As Shu's village was being attacked by an unknown enemy, he and his friends, Jiro and Kluke decide to defend their home.

Akira Toriyama, character designer for the Blue Dragon video game, said that Studio Pierrot approached him about an anime adaptation in February 2006.

In his own words, he said: I knew that [Hironobu] Sakaguchi had been working on assembling staff to produce a game, although at the time Blue Dragon hadn't yet been formally announced.

[9]Based on the video game of the same title (although including several divergences from the original work),[2] the series was announced in November 2006.

[13][14] An edited English language dub of the series premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network, on April 5, 2008.