Goldfish Warning is an anime series made by Toei Animation (best known for Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z) that ran from January 12, 1991 through February 29, 1992 on TV Asahi. It follows a 14-year-old girl named Chitose Fujinomiya, a former very rich, currently an orphan who is kicked out of her super-elite school, Tokai no Gakuen (City's Academy in English language), while shunned by her former friends. She is sent to a rural public school, Inaka no ChugakkÅ, an alias is InachÅ« (Country's Jr. High School in English language), where very needy, and even pigs, oxen and chickens are students.
The only possession Chitose has left is a pink goldfish named Gyopi, given to her by her beloved father, and very valuable. Her family's attorney attempts to steal Gyopi, but is foiled by Chitose's new schoolmates, namely Wapiko, a simple girl who can outrun almost anything and is well-liked in school. As it turns out, Chitose isn't poor; the attorney was merely hiding her inheritance for himself. Instead of going back to the super rich school, she buys the rural school and attempts to transform it into a refined school to compete with that of her rival/former best friend. However, the students of the rural school don't want to be refined.
An pilot for an English dub was produced at Ocean Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1995 (the year the DiC Sailor Moon dub was produced and aired in North America) in an attempt by Toei Animation and would-be distributor Lacey Entertainment (which was founded last year in 1994 at that time) to market the series worldwide. It was pitched to Kids' WB! at first but it was rejected for being and sounding "too childish" for the block. Had they acquired and greenlighted it, it would become the first anime series to be broadcast on Kids' WB!. Then they tried selling it to Fox Kids, UPN Kids and finally first-run syndication which has become unsuccessful, mostly due to said attempts not being in time. The dub was cancelled and scrapped by then and the companies moved on to other projects. To this day, the English dub pilot remains lost as it has not been broadcasted anywhere.