Nippon Animation is doing the licensing collaboration with the company “Folcart”, in combining the licenses of 12 Pro Baseball teams with “Rascal the Raccoon”, with sales of collaboration merchandises.
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This will be the plan which will celebrates the 40th anniversary of the long-running animation “Rascal the Raccoon” since 1977, as well as the new season of the Pro Baseball tournament. The purpose of this collaboration is to target the female in their 10 – 20 years old who downloaded Rascal’s “LINE Stickers”, as well as female in many age groups who are fans of Pro Baseball players.
Rascal will be wearing the team uniforms of the Batters, Pitchers, and so on in this collaboration. The same designs will feature in the upcoming LINE stickers as well. For the merchandises part, there will be 6 items for each team sold in the shop.