The upcoming Gachiakuta action anime has gotten a main trailer, main visual, and a July 6 JST premiere date.
It was also announced that the anime’s opening theme song is “HUGs” by Paledusk while the ending song is DUSTCELL‘s “灯火” (reading might be “touka” or “tomoshibi” Update: confirmed to be “Tomoshibi”). Additionally, Toshiyuki Morikawa and Yuuki Shin are joining the cast as Regto and Jabber, respectively.
Beyond the regular promotional material and theme song info drops, a “Gachiakuta World Takeover” campaign organized by Crunchyroll in partnership with Kodansha, Avex, and Bones was revealed as well (the press release categorizes the new trailer, visual, and theme song/cast announcements as being a part of this campaign). One of the main initiatives from this campaign is a series of global screening events that will take place in 15 locations around the globe.
The locations include:
• Japan: Shinjuku Piccadilly at July 4 JST
• United States: Anime Expo (Los Angeles) – July 4 at 10 AM PDT (also has a special panel featuring the manga’s Kei Urana and Hideyoshi Ando and producer Naoki Amano)
• France: Japan Expo (Paris) – July 4 at 11:45 PM CEST
• Brazil: Anime Friends (São Paulo) – TBA
• Germany: Astor Film Lounge (Berlin) – July 5 at 6 PM CEST
• India: PVR Icon (Mumbai) – July 4
• Mexico: Antara Shopping Mall (Mexico City) – July 4
• Italy: The Space Moderno, Piazza della Repubblica (Rome) – July 4 at 6:30 PM CEST
While there’s still some time before the screenings, fans can currently watch an interview video with Urano and Ando and tinker with the Gachiakuta Graffiti Maker Website, which allows visitors to “create their own personalized ‘Gachi-style’ graffiti tags inspired by the series’ bold aesthetic.” There’s also a “Here Comes Gachiakuta!” key visual and concept video.
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 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)
• Sub character designer and chief animation director: Yoshino Matsumoto
• 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
Sources: Press release, Gachiakuta anime website, Gachiakuta World Takerover website
