1st of 26 Flash episodes with original anime's designer starts streaming now

Toei Animation announced at its " Ojamajo Doremi 20th Anniversary Magical Stage" event at AnimeJapan 2019 on Saturday that it is presenting Flash comedy anime shorts titled Ojamajo Doremi: Owarai Gekijō . The first of 26 episodes is streaming at Toei Animation's YouTube channel now, and the second will start streaming on April 14. A new episode will then debut every two weeks.

Yoshihiko Umakoshi ( Boys Over Flowers , Mushishi ) is returning from the original Ojamajo Doremi anime to design the "two-heads-high" super-deformed versions of the Ojamajo Doremi characters.

The first Ojamajo Doremi anime series originally premiered in Japan in 1999, and 4Kids began broadcasting a heavily edited version of the series in the United States in 2005 under the title Magical DoReMi .

The event also announced the 2020 anime film Majo Minarai o Sagashite from Toei Animation and the first Ojamajo Doremi anime's director Junichi Sato, episode writer Midori Kuriyama, and Umakoshi.