Gintama Creator’s New Anime Debuts on Netflix With an Exciting Look

Before creating the popular series Gintama, Hideaki Sorachi created a short manga called Dandelion with a completely different story and setting. Dandelion was first published in 2002 and later included in the first volume of Gintama after its release in 2003. Twenty-four years later, Netflix decided to adapt Dandelion into a seven-episode anime. Because the original manga is short, the animation studio, Studio NAZ, added extra scenes to fill out the seven episodes. The anime started streaming on April 16, 2026, and features the opening theme song “Goron to Doron” by Kocchi no Kento, which was shared on official X (formerly Twitter) and the Netflix Anime YouTube channel.



