Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms Releases on October 3rd, with a third visual, and Kappei Yamaguchi joins the cast

 

The anime Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms has unveiled a new key image, an October 3 release date, and the announcement that Kappei Yamaguchi will be contributing voices. Under the guidance of Sae Okamoto, the original creator, TriF Studio is animating. The theme songs were first introduced in the anime.


The central group in the new image is made up of the primary three, Yakumo (played by Kappei Yamaguchi) and his brother Tsuhito. The voice actor for Tsukihito is unknown.


The following people make up the Mecha-Ude animation staff:

  • Original Concept/Director: Okamoto
  • Series Composition: Yasuhiro Nakanishi / TriF
  • Character Design: Terumi Nishii / Yoko Uchida
  • Mecha-Ude Design & Concept Art: Nurikabe
  • 3DCG Director: Shota Kawamura
  • Sound Director: Takeshi Takadera
  • Music: Hiroyuki SAWANO/KOHTA YAMAMOTO/DAIKI(AWSM.)
  • General Supervision: Hiroshi Matsuyama (CyberConnect2)
  • Animation Production: TriF Studio


Currently known voice actors include:

  • Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Hikaru
  • Tomokazu Sugita as Alma
  • Yu Shimamura as Aki
  • Kaito Ishikawa as Sinis & Dex
  • Romi Park as Kagami
  • Amatsuki as Tohdoh
  • Hiroki Touchi as Aljis
  • Yuichi Nakamura as Fist
  • Aoi Yuki as Fubuki
  • Yoko Hikasa as Amaryllis
  • Kappei Yamaguchi as Yakumo

Below, you can view the most recent anime trailer:


 

Member of TriF Studio Okamoto is the creator and director of the original cartoon Mecha-Ude. In less than two months, her crowdfunding effort raised about $67,000, and she went on to direct TriF's 2018 short. Eve sang the opening theme for the short, "Ambivalent," and AZLiGHTZ sang the closing theme, "Alone."

The synopsis is listed as follows on the official website of the original anime:

One day, Amatsuga Hikaru, a junior high school student living in Kitakagami City, meets the mysterious “Ude”-shaped mechanical life form Alma. Alma attempts to bind to Hikaru’s body in order to obtain energy from him, but fails. To his surprise, it binds to the hoodie that Hikaru was wearing. Meanwhile, the “Kagami Group,” a large corporation that plans to enslave the Mecha-Udes and turn them into weapons, is in pursuit of Alma. ARMS, an organization working to save and free the Mecha-Udes, also searches for Alma. Hikaru, unable to abandon the weakened Alma, puts on the hoodie that Alma has bonded with and gets caught up in the great events unfolding among the Mecha-Ude users……

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