In promotion of its recent release, the first 15 minutes of the new Sand Land theatrical film have been shared on YouTube. Alongside this video promotion, original author Akira Toriyama shared a new comment (alongside a drawing of the Swimmers’ Papa):

To all of you wonderful people that have already seen the movie Sand Land: thank you so very much!

Not all that many people have seen it yet, but thankfully, the reviews have been pretty good, and some wonderful people even said that they were unexpectedly moved by it! People seem to have particularly enjoyed the machine models, and that is entirely thanks to the animation staff.

If you still haven’t decided whether you want to go see the movie or not, or if you have decided and just don’t feel like going… don’t say that, and please go see the movie!

— AKIRA TORIYAMA

Following Dragon Ball‘s completion, Toriyama produced various one-shots and short works for Shueisha including Alien Peke and Tokimecha in 1996, and Bubul of Demon Village in 1997. Series with longer runs — serializations that would ultimately comprise a single tankōbon — were also produced, including COWA! in 1997, Kajika in 1998, and Sand Land in 2000.

Sand Land was originally serialized within the pages of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from May to August 2000 spanning 14 chapters. The series was compiled into a single volume that November. Sand Land went on to act as a debut series within Viz’s Shonen Jump print magazine in America in 2003, both running to completion and receiving its own collected volume later that same year.

The Sand Land theatrical film debuted 18 August 2023 in Japan with animation produced by Sunrise, Kamikaze Douga, and Anima.