Blue Dragon (???????, Bur? Doragon) is an anime adaptation of the Blue Dragon video game series.
Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews
Plot
As Shu's village was being attacked by an unknown enemy, he and his friends, Jiro and Kluke decide to defend their home. They soon meet Zola and receive the powers of Shadow, an ability that lets them transform their shadow into a powerful monster. Shu receives one of the most powerful monsters, Blue Dragon, and they all set out to defeat their enemy.
Blue Dragon Kluke Video
Media
Manga
On November 12, 2006, Shueisha announced that a manga adaptation of Blue Dragon would be produced. Known as Blue Dragon ST (??????? ??????????, Bur? Doragon Sh?kuretto Torikku, "Blue Dragon: Secret Trick"), the manga was done by Ami Shibata and premiered in Monthly Sh?nen Jump in January 2007. The production was ended in July 2007 with the magazine's cancellation.
A second manga was later produced under the name Blue Dragon Ral ? Grad, also known as Ral Grad. This adaptation was done by Tsuneo Takano and Takeshi Obata, the illustrator of Death Note. Ral Grad began serialization in issue 1, 2007 of Weekly Sh?nen Jump. Viz Media later began releasing the manga as simply "Ral Grad" in February 2008.
Anime
An anime adaptation directed by Yukihiro Matsushita, animated by Studio Pierrot and co-produced by SKY Perfect Wellthink, TV Tokyo and Pierrot was announced in November 2006. The anime began airing April 7, 2007, featuring a different vocal cast than that used for the game. It also ignored most of the game's plot. It aired on TV Tokyo, and ran for 51 episodes.
A second season of Blue Dragon--Blue Dragon: Trials of the Seven Shadows (BLUE DRAGON ?????, Bur? Doragon: Tenkai no Shichiry?)--premiered on TV Tokyo on April 5, 2008.
On April 16, 2007, Viz Media announced that it had licensed the anime for release in North America and Europe. An edited English language dub of the series premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network, on April 5, 2008, where it aired on Toonami Jetstream until Jetstream was cancelled on January 30, 2009. Since then it has been discovered that Viz Media did make an uncut version of the Blue Dragon anime in English. This uncut version released by Manga Entertainment has had the first 24 episodes released on DVD (so far exclusively in the UK) over three 2 disc DVD sets with the release date of the next DVD set to be announced. These uncut episodes unlike the US DVD releases fully restores the original Japanese opening and closing, all edited scenes from the Cartoon Network version are restored including the original music, as well as having the option to view the series in Japanese with English subtitles. On July 22, 2011, Viz Media started streaming Blue Dragon episodes on VizAnime and Hulu. At Otakon, Viz Media representative Amy Mar said that if the streaming numbers are good, they might release the uncut episodes on physical media. The fully uncut Season 1 is findable as a dub on the Italian copies of the DVD.
Home Video
- Viz Media
- Manga Entertainment
- Universal Pictures
Source of the article : Wikipedia
EmoticonEmoticon