Tari and the Meta Runners

Tari and the Meta Runners is a American-Australian animated television series produced by Glitch Productions that will premiere on September 2, 2019 on Gingo. It about a gaming focus group of people called Meta Runners, but focus more on genius but goofy inventor Senbei Norimaki, his oldest son Lamar, his daughter Tari, and his youngest son Theo.

The show was created out of three different planned shows, Anthony's Ultra Jump Adventures and a adaptation of Dr. Slump by Akira Toriyama and Glitchy Boy's Meta Runner. All three were combined into one after Anthony Animation and Glitchy Boy Productions merge to formed Glitch Productions, as so it will be their first television series.

Ultra Jump Adventures
In 2009, Anthony Zuniga, which was a student at CalArts at that time, made a short film named The Coconut Boy which started a boy that will become Theo. After CalArts, he became a animator at Universal Animation Studios working on Quest and Paradoria. After finishing working on Paradoria, he left Universal Animation to founded his own studio called Anthony Animation. Then, he pitched the show, now called Ultra Jump Adventures to Netflix, but they decline, to due their deal with Dreamworks and wants to age the main character to 14, which he decline.

The Dr. Slump Show
One month later, he bought the non-Japanese characters rights for Dr. Slump by Akira Toriyama. He and his staff begin working on a 11 minute short based on the first chapter of the manga to pitch it to networks. He pitch it to Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Netflix, which all declined due to its obscurity. So, he release it on Youtube and quickly got 2.5 million views in the first week alone. He will spend the next two years after the short's release to live with his family and pitch it to Disney XD and Prime Video, again declined for the same reason.

Meta Runner
In 2017, Luke and Kevin Lerdwichagul begins write scripts for Meta Runner, a show that have society dominated by Esports. But then, something happen that all three planned shows merge into one.

Post 2018-
In 2018, Anthony Animation and Glitchy Boy Productions merge to form Glitch Productions, AJ got a idea to combined the three shows into one show that will be called Tari and the Meta Runners. After NBCUniversal bought a stake in the company, they pitch it to Gingo and they were speechless, what they did say was "Awesome". In a period of 14 months, they have completed all 24 episodes of the show's first season of the show.