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Akudama Drive
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Tomoyo Kurosawa
Ordinary Person (voice)
12 eps
Yuuichirou Umehara
Courier (voice)
12 eps
Shunsuke Takeuchi
Brawler (voice)
12 eps
Shun Horie
Hacker (voice)
12 eps
Megumi Ogata
Doctor (voice)
12 eps
Subaru Kimura
Hoodlum (voice)
12 eps
Takahiro Sakurai
Cutthroat (voice)
12 eps
Yuka Terasaki
Police robot (voice)
1 eps
Chado Horii
Yakuza (voice)
1 eps
Tomoyuki Shimura
Kansai Police Chief (voice)
1 eps
You Taichi
Announcement (voice)
1 eps
Shoya Ishige
Staff (voice)
1 eps
Takatsugu Awazu
Staff (voice)
1 eps
Tatsumaru Tachibana
Guard (voice)
1 eps
Yoko Fujita
Announcement (voice)
2 eps
Ruri Arai
Tron (voice)
1 eps
Nobuo Tobita
Headmaster (voice)
1 eps
Mitsuru Ogata
Professor (voice)
1 eps
Natsu Yorita
Executioner (voice)
1 eps
Mayuko Kazama
Executioner (voice)
1 eps
Sanae Nakata
Executioner (voice)
1 eps
Masashi Yamane
Executioner (voice)
1 eps
Ikuto Kanemasa
Man (voice)
2 eps
Yoko Imaizumi
Kansai Council Top Executive (voice)
2 eps
Shohei Komatsu
Man (voice)
1 eps
Shou Okumura
Executioner (voice)
4 eps
Takeo Otsuka
Man (voice)
1 eps
Masaya Fukunishi
Kansai Police Chief (voice)
4 eps
Kyouko Yamaguchi
Shopkeeper (voice)
1 eps
Taisuke Nakano
Kansai Council Top Executive (voice)
3 eps
Larissa Tago Takeda
Executioner (voice)
2 eps
Akio Otsuka
Execution Division Master (voice)
6 eps
Akane Kumada
Executioner (voice)
4 eps
Reiko Suzuki
Old lady at the Takoyaki shop (voice)
2 eps
Mitsuki Nakae
Staff (voice)
4 eps
Hironori Kondoh
Transmission (voice)
3 eps
Shinya Takahashi
Executioner (voice)
4 eps
Yumiri Hanamori
Execution Division Pupil (voice)
10 eps
Kurumi Mamiya
Bunny (voice)
10 eps
Cho
Shark (voice)
10 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Akudama Drive actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Akudama Drive reads strongest on Spectacle, Bingeability and Tension.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Many years ago, a Great Civil War ravaged Japan, leaving the country fragmented between two regions: Kansai and Kanto. In Kansai, a group of six Akudama carry out missions given to them by a mysterious black cat, while evading the police. But a dangerous journey is about to unfold when a civilian girl becomes twisted into the Akudama's way of life and witnesses their criminal drives.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 12 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
202012 episodes
6.4IMDbIn a dystopian future Japan, a devastating conflict has split the nation into two main regions: Kansai and Kantō. Kansai is under heavy governmental control yet is rife with criminal activity. The most notorious criminals are known as “Akudama”—high‑profile illegal operatives who carry out dangerous missions. A clandestine figure known only as the “Black Cat” summons a group of elite Akudama to break into a high‑security execution facility in Kansai and rescue the legendary criminal “Cutthroat” just before his public execution. Meanwhile, an ordinary young woman—later known as the “Swindler”—gets inadvertently pulled into their mission after attempting to do a good deed (returning a 500‑yen coin) only to find herself arrested and labeled as a criminal.
Best episode · S01E12 AKUDAMA DRIVE
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E12
AKUDAMA DRIVE
- Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi
- Written by Tomohisa Taguchi
S01E11
WAR GAMES
- Directed by Yoshifumi Sasahara
- Written by Tomohisa Taguchi
S01E09
THE SHINING
- Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi
- Written by Tomohisa Taguchi
S01E08
BLACK RAIN
- Directed by Tomohisa Taguchi, Yuta Suzuki
- Written by Tomohisa Taguchi
S01E07
THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN
- Directed by Hikaru Murata
- Written by Tomohisa Taguchi, Hikaru Murata
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Akimichi TsugawaProducer
- Yoshito DannoProducer
- Kazuaki TakahashiProducer
- Yoshihiko TominagaProducer
Writing
- Norimitsu KaihoWriter
- Ryo MoriseWriter
- Tomohisa TaguchiWriter
- Yoshifumi SasaharaWriter
- Hikaru MurataWriter
Direction
- Yoshinori OdakaDirector
- Tomohisa TaguchiDirector
- Yuta SuzukiDirector
- Takumi DoyamaDirector
- Yoshifumi SasaharaDirector
- Hikaru MurataDirector
Cinematography
- Kazuhiro YamadaDirector of Photography
Music
- Maiko IuchiOriginal Music Composer
- Shigekazu AidaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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