Meta Runner
| Meta Runner | |
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| Also known as | Meta Runner: The Final Season (S3) |
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| Directed by | Luke Lerdwichagul |
| Creative director | Luke Lerdwichagul (S1) |
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| Theme music composer | AJ DiSpirito |
| Opening theme | "Always Running" by AJ DiSpirito and Matthew Guerra (S1) "Only Up" by AJ DiSpirito and Lizz Robinett (S2) |
| Ending theme | "Breeze" by AJ DiSpirito and KIMI (S1) "Steady" by AJ DiSpirito and Matthew Guerra (S2) "Trade" by AJ DiSpirito, Matthew Guerra, and Lizz Robinett (S3) "BlueJay" by AJ DiSpirito and 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 is an Australian independent-animated web series created by brothers Kevin and Luke Lerdwichagul and produced by Glitch Productions, with funding support from Screen Australia, Crunchyroll, AMD, and Epic Games. The series follows characters originally created for the brothers' Super Mario parody web series SMG4. It premiered on YouTube on 25 July 2019, with season 2 premiering on the channel GLITCH on 16 October 2020. The third and final season premiered on 22 July 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.