Blue Dragon/Episodes

Blue Dragon is a 51 episode Japanese anime adaptation of the video game series of the same name, directed by Yukihiro Matsushita, animated by Studio Pierrot and co-produced by SKY Perfect Wellthink, TV Tokyo and Pierrot. The anime began airing April 7, 2007 on TV Tokyo, featuring a different vocal cast than that used for the game. It also ignored most of the game's plot. A sequel series to Blue Dragon, titled Blue Dragon: Trials of the Seven Shadows premiered on TV Tokyo on April 5, 2008.

On April 16, 2007, Viz Media announced that it had licensed the anime for release in North America and Europe. An edited English language dub of the series premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network's Toonami block, on March 28, 2008, while also airing on Toonami Jetstream until Jetstream was cancelled on January 30, 2009.

Since then it has been discovered that Viz Media did make an uncut version of the Blue Dragon anime in English. This uncut version released by Manga Entertainment has had the first 24 episodes released on DVD (so far exclusively in the UK) over three 2 disc DVD sets with the release date of the next DVD set to be announced. These uncut episodes unlike the U.S. DVD releases fully restores the original Japanese opening and closing, all edited scenes from the Cartoon Network version are restored including the original music, as well as having the option to view the series in Japanese with English subtitles. On July 22, 2011, Viz Media started streaming Blue Dragon uncut subbed episodes on VizAnime/Hulu. Viz Media stated at Otakon that if the streaming numbers are good, they might release the uncut DVDs to the US.