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Jewelpet: Magical Change

Japanese anime television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ19627465 ↗
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Jewelpet: Magical Change (Japanese: ジュエルペット マジカルチェンジ, Hepburn: Juerupetto Majikaru Chenji) is a 2015 Japanese anime produced by Studio Deen and TMS Entertainment. It is the seventh and final installment in the Jewelpet anime franchise based on the characters jointly created by Sanrio and Sega Sammy Holdings. The series is directed by Nobuhiro Kondo (Nobunagun) and written by Masahiro Yokotani (Free!, Beelzebub). Character designs are done by Hiroki Harada (Romeo × Juliet) and Tomoko Miyakawa. It aired in all TXN stations in Japan on April 4, 2015 to December 26, 2015, replacing Lady Jewelpet in its initial time slot.

Jewelpet: Magical Change reintroduced the magical girl genre after five years, since Jewelpet Twinkle in 2010. The anthropomorphisation of the Jewelpet serve as a plot device for this series. A rerun show titled Jewelpet Magical Change: Dream Selection (Japanese: ジュエルペット マジカルチェンジ ドリームセレクション, Hepburn: Juerupetto Majikaru Chenji Dorīmu Serekushon) aired on the same time slot on TV Tokyo on January 9, 2016.

Story

Seven years ago, a strange castle fell from the sky into a normal suburban town without warning. Confusion has arisen about where this castle came from, and the town's citizens have come in to investigate, only to fail due to being locked.

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The public source identifies “Jewelpet: Magical Change” as japanese anime television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jewelpet, Magical and Change.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2010, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jewelpet, Magical and Change providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19627465. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2010 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jewelpet: Magical Change” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.