The Gachiakuta anime’s next promotional visual is here and features the red-haired Riyo, who’s seen dangling a pair of scissors from a finger.
Gachiakuta is based on the action manga by Kei Urana (with graffiti art by Hideyoshi Ando), which started publication in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine and has 14 tankoubon volumes as of March 2025. The anime’s synopsis reads:
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!
The show is set to premiere in July and has been acquired by Crunchyroll.
The manga was a Shonen Category finalist in the 47th and 48th Kodansha Manga Award. Kodansha USA publishes it in English.
Staff
• Director: Fumihiko Suganuma (Train to the End of the World chief episode director, T.P Bon Episode 6 storyboard artist and director)
• Series composer: Hiroshi Seko (Wind Breaker, Jujutsu Kaisen)
• Character designer and chief animation director: Satoshi Ishino (Godzilla Singular Point)
• Animation production: BONES FILM [credited under Studio Bones at time of announcement]
Cast
• Aoi Ichikawa as Rudo
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Enjin
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Zanka
• Yumiri Hanamori as Riyo
Source: Gachiakuta anime website
