Dragoma Inferno (anime)

## Dragoma Inferno

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**Dragoma Inferno** *(ドラゴマ・インフェルノ Doragoma inferuno)* lit. **Infernolab Ablaze** / **Dragon's Inferno** *(龍神の燃えてる Ryujin no Moeru)* is an anime adaptation to the first 3 Infernolab movies. Taking place after *Gears of the Horizon ~ Infernolab*, Dante travels across Zenin with his team as they encounter the newly revived RGO led by heartless dragon kitsune Mizuno and her loyal but cunning bounty hunter Kagetsura while deeply investigate a threat that spawns reoccurring enemies raiding local prefectures.

The anime's events mirrors the manga as it features 4 arcs (known as phases) throughout the anime: Goleta, Santa Barbara, Pasadena, and Irvine. A 5th one known as Capellen is due to be released soon.

The anime is based off of the manga.

## Summary

After the events of *Gears of the Horizon ~ Infernolab*, Dante and The Infernolab continue to market and rack sales on *Inferno Dream* after Tohjo's banishment behind bars in Miyazaki. A new UYSZ student named Mizuchi informs the team of the Shadow Dragon's existence within Zenin. Despite the mysterious mention, Dante immediately heads off to trace and locate the Shadow Dragon. Renoa holds him back, reminding of his prepared gear: the Draco Inferno, The Disk O' Inferno, the Rings of Infernum, and lastly the Ryuzaki. Yuji faintly smiles, and assures him that Ryujin and Shinrya will bless their journey. Deeply overwhelmed, Dante kickstarts Fafnir and Kiranaga, along with Nekoferno waking up from a short nap. Team Infernolab utilize Dante's serviced Eagle Talon to travel across Zenin and the Infernoverse. Along their journey they will find friends from folklore, enemies from various ancient mythologies, and an iconic role model and legend of Zenin.

## Staff

* Executive Producers : TBA
* Series Composition : TBA
* Character Design : Robin Ward, TBA
* Director : Robin Ward
* Director : TBA
* Art Director : TBA
* Coloring : TBA
* CGI Director : TBA
* Sound Director : TBA
* Music : TBA
* Animation Production : Funimation

## Episodes (Anime)

*Main article: List of Dragoma Inferno Episodes*

*See also: Dragoma Inferno (anime) / Datalog*

## Chapters (Manga)

*Main article: List of Dragoma Inferno chapters*

## Music

### Opening Themes

* Gear Red
* Dies Infernum
* The World Ends with You

### Ending Themes

* This is the Infernolab
* Soaring through the Sky
* Dream Ahead

### 7th Level of Heck selections

*See Dante's 7th Level of Heck for more tracks.*

* Underworld - Cowgirl
* Front 242 - Religion (pussy whipped mix)
* KMFDM - Beast
* Pop will Eat Itself - Everythin'gs Cool (youth's dragonfly mix)

## International Dubs

* Dragoma Inferno (English)
* 드라고마 인페르노 *deulagoma inpeleuno* (Korean)
* Dragoma-Inferno (German)
* Dragoma Enfier (French)
* Infierno de dragoma (Spanish)

## Key art / poster concepts

* **Goleta arc:** Team Infernolab faces the backdrop of Zenin, a wall of flames breaching the sky.
* **Goleta arc 2:** Dante rides Fafnir as the rest of the team venture ahead across Zenin's mysterious terrains. Each image sectioned in their own glass shard in Infernolab's famed symbol, The Flaming Gear.
* **Santa Barbara arc:** Jason Bardis, masked as the Shadow Fox, faces the kitsune dragon Mizuno and bounty hunter Kagetsura in a ferocious battle of darkness and flames.
* **Bardis Chronicles:** Dante leaps forward with the rest of the Infernolab surrounded: Yuji, Mizuchi, Galen, Christian and Renoa. On the upper left corner is Mirai and his cheerful smirk. On the upper right is corner is Itsuki and his calm stare. In the middle is Titan Orochi, jaws ferociously roaring at the viewer.
* **Pasedena arc:** From a bird's eye view, Team Infernolab glance at the arid sky, surrounded by the burnt and smoky engravement of the Flaming Gear during Dies Infernum.
* **Irvine arc:** Dante and Jason stand next to each other, the rest of the Infernolab posed next to them in a V format.
* **Capellen arc:** Team Infernolab are geared in all black attire, clutching thier respective weapons during Dies Infernum.
* **Capellen arc 2:** Team Infernolab (Yuji, Luke Laurie, Mizuchi, Galen, Dante, Christian, and Renoa), armed with weapons in hand, stand on various damaged buildings, towering over a ferocious Jason Bardis. An army of kitsune foxes with heartlessly glowing eyes surround Bardis as they stare at the team in distaste. Some of them are perched on abandoned RGO Wolfhounds and an RGO Iron Eagle. A bright orange symbol resembling the Infernolab Flaming Gear burns through the charred earth, signaling the end of Dies Infernum in the island of Toledo.

## Merchandise

The Dragoma Inferno anime will have a list of merch detailing products of all kind items made for limited production. It will also span DVD / Blu Ray releases in accordance to each respective season. It will be published by Funimation in JP / US and Kaze in the EU and sold for $30 - $50.

* Goleta arc (Season 1)
* Santa Barbara arc (Season 2)
* Bardis Chronicles
* Pasadena arc (Season 3)
* Irvine arc (Season 4)
* Capellen arc (Season 5)

## Copyright Information

*Dragoma Inferno anime* © Robin Ward, Jason Bardis, Kodansha and Funimation. Project Dragoma.

## Trivia

* *Dragoma Inferno* is a inspirational combo of many animes Robin is a mild fan of. Some elements from *Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba* and *Attack on Titan* have been blended into the Infernolab anime.
* A lot of Infernolab references can be found throughout the anime:
	+ Kurosumera is based off of the LEGO dragon that Jason Bardis built for his 1992 stop motion music video about a robotic dragon disrupting a rock concert on the moon. The video inspired the anime to tell the story of Kurosumera attacking a New Year festival in Miyazaki.
	+ The random static music segments from the Employment Hall's PA speakers in Shirakawa is the Static Promo for Jason's Industrial Gothic Radio Show on KCSB in 1995. The very same audio can be found in *Dante's Return ~ Dragoma Inferno,* where the player approaches the locked jukebox.
	+ One of Jason's nightmares with the kitsune turning against him is based off of Bardis' replies where wolves nipped at his heels on Arcade Controls Forum.
	+ One of the episode titles *Viva Las Bardis* references to one of the comments on Jason’s recent FB posts.
	+ Luke mentioning Dante's glory days down Lake Caguya is a direct reference to Jason Bardis windsurfing down the lake by the same name on Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY.
	+ Nekoferno's nickname to Jason, *Mr. Smarty Pants*, is based off of one of R!Jason's friends on FB who called him that while vacationing in Nevada.
	+ The Hodoken wooden bridge in Miyazaki during episode 3 of the Santa Barbara arc is based off of Jason's wooden bridge workshop where he weighed down 20kg of weight by hand on a wooden bridge made of popsicle sticks during an elementary school presentation.
	+ The team utilizing cheesebots as bait for the Nurarihyon and the Shōjō are references to Jason's FB post where he made more than 50 cheesebots with his daughter for her elementary school's snack time.
	+ During the Final Chapters of The Capellen arc, Galen dreamwalks through his own body to meet Panos Bardis sculpting a pagoda tower reminiscent to The Temple of the Rising Dragon. The soccer ball that was held by Galen is a reference to Jason Bardis' FB posts where he snapped images of his son's worn out soccer ball, nicknamed the Old Blue.
	+ The team sets down a chocolate cake beside the two headed lamp stand. The cake is a reference to his 30th birthday, decorated with his name and The Flaming Gear while the Craftsman lamp stand was used in the pits of *BattleBots* Season 3.0.
* The series uses bilingual voice actors for the English version, implying that some of the characters speak both English and Japanese during their lines.
* The anime's seasonal arcs or phases are based off of the real life cities from California that Jason resided in.
* Though it is titled as *Ryujin no Moeru* in Japan, the katakana letters in the Japanese title still resembles the translation for *Dragoma Inferno*.
* The font used on the anime's logo is known as *Serpentine*.
* Robin Ward surveyed Jason Bardis with his decision of the anime's logo. He agreed with the first one, remarking:
	+ *"I definitely like the top one better. I find the font easier to read. I've often gotten too fancy w/ names, designs, fonts, etc. & am trying to learn that simpler is often better."*

## Gallery

Logo concepts for the anime created by Robin Ward.Logo concepts in Japanese.Second draft JP logo.