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Running Ganger refers to a series of memes in which a character from various franchises appears to be running at the viewer usually with a more beefed-up proportion, inspired from a clip in Astroganger, a Japanese TV series that aired between 1972 and 1973. GIFs or clips of characters doing the run have appeared on YouTube paired with the song "Rage of Dust" by SPYAIR, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans second season first opening theme song.

Origin

The origin of the run from a clip from Astroganger episode 「ブラスター・デビル ―悪魔の眼―」(trans. "Blaster Devil – Evil Eye -") in which the titular character runs at the villain, seen at timestamp 21:31.

A greenscreen edit of the run dates back to April 21st, 2013 where it was uploaded on Nico Nico Douga by user DOL-003^[1].

The clip was GIFed and appeared on Tenor^[2] on April 14, 2025.

Spread

On May 19, 2017, a Running Ganger edit of characters from Undertale on a greenscreen background was uploaded to Nico Nico Douga by ジーク・B・極・悪喰^[3], which was then uploaded as well to Youtube by user AKUJIKI^[4].

On June 27th, 2017, a Running Ganger edit of Orga Itsuka from Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans in bluescreen accompanied by "Rage of Dust" by SPYAIR was uploaded on Nico Nico Douga by くしゃるだおら^[5].

Due to the popularity of Orga Itsuka's Death Parodies within the Japanese fandom where this clip was commonly used, Running Ganger has seen a further surge in popularity. Further edits of Running Ganger are usually paired with the song "Rage of Dust" with titles typically having "止まらない" (translates to "Do not stop", derivated from Orga Itsuka's final words being "Don't you ever stop".

Over the following three years, other numerous edits of Running Ganger has spawned within the Japanese fandom. Several of them featured a character running alongside with Orga Itsuka.

There are also instances of Running Ganger edits used within the English-speaking community. On December 24th, 2018, Munchjr uploaded a video titled "Don't you ever stop bursting" on Youtube in which Running Ganger edits of Guilty Gear characters. A Running Ganger edit of Pacman first appeared in a SimpleFlips video on August 24th, 2019, becoming a continuing joke on the channel.

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