One of the strangest un-shonen-like manga series in Shonen Jump+, Dandadan, will reportedly receive its anime adaptation.
According to SPANKU (Spanku_u), the supernatural thriller will make its animated debut. Fans of the manga met the tweet with lots of enthusiasm, excited to see Dandadan on the small screen. There are rumors that Wit Studio may be in charge of the production and animation. Some fans noted that it was now following Yukinobu Tatsu, the creator of Dandadan, on Twitter. There has yet to be an official confirmation from either Tatsu or Wit Studio.
Dandadan Received Impressive Promotions
Recently, Dandadan garnered a lot of attention – in Japan and worldwide – due to a number of impressive promotions surrounding the manga. In Japan, the series collaborated with a manga-themed hotel, where guests can find several Dandadan manga panels and sketches in every single guestroom where fans can fully immerse themselves in the absurd world of Dandadan until Nov. 30. In Italy, fans can visit an enormous replica of the manga’s first volume in front of the Lucca Cathedral, as part of J-Pop Manga’s promotional campaign.
The series follows the two protagonists, Momo Ayase and Ken Takakura, or as Momo likes to call him, Okarun. Both are obsessed with supernatural beings but neither believe the other’s obsession is real: Momo believes in ghosts and Okarun believes in aliens. In order to prove the other wrong, the two visit the other’s respective hideouts, and what Momo and Okarun find out is that aliens and ghosts are not only very much real but want to snatch their reproductive organs. Things get much more complicated when Momo awakens her psychokinetic powers, and Okarun occasionally gets possessed by a spirit called Turbo-Granny. Known for its unique art style and bizarre humor around some of the more mature themes not commonly seen on the platform, Dandadan sets itself apart from other works on Shonen Jump+.
Before Tatsu created Dandadan, the mangaka acted as an assistant to two other well-known Shonen Jump+ series: Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man and Yuji Kaku’s Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku. Dandadan came in second place behind Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 in the Best Web Manga category in the Next Manga Awards. The series began its serialization in April 2021 and currently has 80 chapters out online. Dandadan’s seven tankōbon volumes contain the first 54 chapters. Viz Media licensed the series for a print run, with the first volume released in Oct. 2022.
Fans can catch up on Momo and Okarun’s current antics on Viz Media, where they can read the chapters in web format.
Source: Twitter
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