An anime adaptation directed by Yukihiro Matsushita, written by Akatsuki Yamatoya,

animated by Studio Pierrot and co-produced by SKY Perfect Wellthink, TV Tokyo and
Pierrot was announced in November 2006.[4] The anime began airing April 7, 2007,
featuring a different vocal cast than that used for the game. It also ignored most
of the game's plot.[5] It aired on TV Tokyo, and ran for 51 episodes.[6]

A second season of Blue Dragon�Blue Dragon: Trials of the Seven Shadows (BLUE
DRAGON ????? Buru Doragon: Tenkai no Shichiryu)�premiered on TV Tokyo on April 5,
2008.[7]

On April 16, 2007, Viz Media announced that it had licensed the anime for release
in North America and Europe.[8] An edited English language dub of the series
premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network, on April 5, 2008. It also aired
on Cartoon Network's Toonami Jetstream service until Jetstream was cancelled on
January 30, 2009.[9] 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 US 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 episodes on VizAnime and Hulu.
[10] At Otakon, Viz Media representative Amy Mar said that if the streaming numbers
are good, they might release the uncut episodes on physical media.[11] The fully
uncut Season 1 is findable as a dub on the Italian copies of the DVD.