the manga, and create a show that both Gachiakuta fans and viewers new to the series will enjoy.
Street smart—this was the very first word that popped into my mind when I read Gachiakuta.
Hiroshi Seko
I see the manga as being filled with knowledge and insights that manga artist Kei Urana and graffiti artist Hideyoshi Andou gained not in the classroom, but first-hand on the streets, sometimes in tough experiences that they powered through to survive.
So every page has a sort of nostalgic old-school “street” vibe that can be rough and gawky, but also so straight and powerful.
I really love this kind of work.
Everything about Gachiakuta—the story, Urana’s artwork, Andou’s graffiti, and the world they’ve created—is really captivating.
Satoshi Ishino
The different expressions, the dynamism and sketches that Urana draws are all incredible, and I hope to do justice to this fantastic artwork.
And you can look forward to awesome action scenes too.
On July 4, During the Anime Expo 2024 event in Los Angeles, a panel will be hosted that will highlight the behind-the-scenes of this anime. Studio Bones, a producer from Avex, and an editor from Kodansha will also present on that panel. More information will be revealed in the future! Bookmark our website for more updates!
About Gachiakuta
Gachiakuta is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Kei Urana with Graffiti art by Hideyoshi Andou. It was serialized in February 2022 in Kodansha’s Weekly Shounen Magazine. This series has a total of 10 Volumes as of March 2024.
This series ranked 13th in the print Manga category in Next Manga Award 2022. It ranked 14th in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees’ Recommended Comics of 2023. It was also nominated for the 47th and 48th Kodansha Manga Awards in The Shounen Category in 2023 and 2024 respectively.
The official website of it’s anime describes the plot of this series 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: Official Website