GKIDS Acquires Theatrical & Home Entertainment Rights of Science SARU’s DAN DA DAN
GKIDS announced that it has acquired theatrical, home entertainment, and digital transactional rights to the upcoming DAN DA DAN TV anime series. The acquisition serves as GKIDS’ first engagement with a first-run series, with the company set to announce further details in the coming months.
Netflix and Crunchyroll previously announced in March that they were streaming DAN DA DAN outside of Japan, with the latter set to release it worldwide, excluding Asia.
© Yukinobu Tatsu/SHUEISHA, DANDADAN Production Committee
Fuuga Yamashiro (Keep Your Hands off Eizouken! co-assistant director) is directing the anime, with Hiroshi Seko (Chainsaw Man) as series screenwriter, Naoyuki Onda (MF Ghost and Inuyashiki) as character designer, Yoshimichi Kameda (Mob Psycho character designer) as alien and yokai designer, and Kensuke Ushio (Tengoku-Daimakyo, The Heike Story) as music composer. Science SARU is handling the animation production.
Meanwhile, the main voice cast includes:
• Shion Wakayama as Momo
• Natsuki Hanae as Okarun
• Mayumi Tanaka as Turbo Granny
• Kazuya Nakai as Serpoians
The anime series is based on Yukinobu Tatsu’s sci-fi occult manga series, which was first launched on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ platform on April 6, 2021. Fourteen tankobon volumes have been released as of April 2024, with a 15th volume set for release in July 2024. Viz Media releases the manga in English in print and digital format in North America. Crunchyroll has also published the print version of the manga in France and Germany since 2022 and 2023.
GKIDS describes the synopsis as:
DAN DA DAN follows Momo, a high school girl from a family of spirit mediums, and her classmate Okarun, an occult freak. The two of them start talking after Momo rescues Okarun from getting bullied. However, an argument ensues between them – Momo believes in ghosts but denies aliens, and Okarun believes in aliens but denies ghosts. To make the mutual deniers believe in each other, Momo goes to an abandoned hospital known for its UFO sightings, and Okarun goes to a tunnel that is said to be haunted. In each place, they encounter overwhelming paranormal activity that transcends comprehension. Amid these predicaments, Momo awakens her hidden power and Okarun gains the power of a curse to challenge the paranormal forces! Their fateful love begins as well!?
Source: press release
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