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Crunchyroll Shares Images of its New Gachiakuta Outdoor Ad Campaign in India
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Crunchyroll shared images of its new outdoor advertising campaign for the television anime of Kei Urana's Gachiakuta manga on Friday. The campaign spans Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Chennai and features hoardings, vinyl on buses and metro cars, and a "3D" display at Garuda Mall in Bengaluru.
The anime had a premiere event in India through an advanced screening. The "Gachiakuta World Takeover" event took place at PVR Icon in Mumbai on July 4.
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 performs the opening theme song "HUGs," and DUSTCELL performs 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 15th compiled book volume on June 17.
Sources: Press release
