Bandai Namco begins to adapt another new project from the Dragon Ball series by Akira Toriyama with the new Sand Land. It was written by Toriyama in 2000 and will now kick off with a 'full IP." It starts off with an animated film adaptation and due to the company's history, there is reason to believe that there will be video games to follow.
In a teaser, the official description of Sand Land reads, "In a desert world where both demons and humans suffer from an extreme water shortage, Beelzebub, the prince of demons, and Rao, a small-town sheriff, form a tag-team and set off on an adventure in search of the Phantom Lake somewhere in the desert."
Animated Multimedia Manga Project
Bandai Namco is Working on the New Sand Land Development
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