Author: Susana Polo
Hit manga Gachiakuta reaches screens this summer, Crunchyroll announced Thursday. The adaptation of Kei Urana and Hideyoshi Andou’s series about supernaturally powered folks battling trash beasts in a tightly stratified and wasteful society will air exclusively on the streaming service starting in July.Fans can get a greater look at how the manga’s graffiti-inspired design is being translated to animation by renowned studio Bones Film in a new trailer for the series above. Urana enlisted Andou, a graffiti artist, to help inspire the design of the original manga, as well as to provide all the graffiti that appears within its pages.Serialized…
The upcoming service is called Churp — a reference to Titmouse’s production card, which features an animated titmouse saying the word “chirp,” usually in the voice of one of the cartoon’s actors — with monthly boxes containing merch, collectibles, and paraphernalia of Titmouse characters old and new, and a code to watch a new, Churp-exclusive cartoon.The tagline on Churp.tv is “cartoon delivery service.” Said Titmouse president Chris Prynoski, in a news release, “It’s like Sanrio for stoners.” The same Titmouse news release calls Churp an “IP incubator and creative playground,” calling to mind the heyday of Frederator Studios’ YouTube operations,…