The SpongeBob SquarePants Anime, simply referred to as Suponjibobu (Japanese: スポンジ・ボブ Hepburn: Suponji Bobu, pronounced Spongey Bobbu) is an ongoing Japanese anime television series produced by Narmak Animations that began airing on Jul 23, 2020. Its overall plot outline is mainly based around the manga and anime created by Narmak and is built around Narmak's ideas on what would happen if SpongeBob was an anime.