The first manga adaptation volume will be published on April 15
Scholastic's Graphix publisher announced on Tuesday that it will release Yoshino Koyoka's Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms manga in print in English on April 15.
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The company describes the story:
Kita-Kagami City is a pretty normal town… except that some people have gotten their hands on Mecha-Ude: powerful, sentient, mechanical creatures attached to human hosts and capable of great ability. When middle school student Hikaru accidentally activates Alma, a Mecha-Ude with no memory of the past, they must team up to uncover the mystery of Alma's identity and prevent the powerful Mecha-Ude from falling into his hands. bad guy.
Koyoka launched a manga adaptation on the LINE Manga and ebookjapan services in September 2022. Azuki began releasing the manga series in English under the title Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms in July 2023.
The official anime series of Sae Okamoto's Mecha-Ude project premiered on October 3. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs worldwide except Asia and South Asia. In Asia, the series is streamed on Aniplus in South Korea; on Aniplus VOD in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau; and on bilibili and Aniplus TV in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Okamoto is the original creator and is directing the anime (under the name Okamoto) at Fukuoka-based TriF Studio.
The project's production team released a pilot anime video in May 2019 and soon followed with an English dub. Eve performed the opening theme song “Ambivalent” and AZLiGHTZ performed the ending theme song “Alone”.
The initial Kickstarter campaign raised US$67,918 between October and November 2016. The Campfire Japan crowdfunding campaign raised 4,849,500 yen (about US$44,000) towards the goal. initially 2 million yen (about US$18,700) before ending in March 2018.
Pony Canyon announced in September 2022 that the project will have an official anime series. Anime Expo held the world premiere of the anime's first episode in July 2023.
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