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Netflix Releases Dandelion Anime in India on April 16

The anime will stream exclusively on Netflix and will have seven episodes.

The anime will star Chikahiro Kobayashi as Tetsuo Tanba, and Megumi Han as Misaki Kurogane.

It will also include cast members (character name romanizations are not confirmed):

• Mamoru Miyano as Seiki Kyōkawa
• Kazuhiko Inoue as Daigorō Kyōkawa
• Kenshō Ono as Yūichi Kyōkawa
• Yūki Ono as Shinji Kyōkawa
• Tomokazu Sugita as Kikugumi squad leader (masked man)
• Shinichirō Miki as Free Isobe
• Fumihiko Tachiki as Streaked Pork Man
• Susumu Chiba as Tamesuke Naitō
• Satoshi Hino as Inuyama
• Rie Kugimiya as Misaki Kurogane's mother Asako
• Daisuke Sakaguchi as Raymond Honda (professor)
• Kikuko Inoue as Seiki's mother
• Kujira as Inomata

The cast includes the three main cast members from Gintama.

Daisuke Mataga (chief animation director for Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos, Grimoire of Zero) is directing the anime at NAZ. Yōsuke Suzuki (A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation) is overseeing the series scripts, Ai Asari (Sabikui Bisco) is designing the characters, and Yūki Hayashi (Haikyu!!, My Hero Academia) is composing the music.

Additional staff members include:

• Assistant Director: Atsushi Ikariya
• Prop Design: Yoshihiro Sono
• Main Animators: Norie Igawa, Momoko Kawai, Yutaka Matsuhara, Hitomi Takechi
• Art Director: Ryūsuke Shiino
• Color Design: Emiko Okada
• 3DCG Director: Kunihiko Mita
• Director of Photography: Tsubasa Takagi
• Editing: Yoshiaki Kimura
• Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi
• Sound Production: FUTOKOROGATANA
• Sound Effects: Shota Yaso
• Animation Producer: Yasuo Suda

The manga first debuted in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2002, and then Shueisha published the one-shot as part of the first volume of the Gintama manga.

The one-shot centers on Tetsuo Tanba and Misaki Kurogane, two members of the "Japan Angel Federation Sendoff Department" who search for souls who cannot pass on to the afterlife due to lingering regrets, and send them to the afterlife.

Sorachi's original "science-fiction period-drama comedy" manga Gintama began in 2003 and ended in June 2019 with over 55 million copies in circulation. The manga has inspired several television anime series with 367 total episodes, as well as three previous anime films. The latest anime series premiered in July 2018. The manga has also inspired various original video anime (OVA), event anime, two live-action films, and two live-action net spinoffs. Viz Media published the manga's first 23 volumes in English.

The most recent work is Shin-Gekijōban Gintama: Yoshiwara Daienjō (Gintama New Film Version: Yoshiwara in Flames), a compilation film for the anime, which opened on February 13. The film covers episodes 139-146 of the anime and features newly animated scenes, as well as characters who did not originally appear in the arc.

Sorachi will launch the 2-nen B-gumi Yūsha Destroyers (Year 2 Class B Hero Destroyers) manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine's 21st issue, that will ship on April 20. The manga centers on a demon king who is driven out of their castle by a hero.

Source: Netflix