One of the most-hyped new anime series on Crunchyroll for the Summer 2025 season is the Gachiakuta adaptation. The series is a pretty well established one, as it’s been running in Japan since February 2022. It’s also one of those sorts of underdog stories about a young man who gains the ability to face overwhelming monsters, fight back against fate, and get revenge for being framed for murder. Basically, it checks all the shonen series boxes, and the manga looks gorgeous (and often gory) while doing it. Now that I’ve seen the first episodes, I feel like that fanfare might be deserved, and this adaptation maintains the series’ dark and gritty nature.
Gachiakuta starts by establishing the nature of the series. There’s what appears to be a modern city, and talk of how items treated well develop souls. It then asks what happens to trash treated poorly and abandoned. After a child’s toy breaks, a mother tosses it out. Narration explains that not only are items treated poorly and abandoned as trash, but people are too. This sets up a situation in which items are tossed away. It’s then we see a Trash Raider watched the latest dismissals of trash into chutes in the city below. A young man is going through it when armed personnel find and shoot at him.
It’s a powerful type of message to begin with, accompanied by frantic music and interesting set pieces that establishes how there’s a goal to be clean. People talk down about trash raids and the “tribefolk” who also inhabit this home. Said folks live beyond the wall in a cramped, packed, slum district, and rumor is those people’s descendants were criminals who were cast out. It’s then that we see Rudo is a young man who lives beyond the wall and is a member of the “tribefolk.” He’s fixed the plush the woman and girl abandoned and is chastised by his friend Chiwa for causing trouble, as well as warned about the consequences. Rudo explains it’s a means of earning money, in addition to preserving things that may need a second chance. Even here though, he’s criticized by people around him.
It really sets up Rudo not only as an underdog, but a good person. He cares about Chiwa and the items he finds. He picked up one of these for her, rather than sell it. He wants to help repay his foster father Regto, who took him in and raised him. He’s smart and skilled, capable of executing the trash raids. There’s the suggestion that he’s smart and talented enough to do more. There’s also a sense of mystery surrounding him, since his injured hands bear unusual black marks and are painful when he doesn’t wear his gloves.
The first episode is really fantastic at setting up who he is before the other shoe drops. Once Rudo is framed for murder, the worst happens. He’s dropped into the Pit, then immediately faced with a monster made of trash. (The design of these Trash Beasts are incredible!) Yet because of being as skilled as he was above, he manages to hold his own until another individual with unexpected abilities steps in to assist. Enjin explains he’s a Cleaner. What follows is what seems to be a possibility for Rudo to accomplish his goals and find truth. However, it’s also at that point that things get incredibly dark, so it’s important to know there will be blood and gore going into it.
Bones makes a strong first impression with the Gachiakuta anime adaptation. Much of the style seems to be preserved. It hints at Rudo’s mystery, strength, and circumstances in a short amount of time. It doesn’t hold back, just as the original series doesn’t. Also, based on the initial imagery of the first trash beasts and city and Pit set pieces, it seems the ambiance and critical design elements will be maintained as well. It could prove to be the major shonen series of the Summer 2025 anime season on Crunchyroll.
The Gachiakuta anime is streaming on Crunchyroll, and a new episode appears every Sunday going forward. The manga is handled by Kodansha outside Japan.
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