Gachiakuta anime adaptation by BONES announced for 2025 with a teaser PV and visual

On Thursday, June 13, 2024, a new website and X account were opened to announce the production of the Gachiakuta anime by Studio BONES. According to the announcement, the anime will premiere in 2025. The official website has also shared a teaser visual and a promotional video for the anime. A celebratory visual from Kei Urana has also been unveiled.

The Gachiakuta anime adaptation has been in the rumors for a while now. Finally, BONES and the staff have officially confirmed the adaptation. The anime serves as an adaptation of Kei Urana's eponymous dark fantasy manga series. Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine has been serializing the manga since February 2022, with 10 volumes published thus far.

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Gachiakuta anime by Studio BONES will be released in 2025

Gachiakuta anime has been green-lit for production by Studio BONES, as confirmed by the anime's official staff via a promotional video and visual on Thursday, June 13, 2024. According to the announcement, the dark fantasy anime will premiere in 2025 on television.

Along with this information, the staff unveiled a kick-off visual and a teaser promotional video. The breathtaking illustration depicts the protagonist, Rudo, falling into the abyss. The logo for the anime is also visible in the picture.

Gachiakuta anime's teaser visual (Image via Studio BONES)

Moreover, the visual has a tagline in Japanese, which reads as follows, when translated into English:

"The world will change. All common sense will be overturned."

On the other hand, the promotional video serves as a fusion of the manga's illustrations, the cuts from the anime, and Ando's graffiti art. Undoubtedly, the PV sets the tone for the Gachiakuta anime, which will highlight the story of a Rudo, a boy dwelling in slums.

Kei Urana, the author of the original manga series, has drawn an illustration to celebrate the announcement of the adaptation. The picture depicts the author enjoying the anime on a television.

Interestingly, the anime's website has shared a comment from Urana-san, where they revealed that as a kid, they used to sit in front of the television and wait for their favorite anime to be shown.

The author added that it's a dream-come-true moment for them, with their manga being adapted into an anime by Studio BONES. Additionally, Ando Hideyoshi, who worked on the graffiti design, says that he looks forward to seeing the anime in action.

A panel for the Gachiakuta anime will be presented at the upcoming Anime EXPO 2024 in Los Angeles, USA, where the staff from BONES, Avex producers, and the editor will discuss the behind-the-scenes of the anime's production.

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Staff and the plot for the Gachiakuta anime

Rudo's illustration, as seen in the anime's teaser PV (Image via Studio BONES)

Fumihiko Suganuma, the unit director behind The First Slam Dunk movie, is at the helm of affairs for this dark fantasy anime at Studio BONES, with Hiroshi Seko in charge of the series scripts. Satoshi Ishino, renowned for his contributions to the Date A Live, is enlisted as the chief animation director and character designer.

Based on Kei Urana's dark fantasy manga series, Gachiakuta anime follows the story of Rudo, a poor boy living in the slums of a floating town, where the descendants of criminals live.

One day, the boy gets falsely accused of a crime he didn't commit and is thrown into the "Abyss," where filth flows. However, he crawls back from the abyss to change an accursed world.

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