New Sand Land project announced

[Super Saiyan Swagger]

There is something so hilarious about everyone expecting to see a new trailer for Tenkaichi 4 at Summer Games Fest, only for us to get a video game announcement for Sand Land instead.

Rumours of a DB web anime?… Sand Land gets announced.

Possibility of a new Tenkaichi 4 trailer?… Sand Land gets announced.

Despite how bitter I am with the current state of Dragon Ball, this new Sand Land game looks really good! I’m a massive fan of the way Toriyama designs vehicles, so it’s awesome to see that you can control a bunch of them in this game.

[Hellspawn28]

I'm surprise it took us this long to get a Sandland adaption.

[MCDaveG]

Yeah, it came out of a nowhere and I remember reading it when it was fairly new, like two years... 20 years now! 23 from release to be exact.
After Dragon Ball, Z and GT ended with the manga complete, I was desperate for all Toriyama stuff as I love his artstyle alone and this was the next thing on my list with Neko Majin (I already knew Dr. Slump from TV, as it ran alongside original DB back then in anime TV slot on RTL7)
I am incredibly happy about this and it gives me a glimmer of hope, that Jaco and other works might get adapted as well some day!

I will honestly prefer Dragon Ball to get this kind of legacy, higher production treatment after Super.
Preferably movies because even the OVAs are not something to be blown away by from TOEI.
But I do like all the Dragon Ball movies since 2010s, as they are great to look at, the writing is good and it's well thought off
and as I rewatched Super Hero recently, it reminded me how much fun the movie was.
In comparison to cheaply and hastily produced TV series with plotholes and lackluster writing that's not even that nice to look at.

From the trailers and everything so far, I guess that this would be the most faithful adaptation of Toriyama's art and story to date!
Can't wait to see the complete movie, I will probably reread the manga in the meantime to check the differences afterwards

[TheRed259]

Another trailer just dropped:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LETvCkrGpsI

[Hellspawn28]

I wonder why they choose to adapt 23 year old manga? I'm surprise it didn't came out in the early 2000s.

[TheRed259]

People who will attend the SAND LAND movie premiere in theaters in Japan will receive a newly drawn illustration by Akira Toriyama and a special Super Dragon Ball Heroes collaboration card as a gift.

https://twitter.com/sandland_pj_jp/stat ... 8176276480

[MCDaveG]

I wonder why they choose to adapt 23 year old manga? I'm surprise it didn't came out in the early 2000s.

Yeah, I have no idea myself, but I am happy that they did!
I wonder how will the movie fare with the audience tho, because yeah, the manga is fun, we know the story.
But will it be enough to pull out old story from Toriyama? Will it work because of his credit as an author with audience today?
His artstyle is iconic and because of DB, I went back to check Dr. Slump, Sandland and his other one shots,
but I am afraid if anyone will go to see this because they expect it to be like or to be next Dragon Ball, they will probably be dissapointed.

[ObnoxiousNamek]

The absence of Toei Animation is a good sign.

Not really considering these days the animation Toei puts out is on par if not superior to Mappa & Ufotable. This does not look impressive sad considering Kamikaze Douga knock the Jojo intros out the park.

[Neo-Makaiōshin]

First 15 minutes plus a message from Toriyama.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObKDds0BMBc

[JulieYBM]

I didn't realize it until now, but they got Kan'no Toshiyuki to do the character designs (the 2D designs?) for this movie. Kan'no was a key animator for the Studio Live episodes of Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT and typically had really good character art. It's interesting to see them working on a Toriyama animated adaption again, even if it's just to provide 2D animation character designs.

[MCDaveG]

I am excited about reading that there are some extras to the original manga story
Without spoilers, is that something substantial, really extra or just expanding the content of the original?
If anybody knows.

[sangofe]

First 15 minutes plus a message from Toriyama.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObKDds0BMBc

There's a good english subbed version of this on a piracy website now by the group Saizen

[Skar]

There's a good english subbed version of this on a piracy website now by the group Saizen

It comes next year in North America. I'm not sure about other countries though. I admit I don't always watch something legally but this is one of those movies that I want to wait and support the official release. It only grossed around $3 million so far. I don't know what the budget was but I assume it's higher than that based on other anime movies. If it loses money, it probably sends a message to the studios that lesser known manga titles aren't worth adapting. I still hope one day for a Neko Majin movie .

[sangofe]

There's a good english subbed version of this on a piracy website now by the group Saizen

It comes next year in North America. I'm not sure about other countries though. I admit I don't always watch something legally but this is one of those movies that I want to wait and support the official release. It only grossed around $3 million so far. I don't know what the budget was but I assume it's higher than that based on other anime movies. If it loses money, it probably sends a message to the studios that lesser known manga titles aren't worth adapting. I still hope one day for a Neko Majin movie .

I got angry earlier because my message was edited by a mod without asking me. I've now deleted that response but I wanna make a new clarifying reply. I didn't want to include the group that subbed it. Just mention that it's online. It's incredibly rude to edit messages that don't break rules without informing the post about it. I now realize the mod who did probably wanted to make it easier for people to find the subbed promo but still. Having my post edited like this made me so mad that I had an extra round asking myself why I post here.

Also, there's a reason I set up a project to have the promo subbed, and that's so people go see the release of the full movie. I hope it gets a bit international release and success

[Skar]

I got angry earlier because my message was edited by a mod without asking me. I've now deleted that response but I wanna make a new clarifying reply. I didn't want to include the group that subbed it. Just mention that it's online. It's incredibly rude to edit messages that don't break rules without informing the post about it. I now realize the mod who did probably wanted to make it easier for people to find the subbed promo but still. Having my post edited like this made me so mad that I had an extra round asking myself why I post here.

Also, there's a reason I set up a project to have the promo subbed, and that's so people go see the release of the full movie. I hope it gets a bit international release and success

Ah ok no worries. I knew there would probably be fansubs for the entire movie online soon and worried this group might be doing it. I always get sad seeing lesser known movies losing money because then we might start getting less of those kind of movies . Well I don't know Sandland's budget but I would assume a few million not including marketing costs so more likely than its current box office. I'm not sure what kind of release it'll have in other countries so I'm hoping it does better by next year.

[Neo-Makaiōshin]

SAND LAND: THE SERIES announced for Spring 2024. Will feature a new story by Akira Toriyama.

[sangofe]

SAND LAND: THE SERIES announced for Spring 2024. Will feature a new story by Akira Toriyama.

Wow, Toriyama has been busy lately.

[Dragon ball master]

Disney + really, This reminds me that Disney has the rights to make a dragon ball movie. I remember those leaks where you get to see goku In that disney style but it was just a fan art.
Also I feel very disappointed that the sandland game is not coming to switch.

[eledoremassis02]

Disney + is kind of a shocking twist.

[JulieYBM]

Unless I am blind, I didn't see a studio mentioned—although the film's director will also be the series director for this series. If I had to guess, this series will be mostly hand drawn—aside from vehicles—so it'll be interesting to see what kind of staff are working on it.