Akira Toriyama’s Sand Land will be Bandai Namco’s next big multimedia project
by Andrew Webster from The Verge - All Posts on (#671EB)
Image: Bandai Namco Bandai Namco is looking to adapt another major work from Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama. The company has announced a push to develop Sand Land, a manga written by Toriyama in 2000, into what it describes as a full IP."
That will start with an animated film adaptation. No other specific projects were announced, but given the company's history - both with Dragon Ball and the massive success of titles like Elden Ring - it's safe to say that video games are likely to be part of the project as well.
You can get a sense of the world of Sand Land in the brief teaser above. Here's the official description:
In a desert world where both demons and humans suffer from an extreme water shortage, Beelzebub, the prince of demons, and Rao, a...