During its stage event at Jump Festa 2026, a new key visual was unveiled for the upcoming third season of DAN DA DAN, which will premiere sometime in 2027. Science SARU will continue to oversee production of the series.
The newly released visual features a girl emerging from a space kaiju suit, along with Okarun, Turbo Granny, and Momo.
©Yukinobu Tatsu/SHUEISHA, DANDADAN Production Committee
Abel Gongora (Season 1’s opening animation storyboard artist and director) and Fuga Yamashiro served as co-directors for the second season, with Hiroshi Seko (Chainsaw Man) as series composer and scriptwriter, Naoyuki Onda (MF Ghost, Inuyashiki) as character designer, Yoshimichi Kameda (Mob Psycho 100 character designer) as alien and yokai designer, Satoshi Hashimoto (SPYX FAMILY Season 1) and Makiho Kondo (“Tokyo Clone” music video) as color designers, Junichi Higashi (Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2) as background art director, Kazuto Izumita (Great Pretender) as composting director, and Kensuke Ushio (Tengoku-Daimakyo, The Heike Story).
© Yukinobu Tatsu/SHUEISHA, DANDADAN Production Committee
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast includes:
- • Shion Wakayama as Momo
- • Natsuki Hanae as Okarun
- • Mayumi Tanaka as Turbo Granny
- • Nana Mizuki as Seiko Ayase
- • Ayane Sakura as Aira Shiratori
- • Kaito Ishikawa as Jin Enjoji/Jiji
The second season aired during the Summer 2025 anime season, while the first season aired in Fall 2024. Crunchyroll and Netflix streamed both seasons worldwide in select countries and territories.
The anime also received two theatrical releases ahead of each seasons’ premieres, which include DAN DA DAN: First Encounter in 2024 and DAN DA DAN: EVIL EYE in 2025.
The original sci-fi occult manga series by Yukinobu Tatsu was first launched on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ on April 6, 2021 and has released 21 tankobon volumes as of October 2025. A 22nd volume will be released in Japan on January 5, 2026.
© Yukinobu Tatsu/SHUEISHA, DANDADAN Production Committee
VIZ Media releases the DAN DA DAN manga series in English, and describes the main premise as:
Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school’s UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames “Okarun” because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks the exact opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove each other wrong — Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love…and oddly horny aliens and spirits?
Sources: Email correspondence, press release
