Bandai Namco Leisure introduced on Thursday that it’s creating a brand new recreation primarily based on Shinei Animation‘s Pui Pui Molcar stop-motion anime collection titled Pui Pui Molcar: Let’s! Molcar Social gathering! The sport will debut for the Change on December 16 in each Japanese and English.

Bandai Namco Leisure describes the sport:

The Universally Cherished PUI PUI MOLCAR Lastly Hits the Nintendo Change™!

Welcome to a brand-new city, Moltown! Solely you and the Molcars can rework this barren burg right into a bustling city hub. And with that…let’s get together!

With 10 thrilling minigames, that’s! What’s extra, sharing Pleasure-Con™ controllers permits for as much as 4 gamers without delay.

Play alone or with associates—the huge world of Molcars beckons you!

The stop-motion collection premiered on January 5 inside TV Tokyo‘s Kinder TV kids’s selection program. The collection facilities on guinea pigs who’ve change into automobiles (the title phrase “Molcar” combines “automotive” with “morumotto,” the Japanese phrase for “guinea pig” and a variant of the English phrase “marmot”). Netflix started streaming the collection worldwide exterior of some Asian territories in March. Tobidase! Narase! Pui Pui Molcar, the collection’ compilation movie, opened in Japan on July 22.

The collection makes use of stop-motion animated puppets fabricated from wool felt.

This collection marked Tomoki Misato‘s directorial debut on an animated tv collection. Misato additionally wrote the script, and he labored on the storyboards together with Hana Ono and Katsura Satō. The collection’ animators included Misato, Ikuko Iwatsuki, Katsura Satō, and Makoto Takano. The artists included Misato, Ikuko Iwatsuki, Katsura Satō, Harune Satō, and Michiko Kaihatsu. Shota Kowatsu composed the music.

The franchise already impressed the Pui Pui Molcar Mogu Mogu Parking smartphone recreation which launched in July.

Shinei Animation produces Crayon Shin-chan and Doraemon, amongst different titles. Wit Studio established a stop-motion studio with Misato in December 2020.

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