Hideaki Sorachi’s debut manga Dandelion gets anime series on Netflix

Netflix has announced that Dandelion, the debut one-shot manga by Hideaki Sorachi, best known as the creator of Gintama, is being adapted into an anime series that will stream exclusively on the platform starting in April. The anime will star Chikahiro Kobayashi as Tetsuo Tanba and Megumi Han as Misaki Kurogane. Direction duties are being handled by Daisuke Mataga at Studio NAZ, with Yosuke Suzuki overseeing the series scripts. Character designs are by Ai Asari, while music will be composed by Yuki Hayashi, known for his work on Haikyu!! and My Hero Academia.

The production staff also includes assistant director Atsushi Ikariya, art director Ryūsuke Shiino, color designer Emiko Okada, 3DCG director Kunihiko Mita, director of photography Tsubasa Takagi, editor Yoshiaki Kimura, sound director Kisuke Koizumi, and animation producer Yasuo Suda, among others.

The announcement follows teasers posted earlier this week by the “dandelion_0914” account on X. Netflix clarified on Friday that the reveal was not related to a new manga serialization.



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Dandelion originally debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2002 and was later included in the first volume of Gintama, published by Shueisha. The story follows Tetsuo Tanba and Misaki Kurogane, members of the “Japan Angel Federation Sendoff Department,” who guide souls burdened by unresolved regrets to the afterlife.

Sorachi’s Gintama manga ran from 2003 to June 2019 and has more than 55 million copies in circulation. The franchise has spawned multiple television anime series totaling 367 episodes, three anime films, original video anime projects, event anime, and live-action adaptations. The most recent animated release, Shin-Gekijōban Gintama: Yoshiwara Daienjō (Gintama New Film Version: Yoshiwara in Flames), opened in Japan on February 13 and features newly animated scenes expanding on episodes 139–146 of the anime.