Sci-fi and action are known to be a successful combination, and Psycho-Pass could well be its best example. Fans love a great crime-themed anime that is placed in a dystopian future.
Too Kyo Games, along with Studio Pierrot, announced an original anime series called Akudama Drive on March 13, 2020. It instantly gained attention for being an original anime and not based on a manga or video game.
The original anime was initially slated to debut in July 2020 but got delayed to October 2020 due to the pandemic’s effects on the Japanese animation industry.
Funimation announced today that it would simultaneously stream Studio Pierrot’s original anime Akudama Drive on its platform from its October 2020 premiere.
Tomohisha Taguchi will direct the original anime created by Kazutaka Kodaka at Studio Pierrot with Norimitsu Kaiho in charge of series composition. Cindy H. Yamauchi will do the character designs for the series and Shigekaizu Aida will compose the music.
The cast includes:
- Tomoyo Kurosawa as An Ordinary Person
- Yuichiro Umehara as Courier
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Brawler
- Shun Horie as Hacker
- Megumi Ogata as Doctor
- Subaru Kimura as Hoodlum
- Takahiro Sakurai as Cutthroat
Akudama Drive’s official website had previously announced on May 22 that the original anime would receive an anime-inspired manga by Rokurou Ōgaki that would begin publishing from July 7.
It isn’t uncommon for original animes and anime films to inspire manga adaptations as fans of the series usually demand more of the story once it concludes.
But Akudama Drive’s case is quite uncommon as the anime hasn’t yet premiered, and its manga will begin publishing before its October 2020 release.
Fans can’t wait for the anime to premiere as its creators promise a story of redemption spiced with crime, politics, and corruption in a somewhat twisted futuristic world.
About Akudama Drive
Akudama Drive is an original anime adapted by Too Kyo Games and Studio Pierrot.
Long ago, the world was torn because of the war which arose between KANSAI and KANTO. Eventually, KANSAI came under the reign of KANTO and became independently developed.
However, it all fell apart when the whole area became crime-infested, where police force and political powers were mere gimmicks.
6The perpetrators of the events which led to the decline of this ‘high-developed but twisted society ‘were criminals known as ‘Akudama. ‘But how do these so-called criminals act in society? The virtues of the Akudama gathered here will clash.
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