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| Meta Runner | |
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| Also known as | Meta Runner: The Final Season (season 3) |
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| Directed by | Luke Lerdwichagul (S2) |
| Creative director | Luke Lerdwichagul (S1) |
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| Theme music composer | AJ 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) |
| Composer | AJ DiSpirito |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 28 |
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| Producer | Kevin Lerdwichagul |
| Running time | 12–23 minutes |
| Production company | Glitch Productions |
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| Network | YouTube |
| Release | 25 July 2019 – 9 September 2022 |
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Meta Runner (known as Meta Runner: The Final Season during its third and final season) is an Australian independent-animated web series created by Kevin and Luke Lerdwichagul. Produced by Glitch Productions, with funding support from Screen Australia, Crunchyroll, AMD, and Epic Games,[2][3][4][5] 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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