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Honō no Tōkyūjo: Dodge Danko Dodgeball Manga Gets TV Anime in 2026
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Shogakukan announced on Friday that Tetsuhiro Koshita's Honō no Tōkyūjo: Dodge Danko manga, a sequel to Koshita's Honō no Tōkyūji Dodge Danpei manga, will get a television anime series that will debut in 2026.
Koshita serialized Honō no Tōkyūji Dodge Danpei in Shogakukan's Monthly CoroCoro Comic magazine from 1989 to 1995. The manga has 18 volumes. The manga inspired a television anime series from Animation 21 that aired from 1991 to 1992 for 47 episodes.
Koshita launched the Honō no Tōkyūjo: Dodge Danko sequel on the Weekly CoroCoro Comic website in November 2022. Shogakukan published the fifth volume in Japan on January 28, and will release the sixth volume on August 28.
While the original dodgeball manga centered on Danpei, the sequel centers on Danpei's daughter Danko and her struggle to create the strongest dodgeball team in the Reiwa era. The above "soul inheritance" visual features Danko standing in front of her father's tombstone. The text on the visual reads, "I'm off, Papa Danpei!"
Sources: Honō no Tōkyūjo: Dodge Danko anime's website, Comic Natalie
