The Amazing Mega-Grow Animals

The Amazing Mega-Grow Animals (Japanese: 驚くべき巨大動物, Hepburn: Odorokubeki Kyodai Dōbutsu) is a Japanese animated television series produced by Sunrise and Cartoon Network. Three seasons were aired in Japan between January 1997 and May 2007. The second and third seasons were co-funded by the United States feed of Cartoon Network.
Bandai Entertainment initially licensed the franchise in North America before the releases went out-of-print upon their closure. Cartoon Network aired all three seasons in the United States.
Since then, Cartoon Network has funded every anime within the franchise prior to 2019, when they announced that they weren't interested in funding any more projects based on it.
==Characters==
*Komeda Kosabi (voiced by Minori Matsushima (JP), Lia Sargent (EN))
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==Plot==
When 12-year-old Komeda Kosabi gets an expandable water toy for her birthday, she finds that when she puts in water, it can turn into a fighter animal. Komeda decides to use it to her advantage and put an end to the reign of the "King of Mega-Grow Toys".
==Episodes==
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==Broadcasting==
Upon Bandai Entertainment licensing the series in 2004, they struck a deal with the United States Cartoon Network, allowing them to broadcast the series. Upon the first season's success, Cartoon Network commissioned two more seasons, both of which were also broadcast on its Japanese feed. The series also aired in Canada on Teletoon. Prior to 2017, when it got a short-lived Korean dub on Nickelodeon, the series was never released outside of North America and Japan.
==Home media==
In December 2018, NickFamily DVD Distribution announced that they would be looking at releasing the entirety of the anime franchise that existed before November 2018 (excluding the OVA The NFU meets The Amazing Mega-Grow Animals, whose home media rights were outsourced to Funimation) at one series a month beginning in January 2019.
==Other media==
Multiple spin-offs and reboots were produced, including:
*The Amazing Mega-Grow Animals Attack (1999; never dubbed, but licensed by NickFamily Studios in 2017)
*The Amazing Mega-Grow Animals XT (2009-11, never released in Japan, Sunrise/Teletoon/Cartoon Network co-production)
*The Amazing Mega-Grow Animals ZY (2015, never released in Japan, Sunrise/Jetix Cymru/Cartoon Network co-production)
*The Amazing Mega-Shrink Animals (2017; never released in Japan, Sunrise/NickFamily Studios/Cartoon Network co-production)
*The Amazing Extreme-Grow Animals (2017-18, never released in Japan, Sunrise/NickFamily Studios/Cartoon Network co-production)
*The NFU meets The Amazing Mega-Grow Animals (2018, never released in Japan, OVA produced by Sunrise and NickFamily Studios)
==Trivia==
*Though not the first Seikunime anime to be released in the West (the first two TV anime overseen by Seikunime to release outside Japan were Cozy-san and Kingdom Hearts), the first season is one of the oldest Seikunime anime to be released outside of Japan.
==See also==
*My Mega-Grow Pets, the shōjo equivalent