Crystal Jewels
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</infobox> Crystal Jewels, as known as in Japan, (クリスタルジュエル Kurisutarujueru?) is a franchise owned by Game guys.<ref>Gameguys' Franchise- Crystal Jewels</ref> It was created by Maruko Jinko in 1993 in Japan, and it consist of video games, television shows, movies, shorts, books, comic books, and card games.<ref>The franchise's poplular today- Sundae</ref> The original media was the video games.
It is the second best series<ref>Top Gameguys' Best Franchise</ref> worldwide followed by Super Ninja. Video games have been released, anime have been aired, and the franchise have been popular today. Instead of the earth being the setting in the franchise, they called earth, the Crystal world<ref>The earth called "Crystal world"</ref>, because the world is habitated by monsters called "Cryral monsters"<ref>List of Crystal Monsters</ref>, and the people who trains them are calles Crystal Brawlers<ref>10 Ways you can be a Crystal Brawler</ref>, which summons Crystal Monsters to fight combat at each other.
Cumulative sales of the video games (including home console games, such as Talking Roaracryst! for the GameCube) have reached more than 290 million copies.<ref>290 copies of Talking roaracryst! November 2000</ref>In November 2005, InternationalZ, which had managed the non-game related licensing of Crystal Jewels, announced that it had agreed not to renew the Crystal Jewels representation agreement. The Crystal Jewels Company International (formerly Crystal Jewels USA Inc.), a subsidiary of Japan's Crystal Jewels Co., oversees all Crystal Jewels licensing outside Asia.<ref>back in Japan, the reach of Crystal Jewels</ref> As of March 2017, the Crystal Jewels franchise has grossed revenues of ¥6.0 trillion worldwide<ref>Crystal Jewels franchise has grossed revenues of ¥6.0 trillion worldwide</ref> (equivalent to US$55.15 billion).
The franchise began as a pair of video games for the original Game Q that were developed by Game Freak and published by Demogames. It now spans video games, trading card games, animated television shows and movies, comic books, and toys. Crystal Jewels is the second best-selling video game franchise, behind only Demogames's Super Ninja franchise<ref>The second best-selling video game franchise, behind only Demogames's Super Ninja franchise</ref> and the highest-grossing media franchise of all time. The franchise is also represented in other Demogames media, such as the Super Battle series.
The Crystal Jewels celebrated their anniversary in 1998,<ref>Crystal Jewels Anniversary! 1998</ref> 2003<ref>Crystal Jewels Anniversary! 2003</ref>, 2008<ref>Crystal Jewels Anniversary! 2008</ref>, 2013<ref>Crystal Jewels Anniversary! 2013</ref>, and soon 2018<ref>Crystal Jewels Anniversary! 2018</ref>. Soon Crystal Jewels Moon Blade is gonna release.
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Name
The name, Crystal Jewels is used when they are Crystal Monsters in a series. Instead of using "Crystal Monsters", they used Crystal Jewels.
Concept
The Crystal Jewels series began around 1986 or 1987, when the Demogame was first produced<ref>Did The Crystal Jewels series began around 1986 or 1987, when the Demogame was first produced?</ref>. The series flashes back when their creator, Maruko Jinko is obsessed with diamonds and crystals, and imagined if the diamond is crystal in his high school age. Once he grew up, that's why he created this series franchise, Crystal Jewels.
Crystal Jewels is a franchise in which Crystal Monsters (which are creatures) are battled against each other, in the wild, and are trained by people called "Crystal Brawlers". In most media, Crystal Monsters faints rather than dying, they could be healed in the hospital called "Crystalspital". There are currently more than 959 of the Crystal Monsters. Some Crystal Monsters could evolve in 1-3 stages at their certain levels.
Once the Crystal Brawlers collects 8-10 brawler tokens, by battling, they compete in the league, and when they beat the champion, they became a master champion. The most goalmaker of that was Kouchu Misako of the anime.
Video Games
Generations
There are generations on the franchise for the games.
Generation I
Generation II
Generation III
Generation IV
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Generation V
Generation VI
Generation VII
Generation VIII
Game mechanics
Crystal Jewels is a franchise in which Crystal Monsters (which are creatures) are battled against each other, in the wild, and are trained by people called "Crystal Brawlers". In most media, Crystal Monsters faints rather than dying, they could be healed in the hospital called "Crystalspital". There are currently more than 959 of the Crystal Monsters. Some Crystal Monsters could evolve in 1-3 stages at their certain levels.
Once the Crystal Brawlers collects 8-10 brawler tokens, by battling, they compete in the league, and when they beat the champion, they became a master champion.
Starters
The three Crystal monsters are called starters. They can be fire, dragon, water, rainbow, or grass type. Once the player picks the Crystal monster, the rival pick the Crystal monster that has a type-advantage against yours. In Crystal Jewels 2, Roaracryst was received to the player after the rival swopped Marika away from the player. In Crystal Jewels Puzzle Brawl, the player can receive three Crystal Monsters named Flamene, Thunderene, and Waterene. In the franchise's game console, called CrystalZeni, the player could choose his or her aide character, there are 3 characters.
There are starters on every Crystal Jewels video game that will start the player's journey.
CrystalPod
The CrystalPod is used in video games, anime, manga, and books. When a Crystal monster gets caught, its data gets in the Crystalpod. The player attempts to fill the CrystalPod, and when it is recieved or caught, the monsters' name, and image goes on its entry in the Crystal Pod.
In the game, Crystal Jewels Advanced, the search engine is added so it let's you search any Crystal monster. In Crystal Jewels Garnet and Turquoise, it let's you type in the Crystal Monsters name to search it. The Crystalpod has a bizzare of apps, games, and templates. It is still popular today.
In other media
In the anime
The anime is a Japanese anime television series, adapted from the Crystal Jewels video games. The series provides of 7 series and 28 movies, which is in 28 seasons (1 movie in 1 season), splitten up based on taking place based on the video games: original series, Beyonds, Brawler's Quest, Next Quest, Mental Consions, Souls of Legends, and Natalie Quest series.
Crystal Jewels Original Serie<ref>Crystal Jewels Anime!</ref>s is a first series of the anime. Kouchu starts his journey in Justpip Town, believing himself as a crystal bralwer. Kouchu went out and professor Shari gave kouchu the Roaracryst. Their first battle was with Sakuro, who stole all the Crystal Monsters from the lab and they are returned and stopped the Furious Five. Kouchu meet new friends like Shauna and now Sakuro. While on his journey, he met Marcy, which is now a crystal brawler who made all the brawlers' Crystal Monsters faints. o Kouchu continues his adventure. Kouchu was sent a message to get to the Jarbon Islands, Kouchu explores the islands.
Crystal Jewels Beyonds is a second series in the anime. Kouchu and his friends made his way to Farko. Kouchu trains for the league and was busy studying types, levels, and strategy also for the league. Kouchu and his friends found out that the Furious Five are back in the Farko region, and Marcy, too.
The series continues with Crystal Jewels Brawlers Quest Kouchu and his friends went on the Orbon region, and met a new trainer named Emma. With Emma along,Kouchu trains for the league. Kouchu went in the Orbon Conference and competes in the Orbon league. He lost 1 match of the league, which turns out to be Darkon. Kouchu was about to sail to Oregon Region.
The story continues in Crystal Jewels Next Quest. Two years later, Kouchu got to the Oregon Region and come to meet up with his friends there. In their adventure in the Oregon region, they met up with Noah and Sarah, the two siblings of the Tuntwink Town Noah and Sarah's Crystal Monster was captured by the Furious Five, and Kouchu saves them, and Noah and Sarah joined him on his journey.
In Crystal Jewels Mental Consions, Kochu then went to the airport with the crew. Kouchu and the crew was coming to the Dandfordon Region and was ready for more badges. He then met Steven, a 9-year old Crystal Brawler. Steven joins Kouchu because he was impressed by how careful Kouchu was to his weak Crystal Monster.
In Crystal Jewels Souls of Legends, Kouchu and his friends went to the Daro region and befriended Daisy, his rival-friend, and told him she was a part of the Daro league. Crystal Jewels Garnet and Turquoise, Kouchu and his friends are sailing to Natalie, but in the middle of the problem in the arc of getting to Natalie. Finally they got to Natalie, they met a brawler Akura, and Kouchu caught his first Crystal Monster:Noroth, and he met Aroku and his sister, Asuna, which Kouchu is known to be best friends to. Kouchu then met Ichigo, and after saving her, he promised to date her one day.
Films
Given release years are the original Japanese release years. The twentieth addition on this list is yet to be released
| Movie | Movie Title | English Title | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thundrai Regenado | Thunderai Legends | April 14, 1993 |
| 2 | Kingdom of Survival | April 6, 1994 | |
| 3 | Turee Powarasa | Three Powers | April 7, 1995 |
| 4 | Silver Legends | Silver Legends | April 9, 1996 |
| 5 | Empire Tower | Empire Tower | April 7, 1997 |
| 6 | Three Stones | Three Stones | April 8, 1998 |
| 7 | 2000 | 2000 | April 20, 1999 |
| 8 | Adventures in the Sky | Adventures in the Sky | April 18, 2000 |
| 9 | Night of Trouble | Night of Trouble | April 4, 2001 |
| 10 | Suriken and the Jewels | Shuriken and the Jewels | April 18, 2002 |
| 11 | Rage Mountains | Rage of the Mountains | April 18, 2003 |
| 12 | Rangers | Rangers | April 19, 2004 |
| 13 | Time | Time | April 10, 2005 |
| 14 | Space | Space | April 19, 2006 |
| 15 | Gravity | Gravity of Legends | April 7, 2007 |
| 16 | Parcc | Parcc | April 8, 2008 |
| 17 | Crystal Jewels: Dark- Gerna vs. Lighuous | Crystal Jewels: Dark- Gerna vs. Lighuous | April 17, 2009 |
| 18 | Crystal Jewels: Ligrk- Gerna vs. Lighuous | Crystal Jewels: Ligrk- Gerna vs. Lighuous | April 9, 2010 |
| 19 | Tynamous and the Tower | Tymanous and Tower | April 7, 2011 |
| 20 | 2013 | Next Generation 2013 | April 19, 2012 |
| 21 | Seas of Legends | Seas of Legends | April 23, 2013 |
| 22 | President of the Future | President of the Future | April 19, 2014 |
| 23 | Trip to Travent | Trip to Travent | April 16, 2015 |
| 24 | Battle Hireation | Battle Hiration | December 8, 2015 |
| 25 | Medtower Chaos | Medtower Chaos | April 16, 2016 |
| 26 | Jerukon Turoyama | Jerk on Tower | April 1, 2017 |
| 27 | Destruction | Destruction of the Orb |
September 18, 2017 |
| 28 | 25th | 25th the movie | January 19, 2018 |
Trading Card Game
The Crystal Jewels card game is simular to the video game using cards and coins. The rules are that each plater gets 10 cards, and every card they draw out of thwir deck, the highest the number gets on any player's card they are a winner.
In 2009, the card games were sold to the Crystal Jewels company. Players uses the cards with individual strengths and weaknesses, in an attempt to defeat their opponent by "knocking out" his or her cards. The card game was first released in October 1993 in Japan
Manga
Unlike the anime, the manga are a part of the fanchise and could be seveeal mangas based on the anime and some on the card game. Some release in Japan, and some released in the US.
Manga released in English
- Crystal Jewels Go!, By Hiroshi Ukunoshadi,-is a manga series created by Hiroshi Ukunoshadi and serializes in the Toshi Comics. It is loosely based on the video games.
- Crystal Jewels Kouchu's Quest<ref>Crystal Jewels Kouchu's Quest! [1]</ref>-is a ten-volume manga series written by Aguru Orisubama and serialized in BangBang Power. It is loosely based on the anime.
- Crystal Jewels Roaracryst Tales<ref>Roaracryst Tales [2]</ref>
- Crystal Jewels Eclipse Battles
- Crystal Jewels MiniZ-Crystal Jewels Miniz is the manga series written by Tokiiro Asuka and Illustrated by Ayana Watasho. The series began in 1994 and was finally finished in 2014. To continue the series, there was a series sequel to Crystal Jewels MiniZ called "New Crystal Jewels MiniZ" which began in 2014.
There are characters that came from the other series rather than Crystal Jewels MiniZ are from the manga, video games, anime, and series and franchise outside Crystal Jewels.
- Crystal Jewels GT-is a Shounen manga that considers mature and sex content, also a manga created by Oroka Tasa and tanned in the MangaLand in 2015 as #34 magazine. Some of the volumes were released in takabon format.
Manga not released in English
- Crystal Jewels Adventure
- Crystal Jewels Next Adventures
- Crystal Jewels Advanced Kingdom
- Crystal Jewels Quest
- Crystal Jewels League Frontier
Controversy and critisimship
Some episodes have been banned due to some adult content. Cut sxenes includes deadly scenes, strong language, mature violence, etc. Kiss scenes have been also cutted until the charactets could be shown kissing. Authors and/or artists have created erotic Crystal Jewels Doujinshi, and fanon ones. Fans of the Crystal Jewels series have created thousands+ of fanarts, and fan animes/cartoons parody.
Making items of Crystal Jewels influence fans to like Crystal Jewels more. When the episode, Sounds Like It’s Rare Stage!, aired, Kouchu have won against Jason, despite that he didn’t win via/ lose in the previous Crystal Jewels league, except for the Jarbon Islands. The critical reception was we don’t know if Crystal Jewels Moon Blade is going to air in Japan or not. The poster said it would be released on February 19, 2018, along with the movie, Crystal Jewels 25th is gonna release around 2018.
Sevearl western cartopn and kids cartoon have made debut on some Crystal Monsters making their debut.<ref>Which cartoons have reference to Crystal Jewels?</ref>
Animal harmings
In 2012, PETA publicly criticized as supporting cruelty to animals. PETA compared the game's concept, of capturing animals and forcing them to fight, to cockfights, dog fighting rings and circuses, all events frequently criticized for cruelty to animals.
Critical reception
The board game, Crystal Jewels Zockix <ref>Crystal Jewels Zockix- CBS news</ref>is for older fans like teens and up to enjoy Crystal Jewels again, but in a rwist. If the Crystal monster dies it rather die than faint. If the player white out, they have to start over, unlike other games. Thats why this game is banned from schools and some homes since 2003. More than 60 thousand of kids play this game instead of eating their lunchea, and then in recess.
Jinko stated "I rather make Crystal Monsters faint rather than die. Theres no gore or anything non appropriate". But when the mobile app releases, the app was the biggest yet. Since 2011, more than 600 million people's electronics got frozed and rebotted due to the app's pressure, so the app was banned and removed from every appstore.
See also
List of Crystal Jewels episodes
List of Crystal Jewels characters
Crystal Jewels (video game series)
References
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