Hanazuki's New Adventures

Hanazuki's New Adventures (French: Les nouvelles aventures de Hanazuki) is an upcoming French-British computer-animated children's television series that serves as a sequel and a spin-off to the original show produced by Xilam in conjunction with Entertainment One, the series will premiere on TFOU in France on Summer 2021 and on Pop in the United Kingdom on Fall 2021. It will debut on Netflix worldwide on Christmas 2021.

Plot
The new series is set in a colorful 3-D world that were the golden Lunettes from the golden portal to the new moon. The new moon is protected by a Moonflower princess, an updated plantlike humanoid who becomes a princess to take care of her moods that are supported by a flying sleepyhead fairy being named Little Dreamer, which can then been planted to grow new trees to defeat the new villains. The series opens with Princess Hanazuki, a updated Moonflower princess, arriving on a colorful 3-D world populated by 12 Hemkas who spoke to her. Several episodes focused on Princess Hanazuki and her friends' escapades as she learns about her forgiveness and friendship, ending with her growing a colored Treasure Tree that responds with her feelings in every episode. As the series progresses, Princess Hanazuki encounters other Moonflowers that have saved their souls and try to learn from Princess Hanazuki in order to properly save their new powers against the new villains.

Moonflowers
Moonflowers are childlike beings who are guardians of the galaxy's moons. Created by Little Dreamer, they have white flowers on their heads and highlights that change color depending on their moods, enabling them to grow Treasure Trees that protect their moons from the new villains.


 * Princess Hanazuki (Maria Darling) – The titular protagonist of the series. A updated Moonflower princess, Princess Hanazuki is a kind, friendly, and optimistic princess who always offers help to those who need it. She is quick to adapt to her role as a royal guardian, allowing her to understand and control her own emotions more successfully than most other Moonflowers.
 * Lieutentant Kiazuki (Jo Wyatt) – An older, cynical Moonflower space racer who rides on a mega spaceship. Although claiming to be more experienced than Princess Hanazuki, Lieutenant Kiazuki has saved to ever grow a colored Treasure Tree of her own, and envies Hanazuki's success. She thus manipulates Hanazuki, who admires her as her "Moonflower friend", into helping her acquire treasures to restore her moon. She is later revealed to be the founder of the saved her soul, a saved emergency response team devised to combat the new villains.
 * Prince Kiyoshi (Marc Silk) – A male Moonflower prince who protects a moon inhabited by a bunch of dragons. Because of his pessimistic nature, he is only able to grow silver Treasure Trees, which are ineffective in defeated the new villains. Deposed and exiled for his souls, Prince Kiyoshi receives guidance from Princess Hanazuki to properly harness his emotional powers, eventually regaining authority of his moon.
 * Captain Maroshi (Keith Wickham) – A Moonflower space racer from the space race that is saved by the souls. Despite losing his home, he maintains a positive, laid-back attitude at all times, which makes him easy for others to get along with, but also appearing somewhat irresponsible. He is talented at riding on a mega spaceship.
 * Fairy Miyumi (Teresa Gallagher) - An outgoing & confident Moonflower fairy who always sure about herself despite not being mean. She can be irresponsible & self-centered since she prefers to enjoy herself. But in the end she realized that she can be totally responsible since she learned her lesson.
 * Wiggles and Giggles (Julia Sawalha and Jane Horrocks) are an adoptive baby Moonflower twins. They were born in the space capsules, one for a baby Moonflower boy in bright blue, and the other for a baby Moonflower girl in bright pink.

Hemka
The Hemka (or Hemkas) are small, rabbit-like creatures that inhabit Princess Hanazuki's new home. They can now speak to Princess Hanazuki and she can fully understand them once again, and they have malleable bodies that allow them to merge and change into different objects. Each Hemka is of a different color and represents a specific personality trait that Hanazuki reflects.


 * Red Hemka (Julia Sawalha) – A feisty Hemka prone to picking fights and pulling pranks on others. Red often acts as a captain of the other Hemkas.
 * Orange Hemka (Mel Gibson) – A wacky Hemka who often jumps around and makes silly faces.
 * Yellow Hemka (Julia Sawalha) – A happy Hemka who enjoys playing and remains optimistic in dangerous situations.
 * Lime Green Hemka (Maria Darling) – A scared Hemka who is easily startled by anything.
 * Emerald Hemka (Timothy Spall) - A Hemka that represents Jealousy.
 * Green Hemka (Mel Gibosn) – A mellow Hemka who speaks with a laid-back tone.
 * Teal Hemka (Jo Wyatt) – A glamorous Hemka.
 * Blue Hemka (Maria Darling) – A sad Hemka who is constantly crying.
 * Purple Hemka (Mel Gibson) – A courageous Hemka who performs feats of derring-do.
 * Lavender Hemka (Mel Gibson) – An inspired Hemka who has creative ideas but is too shy to act on them.
 * Raspberry Hemka (Jo Wyatt) - A Hemka that is supposed to represent Hope.
 * Pink Hemka (Mel Gibson) – A loving Hemka who shows affection for everything.

Unicorns
Unicorns in the series are native to the twin babies' capsules. They possess the same colors and personality traits as the Hemka, with the additional ability to perform magic using their horns. Most unicorns in the new series are voiced by Jane Horrocks.


 * Sleepy Unicorn (Phil Daniels) – A unicorn who lives on Hanazuki's new moon and, as his name suggests, spends most of his time sleeping. Despite his relaxed and lazy nature, he harbors a troubled past; originally named Noble Unicorn, he lives in exile from his home moon after saving to stop the new villains' revolt against Prince Kiyoshi. Convinced that he is fit to wield magic because of his souls, Sleepy regains his confidence to use his powers again to help Princess Hanazuki.

Slooths
Sloth like creatures that lives on Miyumi's forest. The others were voiced by Jo Wyatt.


 * BB (Teresa Gallagher) - Miyumi's favorite teal Slooth who likes everything fabulous just like her.

Others

 * Little Dreamer (Julia Sawalha) – Princess Hanazuki's toddler-like fairy creature who delivers treasures to the Moonflowers. He is shown sleep-walking at all times and wearing different-patterned pajamas almost every time he appears.
 * Dazzlessence Jones (Timothy Spall) – The self-appointed sheriff of Hanazuki's moon who resembles a diamond. He helps Hanazuki maintain order, and speaks verbose words through singing songs.
 * Zikoro (Timothy Spall) – Lieutenant Kiazuki's sole companion on the mega spaceship, a black creature who behaves like a real dog and he wears a space helmet. He is regularly treated by Lieutenant Kiazuki, but remains loyal to her and enjoys tormenting the Hemka. After Lieutenant Kiazuki saves him on Princess Hanazuki's new moon, he takes more of a liking to Princess Hanazuki and her friends.
 * Doughy Bunington (Hugh Jackman) – A friendly gourmand hotdog who lives on the dark side of the moon, exiled there after thoughtfully devouring the sloths' helping hands.
 * Basil Ganglia (Ian McKellen) – An egocentric, megalomaniacal brain who inhabits a cave on the new moon's dark side. He has designs to take over Princess Hanazuki's new moon, but is helpless to carry them out due to his lack of other body parts.
 * Flochi (Emma Tate) – The musical creatures that inhabit Captain Maroshi's island, resembling fish with catlike faces. They dance, sang, and attempt the orchestra in unison, with the exception of a lavender Flochi aptly named Wanderer for her more independent nature.
 * Axo – (Jean Reno) An axolotl who is the Bouncer of the Cube: the club in the Dark Side who only likes silliness.
 * Enormous Coal – (Bill Nighy) A coal like creature who lives in the Volcano of Fears who likes to brag about being big.
 * Queen Depriva – (Kate Winslet) A flower queen on Princess Hanazuki's new moon who's so fabulous & likes to talk about it.
 * Glow Worms – (Andy Serkis) New Servants of Queen Depriva.

Production
The original concept of Hanazuki's New Adventures was first developed in Summer 2018 as a magazine by FriendsWithYou, under the self-formed Lisa Frank Company in the United States. Hasbro Studios brought the rights to the Hanazuki series worldwide in Fall 2018, with Hasbro Studios being changed into Allspark. In Spring 2019, Hanazuki's New Adventures was being developed as a pilot presentation for children from ages 6 to 12, with a scheduled release date for Fall 2019. A preview of Hanazuki's New Adventures was included in the 2019 United States home media release of Allspark's My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip. In 2021, Entertainment One announced Hanazuki's New Adventures as a spin-off series that would premiere on TFOU in France, Pop in the United Kingdom, and Netflix worldwide.

The spin-off series is produced by Xilam, Xilam announced a new month before the series' debut that they cancelled its production of the spin-off series, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order for Entertainment One to find a new animation studio to do the CGI animation of the series. Despite this, the spin-off series were said to be in development at the MIPCOM exhibition.