Dreamland Anime Opens With Terence's Awakening as a Dream Traveler
A French shonen manga with 800,000 copies in print in France gets a fully Japanese-dubbed adaptation by a French studio, a production arrangement that puts the adaptation's home-market voice cast ahead of its source-country authorship.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime Anime.
The fall anime dreamland begins airing October 17, 2026 on ABC TV and TV Asahi's ANiMAZiNG!!! slot. Episode 1, titled Terence, follows a boy haunted by nightmares after his mother's death in a fire. Inside a nightmare he realizes he is dreaming, overcomes his fear of flames, and awakens as a traveler of the dream world. The series adapts French manga artist Reno Lemaire's battle fantasy, directed by Juan Pablo Machado.
Episode 1 airs at 2:00 a.m. late night on the ABC TV and TV Asahi 24-station network, with streaming starting an hour later on U-NEXT, d Anime Store, DMM TV, ABEMA Premium, FOD, Hulu, Lemino and others. Terence is voiced by Sho Hatano, and the Japanese cast also includes Asami Tano as Eve, Kaede Hondo as Lydia and Takuya Eguchi as Savana.
The source manga is drawn by Reno Lemaire, a French manga artist whose work the article describes as carrying respect for Japanese manga. Animation production is handled by Ellipse & La Chouette Compagnie.
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