Jibanyan's Chocobar (partially lost series of commercials; 2014-2017)

A title card used for advertisements.

Status: Partially Lost

In 2014, to coincide with the Yo-kai Watch franchise's popularity it had during that year, the character Jibanyan's signature Chocobar snacks were once sold as a real-life candy called Jibanyan's Chocobar (ジバニャンのチョコボー). The product lasted until 2017 before going through drastic rebrands to coincide with the franchise's change of direction it had.

Overview

A series of 15-second commercials were made to go with the product, mostly following the style of the 2014 Yo-kai Watch anime series and lasted until 2017 before the temporary rebrand happened next year.

The commercials themselves were uploaded to Bandai on YouTube, but they were all made private on YouTube leaving others to re-upload them. They were never available as bonus features on home video, and some of them remain to be lost to time.

On January 2nd, 2022, user Pkpoyo poyo found and uploaded 10 commercials from the Jibanyan's Chocobar series (except the 10th commercial listed in the table below) and other undocumented Jibanyan commercials from a Japanese commercials compilation by GCMC:ゲームCMコレクター.

List of Commercials

#	Episode Title	Air Date	Status
1	忙しい	September 7th, 2014	Found (0:00 - 0:13)
2	ダイエット	September 7th, 2014	Found (0:14 - 0:28)
3	本日休業	September 15th, 2014	Found (0:29 - 0:43)
4	２本食い	September 15th, 2014	Found (0:44 - 0:58)
5	バレンタインデー	February 6th, 2015	Found (1:03 - 1:16)
6	ケータのチョコボー	March 2015	Found (1:17 - 1:31)
7	どんなときも	March 2015	Found (1:32 - 1:46)
8	ニャーKB48	Unknown date	Found (1:47 - 2:04)
9	いちごでた！	January 13th, 2015	Found (2:05 - 2:18)
10	今日の気分どっち？投票結果発表	October 20th, 2015	Lost
11	ぜっぶん牛乳味	March 11th, 2016	Found (2:53 - 3:07) (has 2 other different variants in the video)
12	絶妙なハーモニー	Summer 2016	Found (3:53 - 4:05)

Gallery

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  Screenshot from the 10th commercial; used to be available publicly (1/2).

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  Screenshot from the 10th commercial; used to be available publicly (2/2).

See Also

• Yo-kai Watch "Yo-kai Exercise Number 1" (partially lost early English version of end credits theme; 2015)
• Aloha! Yo-kai Watch: Rakuen Hawaii♪ de Gera Gera Po!! (found anime web short based on franchise; 2015)
• Komasanpo (partially found live-action miniseries based on a franchise; 2015-2016)
• Yo-kai Medalland Omikuji Battle (partially found inaccessible Unity Web Player game based on franchise; 2014-2016)
• Yo-kai Medalland Omikuji Battle (partially found inaccessible Unity Web Player game based on franchise; 2014-2016)
• Yo-kai Watch Planetarium wa Hoshi to Yo-kai ga Ippai! (partially found "Yo-kai Watch" anime short; 2016)
• Yo-kai Taiso Dai-ichi Puzzle da Nyan DX (lost inaccessible expansion of spin-off iOS/Android game based on role-playing game franchise; 2015)