Deko Boko Friends is a collection of 30-second Japanese shorts created by a pair of advertising creators, Momoko Maruyama and Ryotaro Kuwamoto to promote acceptance of people of different personalities and appearances. The shorts are focused on 12 different creatures, meant to show certain personalities, likes, dislikes, and quirks.
Deko Boko Friends originated on NHK's oldest running children's programming show, Okaasan to Issho in 2003, superseding previous short cartoon series, Yancharu Moncha.
Deko Boko Friends is distributed in English by Viz Media and was shown in English on Nickelodeon's children's programming block, Nick Jr. and Noggin in the United States. Deko Boko Friends was also shown on Treehouse TV in Canada.
The show ended on March 18, 2011.
Dylan takes on a new career - Doctor, Pizza Chef, Hair Stylist, Sea Captain - and invites his friends Ozzy, Daisy, Bitsy, and the viewers at home to play along with him.
While cleaning his house, eight-year-old Elon finds a summoning device and scooter left behind by his brilliant scientist grandfather. While riding the scooter and wearing the summoning device on his wrist he gets into a dangerous situation. Just then, the Archean necklace his grandfather left behind starts lighting up and summons an ancient Infinite Warrior (a Metalion) named Leo. Leo saves Elon from danger, and develops a liking for Elon. The newly reawakened Leo is appalled by the unruliness of humans and is saddened that Earth’s energy had long been depleted. Leo explains to Elon how he’s a Infinite Warrior and used to be his grandfather’s friend. Leo asks Elon to help him find all the remaining Archean Stones to restore the Earth’s energy. Elon designs a stone detector and uses it to begin his journey with Leo. The pair set off in search of the stones scattered around the world.
Kiddets introduces five new WotWot characters, a team of explorers who will one day crew their own ship and set off to investigate other planets. Young space cadets in training at a play school space academy on planet WotWot, Patches, Dapper, Bounce, Stripes and Luna will learn all the skills they need to embark on a mission to a new world under the watchful eye of SpottyWot and DottyWot who are based on planet Earth.
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