Jewelpet Story

Jewelpet Story (known in Japan and Canada as Dark Jewelpet Story) is a josei anime based off of the Sanrio franchise Jewelpet. The anime was produced by NickFamily Studios Japan/Studio Aura and acted as a conclusion to the NickFamily-commissioned Jewelpet anime that began with Jewelpet Academy; the anime began airing on all TXN stations on October 5th, 2018, predating the broadcast of Jewelpet: Sparkle! by a day.
NickFamily Studios Japan has stated that the timeslot would be replaced with Cottonsweet: Feel the Magic! once Dark Jewelpet Story finishes its run.
YTV Family has licensed the Canadian broadcast rights and announced that the anime would air starting October 13th, 2018 as part of its Toonami block; some episodes were pre-empted before the finale aired in Canada on February 9th, 2019. The anime was also expected to air on Disney XD in Wales during late-night before its Welsh release was cancelled. An edited version of the English dub (re-titled Jewelpet Story) is set to air on Nicktoons Family in 2019, with the uncut dub (once again bearing the Jewelpet Story name at Studio Aura's request) being sold to AuraNightfall.
According to NickFamily Studios Japan, the "Dark" in the title refers not to how dark the story actually is, but rather how the story is darker than most Sanrio-based anime. In May 2019, it was revealed that, upon the anime being made available on Crunchyroll in North America, the anime was much lighter in tone than the planned manga version, but still one of the darkest Sanrio-based anime to date.
On May 10th, 2019, the manga version was cancelled.
==Characters==
Main article: Wikipedia:List of Jewelpets and Sweetspets
==Plot==
The manga and anime are set in an alternate universe where the Jewelpets and Jewelina are forced to leave Jewel Land after Luea takes it over. Rinko (from the original 2009 anime) is forced to partner up with the Jewelpets once again trying to get Jewelina to reclaim Jewel Land from Luea while accidentally starting a "Jewel War" in the process.
==Chapters==
===Chapters not yet in tankōbon format===
#"Rinko, We Need Your Help!" (TBA 2018)
==Episodes==
TBA.
==Home media==
In 2020, it was announced that the series would get a Region 1 boxset by NickFamily DVD Distribution and Funimation, initially set for September 28th, 2020 before being delayed by a week in the wake of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.
==Trivia==
*NickFamily Studios considers the anime the josei equivalent to the seinen Omega Project.
*Likewise, this would be the only josei work based off Jewelpet that isn't a crossover with a normally-seinen franchise.
Category:Anime
Category:Nickelodeon Family
Category:Jewelpet
Category:Shows delayed due to the 2019-20 COVID-19 pandemic