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GKIDS Acquires Theatrical, Home Video Rights to DAN DA DAN Anime

GKIDS announced on Tuesday that it has acquired the theatrical, videogram, and digital transactional rights to the television anime adaptation of Yukinobu Tatsu's Dandadan "paranormal mystery battle & romantic comedy" manga. According to the company, this is its first time handling a first-run series, as opposed to a retrospective series. GKIDS will announce more details in the future. The company streamed an English-subtitled trailer:

The series will premiere in Japan in October on TBS and MBS's Super Animeism TURBO programming block. Netflix will stream the anime worldwide in October, and Crunchyroll will also stream the anime. Both companies are listing the anime with the title DAN DA DAN.

The anime stars:

• Shion Wakayama as Momo Ayase
• Natsuki Hanae as Okarun
• Mayumi Tanaka as Turbo-Granny
• Kazuya Nakai as Alien Serpo

Fūga Yamashiro (Tatami Time Machine Blues assistant director) is directing the anime at Science SARU, and Hiroshi Seko (Attack on Titan The Final Season, Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, Mob Psycho 100) is supervising and writing the series scripts. Composer kensuke ushio (Chainsaw Man, DEVILMAN crybaby, Liz and the Blue Bird) is scoring the music. Naoyuki Onda (Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, Berserk: The Golden Age Arc) is designing the characters, and Yoshimichi Kameda (Mob Psycho 100) is designing the aliens and supernatural entities.

Crunchyroll describes the story:

This is a story about Momo, a high school girl who comes from a family of spirit mediums, and her classmate Okarun, an occult fanatic. After Momo rescues Okarun from being bullied, they begin talking. However, an argument ensues between them since Momo believes in ghosts but denies aliens exist, and Okarun believes in aliens but denies ghosts exist.

To prove to each other what they believe in is real, Momo goes to an abandoned hospital where a UFO has been spotted and Okarun goes to a tunnel rumored to be haunted. To their surprise, they each encounter overwhelming paranormal activities that transcend comprehension. Amid these predicaments, Momo awakens her hidden power and Okarun gains the power of a curse to overcome these new dangers! Their fateful love begins as well!?

The story of the occult battle and adolescence starts!

Tatsu serializes the manga on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ service, and Shueisha published the 14th compiled book volume on April 4. Viz Media publishes the manga in English and released the seventh volume on April 9.

Source: Press release