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Pony Canyon has revealed a new video for the full-fledged anime of Sae Okamoto‘s Mecha-Ude project, featuring English subtitles that can be toggled on. The video introduces the show’s main characters.

The anime will premiere on October 3 and will be streamed worldwide, except in Asia and South Asia, on Crunchyroll. In Asia, it will be streamed on various platforms, including Aniplus in Korea, Aniplus VOD in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, and bilibili and Aniplus TV in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

The anime stars:

Crunchyroll describes the story:

Hikaru’s ordinary middle school life takes a thrilling turn when he encounters Alma, an alien entity resembling a mechanized limb called Mecha-Ude. Alma, a member of a rare species, is fleeing from a sinister group hunting their kind down in search of one possessing unparalleled power. Tasked by the resistance group ARMS, this unlikely duo will embark on a perilous journey to save the Mecha-Ude.

The production team includes Okamoto as the original creator and director, Yasuhiro Nakanishi as the series script supervisor, and Terumi Nishii and Yoko Uchida as the character designers. The music is composed by Hiroyuki Sawano, Kohta Yamamoto, and DAIKI from AWSM, with Shota Kawamura as the 3DCG director and Takeshi Takadera as the sound director.

The opening theme song “VORTEX” and the ending theme song “karma” are performed by Setsuko of Kuhaku Gokko, with composition, arrangement, and production by Hiroyuki Sawano.

The project’s production team released a pilot anime video in May 2019, and an English dub soon followed. Eve performed the opening theme song “Ambivalent,” and AZLiGHTZ performed the ending theme song “Alone.”

The original Kickstarter campaign raised US$67,918 from October to November 2016. A Japanese Campfire crowdfunding campaign raised 4,849,500 yen (about US$44,000) toward an initial goal of 2 million yen (about US$18,700) before ending in March 2018.

Pony Canyon announced in September 2022 that the project was getting a full-fledged anime series. The world premiere of the anime’s first episode was hosted at Anime Expo in July 2023.

A manga adaptation by Yoshino Koyoka (Aria the Scarlet Ammo) was launched on the LINE Manga and ebookjapan services in September 2022. Azuki began releasing the manga in English under the title Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms in July 2023.

Source: Press release