During its industry panel at Anime Expo 2023, Netflix announced that the upcoming Pokémon Concierge stop-motion anime series will premiere on its service sometime in December 2023.
A new visual featuring the series’ main heroine Haru and her Psyduck was also released, highlighting their front desk job at the resort hotel.
Haru’s voice actress Non is featured in a new Netflix video that details the animation process for Pokémon Concierge. In the video, she visits stop-motion animation company dwarf studios, who is in charge of the animation production. The studio previously worked on Netflix’s Rilakkuma and Kaoru and Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure series.
Iku Ogawa (Rilakkuma and Kaoru sub-character designer, assistant director) is also revealed as the director for the anime series in the video.
The story follows Haru, a concierge at the Pokémon Resort, and her various interactions with Pokémon and their guest owners. Netflix describes the series as “tapping into a different side of the Pokémon universe” and will tell stories that shift away from the battling and catching of Pokémon creatures.
Source: Netflix Anime Twitter
