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Gachiakuta Anime to Run for Half-Year Without Breaks

The staff for the television anime of Kei Urana's Gachiakuta manga announced on Sunday the series will air for two cours (quarter of a year) without breaks, or half a year continuously.

The anime debuted in Japan on Sunday and will air on CBC, TBS, and 26 other channels. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime beginning on the same day 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. Crunchyroll is also streaming an English dub for the series.

The Anime Expo event screened the first two episodes, and creators Kei Urana and Hideyoshi Ando alongside producer Naoki Amano attended the premiere.

The anime stars:

• Aoi Ichikawa as Rudo
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Enjin
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Zanka
• Yumiri Hanamori as Riyo

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 15th compiled book volume on June 17.

Sources: Gachiakuta anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie