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Crunchyroll Hosts Early Mumbai Screening of Gachiakuta TV Anime on July 4

Crunchyroll announced on Thursday that the television anime of Kei Urana's Gachiakuta manga will have a premiere event in India through an advanced screening. The "Gachiakuta World Takeover" event will take place at PVR Icon in Mumbai on July 4.

The anime will debut in Japan on July 6 and will air on CBC, TBS, and 26 other channels.

Crunchyroll has announced six more countries for the advanced screening so far and will announce more locations at a later date. The screenings will happen in 15 countries and regions before the anime's worldwide streaming debut.

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:

• Aoi Ichikawa as Rudo
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Enjin
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Zanka
• Yumiri Hanamori as Riyo
• Toshiyuki Morikawa as Regto
• Yūki Shin as Jabber

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.

The band Paledusk will perform the opening theme song "HUGs," and DUSTCELL will perform the ending theme song "Tomoshibi."

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