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New Pokétoon Anime Short Focused on Gengar Debuts on Friday
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official Twitter account for the Pokémon franchise revealed on Monday that a new Pokétoon net anime short titled "Gengar ni Nacchatta!?" (I Became a Gengar?!) will premiere on the Pokémon Kids TV channel on YouTube on Friday at 2:00 p.m. JST. The short will be set in a school, and will center on a girl who gets turned into a Gengar. Tatsurō Kawano is directing the short, and Yuka Iguchi will star.
The first Pokétoon short, "POKÉTOON: Scraggy and Mimikyu," premiered in June 2020. Two new shorts in the series, "Hero ni Naritai Yanchamu" (Pancham Who Wants to Be a Hero) and "Yume no Tsubomi" (Dreaming Tsubomi), debuted on May 5 and June 4, respectively.
The Pokémon Kids TV channel then debuted the "Mattete ne Koiking" (Just Wait, Magikarp) short in July, and then debuted the "Poka-Poka MaguMaggu House" (Cozy Slugma House) short on August 5.
The Pokémon Kids TV YouTube channel launched in 2019 with a focus on children's programming.
Sources: Pokémon Twitter account, Famitsu.com
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