Jan 14 2009
‘JewelPet’ Anime Announced; ‘Hanasakeru Seishonen’ Site Opened
Sanrio and Sega revealed (via Famitsu Magazine) at the Tokyo Toy Forum that the ‘JewelPet’ line will be getting an anime series. The ‘JewelPet’ line are toys in the form of impossibly cute animals all named after various jewels. The toys are aimed at young girl in Japan who can access a special website with a code included in each toy. I’m not really sure what the girls do after going to the website (since as AnimeVice points out, you can’t actually look at the website unless you’ve bought one of the toys). No further details have been released as of yet.
In a quick and unrelated note, the official website for the upcoming series ‘Hanasakeru Seishonen’ has opened. The TV series will be adapting the manga of the same name first serialized in the late 80’s to early 90’s in LaLa. So far only a couple of names have been revealed as attached to the project including seiyuu Aya Endo (‘Lucky Star’, ‘Sora Kake Girl’) in the role of Kajika Burnsworth and Chiaki Kon (‘Higurashi’, ‘Nodame Cantabile: Paris’) as director. The Studio Pierrot series will air in April ’09.
‘Jewelpet’ huh? Sounds like another Pokemon or Bakugan fad again -wry- It’ll probably be popular for a while before getting repetitive just like its predecessors. But then again, they were never really never my type of shows.
By the way, would you be interested in exchanging site links? Thanks.
@Necroseer: Yeah, that sounds about right to me. I’m sure that the anime will be wildly popular among the young set but hopefully this remains across the Pacific ^_^