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Kamiwaza Wanda (Japanese: カミワザ・ワンダ) is the first season of the monster-collecting Kamiwaza Wanda series created by Takara Tomy. It started airing in Japan on April 23, 2016 on TBS. This season of Kamiwaza Wanda is also known as the original season. It is aimed at children.
Plot[]
For the original season's episodes, see: Kamiwaza Wanda (season)/List of episodes
In a world where every event has been turned into programs, there are mysterious monsters known as "Promin" that maintain the world. However, many Promin who have turned into bugs known as "Bugmin" are responsible for many of the world's real-life bugs. Left alone, they may eventually turn into a big problem. The boy Yūto encounters the space dog Wanda, and the pair use a camera-like device and key items to capture Bugmin. Promin themselves are able to do things like "accelerate objects," "spew fire," or "create objects," through an ability known as "Kamiwaza" (miracle), and are able to fend off Bugmin with it. At first, the Bugmin only cause small, bothersome things, but it will soon elevate into a global scale threat.
(Source: Anime News Network)
Yuto Kamiya was an ordinary young boy, whose parents run a toy shop in Kirakira First Street, until one day he met a dog-like citizen (from outer space) at Kirakira Scrapyards. The dog-like citizen was named Wanda and he came from the Wonder-Star which was put into ice by his father the Wonder-King due to the planet itself being cursed and vulnerable to Bugmin invasions by Don Bugdez. Capturing and debugging Bugmins and collecting and summoning Promins, Yuto began his adventure as a Kamiwaza Power-Shooter, with Wanda as his Kamiwaza Teammate, and stop the situations caused by the Bugmins sent in by Don Bugdez, whose plan is to see the chaos on Earth evolve to its ultimate level, and his henchmen the Bug Bytes.
Characters[]
For the characters who debut in this season, see: Kamiwaza Wanda (season)/List of characters introduced
Season background[]
This season is the debut season of the Kamiwaza Wanda anime series. It was first announced by the people of Takara Tomy on January 18, 2016 along with the entire Kamiwaza Wanda franchise itself.
A website for this season was launched by TBS on March 17, 2016, which was about 1 month ahead of this season's premiere.
Voice actor promotion[]
On March 22, 2016, about one month before this season's premiere, it was announced that 5 of the TBS announcers would be participating as voice actors for this season. These TBS announcers are Shohei Fujimori, Akiyo Yoshida, Ai Eto, Ayu Yamauchi, and Yuri Sasagawa. Only 2 of whom, Shohei Fujimori and Ayu Yamauchi, are treated as semi-regulars as they voice Shuu's parents Mr. Tateishi and Mrs. Tateishi.
During in broadcast of TBS' variety show 'Ningen Observation Variety Monitoring' on April 7, 2016, 16 days before this season's premiere, comedians Ryuichi Kosugi of Black Mayonaise, Daisuke Muramoto of the comedy duo Woman Rush and Yoshio Kojima all paticipate in a voice actor audition on some prank-targeting video with the voice actors already involved in the Kamiwaza Wanda anime series (Kappei Yamaguchi, Hiro Shimono, Suzuko Mimori and Arthur Lounsbery) as the instigators. Original season director Mitsuo Hashimoto, who's also an instigators during that variety show on that day, has chosen Ryuichi Kosugi as the voice of the Wonder-King in the Kamiwaza Wanda anime series, beginning with this season.
Interactive games[]
See: Kamiwaza Wanda (season)/Interactivity
Starting from the very first episode 'An Emissary From The Wonder-Star' all the way until the original season finale 'Forever Wanda!', viewers can play 2 games whilst watching an episode of this season. The first game is a card-guessing game, hosted by Yuto, in which the viewer must find the Kamiwaza Pro-card of the Promin Yuto is asking for. The second game is an interactive version of Wanda's Rock-Paper-Scissors game, hosted by Wanda, in which the viewer plays a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors against the Kamiwaza Wanda franchise's titular mascot Wanda himself.
Season credits[]
- Original work - Takara Tomy
- Director - Mitsuo Hashimoto
- Assistant supervision - Jun Hatori
- Composition - Katsumi Hasegawa
- Character draft - Hisao Nishimoto
- Character design - Mayumi Watanabe
- Prop design - Koichi Konno
- Promin design - Mihoko Ogawa
- Art director - Shino Ohara
- Art setting - Satoshi Miura
- Colour design - Kayoko Onno
- Photography director - Hiroki Tsubouchi
- Editing - Hiromi Komine
- Music - Hideyuki Fukusawa, Takatsugu Wakabayashi
- Music producer - Yasushi Sato
- Sound director - Yuki Matsuoka
- Producers - Tetsuo Gensho, Arimasa Okada, Tomoyuki Saito, Toshio Hirai, Masahiro Hibi, Tetsu Kojima, Junya Okamoto
- Animation producer - Shunichiro Miura, Toshi Yokoyama
- Animation production - TMS Entertainment
- Animation production co-operation - SynergySP
- Publications - TBS, Wanda Project
Openings and endings[]
Openings[]
| Name | Image | Performed by... | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wanda Nanda | DAIGO | From 'An Emissary From The Wonder-Star' to 'Promin VS Promin' | |
| Bagutte Iijan | HKT48 | From 'Counterattack Of The Bug Bytes' to 'Forever Wanda!' |
Endings[]
| Name | Images | Performed by... | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samba de Wanda | Wanda (Kappei Yamaguchi) | From 'An Emissary From The Wonder-Star' to 'Promin VS Promin' | |
| WONDERLAND | RADIO FISH | From 'Counterattack Of The Bug Bytes' to 'Forever Wanda!' |
Episode-ending segments[]
| Name | Image | Segment type | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wanda's Rock-Paper-Scissors Game | Game | All episodes | |
| Wanda plays a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors with the viewer or audience. This segment is also interactive. | |||
| Promin-Zu minisodes | Mini-anime | From 'An Emissary From The Wonder-Star' to 'Counterattack Of The Bug Bytes' | |
| This segment shows minisodes about the Promins and their everyday lives. | |||
| Kamiwaza Promin-Zu | Mini-anime | From 'A Sugary Scramble Battle!' to 'Forever Wanda!' | |
| Wanda sings a verse from the 'Kamiwaza Promin-Zu' song about a featured Promin. | |||
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Trivia[]
- Originally, Kamiwaza Wanda was scheduled to start on April 16, 2016. However, the first episode was delayed as a result of an earthquake in Japan.
- Two manga titles of the Kamiwaza Wanda franchise were announced along with the first season. One of them, serialised in the Corocoro Ichiban magazine, is a manga series of the same name but with a different story. The other, serialised in the Corocoro Comic Special magazine, is a 4-koma spin-off manga focusing on the Promins.
- This anime season of Kamiwaza Wanda marks the anime debut of the Kamiwaza Wanda franchise's titular mascot Wanda.
- Comparing to the second instalment of the 'Pretty Cure' anime series 'Pretty Cure: Max Heart', the total number of episodes of the original Kamiwaza Wanda season is 47 episodes.
- The original Kamiwaza Wanda anime season debuted in Japan as one of the Spring 2016 anime shows along with the other anime shows such as Production IMS' 'Hundred', Trigger's 'Space Patrol Luluco', Tomovies' 'Kagewani: Shou' and Naoko Takeuchi and Toei Animation's third season of 'Sailor Moon Crystal'.
- The original Kamiwaza Wanda anime season is the only season of the Kamiwaza Wanda anime series to air in Japan's Heisei period.
- It is also the only season of the Kamiwaza Wanda anime series to air at 7:00am on a Saturday.
- It is also the only season of the Kamiwaza Wanda anime series to air on TBS.
- It is also the only season to have TBS announcers as part of its voice cast.
- It was also the only season of the Kamiwaza Wanda anime series to have Osamu Sekita involved in its production. Sekita was an episode director for only 5 episodes of this season. He passed away on April 11, 2019.
- Six episodes of this Kamiwaza Wanda anime season each have a chief animation director excluded in the production. These episodes are: Which Way Is This?, Promin VS Promin, Masato's Black Trap, The Legendary Promin!, Tengu, Tengu, Tengu! and Bring Down Bugdez!.
- As of today, Blu-ray releases of the original Kamiwaza Wanda anime season are yet to be announced.
- A September 2016 issue of the Japanese magazine Laboo showed information of the original Kamiwaza Wanda anime season as of its 21st episode.
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- Each episode of the original Kamiwaza Wanda anime season have 2 different Promins featured in their eyecatches. One Promin is featured in the first eyecatch and another Promin featured in the second eyecatch. (See: Kamiwaza Wanda (season)/List of Promins featured in the eyecatches)
- Staff members of Takara Tomy launched a Twitter blog for this Kamiwaza Wanda anime season on March 2016, one month ahead of this said season Japanese premiere, with help from the staff behind the TBS channel. As of today, no new tweets and retweets have been done from this anime season's Twitter blog since the original season finale aired in late March 2017. In 2023, it was impossible for non-Twitter guests to view all the tweets and retweets of this anime season's Twitter blog due to the Twitter site changing its format to X.
- Tsukkomin, Gagmin, Gamemin, Softmin, Clipmin and Clockmin are the only Promins who are absent from this season, despite of being introduced in the era of it.
- From August 1, 2016 to August 5 of the same year, special reruns of the selected ones from the first 15 episodes of this season were broadcasted from 10:58 am via Japan time.
- The episode-ending structure after this season's corresponding episode in its initial TBS broadcast is in a different order than what it would be like when the episodes of this said season were either broadcasted on Animax Japan, especially when repeated, or distributed on DVDs and streaming services. (See: Kamiwaza Wanda (season)/episode-ending structure)
In other launguages[]
| Launguage | Season's dub title |
|---|---|
| Korean | 파워캐치 완다 (Power-Catch Wanda) |
| Chinese | 超能旺達/超能旺达 (Super Wanda) |
Links[]
- Original season's official TBS website (Japanese)
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