The Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms anime has revealed a new trailer, as well as an October 2024 premiere. TriF Studio is animating, under the direction of the original creator Sae Okamoto.
Hiroshi Matsuyama will serve as the series’ chief supervisor. Shuichi Aso will serve as the animation director, Tetsuya Kinoshita as the producer, and Shota Kawamura as the CG director. Terumi Nishi and Yoko Uchida are in charge of the character designs, with music by Kohta Yamamoto, DAIKI, and Hiroyuki Sawano. The voice cast for the anime includes:
Mecha-Ude is an original animation created and directed by Okamoto, who is a member of the TriF Studio. She also directed the 2018 short with TriF, after a crowdfunding campaign which earned nearly $67,000 in less than 2 months. Eve performed the opening theme song for the short – “Ambivalent” and AZLiGHTZ performed the ending theme “Alone”.
The official website for the original anime lists the synopsis as:
One day, Amatsuga Hikaru, a junior high school student living in Kitakagami City, meets the mysterious “Ude”-shaped mechanical life form Alma. Alma attempts to bind to Hikaru’s body in order to obtain energy from him, but fails. To his surprise, it binds to the hoodie that Hikaru was wearing. Meanwhile, the “Kagami Group,” a large corporation that plans to enslave the Mecha-Udes and turn them into weapons, is in pursuit of Alma. ARMS, an organization working to save and free the Mecha-Udes, also searches for Alma. Hikaru, unable to abandon the weakened Alma, puts on the hoodie that Alma has bonded with and gets caught up in the great events unfolding among the Mecha-Ude users……
Source: Official Website
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