 On June 12, 2020, it was announced the anime would resume on June 19, 2020.Wataru's success prompted Bandai to copy the super-deformed mecha and multi-tiered world concepts in a science fiction setting with Sunrise's 1989 "Madō King Granzort" TV series.In the premise of the Japanese anime, "Brave Story" is a novel created more than a decade later featuring a young boy named Wataru, who is transported to an RPG-like mystical realm.