Best friends Funshine, Good Luck, Grumpy, Share, and their new leader Cheer Bear, are sent away from their home on a mission to protect a mysterious place called the Silver Lining, which is inhabited by the Whiffles — innocently happy creatures who plant seeds to keep the magical land of Care-a-Lot and the neighboring Silver Lining growing — all while spreading caring and sharing throughout this newfound land. The quintet also retrieve help back home through the Caring Tower from their friends Bedtime, Tenderheart, and Wish Bear, while Dibble the Whiffle accompanies the Five-Man Band along the way.

It's not Care Bears without the Big Bad though, and this time it's Bluster; the annoying and egocentric leader of the Bad Crowd who once made a deal with the elder Care Bears to stay out of the Silver Lining in exchange for the Bears leaving him alone. He has since broken the agreement, and his goal is to turn the Silver Lining into Blusterland. His Beleaguered Assistant Robbie and Malcom help him carry out his schemes too, yet they always backfire.

Starting off a new generation of the Care Bears franchise, and following the cancellation of Care Bears & Cousins, Care Bears: Unlock the Magic is a 2019 TV series produced by the Cloudco Entertainment division of American Greetings. The first season consists of 52 episodes (though with how Boomerang has released them, it's 49). 10 episodes of the show were released on the Boomerang SVOD streaming service on February 1, 2019, including the Valentine's Day Episode, however the first episode was released on the app as a "sneak peek" on January 28. The series premiered on the main network in March, and premiered on Cartoon Network in April. In the UK, the show airs on Tiny Pop, and in Canada, the show airs on Family Jr. in English, both of which have aired a high amount of episodes before Boomerang has.

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2020 saw the release of a Spin-Off, Care Bears: Unlock the Music, a series of music videos based on the series released on YouTube. The songs are original, while the footage contains both clips from the show and original animation.

As of May 2024, the Care Bears YouTube channel has been uploading a full episode of the show every Wednesday.

On 24th October 2024, a video game based on the show, Care Bears: To The Rescue (2024) was released. The game was developed by Polygoat and published by Forever Entertainment S.A.

The show now has a character sheet.

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• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Most overview scenes are in cel-shaded CGI.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the original series, the Care Bears are aware of No Heart and Beastly as they had antagonized them for years. However in the show, they aren't aware of the two until much later.
• Animesque: New character designs give this show a more chibi feel.
• Back for the Finale: The final of the six half-hour specials, "The No Heart Games", sees the return of none other than No Heart, and he’s brought Beastly back with him, too.
• Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Bluster and the Bad Crowd feel this way, taking being called "nice" and "caring" as insults.
  • In "Things That Go Plunk", one member of the Bad Crowd named Plunk is kicked out for being too nice.
• Blush Sticker: The Care Bears all have them, and in quite a few different shapes, such as Good Luck having shamrock shaped ones, Harmony's being flower shaped, and Bedtime's star shaped ones.
• The Bus Came Back: In some later Unlock the Music videos, Wonderheart Bear from the previous two shows made a reappearance after being absent in Unlock the Magic proper.
• Cute Little Fang: Robbie.
• Driver Faces Passenger: In "Rise and Funshine", Funshine finds himself forced to drive the Cloudseeker by himself, and twice, he turns away from the windshield (once to focus on a video call with the Caring Tower, and once to look at the other bears). Both times, this ends poorly, and he ends up with a flat tire the first time, and drives into mud the second time. An instructional hologram of Grumpy snarks at him for not focusing on the road after both incidents.
• Earth Drift: While earlier series had the Care Bears help with problems on Earth while stopping villains, this series solely focuses on the fantasy world they live in. Somewhat averted in "An Almost Eggless Easter" which establishes that Earth is part of the universe and even re-introduces the Caring Meter to measure the kids' happiness.
• Evil Duo: Bluster and Robbie.
• Funny Background Event: In "Mixed Signals," during Bluster's video message to the Care Bears, the Bad Crowd are loading up the car in the background, with Malcom, a small member, carrying a huge pile of luggage and casually tossing it in while a much larger member carefully carries a tiny bag that he tucks in-between the other pieces of luggage. Shortly after, Malcom struggles to climb up the car's back tire, then flies into one of its seats after Bluster starts driving.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Grumpy.
• Mission Control: Bedtime Bear, Tenderheart, and Wish Bear help the gang this way through the Caring Tower while they're on missions.
• Mythology Gag: In "The No Heart Games", No Heart undergoing a supernatural Heel–Face Turn that turns him into a kind human with blue eyes instead of red is taken from what befell Dark Heart in Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation.
• Oddball in the Series: The Whiffles, the Silver Lining, and the Bad Crowd are completely new to the series, and the series takes place solely in a fantasy land without any human contact.
• Out-of-Character Alert: During a talk with Tenderheart in "Mixed Signals", Cheer asks if there's any problems left now that Bluster is seemingly gone, to which Tenderheart replies that there's nothing the crew need to care about. Cheer is off put for a bit, before having a "Eureka!" Moment and realising Tenderheart would never tell them not to care about something, leading to the realisation that the correspondence was actually Bluster sending doctored footage of Tenderheart.
• She's a Man in Japan: Robbie in the Latin American Spanish dub is a man, voiced by a male actor to boot.
• Shout-Out: In the Rain short, Funshine is reading a comic with the cover showing a Care Bear wearing red clothes approaching a bicycle, akin to the famous AKIRA poster, right down to the same top-down angle.
• Sour Supporter: Grumpy Bear is a Jerkass who doesn't put up with the other bears' antics but often comes up with clever solutions.
• Tagline: Caring is the key.
• Theme Tune Roll Call: "Good Luck, Funshine, and Cheer the leader, Dibble, Grumpy, and Share rollin' in the Cloudseeker"
• Those Two Guys: Funshine and Good Luck Bear.
• Tomboyish Name: Robbie, in both design and voice, seems clearly female. You'd not be able to tell that by her name.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In "Neon Beach Party", when Robbie begins to act like she's on the Care Bears' side, Bluster fires her. She gets rehired at the end of the episode, however.