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 directions 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	Sep 7th, 2014	Found (0:00 - 0:13)
2	ダイエット	Sep 7th, 2014	Found (0:14 - 0:28)
3	本日休業	Sep 15th, 2014	Found (0:29 - 0:43)
4	２本食い	Sep 15th, 2014	Found (0:44 - 0:58)
5	バレンタインデー	Feb 6th, 2015	Found (1:03 - 1:16)
6	ケータのチョコボー	Mar 2015	Found (1:17 - 1:31)
7	どんなときも	Mar 2015	Found (1:32 - 1:46)
8	ニャーKB48	2015?	Found (1:47 - 2:04)
9	いちごでた！	Jan 13 2015	Found (2:05 - 2:18)
10	今日の気分どっち？投票結果発表	Oct. 20 2015	Lost
11	ぜっぶん牛乳味	Mar. 11 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)

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!! (lost anime webshort based on franchise; 2015)
• Komasanpo (partially found live-action miniseries based on a franchise; 2015-2016)
• Yo-kai Daijiten (cancelled spin-off iOS/Android game based on a franchise; 2015-2021)
• Yo-kai Medalland Omikuji Battle (inaccessible Unity Web Player game based on franchise; 2014-2016)
• Yo-kai Watch Planetarium wa Hoshi to Yo-kai ga Ippai! (Lost anime short; 2016)
• Yo-kai Taiso Dai-ichi Puzzle da Nyan DX (Inaccessible expansion of spin-off iOS/Android game based on franchise; 2015)