Meta Runner

Meta Runner
Also known asMeta Runner: The Final Season (season 3)
Genre
Created by
  • Kevin Lerdwichagul
  • Luke Lerdwichagul
Written by
  • Kevin Lerdwichagul (S1)
  • Jasmine Yang
Directed by
  • Luke Lerdwichagul (S2)
  • Matthew Peckham (S3)[2]
Creative directorLuke Lerdwichagul (S1)
Voices of
  • Celeste Notley-Smith
  • Jessica Fallico
  • Robyn Moore
  • David J.G. Doyle
  • Brendan Barry-Cotter
  • Hayley Nelson
  • Anthony Sardinha
  • Elsie Lovelock
  • Jason Marnocha
  • Amber Lee Connors
Theme music composerAJ DiSpirito
Opening theme"Always Running" (performed by Matthew Guerra, S1)
"Only Up" (performed by Lizz Robinett, S2)
Ending theme"Breeze" (performed by KIMI, S1)
"Steady" (performed by Matthew Guerra, S2)
"Trade" (performed by Matthew Guerra and Lizz Robinett, S3)
"BlueJay" (performed by Lizz Robinett, S3E08)
ComposerAJ DiSpirito
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes28
Production
Executive producers
  • Kevin Lerdwichagul (S3)
  • Luke Lerdwichagul (S3)
  • Jasmine Yang (S3 E08)
ProducerKevin Lerdwichagul
Animators
  • Matthew Peckham (lead)
  • Jarrad Rumble
  • Tijana Williams
  • Aleks Trofin
  • Rafael Capricho
  • Woei Ping Mak
  • Mikaylah Haddon
  • Jacopo Poto
  • Ben Johnson
Running time12–23 minutes
Production companyGlitch Productions
Original release
NetworkYouTube
Release25 July 2019 (2019-07-25) –
9 September 2022 (2022-09-09)
Related
  • Ultra Jump Mania
  • SMG4
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Meta Runner (known as Meta Runner: The Final Season during its third and final season) is an Australian sci-fi action cyberpunk animated web series created by Kevin and Luke Lerdwichagul. Produced by Glitch Productions, with funding support from Screen Australia, Crunchyroll, AMD, and Epic Games,[3][4][5][6] it premiered on YouTube on July 25, 2019, with season 2 premiering on the channel GLITCH on October 16, 2020. The third and final season premiered on July 22, 2022.

The series takes place in a futuristic society where entertainment and lifestyle are based around video games and esports. The best of the best gamers in this society replace one of their arms with a cybernetic arm in order to optimize their gameplay performance, and are known as "Meta Runners". The series focuses on an amnesiac girl named Tari, who discovers that she has the ability to warp inside video games, and comes across and helps an undercover group called MD-5 in their mission to expose the corrupt company TAS Corp.

A pilot for a spin-off show titled Ultra Jump Mania, based on the fictional video game of the same name in the show, was released on 4 September 2020, but it was not picked up for a full season.

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  3. ^ "Meta Runner is an anime funded by Screen Australia, Epic, AMD". Stevivor. 25 June 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  4. ^ "SCREEN AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCES $8.5M FOR TEN PROJECTS". TV Blackbox. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  5. ^ "The world of film and TV is changing rapidly. Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason explains how the funding body keeps up". Business Insider. 21 February 2020. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  6. ^ "Epic Games awards $500,000 in final Unreal Dev Grants". VentureBeat. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2020.

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