Voice actor Shunsuke Takeuchi has been cast as Zodyl for the ongoing Gachiakuta TV anime series. The anime first began broadcasting in Japan on July 6, 2025 and will run for 24 total episodes.
Zodyl serves as the leader of the Raiders — a group in conflict with the Cleaners — who “pursues Rudo relentlessly to find a way to reach the Sphere.”
©Kei Urana, Hideyoshi Andou and KODANSHA/ “GACHIAKUTA” Production Committee
Takeuchi joins the anime’s voice cast, which stars:
- • Aoi Ichikawa as Rudo
- • Katsuyuki Konishi as Enjin
- • Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Zanka
- • Yumiri Hanamori as Riyo
- • Yuuki Shin as Jabber
Fumihiko Suganuma (Train to the End of the World chief episode director, T.P Bon Episode 6 storyboard artist and director) is directing the anime series, with Hiroshi Seko (Wind Breaker, Jujutsu Kaisen) as series screenwriter, Satoshi Ishino (Godzilla Singular Point) as character designer and chief animation director, and Yoshino Matsumoto as sub character designer and chief animation director. BONES FILM (credited under Studio Bones at the time of announcement) is in charge of the animation production.
The anime is based on the dark fantasy action manga series by Kei Urana (with graffiti art by Hideyoshi Ando), which was first serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine on February 16, 2022. Sixteen tankobon volumes have been released as of June 2025, with a 17th volume expected to be released in Japan on November 17, 2025. Kodansha USA publishes the series in English.
The manga was also a Shonen Category finalist in the 47th and 48th Kodansha Manga Award, respectively.
©Kei Urana, Hideyoshi Andou and KODANSHA/ “GACHIAKUTA” Production Committee
Crunchyroll is streaming Gachiakuta worldwide, outside of Japan, and describes the main synopsis as:
Crawl back from the abyss of Hell to change this lousy world!
Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he’s falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment — exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity has bred vicious monsters, and if Rudo wants to have any hope of discovering the truth and seeking vengeance against those who cast him into Hell, he will have to master a new power and join a group known as the Cleaners who battle the hulking trash beasts of the Pit!
Sources: Gachiakuta World News Official Twitter, Gachikakuta Official Japanese Twitter
