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DAN DA DAN, Blue Box Anime Stream in India on October 3

Netflix is listing the television anime of Yukinobu Tatsu's Dandadan "paranormal mystery battle & romantic comedy" manga and the television anime of Kōji Miura's Blue Box (Ao no Hako) manga for release in India on October 3.

Muse Asia screened the first episode of Dandadan at Anime Times and WaConne AniFest's Coscon event in Nagpur on September 8. It screened the first three episodes PVR Maison, Jio World Drive, Mumbai, India on September 15.

The series will premiere in Japan on October 3 on TBS and MBS's Super Animeism TURBO programming block. Netflix will stream the anime worldwide starting on October 3 at 25:00 JST (effectively, October 4 at 1:00 a.m. JST)

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.

Blue Box will debut on television in Japan on October 3 at 11:56 p.m., and will air on TBS and 28 affiliated networks. The series will stream on Netflix starting on October 4 (Japan time). While the Netflix debut will be after the television debut, the Netflix debut will stream the first two episodes. The series will also stream on more than 25 other streaming services in Japan after each episode's television airing.

Netflix has also announced in English that it will stream the anime weekly starting on October 3, although it added release dates may vary by country.

Yūichirō Yano (Moyashimon, Lupin the Third: Part 5) is directing the anime, and Yūko Kakihara (Buddy Daddies, Cells at Work!, Chihayafuru seasons 2-3) is overseeing the series scripts. Miho Tanino (Tower of God, Blue Thermal) is designing the characters. Telecom Animation Film is producing the animation, and UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS is in charge of planning and production.

Miura first published the story as a one-shot manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2020. The magazine started the manga's serialization in April 2021. Shueisha published the manga's 16th compiled book volume on August 2, and will publish the 17th volume on October 4. Viz Media published the manga's 11th volume physically on July 2, and will publish the 12th volume on October 1.

Source: Netflix