Gachiakuta (2025) ガチアクタ
Director: Fumihiko Suganuma
Screenwriter: Hiroshi Seko
Starring: Aoi Ichikawa / Katsuyuki Konishi / Yoshitsugu Matsuoka / Yumiri Hanamori / Mitsuki Saiga / Masami Iwasaki / Wataru Takagi / Hana Sato / Maria Naganawa / Satoshi Hino / Kazuki Ura / Hisako Tojo / Rikiya Koyama / Mie Sonozaki / Mamoru Miyano / Manaka Iwami / Shunsuke Takeuchi / Yuki Shin / Ayahi Takagaki / Mutsumi Tamura / Hiro Shimono / Akio Otsuka / Tomoyuki Morikawa / Miku Ito / Ryusei Nakao / Yuko Sanpei / Kana Hanazawa
Genre: Animation
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Language: Japanese
Date: July 6, 2025
Number of Seasons: 2
Number of episodes: 24
Single episode length: 24 minutes
Also known as: Gachiakuta / 咔嗒咔嗒
IMDb: tt32612521
Adaptation: Homage
Summary:
A young teenage boy named Rudo lives in the slums of a wealthy society among the "tribesfolk", a population descended from criminals and exiled by society. Rudo detests the upper class's wastefulness, as they often dump anything deemed trash, including criminals, into a massive dump site below the town known as "The Pit". Rudo was told by his foster father Regto that his biological father was dumped into the Pit for a crime before Rudo was born. One day, after rummaging through a dump site, Rudo returns home to find Regto murdered. Apprehended at the scene, Rudo is immediately charged with murder despite being innocent, due to his status as a tribesman. Unable to escape his fate, Rudo swears revenge upon the people and is dumped into the Pit.
After being dumped into the Pit, Rudo awakens to find himself disoriented in a foul-smelling, endless landscape of trash. Rudo is then attacked by large beasts made of trash and fends them off until he is rescued by a man named Enjin. The man explains that he is not underground but has fallen to the surface from "The Sphere". After testing him and awakening his power as a "Giver", Enjin invites Rudo to join him as a "Cleaner". Enjin explains that the Cleaners are an organization of Givers who use the power of unique weapons known as "vital instruments" (人器, jinki) to hunt the trash beasts that attacked him. Rudo reluctantly accepts Enjin's offer to join the Cleaners, so long as it helps accomplish his goal of returning to the Sphere and enacting revenge on those who dumped him into the Pit.
