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TV Tokyo Streams English-Subtitled Pilot for Ninja Bear Project
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
TV Tokyo began streaming an English-subtitled pilot video for its new Ninja Bear project on Wednesday. TV Tokyo is developing the project based on the character by Quan, Inc. and KOO-KI, and is aimed at the inbound tourist market. The project's official English website stated that the objective of the project "is to create a character which can gain huge awareness in overseas in order to attract more of the tourists by the character."
Quan, Inc. debuted the character as a Facebook Messenger sticker in April 2015. The stickers have been downloaded 70 million times. TV Tokyo plans to develop the property with goods and an anime, and showcased the property at Shanghai's China Licensing Expo event earlier this week. The website describes the anime:
The Ninja International Kindergarten in the Land of White Goats is where kids trying to become the world's best ninjas go to school.
Ninja Bear is aiming to become the master of the food chain or, in short, a master ninja! He's training night and day.
Other colorful and unique characters like Hige-chan, Bunnie Antoinette, Ham Rock Star, and Usawan are classmates at the school. No challenge is too great for these cool guys!
Enjoy their carefree and mischievous life at the Ninja Kindergarten!And yet...wars created by adults seem to continue in every era.
The Land of White Goats and the Land of Black Goats are in an all-out war over paper, a valuable resource for the goat kingdoms.
How long will this seemingly endless struggle continue? What does fate have in store for Ninja Bear and his friends?"
The anime will debut in 2017.
Update: The English-subtitled video has been removed. Embedded TV Tokyo's unsubtitled version instead.
Source: Anime! Anime! (Katsunori Takahashi)
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