Netflix has announced that Gintama creator Hideaki Sorachi’s Dandelion one-shot manga is getting an anime series in April 2026 by studio NAZ. The main cast of the Dandelion anime includes Chikahiro Kobayashi as Tetsuo Tanba and Megumi Han as Misaki Kurogane. Seven episodes will be released in total.
Sorachi’s popular Gintama series began with the manga in 2004 and ran all the way until June 2021, but the Dandelion manga preceded it in 2002 in Weekly Shonen Jump. The original Gintama anime series is streaming with English subs on Crunchyroll. Hulu is also streaming Gintama Seasons 2 and 3 with an English dub. In addition, GINTAMA – Mr. Ginpachi’s Zany Class spinoff anime is now streaming on Crunchyroll.
Gintama New Film Version: Yoshiwara in Flames opened in theaters on February 13 in Japan. The film adapts the Gintama anime’s Yoshiwara in Flames arc, including episodes 139 through 146. What’s more, the film features newly animated scenes and characters who didn’t originally appear in the arc.
SUPER BEAVER performs the main theme song “Sanzen (Sparkling).”
The main cast includes:
- Tomokazu Sugita as Ginpachi Sakata
- Daisuke Sakaguchi as Shinpachi Shimura
- Rie Kugimiya as Kagura
- Susumu Chiba as Isao Kondo
- Kazuya Nakai as Toshiro Hijikata
- Kenichi Suzumura as Sogo Okita
- Tetsuharu Ohta as Sagaru Yamazaki
- Akira Ishida as Kotaro Katsura
- Satoshi Hino as Kamui
Naoya Ando directs the film at BN Pictures with a script by Taku Kishimoto. What’s more, Yōichi Fujita is supervising the film, and Shinji Takeuchi is the character designer and chief animation director.
