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SOUTH KOREAN ANIMATION
THE SUCCESS OF SOUTH KOREAN ANIMATED SERIES By Alessandra Maccaferri South Korea continues to make successful animated series which inspire the development of many highly coveted consumer products. Here is the latest news and previews of some of these animation studios. South Korea is extremely active in the animation sector and year after year its productions have grown in number and quality. The well-designed, colorful, and original characters lend themselves to a wide variety of product categories. Here is the latest news from a few of these established case studies. CrazyBird Studio, founded in 2000, manages several IPs from animated series, movies, and webtoons, among others. One of these is Boing: The PlayRanger, an animated preschool series set in Playville playground, where the lion Boing and his friends are city rangers. Through their teamwork they convey important values such as friendship, communication, overcoming difficulties, responsibility, a sense of humor and above all collaboration. After
two seasons of the series The Secret of Supertransformation, a 72-minute feature film, is in the works. The movie is a prequel to the series that tells the story of Boing moving to Playville and starting the academy that made him a super playranger, ready to courageously protect his city.
Tori’s picture diary
Tori Tori, an extremely funny little girl who inspires young viewers to laugh and dream through the exaggerated fantasy world particular to animation. The series is 24 episodes of 11 minutes, in Korean and English language, and will be completed by July 2021. Also starring the same characters, Tori’s picture diary, is a 72 x two-minute episode series planned for a December 2021 delivery. In each episode a short story is told through musical nursery rhymes.
Chatty Tori Tori
Poster of the Animated Feature Film Boing – The secret of Supertransformation
Characters of the Animated Series Boing: The PlayRanger
At the December 2020 online Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF), CrazyBird Studio also announced the production of preschool series Chatty Tori Tori starring
Operating since 2013, Anyzac is a studio specializing in 3D animation and in creating any type of content with the input of a large group of experts. Their first property was the animated series Zombiedumb, where a human girl fights young zombies who gather on Moon Street. Zombiedumb generated two television seasons and lots of consumer products in the apparel and toy categories, such as plush and action figures. Anyzac recently launched the Time Traveler Luke series, where adventure and action save the day. Burdened with a mission as “keeper of the relics,” Luke uses a mysterious elevator to embark on a journey through time in search of his
