Palm Town Monogatari

Palm Town Monogatari (US: Maple Town: Friends in Palm Town) is a Japanese children's anime which is a direct sequel to Maple Town and Palm Town, taking place one year after the end of the latter. It premiered on TV Asahi on January 2nd, 2000 and ran until December 31th, 2000 on TV Asahi with 52 24-minute episodes. It aired side by side with Maple Town Monogatari Again (US:  Maple Town: Season 3)

After the OVAs the franchise would go dormant again until 2009

Theme song is Umi no chikaku no pāmutaun/ Palm Town Near the Sea by Rika Matsumoto

Production
While Shin Maple Town Monogatari didn't do to well during it's initial run, Reruns throughout the 90s alongside the original Maple Town brought back interest in the franchise. Around 1997 they released the new limited release line of Maple Town toys in order to test the waters, which proved very successful, enough to spark talks of a new anime. Production of both series began in fall of 1999 with it the project being codenamed Maple Town 2000.

IRL: CaseyD3vroe felt Palm Town got too bad of a rap and felt like it deserves a continuation alongside Maple Town. I figured that a Palm Town continuation taking place one year later would allow enough time for Rolley and co to get used to Patty not being around anymore, but not enough for them to change Too much.

Plot
Picking up one year after the end of Palm Town, Rolley Cocker and Joey Terrier take up the role of leads in this story. Join them in the their adventures in sunny Palm Town.

Tying the two shows together is a framing device of Patty writing a letter to Rolley in *Again* narrating the events of the episode ,while Rolley writes a letter Patty doing the same in *PTM* (later switching to the two emailing each other about halfway through the series), along with several crossover episodes and four OVAs that aired between 2001 and 2005.

While the setting aesthetics hasn't changed that much, technology in both shows resembles the mid to late 90s, or as the creators put it "They figured out how TVs and Computers worked".

List of Episodes
List of Palm Town Monogatari episodes