At Jump Festa 2020, Square Enix andDragon Questcreator Yuji Horii announced a new game adaptation forDragon Quest Dai no Daibouken,a manga known in the world either asFly or Dragon Quest: The Adventures of Dai.This new game based onDragon Quest: The Adventure of Daiwill have Ryutaro Ichimura as its producer. He was the producer ofDragon Quest XIand multiple otherDragon Questgames.Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai’s platforms and release date estimates weren’t announced yet by Square Enix. However, during the event, Yuji Horii strongly hinted that it’ll release on home consoles, not on smartphones.
At the same time, a new anime adaptation forDragon Quest Dai no Daiboukenwas announced. The anime is produced by Toei Animation and it’ll air in Fall 2020. A teaser trailer for both the anime adaptation and game adaptation was published by Toei Animation and can be found below. Atwitter accountand anofficial site for the anime were also opened.
The originalDragon Quest: The Adventure of Daimanga was published in Japan from 1989 to 1996 and was the first long-term manga linked to theDragon QuestJRPG series. Written by Riku Sanjo and illustrated by Koji Inada,The Adventure of Daiwas published in Weekly Shonen Jump, and it’s one of the magazine’s biggest successes, with over 47 million volumes copies sold. An anime adaptation already happened back in the nineties, and it aired in many countries in Europe and Latin America under the nameFly, making it an extremely popular series in these parts of the world.
Riku Sanjo and Koji Inada, later on, collaborated again to makeBeet the Vandel Buster.Riku Sanjo and Koji Inada also made a surprise appearance at the event, with a shikishi ofDragon Quest: The Adventure of Daicharacter Avan.
The originalDragon Quest Dai no Daiboukenmanga will also be republished every week for free on the Shonen Jump + app. Starting January 6, the 1991 anime will also be available in multiple Japanese VOD services.
Rather than aDragon Quest XII, this newDragon Quest; The Adventure of Daigame is probably the new “Dragon QuestHD game"Square Enix was recruiting for.ADragon Quest IXSwitch remakewas also teased a few months ago.Dragon Quest Heroes 3might happen one day too.Lastly,Dragon Quest XIjust reachedover 5.5 million copies sold.
