Jewelpet Academy

Jewelpet Academy is a Japanese animated television series based off of the Jewelpet franchise by Sanrio. The series is animated by Studio Comet and dubbed in English by Jetix Cymru, which outsourced voice work to North American companies, mainly NickFamily Studios and Funimation. The anime premiered on TV Tokyo in Japan and Disney XD in Wales on August 22nd, 2017, as well as on Nicktoons Family in the United States on August 29th, 2017.

On February 15th, 2018, it was announced that the anime would get a second season (later changed to an OVA), titled Jewelpet Academy: Second Year. The English dub of Second Year aired on YTV Family in Canada in March 2018. It was announced that the anime would end its run in Japan after summer 2018, while its US run was put on hiatus during June and July 2018.

It was announced that the final six episodes would air in Japan on August 10th, 2018. YTV Family got these final episodes three days beforehand, in a final marathon of the series on August 7th, 2018. Jewelpet: Sparkle! replaced Academy in its timeslot following the latter's run in Japan; prior to the premiere of Sparkle!, a "best-of" selection of Academy episodes was broadcast.

In 2018, an original English-language manga adaptation began its run in Nicktoons Family Magazine (now Aura Magazine). All remaining English-language manga adaptations of Jewelpet were cancelled by Aura Magazine at the end of February 2020.

To date, the TV anime and Second Year had been the last Jewelpet-related anime to be animated at Studio Comet.

In 2022, a previously-unreleased OVA epilogue by Studio Aura (with animation by Ashi Productions), titled Jewelpet Academy: Post-Graduation, was announced for home video release by AuraAnime Licensing. The OVA had been produced during 2019, but remained unreleased for several years due to Corus' tax statements in 2020 as well as dubbing issues resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic (which also plagued fellow Jewelpet anime Attack Travel, which was also animated at Ashi Productions).

Characters
TBA.

Plot
Three years after the end of Jewelpet: Magical Change, Jewelina starts up an Academy called "Jewelpet Academy", so that in the future, Jewelpets could learn to control their magic.

Episodes
TBA.

Broadcasting
In Wales, Disney XD licensed the anime for broadcast (likely due to Jetix Cymru funding production of the anime) and premiered it on August 22nd, 2017, with reruns airing on Cartoon Network.

In Canada, Corus Entertainment licensed the Canadian first-run rights; the anime premiered on YTV Family and Cartoon Network during Toonami on September 2nd, 2017. Academy was later removed from Toonami and moved to YTV Family proper for the rest of its run on Canadian television. Reruns were also aired on Toonami Channel before it was sold off in 2019. The Quebec French dub was cancelled in October 2017 due to the cancellation of Toonami Quebec, and was removed from Canadian linear TV entirely by May 2019.

In Germany, the anime was licensed by Nickelodeon but never aired there, instead being picked up by Aura Germany in February 2018, with the English dub debuting first on February 8th, 2018, following by the German dub debuting later.

In Australia, Nicktoons Family has licensed the anime and premiered the anime on August 22nd, 2017. In February 2020, the show was taken off Australian TV due to AuraToons' shutdown in the region in order to move Aura's Oceanian headquarters to New Zealand.

In the mainland UK, Cartoon Network XD licensed the anime for first-run broadcast; however, the UK first-run rights were later sold to SurgeAnime. SurgeAnime would later remove all Jewelpet material from its lineup entirely in February 2020.

In Latin America, Aura licensed the anime for broadcast but never aired the series.

AuraAnime Licensing licensed the anime for English distribution and subsequently announced that Nicktoons Family (which also provided funding for the TV anime and Second Year) would broadcast the anime in the United States. Reruns have aired on Aura and SurgeAnime Extra; as of February 2020, Nicktoons Family removed the anime from their lineup. In 2022, AuraAnime mentioned that they were looking to add the anime to Flare+, but likely only in the United States.

In Greece, Nickelodeon Family premiered the series on September 10th, 2017.

In Southeast Asia, the English dub aired on SurgeAnime until March 2020, when it was pulled from the network alongside other Jewelpet material.

Home media
Two volumes containing 26 episodes each were released by NickFamily DVD Distribution in mid-2019. A complete boxset was jointly released by NickFamily DVD Distribution and Funimation in late 2020. Following these sets going out-of-print primarily due to Sony's purchase of Crunchyroll in 2021, Aura DVD Authoring re-released the season in a boxset containing other Jewelpet seasons commissioned by Aura Japan.

Videogame
In July 2018, Aura Games released a videogame adaptation of the series for the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch in North America; the videogame wasn't released in Japan until December 11th, 2018.

On February 21st, 2020, Aura Games announced that due to poor sales resulting in a financial loss, they would financially write-off the 3DS port of the videogame; the videogame would be removed from the Nintendo eShop on February 22nd, 2020. However, physical copies of the Nintendo Switch port remain available as of March 16th, 2020. By 2021, physical copies of the Nintendo 3DS version were also put out-of-print due to the system's discontinuation.

In September 2022, Aura Games announced they would discontinue regular retail of the Nintendo Switch port due to falling sales (likely as a result of the anime it was based on no longer airing on television).