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We are on the eve of a new year, and Bandai Japan has updated the window display at the headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. The display at Bandai HQ has been updated on December 26th, 2022 to gear up for the new year. Mametchi’s adorable Santa outfit has been removed, but the new window display is impressive! Looks like Bandai is bringing in the new year with a big push for the Tamagotchi Original re-launch! Let’s not forget that there are already two more Tamagotchi Original shells being released next month.

The window display looks just like the vintage Tamagotchi Original packaging, featuring the same graphics and the new Tamagotchi logo featured int he center around a wall of Tamagotchi Original’s in their packaging, with a television screen in the middle.

Spy x Family is a Japanese magna series, and it is now getting its own Tamagotchi! Bandai Japan has announced the collaboration on their website, and it’s hitting shelves later this year. Let’s take a deeper look at this upcoming manga collaboration.

First off, caregivers will be taking care of cute Anya Forger who sis the main character and has telepathic abilities which were created in an experiment conducted by an unknown organization.

You’ll enroll in Eden Academy, which is the highly prestigious private school located in Berlint, Ostania. Depending on your care of Anya, she will evolve into different outfits inspired by the series, including two special outfits unique to the Tamagotchi. Outfits include her uniform, department store outing, swimsuit, pajamas, detective, girly, classic, academic, school boy, wizard coordination, and dress-up.

Anya also has a variety of facial expressions to show her mood. The facial expressions appear to be happy, scared, joy, fear, and surprise.

You can feed Anya a meal of rice, which does not have an image, it’s indicated as coming soon, and the snack you can feed Anya is her favorite, peanuts!

There are three mini games to play on the Spy x Family Tamagotchi, these three include Dodgeball, Spy Word Match, and one that has yet to be announced, Bandai Japan is keeping this right now as “Coming Soon”. We’ll just have to wait and see!

Various animations from the manga series will appear on screen, including Loid Forger’s disguise and two more that have yet to be announced.

If you neglect to take care of Anya Forger, then she will walk away in a unique animation where she will walk further from the display.

And just like that, another Tamagotchi Nano! Bandai Japan has just announced via their official Twitter account the new Kingdom Hearts Tamagotchi. To help celebrate the 20th anniversary of Disney’s Kingdom Hears they’ve partnered up with Bandai to develop a Kingdom Hearts Tamagotchi. Kingdom Hearts is a series of action role-playing games which features various Disney, Pixar, and Square Enix characters.

There are two shells available, the first one is named Dark Mode which is based on the image of Kingdom Hearts 20th anniversary. The second shell is named Light Mode which features pearly white shell, blue pattern around the screen, and gold accent colors. Both shells feature identical programming.

The Kingdom Hearts Tamagotchi features 20 characters such as Sora, Donald Duck, Goofy and more! By raising your Tamagotchi you’ll even unlock new more characters! Throughout the day you’ll also see Kingdom Hearts scenes, and these will actually vary based on the care you provide to your Tamagotchi. The meal you can feed your Tamagotchi is paopu fruit, and the snack is sea salt ice cream. Per usual for the Tamagotchi Nano, there will be three mini games, Let’s Raise the Stone, Attack Pink Agaricus, and Press the Button Phil tells you!

A first for the Tamagotchi Nano series, there will be a special event held where fans will vote to determine the last two characters to be added! Voting will start on the special page from Bandai on Monday, March 28th 2022 which is the 20th anniversary of Kingdom Hearts, through Monday, April 11th 2022 and the winners will be announced on April 12th to finalize the 20 character lineup.

The characters on the ballot include Solider, Large Boy, Red Nocturne, Darkball, White Mushroom, Dark Side, Guard Armor, Trickmaster, Parasite Cage, and Phantom. Bandai has provided pixel sprites on the voting page as well, so you know exactly what they will look like on the Tamagotchi! You can vote up to once per day, and the reset will occur at midnight.

Bandai Japan informed us back in September that Tamagotchi would be exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum this November in an exhibit called “National Treasure Exhibition 150 Years Later - My Treat, My Treasure in the Future”. They even teased “What will Tamagotchi look like in 150 years? Let’s think together”.

Well time flies, and the exhibit is now live starting on Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 from 9:30 - 17:00. Last admission is 30 minutes before closing time. Chikatch1 on Twitter was lucky enough to visit the Tamagotchi exhibit in the museum and even provide a picture! The exhibit features the major Tamagotchi releases dating back to 1996 and up to 2021 with the release of the Tamagotchi Smart.

This summer is about to be great! You knew it was coming! Bandai Japan created all those beautiful Tamagotchi Sanrio characters not only for the 2022 Sanrio Character Ranking Contest, but of course for the new Sanrio TamaSma Card! Oh yea, and there is even a new Marine Change TamaSma Card that you’re going to love!

First, Bandai Japan announced the Sanrio Characters TamaSma Card, this card will plug right into your existing Tamagotchi Smart and you’ll get a hold of Sanrio goodness! All of the collaboration characters you’ve seen Bandai Japan post on the official Tamagotchi social media channels are featured. Including the Hello Kitty Mametchi, Little Twin Stars Weeptchi, Pompompurin Kuchipatchi, and more! It actually appears that they have Sanrio’d all of the ten default characters for this TamaSma Card.

You’ll be able to raise these Sanrio characters, and visit some more too. You can see Badtz-Maru making an appearance in one of the screenshots. TamaSma Card even includes Sanrio accessories and living spaces. How adorable is that Hello Kitty vanity?

The exclusive meals include a strawberry box, kitty sandwich, eggs, and Kuromi soup. The snacks include Melody ice cream, Cinnamon cup, heart apple, and tingling cotton candy. Accessories include a hat with a large blue box and stars, a strawberry book, red bow purse, and good friend balloons!

Four new living spaces with this TamaSma  Card. These include Kitty Living, Pudding Living, Hoshino Living, and Kaminari Living.

Of course there are new watch faces, three total! They all feature adorable Sanrio characters and the color scheme you’d expect!

There is an exclusive mini game which is called Kitty Coordination. It looks like you will be dressing up Hello Kitty in a fashionable, and coordinated outfit!

The Sanrio TamaSma Card will be released on Saturday June 4th, 2022 in Japan for ¥1,496 with tax included.

Secondly, Bandai Japan has announced yet another TamaSma Card, the Marine Change TamaSma Card will take you under the sea! This will come just in time for summer, and we’re so excited for it! Simply insert the TamaSma Card into your existing Tamagotchi Smart, and you’ll be taken under the sea!

All ten Tamagotchi Smart characters have been transformed into their marine looks.. We still cannot get over how adorable Mametchi, Wawatchi, and Gaogaltchi look!

Exclusive meals include seashell lunch, otoshigo sandwich, kaiso salad, and dolphin curry. Snacks include marine parfait, pearl sesame, jellyfish jelly, and a blue pie. The items include a mermaid stitch, seashell set, Tama submarine, and a pink vase.

Accessories include a coral reef headpiece, starfish headpiece, jelly fish hat, and a conch hat. How fabulous is that?

Of course three new watch faces which are all marine themed and will be perfect to rock this summer on your Tamagotchi Smart.

The mini game is titled “Martine Taxi” looks so cute, you will transport a customer to their destination while avoiding shellfish and coral. Sounds like crazy taxi, but in the ocean!

Bandai Japan does not call out the four wallpapers we would expect to see, but you can see them in some of the screenshots provided, and we must say they are super on point with the marine theme.