The upcoming Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms anime has received its third key visual, which depicts main characters Hikaru and Aki in battle while the newly revealed brothers Yakumo and Tsukihito stand in the background. Yakumo, the founder of the Kagami Group and the younger of the siblings, is voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi.
Additionally, it was announced that the series will begin airing in Japan on October 3 JST (effectively October 4 at 12:30 AM JST).
Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms began with a 2019 pilot episode. The series’ premise is described as:
One day in Kita-Kagami City, junior high schooler Hikaru Amatsuga meets a mysterious “Ude (Arm)” shaped machine life form “Mecha-Ude” named Alma. In order to obtain energy, Alma tried and failed to combine with Hikaru himself. Alma somehow combined with the hoodie he was wearing instead. Meanwhile, a large corporation that’s out to forcibly turn Mecha-Ude into weapons against their will called the Kagami Group is on the hunt for Alma. Aiming to liberate themselves from the Kagami Group, a group of Mecha-Ude known as “ARMS” is also searching for Alma. In the midst of everything, Hikaru can’t bring himself to abandon Alma, who can’t remember anything, and decides to put on the hoodie Alma combined with that will embroil him into the epic clash between Mecha-Ude users that’s about to unfold…
A manga drawn by Aria the Scarlet Ammo‘s Yoshino Koyoka started serialization in September 2022 on LINE Manga and ebookjapan.
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Staff
• Creator and director: Okamoto
• Series composer: Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War)
• Series composer: TriF
• Character design: Terumi Nishii (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, Rurouni Kenshin)
• Character design: Yoko Uchida (Rurouni Kenshin 2023 co-character designer)
• Mecha-Ude design and concept art: Nurikabe
• 3DCG director: Shota Kawamura (“Kamiari Algorithm” music video)
• Music composer: KOHTA YAMAMOTO (Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts)
• Music composer: AWSM.’s DAIKI
• Music composer: Hiroyuki Sawano (Fate/strange Fake Whispers of Dawn)
• General Supervisor: CyberConnect2’s Hiroshi Matsuyama
• Animation production: TriF Studio
Cast
• Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Hikaru
• Tomokazu Sugita as Alma
• Yu Shimamura as Aki
• Romi Park as Kagami
• Yuichi Nakamura as Fist
• Kaito Ishikawa as Sinis & Dexs
• Amatsuki as Tohdoh
• Hiroki Touchi as Aljis
• Aoi Yuki as Fubuki
• Yoko Hikasa as Amaryllis
Sources: Press release, @mechaude_JP