Pony Canyon revealed the trailer for the official anime series of Sae Okamoto's Mecha-Ude project on Sunday. The company also revealed additional cast and staff for the anime.
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The newly announced cast includes:
Shota Kawamura is the 3DCG director while Takeshi Takadera is the sound director.
The anime will premiere in October.
Previously announced cast includes:
Okamoto is the original creator and is directing the anime (under the Okamoto name) at Fukuoka-based upstart TriF Studio. Yasuhiro Nakanishi from TriF is overseeing the series' scripts, and Terumi Nishii and Yoko Uchida are the character designers. Nurikabe is the designer and concept artist of Mecha-Ude. Hiroyuki Sawano, Kohta Yamamoto and DAIKI from AWSM are composing the music.
Hiroshi Matsuyama from CyberConnect2 is the general supervisor, Shūichi Asō from TriF Studio is the animation producer, and Tetsuya Kinoshita from Pony Canyon is the producer.
The project's production team released a pilot anime video in May 2019 and an English dub followed shortly after. 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.
Yoshino Koyoka (Aria the Scarlet Ammo) launched a manga adaptation on the LINE Manga and ebookjapan services in September 2022.
Azuki began serializing the manga in English under the title Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms on July 2 and describes the story:
Kitakagami City is a pretty normal town… except that some people have gotten their hands on Mecha-Ude: powerful, sentient mechanical creatures attached to their hosts' limbs. When middle school student Hikaru accidentally activates Alma, a mysterious Mecha-Ude with no memory of the past, he forms an unlikely bond with the talking arm. But where does Alma come from? And why are shadowy secret organizations and corporate assassins with their own deadly Mecha-Ude suddenly pursuing Hikaru, determined to steal Alma? Hikaru and Alma must learn to work together to uncover the truth behind Alma's identity and prevent him from falling into the wrong hands (or into the wrong arms)!
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