{"rewrite":{"id":"r_38a2f61eafa455c5b87a6a09","clusterId":"c_cbca48065b279e1deb7f9f90","slug":"eat-man-gets-third-anime-the-over-order-with-creator-on-script","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"EAT-MAN Gets Third Anime, The Over Order, With Creator On Script","summary":"Hakuhodo DY Music \u0026 Pictures announced on September 10 that Akihito Yoshitomi's sci-fi manga EAT-MAN will receive a completely new anime titled EAT-MAN The Over Order. Yoshitomi, the original creator, handles the script and design concepts, his first credited involvement at the script production stage. Shunji Oga, whose credits include Golgo 13 and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, directs at Studio Cab, the studio he leads. Satoshi Hirayama, known for work on the Lupin III series, is the character designer. Masashi Ebara returns as protagonist Bolt Crank, the role he voiced in the two earlier anime adaptations, roughly 30 years on. A super teaser video and a teaser visual drawn by Yoshitomi were released with the announcement. The teaser video opens on Bolt picking up a screw in a wasteland, then eating metal before a giant weapon appears. Earlier, on September 4, a teaser video showing falling screws had been released without details.","whyItMatters":"This is the third EAT-MAN anime and the first to put the original manga author in charge of scripts, which moves an adaptation away from outside screenwriters and toward the creator's own version of an original story.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe new anime is the third EAT-MAN adaptation. The previous two both ran 12 episodes on TV Tokyo: the first aired January to March 1997 and EAT-MAN \u0026#39;98 followed October to December 1998, both animated by Studio DEEN. Crunchyroll currently streams the original anime and began carrying both series in 2019. The original manga ran in Monthly Dengeki Comic Gao! from 1996 to 2003 and was collected in 19 volumes. A sequel, EAT-MAN: The Main Dish, ran in Kodansha\u0026#39;s Monthly Shonen Sirius from May 2014 until June 2019 and was collected in six volumes. Kodansha also rereleased the original in a 10-volume Complete Edition starting in 2014.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eYoshitomi\u0026#39;s comment: \u0026#34;This will be the third anime adaptation of EAT-MAN. This time I was involved from the script production stage, and I was allowed to write freely and however I liked.\u0026#34; He added that group story creation was \u0026#34;a great learning experience\u0026#34; and said he wants to try storyboards next.\u003c/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOga\u0026#39;s comment: \u0026#34;We will incorporate the worldview of the original into the original story of The Over Order and deliver the passionate drama of the characters through the visuals.\u0026#34; He called the thoughts in the \u0026#34;...\u0026#34; between Bolt\u0026#39;s lines the key to the story.\u003c/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHirayama\u0026#39;s comment: \u0026#34;I created the designs while being careful to reproduce the delicate touch of the original and to organize the lines in a way that is easy for the animators to understand.\u0026#34;\u003c/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEbara\u0026#39;s comment: \u0026#34;To be able to meet Bolt Crank again after 30 years!\u0026#34; He said he is happy to share the role \u0026#34;with a new generation of voice actors, across time and space.\u0026#34;\u003c/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe super teaser opens with the message \u0026#34;To all who love the Heisei era--,\u0026#34; and Bolt quietly says, \u0026#34;It\u0026#39;s time to work.\u0026#34;\u003c/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe September 4 screw teaser drew social media guesses that also pointed to Medaka Box and Hebot!, other works linked by screws.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe teaser visual shows Bolt with long hair and a distinctive coat, a pile of machine wreckage at his feet and structures stretching into the distance, with ruin and development side by side. The copyright line reads 2026 Akihito Yoshitomi / EAT-MAN The Over Order Production Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Masashi Ebara returns as Bolt Crank in EAT-MAN The Over Order, roughly 30 years after voicing him in the 1997 and 1998 anime. Original creator Akihito Yoshitomi is writing the script this time.","twitterPost":"Third EAT-MAN anime, first one with the original manga author on scripts. Akihito Yoshitomi writes EAT-MAN The Over Order; Shunji Oga directs at Studio Cab. No broadcast date yet.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"EAT-MAN is coming back as EAT-MAN The Over Order, a new anime with original creator Akihito Yoshitomi writing the script and designing. Masashi Ebara returns as Bolt Crank about 30 years after the 1997 and 1998 adaptations. A teaser video and a Yoshitomi-drawn visual are out; no broadcast date was given.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-10/akihito-yoshitomi-eat-man-manga-gets-new-anime-project/.241611\",\"title\":\"Akihito Yoshitomi's Eat-Man Manga Gets New Anime Project\"},{\"source\":\"Denfaminicogamer\",\"url\":\"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2609102q\",\"title\":\"EAT-MAN Reborn in Reiwa with Completely New Anime! 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