Watch a clip from Uniminipet on AWNtv! [1]
Title: Uniminipet
Genre: Fantasy comic adventure
Rated: age 4 - 11
Total Episode: 26 episodes x30 min
Release Date: 2001
Category: 2D animation
Production: Dongwoo Animation
Copyright: Copyright © Dongwoo Animation
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It takes the robot pet as a subject, which appeals to the children who adore pets. The friendship through adventures of robot pets makes children learn about the importance of friendship. With good ratings over 10% it shows the potentials of Korean animation, and gets high expectations for competitiveness with overseas animations.
Also 2001 when American and Japanese character licensing business was dominant in market, the licensing business for Uniminipet expanded its scope to game, publishing, apparel and toys, presenting most variety of products among ones based on domestic animations.
Dong Woo is a very pleasant, responsible and cheerful boy. Dong Woo has a weird feeling whenever he opens the closet door although other people does not believe what he explained about it. He only can sense this feeling, because he is destined to "A person who ought to open the Door",
In fact, DongWoo's closet is a secret channel to connect real world and four dimension world called "Uniland ". Whenever DongWoo opens the door, the wavelength from the other world is transferred to him.
One day, the bugs that are the outlaws of Uniland find this channel accidentally and flood into real world. Uniland recognizes this fact later and decides to dispatch two agents to real world – Uniminipet (Ham & Miaow)
But they face up to another problem of 'Door of dimension' - only souls can pass through this door. Therefore the agents decide to uses the Robopets in DongWoo's pet shop just like the bugs did. Since agents all lose their power while being transferred to another world, they look out for the Unistone to recover it and at the same time they upgrade themselves with the Unistone....
Won dong Woo: "Always busy as a bee, looking after trouble-making mom and robot pets and now even bug pets!!" Dong Woo is a 10-year-old boy in his 3rd grade at the elementary school. He is a very cheerful and responsible boy. He lost his father 3 years ago and now lives with his mother. Even though his mom is a grown-up, she is a great troublemaker and has to be looked after constantly. So Dong Woo is always anxious about his mom and does chores instead of her as well as looks after the store.
Dr. Strange: A neighborhood doctor. He is an elderly man (about 60 years old) with a heart of a child. He is totally engrossed in the new material Unistone that he came into contact with for the first time in his life. Then he makes efforts to solve its mystery and has come up with several inventions to upgrade the Unipet.
Goh Un Bee:"OOOOPS !!. The dishes are broken again!¦HaHaHa" A 32-year-old widow, who is so pretty and looks really young for her age. She seems to never learn how to manage household, making so many mistakes doing chores. She is hard to be believed as someone's mom who takes care of her children because she is too clumsy with every mom's job. Maybe It is better to say Dong Woo takes care of her.....
Cute character design could appeal to both boys & girls
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[1] http://www.awntv.com/playlist/spotlight-on-korea/uniminipet/