Akudama Drive Anticipation

[Stark700]

A new original TV anime from Danganronpa’s Kazutaka Kodaka and Rui Komatsuzaki, titled “Akudama Drive,” has been announced for July 2020.

Plot Summary

“Long ago, war broke out between Kanto and Kansai & the world was divided. At the end of the war, Kansai became a dependent state of Kanto. However, Kansai’s politics and police power declined and crimes became. rampant.The criminals are called “Akudama”.

Staff

Original Story: Kazutaka Kodaka
Original Character Design: Rui Komatsuzaki
Director: Tomohisa Taguchi
Series Organizer: Norimitsu Kaihou
Chara Design: Cindy H. Yamauchi
Music: Aida Shigekazu
Production: Studio Pierrot

Source

https://moetron.net/post/61246580587...m-danganronpas

[Nachtwandler]

It was actually announced a few months ago but with no real details besides the key visual.

[Kanon]

This looks really promising.

[Marcus H.]

Promising if not for two details:
• How did a war between two regions affected the world?
• Studio Pierrot is doing this one, and they are not really known for maintaining a level of animation quality. Additionally, we hope that the COVID-19 issue hasn't affected the production of this show, especially at this early stage.

[Cosmic Eagle]

July is surprisingly fast release TBH. Must have been in the works for a long while


Anyway, crime dystopia? Wouldn't mind if it's more down to earth than DR

[Cosmic Eagle]

Cast news:

https://twitter.com/akudamadrive/sta...90593237037057

lmao, protag is called ippanjin......Obviously going to be anything but that

[Cosmic Eagle]

https://akudama-drive.com/character/ippanjin.html

Character profiles

[Stark700]

Postponed to October 2020

https://akudama-drive.com/news/index00170000.html

[MisaoFan]

New info: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...-debut/.163880

[grecefar]

This was fun, pretty much suicide squad, there is female mc that it was funny how she manage to fool the other but not fan of her following cats like a child...

[stray]

City design was pretty amazing... very Blade Runner or Akira (up to and including blatant Kaneda slide reference). Otherwise it really reminded me of Borderlands.

Somehow I kind of expect there's going to be a lot of censored gore especially without the hot pink Danganronpa blood this time around. Might have to watch it again on Blu-ray.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for ep1:

Only managed to get half-way, but I can tell this is some Danga Ronpa-type of thing, just not in school.
Unlike just an average anime that you can watch and forget, this was so loud and screaming of its "uniqueness", dang. Not in a good way, really. Hmm, there aren't really that many anime today, but what to do...

[Frontier]

It's kind of surreal hearing Megumi Ogata playing a woman for once .

[MisaoFan]

Spoiler for Episode 1:

Being from the same creative team as Dangan Ronpa, I spent watching the entire first episode with fairly similar vibes but with a different genre and set of themes; if anything it certainly reminded me of Hamatora for a bit. Although the characters aren't named, one can tell by what kind of jobs they have but goddamn their sentence years are extremely high with Cutthroat being the worst offender, whose sentence length is near thousand. The premiere spends a good time establishing the main cast, who apparently plays the role of misunderstood (?) action villains who are fighting against injustice for yet no clear reason we're given so far. Later on, a talking black cat get introduced and I'm sure the writer will explain what she is like.

Swindler in particular looks like your average college girl but my mental instincts told me that she's anything but that. There's a bunch of Akudamas that show up each other at once without knowing why and I'm guessing it's just some chance meeting. The general story behind this episode feels like I'm watching a finale, except wrapped up as a premiere instead.

The biggest draw about the anime so far is that the production values look very very impressive even by Pierrot's standards. The visuals looks sleek and neatly designed and the partly jazz-sounding music matches the tone well, and so far what I got from the first impression is that it's going to be a dark action comedy about Akudamas who may not get well because of their personalities that are deemed unfit for each other but are working together towards an avenging goal against some authoritarian police state that badly mistreat them.