Danica Davidson
November 13, 2024 
The anime Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms debuted in October, and it just recently dropped a climax trailer to get fans hyped. For people who want to physically read the manga version, there’s some good news: it’s been licensed by Graphix, the graphic novel imprint of Scholastic. This is being done in a partnership with Azuki, a digital manga service that offers the title.
The manga is slated to come out on April 15, 2025.
Yoshino Koyoka, the mangaka behind it, premiered it in 2022, where it was initially found on the LINE Manga and ebookjapan services. Azuki picked it up a little under a year later.
A pilot anime video for the franchise was launched in 2019, after some successful crowdfunding through Kickstarter and Campfire. It wasn’t until 2022 that word came that the franchise would receive a full-fledged anime series, which is the version that debuted last month. The anime is being made at TriF Studio, with creator Sae Okamoto in the director’s seat. The person taking care of series scripts is Yasuhiro Nakanishi of My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999 and Kaguya-sama: Love is War. Credit for character design goes to both Terumi Nishii and Yoko Uchida.
The anime adaptation is currently streaming on Crunchyroll.
Graphix has shown its interest in getting more involved in manga, such as its publication of Unico: The Awakening, based on the original Unico manga by Osamu Tezuka.
Graphix gave this description for Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms:
Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms Plot
Kita-Kagami City is a pretty normal town… except that some people have gotten their hands on Mecha-Ude: powerful, sentient, mechanical beings that attach themselves to their human hosts and have awesome capabilities. When middle-school kid Hikaru accidentally activates Alma, a Mecha-Ude with no memory of its past, they must team up to uncover the mystery of Alma’s identity and prevent the powerful Mecha-Ude from ending up in the wrong hands.
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
