Hideaki
Sorachi, the author behind Gintama, has an outstanding debt with
his first manga, and Netflix is going to pay it off. The platform announced
that Sorachi's debut one-shot, Dandelion, will
receive an anime adaptation in the form of a series that will
premiere exclusively on Netflix starting in April.
The
announcement came with a curiosity: an account in X called dandelion_0914 had
been generating anticipation since Thursday, although the team itself
apologized in advance for confirming that it was not a new serialization of
Sorachi. Gintama's fans will have to settle for this, which is
no small thing.
Dandelion
Anime Details
The production is in charge of the NAZ studio, with Daisuke Mataga directing, known for his work as lead animation director on Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos and Grimoire of Zero. The scripts will be supervised by Yosuke Suzuki (A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation), the character design is signed by Ai Asari (Sabikui Bisco), and the music is in charge of Yuki Hayashi, responsible for the soundtracks of Haikyu!! and My Hero Academia.
What is
the story about?
Tetsuo and
Misaki are members of the "Farewell Department of the Angel Federation of
Japan", a kind of agency that tracks souls who cannot cross to the
afterlife because they still have unfinished business in the world of the
living. Their job is to help them let go of what's holding them back so they
can move on.
About
the work
Hideaki
Sorachi's one-shot
debuted in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2002, a
year before Gintama began, and was subsequently included in
the first compilation volume of that series. Now, more than two decades later,
it finally receives its animated adaptation.
For those who don't know the author, Sorachi is the creator of Gintama, the sci-fi comedy set in feudal Japan that ran from 2003 to 2019, amassed more than 55 million copies in circulation, and spawned 367 anime episodes, three films, and multiple OVAs.
