Bakutsuri Bar Hunter

[MisaoFan]

Kenji Seto (The Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water, Ms. Koizumi loves ramen noodles) is serving as series director. Yoichi Kato (Aikatsu!, Duel Masters, Yōkai Watch) is handling the series composition, Akemi Yokota (Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V) is designing the characters, and Takatsugu Wakabayashi (PriPri Chii-chan!!, Ange Vierge, Dragonar Academy) is composing the music.

The anime will center on the elementary school student Totta, who loves to fish. One day a bar soul named Potepen appears from the barcode on Totta's bag of potato chips. Together, Totta and Potepen use a special "Bakutsuri" bar rod item to fish for other bar souls.

The anime premiered on October 2 on TV Tokyo and its affiliates.

The multimedia franchise is a collaboration between Bandai, Shogakukan, and Toei Animation, and includes an anime, a manga, a game, and a toy line. Toei Animation will be in charge of the upcoming anime. The manga launched on March 15 in the April issue of Shogakukan's Coro Coro Comics magazine. Bandai began releasing the toy line starting with the "Bakutsuri Bar Rod" on March 17. The toy retails for 4,800 yen (about US$43).

The concept of the franchise is that the barcodes on our personal belongings all have a "bar soul." These unknown "bar soul" lifeforms live in the "barcode ocean." And in this world, people can use a "Bakutsuri Bar Rod" fishing rod to fish for and collect the bar souls using AR (augmented reality).

Looks like the series isn't subbed and the anime already started airing a week ago, that's to be expected from a children's show I guess.