All signs point to a potential sleeper hit on our hands.
Suginami-based studio Bones — that is now world-famous thanks to its incredibly successful adaptation of Kohei Horikoshi’s manga My Hero Academia — is looking to make another powerful move. This time with a completely original IP — a ‘tech noir’ anime Metallic Rouge, set to premiere in 2024.
According to the show’s premise, the story would be taking place in a not-so-distant future, in a somewhat dystopian world where humans and androids coexist. The main heroes — a team of an android girl and her human partner — are tasked with hunting down and eliminating nine rogue androids that became hostile to the government and went into hiding in the vast industrial wastelands of Mars.
This setting immediately invokes reminiscence of various cult classics both from the domain of Japanese animation (Bubblegum Crisis, Armitage III, Birdy the Mighty) as well as Western feature movies (Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049). But the dark and grimy sceneries of a dystopian future where an android employed by humanity is on the hunt for the rogue members of its own kind is only half of Metallic Rouge’s identity, with the second half revolving entirely around mechas.
This becomes apparent from both the trailer (with pretty much 50% of it being mech combat scenes) and the marketing campaign for the show, which puts a lot of emphasis on the staff responsible for the production. The man leading the team is none other than Yutaka Izubuchi, a famous mecha designer who made a name for himself working on Bones’ 2002 sci-fi RahXephon series — a short-lived but highly creative title that to this day remains loved and remembered by a lot of fans.
Another man behind the wheel of Metallic Rouge is Toshihiro Kawamoto, who previously worked on the critically acclaimed installment of Cowboy Bebop franchise — Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. Overall, as the show’s promotional website suggests, Bones studio seems to have gathered a very competent and experienced team that should be more than capable of turning this ambitious project into a major hit.
Metallic Rouge will begin airing in January 2024 and will be available to English-speaking audiences on Crunchyroll.
All signs point to a potential sleeper hit on our hands.
Suginami-based studio Bones — that is now world-famous thanks to its incredibly successful adaptation of Kohei Horikoshi’s manga My Hero Academia — is looking to make another powerful move. This time with a completely original IP — a ‘tech noir’ anime Metallic Rouge, set to premiere in 2024.
According to the show’s premise, the story would be taking place in a not-so-distant future, in a somewhat dystopian world where humans and androids coexist. The main heroes — a team of an android girl and her human partner — are tasked with hunting down and eliminating nine rogue androids that became hostile to the government and went into hiding in the vast industrial wastelands of Mars.
This setting immediately invokes reminiscence of various cult classics both from the domain of Japanese animation (Bubblegum Crisis, Armitage III, Birdy the Mighty) as well as Western feature movies (Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049). But the dark and grimy sceneries of a dystopian future where an android employed by humanity is on the hunt for the rogue members of its own kind is only half of Metallic Rouge’s identity, with the second half revolving entirely around mechas.
This becomes apparent from both the trailer (with pretty much 50% of it being mech combat scenes) and the marketing campaign for the show, which puts a lot of emphasis on the staff responsible for the production. The man leading the team is none other than Yutaka Izubuchi, a famous mecha designer who made a name for himself working on Bones’ 2002 sci-fi RahXephon series — a short-lived but highly creative title that to this day remains loved and remembered by a lot of fans.
Another man behind the wheel of Metallic Rouge is Toshihiro Kawamoto, who previously worked on the critically acclaimed installment of Cowboy Bebop franchise — Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. Overall, as the show’s promotional website suggests, Bones studio seems to have gathered a very competent and experienced team that should be more than capable of turning this ambitious project into a major hit.
Metallic Rouge will begin airing in January 2024 and will be available to English-speaking audiences on Crunchyroll.
