Space Dandy

Space Dandy
Promotional image for the anime series featuring Meow, Dandy and QT.
スペース☆ダンディ
(Supēsu Dandi)
Genre
Created byBones
Manga
Written byMasafumi Harada
Illustrated by
Published bySquare Enix
English publisher
MagazineYoung Gangan
DemographicSeinen
Original runDecember 20, 2013October 3, 2014
Volumes2
Anime television series
Directed by
Produced by
  • Masahiko Minami
  • Motoki Mukaichi
  • Hirofumi Inagaki
  • Hirotsugu Ogisu
  • Yukako Inoue
  • Yukihiro Itō
Written by
Music by
Season 1
    • Taku Takahashi
    • Hiroyuki Namba (#1, 3–4, 7–10, 12)
    • KenKen (#1–2, 6, 9, 11–12)
    • Hiroshi Kawanabe (#1–3, 5, 7–8)
    • Tucker (#1–4, 6, 9, 13)
    • Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro (#1–5, 7, 10, 12)
    • Kensuke Ushio (#2, 6–7, 11)
    • Shutoku Mukai (#2, 4–5, 7, 12)
    • Noriyoshi Sasanuma (#3, 6, 9)
    • mito (#3–4, 8, 10–11, 13)
    • Makura Izumi (#5)
    • mabanua (#5)
    • Tarō Umebayashi (#5, 7, 10)
    • JUNK FUJIYAMA (#6)
    • Latin Quarter (#6)
    • Fujimaru Yoshino (#6, 10)
    • Yasuyuki Okamura (#6, 9, 12)
    • ZEN-LA-ROCK (#7)
    • Grooveman Spot (#7)
    • Pecombo (#7)
    • Dokaka (#9)
    • pomodorosa (#12)
    • Luvraw&BTB (#13)
    • Rick Wade (#13)
Season 2
    • Taku Takahashi (#14–17, 19–20, 22–24, 26)
    • Hiroshi Kawanabe (#14, 18, 22)
    • Fujimaru Yoshino (#14, 17, 19, 23)
    • Shutoku Mukai (#14, 17, 20, 23)
    • Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro (#14, 16, 18, 20, 25)
    • Hiroyuki Namba (#14, 20, 22–23, 25–26)
    • Tucker (#15–16, 19, 22–24)
    • Yasuyuki Okamura (#15, 22)
    • Kensuke Ushio (#15, 22, 24)
    • Latin Quarter (#16, 19–20)
    • Yoko Kanno (#16, 19–20, 22)
    • Tarō Umebayashi (#17–18, 21, 24)
    • Tomonori Hayashibe (#17, 24)
    • KenKen (#18, 20, 25–26)
    • Seiichi Nagai (#19, 23)
    • Ogre You Asshole (#21)
    • Kōichirō Tashiro (#21)
    • DORIAN (#22)
    • ZEN-LA-ROCK (#22, 26)
    • mito (#26)
StudioBones
Licensed byCrunchyroll[a]
Original networkTokyo MX, TVO, TVA, BS Fuji, AT-X
English network
Original run January 4, 2014 September 28, 2014
Episodes26 (List of episodes)
Video game
Space Galaga
DeveloperBandai Namco Games
PublisherBandai Namco Games
GenreFixed shooter
PlatformAndroid, iOS
ReleasedAndroid
  • JP: January 24, 2014
iOS
  • JP: February 6, 2014
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Space Dandy, stylized as Space☆Dandy (Japanese: スペース☆ダンディ, Hepburn: Supēsu Dandi), is a 2014 Japanese comic science fiction anime television series produced by Bones. The series follows the misadventures of Dandy, an alien hunter who is "a dandy guy in space", in search for undiscovered and rare aliens with his robot assistant QT and his feline-like friend named Meow.[3]

The anime has been licensed by Funimation in North America, Madman Entertainment in Australia and by Anime Limited in the United Kingdom. The series first aired in the United States on January 4, 2014 at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block. The series began airing in Japan on Tokyo MX at 11 p.m. JST on January 5, 2014, followed by TV Osaka, TV Aichi, BS Fuji and AT-X. The series is simulcasted in South East Asia at the same time as Japan on Animax Asia. The series has also been broadcast in Australia on SBS 2 since 3 October 2015. Following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll, the series was moved to Crunchyroll.[4]

A manga adaptation ran in Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine from December 20, 2013 to October 3, 2014. The manga is licensed in English by Yen Press. The first season aired from January to March 2014, and the second season aired from July to September 2014.

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  2. ^ Osmond, Andrew (October 1, 2014). "Netflix Adds Space Dandy". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
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  4. ^ "UPDATE: Funimation Titles Now Available on Crunchyroll (5/24)". Crunchyroll. March 1, 2022. Retrieved May 28, 2022.


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