The Kusakabes

The Kusakabes is a Japanese-American-British traditionally animated children's slice-of-life series, produced by 1happycats Productions and premiered on August 7, 2017.

Cast and characters
Additional voices:
 * Japanese: Fumiyo Kohinata, Rieko Nakagawa
 * English: Frank Welker, Pat Carroll, Tara Strong, Michael Valenti, Abby Valenti

The Kusakabes: Origins
Released on April 18, 2018, it is a documentary-styled movie that takes place before the events of My Neighbor Totoro. This is the only piece of The Kusakabes media in which Hayao Miyazaki had any part of the storyline.

Home media
Prior to the show's premiere in August 2017, a promotional DVD containing the first three episodes was released in June of that year in certain countries. This could be obtained by sending an envelope containing six tokens (which had been included in an advertisement featured in various magazines at the time) and a 50¢ coin (depending on the country) to 1happycats Productions.

In March 2018, the first season was released in four volumes by 1happycats Home Entertainment, on both DVD and Blu-ray. The second and third seasons followed later. Complete season box sets were also released.

In some countries such as Eruowood, it was also released on TechEruo System. The TES releases are accompanied with simple mini-games such as coloring books and slide puzzles, as most 1happycats/SVC releases on the format do.

The Kusakabes: Halloween Hijinks
This game was based on the film of the same here.

Production
Rumor has it that during the production of Pokémon Strange Journeys: Mystery of the Missing Kid, a crossover with My Neighbor Totoro, 1happycats Productions gained interest in the characters from that film, which led them to create this show.

Japan

 * Nippon TV

Australia

 * ABC Kids

Canada

 * Treehouse

United Kingdom

 * Channel 4

United States

 * HBO Family
 * Cartoonito