Sand Land made its way to North America in 2003, being serialized in Viz Media's own English-language Shonen Jump magazine before getting an English-language collected edition by the year's end.īandai Namco's official synopsis for Sand Land reads as follows: 'In a desert world where both demons and humans suffer from an extreme water shortage, Beelzebub, the prince of demons, and Rao, a small-town sheriff, form a tag-team and set off on an adventure in search of the Phantom Lake somewhere in the desert.' Other characters in the manga include Thief, a wise thief who joins up with Beelzebub and Rao General Are, Rao's replacement in the king's army the King himself, the ruler of Sand Land who seeks to horde all the water for himself and General Zeu, the commander of the king's army and main villain of the piece. If you like Akira Toriyama, you will love this, although its a rather serious story without many jokes. Very good one-volume manga about the old man, a demon and another demon who are trying to find water in a land of sand. The manga ran for a total of 14 chapters, which were collected into a single tankōbon volume in November 2000. Sand Land is one of Toriyama’s works from the later part of his career. Written and illustrated by Toriyama, Sand Land was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine in Japan from May 2000 to August 2000.

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