The official website of the anime SAND LAND by Akira Toriyama announced on November 14, 2023 that the film will be released as an anime series exclusively on Disney+ in spring 2024.
The series is titled SAND LAND: THE SERIES, will split the film into episodic versions, including cuts and unreleased scenes from the original work that did not make it into the film. Afterward, The series will continue the plot of the film based on the new story that author Akira Toriyama came up with for the series version..
Main image of SAND LAND: THE SERIES was also revealed to commemorate this announcement.
The staff and cast of the anime film will return for the film.
SAND LAND anime film opens in theaters in Japan on August 18, 2023. The film is also shown in IMAX, 4DX and MX4D formats
The main voice cast includes:
Mutsumi Tamura as Beelzebub Kazuhiro Yamaji as Rao Cho as Thief Satoshi Tsuruoka as General Are Nobuo Tobita as General Zeu
Toshihisa Yokoshima directed the anime film, with Hayashi Mori in charge of the script.
Other staff members include:
Direction consultant: Hiroshi Kamishina Sound director: Miwa Iwanami Music: Yugo Kanno Distributor: Toho
Sunrise, Kamikaze Douga and animated animation Sand Land.
Sand Land is a short manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in 2000, with the 14 chapters collected into a single tankobon volume, released the same year in November.
It was serialized in North America by Viz Media in their English Shonen magazine. Jump magazine in 2003. This volume was later released in December 2003.
The manga’s plot is described by MAL as follows:
In a future world called Sand Land, a river that supplies the world with water suddenly stops working and the only source of water comes from the greedy king’s overpriced water bottles. Demons and humans live together in a world of drought, until Chief Rao confronts Beelzebub in need of a demon on a quest to find Phantom Lake, a river whose birds call Water Finches Provide your own water. Although reluctant at first, Beelzebub goes along (thanks to a good bribe) and brings an older demon, Thief, with him to find the lake for the benefit of all creatures, whether demon or human.
Source: Official website