Jetpack picks up new Malaysian kids’ cartoon Mechamato

Mechamato will debut this December

NEWS BRIEF: UK sales house Jetpack Distribution has acquired global rights outside of Asia to Malaysia-based Monsta’s comedy-action series Mechamato.

Season one (26×22′) of the 3D animated comedy-action series, aimed at kids age six-plus, follows the adventures of a young boy who inadvertently becomes the master of MechaBot, a ‘Power Sphera’ with the ability to turn objects into high-tech devices.

With the help of his best friends, Mechamato is on a mission to defeat and capture bad robots before they cause more chaos in the city. The series is due to air on Cartoon Network in South-East Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand and South Korea in December 2021, and in Japan in March 2022.