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Yukari Kaneko's Hanarabeez Original Character Gets 3-Episode Short Anime

The official YouTube channel of Shueisha's Ribon magazine started streaming the first of three episodes for the short anime adaptation of manga artist Yukari Kaneko's Hanarabeez original character, on Monday. The "Hanarabeez" anime's second episode will stream on November 9, and the third episode will premiere on November 24 at 12:00 noon JST.

The Ribon YouTube channel describes the short anime:

All the characters in this series are "teeth." Enjoy the laid-back, cute, and slightly surreal daily lives of these various "teeth."

Hana Satō and Yūki Urushiyama star in the short anime. Eagle Talon creator FROGMAN will also voice a character in the anime. 

Benpineko (Itsumo Wagamama Gama Ōji, MonHun Nikki Girigiri Airū-mura G, MonHun Nikki Girigiri Airū-mura Airū Kiki Ippatsu) is directing the anime at DLE. 

Additional staff members includes:

• Animation Director: Mamoru Suzuki
• Animation: Chieko Moriya, Chiaki Nishihara, Tu9Ne
• Production Assistant: Teppei Namikawa
• Recording Director: Yūsuke Watanabe
• Sound Effects: Yoko Sakurai (Swara Pro)
• Recording: Nobuto Kojima
• Sound Production: INSPION Edge
• Sound Production Manager: Reiko Takahashi
• Recording Studio: Three S Studio
• Recording Assistant: Ryō Hattori

Kaneko's Hanarabeez is one of the inaugural characters of Ribon magazine's "Charatan Labo" original character project, which launched in September 2025. Under the project, Ribon magazine publishes four-panel manga of original characters every month.

Sources: Ribon magazine's YouTube channel, Comic Natalie