The anime film adaptation of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama’s 2000 manga series Sand Land has announced its initial release date.
Per the state Sand Land Twitter account, the show is slated to produce in theaters on Japan on Friday. August. 18. There’s presently no specifics of once the adaptation will escape with other markets. The Sand Land film is really a co-production between Sunrise, Kamikaze Douga and ANIMA.
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Written and highlighted by Toriyama, Sand Land was initially serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine in Japan from May 2000 to August 2000. The manga ran for as many as 14 chapters, that have been collected right into a single tankōbon volume in November 2000. Sand Land ultimately made its method to The United States in 2003, being serialized in Viz Media’s own British-language Shonen Jump magazine prior to getting an British-language collected edition that very same year.
Sunrise, Kamikaze Douga and ANIMA’s anime adaptation of Sand Land was announced having a teaser trailer in December 2022, although it was unclear at that time when the project will be a series, special or film. Bandai Namco Entertainment America’s official synopsis for Sand Land reads the following: “Inside a desert world where both demons and humans are afflicted by a serious water shortage, Beelzebub, the prince of demons, and Rao, a little-town sheriff, form a tag-team and hang off with an adventure looking for the Phantom Lake somewhere within the desert.”
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Toriyama Discusses Sand Land’s Adaptation
To coincide using the release date announcement, Toriyama themself offered his ideas around the original Sand Land manga and it is approaching adaptation. “After Dragon Ball ended, I attempted various short works and something-shots, then attempted to place all I’d into drawing things i figured could be my final work. “It was Sand Land. Considering it now, I am surprised I were able to draw an every week serialization simply by myself with no assistant, even when it had been just for just one comic volume’s worth,” the mangaka stated.
“I came this putting my very own likes in the lead, so anybody who states they like this can be a super-fan nobody will get me! Something of that nature, I suppose.” Toriyama ongoing. “The pictures I have seen still had many incomplete parts, however i never expected this to obtain a visual adaptation after over twenty years, so this sort of quality is sort of a dream become a reality.”
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Sand Land opens in theaters in Japan on August. 18.
Source: Twitter (1, 2)