Tobu Zoo & Friends" will hold a new collaboration project on April 6 (Sat), which will include a special event featuring "Chiku☆Tamu"!

A new collaboration project will be held at Tobu Zoo, which has been hosting "Kemono Friends 2 Tobu Japari Park" since last December, starting on April 6, 2019 (Saturday).

The "Kemono Friends" series is a popular content series with a variety of projects underway, including games, comics, stage performances, and zoo collaborations. The story is set in "Japari Park," a gigantic comprehensive zoo, where the Friends go on a great adventure after being transformed from animal to human form under the influence of a mysterious substance called "Sandstar. The character concept design is by Mine Yoshizaki, known for "Sergeant Keroro," etc. The first season was broadcast on TV from January to March 2017; production of the TV anime "Kemono Friends 2" was announced at "Kemono Friends Live" held on Sunday, September 2, 2018, and will be broadcast from January 2019. It will start airing in January 2019.
⇒The TV anime "Kemono Friends 2" will be produced! The first PV has also been released!
⇒2019 Winter Anime

The TV anime "Kemono Friends 2" is currently airing on TV Tokyo and other stations, and "Kemono Friends" is becoming more and more popular. Since December 2018, "Kemono Friends 2 Tobu Japari Park" has been held as a collaboration project with "Tobu Zoo", and now a new collaboration project will be held from April 6 (Sat.).

On Saturday, April 20, Yukiko Tsukita, who plays a Humboldt penguin, and Kyoka Tamura, who plays a gentoo penguin, from "PPP," a unit created by "Kemono Friends," will give a special animal guided tour of the park. The unit "Chiku☆Tamu," consisting of Yukiko Chikuta, who plays a Humboldt penguin, and Kyoka Tamura, who plays a gentoo penguin, will perform at the event on Saturday.
During the collaboration period, the shuttle buses and trains that travel around the park will be decorated to Japari Park specifications, character panels will be displayed, and original goods will be on sale.


Event Information
■"Kemono Friends 2 Tobu Japari Park"
・Date: April 6 (Sat.) - May 31 (Fri.)
Location: Tobu Zoo (110 Oaza Suga, Miyashiro-cho, Minami Saitama-gun, Saitama Prefecture)

＜Event details
Friends' Guide by a boy and a girl
Special animal guided tours will be held focusing on the animals that served as models for the Friends that appeared in the TV animation "Kemono Friends 2.
The guide will talk about the ecology and individual characteristics of each animal and show visitors the appeal of the animals.
On Saturday, April 20, Yukiko Tsukita, who plays a Humboldt penguin, and Kyoka Tamura, who plays a gentoo penguin, from the penguin idol unit "PPPP," which was created from "Kemono Friends," will perform as the unit "Chiku Tamu.

Dates: April 6 (Sat), April 20 (Sat), May 11 (Sat), May 25 (Sat)
Each show lasts about 15 to 20 minutes.
*The tour may be cancelled depending on the health of the animals and weather conditions.

Yuenchi Collaboration
The "Animaru-Boo-Boo" shuttle bus and "Taiyo no Megumi Tetsudo Park Line" train that travel around the park will be decorated with Japari Park specifications!
The buses are equipped with "PPP (Pepap)", "Caracal", "Giant Cormorant", and "Giant Armadillo" friends.
The buses will be equipped with "PPP (Pepap)", "Caracal", "Giant flying squirrel", and "Giant armadillo".

Period: Saturday, April 6, 2019 - Friday, May 31, 2019
*Rides may be suspended due to inspections or weather conditions.

●Friends panel exhibition
Character panels including Friends, which are modeled after animals kept at Tobu Zoo, are on display in the park. In addition, Friends panels of "Donkey", "Megane Caiman", "Katakakefuchou", and "Kansashi Fuchou", which appeared in the TV animation "Kemono Friends 2", will appear in Tobu Zoo for the first time! !

Holding period：Friday, May 31, 2019
Location: Around Penguin Land, Tobu Japari Park Reception Area (Heartful Farm), etc.
*Panels of "Donkey" and "Spectacled Caiman" will be on display from April 6 (Sat.).
*Placement may be subject to change.

Donkey
C)Kemono Friends Project

Glasses Caiman
(C) Kemono Friends Project

●Original collaboration goods sales
Release date: Mid-April 2019 (scheduled)
Product name: Tobu Japari Cookies
Sales location: West Garden Restaurant Shop "Flower Pot
*Details will be announced on the website, etc. as soon as they are determined.

(C)Kemono Friends Project