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Shippo the Runt is an upcoming British-Japanese live action cel animated comedy franchise, primarily consisting of a television show and two short films produced by Sunrise for Yomiuri TV in association with EVA Entertainment, Egmont Imagination, BBC Bristol and Aardman Animations. It is a spinoff of the Japanese TV series Inuyasha, and is based on the British live action stop motion animated claymation comedy franchise, 'Rex the Runt. Its main characters are 6 young fox demons: Shippō, Ippō, Sanpō, Shihō, and Gohō.'

The series began with a series, Rex The Runt, created in 1996 and directed by Richard Goleszowski, and the 130th episode of Inuyasha, Shippo's New Technique, the Heart Scar!. After a long gestation period this will develop into two unaired shorts and then thirteen ten-minute episodes that will first air over two weeks on BBC2 from December 2016, and on Yomiuri TV on January 2017. A second thirteen episode series will air from September 2018 on the same channel, and on October 2018 on the same Japanese channel. As well as the core cast guest voices include Paul Merton, Morwenna Banks, Judith Chalmers, Antoine de Caunes, Bob Holness, Simon Day, Bob Monkhouse, Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, Arthur Smith, June Whitfield, Kathy Burke, Pam Ayres and Eddie Izzard.