Meta Runner

Meta Runner (known as Meta Runner: The Final Season in its third season) is an Australian independent-animated science fiction web series created by Kevin and Luke Lerdwichagul and produced by Glitch Productions. 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 are known as "Meta Runners", where they replace one of their arms with a cybernetic arm in order to optimize their gameplay performance. The series focuses on Tari, an amnesiac girl 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. To promote the series, Tari first appeared as a character in the machinima parody web series SMG4, also created by Luke Lerdwichagul. The first season premiered on the SMG4 YouTube channel on 25 July 2019, with the second and third seasons premiering on the channel GLITCH on 16 October 2020. The third and final season premiered on 22 July 2022. 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.