Meta Runner

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Meta Runner
Also known as	Meta Runner: The Final Season (season 3)
Genre	Science fiction; Action; Cyberpunk; Esports;
Created by	Kevin Lerdwichagul; Luke Lerdwichagul;
Written by	Kevin Lerdwichagul (S1); Jasmine Yang;
Directed by	Luke Lerdwichagul (S2)
Creative director	Luke Lerdwichagul (S1)
Voices of	Celeste Notley-Smith; Robyn Barry-Cotter; Hayley Nelson; Anthony Sardinha; Brendan Barry-Cotter; Jessica Fallico; David J.G. Doyle; Elsie Lovelock; Amber Lee Connors; Jason Marnocha;
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
Production
Executive producers	Kevin Lerdwichagul (S3); Luke Lerdwichagul (S3); Jasmine Yang (S3E08);
Producer	Kevin Lerdwichagul
Running time	12–23 minutes
Production company	Glitch Productions
Original release
Network	YouTube
Release	25 July 2019 –; 9 September 2022
Related
	Murder Drones; The Amazing Digital Circus;

Meta Runner is an Australian independent-animated eSports action drama web series created by Kevin and Luke Lerdwichagul. 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 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.