July 25, 2019 - September 9, 2022
Meta Runner is a 2019 animated web series created using the Unreal Engine by Glitch Productions, an Australian company mainly associated with the web series SMG4. The show also had support from Crunchyroll and Epic Games. The series stars a girl named Tari, whom after waking up, forgets about what happened previously in her life and finds herself in Silica City, a city where video games are part of everyone's lives. Tari sees she has a cybernetic arm, which is usually put on players who would be called Meta Runners (Basically speedrunners). Tari finds out with her new arm, she can warp into video games. This power puts interest into the main villain of the series, Lucks, owner of a company called TasCorp. Now Tari tries to get away from him and his top Meta Runner Belle, while meeting new friends along the way including Masa, Sophia, Lamar and Theo, whom the latter is actually the star of a video game called Ultra Jump Mania and befriends Tari while somehow managing to get out of his game. There they form MD5, a group created to destroy TasCorp. Season 1 was released in 2019, Season 2 in 2020 and a Season 3 has been announced and has yet to come out. SMG4 creators Luke and Kevin were planning of Meta Runner when designing a character who would become Tari. They thought about releasing the series to please fans, until they thought their fans from SMG4 wouldn't watch it due to a lack of memes. What they did was create Tari and introduce her in a 2018 SMG4 video called Mario: The Ultimate Gamer. Tari later became a popular character on the channel and it wasn't until December 5 2018 where they released the reveal for Meta Runner.
Sound Effects Used
- H-B TEETH, CARTOON - TEETH CHATTER (Used once in Season 2 Episode 8.)
- Hollywoodedge, Seagulls No Surf BT022101 (Used once in Season 1 Episode 6.)
- Sound Ideas, GUN, RICOCHET - RICOCHET: SINGLE SHOT, BULLET 03
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - COCONUT HIT 01 (Used once in a low pitch in Season 1 Episode 2 and once in a normal pitch in Season 2 Episode 2.)
- Sound Ideas, TEETH, CARTOON - SCOOBY'S TEETH CHATTER, LONG/SHORT (heard once in Season 2 Episode 8.)