Staff and Cast Revealed for 'Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken' TV Anime

by Kingsman117
May 27, 2020 10:23 AM | 24 Comments

The official website for the new TV anime adaptation of Riku Sanjou and Koji Inada's Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken (Dragon Quest: Dai's Great Adventure) manga series revealed the main cast, staff, and character visuals (pictured) on Wednesday. The anime will commence broadcasting on TV Tokyo and its subsidiaries in October this year.

Cast
Dai: Atsumi Tanezaki (Mahoutsukai no Yome)
Pop: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (Gamers!)
Maam: Mikako Komatsu (Arte)
Leona: Saori Hayami (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun)
Avan: Takahiro Sakurai (Babylon)
Hyunckel: Yuki Kaji (Ahiru no Sora)

Staff
Series Director: Kazuya Karasawa (World Trigger episode director)
Series Composition: Katsuhiko Chiba (Baby Steps)
Character Design: Emiko Miyamoto (Mahoutsukai Precure!)
Art Director: Ayaka Fujii (Dororo background art)
Music: Yuuki Hayashi (Boku no Hero Academia)
Color Design: Aya Mori (One Piece color setting)
Studio: Toei Animation

The original manga was serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump between 1989 and 1996 with an anime adaptation that aired between October 1991 and September 1992.

Source: Comic Natalie

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Remake of Dragon Quest? Wow, never saw this coming. I havn't watched the first iteration yet but I am a little excited for this upcoming remake.

Jun 18, 2020 6:15 AM by Johnrupesh

Gonna play the game but not sure about the anime. Hm... let's wait and see.

Jun 1, 2020 10:50 PM by Gear707

I'm definitely watching, but will maybe read the manga first.

May 29, 2020 9:30 AM by malvarez1

It does look decent though I am worried about the overall product.

With that said, this looks like it can be pretty enjoyable.

I'm not into Dragon Quest but I did played DQ3 and so far the game was good of an RPG. It's just that I need to continue with it.

May 28, 2020 6:47 PM by removed-user

I heard that Troriyama is not involved with Dragon Quest Dai even though he did some of the character designs for the Dragon Quest games in the past.

to summarize, Toriyama do lot of character design (not all) for dragon quest game (the first up to IV). the manga adaptation while didn't drawn by toriyama, was very faithful to game. anime adapted from the manga. so toriyama resemblance was intentional.

it need to be noted by the time toriyama working on dragon quest, DB wasn't popular yet. he is more known by previous work, Dr. Slump, which not an action series. so the action and plot design from dragon quest was original. when first DQ: Dai no Daibouken finally subbed (which DBZ already popular by then), lot of people called it DB toriyama rip-of, which very very completely untrue.

also yes, this series currently sit on top 30 of top manga sales of all time.

Mod Edit: Modified quote of edited post.

May 28, 2020 6:41 AM by Kuma

I heard that Troriyama is not involved with Dragon Quest Dai even though he did some of the character designs for the Dragon Quest games in the past.

Mod Edit: Removed baiting.

May 28, 2020 4:36 AM by AddaeAkono

Kuma said:

Daniel_Naumov said:

Hence why the resources are better spend elsewhere, evidently.

this series happen because there is new Dragon Quest franchise announced. there is something new, so they made new anime to attract new audience and pleasing older audience. it was very looked forward by japanese audience. Dragon Quest was number 1 trending in japan yesterday, surpassing any recent anime announcement.

Anyway to the context of the thread. It's a classic so will give it a look maybe with the Toriyama art style it will stoke some love for old DB to add to my enjoyment. Never played the DQ games but I am up for hopefully a decent sword and sorcery story. In the meantime I might check out the original before it comes out. Curious since this series has a large influence on the industry.

Mod Edit: Removed baiting.

May 28, 2020 1:26 AM by BilboBaggins365

Dai in tokusatsu means :
1. Dai dai dai henshin (Ex-aid)
2. Dainaman (Dynaman)
3. Dairanger (or Staranger in international version)

And Daibouken is a word when the singer (Hiroki Takahashi) used it in Dragon Ball op song

May 28, 2020 1:06 AM by ronald_bastian

So, this is first time that Atsumi voiced young boy instead Mikakoshi who usually voiced young boys, btw is it remake of original version ?

May 28, 2020 12:57 AM by ronald_bastian

Daniel_Naumov said:

Kuma said:

it's called novelty . while it's generic nowadays, it wasn't back then. in fact, this series is what become trend starter that the series it self lost it novelty by series follow it afterwards. you are being anachronism.

May 27, 2020 10:54 PM by Kuma

Daniel_Naumov said:

Kuma said:

>generic

bruh, this is what inspired all of them. the whole RPG-esque fantasy anime/manga was popularized by this very game. this is adapted from manga that are official adaptation of motherfucking dragon quest. a classic game which inspired lot of mangaka after it. educate yourself.

How does this factual information contradict what I said? This is 2020, not 1990. Generic stories will remain generic whether you feel nostalgic about them or not.

May 27, 2020 10:48 PM by Kuma

you should all stop talking to Daniel he says a lot of stupid shits like here how can the original be called generic or a clone too wtf

May 27, 2020 10:31 PM by deg

Kuma said:

Daniel_Naumov said:
Generic. The resources in the industry could have been better spent elsewhere.

How does this factual information contradict what I said? This is 2020, not 1990. Generic stories will remain generic whether you feel nostalgic about them or not.

May 27, 2020 10:28 PM by Daniel_Naumov

Daniel_Naumov said:
Generic. The resources in the industry could have been better spent elsewhere.

May 27, 2020 9:35 PM by Kuma

I haven't played the games, but I'm looking forward to seeing Dragon Quest Dai.

May 27, 2020 5:38 PM by AddaeAkono

Daniel_Naumov said:
Generic. The resources in the industry could have been better spent elsewhere.

It's Dragon Quest, DQ is basic, you're watching for a simple, no thrills, fun romp that's still satisfying.

May 27, 2020 3:52 PM by Hoppy

Never played any of the spin off games before but I did buy XI ,

Was going to get round to watching the original anime at one point I might as well as just wait for this one

May 27, 2020 12:10 PM by Mattinator95

deg said:
ye but Toei is the biggest anime studio though so they have the talent for it with how many long running anime they do each year so what they need is more time or good production schedule which the covid-19 can hopefully provide since this pandemic mainly affects the voice department part only anyway but the key animation is still can be done online

It’ll still be pretty taxing on the Studio, I feel. But well, only time will tell I suppose.

By the way, I forgot to mention earlier but it’s very pleasing to see that Hayashi Yuuki-san will be composing the music for the series. At least the ears will be blessed in the worst-case scenario...

May 27, 2020 11:31 AM by _MushiRock11_

Always love watching readaptations of old animes so looking forward to this too.

May 27, 2020 11:31 AM by MegamiRem

_MushiRock11_ said:

deg said:
first look https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1265604051758125056

im in hopefully Toei can stay consistent with the animation quality of this one, it can run for 2 years at least to finish all the manga

Toei Animation will have a lot of long-running shows to keep up then in the form of One Piece, Digimon Adventure and possibly this along with World Trigger 2. I'm not saying that it's not possible but it's hard to imagine consistent animation at the very least, I reckon.

ye but Toei is the biggest anime studio though so they have the talent for it with how many long running anime they do each year so what they need is more time or good production schedule which the covid-19 can hopefully provide since this pandemic mainly affects the voice department part only anyway but the key animation is still can be done online

May 27, 2020 11:23 AM by deg

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