Kamiwaza Wanda (season)

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## Involvements

### **Producers**

Takara Tomy
TMS Entertainment
OLM

## Stats

### **Number of episodes**

47

**Kamiwaza Wanda** (Japanese: **カミワザ・ワンダ**, ***Kamiwaza Wanda***) 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 for children.

*For the characters who debut in this season, see: Kamiwaza Wanda (season)/List of characters introduced*

## 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.

## 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.

### Season credits

* Original work - Takara Tomy
* Director - Mitsuo Hashimoto
* Assisstant 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 Fukasawa, 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

 Bagutte Iijan |      | HKT48 | From 'Counterattack Of The Bug Bytes' to 'Forever Wanda!'

### Endings

 WONDERLAND |      | RADIO FISH | From 'Counterattack Of The Bug Bytes' to 'Forever Wanda!'

## Episode-ending segments

 Promin-Zu minisodes |      | Mini-anime
 Kamiwaza Promin-Zu |      | Mini-anime
 Wanda sings a verse from the 'Kamiwaza Promin-Zu' song about a featured Promin.

## 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 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.A page showing information of the Kamiwaza Power-Shooters, the Kamiwaza Teammates and the Bug BytesA page showing all the Promin debuted in the original anime season as of episode 21
* 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.