Highlights
- Anime adaptation of Gachiakuta confirmed by author Kei Urana for 2025 premiere.
- Studio Bones to produce the dark shōnen manga series Gachiakuta.
- Gachiakuta features a unique story of survival in a world of living refuse and treasure.
Kei Urana, author of the dark shōnen manga series Gachiakuta, took to her Instagram account to post confirmation that an anime adaptation of the series is currently in production. Along with a celebratory key visual, Urana also posted a short teaser trailer which confirmed the series premiere for sometime in 2025.
The news follows rumours about who is set to be the production studio behind the upcoming anime, and the teaser trailer in fact confirms the rumours to be true: Gachiakuta will be produced by Studio Bones.
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About Gachiakuta
One Person's Trash Is Another's Treasure
©Kei Urana, Hideyoshi Andou and KODANSHA/ “GACHIAKUTA” Production Committee
Gachiakuta is a dark shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Kei Urana which follows a young boy named Rudo, who lives on the edge of society in the slums of a wealthy society. Anything thrown away by the wealthy winds up at the slums, where the people on the fringes cast away by society, now called "tribesfolk", reside. Rudo lives with his adoptive father Regto. Below the town is a massive chasm called "The Pit", a place where the town discards all its unwanted, be it objects or people. One day, after rummaging through a dump site as he often did, Rudo finds Regto on the verge of death, stabbed with a large knife. He is immediately arrested and sentenced to The Pit, and as the offspring of a criminal, no one was willing to listen to his pleas.
When he comes to, Rudo finds himself in a massive, foul-smelling garbage dump where large amalgamations of living refuse called Trash Beasts immediately attack him. He is saved by a young man named Engine, who tells him that he wasn't cast into the pit, but to a surface world from a giant floating structure known as "The Sphere". Engine is part of an organization called the Cleaners that dispatches operatives known as "Givers"; those capable of making use of "Vital Instruments", objects of unique value that have developed a soul as a result of being cherished by their owner. Rudo accepts Engine's offer to join the Cleaners, as long as he can find a way back to The Sphere and make those who killed Regto pay.
What We Know About Gachiakuta
Production By Bones And A 2025 Premiere
©Kei Urana, Hideyoshi Andou and KODANSHA/ “GACHIAKUTA” Production Committee
The series has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine since February 2022, and won the Global Special Prize in the Comics category of the Next Manga Awards 2022. Gachiakuta will have a panel at the upcoming Anime Expo 2024 on July 4, where staff members at Bones, producers from Avex and the editor of the manga will give more information about the series. Attendees will receive a special gift. On June 13, Kei Urana confirmed the Gachiakuta anime, which is set to begin airing sometime in 2025.
"When I was little, I used to sit in front of the TV eagerly waiting for my favorite anime shows to come on. And as that little kid, I used to dream about one day having my own manga turned into an anime by Bones, a studio I love. I’m looking forward to watching the Gachiakuta anime on the screen together with you all!"
– Gachiakuta author, Kei Urana
Urana and series graffiti artist, Hideyoshi Andō, both gave excited statements about the upcoming Gachiakuta anime. The series, produced by Studio Bones (My Hero Academia) will be directed by Fumihiko Suganuma (unit director, The First Slam Dunk), with series composition by Hiroshi Seko (Chainsaw Man) and character designs by chief animation director Satoshi Ishino (Date-A-Live). Gachiakuta is available to read on Kodansha's website.
Sources: Kei Urana's Official Instagram, Businesswire, ANN
