King

King
Official artwork.
Jewel	Onyx
Katakana	キング
Romaji	Kingu
First Appearance	JP01 (cameo) JP07 (debut)
Voice Actor	Hidenobu Kiuchi
Biography
Gender	Male
Species	French Bulldog
Eye Color	Pure grey Silver grey
Fur Color	Pink (body) Yellow (inner ears) White (muzzle)
World	Jewel Land
Birthplace	Jewel Land
Birthday	August 10
Magical Status
Magical Ranking	Acrylic (JP1)
Magical Class	Black
Occupation	Magician Student (JP1/JPH) Jewel Star Grand Prix judge (JPT) Executive (JPS) Salesman (JPKD) Chess Championship commentator (JPH)
Partner	Genshirou Hattori (JP1) Machiko (JPH) Sumire (JPMC)
Magical Item	Jewel Pod (JPH) Jewel Pad (LJP) Jewel Watch (JPMC)

King (キング, Kingu^?) is a male French Bulldog Jewelpet who represents Health.

Appearance

King is a French bulldog with a pink head and body, yellow inner ears and a white muzzle. His Jewel Eyes are made out of gray/black onyxes. For his attire, he wears a big golden crown on his head and a gold pearl necklace with a a black club-shaped onyx jewel attached around his neck.

When corrupted by Diana in the first series, he has a black Elvis Presley-inspired wig on his head, yellow sunglasses around his face and a dark green coat with a belt that has a black club in the middle of it around his waist.

In Jewelpet Sunshine, his crown is sligthly more sharp than the usual one and it has the letter F with a blue mark on it. King also wears shades, a gold belt and a blue robe that has the same F mark in the back.

In Jewelpet Happiness, when he is possessed by the Red Moon, he has red eyes and his attire changes throughout the episode. First he wears a purple jacket and pants, blue and white shoes and a 50 cm long gold crown, he also has green hair in a pompadour style that wears shades. Then, he wears a white suit with a big crown shaped necklace and shades, his green hair grows taller, gains life and wears red shades, King also wears an Eifell Tower shaped crown with a gold crown on top.

Charm Form

King's Jewel Charm is hexagon-shaped. It has a pink base and lining along with small hearts on each middle side. The centrepiece has a bow tied to a weighing scale.

The details have varying colors:

In the first serie and Twinkle☆ (1st picture), the lining is golden and the hearts are red, with the bow being purple and the scale being light blue.

In Twinkle☆'s eyecatch and Sunshine (2nd picture), the lining has the same color as the base along with black hearts, and both the scale and bow are completely red.

Human Form (Magical Change)

King appears as a man in early adulthood (25-30 years old or so), who has fair skin and black eyes. He has a big structured body and arm hairs, he has big gray eyebrows and short pink and spiky hair with two short bangs, with his Jewelpet form crown on his head. He has his signature black clover necklace and the Magical Stone as a white necklace too. He wears a white shirt and a pink tuxedo jacket, with a skin color large belt and green pants.

Personality

According to the official website, King is depicted as friendly and sweet who loves to walk around someone from front to back.

In Jewelpet, King is usually depicted as dumb and not the brightest Jewelpet of all; though he is willing to help out others in need.

In Jewelpet Twinkle☆, he is a judge on the Jewel Star Grand Prix and has a lot of experience. He is very fair while judging the participants and gets emotional with their performance at times.

In Jewelpet Sunshine, he is greedy and selfish towards everyone.

In Jewelpet Kira☆Deco!, he is cunning while he tricks people on buying his useless objects, in another episode he is angry that his house was destroyed.

In Jewelpet Happiness, he is kind and nice so everyone admires him. Though after being possessed by the Red Moon he becomes very rude and disrecpetful.

In Jewelpet Magical Change, he first appears as a delinquent in the human world but after meeting Sumire he becomes very loyal and works very hard to be the best pet dog for her.

King often ends his sentence with the word "dasu".

Skills

As the Jewelpet of Health, King's magic spells can cure humans of their sicknesses and make them healthy again. In his official setting in the franchise, King's power can also protect humans from others' negative influence.

In Jewelpet, King is capable of curing sicknesses, aches, and wounds thanks to his Health-based magic, but due to his low proficiency at it, it comes with the price of the patient feeling excruciating pain.

In all other series he uses his Jewel Pod to do magic, mostly being good at it.

In Jewelpet Magical Change, he has his Jewel Watch, it is stated that he is not good at using it but when he transforms into his human form his magic becomes more powerful (ex. he teleported away the scamer salesman that tried to trick Sumire).

History

In Jewelpet

King first appears in episode 1 as a minor character, but makes his true debut in episode 7 to help Genshirou Hattori because he is unhealthy and eventually becoming his partner.

He appears again in episode 35 when Dian corrupted Lapis into working by his side, who King himself has a crush on. Rinko, Ruby and their friends discover that the two are in love and for this, King decided to play a Jewel Game to save Lapis, even though in the end, he lost. According to the rules, it should be Rinko to go with Dian and Diana, but he decides to sacrifice himself, as he doesn't want to leave his lover Lapis after all.

In episode 45, Diana manipulates him into working for her and her brother, but he is eventually saved by Lapis herself in episode 46.

After King and Lapis escaped from Dian's hideout, they join the other Jewelpets to stop him from destroying the world, the last scene with King shows him being fed some cake by Lapis.

In Jewelpet Twinkle☆

King is one of the judges of the Jewel Star Grand Prix, it is stated that he has a record of participating in the Grand Prix 16 times in a row. He is seen in the episodes that the Grand Prix takes place, giving his judgements.

In Jewelpet Sunshine

He owns some sort of fruit selling organization and seems to be very rich, but despite that, he fails when he tries taking down/buying the cafe that the students oftenly go to in some episodes. He is mostly greedy and selfish, and he has Alex and Brownie working for him.

In Jewelpet Kira☆Deco!

He is a travelling salesman who tricks the denizens of Jewel Land for his own profit. He helped Ruby provide some of his special jewels in order for her to get back with Pink, but in the end, he gets arrested by Angela and Labra. He is also seen in episode 2 when looking inside the police station along with the other background Jewelpets. He makes another appearance in episode 39 as a prosecutor, and later allows Labra to check inside his building for a presence on the "Boom Rock".

In Jewelpet Happiness

He first appears in episode 27 as the commentator of the chess championship that Takumi Asano participates. After Ruby uses her magic at the last match, it turns into a Jewel Chess game, King joins in to help and Asano wins in the end.

He then appears in episode 43, he is the new student of Chiari Tsukikage and the others' class and he is quite popular for being kind and having a nice crown. He first bumps into Machiko and helps her by picking up her manga with his magic that start to fly away with the impact. At the classroom Machiko thanks him but he doesn't recognise her, after that he gets corrupted by the Red Moon and becomes rude and disrespectfull with a delinquent attitude and look. Machiko tries to help him by drawing a manga about him being his kind self and in the end he recognises her and turns back to normal. He then forms a Magic Gem together with Machiko.

In Lady Jewelpet

King appears next to the other male Jewelpets while they're all giving their magic to Cayenne in episode 50.

In Jewelpet Magical Change

King appears in episode 9, starring in another main character role.

King is considered unpopular and placed as the lowest ranking magician Jewelpet of all of Jewel Land. When the Jewel Castle fell into the human world and separated the Jewelpets from the fading Jewel Land, King was sent off like all the other Jewelpets to train their magic to restore the Jewel Castle's magic power. But King becomes a ruthless vagabond wandering without ever being reminded of his role. That is when he met Sumire, who took him in and, from a resemblance mistake, King decided to become and act like her pet dog as "Momohime". After saving her from a shady salesman in his human form, he then dedicates his life to staying by Sumire's side and protecting her.

In Jewelpet the Movie: Sweets Dance Princess

King appears in the first minutes of the movie. He walks by as he carries a small cabinet on his back and encounters Ruby who is collecting raspberries in the fields to make jam. They have a small conversation as King helps Ruby remember that she has a dancing lesson to attend to. He then appears in the credits scenes, as the other Jewelpets dance with the music, he is carrying a different cabinet.

Gallery

Main article: King/Image Gallery

Main article: King/Image Gallery/Anime

Video

Jewelpet Magical Change King transformation & jewelflash

Trivia

• King's jewel motif is the onyx, a banded variant of chalcedony.
  • His secondary motif is a black club; ones that are usually found in playing cards.
• King is one of the two Jewelpets who wears a crown as their head accessory, the other being Kaiya.
• King is the first (and only) Jewelpet to not be named after his respective mineral.
• For the Jewel Star Grand Prix in Jewelpet Twinkle☆, King was invited as a special judge. His vote count as 2 points.
  • He was invited as he is considered a very respected Jewelpet due to his past record of 16 participation for the tournament in a row.
• He, along with Granite, are the only male Jewelpets to get human forms in Jewelpet Magical Change.
  • Coincidentally, both characters are in the Magical Black class.
• Depending on the seasons we can get different descriptions of King power : health, healing, care and strength (Jewelpet season 1), protection from bad things (official character book)
• On the official Jewelpet Sega Toys website his gem power is describe as "Health luck : protect you from the influence of people around you".