Trivia subpages for specific seasons:
- Jewelpet (2009)
- Jewelpet Twinkle☆
- Jewelpet Sunshine
- Jewelpet Kira☆Deco!
- Jewelpet Happiness
- Lady Jewelpet
- Jewelpet: Magical Change
Trivia tropes for the series as a whole:
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Anime and Meta
- Box Office Bomb: The movie Sweets Dance Princess. It debuted at no.14 in the box office, grossing only US$355,395 on 106 screens from August 11–12
, and fell from the list a week later. As a result, it became a Stillborn Franchise. - Cash-Cow Franchise: In Japan, anyway. The franchise started as plush toys and has spawned an anime with over 300 episodes, a movie, and a few licensed games, among other adaptations and pieces of merchandise.
- Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: An April 6, 2011 blog post from Sanrio's American branch ("Hello Kitty Blog") called Sapphie ("Sapphire") a "rabbit" instead of a dog/puppy.
- Invisible Advertising: How the franchise is treated by Sanrio's American branch. When Sanrio decided to finally release Jewelpet merchandise in the United States to numerous Sanrio Boutique stores for a limited time, they only announced it on their "Hello Kitty Blog" on April 6th, 2011 and April 8th, 2016 and gave the Jewelpet franchise zero advertisement to their other social media accounts and websites.
- Late Export for You: Certain seasons took a while to get released in certain countries.
- Twinkle premiered in 2010 in Japan. Its first Indonesian airing occured in 2014.
- Kira Deco! premiered in 2012 in Japan and 2014 in Portugal.
- The final season, Magical Change, started its Japanese run in 2015 but didn't get televised in Hong Kong until 2019.
- Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": Ruby, Garnet and Sapphie showed up in a 2011 Hello Kitty Nintendo DS game called "Loving Life with Hello Kitty & Friends"◊, making their one and only American debut despite the franchise being barred there.
- No Export for You: The anime and the toys were not released in the States due to similarity issues with Webkinz; both Sanrio and Sega could get sued for it. note But it's released in much of Europe and Asia.
- Not even Sanrio's American Branch acknowledge the existence of the Franchise, due to being a joint venture project with Sega Japan. And of course, bringing the series to the US would mean getting Sega of America involved and a lot of licensing issues be resolved first.
- Sanrio America did acknowledge the existence of the franchise at least three times in the past. Once was back in 2011 and 2016 note that was on there official "Hello Kitty Blog" which includes a brief character description for the main Jewelpets. The second is in the 2011 Nintendo DS game "Loving Life With Hello Kitty & Friends" which features Ruby, Garnet, and Sapphie◊ alongside other Sanrio characters. However Sanrio America these days only bring up the franchise once a blue moon and most Americans who heard about the franchise are ones who have access to the Internet (Especially if they are Anime/Manga fans). And in the early half of The New '10s, some Sanrio gift shops sold merchandises from the franchise like bags and pens with the characters on them.
- And even then some parts of Asia aren't getting it - you'll be hard-pressed to find Jewelpet anything in Malaysia, short of visiting the Sanrio Hello Kitty Town theme park in South Malaysia, near the Singapore border, and even then the selections are very limited. Even the Sanrio Gift Gate stores that are springing up in malls around the country are lacking Jewelpet merch. Comparatively, Jewelpet stuff is abundant in Singapore and Thailand, Malaysia's immediate neighbors. This is very strange as Malaysian TV stations typically have no qualms with airing Magical Girl TV shows.
- The toys made it to Brazil. The same can't be said of the anime.
- France so far hasn't moved past Twinkle (though they got the movie on DVD). Ditto Taiwan and Saudi Arabia.
- Italy, Russia, the Czech Republic, the Philippines and possibly Greece stuck to the first season.
- South Korea didn't get Happiness for some reason, but it got Lady.
- Official Fan-Submitted Content: Certain Jewelpets are the result of character design contests held by Sanrio during the airing of the anime. One of the major Jewelpets, Labra the labradorite polar bear, was the winner of the original 2009 series' contest.
- Release Date Change: The COVID-19 pandemic forced Sanrio to delay the short film Jewelpet Attack Travel! from its original intended release date of February 7th, 2020. Fortunately, it gets a direct-to-DVD release as part of the Blu-ray release of Jewelpet Sunshine on July 27, 2022.
- Screwed by the Lawyers: Another reason why Sanrio's American branch rarely brings up any of the characters from the Jewelpet franchise compared to Japan (such as live appearances at Sanrio Puroland and Harmonyland, and prominent on their Japanese site) is due to being a co-creation with Sega (via Sega Toys). However, Sega's American and Japanese branch are infamous for not getting along. That didn't stop Sanrio's American branch from acknowledging the Jewelpet series at least three times in the past. note The same can be said for the Rilu Rilu Fairilu franchise, Sanrio's second character franchise that was co-created with Sega Toys.
- The Shelf of Movie Languishment: The aforementioned Jewelpet Attack Travel movie. No word has been heard of it since it was pushed back.
- Toyless Toyline Character: The original webgurumi plushes never finished the original Jewelpet lineup. Ryl, Tata, Topaz, Amelie and Brownie prototypes were shown at a toy fair but it is unknown if they had any sort of release while Kris, Yuku, Io, Nephrite, Lapis, Nyx and Alex were excluded completely.
- The later Jewelpets Granite and Coal also did not get any sort of toys at all.
- What Could Have Been: During the pitching for the first series, Ruby was meant to be a polite and tidy character. Then Sanrio and Sega decided to alter her personality to become scatterbrained and naughty, which is reflected by the jewel she is based on.
Voice Acting
- Acting for Two: Natural result of having too many characters. For sanity's sake and to save space, we'll list just a few examples - Junko Takeuchi voices 4 characters, Jun Fukuyama voices 3, Aki Toyosaki voices 4, Aya Hirano voices 5 and Miyuki Sawashiro voices 6.
- Children Voicing Children: 7-year-old Princess Mana is voiced by the 2004-born Mana Ashida. Sweets Dance Princess came out in 2012.
- Cross-Dressing Voices:
- Among Jewelpets, there's Tour, Nephrite, Titana, Chite, Rald, Kohaku, Yuku, Tata, Kris, Io, Alex and Brownie.
- The Sweetspets Park, DonaDona, Kaco and Coron.
- The Danza: MAKO voices the Sweetspet Maco.
- From The Movie, Princess Mana is voiced by Mana Ashida
- The Other Darrin:
- Jewelina is voiced by a different actress in every season.
- Sango is voiced by Rei Sakai in the first season and by Ai Shimizu from Twinkle onwards.
- Luna is voiced by Rumi Shishido for the first six seasons and by misono in Magical Change.
- Aqua is voiced by Yakkun Sakurazuka in the first two seasons and by Kosuke Okano from Sunshine onwards.
- Milky is an odd one; voiced by Keiko Utsumi in the first season, Ayana Taketatsu took over for Twinkle, but then it reverted to Keiko Utsumi in Sunshine and she continued voicing her in following seasons.
- Rin is voiced by Mayu Hayakawa from the first season to Kira Deco and by Akari Harashima in Happiness. She has no speaking lines in Lady or Magical Change.
- Pop-Culture Urban Legends: IMDB has several listings for English dubs of the shows that were produced in Canada, as well as one of the movie, on several filmographies of Canadian actors, including Shannon Chan-Kent as Garnet. They are likely fake, as there's no evidence proving their existence.
- Role Reprise: In Jewelpet Attack Travel, Takeshi Kusao and Kazuki Yao reprised their roles as Baba Lamune and Da Cider respectively note
- Woman of a Thousand Voices: Every protagonist in the Portuguese dub is voiced by the same actress, Solange Santos (who also voices Twilight Sparkle). That doesn't sound like anything special by itself, but then you compare Akari and Kanon, who couldn't be more opposite if they tried, and you can't help but be impressed.
