A second teaser visual has been released for the upcoming Eat-Man: The Over Order TV anime series, spotlighting its main character Bolt Crank. A broadcast date for the new Eat-Man anime has not yet been announced.
Crunchyroll debuted the new teaser visual during its showcase panel at New York Comic Con 2026, and will stream it on its service when it premieres.
Shunji Oga (Hikawa Maru Monogatari, Amon Saga) is directing the anime series, with Satoshi Hirayama (Asateer 2: Mirai no Mukashibanashi) as character designer and original manga creator Akihito Yoshitomi as scriptwriter. Studio Cab is handling the animation production.
Masashi Ebara reprises the role of main character Bolt Crank, having voiced the character in the previous TV anime series.
Yoshitomi’s sci-fi adventure manga series was originally serialized in MediaWorks’ Dengeki Comic Gao! magazine from 1996 to 2003. A total of 19 tankobon volumes were released in Japan.
A new series titled Eat-Man: The Main Dish was launched in Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Sirius in May 2014 and ended in June 2019. Six total volumes were published in Japan.
The first Eat-Man anime series debuted in 1997. It was directed by Koichi Mashimo (Noir, Madlax, Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom), who also did the series composition, and produced by Studio Deen. It was followed by a 1998 anime directed by Toshifumi Kawase (Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin Ga Ii, Recommendations from Iwamoto-senpai), which was also a Deen production.
Discotek Media released the complete series of Eat-Man on Blu-ray and describes the synopsis of the 1997 and 1998 entries as:
In Eat-Man, Bolt Crank is an “explorer”–a mercenary who only accepts jobs that fit his moral standards. Even so, explorers like him are rarely trusted, and employment–both in getting and also doing the job–is hazardous. However, despite the fact Bolt says it’s the only job he’s any good at, he’s also the best explorer around. Moreover, he has a unique ability. He’s able to eat anything at all, and later can reproduce it wholly intact and functional! As an enigmatic man of few words, it’s hard to understand someone who can do something so strange, whose only skill involves taking dangerous jobs for money, and who despite it all, just wants to be normal. In a mysterious world of advanced technology and weird science, it seems that some things never change. Watch Bolt’s adventures in this twelve episode series!
In Eat-Man 98, this retake of Eat-Man shifts the saga of Bolt Crank closer to that of the original story penned by Akihito Yoshitomi. In it, the world is one of contrasting extremes, of high technology but low lifestyles, all mixed with fairy tale-like super science. Bolt returns as the best explorer in the world, a mercenary who, while only accepting jobs he finds moral, always gets the job done… even if he sometimes takes them to ironic extremes in order to do the right thing! Possessed of his own strange power, Bolt can eat anything and then later recreate it, which he uses to help him solve the problems his explorer lifestyle often puts him up against. See the fable that was originally envisioned in these twelve episodes!
Sources: Eat-Man Official X/Twitter, press release
